I Am America (And So Can You!) (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446580503/ref=s9_asin_image_2/002-5821455-1251237?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_r=0WPZHY2R94J0YES68VX0&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=278240801&pf_rd_i=507846) by Stephen Colbert
Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth, 73rd Edition (http://www.amazon.com/Our-Dumb-World-Onions-Planet/dp/0316018422/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-5821455-1251237?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193920083&sr=1-1) by The Onion
The Bourne Identity (http://www.amazon.com/Bourne-Identity-Trilogy-Book/dp/0553260111/ref=pd_bbs_2/002-5821455-1251237?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193920014&sr=1-2) by Robert Ludlum
The Modern Gentleman: A Guide to Essential Manners, Savvy & Vice (http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Gentleman-Guide-Essential-Manners/dp/1580084303/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-5821455-1251237?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193920169&sr=1-1) by Phineas Mollod and Jason Tesauro
I'm now embarking on my 3rd attempt at reading this book(s). I've never gotten deeper than 150 pages before. Wish me luck!
Good luck!
I found it pretty much evenly painful all the way through. But there were enough good bits to keep me going.
Lateralus
11-02-07, 08:33 PM
Just started:
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Joe Molotov
11-02-07, 09:43 PM
Good luck!
I found it pretty much evenly painful all the way through. But there were enough good bits to keep me going.
I love conspiracy theories and I crave something more intelligent than the works of Dan Brown, so it seems like this would be the perfect book for me. But it continues to sit on my nightstand next to a similarly unread copy of Foucault's Pendulum. :/
Lovin' every page of it... I already read World War Z eariler this year.
xmiyux
11-04-07, 08:47 AM
I love conspiracy theories and I crave something more intelligent than the works of Dan Brown, so it seems like this would be the perfect book for me. But it continues to sit on my nightstand next to a similarly unread copy of Foucault's Pendulum. :/
Enjoy the book and Hail Eris!
I have read almost everything Robert Anton Wilson has written. Easily one of my favorite authors (although I enjoy his non-fiction stuff a little more than his fiction).
Nick Danger
11-04-07, 06:52 PM
I love conspiracy theories and I crave something more intelligent than the works of Dan Brown, so it seems like this would be the perfect book for me. But it continues to sit on my nightstand next to a similarly unread copy of Foucault's Pendulum. :/
Here are a few things that will help you understand the book. First, Wilson worked in the Letters Department for Playboy in the 1960s, and he read mail on every crackpot conspiracy theory in the world. He just downloaded the whole mass of it into the story. Second, I've been told that the book is a lot easier if you've read James Joyce first. I haven't. Third, this book gives you the basic groundwork on how to do magic. Not Harry Potter's wizards, not playful fantasy -- magic.
let me know your thoughts on this. I read "Bigger Brother" last year, and obviously love Band of Brothers.
Drop
11-06-07, 09:22 AM
Good luck with Anna Karenina, I just could not finish it.
What translation did you read? I should have no problem, I love Russian Literature, plus enough people I respect have called it the greatest love story of all time.
In the meantime, I read Vonnegut's Man Without a Country. Still need to finish the PKD book, which I probably will soon.
Nick Danger
11-06-07, 09:55 AM
What translation did you read? I should have no problem, I love Russian Literature, plus enough people I respect have called it the greatest love story of all time.
In the meantime, I read Vonnegut's Man Without a Country. Still need to finish the PKD book, which I probably will soon.
I read it in high school. The translator made no bones about deleting pages of political observations, feeling that a modern reader would be bored about 19th C Romanov politics.
What translation did you read? I should have no problem, I love Russian Literature, plus enough people I respect have called it the greatest love story of all time.
In the meantime, I read Vonnegut's Man Without a Country. Still need to finish the PKD book, which I probably will soon.
I don't know what translation it was, I will check, thanks for the tip.
Amel
11-08-07, 10:55 AM
The Light Of Evening by Edna O'Brien (http://www.amazon.com/Light-Evening-Edna-OBrien/dp/0618919732/ref=sr_1_1/102-9023880-3284115?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194540499&sr=1-1)
I am working on reading so many books (darn clearance section at half price books!), but I am currently working on the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris. I just finished Dead Until Dark and am getting ready to start Dead in Dallas :-)
The book is already so much better than the movie it's ridiculous.
xmiyux
11-08-07, 05:46 PM
I am working on reading so many books (darn clearance section at half price books!), but I am currently working on the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris. I just finished Dead Until Dark and am getting ready to start Dead in Dallas :-)
I'm really curious about this series. Especially how it is compared to something like the Anita Blake series or the Harry Dresden series.
I said series a large number of time in just two sentences.
(Only reason I took the plunge on the last one was because of his Family Feud performance, which aired on TV last week. He seemed like a pretty intelligent guy, in spite of some of his interviews on television/PPV.)
Yesterday, I picked up Lonesome Dove at thrift store to read for the second time (first time was on audiobook)
Easy
11-12-07, 01:13 PM
Old Man's War by John Scalzi
Scalzi has been compaired to Heinlein. I don't know about that but this was a very entertaining read with more than a few laughs.
paul416
11-12-07, 06:27 PM
Got a few to bring with me on my vacation next week:
STEROID NATION by Shaun Assael
ALPANA POURS by Alpana Singh with Robert Scarola
(She is the host of a popular local televesion show on PBS here in Chicago-WTTW channel 11- called Check Please which reviews local restaurants)
Just finished re-reading The Mist last night. Read it for the first time about 20 years ago. You know, it wasn't nearly as terrific as I had built it up in my mind. Don't you hate when that happens?
Lateralus
11-15-07, 11:41 AM
Mrs Danger just finished the audiobook of that. She liked it a lot.
:up: Mrs. Danger has good tastes in books. If she liked this book I would highly recommend Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw by far one fo the best biographies I have read in some time!
cornyt
11-15-07, 12:04 PM
Finished:
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Reading:
Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
Starting:
Cook's Tour (audio, abridged) by Anthony Bourdain
lattethunder
11-15-07, 02:36 PM
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flair
11-17-07, 04:54 PM
Went strait from The Stand to The Long Walk. Started it today and I'm already done. One of the most disturbing novels I've ever read:
about 200 pages into this most entertaining novel: "Shantaram" by Gregory David Roberts (http://www.amazon.com/Shantaram-Novel-Gregory-David-Roberts/dp/0312330537/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195527252&sr=1-2)
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I was sucked in from the 1st sentence:
It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.
showcollector
11-20-07, 12:35 AM
A March to Madness - John Fienstein
Lateralus
11-20-07, 04:45 AM
Just finished (and now going to go see the movie):
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Just about to start (in 10 min)
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In a series that was becoming a bit stale this was a nice return to the thrillers that launched it.
Nth Power
11-26-07, 02:04 PM
I have a couple going right now:
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and
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Buy: