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alongwaltz. · **Posted:** Tue Mar 15, 2005 3:01 pm

fancypants Wrote:

you can't take it with you

I just finished reading this. I thought it was great and it helped give me some motivation to start work on the play I'm writing.

Currently, I just started reading Tropic of Capricorn because I've only read Quiet Days In Clichy and Miller is great.

wenchlette · **Posted:** Tue Mar 15, 2005 3:53 pm

So You Wanna be a Rock & Roll Star by Jacob Slichter

Dunwoody Dude · **Joined:** Wed Nov 03, 2004 11:20 am **Posts:** 2869

jewels santana Wrote:

the pump house gang - tom wolfe
galapagos - vonnegut

I had never even heard of that Wolfe book and I really like him. Galapagos is good but not not one of V's best.

Steve

Dunwoody Dude · **Joined:** Wed Nov 03, 2004 11:20 am **Posts:** 2869

Billzebub Wrote:

About to start: The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl

Much like what I'm reading currently this is a pretty good historical mystery with plenty of "real" characters.

Steve

Dunwoody Dude · **Joined:** Wed Nov 03, 2004 11:20 am **Posts:** 2869

Bonor Obnerst Wrote:

THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY by Charles Chabon (I think)

Not that anyone cares but it's Michael Chabon. My experience has shown that people with a love or knowledge of golden age comic books really enjoy this book while others don't, so I'd be interested in what you think. I loved it!

Steve

rogneeb · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:07 pm **Posts:** 12618

Continuing my reading of:

Constitutional Law: Principles and Policies
by Erwin Chemerinsky

Federal Income Taxation: A Guide To the Leading Cases and Concepts
by Marvin A. Chirelstein

Federal Income Taxation (Casebook Series)
by William A. Klein, Joseph Bankman, Daniel N. Shaviro

Criminal Procedures: Cases, Statutes, and Executive Materials
by Marc L. Miller, Ronald F. Wright, Marc Miller

greezy · **Posted:** Tue Mar 15, 2005 5:06 pm

i take it you're in law school? where at? i just finished up all my applications a few weeks back.

Chuck D · **Posted:** Tue Mar 15, 2005 5:33 pm

on my desk and in my head:

The Naturalist's Field Journal: A Manual of Instruction Based on a System Established by Joseph Grinnell - Steven G. Herman

Herpetological Collecting and Collections Management - John E. Simmons

Measuring and Monitoring Biological Diversity: Standard Methods for Amphibians - Multiple Authors

Biospeleology: The Biology of Cavernicolous Animals - A. Vandel

. . . and a pile of primary literature, too.

the weird thing? I'm really enjoying reading this stuff!

shaMoxie · **Posted:** Tue Mar 15, 2005 5:46 pm

The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

A Yaqui Way of Knowledge (decent trash) Carlos Castaneda

The Book of Imaginary Beings by J.L.Borges.

d · **Posted:** Tue Mar 15, 2005 5:53 pm

Nothing exciting... finishing up Douglas Coupland's "Eleanor Rigby" which isn't so hot. "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell" are waiting for me next.

Z · **Joined:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:38 pm **Posts:** 7979

i was just at the library and took out:

brave new world
created in darkness by troubled americans: best of mcsweeney's (2004)
lost highway: true story of country music

now i don't know where to start.

Cap'n Squirrgle · **Posted:** Tue Mar 15, 2005 6:07 pm

Z Wrote:

i was just at the library and took out:

brave new world
created in darkness by troubled americans: best of mcsweeney's (2004)
lost highway: true story of country music

now i don't know where to start.

I vote for Lost Highway. And then I vote for a book report on it.

Mlle XIX · **Posted:** Tue Mar 15, 2005 6:09 pm

druucifer Wrote:

i take it you're in law school? where at? i just finished up all my applications a few weeks back.

quitting law school was the best thing I have ever done.

rogneeb · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:07 pm **Posts:** 12618

Mlle XIX Wrote:

druucifer Wrote:

i take it you're in law school? where at? i just finished up all my applications a few weeks back.

quitting law school was the best thing I have ever done.

2L at http://law.lclark.edu/

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

DunwoodyDude Wrote:

jewels santana Wrote:

the pump house gang - tom wolfe
galapagos - vonnegut

I had never even heard of that Wolfe book and I really like him. Galapagos is good but not not one of V's best.

Steve

it's a collection of short essays (it may be renaimed or repackaged now, it's a very old copy that i have). it's really great.

Galapogos is so-so, not one of his best, but i enjoyed aspects of it very much.

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Tue Mar 15, 2005 6:28 pm

jewels santana Wrote:

DunwoodyDude Wrote:

jewels santana Wrote:

the pump house gang - tom wolfe
galapagos - vonnegut

I had never even heard of that Wolfe book and I really like him. Galapagos is good but not not one of V's best.

Steve

it's a collection of short essays (it may be renaimed or repackaged now, it's a very old copy that i have). it's really great.

Galapogos is so-so, not one of his best, but i enjoyed aspects of it very much.

Came out in 65, I believe. Isn't one of the stories about Phil Spector?

and the title is about a gang of surfers who hang at "The Pump House"?

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Tue Mar 15, 2005 7:32 pm

Senator Krzyzweski LooGAR Wrote:

jewels santana Wrote:

DunwoodyDude Wrote:

jewels santana Wrote:

the pump house gang - tom wolfe
galapagos - vonnegut

I had never even heard of that Wolfe book and I really like him. Galapagos is good but not not one of V's best.

Steve

it's a collection of short essays (it may be renaimed or repackaged now, it's a very old copy that i have). it's really great.

Galapogos is so-so, not one of his best, but i enjoyed aspects of it very much.

Came out in 65, I believe. Isn't one of the stories about Phil Spector?

and the title is about a gang of surfers who hang at "The Pump House"?

Actually came out in '68 on the same day as Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. It is a collection of Wolfe shorts and essays and yes you are correct about the origins of the title...

Pretty good read though its been a few years. Maybe I'll pull it down.....

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