Guest chappy5 Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 The Hell's Eight Series, just finished reading. I'm currently reading: Paramedic on the front line of medicine - Peter Canning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casey Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman. I can't think of a more anticlimactic novel. I was really disappointed by his foray into non-fiction. I'm currently reading Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem and Point Omega by Don Delillo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hankmurphy Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 get back into a reading pattern so I can read "A Game of Thrones" for the first time. Super stoked. A Song of Ice and Fire hooked me immediately and now I'm going crazy waiting for the fifth book (and the series coming to HBO). I've heard it appropriately described as "Sopranos with swords", and if that description sounds interesting then check it out. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alertthemute Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 Just finished reading Findley's The Wars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oakland Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 However, I just picked up "Memories of My Melancholy Whores" by Gabriel García Marquez which I'm pretty damn psyched to get in to. Easily my favorite author of all times. He's good, but tough. I'm not exactly the dumbest person on this forum and I find some of his stuff hard to tackle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enjoyadrian Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 just finished "Please Kill Me" by Legs Mcneil and Gillian Mccain. I love reading books like this. Started McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #20. Halfway done with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lokithelion Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 I'm finally in the last part of Midnight's Children. Goddamn this book has been a pain in the ass to get through It is, but it is a rewarding read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmonaut Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 I'm reading Catch 22. I had no idea how fucking insane this books is. I feel like I'm going nuts just reading it. Hell yes. Get ready to divide everything in your life into two categories: black eyes, and feathers in your cap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedavidescapeplan Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 A bunch of Cometbus zines. I'm re-reading High Fidelity and Ham on Rye. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drabley Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 So my lady friend came over for dinner last night and brought me a "just because" gift. It was an autographed copy of the Karl Rove memoir I've been wanting! Bradley, If everyone had such an open mind, things might be different. Karl Rove When she had him sign it, she told him I'm a bleeding heart Liberal and how I came to be interested in what he had to say -- the NPR interview with Terry Gross. Hence, his comment to me. I'm not one for autographs or anything, but that's pretty cool. Can't wait to read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oakland Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 I'm reading Catch 22. I had no idea how fucking insane this books is. I feel like I'm going nuts just reading it. Hell yes. Get ready to divide everything in your life into two categories: black eyes, and feathers in your cap. Totally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melikecheese Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 Wonderful Data, and two Head First books, Statistics and Data Analysis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest markovianprocess Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 A bunch of Cometbus zines.I'm re-reading High Fidelity and Ham on Rye. You sir, have very good taste. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgoodcore Posted April 2, 2010 Share Posted April 2, 2010 So my lady friend came over for dinner last night and brought me a "just because" gift. It was an autographed copy of the Karl Rove memoir I've been wanting! Bradley, If everyone had such an open mind, things might be different. Karl Rove When she had him sign it, she told him I'm a bleeding heart Liberal and how I came to be interested in what he had to say -- the NPR interview with Terry Gross. Hence, his comment to me. I'm not one for autographs or anything, but that's pretty cool. Can't wait to read. Dude, Karl Rove is a scumbag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oakland Posted April 3, 2010 Share Posted April 3, 2010 Maybe so, but that dude is a genius. Watch "Bush's Brain." It shows, assuming it's mostly true, just how calculating that guy is. The first political campaign he ever ran was for something like agriculture secretary in Texas. Not dissing the Ag. Sec, but pretty small potatoes in the grand scheme. In any case, Rove was a bulldog for this candidate he was working for. They allegedly bugged offices, planted false stories with the media and a whole bunch of other insane and totally over-the-top stuff. Rove recently was in a debate here with Howard Dean. I didn't attend, but I understand Rove was quite eloquent and convincing. I guess he'd have to be though, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drabley Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 On Rove: I'm about 200 pages in, and the guy is undoubtedly a genius. Like I said before, I am not in love with Karl Rove, nor am I becoming some sort of conservative activist. I am reading opposing points of view, his specifically, in a concerted effort to gain a broader knowledge base on modern American politics. Assuming his accounts are true, and I've no reason to believe them not to be, Rovian Politics as it is called, is vastly misunderstood. He is a bulldog, yes, no doubt about it. His name is attached (rightfully or wrongfully in some instances) to some questionable tactics (show me someone in Washington whose name isn't.) But there has never been a political strategist as organized, thorough, and calculated as Karl Rove. He almost single handedly changed Texas from a state as blue as the Pacific Ocean into the bastion of conservatism we know Texas as today. I don't care what your political beliefs are -- that is an accomplishment that is worthy of admiration on some level. Scumbag or not, he deserves respect. Liberal strategists and political junkies alike would be well advised to pay attention to what Mr. Rove has to say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oakland Posted April 6, 2010 Share Posted April 6, 2010 Oh, they have certainly been paying attention. You don't see Obama fighting to undo the vast presidential powers Bush gained, thanks to Rove's handywork. And it's always foolish to characterize your enemy as stupid or crazy. Rove is neither. He's calculating, smart and determined. So is James Carville. So are a lot of people. None of that makes them stupid or crazy. They know what they want and go get it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drabley Posted April 6, 2010 Share Posted April 6, 2010 Virtues all, save in politics. Then you're just diabolical. Funny how it works like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcm1610 Posted April 6, 2010 Share Posted April 6, 2010 I just FINALLY finished The Shia Revival by Vali Nasr. Seriously, if you pretend to pay attention to world current events, you need to read this book. It easily, yet very educationally, explains why the Middle East is a clusterfuck on so many levels but still gets to feeling sympathetic to some of the various viewpoints in the region. There's so much more going on there than anyone who follows mainstream media will ever pick up on. Just make sure you either know the Middle East geographically or have a map handy. (He has added one to the book for convenience, but study it anyway.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oakland Posted April 7, 2010 Share Posted April 7, 2010 I just started "Closing Time," the sequel to Catch 22 (written 50 years later). I'm not impressed so far. We'll see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amsterdamned Posted April 7, 2010 Share Posted April 7, 2010 I'm in the midst of reading "The 50 Most Influential Heavy Metal Songs of the 80s and the True Stories Behind Their Lyrics", "Motley Crue: The Dirt - Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band", and am about to crack into "I Am Ozzy." Sensing a pattern here? haha! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casey Posted April 7, 2010 Share Posted April 7, 2010 Some of the stuff in The Dirt is just bonkers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amsterdamned Posted April 7, 2010 Share Posted April 7, 2010 Some of the stuff in The Dirt is just bonkers. "Bonkers" really is the best way to describe this book. So crazy, but a really great read! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebru Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 I just started to reading a book about World War II era, Dr. Goebbels - Signale der neuen Zeit. But it is little hard for me to read, because it is German and the book which i read is 1934 edition and it is Gothic. I think i will not able to finish it, reading to Gothic German is so hard for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enjoyadrian Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 finished reading "Tell All" by Chuck Palahniuk. the first 70 pages go nowhere, but after that was nothing but chuck gold . highly recommend. The synopsis for his next novel sounds so damn good. This weekend at half priced books there was an extra 20% off sale, so I got the preacher tradebacks I was missing (5-9) and wicked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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