Theraflu 1,035 Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 After finishing The Road, I picked up Blood Meridian the other day. Link to post Share on other sites
YonYonson 156 Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 After finishing The Road, I picked up Blood Meridian the other day.after that, go for 'Outer Dark'. I just finished it and it was amazing.reading 'All the Pretty Horses' right now. Link to post Share on other sites
RonBurgundy 0 Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 recently finished:walkin the dog by Walter Mosleywatchmen by Alan Moorenow reading:bats out of hell by Barry Hannahi recommend them all strongly but especially the Hannah book for some really amazing short stories Link to post Share on other sites
Randy Reed 0 Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 Finished Neil Gaimans/Terry Prachett's Good Omens. Really enjoyed it. Funny. Now I think I will read Amercian Gods by Neil Gaiman since I seem to really enjoy his writing. After finishing The Road, I picked up Blood Meridian the other day. after that, go for 'Outer Dark'. I just finished it and it was amazing.reading 'All the Pretty Horses' right now.I really like the suggestions here. At times I feel like I'm going to run out of audiobooks available through the library but this helps alot.I forgot to add that I recently read grisham's The Last Juror. Don't know how I missed it but all his books are excellent. I just got the new one but i'm saving it until I finish Deadhouse Gates, the second part of the Malazan series recomended by that GODDAMM PMJackson! Kidding, I'm starting to really like it.I also just finished a book called "The Homecoming" last night. It was a good book, like Edgar Sawtelle, with a crummy ending. Oh well, can't win em all.recently finished:walkin the dog by Walter Mosleywatchmen by Alan Moorenow reading:bats out of hell by Barry Hannahi recommend them all strongly but especially the Hannah book for some really amazing short stories Link to post Share on other sites
uncooper 1 Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 I'm finishing up The Informers, and next up are Notes From Underground and the previously mentioned Blood Meridian. Link to post Share on other sites
Mercury69 3 Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 I'm still working my way through My Pet Goat. Next on my list is The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire. Link to post Share on other sites
Theraflu 1,035 Posted February 7, 2009 Share Posted February 7, 2009 I'm putting Blood Meridian on hold and going to get Torre's book today. I've only heard very interesting stories come from it. Link to post Share on other sites
Balloon guy 158 Posted February 7, 2009 Share Posted February 7, 2009 I'm still working my way through My Pet Goat. Next on my list is The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire. it falls Link to post Share on other sites
PMJackson21 0 Posted February 7, 2009 Share Posted February 7, 2009 I just got the new one but i'm saving it until I finish Deadhouse Gates, the second part of the Malazan series recomended by that GODDAMM PMJackson! Kidding, I'm starting to really like it.Lol, glad you are enjoying it. I'm halfway through Return of the Crimson Guard, which is the first full length novel set in the Malazan world by Erikson's co-creator, Ian Esslemont. So far I am enjoying it, although I could be just enjoying fresh material in that series.I finished Last Arguement of Kings a few weeks back, which is the 3rd book in the First Law series by Joe Abercrombie. Def has a different 'flavor' then most fantasy (all the protagonists are borderline bad human beings, if not obvious ones), and it is a pretty easy read. Nothing too extensive in regards to world building, lots of action, not much dead time, etc etc. Fun read I guess would be my description of it. Link to post Share on other sites
Ron_Mexico 4,219 Posted February 7, 2009 Share Posted February 7, 2009 The Garden of Last DaysAndre Dubus IIIHe wrote House of Sand and Fog. Good so far. Very descriptive writing style. Link to post Share on other sites
Randy Reed 0 Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 The Garden of Last DaysAndre Dubus IIIHe wrote House of Sand and Fog. Good so far. Very descriptive writing style.Ha, I'm half way threw that as well. (on audio) Pretty good. I figured the strip club bouncer was modeled after you. Link to post Share on other sites
hank213 1,823 Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Blow the House Down by Robert Baer. You might recognize the author's name, he was a former CIA agent in the middle east and did interviews with 60 minutes (et al) after 9/11. He had the reputation as a bit of a "cowboy" in the agency thus his warnings regarding bin Laden and Al Qaeda went unheeded pre-9/11.CIA type mystery/thriller. Kind of slow or tough to keep some characters straight in parts but all in all not a terrible book. Link to post Share on other sites
Ron_Mexico 4,219 Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Ha, I'm half way threw that as well. (on audio) Pretty good. I figured the strip club bouncer was modeled after you.Who, Lonnie? The one that digs April/Spring? I'm only on page 110. It's 525 pages or something and it's a 14 day checkout from the Library. I gotta get in high gear. I've never done an audio book. For me, it defeats the purpose. I likes to reads. Link to post Share on other sites
runthemover 39 Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 last week: David Sedaris - Holidays on Icejust started: Chuck Klosterman - Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs Link to post Share on other sites
Piddle Duck 0 Posted February 10, 2009 Share Posted February 10, 2009 last week: David Sedaris - Holidays on Icegreat book, read Me Talk Pretty One Day, awesome. Well all of his books are and if you ever get a chance to see him read live, do it, awesome and freaking hilarious. Link to post Share on other sites
Southern Buddhist 1 Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 Dude, we had the cutest kitten I've ever seen come in to get spayed today. She was an incredibly sweet (lots of kneading and purrs) blue burmese that looked exactly like this:Cute, but not quite as cute as MY kitten, Peanut. She was born on our back porch to a stray and her mother abandoned her. We've had her since her eyes opened. Link to post Share on other sites
Southern Buddhist 1 Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 Actually, I've been reading, too, lots.Five different biographies of Amelia Earhart and the search for her plane, out of a stack of nine that I'm reading consecutivelyThe Hemings of Monticello, Annette Gordon-Reed; very good, a little repetitive, but she's fought so long to prove her case I can see whya 700-page history of the Reformation by Diarmid McCullochEleanor of Aquitaine, Alison WeirThe Happiness Hypothesis, Jonathan Haidt; good examination of ten great philosophical ideas about happiness and how modern neuroscience is backing them up; like me, he collects quotes and uses a lot of good onesThe Divided Mind, David Sarno; of possible interest if you have a family member with chronic pain, as I do; about the Freudian unconsciousnessAt Home in the Muddy Water, Ezra Bayda; a Buddhist bookWhat Makes You Not a Buddhist, another Buddhist bookand a few others. Once I finish all nine Amelia Earhart books, I might do a run of several on Shakespeare, or four or five on Thomas Jefferson. I tend to do that. A friend of mine who reads fiction has been raving about Cormac McCarthy lately, but I almost never read fiction. I might, however, make an exception for a link he sent me:http://www.chroniclebooks.com/index/main,b...ce-and-Zombies/ Pride and Predudice and Zombies Link to post Share on other sites
SuitedAces21 2,723 Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 oh my fucking god thats precious. Link to post Share on other sites
Southern Buddhist 1 Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 oh my fucking god thats precious.She's eight years old now, but still jumps and darts around and bats at things like a kitten. Link to post Share on other sites
LadyGrey 6 Posted February 11, 2009 Author Share Posted February 11, 2009 She's eight years old now, but still jumps and darts around and bats at things like a kitten.More pics please. Link to post Share on other sites
donk4life 34 Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 I was in the autism room yesterday and I suprisingly found the english-translated version of "Everyone Poops". The Illustrations are quite comical and graphic. The Illustrator shows fecal matter in all shapes and sizes, even poop falling out of a child's butt and into the toilet!I have no clue why autistic children would want to learn about this, but hey I enjoyed it. Link to post Share on other sites
LadyGrey 6 Posted February 11, 2009 Author Share Posted February 11, 2009 I was in the autism room yesterday and I suprisingly found the english-translated version of "Everyone Poops". The Illustrations are quite comical and graphic. The Illustrator shows fecal matter in all shapes and sizes, even poop falling out of a child's butt and into the toilet!I have no clue why autistic children would want to learn about this, but hey I enjoyed it.I once read a book where the kid tried to lay an egg but all that came out was a "sausage". I wish I could remember what book that was. Link to post Share on other sites
Randy Reed 0 Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 Who, Lonnie? The one that digs April/Spring? I'm only on page 110. It's 525 pages or something and it's a 14 day checkout from the Library. I gotta get in high gear. I've never done an audio book. For me, it defeats the purpose. I likes to reads.I'm almost done, will finish on the way home tonight. You'll end up wanting to kill the muslim or the writer for being repeptive but it's getting good towards the end. And I'll leave the Lonnie thing alone, for now. Actually, I've been reading, too, lots.Five different biographies of Amelia Earhart and the search for her plane, out of a stack of nine that I'm reading consecutivelyThe Hemings of Monticello, Annette Gordon-Reed; very good, a little repetitive, but she's fought so long to prove her case I can see whya 700-page history of the Reformation by Diarmid McCullochEleanor of Aquitaine, Alison WeirThe Happiness Hypothesis, Jonathan Haidt; good examination of ten great philosophical ideas about happiness and how modern neuroscience is backing them up; like me, he collects quotes and uses a lot of good onesThe Divided Mind, David Sarno; of possible interest if you have a family member with chronic pain, as I do; about the Freudian unconsciousnessAt Home in the Muddy Water, Ezra Bayda; a Buddhist bookWhat Makes You Not a Buddhist, another Buddhist bookand a few others. Once I finish all nine Amelia Earhart books, I might do a run of several on Shakespeare, or four or five on Thomas Jefferson. I tend to do that. A friend of mine who reads fiction has been raving about Cormac McCarthy lately, but I almost never read fiction. I might, however, make an exception for a link he sent me:http://www.chroniclebooks.com/index/main,b...ce-and-Zombies/ Pride and Predudice and ZombiesHow much new stuff on Amelia can they come up with? Geez, I like bios too, but that's just mind numbing. You need to go back to work, lol. Link to post Share on other sites
pokerinc 0 Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 Finished Neil Gaimans/Terry Prachett's Good Omens. Really enjoyed it. Funny. Now I think I will read Amercian Gods by Neil Gaiman since I seem to really enjoy his writing.Good Omens is probably THE worst Gaiman so if you've just discovered him be stoked. American Gods is good, the sequel Ananzi Boys is better, imo. Stardust is an awesome fairytale and Neverwhere will be an absolutely great read if you dug the angels in Good Omens (which were all Gaiman) Link to post Share on other sites
pokerinc 0 Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 oh and if we're talking kittens, my girl Izzy > all Link to post Share on other sites
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