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1/1/2008 9:55:00 AM

Recently finished:



Which is really funny as hell, with a good story behind it. Has some similarities to Office Space. Highly recommended.

Currently reading:

1/2/2008 12:50:34 AM

Received this for Christmas and finished it on Friday. Probably the best wrestling book I've read so far.

1/2/2008 12:26:48 PM

Has anyone read World War Z by Max Brooks?? Any thoughts on it?

1/2/2008 1:04:57 PM

^i have. I thought it was awful. He tried WAY too hard to be funny, and it just didn't come together well. He's not near as gifted as his father, that's for sure.

so yea, I wouldn't waste my money on it. Borrow it if you must.

1/2/2008 1:36:38 PM

The Speed of Dark

by: Elizabeth Moon

great near Sci-Fi book about a guy with Autism

a lot of the story is told through him

1/2/2008 2:21:31 PM

Atlas Shrugged.

Angelina Jolie is reportedly playing Dagny in the movie.

1/2/2008 5:19:52 PM

Finished God Knows tonight.

Amazing. I think it's the best Heller novel I've read (and there are only a couple left that I haven't).

1/3/2008 12:25:27 AM

So have any of you read Paddy Clarke Ha ha ha? I'm getting it in a couple of days. Any suggestions for some good British novels (humourous ones preferably). I've enjoyed Kingsley Amis and David Lodge in the past.

1/8/2008 10:01:02 PM

I am simultaneously reading A Salty Piece of Land by Jimmy Buffett and A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking.

I have a short attention span so I have to change it up every few days

1/8/2008 10:14:18 PM

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"Finished God Knows tonight. Amazing. I think it's the best Heller novel I've read (and there are only a couple left that I haven't). "

my favorite Heller piece, too. then again, I've only read that and Catch 22.

1/8/2008 10:38:07 PM

Confederacy of Dunces

its good as poop

1/8/2008 10:40:02 PM

^i've been wanting to read that for a while. but I've got about 8 on deck before that right now.

1/8/2008 10:41:27 PM

^^ I love that book so much. And I was so surprised after I read it to find out how few people have even heard of it.

1/8/2008 10:42:18 PM

i think the author died a good while back (could be wrong)...kennedy o'toole, or something like that, right? it was published posthumously.

[Edited on January 8, 2008 at 10:45 PM. Reason : asdflakhsdklfah]

1/8/2008 10:44:42 PM

1/8/2008 10:45:15 PM

Yeah, he killed himself. Then his mom sent the manuscript to a publisher who assumed it was a POS like most other things people sent in, but once he read it he realized it was genius.

1/8/2008 10:48:55 PM

Grow Up America


It's been too long since I took psychology

1/8/2008 11:40:47 PM

This was recommended long, long ago when I took History of Technology, and I grabbed in kinda on impulse in December when I saw it at B&N. Only into the first chapter, but looks like it's going to be a good read.

1/9/2008 12:09:53 AM

Graham Greene's Brighton Rock

1/9/2008 12:17:54 AM

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"Yeah, he killed himself. Then his mom sent the manuscript to a publisher who assumed it was a POS like most other things people sent in, but once he read it he realized it was genius."

Yep.

The book was actually rejected when Toole originally tried to submit it.

1/9/2008 1:09:08 AM

puritan dilemma sucks

1/9/2008 1:20:45 AM

1/9/2008 1:55:51 AM

Cashflow Quadrant

1/9/2008 1:57:27 AM

hope whoever said they're reading this side of paradise enjoys it. it's one of my favorites.

i'm currently reading hornby's a long way down...and loving it. especially the quote about damn design kids listening to hip hop because they think "they're fucking gangstas."

1/10/2008 11:28:56 PM

Very shortly I should be jumping on:


and rereading Lolita yet again

[Edited on January 10, 2008 at 11:38 PM. Reason : .]

1/10/2008 11:34:08 PM

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

1/10/2008 11:35:37 PM

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"hope whoever said they're reading this side of paradise enjoys it. it's one of my favorites. "

Done now; definitely did enjoy it. It has inspired me to try to find my copy of The Great Gatsby and re-read it, since that was one of my favorite books that I read back in High School...

1/10/2008 11:55:44 PM

^^ and ^^^ Lolita and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay are two of my top 10 books ever. EVAR.

DH Lawrence is a sexual deviant.

1/11/2008 12:00:43 AM

1. I know Lolita is fabulous, this will be my fourth or fifth time reading it.
2. No, he wasn't.

[Edited on January 11, 2008 at 12:06 AM. Reason : (he's been dead for 77 years, btw)]

1/11/2008 12:05:27 AM

i'm about halfway through lolita right now

this is some of the best prose ever written

1/11/2008 12:09:26 AM

oh goddamnit i know he's dead

geeeeeez.

and totally a sexually deviant.

1/11/2008 12:10:19 AM

Prove it.

Unless you're just defining "deviance" as something you're not personally into. He doesn't deserve the reputation he gets, that much is certain.

[Edited on January 11, 2008 at 12:13 AM. Reason : It's not like he was the Marquis de Sade or something, geez.]

1/11/2008 12:12:01 AM

how many books do you read in a year still furshia? rough estimate

1/11/2008 12:15:25 AM

of course, i'm exaggerating. i think he was a fantastic writer.

and, i'm speaking according to his time, too, relative to other writers.

aaaaaannnndd, i'm of course taking certain liberties in stretching the undercurrents of some of his pieces.

the escape cock?
aaron's rod?
the rocking-horse winner?
lady chatterly's lover?

not hating at all, just killing time with trivial speculation.

1/11/2008 12:15:26 AM

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"It's not like he was the Marquis de Sade or something, geez."

hell, if de Sade were alive today, most people on the internet probably wouldn't even blink

1/11/2008 12:17:02 AM

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"people on the internet"

this makes me chuckle for some reason

1/11/2008 12:18:01 AM

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"i'm speaking according to his time"

You should've mentioned that before. I was laboring under the idea that we were currently present in the 21st century.

But honestly, he's not even close to as dirty/scandalous as the Marquis de Sade, who predates him. There's a weird restrained Victorian feeling to most of Lawrence's works, to boot. Writing a book with sex in it doesn't automatically make you a sexual deviant either, of course.

[Edited on January 11, 2008 at 12:21 AM. Reason : .]

1/11/2008 12:20:39 AM

I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to fuckin' amuse you?

1/11/2008 12:21:26 AM

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"There's a weird restrained Victorian feeling to most of Lawrence's works, to boot"

i see it. and I'd venture to say that "restrained" and "Victorian" is a little redundant

and i certainly don't mean to imply that writing about sex makes one a sexual deviant. i'll be redundant and say that i'm speaking according to his time (which, i know, wasn't the dawn of writing on a sexual base).

1/11/2008 12:26:40 AM

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"The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay [is one] of my top 10 books ever. EVAR."

Finished it today and I'm inclined to agree.

1/11/2008 10:19:48 PM

about 1/3 of the way through, so far it's been a great read.

1/12/2008 9:12:31 AM

Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follet

my bf got it for me for Christmas. it's a wonderful book. I'm about 2/3rd thru of the 900+ pages right now. wonderful characters.

1/12/2008 10:02:23 AM

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"just finished overall i found it amusing but parts of it kind of made me realize that klosterman is kind of a poseur, so i probably wont pick up another of his novels"

i was so disappointed with that book that i couldn't finish it

1/12/2008 10:06:38 AM

^^ I read that for a study abroad class way back when. Very entertaining read.

[Edited on January 12, 2008 at 11:52 AM. Reason : asdf]

1/12/2008 11:51:50 AM

^^ that's how I was with Chuck Klosterman IV. It just got old fast.

1/12/2008 4:11:07 PM

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" about 1/3 of the way through, so far it's been a great read."

god you are a fucking tool

1/12/2008 5:47:13 PM

ah, nice to see you still follow me around, humping my leg.

1/12/2008 7:23:01 PM

[Edited on January 12, 2008 at 7:28 PM. Reason : shite ]

1/12/2008 7:26:15 PM

I'm just barely starting The Ladies' Paradise, by Emile Zola.


I want to buy/read White Teeth.

1/12/2008 10:23:08 PM