My Custom Van: And 50 Other Mind-Blowing Essays that Will Blow Your Mind All Over Your Face (http://www.amazon.com/My-Custom-Van-Mind-Blowing-Essays/dp/1416964053/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220897598&sr=1-1) by Michael Ian Black
cornyt
09-08-08, 06:14 PM
Finished:
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore Books 1 and 2
I finally got this because I loved World War Z. I'm about half way through and I've gotta say I'm pretty disapointed. I'm just now getting to the survival stories so I'm sure it will get better.
tofu
09-08-08, 10:17 PM
Just finished "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins
Started "Can I Keep My Jersey?" by Paul Shirley
And now for You've Been Warned by James Patterson (can't find a good pic to post). This is probably the worst book I've ever read. Only for it is an extremely fast read and I was on a plane, I wouldn't have finished it. If you have a half finished novel somewhere in the back drawer, pick it up and finish it, because if this crap can get published, anything can. With any luck, Patterson will put his name on your work too!
GatorDeb, can you tell me if Critcal by Robin Cook is any good. The last book I read by him, Marker, was horrible IMO.
I'm reading Candy Freak by Steve Almond and have eaten more candy in the past few weeks than I have in years. Subliminal messages are a mess.
GatorDeb
09-10-08, 02:40 PM
Sure I'll let you know :D I LOVE Robin Cook, but his books can be corny sometimes. I'm still on the first page. It goes something like this: "Jack never really thought about his knee. How it held his weight as he worked. He never appreciated his knee as it absorbed the pounding from moving from the left side of the room to the right side of the room." I.e. he writes like a four-year-old sometimes. If I can get through that, maybe the story will be good :)
InnocentBlood
09-11-08, 04:29 AM
finished Legends by Robert Littell today and will be starting on Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano next.
iggystar
09-11-08, 09:04 AM
Sure I'll let you know :D I LOVE Robin Cook, but his books can be corny sometimes. I'm still on the first page. It goes something like this: "Jack never really thought about his knee. How it held his weight as he worked. He never appreciated his knee as it absorbed the pounding from moving from the left side of the room to the right side of the room." I.e. he writes like a four-year-old sometimes. If I can get through that, maybe the story will be good :)
Don't get me wrong, I'm a HUGE Cook fan. I've read 17 of his books. The writing is simplistic, but the intrigue and stories are always interesting and fun, with that medical slant to them. "Marker" was my first real disappointment from him, I just couldn't get into it for some reason. But I'll never quit him completely. :)
Don't get me wrong, I'm a HUGE Cook fan. I've read 17 of his books. The writing is simplistic, but the intrigue and stories are always interesting and fun, with that medical slant to them. "Marker" was my first real disappointment from him, I just couldn't get into it for some reason. But I'll never quit him completely. :)
I love medical fiction and he's my favorite author. My favorite was the fertility clinic one and the one that starts with the eye in the refrigerator. The food poisoning one was my most hated because it was a non-ending... the narrative just stopped, but the story didn't. Man, was I pissed :D I've read quite a few of his books. I read Marker and actually liked it quite a bit :D The food poisoning one was the only one I haven't really liked. I haven't read 18, I'd say more like 10. The cloning one was chilly -eek-
I have a problem: I start 10X the amount of books I finish... sigh :)
solipsta
09-11-08, 04:06 PM
'Tis by Frank McCourt
iggystar
09-11-08, 05:03 PM
I love medical fiction and he's my favorite author. My favorite was the fertility clinic one and the one that starts with the eye in the refrigerator. The food poisoning one was my most hated because it was a non-ending... the narrative just stopped, but the story didn't. Man, was I pissed :D I've read quite a few of his books. I read Marker and actually liked it quite a bit :D The food poisoning one was the only one I haven't really liked. I haven't read 18, I'd say more like 10. The cloning one was chilly -eek-
I have a problem: I start 10X the amount of books I finish... sigh :)
Have you ever read Michael Palmer? I like his medical thrillers too. I haven't read the food poisoning one, I think it's Toxin, but the one about fertility clinic was excellent. I think one of my favorites is Mutation, one of his older works.
GatorDeb
09-11-08, 08:23 PM
Have you ever read Michael Palmer? I like his medical thrillers too. I haven't read the food poisoning one, I think it's Toxin, but the one about fertility clinic was excellent. I think one of my favorites is Mutation, one of his older works.
Michael Palmer is my second favorite author :) I've only read about five of him, though.
Mutation was the one I referred to about the "cloning one" ... I guess not really cloning but manipulating. That one was indeed excellent and chilling.
My third favorite author is Tess Gerritsen :) I've only read about three of hers, though. I really need to buckle down and start reading :( It takes a lot of hold down my interest. I used to think that I just have trouble concentrating but if it's a good book, I finish it. I read every single Harry Potter book but couldn't get through The Hobbit. So I start I think it's even about 20 books for every one I actually read.
Just started The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski.
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tofu
09-14-08, 11:30 AM
Finished Paul Shirley "Can I Keep My Jersey?"
Started Alan Weisman "World Without Us"
I like Amazon saving the book for eternity without me having to worry about it. And I plan to stick with the Kindle and Kindle successors as my reader of choice.
I'm not that far in (location 200 of 9000) but I found a sentence I really liked (and it doesn't happen often that I go "that was a really cool sentence.")
The protagonist's grandfather is talking about this monk named Mendel doing stuff with heredity and how his grandfather had grey hair early and his father is almost 70 with black hair, and how one older brother is bald as an egg and the other has black hair also. Whenever he looked in the mirror he felt like a Mendel pea. I'm trudging through the book but maybe more of that will start coming out and it'll go quicker. At this pace it will take me over a month to finish it :( The premise itself is great, but it doesn't start with the story right away (I actually thought I had maybe downloaded the wrong book and kept looking at the title)
Just finished this weekend. It was the first book in a long time that I read in one day. Heartbreakingly good from start to finish. I love stories that are about the human aspect of war. Even better than The Kite Runner, IMO.
You should read War In A Time Of Peace by David Halberstam, it's the best book on the subject I've ever read.
badlieut
09-23-08, 09:23 AM
What's this one about? Seems intriguing.
It's essentially Vincent presenting evidence as to how Bush could and should be charged and prosecuted for first degree murder once he leaves office. It He also argues against the possible defenses Bush would use if he were to stand trial.
I think it's a pretty damn important book and I hope someone takes Mr. Bugliosi suggestion.
It takes forever for that progress bar to inch on the Kindle and no wonder... The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle is freaing 576 pages long. This is how I get back into serious reading :p I'm on location 638 of 9000, so that's about page 40. Argh. This is going to take forever. Great story, though. I'm in for the long haul. I haven't even gotten to the good part. He takes a looooooong time with exposition, but I hear it pays off at the end.
It's surprisingly good. I started reading it less than 5 hours ago in-between calls at work and I'm 35 pages in out of 272 pages. I can see finishing this in a week or so.
Also bought:
Life With My Sister Madonna
Obama Nation
Miracle at St. Anna
The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington
Just Finished
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I don't have time lately to read except for on breaks and sometimes lunch at work, so I'm going much slower than the 1 book per week pace I would like.
The best part of the book is the piece after the stories detailing the history of the Wade/Miller team, (if you are a big noir fan like I am, you know who these guys are).
msdmoney
10-03-08, 04:48 AM
Just Finished (audible)
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Now Reading (audbile)
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Hank Ringworm
10-05-08, 02:07 AM
It's essentially Vincent presenting evidence as to how Bush could and should be charged and prosecuted for first degree murder once he leaves office. It He also argues against the possible defenses Bush would use if he were to stand trial.
I think it's a pretty damn important book and I hope someone takes Mr. Bugliosi suggestion.
Buy: