Reply With Quotethe pillars of the earth. i just finished it and i have to say it was the best book i have ever read. im starting the sequel
just finished shutter island. very engrossing book. lots of twists and turns. quite enjoyable.
for the first time
today -
i didn't see myself
the way that you do.
the pillars of the earth. i just finished it and i have to say it was the best book i have ever read. im starting the sequel
Originally Posted by fat mike
Dreaming The Eagle, the first book in the Boudicca series.
In this lightning moment when you walk the earth, your first duty, by enlarging your ego, is to live through the endless march, both visible and invisible, of your own being.
The Return of One's Pet Batfink!
understanding exposure by bryan peterson
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- H Keller
I only occasionally read fiction. Although an avid reader (sometimes two books at a a time)...I read mostly non-fiction, history and the like most often.
Currently reading Death in Ancient Rome.
The last fiction I have read has been Shaara's WWII historical fiction trilogy...The Rising Tide, The Steel Wave and No Less Than Victory.
The last true fiction was The Shack.
Reading is for people who are to dumb to watch television..
Lulu (01-31-2010), optimus (06-07-2010), SweetKatie (01-31-2010)
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I don't read much because I always fall asleep after two pages. BUT the books (that I can remember) that I'm reading currently.
Interview with a Vampire (reading upon the insistence of a friend)
Alchemist's Apprentice by Walter Moer (I love Moer but they close to being kid books)
Tuesday Next (or something like that--a scifi something? Haven't gotten into it yet)
a few physics/optics books that bore the most rabid readers
Galileo's Daughter--just started
I just listened to a few audio books for my LONG drives:
HP 6 and 7
Lost Symbol and Angels and Demons (Brown--bleh, terrible writing!)
Change your brain, Change your Life (self help mumbo jumbo with enough physiology to be tolerable)
next up is some Edgar Allen Poe, Agatha Christie
I mostly read science mags like American Scientist, or National Geographic or such. My time allotment for reading is fairly pathetic.
With a reading list like that, no wonder you fall asleep. I recommend The Shroud of the Thwacker by Chris Elliot.
The Stand by Stephen King.
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"If you liberals keep gettin' your way - we're all gonna hear one big loud flush. The sound of the U.S. of A. goin' straight down the toilet." -- Archie Bunker
"I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally." - W.C. Fields
Why the Towers Fell
Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America - Allen C. Guelzo
boedicca (12-01-2009)
fixed
anyway i'm reading
the third policeman - flann o'brien (this is weird)
whatever - michel houellebecq (about a french civil servant who is relocated to a rural setting. fourth book of houellebecq's i've read. Atomised was brilliant)
the brief and wondrous life of oscar wao - junot diaz (tracing 3 generations of one family and how Trujillo in the dominican republic caused their downfall. i nearly cried during it at lunchtime today)
at the weekend, i finished "indignation" by philip roth. he is an author i really like. this book was very good. it's about this guy, Marcus Messner who in order to get away from his father who has suddenly become overprotective decides to go to college at Winesburg in Ohio, transfering from Robert Treat in New Jersey.
e. e. cummings is my hero.
Jeremiah (12-01-2009)
I saw a movie trailer for that last night. Leonardo Decaprio is in it.just finished shutter island. very engrossing book. lots of twists and turns. quite enjoyable.
When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man? [Henry David Thoreau]
Ewwwwww....One does not get the Leonardo Decaprio attraction.
He's creepy, just like all those other actors who look like boys instead of Manly Men.
In this lightning moment when you walk the earth, your first duty, by enlarging your ego, is to live through the endless march, both visible and invisible, of your own being.
The Return of One's Pet Batfink!
Lulu (01-31-2010), SweetKatie (01-31-2010)
It has Ben Kingsley as well. Does that help?
Looks kinda scary.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/shutterisland/
When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man? [Henry David Thoreau]
Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
"Soon will I rouse you to yet wilder dancing and pipe a note of terror in your ear."
ben kingsley was very good in the film adaptation of roth's "the dying animal" (the film was called "elegy")
e. e. cummings is my hero.
i hope the movie is as good as the book. truly, i think this is the only book i would consider to be haunting. it had me thinking about it for days.
for the first time
today -
i didn't see myself
the way that you do.
i finished "the third policeman" yesterday evening. i really liked it. it was weird and an eccentric read. alot of discussion about bicycles in it which i enjoyed
in it's place in the rotation i have started "let the great world spin" by colum mccann. i have read 2 of his books previously (dancer - about rudolf nureyev and zoli based on the life eastern european poet papusza). this book won him the national book award in the US.
until i have the three i'm reading finished, i won't start anymore
e. e. cummings is my hero.
Lamb, the story of Jesus' childhood friend.
just finished a drink before the war by dennis lehane. it was alright.
for the first time
today -
i didn't see myself
the way that you do.
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