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ed... · « **Reply #450 on:** April 26, 2010, 03:15:00 AM »

just finished this

whiteley · « **Reply #451 on:** April 26, 2010, 12:15:52 PM »

working on this one, it's heaaaaavy. anybody read?

Mr. DNA · « **Reply #452 on:** April 26, 2010, 12:24:34 PM »

I'm reading this one. Hombwaye was a real loner

Blue Fescue · « **Reply #453 on:** April 26, 2010, 04:28:19 PM »

A very good book.

also anything by Raymond Chandler. such as:

Bipsmound · « **Reply #454 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.

Blue Fescue · « **Reply #455 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.

everypennyfedcar · « **Reply #456 on:** April 26, 2010, 08:48:06 PM »

Doctor Handsome · « **Reply #457 on:** April 28, 2010, 03:30:50 PM »

Just picked these up, don't know how they'll turn out.

everypennyfedcar · « **Reply #458 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:

Binomial Nomenclature · « **Reply #459 on:** April 29, 2010, 09:33:27 PM »

Quote from: rfox 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.

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.

burm · « **Reply #460 on:** April 30, 2010, 03:44:26 AM »

Quote from: everypennyfedcar 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:

I always feel a little hint of sadness amidst the joy when I pick up a new Palahniuk book, because I know I'm going to go through it so fast and then I still want more but there is none. Like I should try and pace myself.

Inbred Jed · « **Reply #461 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.

sven thorkel · « **Reply #462 on:** April 30, 2010, 11:14:36 AM »

jack burton · « **Reply #463 on:** April 30, 2010, 01:19:38 PM »

Quote from: Doctor Handsome on April 28, 2010, 03:30:50 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.

Lizardking · « **Reply #464 on:** April 30, 2010, 02:07:31 PM »

never actually read it though, ha!

VictoriousOG · « **Reply #465 on:** April 30, 2010, 09:28:54 PM »

Decided to pick it up again.

DEDBBIS · « **Reply #466 on:** April 30, 2010, 11:58:51 PM »

Blue Fescue · « **Reply #467 on:** May 01, 2010, 01:47:26 AM »

Quote from: Binomial Nomenclature on April 29, 2010, 09:33:27 PM

Quote from: rfox on April 26, 2010, 08:16:11 PM
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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

Binomial Nomenclature · « **Reply #468 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.

brycickle · « **Reply #469 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.

Acrid Avid Jam Shred · « **Reply #470 on:** May 01, 2010, 10:09:17 PM »

sven thorkel · « **Reply #471 on:** May 08, 2010, 12:24:03 PM »

has anyone read Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace? a friend of mine who's opinion i value recommended it to me but it looks really long (1000+ pages) so i want to know if i should put the time into it

jack burton · « **Reply #472 on:** May 09, 2010, 05:49:10 PM »

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I just ordered a book called "A Long Slow Screw" by Eugene Robinson of the band Oxbow. apparently it is some noir style/Mickey Spillane ultraviolent type book. I am hoping something similar to Sin City and the movie China Town.
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Well, someone just got a gun jammed up their asshole and the trigger pulled. These dudes don't mess around.

yeah..... gonna have to read this book.

VictoriousOG · « **Reply #473 on:** May 10, 2010, 08:01:42 AM »

What are some good Vietnam time war books?

everypennyfedcar · « **Reply #474 on:** May 10, 2010, 08:14:18 AM »

The Things They Carried was alright, by Tim O'Brien. It's a collection of short stories about Vietnam and the effects it had on the human psyche.

VictoriousOG · « **Reply #475 on:** May 10, 2010, 04:12:26 PM »

I want to see Brothers, I'm a fan of Portman and Gyllenhaal.

I'll try to peak out that Tim O'Brien book.

alonelikeastone · « **Reply #476 on:** May 10, 2010, 06:25:21 PM »

Mr nice by Howard marks.

About importing drungs. Google him. Has a site. Amazing book. And I don't smoke.

kilgore. · « **Reply #477 on:** May 16, 2010, 10:45:16 AM »

just started reading Lords of Chaos this morning.

oyolar · « **Reply #478 on:** May 16, 2010, 11:23:13 AM »

"Lords of Chaos" is really interesting, but I guess a few of the guys they interviewed complained that the authors misquoted them.

mandibleclaw · « **Reply #479 on:** May 16, 2010, 02:48:52 PM »

Quote from: rfox on May 01, 2010, 01:47:26 AM

Quote from: Binomial Nomenclature on April 29, 2010, 09:33:27 PM
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Quote from: rfox on April 26, 2010, 08:16:11 PM
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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.
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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

second that. i am charlotte simmons was horrible. it read like an old man's imitation of young people, which is exactly was it was.

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