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alongwaltz. · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2005 12:39 am

Damen Wrote:

Ok not really I just picked it up today. But within the next 24 hours I will be reading it.

This is out already? I thought it had a 2006 release date?

iron_and_beer · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2005 12:47 am

alongdrive Wrote:

Damen Wrote:

Ok not really I just picked it up today. But within the next 24 hours I will be reading it.

This is out already? I thought it had a 2006 release date?

Yeah, ditto. This isn't out in the U.S., is it?

Grape Ripple · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2005 12:55 am

Max Wrote:

alongdrive Wrote:

Grape Ripple Wrote:

Just finished Life of Pi.

I liked it and thought it was really good. My only beef was at the very end. When Martel hints that there were no animals on the ship and it was all them, I thought that was fantastic, because I hadn't even thought of that myself. And it was interesting to think "well, which is it?" but then he goes a step further and pretty much says flat-out that it was just people, there were no animals.

I would've liked it a lot more if they had left the debate up in the air. But he seems to nail down the point that it was just the people. That kind of ruined it for me.

Nevertheless, you should read "Self". It's an earlier novel of his and it's equally good, from what I read of it.

I'm really glad I've already read this book, or I'd have to kill you.

No shit. This post should have the words WARNING SPOILERS written in bright flashing lights.

The Mayor of Simpleton · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2005 1:49 am

duckyboy Wrote:

I hope you're listening to "One" on repeat while reading this.

gauchebag · **Posted:** Thu Aug 25, 2005 6:23 am

1984 for the 1900th time. les fleurs du mal, like always. struggling to the finish line of "zazie dans le metro."

"The moral collapse of the university" by bruce wiltshire - pretty much boring teaching anecdotes and "quest for truth" ideologue garbage.

the teachings of buddha
the qu'uran
mark twain - letters from the earth.

it goes something like that.

oh and there's "bel-ami" by maupassant, but that's been pretty boring so far.

Evil Dr. K · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:51 am **Posts:** 6327

cmanhatan4 Wrote:

1984 for the 1900th time.

Yeah, often if I'm bored I'll just pick it up and read the interrogation scene between O'Brien and Winston.

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

Joey Crack Wrote:

Zombie Cotton > Sober Cotton

i'm much more of a zombie when i'm drunk than sober. maybe if you started an online petition the courts would FORCE me to start drinking again.

Sketch · **Posted:** Fri Aug 26, 2005 8:04 pm

I tackled Life of Pi when it first came out. Liked it quite a bit.

Stuff I read next to the Aegean Sea or on the way home this week:
- Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card (uses frontier America as a fantasy backdrop where folk magic actually works... great premise)
- The Footprints of God by Greg Iles (just your much-better-than-average artifical intelligence conspiracy thriller)
- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (my dad's favorite book ever, and the source material for one of my favorite songs ever... which I didn't realize. Holy crap, this is a great book)
- Angels and Demons by Dan Brown (read and liked Da Vinci Code last year; pattern seems to be that I like the ideas and themes that drive the story but am non-plussed with his writing but keep reading just to see what happens)

Will probably finish (or restart) High Fidelity next since I haven't touched it in 18 months.

mutty · **Posted:** Fri Aug 26, 2005 8:40 pm

Sketch Wrote:

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown (read and liked Da Vinci Code last year; pattern seems to be that I like the ideas and themes that drive the story but am non-plussed with his writing but keep reading just to see what happens)

I actually liked Angels and Demons more than DaVinci code, but DO NOT attempt to read anything else by Mr. Brown. His first book is terrible.

hey look · **Posted:** Fri Aug 26, 2005 8:47 pm

Modem · **Posted:** Tue Feb 28, 2006 1:52 pm

saint · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:28 pm **Posts:** 4271

Very deep reading.... :lol:

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

freakonomics. it's good, even if i can't help but think that some of it's a little odd. i've done some pretty bizarre research in my day and even i'd never think to correlate abortions and potential criminals or babies and rental cars.

MISSterious · **Joined:** Tue Nov 01, 2005 3:22 pm **Posts:** 526

Z Wrote:

freakonomics. it's good, even if i can't help but think that some of it's a little odd. i've done some pretty bizarre research in my day and even i'd never think to correlate abortions and potential criminals or babies and rental cars.

I just finished reading this book as well.

two guns holla · **Posted:** Tue Feb 28, 2006 3:22 pm

A little over halfway through. Its a big book and I don't read all that much.

Red House Vincent · **Posted:** Tue Feb 28, 2006 4:26 pm

Rimbaud's Illuminations.

Chrome_CW · **Posted:** Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:09 pm

NeZ · **Posted:** Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:49 pm

I'm currently in the middle of a book called "The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break" a novel with the mythical minotaur working as a line cook in the southern US.

This weekend I've got to start "Sidharrtha" by Herman Hesse. I've got to have it read by next Thursday for book club. It's only about 130 pages so I should be able to get through it quickly.

KPH · **Posted:** Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:52 pm

The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell.

Yep. That book.

Dusty Chalk · **Posted:** Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:54 pm

Picked up Frank Miller's Sin City Library Set 1 -- already about half-way through.

PopTodd · **Posted:** Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:55 pm

At the insistance of Cary (my 6-year-old), who just finished it:
Zathura, the "movie novel"
(yeah, it's a book based on a screenplay... the things we do for our kids.)

"It's really good, Dad. I think you'll like it!"

shaMoxie · **Posted:** Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:56 pm

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Tue Feb 28, 2006 6:02 pm

PopTodd Wrote:

At the insistance of Cary (my 6-year-old), who just finished it:
Zathura, the "movie novel"
(yeah, it's a book based on a screenplay... the things we do for our kids.)

"It's really good, Dad. I think you'll like it!"

Isn't the movie based on a kid's book?

Twilightkid · **Posted:** Tue Feb 28, 2006 6:04 pm

Book of the Dead: Complete History of Zombie Cinema

PopTodd · **Posted:** Tue Feb 28, 2006 6:05 pm

Flying Rabbit Wrote:

PopTodd Wrote:

At the insistance of Cary (my 6-year-old), who just finished it:
Zathura, the "movie novel"
(yeah, it's a book based on a screenplay... the things we do for our kids.)

"It's really good, Dad. I think you'll like it!"

Isn't the movie based on a kid's book?

Yes.
It's a book based on a movie based on a book.
So odd.

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