NightmareOnElmStreet Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 whats up with the last two books? hows that bell jar? and i've heard of that last one, but oprahs book club...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 some of my favorite books have made her club. i hate when the sticker is printed on the cover though... heh. book shelf vanity. it doesn't make them bad or girlie in any way. shit, cormac mccarthy's 'the road' made the club. 100 years of solitude is an incredible book, period, would recommend to everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iloveboxcars Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 i have never read the bell jar because an ex girlfriend of mine talked about it a bunch in highschool and that girl was annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grd Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 100 years of solitude is an incredible book, period, would recommend to everyone. THAT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Camus Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 I literally just started the bell jar so I Don't know yet. I picked it up because I liked the idea of the narrators descent into insanity. last book I read was It was described to me as japan's catcher in the rye, and that's a pretty accurate description Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackhills Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 about to start this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightmareOnElmStreet Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 some of my favorite books have made her club. i hate when the sticker is printed on the cover though... heh. book shelf vanity. it doesn't make them bad or girlie in any way. shit, cormac mccarthy's 'the road' made the club. 100 years of solitude is an incredible book, period, would recommend to everyone. will add to check list. thnx br0. and mr. camus, murakami is that dude.. still no feedback on H.D.T.? you guys ever read any of that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALIgula Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 some of my favorite books have made her club. i hate when the sticker is printed on the cover though... heh. co-signed 110% here are all the books that have made her book club (some great books in there): http://www.oprah.com/book-list/Oprahs-Book-Club-The-Complete-List Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Realism Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 I don't disregard books that have made Oprah's club...now if Ellen Degeneres had one, which she very well might, I would purge my home and neighborhood of every copy of every book on it. So if there is one, it's probably better that I'm ignorant to its existence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeretoninFlood Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Schnitzel Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow A.J. Mackinnon Truly hilarious books are rare. Even rarer are those based on real events. Join AJ Mackinnon, your charming and eccentric guide, on an amazing voyage in a boat called Jack de Crow. Equipped with his cheerful optimism and a pith helmet, this Australian Odysseus in a dinghy travels from the borders of North Wales to the Black Sea - 4,900 kilometres over salt and fresh water, under sail, at the oars, or at the end of a tow-rope - through twelve countries, 282 locks and numerous trials and adventures, including an encounter with Balkan pirates. Along the way he experiences the kindness of strangers, gets very lost, and perfects the art of slow travel. this book is good but he prattles on about poetry a bit so there was little bit of skimming when he quotes keats etc and on the strength of that book I also read The Well at the World’s End A.J. Mackinnon When A.J. Mackinnon quits his job in Australia, he knows only that he longs to travel to the Well at the World’s End, a mysterious pool on a remote Scottish island whose waters, legend has it, hold the secret to eternal youth. Determined not to fly (‘It would feel like cheating’), he sets out with a rucksack, some fireworks and a map of the world and trusts chance to take care of the rest. By land and by sea, by train, truck, horse and yacht, he makes his way across the globe – and through a series of hilarious adventures. He survives a bus crash in Australia, marries a princess in Laos, is attacked by Komodo dragons and does time in a Chinese jail. The next lift – or the next near-miss – is always just a happy accident away. This is the astonishing true story of a remarkable voyage, an old-fashioned quest by a modern-day adventurer. this one I thought was also pretty good - he does some amazing stuff like swim across the border into china and then get deported as well as blagging his way around the world on frieghters etc. Both of these are pretty good but possibly not to everyone's taste. really into travel books as anybody who has read my contributions to the thread will know. Currently my aunt keeps buying me more travel books for christmas so the next one up is: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TugboatTimmy Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Just finished the first two, about to start the guns, germs... one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanfullofretards Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 How was Chomsky's book? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 what was it noam chomsky said about eating pussy?--zach galifianakis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TugboatTimmy Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 How was Chomsky's book? It was good but dense, he goes into details of the Spanish civil war that i wasn't aware of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suca Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 read this. it was good but somewhat uneventful. wasnt really a book i 'just couldnt put down' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CILONE/SK Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 100 years of solitude and norwegian wood were books i really enjoyed awesome to get a sense of the japanese culture at that time as well. just finished really liked the non-linear story the way you find out how things eventually end up the commentary on how time affects things .. what time does to people now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morton Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Just finished No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller by Harry Markopolos. It was okay. Looking for more books about the financial crisis if anyone has any recommendations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drue_Down Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 When I can find time to read, it is only books like this. I have a huge stack to read... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% 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 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. 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 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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