!@#$% Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 nice. she dead. sad book. i'm tearing through this. almost finished it on vacay learned a lot. pretty cool that world's fair was the first use of spray paint. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Man Banned Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 Looking for something new... suggestions? Nonfiction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~KRYLON2~ Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 the adventures of huckleberry finn, I found it on the train yesterday and started reading it to kill time instead of killing my phone battery playing ganes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scv Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Just started Ishmael, it's fucking wonderful and the only reason I'm not reading it right now is because the Internet is like an opiate in the sense I don't want it but just can't fucking help mahself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 nice. she dead. sad book. i'm tearing through this. almost finished it on vacay learned a lot. pretty cool that world's fair was the first use of spray paint. [ATTACH=full]183439[/ATTACH] Related: http://variety.com/2015/film/news/leonardo-dicaprio-martin-scorsese-reunite-for-devil-in-the-white-city-1201567113/ I haven't read a book in like 8 months. Lots of homework and magazine articles. Might try to squeeze something in during the rest of winter break. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 ^word. i saw the news on that awhile back and it sounds coolio Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 I liked Choke even though it was a bit of a grind just finished- the Martian way of the superior man currently- art of war (1st time read) next- the book of five rings catcher in the rye Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schnitzel Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Marlon%20James-A%20Brief%20History%20of%20Seven%20 not sure what the hype is about I can't get past 7 pages into the fucker.... basically unreadable so far Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 finished the Tragedy of Liberation now onto part ii of the trilogy: Mao's Great Famine good history books, but can be a bit of a slog. definitely learning a lot. and Great Famine was the perfect book to have while I was trying to fly home in the blizzard.. really puts problems into perspective when you're reading about people killing their babies, selling their children, and eating tree bark just to survive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sylvieshaquana Posted February 12, 2016 Share Posted February 12, 2016 Just finished reading "Me Without You" by Kelly Rimmeron kindle. I'm looking into mystery novels next. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALIgula Posted February 28, 2016 Share Posted February 28, 2016 speaking of mystery novels, has anyone read and then there were none by agatha christie?...its got good reviews on goodreads and amazon...all i know is that the orignial title was racist and when i read the synopsis it reminded me of the movie house on haunted hill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 i haven't read any agatha christie. gillian flynn isn't bad. i tore through those books like a lawnmower though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swordfish meatloaf Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 fascinating - you will not put this down until it is finished. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALIgula Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 Even though I knew what the story was about, I had never actually read Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl. I picked it up in the thrift store a few years back and it was collecting dust. The history channel and american heroes channel were showing a couple documentaries about the life of anne frank, so i dvr'd them and then started to read the book first...just finished the book yesterday, and i watched one of the documentaries late last night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 how was it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALIgula Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 Honestly, for me I was more interested in the parts where she was discussing the historical aspects of the war (Churchill, D Day, the assassination attempt, etc) and how Jews were perceived and treated in the occupied countries. I was also interested in her views about nature (how being outdoors can cure ailments) and wanting to be something other than in a traditional female role of the times. It was also interesting what they ate to survive and how they were helped by Miep, Bep, and Kleiman and Kugler. But what I didn't really care for was the constant bashing of the others in the secret annex. It seems like she spent too much time either bitching about her mom, or Dussel, or Mrs. Van Dans. Also, talking about her love of Peter got repetitive. I understand it's the diary of a girl going from age 13 to 15, but certain passages were redundant and Otto Frank could have left them out, IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 word. thanks for that. makes me think i'd get irritated reading it. i may have mentioned this in here already, but if you're into the circumstances in germany around the time of hitler's rise, i really enjoyed Erik Larson's In the Garden of Beasts. It kinda ends as things are heating up, but i learned so much and it was, for me, a very engrossing read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALIgula Posted March 19, 2016 Share Posted March 19, 2016 I still need to get around to reading the devil in the white city....i see people recommending that book everywhere. So, In the Garden of Beasts is about pre-WW2?...sounds like a good read..every time anything WW2 or Nazi germany comes on tv, I always end up watching it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 yeah, it's about the American ambassador to Germany just before the war broke out. some politics - he wasn't well liked as an appointee - some family drama - he brought his wife and adult children to europe with him, and lots of history i got a really interesting perspective on how hitler sort of slunk to power while people were living in a fog i guess.. for lack of a better word. and you also get some very interesting information about incidents that began to occur that in hindsight, are obvious clues to what was coming. because the history i know has been so focused on the conflicts and aftermath, i've gotten very little about what comes first and for that reason, i loved it. immediately after that book, i read Dead Wake, also by Erik Larson about the last crossing of the lusitania again, picked up all this knowledge about stuff i had no clue about because once again, the book is focusing on thing that happened prior to US involvement in the war. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 also, i loved this book. blew my effin mind Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
breakfast menu Posted March 27, 2016 Share Posted March 27, 2016 interesting. better with 2016 as context. a lot that i didn't know about rice and rumsfeld and cheney and powell and their respective roles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schnitzel Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 220px-TheThreeStigmataOfPalmerEldritch%281stEd%29. not reading another book until I finish this. I have had it for 9 years now and because I'm moving house I want to get rid of some books but read them first. should I bother? does anybody know? only 16 pages in atm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALIgula Posted April 8, 2016 Share Posted April 8, 2016 havent even heard of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted April 11, 2016 Share Posted April 11, 2016 i'm not sure about phillip k dick as an author, but i can't critique, i've never read his stuff cuz i start it and don't really like it enough to continue - do androids dream of electric sheep bring one example. he might be a little too out-there for me it happens though. i've been trying to read/finish infinite jest for several decades. i read about 200 pages and then put it down for like 10 years. i downloaded a ton of books yesterday i've got my spring/summer reading cut out for me. some highlights.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Man Banned Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 Finished this recently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Man Banned Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 This right now. So far, so fresh. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALIgula Posted May 22, 2016 Share Posted May 22, 2016 ^nice....i remember watching the movie with my parents when i was a kid...but dont remember too much about the actual story...i think i remember a scene where dustin hoffman is eating bugs...am i wrong? either way i should add that to my list of books to read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Man Banned Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Never saw the movie. Was an excellent read though, not sure why I never heard of it before or why I had to search through so much related content to finally come across it. He never mentions eating bugs in the story but it is mentioned in an extra at the end of this edition. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Man Banned Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 Moved on to this now, pretty good read so far. More than biography, the author also makes a good case for Houdini working as a spy, not a far stretch since the CIA employed magicians to teach sleight of hand techniques to its agents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iloveboxcars Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 Unabridged. Sometimes I feel like I should have gone with the abridged version. There's just so much information in this shit. Finishing it by EOD Saturday Next is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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