daPrettyman said:

Dammit,,,I'm completely SOLD

From the few passages I read from his work,,,,I knew he wasn't to be sniffed @, and I liked him even more when I saw his interview in PBS couple of years ago. I'm def keeping those books on the look out
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the story of david bowie's life circa 1976-1979, when he and iggy pop decided to take off to berlin for a while in order to kick their drug habits and maybe record a musical masterpiece or two in the process.

R3V said:

I'm re-reading these right now

NDRU said:

dvd golden compass/northern lights has finally been released

and im broke this week

I'm re-reading this again....



Learn something new everytime I pick it up. The BEST and most objective research about Lady Day's life/career IMHO.

I'm reading The Seamstress - A Memoir of Survival by Sara Tuvel Bernstein

Extraordinary story about a young Jewish woman's survival during the war. Engrossing and heartwrenching.
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ThreadBare said:

I know what you mean. That book was damn boring and so are her latest. I used to love her work and have read everything, but her last 2-3 books have been awful. I feel the same about Alice Walker. She is one of my fav writers, but her last few books are terrible IMO.

David Icke - Infinite love is the only truth, everything else is illusion. A life changing and affirming book.

Stephen King - Duma Key(just about to start it)

I just read Heavier then Heaven, about Kurt Cobain written by Charles Cross? and it's so obvious the author had help from Courtney because she comes across like a saint throughout the book.
I want to get another biography on him that might be closer to the truth. Especially how he died and if anyone else played a part in it, as I don't believe he commited suicide.

I'm reading the want ads.

WildheartXXX said:

Mind to post a short review, please?

My network is a lil' fucked up right now, and frankly its a main drag logging into Amazon/B&N.

Anxiety said:

Oh I would like to read that.

Just finished reading this:

All The Names by Jose Saramago




The nondescript Senhor José labors long and thanklessly among the archives; his is a tepid, lonely life with only one small hobby to leaven his leisure hours: he collects "news items about those people in his country who, for good reasons and bad, had become famous." One night, it occurs to him that "something fundamental was missing from his collection, that is, the origin, the root, the source, in other words, the actual birth certificate of these famous people"--and that the information is within easy reach on the other side of a connecting door that separates his meager lodgings from the Registry itself. And so begins Senhor José's midnight raids on the stacks as he shuttles between the Registry and his own room bearing precious records that he carefully copies before returning them to their rightful places. Still, this minor aberration might have remained the clerk's only transgression if not for a simple act of fate: one night, along with his celebrity records, he accidentally picks up a birth certificate belonging to an ordinary, unknown woman--a woman who becomes suddenly more important than all the others precisely because she is unknown. Celebrity is cast aside as Senhor José begins a search for this mysterious quarry--a quest that will lead him into conflict with his superior, the Registrar, and ensnare him in the kind of messy personal histories and tangled relationships he has thus far avoided in his own life.

A recurring theme in many of Saramago's novels is the very human struggle between withdrawal and connection. Whether it is the Iberian peninsula literally breaking off from the rest of Europe in The Stone Raft or an entire country afflicted by a devastating malady in Blindness, he is fascinated by the effects of isolation on the human soul and, correspondingly, the redemptive power of compassion. All the Names continues to mine this rich vein as the repressed clerk follows his unknown Ariadne's thread out of the labyrinth of his own strangled psyche and into life. Readers will find here Saramago's trademark love of the absurd, his brilliant imagery and idiosyncratic punctuation, as well as the unflinching yet tender honesty with which he chronicles the human condition. --Alix Wilber
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ISHMAEL by Daniel Quinn



for what seems to be the umpteenth time!! It's so good and gives you an entirely different outlook on Human existence.

Are you a taker or a leaver?

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...el_(novel)
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Harlepolis said:

Well it will only make sense if youre more familiar with Ickes work/standpoint. Basically he believes that the world is a mirror image of every thought that we all hold. Everything can be changed by changing the vibration we give out. He argues we live in what he calls a 'movie'. Its not actually real life, its life thats fed to us by the media etc so its a construct that we then use and believe is real life'life is an illusion' So we go out and consume and get jealous and compete etc and give out negative energy. The reason we do this is because the elite want to further their agenda and control us all. So therefore is the argument that we cannot change anything but in fact we can. The elite know that this is possible so supress this is much as possible by debunking everything new age/psychic etc. They actually know this stuff works and is powerful but they openly laugh at it. So in a nutshell Icke is saying that we are part of everything and we can affect everything by projection. He backs this up with some good evidence. His work could do with some editing. He does have the tendency to go off on one but this merely his enthusiasm. His books have personally changed my life..and once you do wake up you cant really go back.

Finally he does say that this is happening to a hell of lot of people now and the powers that be are having to work harder and harder to control all this. Latest case is Robbie Williams who everyone is saying has lost it because hes skywatching and believes we are not alone and theres more to life than what there is. Its fine if hes on crack though because he doesnt pose a threat. So there is more supression going on.

Its a fascinating book and even if some of it(depending on how open you are)seems a little tall. Its actually hard to argue against some of it. Im more into this stuff than the conspiracy material so its definitely worth a read.

The Confident women by Joyce Meyers.

give it a few mths- and im sure this will be on ppl's list


it'll be on mine

PinkOrchid said:

i just finished it! it was an addictive read, i highly recommend it.

WildheartXXX said:

Sounds like a good read Thanx for the 411.