!@#$% Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Just finished No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller by Harry Markopolos. It was okay. Looking for more books about the financial crisis if anyone has any recommendations. i love the Frontlines on this stuff, if you haven't seen them http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/madoff/ especially liked http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warning/ i haven't read it yet but Too Big To Fail was well reviewed. as is The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crime stoppers Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Who's got a tip for a George Orwell book? Hunter S. Thompson too, got large amounts of time to spare in this town of 10,000 people. Also Jeffrey Deaver, there's a very good reason he's writing the new Bond flick. The Lifter was dope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blankxpression. Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 ^ Down & Out in Paris and London. Rum Diaries. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fat ralphy Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 yes i watched the first season before reading the book, hope to have the second one finished before the next season starts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 ^ Down & Out in Paris and London. absolutely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatGatsby Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 I liked Burmese Days by Orwell. Went back to mom's house and reclaimed some classics that were collecting dust. I was going to go out and buy some new ones, but it's much cheaper to reread summer reading from high school and get to enjoy it. Beloved- Toni Morrison The Stranger- Albert Camus One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest- Ken Kessey Recently reread The Great Gatsby and The Old Man and the Sea....Oddly enough I didn't like Gatsby as much as I remembered. I've read that they are making it a 3-d movie with Leonardo Dicaprio as Gatsby and that guy from Sea Biscuit as Nick, I hope they don;t blow it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 what could 3d possibly add? christ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatGatsby Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/movies/baz-luhrmann-puts-the-great-gatsby-into-3-d.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=the%20great%20gatsby&st=cse I don't know, supposedly it's going to be the first 3-d movie that's not going to have cheesy visual gags it's just going to be a good movie that happens to be shot in 3-d. We'll see I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightmareOnElmStreet Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 having a SERIOUS hard time finishing H.D.T.'s "Walden" and i really don't wanna add to my need-to-finish stack with the first book of the new year. tricks..tips..from my fellow readers. fuck. lol. shit was pretty good at the very beginning but i've lost nearly all interest. Edit* there is nothing BUT cheesy when it comes to 3d. what in the fuck is wrong with hollywood, today? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 ^everything they can't create new shit, so they remake it and apparently they think 3D is good. :nope: as for finishing books you can't, i've got nothing. i tried to finish Infinite Jest twice, and i really like that book. also was not able to read much of Catch22. some shit just isn't that fun to read. move on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrChupacabra Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Thoreau is boring as fuck imo. I do not blame you for not wanting to finish Walden. But what do I know? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightmareOnElmStreet Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 fuckin a....think i'm just gonna keep skimming...then it's on to the next. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatGatsby Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 I couldn't finish Lolita if you put a gun to my head. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schnitzel Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/movies/baz-luhrmann-puts-the-great-gatsby-into-3-d.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=the%20great%20gatsby&st=cse I don't know, supposedly it's going to be the first 3-d movie that's not going to have cheesy visual gags it's just going to be a good movie that happens to be shot in 3-d. We'll see I guess. they filmed part of this down from my house I kept meaning to go down there and get some snaps of the new york style house and garden set up in my local park. when i finally got my ass down there was just a bunch of guys putting 10 foot high tree stumps on the back of the truck.......... fail. still Leo did have a good time going through the single women of sydney by all accounts so somebody won..... I also couldn't finish Lolita Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightmareOnElmStreet Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 All the kings men? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PITOFZOMBIES Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 been a busy new year, not much time to read... still working on this... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suca Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 Still havent read that one. shame on me so i just started teaching middle school and after much persuasion from my students i went out and bought this. 5pm, told myself id read one chapter. that came and went. told myself i'd read 100 pages. done and gone. next thing i know its 11pm and i havent moved the book is dome and the only time i got out of bed was to eat a trader joes ice cream sandwich (if you know, you know.) i will start and finish the other two ASAP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RELAPSER Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 copped these yesterday, rereading lord of the flies and havent hit the rest yet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Realism Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 All the kings men?[/color] Not my favorite, but a good one to have under your belt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weapon X Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 Awesome. Books are cool, though - little girl books, that is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OhWorDude Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Collection of short stories from an Israeli writer. This dude can say more in 6 pages than many authors can in 600. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 I couldn't finish Lolita if you put a gun to my head. i read the first few paragraphs and gave it back to the chick who lent it to me Hunger Games is probably the best youth novel series to come out in ages there were some plot holes and the end is messy but i enjoyed it i expect them to tame it for the big screen which will suck ass and ruin the meaning i did finish reading them all in about 2 days.. after russian lit they are like magazines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecarwreck Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 it's been a minute... some stuff from the last few months: Barry Lopez memoir-ish stuff. Read "Apologia" if nothing else. better than your average attempt at corralling "zen" see above, then reverse it smart smart. the first half (i'm being generous) is tolerable. shit is TERRIBLE after that... he's better at walking than writing. buddy's book... definitely not my style but he's got it locked currently. lots of "fuck. yes!" moments in there. and re: Thoreau. I just (literally yesterday morning) taught some chunks of Journals and Walden, and all of "Huckleberries" to my English students... they weren't having it either. Thoreau requires very slow reading and the acceptance that you will be bored by a fair amount of what he says. But there are these gems in there, buried in all the rambling and self-indulgent (yeah, it is) crap. The Thoreau perspective, that philosophy if you want to call it that, reverberates through pretty much every bit of "nature" writing and environmental lit to this day. The stuff he has to say on history alone is valuable... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EXECUTIVE_FINGERBLAST Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 do you guys try to read a series at a time or something relavent to your last book, slow transition to other genres? or just whatever sounds good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SystemFailure Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 For me, I usually just read, ya know? But to not be a complete prick, I usually have to wait out a couple days before I start a new book. Mentally I have to let the thoughts sink in which hopefully, were buzzing around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatGatsby Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 I think this is my 3rd attempt at this one. I will finish it this time. I remember watching part of it when I was younger, I can't shake the image of the guy from "Little Miss Sunshine" as Yossarian in my head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 i spent 2010 reading fiction 'classics' only one i didn't finish was catch22 haha ..did read stuff like crime and punishment, anna karenina, war and peace, 1984, some hemingway, marquez, mccarthy after that i went back to reading at random, hunger games and millenium trilogies, Murakami, WW2 book .. just put a bunch of stuff on the kindle including Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnifeHits RS Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Not done it yet, but this is awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Realism Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Devil in the White City was cool This was too, just finished it last night Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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