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Do you like to read?...if so..recommend a good book I'd like to recommend the "Spellman" series of books *(the third one in the series just came out) by Lisa Lutz
it's about a private investigator, and it's also very very funny. *title edit* [Edited 3/28/10 15:10pm] | |
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biographies for me | |
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Right now I'm reading Popcorn by Ben Elton. I'm not done yet but based on what I've read so far I'd recommend it. "A Watcher scoffs at gravity!" | |
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I love Stephen King's novels.
Right now I'm almost finished with the "30 Days of Night" series of novels, tho... I put aside "Under the Dome" by Stephen King for them. "Love Hurts. Your lies, they cut me. Now your words don't mean a thing. I don't give a damn if you ever loved me..." -Cher, "Woman's World" | |
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One of the top 10 books I've ever read as far as entertainment, quality, and message. It was is just simply brilliant.
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I need to read a book.
While I was recovering I read The year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion. It's about when her husband died and her daughter was sick. I also started Reading Lolita in Tehran, it is a slow read I am still working on that one little by little. I read the new one by Anne Rice Angel Time. It was interesting, I am looking forward to more in the series. We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color. Maya Angelou | |
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my top 3 favorites in fiction:
all 3 are spectacular books that i have read numerous times Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. - Lord Acton | |
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^^ I'm supposed to be reading "The Hours" to teach in Contemporary Lit. I just started it. "Love Hurts. Your lies, they cut me. Now your words don't mean a thing. I don't give a damn if you ever loved me..." -Cher, "Woman's World" | |
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chocolate1 said: ^^ I'm supposed to be reading "The Hours" to teach in Contemporary Lit. I just started it.
it's fantastic. one of the few books that ever made me cry. Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. - Lord Acton | |
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cborgman said: chocolate1 said: ^^ I'm supposed to be reading "The Hours" to teach in Contemporary Lit. I just started it.
it's fantastic. one of the few books that ever made me cry. puleez. you cried reading an Archie comic book! | |
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BlackAdder7 said: cborgman said: it's fantastic. one of the few books that ever made me cry. puleez. you cried reading an Archie comic book! Man, that time Betty got stood up again by Archie had me bawling like a newborn. "A Watcher scoffs at gravity!" | |
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meow85 said: BlackAdder7 said: puleez. you cried reading an Archie comic book! Man, that time Betty got stood up again by Archie had me bawling like a newborn. Veronica definitely had the money, and the vixen looks, but Betty had the clean scrubbed tomboyish quality. Betty deserved better | |
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chocolate1 said: I love Stephen King's novels.
Right now I'm almost finished with the "30 Days of Night" series of novels, tho... I put aside "Under the Dome" by Stephen King for them. I think I'm going to get Just After Sunset later this week | |
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Nelson Mandela's autobiography, "Long Walk to Freedom"
Eldridge Cleaver's autobiography, "Soul on Ice" Dee Brown's "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" (about how the US Gov't screwed the Native Americans out of their land, tribe by tribe) F. Scott Fitzgerald's, "This Side of Paradise" The check. The string he dropped. The Mona Lisa. The musical notes taken out of a hat. The glass. The toy shotgun painting. The things he found. Therefore, everything seen–every object, that is, plus the process of looking at it–is a Duchamp. | |
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Fantastic!!!
and my standby... A working class Hero is something to be ~ Lennon | |
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i read this good book, like in a couple hours called
maybe tomorrow by jay little, it was written in the 1950's and its pretty rare,i found it via another library | |
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baroque said: i read this good book, like in a couple hours called
maybe tomorrow by jay little, it was written in the 1950's and its pretty rare,i found it via another library and i also finished reading this book called pulp friction. which was like a book on the history of gay pulp stories. it was pretty awesome. i like reading alot about gay history. i would major in gay history if i knew they had a major for that. i am so interested in it. | |
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Ron Jeremy: The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz Shake it til ya make it | |
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I started reading Looking for Alaska by John Green.
It's really funny | |
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Alej said: chocolate1 said: I love Stephen King's novels.
Right now I'm almost finished with the "30 Days of Night" series of novels, tho... I put aside "Under the Dome" by Stephen King for them. I think I'm going to get Just After Sunset later this week "Love Hurts. Your lies, they cut me. Now your words don't mean a thing. I don't give a damn if you ever loved me..." -Cher, "Woman's World" | |
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Shame - Salman Rushdie (bloody genius) | |
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BlackAdder7 said: I'd like to recommend the "Spellman" series of books *(the third one in the series just came out) by Lisa Lutz
it's about a private investigator, and it's also very very funny. *title edit* [Edited 3/28/10 15:10pm] Elvis cole series... By Robert Crais Cole is "the worlds greatest detective (or so he says) with a kick arse ex cop/ex marine side kick Joe Pike...a man of few words who you wouldnt want to meet in a dark alley. I started the series at LA Requiem (book 7?), loved it, and went and bought the entire back list. http://www.robertcrais.com/novels.htm [Edited 3/29/10 3:49am] seems that i was busy doing something close to nothing, but different than the day before | |
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my favorit 25 books of all time, in no particular order:
wurthering heights - emily bronte midnights children - salman rushdie journey to the end of the night - louis ferdinand celine melodies - helmut krausser the island of the day before - umberto eco the master and margarite - mikail bulgakov dead souls - nikolay gogol night - edgar hilsenrath the bell jar - sylvia plath house of leaves - mark z danielewski the plague - albert camus my name is red - orhan pamuk nostromo - joseph conrad the brothers karamazov - fjodor dostoyevski madam bovary - gustav flaubert blindness - jose saramago the ghospel according to jesus christ - jose saramago the moor's last sigh - salman rushdie elementary particles - michel houellebecq fahrenheit 451 - ray bradburry the old man and the sea - ernest hemmingway the sun also rises - ernest hemmingway la pianiste - elfride jelinek the arrival of joachim stiller - hubert lampoo gstaad 95-98 - marek van der jagt the assylum seeker - arnon grunberg there's something there for everyone, i guess. i've read a few books in my time but any of these, i feel, i'd be able to read again and again at least 10 times in a row. they're all just very very special. and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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vivid said: Shame - Salman Rushdie (bloody genius)
i love all of rushdie's work. i've read them all 2 or 3 times by now. i love magic realism. and he has written some of the very best of that ever. the only one i didn't care for all that much was his latest "the temptress of florence" and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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I love Anne Rice
and I love Charlene Harris the sookie stackhouse novels insatiable3: how can i cure my hangover?
whistle: getting drunk is for teenagers. shoot heroin like an adult.... | |
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insatiable3 said: I love Anne Rice
and I love Charlene Harris the sookie stackhouse novels Those books fly off the shelves its amazing what a tv series does for a book series seems that i was busy doing something close to nothing, but different than the day before | |
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IstenSzek said: vivid said: Shame - Salman Rushdie (bloody genius)
i love all of rushdie's work. i've read them all 2 or 3 times by now. i love magic realism. and he has written some of the very best of that ever. the only one i didn't care for all that much was his latest "the temptress of florence" I've only read Shame and Midnight's Children. Both brilliant. What did you make of the Satanic Verses? I've always wanted to read that. | |
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anything by Neil Gaiman comes highly recommended from me. :] I still play pokemon. I play warcraft. And I'm awesome. | |
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vivid said: IstenSzek said: i love all of rushdie's work. i've read them all 2 or 3 times by now. i love magic realism. and he has written some of the very best of that ever. the only one i didn't care for all that much was his latest "the temptress of florence" I've only read Shame and Midnight's Children. Both brilliant. What did you make of the Satanic Verses? I've always wanted to read that. my personal favorite is probably still "the moor's last sigh", there was just something about that story and the brilliant characters that stayed with me very long. i have the constant urge to take it off the shelve to read it once again, even in favour of new books i got. "the satanic verses" has some crazy good elements but it does tend to go off into 'weirdness' that is a bit mind bending at time. but as a non muslim, it was hard to see exactly which elements of the book so many people got so incredibly upset about. there are no insults, at least not overt and plain insults. it's all a parabel (is that the right way of saying it?), a fairytale if you will. i'm sure that if my knowledge of muslim religion were more extensive i would be able to pinpoint which characters were somehow a take on it or so but as i'm not, it's just a very enjoyable and good book. the opening scene is one of those images that will remain stuck in your head forever. and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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