01.27.2013, 07:40 PM | #3041 |
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James Hannon - Lost Boys of the Bronx I became interested in (more like obsessed with) the Ducky Boys gang through the book/film The Wanderers and couldn't believe someone had actually a written a bio about them. I didn't even realise they were a real gang. I'm only a couple of chapters in and it's already one of my favourite books. |
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01.29.2013, 01:41 PM | #3042 |
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01.29.2013, 02:25 PM | #3043 |
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Talks about all the art that is not covered in the "standard" texts about the Middle Ages. Lots of bawdy stuff!
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01.29.2013, 03:34 PM | #3044 |
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Foundation - Asimov
just started this, the first few pages are GOOD! ! ! |
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01.29.2013, 07:58 PM | #3045 |
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I have been stopping and starting books for months and nothing's grabbed me by the balls yet. The few I have finished had zero impact.
I'd better find some existentially challenging fiction pretty goddamn quick or I think my soul is going to disappear. I'm almost in "re-read Lord of the Rings" mode. That's how bad it is. Shit I hate being in between books. I usually read two or three every couple weeks. It's my solace. But I'm coming up with fuckin nothing! |
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01.29.2013, 08:02 PM | #3046 | |
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did i recommend a day in the life of ivan denisovich? hot damn, that book rules. --- me, i'm reading a bunch of business books... ... thrilling stuff! |
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01.29.2013, 08:10 PM | #3047 | |
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01.29.2013, 08:39 PM | #3048 | |
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it's kind of funny to find someone here interested in this which is why i didn't post anything at first. currently this: someone recommended it to me recently. it's hilarious. also very good. also looking again at this: it's a bit "old" (2003!) but it was game changer i think. actually i think it informs the one above. |
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01.29.2013, 09:07 PM | #3049 |
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01.29.2013, 09:16 PM | #3050 |
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shoot a PM alert if you do cuz i look at this thread rarely
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02.03.2013, 10:28 AM | #3051 |
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02.06.2013, 01:16 AM | #3052 |
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WATCH YOU BLEED by Stephen Davis (it's the GNR book)
please excuse my bad taste, but it was only $5 for a hardcover and after reading Stephen Adler's autobiography last fall i thought that this would be a good one as well not like i give a fuck about GNR anymore |
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02.06.2013, 08:21 PM | #3053 |
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I too have been looting the free selection on Kindle. I've also been "sampling" books and had myself a nice little surprise when I realized that if you accidentally buy the book when trying to sample it, and then cancel the order, the thing will be in your carousel until you close it out. Yeah, that means reading a book in full in one sitting; of just leaving your kindle on and not doing any of the amazing other things it does (bullshit) but I don't mind for free books.
Anyway, the actually free books have given me A Tale of Two Cities to go over again, which I'm doing in small chunks, and Moby Dick. I know- not supposed to read it until you're 40. Well, I fuckin feel forty, and I'll be forty sooner than I'd like to believe. So fuck it. Great goddamn book, so far. |
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02.06.2013, 08:21 PM | #3054 |
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What the fuck? That posted five times. Deleting now.
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02.09.2013, 11:18 AM | #3055 |
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I've just read Survivors by Terry Nation. It laughably reads like a post-apocalyptic jolly for the middle and upper class nobs and snobs who live in the countryside of the Home Counties of England who were fortunate enough to have survived a plague that wiped out 99% of the worlds population.
I concluded after reading the book that the author has to either be a nob or snob of middle or upper class origin living in the countryside of one of the Home Counties who wishes a plague on everyone else on the planet who isn't like him. In other words, he's a wanker. |
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02.09.2013, 11:31 AM | #3056 | |
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02.10.2013, 11:09 AM | #3057 | |
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02.10.2013, 11:18 AM | #3058 | |
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02.16.2013, 04:44 AM | #3059 |
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Is that the first Murakami book you've read?
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02.16.2013, 05:02 AM | #3060 |
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So far this year I've read "The Wind Through the Keyhole" by Stephen King, and I'm currently reading "Robopocalypse" by Daniel H. Wilson. I don't read much science fiction even though I like the genre generally. The book's good so far, but nothing mind-blowing, even though some of the quotes in the book have compared him to early Michael Crichton.
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