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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: on February 11, 2005, 01:25:00 am
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This is a good read, but not as good as his first, PADDLE TO THE AMAZON.
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I guess no one else reads?
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I do...though I try to avoid non-fiction if I can.
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Originally posted by j_lee:
I do...though I try to avoid non-fiction if I can.
So...what are ye currently reading??? (Hint hint)
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alright so far, nothing spectacular
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I just started this:
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sorry - I was outside watching the contrails over my house.
I bought this a few months ago, but just got around to it:
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It's basically an account of the making of that Rise Above CD and the tour that followed. Kind of like Get In The Van , but 20 years later.
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Noticia de un Secuestro - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Finally, a book we can all use:
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This book is a lot more academic than it appears. Contributions include "White Trash Alchemies of the Abject Sublime: Country as 'Bad' Music", "The Flight from Banality", "A Moment Like This: American Idol and Narratives of Meritocracy", "Extreme Noise Terror: Punk Rock and the Aesthetics of Badness", and (potentially the richest) "Much Too Loud and Not Loud Enough: Issues Involving the Reception of Staged Rock Musicals."
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Let's see...lately I've read:
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reading is a wonderful relaxant to life's middle problems in that road called reality. but be careful on forks of folks, before the public enemy terror squad comes calling this way, since they smell no hints of the musical genre in these posts.
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Recently finished (and would recommend) this:
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Have been avoiding reading this, but picked it up last weekend because I'm sick of hearing people talk about it and I want to see what all the hoo-haa is about:
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Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
sorry - I was outside watching the contrails over my house.
I bought this a few months ago, but just got around to it:
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It's basically an account of the making of that Rise Above CD and the tour that followed. Kind of like Get In The Van , but 20 years later.
His diary-type books are all great. "Get in the Van" is one of my favorite books ever. "Smile, You're Travelling" and "Do I Come Here Often?" are also excellent. He's just an interesting person, for whatever reason. However, I can't stand his poetry stuff. Christ, its horrible, actually.
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
By Laurence Bergreen
Awesome book. I'm a history teacher. Naturally Im reading history. For whatever reason, I can't stand fiction.
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good stuff
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Teamates...by David Halberstam
Excellent book!
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about to start this one:
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finishing, and am getting irritated by the guy:
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just finished, pretty interesting:
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just started, promises to be intense:
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Originally posted by Celeste:
finishing, and am getting irritated by the guy:
just started, promises to be intense:
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I almost bought that.
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I'm about to start Bringing Down the House (story of the M.I.T. balckjack gang)
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I think a lot of people bought "Shake Hands" after Madeleine Albright reviewed it in the Posts book section last weekend. I had to ask Kramers to order it for me.
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its an entertaining read
Originally posted by easement:
I'm about to start Bringing Down the House (story of the M.I.T. balckjack gang)
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Laugh out loud at times. Slow at others.
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Originally posted by brennser:
its an entertaining read
Originally posted by easement:
I'm about to start Bringing Down the House (story of the M.I.T. balckjack gang)
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agreed, I read it on my way to vegas last time I went
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i'm only a couple of chapters in, but this is a fascinating book ... any suggestions for similar genre-bending history?
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and now finishing
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been busy lately so not much time for reading - I've read these three books, all by the same author, this year, the first two are biographical, the third (and weakest) is fictional
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The last book I read:
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It sucked. Lots of errors and too much bias.
I'm currently reading this:
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It's the account of a Spad pilot in Vietnam.. It's rather good as there hadn't yet been any SPAD books tht I was aware of, but I did detect a mistake.
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Both great books.
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I read Lexicon Devil a while back. A great read, but I've heard mixed things about it's accuracy.
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Right now I am reading a book called The Peasant's Revolt of 1381, which is a collection of primary documents about said revolt. It's pretty interesting in some places, incredibly dull in others, but useful research.
Henry Rollins can be very, very funny, but very, very aggravating. I love his diaries but the minute he starts solipsising, I want to strangle him. There's only so many times you can hear the same thing over and over and over and over again ... we GET it, Henry, you hate yourself and everyone else -- can you at least think of a different way to say it?
I'm also reading this:
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I've been on a Bret Easton Ellis binge for a few months now. I'm halfway through Glamorama, and have already finished American Pyscho, Less than Zero, and Rules of Attraction.
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Originally posted by dyssocial:
Henry Rollins can be very, very funny, but very, very aggravating. I love his diaries but the minute he starts solipsising, I want to strangle him.
i feel the same way about his TV show
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Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
Originally posted by dyssocial:
Henry Rollins can be very, very funny, but very, very aggravating. I love his diaries but the minute he starts solipsising, I want to strangle him.
i feel the same way about his TV show [/b]
He has a TV show? Man, now I'm glad I don't watch TV often. I'll stick with Black Flag and the diaries, I think.
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Originally posted by dyssocial:
He has a TV show?
Henry's Film Corner (http://www.ifctv.com/henry/)
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I am feeling annoyance and disgust. Alas.
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I just bought this:
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It looked rather interesting...
"Is it the pristine but harsh frontier where noble scientific missions are accomplished? Or an insane corporate bureaucracy where hundreds of workers are cooped together in hi-tech communes with all the soul of a suburban office park? "
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Im in the middle of this...new Chuck Palahniuk
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(and reading this thread, I have to buy the dallaire book on rwanda.....that should be interesting)
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I stopped reading once I learned how :D
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I stopped reading once I learned how :D
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I stopped reading once I learned how :D
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I like to repeat myself also :p
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Originally posted by tommy y:
I like to repeat myself also :p
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This book really takes one into the mind of the Khmer Rouge. How they got set on the path to genocide...
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i'm reading the great gadsby in english...i haven't started yet...i probably won't start for a while...i'm reading a star wars book...because i am a nerd...
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I have not read this (yet) but this guy gave a presentation at work yesterday on this book - fascinating, thought provoking stuff...
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Seventies laugh-out-loud parody of sword & sorcery titles like Lord of the Rings.