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Reply With QuoteStarted Little Children last night. Quite good actually! Easy to read, but not for dumb-dumbs. Anyone want to chat via PM's about it feel free, I'm in the mood.
Just finished Hell Bent for Leather : Confessions of a Heavy Metal Addict.
Was a little disappointed but shouldn't be. My expectations were too high.
Coming of age tale about a guy in the '80s who loves metal music and gives it a spin, until he ditches it in his early 30s. The photos are priceless.
Some of the narrative gets tedious, but there are moments of poking fun at himself that make it work. Some rants like Chuck Klosterman but without any of the intellectual pretense.
Good if you're looking for nostalgia of that period.
I just got Gypsy and Me: At Home and on the Road With Gypsy Rose Lee. Haven't started it yet.
"I ransacked his drawers when he left me by myself at his place for the first time. That's how we did it in the good old days. Tells me all I need to know about him. He pretends he didn't notice. That's how good relationships start." - Chilly Willy
Started Little Children last night. Quite good actually! Easy to read, but not for dumb-dumbs. Anyone want to chat via PM's about it feel free, I'm in the mood.
I just finished reading The Discomfort Zone by Jonathan Franzen (see the GR Book Club thread) but I can't comment on it until 5 Feb, and neither can you lot!!!
I am now getting into The Human Stain by Philip Roth, my real life (yes, I have one) book club choice. So far I love it.
Why do people say "Grow some balls"? Balls are weak and sensitive! If you really wanna get tough, grow a vagina! Those things take a pounding! -Betty White
I just bought "The Delivery Man" by Joe McGinnis Jr. for my plane trip back from Tahoe and let me say that its so amazing. It's about a guy who is trying his best to get out of the decadence that is Las Vegas and begin his adult life.
Here's an interesting review from the NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/bo...ew/Park-t.html
Originally Posted by Celestial
Right now I'm reading the Tom Cruise Unauthorized bio by Andrew Morton. Good read, so far.
Child of God by Lolita Files....
It's about incest, murder, black magic and much more...it's a great read.
I Bleed Purple-Baltimore and Proud!
I just finished last night!
Any shockers? Anything worth suing over?
"I ransacked his drawers when he left me by myself at his place for the first time. That's how we did it in the good old days. Tells me all I need to know about him. He pretends he didn't notice. That's how good relationships start." - Chilly Willy
Well, it doesn't portray Co$ very positively, and they make much more than a cameo appearance, so you know they want to do what they're best at.It does do an excellent job of documenting Tommy Boy as lying, very consistently, whenever it will best suit him and as a controlling freak. I have NEVER understood why women swooned over him to begin with...
I'm reading it too, but finding it pretty boring.
FUCK YOU AND GIVE ME MY GODDAMN VENTI TWO PUMP LIGHT WHIP MOCHA YOU COCKSUCKING WHORE BEFORE I PUNCH YOU IN THE MOUTH. I just get unpleasant in my car. - Deej
Healthy is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London. It's been years since I read and am reallly enjoying it again.
'Those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither.' Ben Franklin
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." --Sinclair Lewis
I'm still working on it, and NO COMMENT.
"In the face of the blinding sun, I wake only to find
that Heaven is a stranger place than than one I've left behind." - SM
Programming Logic and Design. Just went back to college. So far my brain has not melted! What I'd rather be reading, is the rest of the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. I have only read the first 4.
Don't worry about what other people think. They don't do it very often.
I was reading a book about Gypsy Lee.
Then, my fingers landed on this one:Amazon.com: The Friend Who Got Away: Twenty Women's True Life Tales of Friendships that Blew Up, Burned Out or Faded Away: Books: Jenny Offill,Elissa Schappell
I'm very partial to nonfiction anthologies like this anyhow, but this one was especially good in the way it was honest about a lot of tricky things in friendships between women without being cloying or predictable. Dorothy Allison's essay was fantastic as was Katie Roiphe's. Both had something about them that was hard to hear - again the honesty about subtle ugliness and all those intangibles.
"I ransacked his drawers when he left me by myself at his place for the first time. That's how we did it in the good old days. Tells me all I need to know about him. He pretends he didn't notice. That's how good relationships start." - Chilly Willy
Double Cross by James Patterson.
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