Dako Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow. Nothing trendy or Hollywoodesque but very substantial. Link to comment
luminousone Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 A Return to Love, by Marianne Williamson and The Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes Link to comment
grymoire Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 Dan Brown's 'The Lost Symbol' is coming out on the 14th... I had pre-ordered it on Amazon and can't wait to get my hands on it. Yayyyyyy! Link to comment
JonasWaingaro Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 Re-reading the Harry Potter books for the third time. Now on The Goblet of Fire. I love those books! Reading 'Goblet of Fire' now. Pretty good. Link to comment
hexaemeron Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 I just started Peter F Hamilton's Night's Dawn triology. I looooooove his Commonwealth stuff, but this is a bit darker, edgier. It was harder to get into at first but I am totally loving the story now. Link to comment
carbon14 Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 I think that's the book that made my friend turn vegetarian in highschool I think you're thinking of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (it's about about meat processing in the early 1900's-very gritty stuff). Slaughterhouse 5 is mostly about WWII, but it's a Vonnegut book-the most accurate description you can get it is to read it. It's not necessarily the text itself I struggle with, its just that it requires a fair bit of input and dedication and I usually have trouble finding the time to put that effort in. But I'm anticipating this crazy speech now. Hahahaha-I'm fighting my way through the infamous John Galt speech right now! I think there should be a badge or something at the end of this book for making it all the way through. It is an amazing book & I agree with someone else that all politicians should have to read it, but it's not beach reading-you really have to sit down & absorb it. To the beach, I'm taking The Stone Rose & The Nighmare of Black Island out of the Doctor Who series. Link to comment
_Asti_ Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 A Big Little Life by Dean Koontz Link to comment
LillyLooWho Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 I'm reading the Geography of Bliss by an NPR reporter. I forget his name. It is kinda funny. The guy is witty. It's about him going to a bunch of different countries that have been rated as particularly happy or unhappy and trying to figure out why. Link to comment
LightbulbSun Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 Just finished "Just After Sunset" by Stephen King, and getting ready to start on "Misery" (also by Stephen King.) I'm on a SK binge lately. Link to comment
Imprecision Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 Catiline Orations, by Cicero Elegies, by Propertius Odes, Epodes, by Horace Link to comment
Cognitive_Canine Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 Breakfast of Champions. It's probably the oldest copy of the book too. Geesh. This thing is falling apart! Link to comment
imsuperman Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 Murder Machine by Gene Mustain and Jerry Capeci. It's about Roy Demeo and his band of serial-killing mafia guys. Link to comment
metrogirl Posted October 7, 2009 Author Share Posted October 7, 2009 Has anyone read "The Lovely Bones"? I saw the preview to the movie and I'm wondering if the book is as good or better than the preview looks. Link to comment
pinkelephant Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 The bluest eye by toni morrison... and my textbooks. -.- Link to comment
LillyLooWho Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 Has anyone read "The Lovely Bones"? I saw the preview to the movie and I'm wondering if the book is as good or better than the preview looks. Yeah, I read it. It's sad but it was a great book. I think the book is always better than the movie, no matter what the story is. Link to comment
metrogirl Posted October 7, 2009 Author Share Posted October 7, 2009 Yeah, I read it. It's sad but it was a great book. I think the book is always better than the movie, no matter what the story is. Thank you..... I think I will try to get out this weekend and get the book.... The movie trailer looks really good. I can't wait. Link to comment
quirky Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 I'm reading a book "famous brands, unknown stories" Lots of a short biographies of many brands and how they started and developed into the sucess we know today. Link to comment
LightbulbSun Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 Salem's Lot by Stephen King Link to comment
hexaemeron Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 Look Me in the Eye by John Elder Robison. Link to comment
jaykiddo Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 Im halfway through "A tangled Skein" by Piers Anthony, I'm really diggin these incarnations of immortality series they rock! and are a good break from my chemistry textbook...ekk!! Link to comment
jaykiddo Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman & Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut I love the graveyard book! I haven't read the vonnegut book though... Link to comment
absinthe Posted October 17, 2009 Share Posted October 17, 2009 The Russian Anarchists - Paul Avrich Link to comment
metrogirl Posted October 22, 2009 Author Share Posted October 22, 2009 Yeah, I read it. It's sad but it was a great book. I think the book is always better than the movie, no matter what the story is. I finally started reading it. "The Lovely Bones", such a good book so far.....Can't wait to read more tonite... Link to comment
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