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What are you reading? What was the last book you enjoyed?
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lentz
Lurker
just finished black and blue and started Ghost Soldiers about the Bataan death march and the rescue mission to free the prisoners by the army rangers
BoobyTrap
Adgy's my BITCH!
finished In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (i need to see the movie Capote now). that book has been sitting on my shelf unread for over 10 years.
i am now starting The Good German by Joseph Kanon, just in case i want to watch the movie i'll be all covered on the book aspect.
oh yeah, and i'm also in the middle of reading more preacher comics...
i am now starting The Good German by Joseph Kanon, just in case i want to watch the movie i'll be all covered on the book aspect.
oh yeah, and i'm also in the middle of reading more preacher comics...
orpheus
The Dolphin Cares!
Just wait until you read the “All in the Family” storyline. That’s my personal favorite Preacher story which has the distinction of having the craziest family of Southerners this side of Flannery O’Connor and William Faulkner.
Anyways, I just finished reading:
Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild and Other Stories
Beowulf (Seamus Healey Translation)
And I am currently reading:
China Mieville’s Perdido Street Station
Alex Garland’s The Beach
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KBM
Lurker
The current issue of Popular Photography.
BoobyTrap
Adgy's my BITCH!
Just wait until you read the ?All in the Family? storyline. That?s my personal favorite Preacher story which has the distinction of having the craziest family of Southerners this side of Flannery O?Connor and William Faulkner.
Anyways, I just finished reading:
Octavia Butler?s Bloodchild and Other Stories
Beowulf (Seamus Healey Translation)
i read through the "all in the family" storyline. was very pleased on how his grandma "exited."
i read octavia butler's Parable of the Sower. that book disturbed me so much i didn't want to keep it as a part of my book collection.
beowulf = cool.
haven't read that since freshman year of high school.
arizonabay
Prospect
Had to put Don Quixote on hold due to school.
Twelfth Night by Billy Shakespeare.
Twelfth Night by Billy Shakespeare.
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RustyMath
Lurker
Currently:
"Team of Rivals" by Doris Kearns Goodwin. About Lincoln and his cabinet. Good read.
Most recent:
"Flags of Our Fathers" was fair, good story but not very well written. Just purchased the movie but haven't found time to read it.
"1776" By David McCullough? Follows Washington through the year 1776. Excellent read.
"Timber Frame Joinery: Design and Construction of Timber Frame Structures" very dry.
"Team of Rivals" by Doris Kearns Goodwin. About Lincoln and his cabinet. Good read.
Most recent:
"Flags of Our Fathers" was fair, good story but not very well written. Just purchased the movie but haven't found time to read it.
"1776" By David McCullough? Follows Washington through the year 1776. Excellent read.
"Timber Frame Joinery: Design and Construction of Timber Frame Structures" very dry.
BoobyTrap
Adgy's my BITCH!
because i'm not one to finish a book before starting a new one...i just picked up "Tower of Secrets" by Victor Sheymov. It's about a guy who was pretty deep in the KGB and how he defected to the US and worked with the CIA. I'm excited because i've been looking for this book for a while since it's been out of print and i just got it at Book Baron (probably one of the greatest places of my entire life. why didn't anyone tell me about this earlier??) wednesday.
orpheus
The Dolphin Cares!
Finished reading this last night:
Absolutely fantastic. Can't wait for the Criterion release of the movie later this year.
The Region 2 U. K DVD of that movie was recommended to me by Amazon.com.uk. I didn?t buy the movie, nor have I seen it, but from its description it sounds like something that I might enjoy.
I just finished reading E. M Forster?s A Passage to India and I am halfway through J.R.R Tolkien?s The Fellowship of the Ring. I am also going to start Yukio Mishima?s Confessions of a Mask and Yasunari Kawabata?s Snow Country soon. I am in a Japanese kind of mood.
adgy-san
PJ Harvey is God
The Region 2 U. K DVD of that movie was recommended to me by Amazon.com.uk. I didn?t buy the movie, nor have I seen it, but from its description it sounds like something that I might enjoy.
You would.
I just finished reading E. M Forster?s A Passage to India and I am halfway through J.R.R Tolkien?s The Fellowship of the Ring. I am also going to start Yukio Mishima?s Confessions of a Mask and Yasunari Kawabata?s Snow Country soon. I am in a Japanese kind of mood.
I read A Passage To India in high school and didn't care a whole lot for it, but I remember almost nothing about it.
Let me know what you think of Confessions Of A Mask after you've read it. I've nearly bought that book a few times...
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Finished reading this last night:
Absolutely fantastic. Can't wait for the Criterion release of the movie later this year.
NO WAY. I didn't even know there WAS a book! I thought the movie was f***** outstanding. How does the book compare? On a scale of 1 to 10, seriously, where do you put it?
adgy-san
PJ Harvey is God
You know, it's been so long since I saw the movie, that I couldn't really say. I have a bootleg copy of it, but I haven't gotten around to watching it.
The book is great, though, and I highly recommend it.
BoobyTrap
Adgy's my BITCH!
earlier i had posted that i started this. yesterday i finished it and i was very disappointed and bored with it. no offense to kanon fans but i found it very predictable and there were some elements to the story that did nothing to further the plot. the whole thing felt like a danielle steele book. in his defense though, the description of berlin and the people after the russians came was very good.
Fooferah
Ciao!
That's a difficult book to really like, and E.M. Forster is even one of my favorite authors. It's really just about highlighting cultural differences and how far out of whack things can get because of that. Actually, now that I think about it, that is probably a good book to read right now, as it relates to a lot going on in the world in terms of that particular theme.
Anyway, I just finished:
And I am just starting:
adgy-san
PJ Harvey is God
Great book!
orpheus
The Dolphin Cares!
I finished reading the books from my last post and the following:
The Call of the Chutuluh and Other Stories-H.P Lovecraft
The Satanic Verses-Salman Rushdie
Queer- William S. Burroughs
My Last Sigh- Luis Bunuel
Do Androids Do Of Electric Sheep-Phillip K. Dick
I pretty much enjoyed all of them specially The Satanic Verses which was a surreali, complex, and awesome book in my opinion. My Last Sigh, which is filmaker Luis Bunuel?s autobiography was also really good since he talks about the surrealist movement, the Spanish Civil War, Salvador Dali, and so many other interesting bits.
I am currently juggling the following three books:
Juan Rulfo?s Pedro Paramo
Toni Morrison?s Sula
Chuck Palahniuk?s Lullaby
So, uh, yeah, that?s me.
The Call of the Chutuluh and Other Stories-H.P Lovecraft
The Satanic Verses-Salman Rushdie
Queer- William S. Burroughs
My Last Sigh- Luis Bunuel
Do Androids Do Of Electric Sheep-Phillip K. Dick
I pretty much enjoyed all of them specially The Satanic Verses which was a surreali, complex, and awesome book in my opinion. My Last Sigh, which is filmaker Luis Bunuel?s autobiography was also really good since he talks about the surrealist movement, the Spanish Civil War, Salvador Dali, and so many other interesting bits.
I am currently juggling the following three books:
Juan Rulfo?s Pedro Paramo
Toni Morrison?s Sula
Chuck Palahniuk?s Lullaby
So, uh, yeah, that?s me.
