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Post by Alamo on Aug 21, 2008 14:28:25 GMT -5
Oh god, I love this book. It is so full of life and then so dark. It is one of these stories that totally takes you into its world and you can't put it away, only if you have to sleep or work. I need to watch the movie with Sean Penn!
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Post by Jessie on Aug 21, 2008 15:45:26 GMT -5
So far, it's so sad, but I love it. Can't wait to see the movie! I have the sound track already because I love Eddie Vedder.
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Post by almosthistorical on Aug 22, 2008 18:13:53 GMT -5
I'm always reading several books - I like to have something to choose between These days, I'm reading Neil Gaiman's 'Smoke and Mirrors' and Charles Dickens 'David Copperfield', and I just finished the amazing book 'PS: I love you!' which has come out as a movie (I can't wait to see it!!) Love, AH
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Post by morrigan on Aug 25, 2008 18:25:23 GMT -5
I just read my first 'Graphic Novel'. "Murder Mysteries", adapted from the Neil Gaiman book. I really enjoyed it. Might Tori just turn me on to comics???
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Post by littlecricket on Aug 26, 2008 20:48:33 GMT -5
I've decided to pick up David Sedaris's When You are Engulfed in Flames. It's pretty cute and funny so far, like most of his stuff.
~Lisa
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Post by Saar°berry on Aug 27, 2008 4:03:16 GMT -5
I'm currently reading 'Coraline' - Neil Gaiman... again, with the talks of the upcoming movie and all, made me want to read it again!
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Post by Mina on Sept 2, 2008 8:29:17 GMT -5
Touching from a Distance - Ian Curtis and Joy Division by Deborah Curtis
man, this is depressing.
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Post by scarlett1985 on Sept 5, 2008 3:32:06 GMT -5
i am currently reading American Gods by Neil. I do have to say i am not very enthusiast about it.. am at page 239 now, so i do not think i will get more enthusiast about it.. for me there is too much in it.. maybe i am too stupid for the book.. who knows...
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Post by butterfly8 on Sept 5, 2008 23:25:11 GMT -5
I'm reading "One flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey. It's a bit confusing because I'm reading from a crazy persons point of view. Like, some of the things that the first person says happened, didn't really happen because he's crazy. It's about poeple who live in this mental institute and it's an interesting read because sometimes what they say doesn't make any sense but that's the whole point of it is to be confusing. It's good that it's confusing because that means I'm sane lol! The author I heard was on LSD while he was writing it but he's a good author.
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Post by littlecricket on Sept 6, 2008 11:20:50 GMT -5
i am currently reading American Gods by Neil. I do have to say i am not very enthusiast about it.. am at page 239 now, so i do not think i will get more enthusiast about it.. for me there is too much in it.. maybe i am too stupid for the book.. who knows... Nah, sometimes you just don't "connect" with a book; everyone is different. Personally, I *loved* American Gods, but part of it was because I thought the way Gaiman criticized certain aspects of technology and how they affect our culture was pretty brilliant...and also he made references to lots of places in America that I was familiar with, like The House on the Rock in Wisconsin, and Little Egypt in southern Illinois, where Cairo is pronounced Cay-ro--it was kind of eerie, actually! ~Lisa
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Post by borneoman on Sept 7, 2008 12:42:09 GMT -5
Any fans of Haruki Murakami? He's the best, love his stories, his characters, all the recurrent themes in his books (the lonely guy that likes reading books and listening to jazz but meets and has sex with tons of interesting women, female characters with phsycho problems, cats getting lost, time travelling The thing is I had a bit of a Murakami overdose this August. I had read 'Norwegian Wood' and Kafka On The Beach early this year, but last month I did read 'My Sputnik Sweetheart', 'South of the Border, East of the Sun' and 'The Wind-up bird chronicle'. Loooooved them all but in the end I was mixing them all and was confusing the stories he he... and I agree on the American Gods love!!!! and Anansi Boys AKA American Gods Pt 2 too!!
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Post by rantboi on Sept 22, 2008 13:28:15 GMT -5
I just finished reading "Mysterious Skin" by Scott Heim.
I think it's the first book that actually made me cry.
Highly recommended.
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Post by littlecricket on Sept 23, 2008 8:35:38 GMT -5
I *finally* finished David Sedaris's When You are Engulfed in Flames. It took me *forever*, I guess because I've been a little busy. My favorite chapter was the very end when he talks about quitting smoking in Tokyo. His depiction of language barriers is always pretty funny. I think I'm gonna pick up one of my favorite books for a reread, because the book club I'm in is reading it: The Liar's Club by Mary Karr. Oh and I recently bought Upton Sinclair's The Jungle for only $1.05 at a nice little used bookstore I discovered last weekend, so that'll probably be next!
~Lisa
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Post by Foo on Sept 27, 2008 16:54:54 GMT -5
Just finished World War Z by Max Brooks, it was a totally kick ass zombie book. definitely a must read
xx
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Sammy
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Post by Sammy on Oct 24, 2008 9:53:29 GMT -5
Conversations with god ~ Neale Donald Walsch
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