REDFEATHERS said:

I'll save u the bother redfeathers - it's basically:
prince forms band, releases some records, pisses off The Time, boffs susannah and some others, sells lots of records.

i'm joking, it is a really good book. But it won't be a patch on "The Memoirs of Stumpy"

aww that could be a childrens book..

REDFEATHERS said:

**STUMPY NEWSFLASH**


http://www.dailyecho.co.u...r_legs.php

Be careful, there's a lot of fake stumpy legs floating about on the net. I was stung the other day

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.

These words were pretty intresting..

"Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. Do you understand that?

"When you kill a man, you steal a life," Baba said. "You steal his wife’s right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. Do you see

Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Chris Adrian, The Children’s Hospital
Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day
David Mitchell, Black Swan Green
Richard Powers, The Echo Maker
Gary Shteyngart, Absurdistan
Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics
T. Cooper, Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes
Daniel Handler, Adverbs
Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
George Saunders, In Persuasion Nation
Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française
Jennifer Egan, The Keep
Tom Franklin, Smonk
Chris Bachelder, U.S.!
Kathryn Davis, The Thin Place
Brian Evenson, The Open Curtain
Kevin Brockmeier, The Brief History of the Dead
Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun
Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Deborah Eisenberg, Twilight of the Superheroes
Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants
Mark Haddon, A Spot of Bother
Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
Ken Kalfus, A Disorder Peculiar to the Country
Joe Meno, The Boy Detective Fails
Alice Munro, The View from Castle Rock: Stories
Yannick Murphy, Here They Come
Heather O’Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals
Philip Roth, Everyman
Dana Spiotta, Eat the Document
Virgil, The Aeneid (2006 translation by Robert Fagles)
Stephen Wright, The Amalgamation Polka
Chris Abani, Becoming Abigail
Kate Atkinson, One Good Turn
Emily Barton, Brookland
T. C. Boyle, Talk Talk

my favorite geeky literary mag THE BELIEVER has a yearly list of the best books of the previous year, and here's their list for 2006:



i wanna check out the cormac mccarthy one, library willing.

Anxiety said:

I might have to print this out & laminate it. Usually, I walk into a book store without a clue what I'm going to read next.

The Pynchon was a terrific ride. The Murakami...well, I read non-Sedaris short stories reluctantly, and this one feels like it was produced in the same spirit....

my favorite geeky literary mag THE BELIEVER has a yearly list of the best books of the previous year, and here's their list for 2006:



i wanna check out the cormac mccarthy one, library willing.

Anxiety said:

How impressive, I've read zero of those!

I do like T.C. Boyle at least.

NDRU said:

i've read zero of them too! but the descriptions i read in the magazine sound good, and they couldn't stop praising the mccarthy book, so what the hey. if i can find it for free at the library, i'll give it a spin.

Just started:

Anxiety said:

definitely looks like a good list for recommendations

I also finally managed to find a copy of G.V. Desani's All About H. Hatterr and I will be reading that motherfucker come next.

Just finished Christopher Moore's LAMB


God it was good!

my favorite geeky literary mag THE BELIEVER has a yearly list of the best books of the previous year, and here's their list for 2006:



i wanna check out the cormac mccarthy one, library willing.