For my fellow book nerds... recommend me some stuff. Novels, non fiction whatever you want.

My reading list is kind of thin right now, but I fell in love with Bonfire Of The Vanities all over again, enjoyed College Girls by Lynn Peril (though it was a bit too full of statistics for its own good) and was throughly under- whelmed by The Colorist by Susan Daitch.

What's on your bookshelf?

Halfway through The Day of the Scorpion, by Paul Scott!

i'm reading 'broom of the system', which is a lot more digestable to me than 'infinite jest', and quite witty too. there's a character in the book named "judith prietht". that's brilliant, even if i AM easily impressed.

After having seen Casino Royale, I recently read Ian Fleming's book again. It was fun to read with the movie in mind.

IrresistibleB1tch said:

Hey, I almost didn't recognize you!

Is that Ann Keller in your av?

SureThing said:

it's Rosa Luxemburg

Anx said:

I just laughed reading that, so apparently I'm just as easily impressed. That is quite clever.

gyro34 said:

2the9s said:

Why the disbelief emoticon, 2the9s?

gyro34 said:

You'll find out when you reach chapter 7.

2the9s said:

Geez, I hope it's not a Dr. Phil book type
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I'm about halfway through, just in the middle of the Bossk story. Bossk used to be one of my favorite bounty hunters until I read his backstory in The Bounty Hunter Wars. He's an idiot.

I could say the reverse about Dengar. I thought he was a poor excuse of a character until I read the stuff on him.
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love me some TC Boyle

Anx said:

I couldn't quite do Infinite Jest, particularaly since my sister warned me "if you're looking for everything to be neatly wrapped up you're in for a disappointment!"

But he's a talented writer, no doubt.

Island on the Edge of the World: The Story of St. Kilda by Charles Maclean

But an old version that was written in the early 70s, so it's really dated.

NDRU said:

i liked his book of essays a whole lot - especially the one about him hanging out on the set of a david lynch movie.

Blitzed! by Steve Strange...

The Broker by john Grisham.

I'm reading:





I'm re reading:


My students are reading this so I have to too:

I also just finished re-reading His Master's Voice by Stanislav Lem.

Extraordinary.

Divine revelations of hell
Mary K. Baxter
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And the MOST important book IMHO:

evenstar3 said:

YAY!


Then see the film.

Zogmuffin said:

i couldn't find it to download so i figured what the hell, why not read the play