I loved "The 5 people you meet in heaven".. Mitch Albom is such a great author.. his books are so touching and uplifting..

so now I am reading his latest book..

Just started:

HereToRockYourWorld said:

V.S. Naipaul's A Million Mutinies Now. I've been reading it for a long damn while, but it really is good. The only other Naipaul I've read is A Bend in the River though I don't remember a hell of a lot about it.

Mutinies (1990 or '91?)is kind of a follow up to his previous book on India, An Area of Darkness (1962 or '63).

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.

Letters to a young poet

Catch 22

theodore said:

Good for you! Rilke! Great stuff!

too many books about van gogh
& zola's l'oeuvre

2the9s said:

I love it

I'm "studying" for my Caribbean Politics test, so I'm reading this book:

The Cuban Revolution: Origins, Course, and Legacy

Take a Walk on the Dark Side is the ultimate book for today's rock and roll fan: a fascinating compendium of facts, fictions, prophecies, premonitions, coincidences, hoaxes, doomsday scenarios, and other urban legends about some of the world's most beloved and mysterious pop icons.

Updating, revising, and expanding on material from his cult classic Hellhounds on Their Trail, Patterson offers up a delectable feast of strange and occasionally frightening rock and roll tales, featuring the ironies associated with the tragic deaths of many rock icons, unsolved murders, and other tales from the "fell clutch of circumstance."

Beginning with the fateful place where it all started -- a deserted country crossroads just outside Clarksdale, Mississippi, where Robert Johnson made his deal with the devil -- through the Buddy Holly curse (rock and roll's first great tragedy) and beyond, this incredible volume uncovers some of rock and roll's most celebrated murders, twists of fate, and decades-long streaks of bad luck that defy rational explanation.

Inside you'll find:

Facts about Jimmy Page and the Zeppelin curse
Chilling quirks of fate surrounding the deaths of musicians in the Allman Brothers Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd
A provocative look at "The Club," membership in which requires an untimely death at age twenty-seven and whose inductees include Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, and Janis Joplin
Cryptic messages in song lyrics that have proved eerily prophetic


Carefully researched, wildly enjoyable, and often harrowing, Take a Walk on the Dark Side takes the reader on a mysterious ride through rock and roll history.

oh, i'm reading all kinds of insanity:

"cat's cradle" by vonnegut (for the second time...i'm reading it sllloowwwly)
"the kafka reader" by some dude named franz

and some book i can't remember the title of right now and i'm too lazy to get up and see what it is, about a guy who gets amnesia and pays people to re-enact the events of his life so he can catch up.

Anxiety said:

I loved Cat's Cradle, but I listened to Slaughterhouse Five right after he died & wasn't crazy about it.

Maybe I should have read it & not listened to Ethan Hawke's intense whispering of "So it goes!"

NDRU said:

oh god. ethan hawke can ruin ANYTHING.

yeah, i'd stick with the reading and not the listening of vonnegut, unless they pick someone with a creaky, wizened voice to do it. bill burroughs would be great, but he's otherwisefully engaged anymore.

i'm gonna go on a vonnegut kick this summer, i think. i haven't read his stuff since i was in high school, and i've been wanting to revisit his work for a while. "galapagos" and "dead eye dick" are two of my favorites, which i'll be hunting down here soon...

White Teeth by Zadie Smith (for book club).

Slightly disappointed thus far. There have been a few good one liners, but from the comments on dust jacket I was expecting much better. I'm only on page 109 so hopefully it'll pick up soon.

Anxiety said:

Ethan was better than Ambian, I'll give him that. I'll give it another chance someday. Can't judge a book by it's reader.

galapagos was pretty fun I'd like to read Sirens of Titan again, too. I recently got about halfway through TimeQuake, but didn't finish it. Similar to my problem with Slaughterhouse Five, it felt all over the map.

evenstar3 said:

School's kickin' your ass? I'm taking a short break from books. This semester's stack of books wore me out. Break time.

Sweeny79 said:

Seems fun to read. As soon as I saw the title I knew the Robert Johnson and Jimmy Page stories had to be in there.

the threads on the org

Seriously tho, I have not been able to get into a good book since my kids were born

AnckSuNamun said:

yup. i had to take my major's senior-level course a year early (since they only offer it every two years ), so the final paper is basically my life right now.

theodore said:

That's a really wonderful book. I love Rilke.

"Own Your Own Life: How the New Cognitive Therapy Can Make You Feel Wonderful" by Gary Emery

babooshleeky said:

WillyWonka said:

good fucking questions, i guess alot of things.

A Wild Sheep Chase By Haruki Murakami
Noam Chomsky
The Philosophy Of Zen
The Essence Of Tao