Me: Puff by Bob Flaherty



And you? I'm almost done with this one so I'll need some recommendations.

I've been in rereading mode for the past couple of weeks. I just reread "All the Pretty Horses" by Cormac McCarty and "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" by HST.

On the commute home tonight I'm starting "The Wall" by Jean Paul Sartre, it's a collection of 5 short stories.

Then it's on to "Babbitt" by Sinclair Lewis. I don't know much about this one. I'm reading it for a book club and it was picked by another member.

reading nothing

Just read an excerpt in Time about this...



It's out the 8th of Sept. Sounds very bold, but interesting.

I'm actually reading "Uncle Tom's Cabin" because it comes up on Jeopardy so much and I never really knew what the hell it was all about. Yea.

np: Hum-Electra 2000 (this album rocks. i totally forgot about it)

okay, i take back what I said about your reading habits yesterday.

i'm still reading Cry, the Beloved Country this book On Subbing about teaching, and some Sherlock Holmes story or another. Just finished Fargo Rock City

diveded minds by my ex-sister-in-laws. it was just published and is the story of growing up twins. one goes on to be a psychiatrist and the other is schizophrenic. i get a mention or two myself.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... ce&s=books

wasn't chris whittle involved in trying to corporatise (sp?) schools in the 80's? i can't remember but he's been around a while. i'll check out the article.

i will destroy you. our CIO kept dropping little tidbits in meetings from this book non-challantly and i decided that i wanted to be in on the joke.

I've been reading this for a while.

you suckup.

So Cotton, have you heard? Chase plans on throwing you off some cliff and taking pictures of you while you're falling.

maybe, but i'm allowed to send email from work.

SUCK THAT!

snitch.

A Brief History of Time by steven hawking. It be dense, but good.

I actually ordered this recently. I got it in the mail but the size of it has put me off so it's just sitting on the shelf right now, in favor of some library books. It's available in my favorit ebook line "Modern Library Classics" so I assume it's good. It just looks too long.

Can't recall the tiotle as I just stareted it, but its bout a black woman who has endured racism all her life, and eventually saught out KKK members and other hate groups to simply talk to them to find out where their hate came frm, and stuff like that....she actually sits down and has a civil convo with a head Klan leader...

im 10 pages in.. can't wait to dive in further.

it's been a lackluster summer for reading... a lot of tripe lately. This week it's:



It's actually pretty funny.

I honestly don't know his background. Time says he's the CEO of Edison Schools, which is the largest private operator and designer of public schools, so I can safely assume he's been in the game for a bit.

np: The Faint-Dust

Nothing right now but next up will be 'The Annuls of Imperial Rome' by Tacitus.

I recently bought Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' and Oliver Swifts' 'Gullivers Travels' and I don't think I'll have time to read them now before all my reading is dictated for me.

currently re-reading "last night a dj saved my life: the history of the disc jockey" by bill brewster & frank broughton.

next on my list (catching up on some titles i've slept on):
survivor- chuck palahniuk
the rum diary- hunter s. thompson
trainspotting- irvine welsh
main lines, blood feasts, and bad taste: a lester bangs reader


i really want to get thurston moore's new book: "mix tape: the art of cassette culture." has anyone read it yet? wondering if it's any good.

The Dark Tower II: The Drawing Of The Three by Stephen King

Just read the first, and have the third (thrift store finds at 50 cents each) but don't have this one yet... need to find it.

i was gonna read "catcher in the rye" (finally) but keep putting it off.