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PrintableIstenSzek said: abierman said: 
non-fiction About an high-profile Amsterdam real estate kingpin who got involved with the wrong people, the Amsterdam underworld, making real estate deals with them in order to do their criminal money-laundry. Things got out of hands and in the end he got caught in the criminal web with no way out. After being extorted for years he was finally executed on broad daylight in front of his office in one of the finest neighbourhoods in the city in May 2004. The criminal players are also well known names, the main criminal is the former kidnapper of Alfred Heineken (  ). He has been arrested a year ago under suspicion of extortion and several execution within the Amsterdam criminal cicuits.
Trial starts in april, it's all highly actual, not a day goes buy without something in the news about it! The book reads like a fast paced thriller! Intruiging! lolz. not those pictures again!   watch it, I'll send Willem H.'s henchmen after you!!! | |
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abierman said: IstenSzek said: lolz. not those pictures again! watch it, I'll send Willem H.'s henchmen after you!!! make sure you give them my picture: 
and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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IstenSzek said: abierman said: watch it, I'll send Willem H.'s henchmen after you!!! make sure you give them my picture:
Willem is sending his attorney after yo ass: 
I take it you know eachother! | |
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I'm reading this
Carl Hiaasen is none too deep, but he's incredibly entertaining & fairly stylish. My Legacy
http://prince.org/msg/8/192731 | |
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abierman said: IstenSzek said: make sure you give them my picture:
Willem is sending his attorney after yo ass:
I take it you know eachother! yeah, we've met in the locker room. it was quite a nice experience  and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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a crappy book called Odd Forever by Koontz... | |
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ZombieKitten said: 2the9s said:  I'm in! I hope you are being serious 
(and don't pick "A Suitable Boy" please  )
[Edited 2/6/07 2:21am] How about Cormac McCarthy's The Road? | |
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2the9s said: ZombieKitten said: I'm in! I hope you are being serious
(and don't pick "A Suitable Boy" please )
[Edited 2/6/07 2:21am] How about Cormac McCarthy's The Road? How many pages does it have?  | |
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I'm reading what is mostly a piece of garbage called, "Reincarnation: The Missing Link in Christianity".
It's by a woman who by all accounts was a total nutcase. However, I align myself with a certain unorthodox Christianity and reincarnation has always been of interest to me ... so there are some interesting points, but it seems there is scant evidence to back them up. | |
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I JUST FINISHED THIS:
I'M STARTING THIS: 
My friend got me the DEXTER books, there's two, they came in the mail out of order so before reading the first book, DARKLY DREAMING DEXTER, I read, DEARLY DEVOTED DEXTER, the second book. And I saw the showtime series DEXTER. I'm obsessed by him. M MyeternalgrattitudetoPhil&Val.Herman said "We want sweaty truckers at the truck stop! We want cigar puffing men that look like they wanna beat the living daylights out of us" Val"sporking is spooning with benefits" | |
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2the9s said: ZombieKitten said: I'm in! I hope you are being serious
(and don't pick "A Suitable Boy" please )
[Edited 2/6/07 2:21am] How about Cormac McCarthy's The Road? I know this would be right up your alley and I've been dying to re-read it.... http://www.amazon.com/exe...informat0b | |
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lovemachine said: 2the9s said: I know this would be right up your alley and I've been dying to re-read it.... http://www.amazon.com/exe...informat0b I've heard of that book, but never read it. And it's actually related to some things I'm working on at the moment (non-Russia related. lol). I'm glad you mentioned it. I figured McCarthy might be good because it just came out, people are talking about it, I've never read any of his books, and it might have a fairly broad appeal. Also, it's not that long, Charlotte, I think it said 256 pages, but not densely packed like Seth!
And even though it's not out in paperback yet, the price on Amazon is really good and there seem to be a lot of used copies available as well. And that will probably be true for a while, as the book had a huge first printing. | |
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 a psychotic is someone who just figured out what's going on | |
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HereToRockYourWorld said: CarrieMpls said: To borrow a phrase from someone else, I think it's mostly pretentious hooey. 
I think my heart just stopped. It's applied critical thinking! It underlies all rational consideration of ANYTHING.  I agree. I find philosophy very real and practical, for the most part. It's hard to generalize because some of it is more abstruse than others. But I find it to be beautiful, enlightening, challenging, and spiritual. And very, very relevant, especially when it deals with modern culture and communication. | |
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2the9s said: IstenSzek said: 
just finished this one. i was kinda late to catch on to the hype lol. but it's a wonderful wonderful book, written with such craft. superb. 
and just started this one. first thing i read by him was "blindness", which was very good indeed. then i read "the stone raft" which was an awful lot better still and after that i was dumbstruck by some of the poetic beauty in his "the gospel according to jesus christ". so this is one of those author's whose new novel i just buy without even one thought as to what the book is about. i know that i will cherish it a long time to come for the individual sentences that will jump at me and stay with me forever. 
Anyway, I'm reading Bruno Schulz's The Street of Crocodiles.
It is a novel. Or a memoir. Or some feverish delerium. Apparently Schulz composed these pieces as letters about his life, and was only later to publish them as a book. It is about his life growing up in small town now in Ukraine (then part of Poland). And it is about his father; his father, who is at times a Demiurge, a shaggy-headed old testament prophet, who rules over his household not with power but with a charming psychosis; and who is at other times a silly old man who is often constipated and who disappears for days on end into the dark corners of their small apartment. Schulz was shot by the Gestapo in like 1942. [Edited 2/5/07 8:21am] The last 10 pages of The Street of Crocodiles is among the best things ever written. Word to his father! | |
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Stax said: i read that a few years ago, it's quite good and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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IstenSzek said: i read that a few years ago, it's quite good  I just started it. I finished Guns, Germs & Steel a few weeks ago and decided to move on to this.
(sp) [Edited 2/7/07 15:42pm] a psychotic is someone who just figured out what's going on | |
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i just bought it on sale over at shinders today. i'm gonna be buried in this book for a while, since it's rather long (640 pages)...right now i'm reading into the bit about marilyn chambers and her ivory snow scandal. so far, the book's really good. | |
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not quite what i had expected, but um... interesting. | |
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IrresistibleB1tch said:
not quite what i had expected, but um... interesting.  Hi Martina!
How come I am not surprised .With a very special thank you to Tina: Is hammer already absolute, how much some people verändern...ICH hope is never so I will be! And if, then I hope that I would then have wen in my environment who joins me in the A.... | |
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Serious said: IrresistibleB1tch said:
not quite what i had expected, but um... interesting. Hi Martina!
How come I am not surprised .hi Martina! 
yeah, i'm ever so predictable! | |
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I'm re-reading Alex Hahn's Prince biography. It's gets worse the 2nd time around. | |
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mrdespues said: I'm reading what is mostly a piece of garbage called, "Reincarnation: The Missing Link in Christianity".
It's by a woman who by all accounts was a total nutcase. However, I align myself with a certain unorthodox Christianity and reincarnation has always been of interest to me ... so there are some interesting points, but it seems there is scant evidence to back them up. From what I've heard, reincarnation was a core part of Christianity at one time, but eliminated from the Bible at some point. I heard a rabbi speak on this once. | |
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NDRU said:
I just happened to be watching the Game Show Network a little bit yesterday, and...  [Edited 2/11/07 19:30pm] | |
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