Muse2NOPharaoh said:

muse?!

IstenSzek said:

I read this 10 years ago when it first came out, I must say that there are not many books since then that I liked more. Having been to a boarding school myself, a lot of stuff was recognizable (apart from the bizarre stuff that happens in the story). I'm surprised that there hasn't been a film about this story yet, last thing I know is that Gwyneth Paltrow bought the rights for it several years ago.....

I never got through 'The Little Friend'.....
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abierman said:

A friend gave it to my for my birthday and I read it in about 4 evenings. Couldn't put it down.

CarrieMpls said:

It's a great book. I couldn't put it down.

So, I'm the only one who liked The Little Friend? It wasn't as good, but I enjoyed it and thought her portrayal of meth addiciton was spot-on and fascinating...

butterfli25 said:

I loved this, I didnt want it to end!

LleeLlee said:

I read that book when I wasn't feeling well and seriously got through it in one afternoon. Good stuff

butterfli25 said:

I loved this, I didnt want it to end!

endorphin74 said:

I enjoyed it very much as well.

Which reminds me, Darin we should start coordinating better so we stop buying the same books. lol. We can trade, ya know?

I'm currently reading "Setting Free The Bears" which I HATE so it's taking me a while. I should just give it up.

endorphin74 said:

Oh? Why?

HamsterHuey said:

I don't know what it is. Normally I really like John Irving. But I can't get into this book. I'm halfway in and I've yet to really care about any of the characters. Half the time, I'm forgetting who's who. I keep reading in the hopes that there'll be some pay off by the end. But so far, it's just this messy, sprawling piece of fiction that seems utterly pointles.

endorphin74 said:

LoL
I know what you mean. It is my least favourite Irving book. And I am a big fan.

I wish, I read that one book( the character was a warden at a prison of some sort in a village in africa?) but I don't remember the name of it, we all agreed and I read it but we never discussed it

I ( 9s read it too) recently read this, and I'm going to watch the movie soon.

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? ...we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

LleeLlee said:

LleeLlee and I had our own litle Book Club!

2the9s said:

Hey, Ithink that they should make a movie about Truman Capote when he was writing this book. That would be cool!

2the9s said:

Hey, Ithink that they should make a movie about Truman Capote when he was writing this book. That would be cool!

bkw said:

Or maybe they should make a movie of LleeLlee and I reading this book!

Crackpot by John Waters.

I love that man.

LleeLlee said:

me, too! that is an excellent book.

butterfli25 said:

Yeah, Waiting for The Barbarians by JM Coetzee. Sorry about that, butter. That was a shit time at the Org.

We actually did have that discussion, but we did it over at the NPGMC where we started a thread. I tried to contact as many people as I could but I kept getting deactivated.

LleeLlee said:

me, too! that is an excellent book.