Let's hear it for what you're reading!



I'm currently working on:





It's sort a fast read. A crime novel set in what to some would be a very exotic city---oddly, having been here a while, the scenes almost appear a bit normal in places or over sensationalized in others. But it's really entertaining so far.








I finished reading this story a few weeks ago, and I can not stress this enough: It is one of the best books I've ever read. It simply is amazing. If you have not read this book, and are looking for an entertaining book that isn't just a pop novel, but actual literature--literature that I hope will be taught in schools one day, you should really try this book. It's amazing:




Fuck slum dog millionaire. Pick up a copy of white tiger, and you won't be able to put it down.

http://www.stieglarsson.com/

finished 'the girl with the dragon tattoo'. excellent read. the author, Stieg Larsson, was an adamant anti-white supremacist. i loves his worldview.
and now, on to the next book:

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA...d=10299188


[Edited 4/9/10 10:34am]

I read it over a weekend. I'd never read it before. I still have it, but it's due back to the library by 20.APR.10. It's the only thing I've read this month. A lot of my books are still in boxes, so I can't get to many things.

I highly recommend this book...

Again. I just read the same books over and over now.

Last one I finished:


Finishing:

Aelis said:

I've not read the book yet, but the movie was great.

It's boring me to death.

But I'm a completist so I'm forcing myself to finish it.

ernestsewell said:

I should really get my hands on that movie I remember watching the Oprah interview with Sean Penn, the young actor whose name I can't remember, the author of the book and some McCandless family memebers if I remember correctly and it got me interested, but I quickly forgot about it and then suddenly remembered it this year. I always try to read the book first.

I've read this book before, but I'm re-reading it.
As of lately, I've been called a male chauvinist pig moreso than usual.
So I'm getting back in touch with my roots.
I Howard.

Aelis said:

Emile Hirsch is who played the lead role. He was wonderful in it. I know of the story, but the movie was my first experience with the whole thing.

Acrylic said:

PP was okay, but I found Miss America was laugh out loud funny for me. I read it in 1997 while in Minneapolis. I used to take an express bus from Uptown to the Mall of America. I had to hold my breath sometimes to not laugh out loud. One girl sitting next to me worked for a radio station that handled Stern's syndication in Minneapolis. She enjoyed him as well.

ernestsewell said:

Right, Hirsch! Looking forward to seeing the movie
I found the story quite inspiring

Aelis said:

Also check outThe Mudge Boy. He's also in Milk.

ernestsewell said:

Okay, I'll try to remember those

ok, here we go

i'm currently reading about 6 or 7 books at once, but most of them
are non fiction and quite varying subject matter so it's not that
hard.

whenever i've been on a reading binge and finished about 10 books
in a row without a break, i get stuck and can't really get into a
book anymore for a while. so i'll be starting a book late at night
but in the morning i'm like "meh, i'd rather read something else",
and after four or five nights i've started as many books and can't
decide anymore. so i just read them all.

except when it's more than 2 novels, i can't do that, it fucks me
up completely, lol.

right now, these are the only 4 i could find pictures on:


the only 'real' novel i'm reading right now. i'm only on page 70
or something so i can't really say just yet but the writing is a
nice blend that reads a bit like a more upbeat/comical kafka.



semi-autobio-'novel'. love love love nabokov's books and this is
one i haven't read before. about halfway through. not my fav this
far but good just the same.


this is a bit of an ongoing project since it's written on paper
so thin you can almost see through it and the font is so small
i can only read it when i'm not tired. but much like penguin's
other history volume "complete history of the world" which is an
even bigger volume, this is packed with details, references and
just a trove of information, interesting tid bits and dazzling
writing (for what is supposed to be a 'dull' history book). but
i've been reading it on and off for about a year now. there's
just too much information to take in if you'd read it in one
sitting. i think my head would explode.





i've been perscribed some amino accid therapy by my doctor and
then i recalled that i already had this book for over six years
and gave it another read. almost through it now. i love books
on food and all it's components. amino accids was something i'd
not read that much about until now (i'd only flicked through
this volume when i first got it). some fascinating stuff.


the other stuff i'm kind of flicking through before i go to sleep
at night is a few dutch cookbooks and the prefaces/introductions
to joseph conrad's "nostromo" which i recently finished and would
like to know more about strictly from the novel's history and the
stuff going on in conrad's mind at the time.



i just realised that i'm never ever quite as happy as i am when
i'm surrounded by books, either reading them, talking about them
or hunting them down in old quaint bookshops. it's like some
sort of endorphin therapy for me. never quite understood how a
lot of people don't like reading or books at all. amazing.

ernestsewell said:

I would've enjoyed the book more had the author killed the bug in his ass and gave an objective view instead of the negativity he forced on the reader.

I'm currently reading..


And I want to read this next, I've been hearing so many good things about it...

ernestsewell said:

I enjoyed Miss America as well; unfortunately alot of people I've come across are too easily offended by Howard's humor.

I have every Cunningham book except for this one, so I bought it the other day.
At some point after I finish with "Private Parts", I'll read this.

Harlepolis said:

Despite that, he made some very valid points. I was most interested to read about the 1988 beyond era. DMSR covered to that point, but I've never had a book that went beyond that. I've wanted so much to read about the 90's. This one covered that, so it was great for me. He was spot on with a lot of his conclusions about Prince, and his attitude. I think he was a bit harsh on the quality of Prince's albums in the 90's, and a lot of the 80's as well. Those parts showed his angst against Prince for whatever reason. I'm not sure what he has invested in Prince besides representing Uptown Magazine as their council.

Some of his dates were wrong, and a few details were way off. Any good Prince fan would have known better. Perhaps he should have hired a better proofreader, one that knows what happened on August 3, 1983, opposed to August 15, 1983.

TheVoid said:

Just read that a couple of weeks ago and it is a real page-turner, but I thought the end needed something more. I enjoyed reading it a lot though, and would recommend it.

CarrieLee said:

I love Dr. Brian Weiss!
A couple of years ago, I got to do a past life regression with him and it was amazing!

I am half way through this one, and really enjoying it




And I have this one from the library but havent started it yet.

As required by my new job...


Getting Inside Your Customers Head ~ Kevin Davis

I can actually recommend it to anyone who's in Sales and takes that job seriously... like six figure seriously... this has some great tools in it that I hadn't quite gotten a grasp of yet.

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and this for inane pleasure...



it's aiight...

for my class, i have to read




personally, i finished


maybe tomorrow by jay little

a caravaggio biography

alldayallnight said:

I'm so skeptical with this kind of stuff but if what he's saying is all true...I can't deny it. It's really changed me. I've always been a firm believer in karma but this just reiterates everything. Truly amazing.