anybody read and good books lately? [Archive]

Otis Driftwood

12-16-2005, 08:06 AM

I read "Naked came the Sasquatch" which is even funnier than it sounds for like the 14 th time, also "Miss Wyoming" by Coupland, anything by David Sedaris and my old Greyhawk Rpg novels. Last thing I did not enjoy reading was that damn Ulysses! Curse him!

ms.peachy

12-16-2005, 01:02 PM

I just today finished a book called Ash Wednesday by Ethan Hawke. Yeah, the actor guy. I read an interview with him a few months ago and he was talking about how there's this thing with him being an actor that when he wrote his first book, people seemed to react as if he'd done something really assinine and above his station, like "Who are you to think you can try and WRITE a BOOK? Your job is to say stuff and look pretty!" But I hadn't actually read anything he'd written at that point. So then I was in the library and I saw this book and I said 'yeah OK I'll have a go at it, see if the boy actually can write.' And you know what? He really can. It's not the best book I've ever read, but it was pretty damn good, well better than lots of other crap that's out there.

Echewta

12-16-2005, 01:12 PM

I'm currently reading A Spectacle of Corruption by David Liss.

icy manipulator

12-16-2005, 01:14 PM

has any read the His Dark Materials trilogy by Phlillip Pullman? if so would you recommend it?

fucktopgirl

12-16-2005, 01:14 PM

magazine is it alright??i love reading national geographic! (y)

icy manipulator

12-16-2005, 01:16 PM

magazine is it alright??i love reading national geographic! (y)
well it's not Cosmo so i guess that's acceptable :p

abcdefz

12-16-2005, 01:28 PM

The last book I read was "The Screwtape Letters" by my favorite author, C.S. Lewis. I'm currently reading "The Catcher In The Rye" by J.D. Salinger...

Hey -- you're doing allllll right. (y)

abcdefz

12-16-2005, 01:31 PM

abcdefz

12-16-2005, 01:34 PM

I put down IT by Stephen King. I've liked some of his stuff, but this was just too sloppy, at least 500 pages in.

Now I'm reading Silence (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0800871863/qid=1134761686/sr=8-2/ref=pd_bbs_2/103-4425811-7550265?n=507846&s=books&v=glance) by Shusaku Endo. Really good.

Holy crap! Five stars based on 45 reviews? That's pretty good. (y)

They're probably all from his family. :)

HEIRESS

12-16-2005, 02:25 PM

Im working on

Cry of the Kalahari (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0395647800/104-1286853-7440717?v=glance&n=283155)

The Naked and the Dead (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312265050/104-1286853-7440717?v=glance&n=283155)

anddddddd

Hey, white girl! (http://search.reviews.ebay.com/Hey-White-Girl_ISBN_0393074501_W0QQfvcsZ1388QQsoprZ162046)

I need to buy a new bookcase
maybe two

Nuzzolese

12-16-2005, 02:55 PM

I had never read To Kill a Mockingbird so I just did. Now I'm on The Fellowship of the Ring.

kll

12-16-2005, 02:57 PM

I just re-read Memoirs of a Geisha. Loved it more the second time. It had been several years since reading it though. I'm a much different person now.

abcdefz

12-16-2005, 03:15 PM

I had never read To Kill a Mockingbird so I just did.

Whoa -- me, too, for the first time.

Watching Capote was finally what got me to read it. :o

ToucanSpam

12-16-2005, 03:25 PM

As I said in the other thread, I finish Vita Caroli by Einhard and De Carolo Magno by Notker. Written about 1100 years ago, interesting stuff. Who knew how awsome Charlemagne was.

ms.peachy

12-16-2005, 03:27 PM

kite runner

oh that's meant to be quite good, I've been meaning to get to that one. You recommend it?

CJM

12-16-2005, 03:28 PM

finished Children of the Jedi by Barbara Hambly , which was really good, and now i'm reading Before the Storm (book 1 of the Black Fleet Crisis), by Michael P Kube-Mcdowell. i'm reading most of the star wars books (http://www.randomhouse.com/delrey/starwars/timeline.html) in order, cause i bought 15+ of them on ebay.

ToucanSpam

12-16-2005, 03:30 PM

Vision of the Future is amazing. Skip everything and just read that.

beastiegirrl101

12-16-2005, 03:43 PM

everything Ellis. Just finished Lunar Park.

I <3 Ellis. and so should you.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y296/Nata101/Summer2005050.jpg

ToucanSpam

12-16-2005, 03:43 PM

everything Ellis. Just finished Lunar Park.

I <3 Ellis. and so should you.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y296/Nata101/Summer2005050.jpg
Does he come with the girl? ;)

TAL

12-16-2005, 03:46 PM

everything Ellis. Just finished Lunar Park.

I <3 Ellis. and so should you.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y296/Nata101/Summer2005050.jpg
You're welcome.

beastiegirrl101

12-16-2005, 03:52 PM

Does he come with the girl? ;)

He's gay. So no, he doesnt cum with any girls ;)

Nuzzolese

12-16-2005, 03:53 PM

a million little pieces
kite runner

Oprah fan?

beastiegirrl101

12-16-2005, 03:53 PM

Oprah fan?

she left out The Secret Life of Bees. ha.

DandyFop

12-16-2005, 03:55 PM

I put down IT by Stephen King. I've liked some of his stuff, but this was just too sloppy, at least 500 pages in.

That book is fuckin ca-razy. Did you at least get to the part where they make the pact and seal it by all having sex with the girl? Pretty awesome shit there.

I haven't had time to read anything. BLAH.

Nuzzolese

12-16-2005, 04:04 PM

Because I was hoping we could discuss the show together and be friends.

Nuzzolese

12-16-2005, 04:25 PM

Oprah has this book club and your books are on it, that's all.

kll

12-16-2005, 04:38 PM

I have a day job, and enough friends...thanks anyway.

Yes. How is that girl doing that you took to the movies?

Medellia

12-17-2005, 12:06 AM

Just started Less Than Zero.

Documad

12-17-2005, 12:23 AM

has any read the His Dark Materials trilogy by Phlillip Pullman? if so would you recommend it?
I'm halfway through The Amber Spyglass on CD -- I love that series for listening in the car because the author does the narration and a bunch of actors do all the voices.

In the past few weeks, I loved Assassination Vacation (it was a nice way to tie up some of my Civil War history and it didn't overlap too bad with the book I'd read on Garfield). It was a fun fast read.

What's the Matter With Kansas was good but disturbing. Now I understand why so many wonderful, educated people fled Kansas for Minneapolis.

I read Breakfast at Tiffanys and was surprised that it was almost exactly like the movie except for the beginning and ending.

And Flush by Carl Hiaasen was okay but it wasn't as good as Hoot.

I'm partway through a good book on Henry VIII but I can't remember its name.

I hate when Oprah champions a book like that one about Hazeldon because now you can't read it without people making fun, like you guys did to Skye. I was going to read it before Oprah picked it, but there's no way I'm buying it now that it has her dreaded mark on it.

NUZZ NEEDS TO RECOMMEND MORE BOOKS because I read the ones she recommended in the last thread and it was the only adult fiction I've enjoyed in a long time.

Documad

12-17-2005, 12:38 AM

That book is fuckin ca-razy. Did you at least get to the part where they make the pact and seal it by all having sex with the girl? Pretty awesome shit there.
I read the book years after seeing the miniseries. The sex thing threw me. That wasn't in the miniseries!

Nuzzolese

12-17-2005, 10:06 AM

I hate when Oprah champions a book like that one about Hazeldon because now you can't read it without people making fun, like you guys did to Skye. I was going to read it before Oprah picked it, but there's no way I'm buying it now that it has her dreaded mark on it.

NUZZ NEEDS TO RECOMMEND MORE BOOKS because I read the ones she recommended in the last thread and it was the only adult fiction I've enjoyed in a long time.

I remember we talked about the Oprah book debacle before. And we only teased Skye because she listed two Oprah books. Only it doesn't matter because she's a bitch. What books were those that I recommended that you enjoyed? Glad to be of service!

MagicCowboy

12-17-2005, 10:30 AM

Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy

poutine

12-17-2005, 09:49 PM

Just finished reading "Lamb: The Gospel according to Biff, Christ's childhood pal" and highly recommend it. Not the type of book I would normally pick up on my own, but someone turned me on to it and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Hilarious.

Documad

12-18-2005, 12:20 AM

What books were those that I recommended that you enjoyed?
Mainly: The Virgin Suicides, which you did a little mini review of. I can never explain what I like about fiction because I have no education in English/literature. I liked the way the book was written more than the plot even though I liked the plot too. I don't say that often because lots of fiction has a tone that distracts me -- I feel that the writer is being too clever and I'm constantly aware of the writer. This book was the opposite. Most of the time, I don't really enjoy the act of reading fiction but I finish because I want to know what happened or I don't want to give up on it. I enjoyed reading this one all the way through. Sorry, I know I make no sense. :(

You also said that American Psycho was better than his others I think. I enjoyed it. I took a couple of books others recommended out from the library but I got busy and work and they had to go back so I'll try again.

p-branez

12-19-2005, 08:05 PM

OH THE GLORY OF IT ALL by sean wilsey.

i just started this. i think i'm getting tired of all the dave eggers/mcsweeney spin off books.

i finished Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and i really liked that.

I'm reading The Bell Jar for school and just started that.

I couldn't finish Love in the Time of Cholera. i got about halfway through it, then realized it was way too much for me.

poist

12-19-2005, 08:39 PM

Im working on

Cry of the Kalahari (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0395647800/104-1286853-7440717?v=glance&n=283155)

Pretty decent stuff.

I'm busy on Brett Easton Ellis - Less Than Zero

alexandra

12-20-2005, 01:58 PM

a Bob Dylan biography by Howard Sounes.

burbboi

12-23-2005, 07:30 PM

Splinter Cell [Tom Clancy]
The Doors [Coffee table reading, mostly pictures with captions]
Combat [collection of short stories compiled by Stephen Coontz]
From a Buick 8 [Stephen King]

i've been a long-time Stephen King fan

GreenEarthAl

12-23-2005, 08:18 PM

I've recently read Ishmael by Daniel Quinn. I would definitely recommend it.

A lot of people who have read my book have asked me if I've ever read The Handmaiden's Tale by Margaret Atwood. So I'm reading that now.

BangkokB

12-23-2005, 09:17 PM

I bought Think and Grow Rich a few months ago~~I'm still thinking

Last night I bought Noam Chomsky - Hegemony or Survival. Lots of $50 words so far. He's a professor at MIT so I was wondering if his own books are part of his curriculum. If I was a professor/author I would make my own books mandatory reading...even if it was Throw Moma from the Train~the childrens book Danny Devito wrote

beastiegirrl101

07-26-2006, 01:08 PM

pretty sure I could have just PMd TAL but who has read anything by Douglas Coupland? Which of his books should I start with?

I just finished Heartbreaking work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers, amazing and you all should read it.

TAL

07-26-2006, 01:11 PM

I thought you wanted to read them in the order he wrote them?

beastiegirrl101

07-26-2006, 01:11 PM

I thought you wanted to read them in the order he wrote them?

I do! just tell me what order TAL. . .dont make me look it up.

Rock

07-26-2006, 01:26 PM

The Most Beautiful Woman in Town - Charles Bukowski

Just started it. Never read anything by him before. What a weirdo. But I'm enjoying it so far.

Waus

07-26-2006, 01:28 PM

I think Nlol was making fun of people who like Bukowski the other day.

I'm still working on my Incense instruction book and "The Magus."

beastiegirrl101

07-26-2006, 01:29 PM

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&isbn=0375703764&itm=1

House of Leaves is pretty amazing....if you can get through it all it's a total mind f*ck.

Rock

07-26-2006, 01:36 PM

I think Nlol was making fun of people who like Bukowski the other day.
uh oh...i probably should edit my post then.

beastiegirrl101

07-26-2006, 01:37 PM

isn't a bukowski some nasty sexual act?

remi4979

07-26-2006, 02:06 PM

voices from chernobyl is an awesome book from people talking about their experiences and aftermath.

enree erzweglle

07-26-2006, 02:09 PM

reading that's unrelated to my job and if rereads count: "Gödel, Escher, Bach" by Hofstadter and before that, "Radical Evolution" by Joel Garreau

in the wings: "The Golden Ratio" by Mario Livio and "We Are All Welcome Here" by Elizabeth Berg (although I am not at all enthusiastic about this latter selection--I'm reading it as a favor for a friend)

HEIRESS

07-26-2006, 02:26 PM

Hue and Cry - James Alan McPherson (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060936479/002-6552935-7022410?v=glance&n=283155)

One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0451527097/sr=1-1/qid=1153943970/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-6552935-7022410?ie=UTF8&s=books)

enree erzweglle

07-26-2006, 02:42 PM

One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0451527097/sr=1-1/qid=1153943970/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-6552935-7022410?ie=UTF8&s=books)I first read that in college--at least 20 years ago. :o

ToucanSpam

07-26-2006, 03:10 PM

I first read that in college--at least 20 years ago. :o

I read it three years ago when I was seventeen... man we're getting old...:p

Recent books:

Band of Brothers by Stephan Ambrose
Biggest Brother: The Life of Major Dick Winters by Larry Alexander

Two very good books on World War II and veterans in general.

icy manipulator

07-26-2006, 03:14 PM

i finished reading The Master and Margerita by Mikhail Bulgakov the other day for the 7th time i think. i love that book, prolly my favourite

b-grrrlie

07-26-2006, 05:26 PM

While I was ill I finally finished Timetraveller's wife (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&isbn=015602943X&itm=1) by Audrey Niffenegger. Very good indeed.

GetYourWarOn

07-26-2006, 05:30 PM

i just finished "post office" by bukowski.

i just started "last exit to brooklyn" by hubert selby.

hardnox71

07-26-2006, 06:34 PM

kleptomaniac

07-26-2006, 07:32 PM

Before that I read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith. Great fucking book!!

Francie Nolan is my hero.

haha i remember reading that for class last year :D(y)

and this summer i've had to read the scarlet letter, the crucible, & the things they carried. not like i have to be assigned a book to read it, but i'm just on here a lot i guess. pretty good books, and i actually liked the things they carried the most, even though i don't usually read war stories, it was very well written & entertaining.

enree erzweglle

07-27-2006, 06:34 AM

That last book I read was Wobegon Boy by Garrison Keillor. Fucking boring as hell. Took me about two months go get through it. Before that I read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith. Great fucking book!!I remember loving A Tree Grows in Brooklyn although I don't much remember why now. Same with Education of Little Tree--it's a book with lots memorable passages but I've forgotten the basic story and for several months now, I've been trying to find my copy to reread it but I've been unsuccessful.

ms.peachy

07-27-2006, 06:42 AM

While I was ill I finally finished Timetraveller's wife (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&isbn=015602943X&itm=1) by Audrey Niffenegger. Very good indeed.
I read that a few months ago. I think somethings about it were very good indeed; however, overall at the end I felt a little unsatisfied. I do admire the way she was able to keep the it all together though, because considering how the story jumps through time, it would have been very easy to just get lost in the hands of a less skillful writer.

Recently I finished The History of Love, (http://www.bookreporter.com/reviews2/0393060349.asp) by Nicole Krauss (which, coinicidentally, also skips around through time a bit). Highly recommended.

chrisd

10-06-2006, 12:55 AM

currently reading "Five Germanys I've known" by Fritz Stern, good stuff

kleptomaniac

10-06-2006, 03:53 PM

Recently I finished The History of Love, (http://www.bookreporter.com/reviews2/0393060349.asp) by Nicole Krauss (which, coinicidentally, also skips around through time a bit). Highly recommended.

hey, my friend's read that. and for a week she kept going on about how awesome it was so i was actually thinking of reading it myself :)

last book i've read is the awakening.

ShotgunBoy

10-06-2006, 04:32 PM

yep, a good one is "The Golem's Eye" by Jonathan Stroud. Currently the second (of three) in the series. A good read if you ask me

CLICKEDY CLICK HERE! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amulet_of_Samarkand)

enree erzweglle

10-06-2006, 04:58 PM

"QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter" by Feynman

Guy Incognito

10-06-2006, 05:20 PM

"Life of Pi" by Yann Martel. Really good - not what i expected.

Now reading Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy(Trilogy in four parts) I am on the second book (Restaraunt at end of the universe)

GetYourWarOn

10-07-2006, 06:33 AM

factotum

ToucanSpam

10-07-2006, 09:44 AM

I'm pretty sure I posted this list somewhere else at some point, but:

Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America
by John M. Barry

Mohawk Saint by Allan Greer

The Earth Shall Weep: A HIstory of Native America by James Wilson

yeah, I'm taking a class called Race Relations in North America, and here are the books we need to read. Very interesting class. I'm also reading a book about the Black Loyalists but I dont remember the author.

HEIRESS

10-12-2006, 01:38 PM

The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0156001349?v=glance)

und

Electro-boy: A Memoir of Mania (http://www.amazon.com/Electroboy-Memoir-Mania-Andy-Behrman/dp/0375503587)

p-branez

10-12-2006, 01:44 PM

whoa this thread is old.

al is on to something. ishmael is very good. i actually liked my ishmael better, though.

i'm reading Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. read it. it's one of the best books ever.

abcdefz

10-12-2006, 02:02 PM

I just finished Return of the Player by Michael Tolkin. It was really good until about 3/4 the way in, then derailed.

The House That Trane Built about Impulse! Records is very good about 120 pages in. (y)

Mad C

10-12-2006, 10:04 PM

Books, books, books. I have read more books than I have given bad looks. Try The Dwelling if you looking for something spooky with off beat characters.

HEIRESS

10-12-2006, 10:16 PM

seriously, I want to be a librarian

TimDoolan

10-12-2006, 11:54 PM

seriously, I want to be a librarian

I was this close to taking a job at my schools library. Fortunately I passed my drug test and now you can catch me at Best Buy.

Gareth

10-13-2006, 12:52 AM

ghost in the shell: innocence - after the long good bye

http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Shell-Innocence-After-Goodbye/dp/1421501562/ref=sr_11_1/104-3600287-7099102?ie=UTF8

also getting to the end of remains of the day - kazuo ishugiro

Dorothy Wood

10-13-2006, 12:56 AM

seriously, I want to be a librarian

cort's boyfriend is a librarian, he spends most of his time teaching people how to use a mouse.

enree erzweglle

10-20-2006, 03:22 PM

"Fearful Symmetry" by Anthony Zee

chrisd

10-20-2006, 03:27 PM

the good book

GetYourWarOn

10-20-2006, 10:43 PM

easter rising by michael patrick macdonald

Tompz

10-21-2006, 10:43 AM

900 days by Harrison Sallisbury

Great epic on the 900 day siege of St petersburg by the germans during WW2.
Thing where tough all over i can tell you that much.

Recommended!

HEIRESS

10-22-2006, 04:56 PM

cort's boyfriend is a librarian, he spends most of his time teaching people how to use a mouse.

Id aim to work at a university because they dont have enough librarians with science backgrounds

but probably not because I hate all people

HEIRESS

10-22-2006, 05:00 PM

"Somebody to Love?" Grace Slick (http://www.amazon.ca/Somebody-Love-Grace-Slick/dp/044652302X/sr=1-4/qid=1161555814/ref=sr_1_4/701-8067387-5615523?ie=UTF8&s=books)

"On a Cold Road" Dave Bidini (http://www.amazon.com/Cold-Road-Tales-Adventure-Canadian/dp/0771014562)

its a music themed week I guess

jackrock

10-22-2006, 05:16 PM

Recently purchased City of Gods, lookng forward to getting into it :)

enree erzweglle

11-20-2006, 10:51 AM

"American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" by Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin

steve-onpoint

11-20-2006, 12:49 PM

yes, i am.

enree erzweglle

12-29-2006, 02:58 PM

"Art & Physics" by Leonard Shlain

Pres Zount

12-29-2006, 03:19 PM

I'm almost finished with My Tank is Fight! by Zack Parsons from somethingawful.com. It's about some of the insane inventions of World War II, such as Nazi space stations, tanks bigger than houses and aircraft carriers made out of ice.

Very informative and I really enjoy the subtle humour.

GreenEarthAl

12-29-2006, 03:33 PM

Reading Derrick Jensen`s "A Language Older than Words" which is quite alright.

enree erzweglle

01-02-2007, 04:27 PM

I just finished reading Quantum Theory, A Very Short Introduction by John Polkinghorne. This was the first time I read a book from the "A Very Short Introduction" series.

Schmeltz

01-02-2007, 04:35 PM

I finally finished 100 Years of Solitude about a week ago and it's easily one of the best five books I've ever read. The ending absolutely blew me away. I really regret taking so long to get through it; I think I'll read it again in a year or two so I can get a better grasp of it.