still working on this one:



read this one in between - LOVED it:

bluesbaby said:

I like his stuff. He's like a lighter Tom Robbins. Very funny.

Actually that one was hard for me to get into for some reason, though.

The Wild Trees by Richard Preston

I love Gothic Horror!

2the9s said:

This book is incredible.

I have a non-representative (the book is very funny) quotation from it in my profile!

Thornton Wilder: American Characteristics and Other Essays. I always have a book to read when taking planes.
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fhqwhgads said:

We used to travel in Mexico and camp on the beach where that movie was made. Unfortunately the area was developed, and not the same. The air strip was there and overgrown with weeds. At the time, 25 yrs ago, it was pristine.

xplnyrslf said:

Would like to re-read Abbey Hoffman's "Steal This Book" if I can find it. Even though I'm more conservative these days.....it was an era.

jone70 said:

Improving a bit due to the following excerpt on p. 184--185

"...Samad was first amused and then depressed by the items his wife and son determined essential, life-or-death things:

Millat
Born to Run (album)--Springsteen
Poster of DeNiro in "You talkin' to me" scene from Taxi Driver
Betamax copy of Purple Rain (rock movie)
Shrink-to-fit Levi's 501 (red tab)
Pair of black Converse baseball shoes
A Clockwork Orange (book)"

I've been reading deception point for about a year now, just picked it up (I am halfway) after a 4 month hiatus, and I'm like WTF! who are all these people?

Has anyone read Atlas Shrugged? I'm a bit curious to read that one although I don't think I'd agree with its views.

retina said:

I read a book which talked about it a lot (Old School by Tobias Wolf), so for a moment there I thought I HAD read it. Angelina Jolie will star in the film version

ZombieKitten said:

I stopped reading that halfway through. Usually his books are much better. I guess if I started it again, I would have to go back to the beginning, I just found it really slow..

ZombieKitten said:

The film version of Old School? Or of Atlas Shrugged? If it's Atlas Shrugged then it's kind of a weird coincidence that they would do it now all of a sudden after all these years, and that it would be at the same time that I happened to hear about the book from a friend.

retina said:

Atlas shrugged

retina said:

Atlas Shrugged is a little long to squeeze into a movie. I'd like to see how they do it though.

It was huge in scope, and it's very creative, but it beats you over the head with its philosophy. Also the characters don't seem very human.

The Fountainhead doesn't go as deeply or clearly into the philosophy, but it's a much better book. Bad movie, though.

I actually skipped nearly 100 pages of Atlas Shrugged because a character delivers a speech in the end that just repeated all the shit that the book had already said many different ways.

Still, she was influential for me in high school, and not coincidentally, for a girl I liked.
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REDFEATHERS said:

I liked that one. Most people seem to like the first Dan Brown book they read the best. They're all exactly the same!

RaggDoll said:

Oh is that any good?

REDFEATHERS said:

I'm reading it for this stupid book club I'm in. It's pretty slow but supposedly it picks up. I think I'll like it, cuz I'm into anything middle eastern.

RaggDoll said:

Oh cool.. I will have a look..

REDFEATHERS said:

Okay, well lemme warn you, it's a Christian novel, revolved around faith too.....in case thats not your bag...

NDRU said:

See, that's why Sartre divided his work into fiction (like Nausea) and pure philosophy (like Being And Nothingness, which is by the way the most difficult but also interesting book I've read). Mixing it up too much just makes it messy, especially if you end it with the kind of speech you mentioned. It still sounds interesting though, and it's nice to hear that even to this day it comes across as creative.



Never heard of that one. Thanks for the tip!

Musil - The man without properties/characteristics?

I really don't know the English title of this book.

a book about John Lennon being a political musician.

MarieLouise said:

"Qualities."

Wow. That should take you a while. The only Musil I've read is Young Torless. But one of these lifetimes I'd like to make it through The Man Without Qualities.

Have you read Hermann Broch?

all semester...ALL DAY.

evenstar3 said:

I didn't realize Tom Snyder knew shit about medieval art.

2the9s said: