Right, I should have mentioned that I read Fox in Socks every night.Quote:
Originally Posted by flatlander#2
Stick with Sometimes a Great Notion - it starts slow but gets goooood!
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Right, I should have mentioned that I read Fox in Socks every night.Quote:
Originally Posted by flatlander#2
Stick with Sometimes a Great Notion - it starts slow but gets goooood!
Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King.
Its the fifth book in the seven book series The Dark Tower.
Foods that Fight Cancer by Richard Beliveau & Denis Gingras
Ishiguro's Never let me go.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Let_Me_Go
(French translation. I'm not fluent enough to really enjoy litterature in a foreign language. Though sometimes in re-read books in the original english.)
Just finished Bitterroot, James Lee Burke.
Currently reading.....
The economics of money, banking and financial markets by Mishkin (alt. edition)
and
some american history textbook by ferriger (or something)
but come next wenesday I will be done with those to classes, plus graduating with a BS in Biology and then I plan to get some real (fictional) reading done starting off with my two favorite authors vonnegut and tom robbins as i stride to read all of these authors books (currently just over half of vonnegut's published works and three or four deep in Robbins)
Negatory on the sometimes a great notion front, such a great movie but a terrible book IMVHO. It is the only known example of a movie being far better than the book.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pope Benedict XVI
I forgot about:
Ecoholic, Your Guide to the Most Environmentally Friendly Information, Products and Services in Canada by Adria Vasil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_in_the_Balance
Earth in the Balance by Senator Al Gore
Great book and a precursor to his touring slide show and the Inconvient Truth
Chuck Palahniuk stuff right now.... Choke, Survivors and Fight Club
Good stuff.
Ooh, I love his books. Haven't read that one.Quote:
Originally Posted by philippeR
Read it first time sophomore year high school, then sometime after in college. I like the reread... I do remember the middle portion of the book to be vastly different from beginning. Just got it from the library and am still in Steinbeck land.Quote:
Originally Posted by lemon boy
Umberto Eco - The Island of the Day Before is currently what is on the reading table.
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
Long, but interesting. Not particulary optimistic.
Oh, and the
1984 Kawasaki GPZ900R Factory Workshop Manual
Not a particulary pleasant read, but great fun is the ultimate result.
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I've been reading Interesting Tahoe Craig's List Ad (nsr).
It's very good.
just finished Freakonomics. meh
just started One Hundred Years of Solitude
Might wanna think about it a while... it was tough and not what I filed under "entertaining"... but I read to escape, not to have to think too hard. I do that at work.Quote:
Originally Posted by japollner
Good luck! :)
Just got "That Dark and Bloody River: Chronicles of the Ohio River Valley" in the mail. Starting it tonight.
Finally reading a book for enjoyment.
The Glass Castle. Jeannette Walls.
"One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez
"Who Do You Think You Are, Charlie Brown?"
Charles M. Schulz
Just finished reading Memoirs of a Geisha by Aurthor Golden. Great book.
Now reading Spandau Phoenix by Greg Iles. Just started last night...so far so good!
:)
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins: thought provoking and inflammatory, if occasionally a little spittle-flecked.
Now you have good taste in literature!Quote:
Originally Posted by train07
Sprite
Awesome, awesome book. Could NOT put it down...and still thinking about it!Quote:
Originally Posted by Spark
Hey, have you read White Oleander? I read that last summer and if you liked Glass Castle you would probably like WO a lot too.
Sprite
Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson. Good short read on change.
Green Eggs and Ham is an every night reading for me.