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Re: books to read
« Reply #450 on: April 21, 2010, 11:38:46 AM »


I read this a little bit after christmas and thought it was pretty good. Evasion was also one of my favorite books. Almost done Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #451 on: April 21, 2010, 11:57:46 AM »
anyopne have any websites where i can read a book onlione?
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Re: books to read
« Reply #452 on: April 21, 2010, 12:16:16 PM »


i finished ask the dust not too long ago, really good. i just read breakfast of champions about 2 days ago which is honestly amazing, i recommend that to pretty much anyone. been on the kurt vonnegut tip lately, next up i have player piano. reading this right now:


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Re: books to read
« Reply #453 on: April 21, 2010, 03:46:20 PM »
^^^ Just talked about "The Metamorphosis" in my Nabokov class today. I love Vonnegut, but a word of warning for "Player Piano"-it's not like most of his other works and it'll take a little longer to get through than his other stuff.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #454 on: April 21, 2010, 04:46:07 PM »
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I been wanting to read this for a pretty long time. Any thoughts so far?
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Haven't gotten to it yet. My brother was stoked on it though.

it is really really good.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #455 on: April 21, 2010, 07:17:40 PM »
Someone posted "Sometimes a Great Notion" by Ken Kesey. That's a good one.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #456 on: April 21, 2010, 08:48:16 PM »
This was alright. All the discussion about UAW's and PAW's got boring.


Read about half of this then stopped, terrible.


Just started this, should be good. I love Stephen King.


I'll start this one soon.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #457 on: April 21, 2010, 09:53:03 PM »


For school.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #458 on: April 23, 2010, 10:15:36 AM »
^^^ Just talked about "The Metamorphosis" in my Nabokov class today. I love Vonnegut, but a word of warning for "Player Piano"-it's not like most of his other works and it'll take a little longer to get through than his other stuff.

I zipped through Player Piano, I could have read it in a day if I had the time. Definitely my fav Vonnegut book. And I don't think any of his books are like one an other.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #459 on: April 26, 2010, 03:15:00 AM »


just finished this

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Re: books to read
« Reply #460 on: April 26, 2010, 12:15:52 PM »
working on this one, it's heaaaaavy. anybody read?

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Re: books to read
« Reply #461 on: April 26, 2010, 12:24:34 PM »
I'm reading this one. Hombwaye was a real loner


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Re: books to read
« Reply #462 on: April 26, 2010, 04:28:19 PM »
A very good book. 



also anything by Raymond Chandler.  such as:


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Re: books to read
« Reply #463 on: April 26, 2010, 05:21:33 PM »


It's kinda in journal form.  Once you get past the fact that he seems to have a weird aversion to the word "I" and uses "he" to refer to himself, it's pretty enjoyable stuff.

I never read any Tom Wolfe before but recently read The Painted Word and From Bauhaus to Our House.  They were pretty similar, but I liked em despite the slight smugness he gives off.  I'm thinking I might get The Right Stuff next.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #464 on: April 26, 2010, 08:16:11 PM »
tom Wolfe's fiction is awful.  I am Charlotte Simmons was one of the worst books I have ever read.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #465 on: April 26, 2010, 08:48:06 PM »
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Re: books to read
« Reply #466 on: April 28, 2010, 03:30:50 PM »
Just picked these up, don't know how they'll turn out.





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Re: books to read
« Reply #467 on: April 29, 2010, 09:29:31 PM »
Those seem like the kind of books I wouldn't read before bed.

Got this yesterday and can't put it down, so good:
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Re: books to read
« Reply #468 on: April 29, 2010, 09:33:27 PM »
tom Wolfe's fiction is awful.  I am Charlotte Simmons was one of the worst books I have ever read.
I disagree.
I Am Charlotte Simmons is a great book.
A Man In Full and The Bonfire Of The Vanities are also great works of fiction by Tom Wolfe.
The only non-fiction of his that I have read is The Right Stuff and it was not bad.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #469 on: April 30, 2010, 03:44:26 AM »
Those seem like the kind of books I wouldn't read before bed.

Got this yesterday and can't put it down, so good:


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Re: books to read
« Reply #470 on: April 30, 2010, 09:16:26 AM »
I've been on this one for a few weeks now. It's truly an  enrapturing can't-put-it-down thrill ride.



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Re: books to read
« Reply #471 on: April 30, 2010, 11:14:36 AM »
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Re: books to read
« Reply #472 on: April 30, 2010, 01:19:38 PM »
Just picked these up, don't know how they'll turn out.






I was looking at some of Clive Barkers books in barnes and noble the other day. Let me know how it is.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #473 on: April 30, 2010, 02:07:31 PM »


never actually read it though,  ha!

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« Reply #474 on: April 30, 2010, 09:28:54 PM »


Decided to pick it up again.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #475 on: April 30, 2010, 11:58:51 PM »

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Re: books to read
« Reply #476 on: May 01, 2010, 01:47:26 AM »
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tom Wolfe's fiction is awful.  I am Charlotte Simmons was one of the worst books I have ever read.
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I disagree.
I Am Charlotte Simmons is a great book.
A Man In Full and The Bonfire Of The Vanities are also great works of fiction by Tom Wolfe.
The only non-fiction of his that I have read is The Right Stuff and it was not bad.

I don't care how long an old man hangs out at chapel hill, his imitations of slang are always going to be embarrassing.  plus having grown up in a small mountain town in nc he has no idea how to write a character from that region.  plus the man himself is awful

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Re: books to read
« Reply #477 on: May 01, 2010, 08:18:28 AM »
His slang can be awkward at times, particularly when he puts hip hop songs in his books, but to me that is a minor detail holding back otherwise great novels.  Real page turners with a message you have to pick out, not preachy shit.  I nearly shed a tear in I Am Charlotte Simmons.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #478 on: May 01, 2010, 04:11:34 PM »
^^That's also the name of a tasty drink.  Of course, when it comes to the drink it's spelled sloe.

 You and the D00D have turned this thread into a horrible head-on-collision between a short bus full of regular kids and a van full of paraplegics.



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« Reply #479 on: May 01, 2010, 10:09:17 PM »