neilfein
10-06-08, 06:35 AM
The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman
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10-06-08, 08:02 AM
Just started this one...
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Brillig
10-06-08, 08:10 AM
I just finished The Road (McCarthy).
Wow.
Wow.
noteon
10-06-08, 08:46 AM
I just finished The Road (McCarthy).
Wow.
Yeah, there really is no other word.
Speaking of roads, I just started Gentlemen of the Road (Chabon).
A completely different wow.
Wow.
Yeah, there really is no other word.
Speaking of roads, I just started Gentlemen of the Road (Chabon).
A completely different wow.
I-Like-To-Bike
10-06-08, 10:20 AM
Finished listening to The Blue Hammer by Ross Mcdonald.
Also finished listening this weekend to The High Window by Raymond Chandler and Poodle Springs by Raymond Chandler/Robert Parker.
Started listening on today's bike commute to Dawn by Elie Wiesel.
Also finished listening this weekend to The High Window by Raymond Chandler and Poodle Springs by Raymond Chandler/Robert Parker.
Started listening on today's bike commute to Dawn by Elie Wiesel.
noteon
10-06-08, 10:43 AM
Also finished listening this weekend to The High Window by Raymond Chandler and Poodle Springs by Raymond Chandler/Robert Parker.
EARLY AUTUMN by Parker, if you haven't already.
EARLY AUTUMN by Parker, if you haven't already.
I-Like-To-Bike
10-06-08, 08:43 PM
EARLY AUTUMN by Parker, if you haven't already.
Not yet. I've only read one other book by Robert Parker - Double Play - a crime story based around a fictionalized encounter with Jackie Robinson. I've got a couple of Robert Parker audio books but they will have to wait I've got a couple of audio biography tomes I want to listen to before the holidays. Tomorrow after I finish Dawn, I will start on American Caesar by William Manchester, a biography of General Douglas MacArthur.
Not yet. I've only read one other book by Robert Parker - Double Play - a crime story based around a fictionalized encounter with Jackie Robinson. I've got a couple of Robert Parker audio books but they will have to wait I've got a couple of audio biography tomes I want to listen to before the holidays. Tomorrow after I finish Dawn, I will start on American Caesar by William Manchester, a biography of General Douglas MacArthur.
colorider
10-22-08, 04:54 PM
A Farewell To Arms - Hemingway. I've read many of his short stories and liked them haven't been too crazy about some of his novels. I like this one so far, although the dialogue is kind of odd. Lots of of "thee" and "thou". Not what I would've associated with 1930's civil war era Spain.
HarryStoddard
10-24-08, 06:32 PM
St. Petersburg by Andrei Bely.
I-Like-To-Bike
10-28-08, 12:53 PM
Finished listening to American Caesar by William Manchester.
Finished reading Journey Into Fear and The Mask of Dimitrious, both by Eric Ambler.
Started listening to AC/DC: The Savage Tale of the First Standards War by Tom McNichol.
Started reading Uncommon Danger by Eric Ambler.
Finished reading Journey Into Fear and The Mask of Dimitrious, both by Eric Ambler.
Started listening to AC/DC: The Savage Tale of the First Standards War by Tom McNichol.
Started reading Uncommon Danger by Eric Ambler.
lotek
10-29-08, 08:19 AM
currently reading Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
interesting collection of short stories.
Also reading The Custom Bicycle by Kolin and De Rosa a must read for
classic bike enthusiasts
interesting collection of short stories.
Also reading The Custom Bicycle by Kolin and De Rosa a must read for
classic bike enthusiasts
noteon
10-29-08, 08:25 AM
I just finished GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD by Michael Chabon.
I started TRUNK MUSIC by Michael Connelly while I was out of town and didn't have a book with me, but I'm not sure I'm in the mood to finish it now.
I started TRUNK MUSIC by Michael Connelly while I was out of town and didn't have a book with me, but I'm not sure I'm in the mood to finish it now.
I-Like-To-Bike
10-29-08, 11:18 AM
I started TRUNK MUSIC by Michael Connelly while I was out of town and didn't have a book with me, but I'm not sure I'm in the mood to finish it now.
You didn't like it? I've listened to all but two of the Harry Bosch series, including Trunk Music and liked them all. I'm next on the library's waiting list for Brass Verdict, Connelly's latest in the series and expect to listen to it next week. If its the Harry Bosch character you don't like you might try Blood Work or The Lincoln Lawyer, two Connelly books with no Harry Bosch.
You didn't like it? I've listened to all but two of the Harry Bosch series, including Trunk Music and liked them all. I'm next on the library's waiting list for Brass Verdict, Connelly's latest in the series and expect to listen to it next week. If its the Harry Bosch character you don't like you might try Blood Work or The Lincoln Lawyer, two Connelly books with no Harry Bosch.
neilfein
10-29-08, 11:37 AM
The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman
...was very good, better than Coraline.
...was very good, better than Coraline.
mackerel
10-30-08, 10:41 PM
Selected Stories of Norman Duncan, by Norman Duncan, 1871-1916.
Twenty years ago my grandmother told me that when she was a child she had an uncle from Canada who was a writer. I am just now reading his stuff for the first time.
Twenty years ago my grandmother told me that when she was a child she had an uncle from Canada who was a writer. I am just now reading his stuff for the first time.
midschool22
10-31-08, 07:38 PM
You're Broke Becuse You Want To Be -- Larry Winget
The Middle Class Millionaire -- Russ Alan Prince / Lewis Schiff
The Wealty Barber -- David Chilton
Up next...
The Snowball-Warren Buffet and the Business of Life -- Alice Schroeder
Patrick Roy-Winning, Nothing Else -- Michel Roy
The Middle Class Millionaire -- Russ Alan Prince / Lewis Schiff
The Wealty Barber -- David Chilton
Up next...
The Snowball-Warren Buffet and the Business of Life -- Alice Schroeder
Patrick Roy-Winning, Nothing Else -- Michel Roy
noteon
10-31-08, 09:04 PM
You didn't like it? I've listened to all but two of the Harry Bosch series, including Trunk Music and liked them all. I'm next on the library's waiting list for Brass Verdict, Connelly's latest in the series and expect to listen to it next week. If its the Harry Bosch character you don't like you might try Blood Work or The Lincoln Lawyer, two Connelly books with no Harry Bosch.
No, I always like Connelly. I just didn't seem in the mood to pick it back up. Maybe because I'd just come off GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD. I don't know.
No, I always like Connelly. I just didn't seem in the mood to pick it back up. Maybe because I'd just come off GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD. I don't know.
pgoat
11-01-08, 12:11 AM
OD'ing on elections...reading One Thousand Days (JFK) by Arthur Schlesinger
plan to re-read Doris Kearns Goodwin's book on the Fitzgeralds and Kennedys next.
plan to re-read Doris Kearns Goodwin's book on the Fitzgeralds and Kennedys next.
I-Like-To-Bike
11-01-08, 12:59 PM
Finished listening to AC/DC: The Savage Tale of the First Standards War by Tom McNichol.
Started listening to The Accident by Elie Wiesel.
Started listening to The Accident by Elie Wiesel.
beatnik0422
11-02-08, 05:05 PM
How the Irish Saved Civilization. Well written and extremely interesting.
Wow. Besides my Latin prof. and myself, I didn't think anyone else had ever even thought about reading that book. It is very well written.
I'm reading Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut.
Some other good reads:
Aztec by Gary Jennings
Drop City by T.C. Boyle
Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Journey to Ixtlan by Carlos Castaneda
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
Wow. Besides my Latin prof. and myself, I didn't think anyone else had ever even thought about reading that book. It is very well written.
I'm reading Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut.
Some other good reads:
Aztec by Gary Jennings
Drop City by T.C. Boyle
Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Journey to Ixtlan by Carlos Castaneda
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
cbchess
11-03-08, 07:36 AM
just picked up Neal Stephenson's newest
ANANTHEM (http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780061474095/Anathem/index.aspx)
I loved his other stuff like Cryptonomicon (http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780060512804/Cryptonomicon/index.aspx?)
and the Baroque Cycle.
this book is a treat!
ANANTHEM (http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780061474095/Anathem/index.aspx)
I loved his other stuff like Cryptonomicon (http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780060512804/Cryptonomicon/index.aspx?)
and the Baroque Cycle.
this book is a treat!
lotek
11-03-08, 02:22 PM
. . .
Some other good reads:
Aztec by Gary Jennings
Drop City by T.C. Boyle
Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Journey to Ixtlan by Carlos Castaneda
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
Wow, most of those were on my required reading list in college, in 1971/2 !
The only one missing is Been Down So Long it Looks Like Up to Me by Richard Farina.
marty
Some other good reads:
Aztec by Gary Jennings
Drop City by T.C. Boyle
Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Journey to Ixtlan by Carlos Castaneda
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
Wow, most of those were on my required reading list in college, in 1971/2 !
The only one missing is Been Down So Long it Looks Like Up to Me by Richard Farina.
marty
I-Like-To-Bike
11-03-08, 08:06 PM
Finished listening to The Accident by Elie Wiesel.
Started listening to The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly.
Started listening to The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly.
beatnik0422
11-03-08, 09:19 PM
I just finished "Into thin Air" and "Into the Wild" both by John Kraukner. I liked the latter of the two better. Anyone else read these?
I read Into the Wild a couple of years ago. While I thought it was a great book and can sort of understand what Alexander Supertramp did, I think he was a bit haughty to wander into one of the most remote parts of the world by himself without an adequate amount of survival skills. It was a good read.
I read Into the Wild a couple of years ago. While I thought it was a great book and can sort of understand what Alexander Supertramp did, I think he was a bit haughty to wander into one of the most remote parts of the world by himself without an adequate amount of survival skills. It was a good read.
beatnik0422
11-03-08, 09:25 PM
Has anyone ever read or tried to read Finnegan's Wake?
Condorita
11-03-08, 10:05 PM
Still listening to the Harry Potter books, but I finished the hard copies over the weekend. Picked up the Harvard Lampoon's Bored of the Rings and am reading that now.
I-Like-To-Bike
11-08-08, 05:49 PM
Finished listening to The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly. One of his best.
Started listening to Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series by David Pietrusza.
Started listening to Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series by David Pietrusza.
dalyry
08-11-10, 07:37 AM
A Farewell To Arms - Hemingway. I've read many of his short stories and liked them haven't been too crazy about some of his novels. I like this one so far, although the dialogue is kind of odd. Lots of of "thee" and "thou". Not what I would've associated with 1930's civil war era Spain.
I'm pretty sure hes trying to create a formal 'you' to mirror tu/usted That's always been my theory anyway.
I just finished East of Eden and just cracked A Brief History of Time
I'm pretty sure hes trying to create a formal 'you' to mirror tu/usted That's always been my theory anyway.
I just finished East of Eden and just cracked A Brief History of Time
Aves
08-15-10, 06:06 PM
Recently finished The Thousand Autumns of Jacob DeZoet by David Mitchell and Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor. Both are excellent.
Starting The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Starting The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
SaiKaiTai
08-15-10, 10:43 PM
A couple going right now... "Googled. The End of the World as As Know it" and "Consider the Lobster"
The former is a hard bound, the latter I'm reading on my iPad.
The former is a hard bound, the latter I'm reading on my iPad.
lotek
08-16-10, 02:52 PM
By Schism Rent Assunder by David Weber.
book 2 of the Safehold series. Not an easy read, but if you like
SF and Horatio Hornblower this one's for you.
book 2 of the Safehold series. Not an easy read, but if you like
SF and Horatio Hornblower this one's for you.
Tom Stormcrowe
08-17-10, 11:22 AM
Live Free or Die, John Ringo
It's a good old fashioned Space Opera. ;)
It's a good old fashioned Space Opera. ;)
samantha sugah
08-18-10, 11:31 AM
How to Read a Book. Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren.
A classic (http://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Book-Touchstone-book/dp/0671212095/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1282152441&sr=8-1). :)
*If only I'd read it dozens and dozens of books ago.
A classic (http://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Book-Touchstone-book/dp/0671212095/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1282152441&sr=8-1). :)
*If only I'd read it dozens and dozens of books ago.
kh6idf
08-30-10, 02:15 PM
Everyone else has probably already read this, but I'm currently reading Lance Armstrong's "It's not about the bike". Excellent book so far, I'm just getting to the TDF section now.
black_box
08-30-10, 02:53 PM
reading through Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne.
DMF
09-14-10, 06:27 PM
Picked up the Harvard Lampoon's Bored of the Rings and am reading that now.
And you're still able to type without explosive laughter and/or diarrhea?
That remains one of the funniest and most physically affecting books I've ever had in front of my eyes. Imagine reading it aloud to a carload as you cross far west Texas out of range of all radio save the nuclear radical Xtian stations in Mexico. It's a wonder we're still alive!
Bon chance!
And you're still able to type without explosive laughter and/or diarrhea?
That remains one of the funniest and most physically affecting books I've ever had in front of my eyes. Imagine reading it aloud to a carload as you cross far west Texas out of range of all radio save the nuclear radical Xtian stations in Mexico. It's a wonder we're still alive!
Bon chance!
DMF
09-14-10, 06:32 PM
That which does not kill me has made a massive tactical blunder.
Damn! Nearly lost my olive on that one!
Permission to quote freely, SIR!
Damn! Nearly lost my olive on that one!
Permission to quote freely, SIR!
Gavush
09-20-10, 05:12 AM
Everyone else has probably already read this, but I'm currently reading Lance Armstrong's "It's not about the bike". Excellent book so far, I'm just getting to the TDF section now.
I really enjoyed it. I also have another one, Lance Armstrong's War - it's really good too.
Just recently finished Robert Jordan / Brandon Sanderson's "The Gathering Storm" - waiting on book 13 "Towers of Midnight" due Nov. 2
I really enjoyed it. I also have another one, Lance Armstrong's War - it's really good too.
Just recently finished Robert Jordan / Brandon Sanderson's "The Gathering Storm" - waiting on book 13 "Towers of Midnight" due Nov. 2
lotek
09-20-10, 08:18 AM
God I love Bored of the Rings, my copy is so old/worn/yellowed I'm afraid if I tried to read it
the book would crumble. Have to find a new copy of that one.
Looking for Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me by Richard Farina, one of my
favorite books in college, I'm due for a reread on that one.
the book would crumble. Have to find a new copy of that one.
Looking for Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me by Richard Farina, one of my
favorite books in college, I'm due for a reread on that one.
colorider
09-21-10, 12:56 PM
Halfway through Cell by Stephen King. Have East of Eden lined up for after.
black_box
03-04-11, 08:17 PM
I finished Oil! by upton sinclair and enjoyed it. I tried to read Bad, the Dumbing of America and gave up, it was just one big rant-fest. I'm trying to get through Pride and Prejudice and Zombies but not impressed.
wernier
03-16-11, 02:46 AM
I'm not reading a book but studying it as I have exam tomorrow.
Carlito408
03-20-11, 09:12 PM
Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé
colorider
03-21-11, 09:48 AM
Just started And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
I-Like-To-Bike
03-22-11, 11:18 AM
Recently read Reversal by Michael Connelly, Djibouti by Elmore Leonard, Goodbye Darkness by William Manchester, and Unbroken by Laura Hilldebrand.
Currently reading Spies of the Balkans by Alan Furst
Currently reading Spies of the Balkans by Alan Furst
lotek
03-23-11, 11:58 AM
currently going through David Weber's Honorverse, loaded the whole series onto my Nook. btw
although I resisted an E-reader for a while gotta say I love this thing.
although I resisted an E-reader for a while gotta say I love this thing.
black_box
03-23-11, 12:11 PM
I gave up on Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, felt like I was reading a poor B-movie script. I started Wealth of Nations...
RavingManiac
03-24-11, 06:51 PM
Recently finished Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Presently enjoying David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Presently enjoying David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
RunningPirate
03-24-11, 07:05 PM
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole (OK -re-reading it)
I-Like-To-Bike
03-26-11, 03:46 PM
Finished reading Spies of the Balkans by Alan Furst.
Currently reading Our Kind of Traitor by John le Carré.
Currently reading Our Kind of Traitor by John le Carré.