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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: brennser on January 05, 2004, 04:01:00 pm
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Has this been done before? If so, I'll plead newbie ignorance.
I just finished
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scary shit
and have started
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historical fiction isn't my thing but I've liked his previous stuff so I though I'd give it a shot
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The Less Volatile U.S. Economy: A Bayesian Investigation of Timing, Breadth, and Potential Explanations.
It's a real cliffhanger...
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
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I shit thee not:
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"Any Old Way You Choose It: Rock and Other Pop Music, 1967-1973" - Robert Christgau
It's a collection of his essays/reviews from that time period. It's interesting to read what he wrote about certain artists and albums, without the benefit of 30+ years of hindsight to reflect on their work.
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Is that what you're pursuing? I'm considering going down that path myself.
Originally posted by beetsnotbeats:
I shit thee not:
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I just ordered online (used) and am looking forward to reading "The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov, a great Russian novel and supposedly "The Greatest Story Ever Told" according to my favorite punk rock band, The Lawrence Arms.
wow. you can read the whole thing online here http://lib.ru/BULGAKOW/master97_engl.txt (http://lib.ru/BULGAKOW/master97_engl.txt)
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"An Unseemly Man" The Larry Flynt biography
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I'm desperate for good advice on what to do.... I haven't started reading it yet, but am about to.
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so...nobody reads fiction eh?
I just finished American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
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"Analog VLSI: Signal and Information Processing" Ismail and Fiez
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"An Unseemly Man" The Larry Flynt biography
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Last week:
John Kennedy Toole: Confederacy of Dunces
This week:
Carson McCullers: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
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Originally posted by allmy$to930:
Last week:
John Kennedy Toole: Confederacy of Dunces
I just got his other book, The Neon Bible, for Christmas, have you read it? If so, is it as good as Confederacy?
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Couldn't get through that one.
Originally posted by allmy$to930:
Last week:
John Kennedy Toole: Confederacy of Dunces
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Originally posted by pollard:
Originally posted by allmy$to930:
Last week:
John Kennedy Toole: Confederacy of Dunces
I just got his other book, The Neon Bible, for Christmas, have you read it? If so, is it as good as Confederacy? [/b]
I haven't read it...I think he wrote it when he was 15 years old. It is supposed to be pretty generic and nothing like Confederacy.
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ultimate guide to newspaper publishing.
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ohhhh Confederacy of Dunces is such a fine book.
I just finished The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (excellent) and have just begun Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan
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Originally posted by thirsty moore:
Is that what you're pursuing? I'm considering going down that path myself.
Originally posted by beetsnotbeats:
I shit thee not:
[imagine the image of a book]
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I work part-time in such a library. I'm considering writing a senior thesis about how music libraries are equiped or not equiped (mostly the latter) for the study of experimental music outside of the classical tradition (e.g. stuff covered in The Wire (http://www.thewire.co.uk/)).
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stargate - reconnaissance
LOTR - return of the king (3rd time....)
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I am half way through Please Kill Me! Which works so much better than I thought it would.
I have also been trying to read James Frazers, The Golden Bough. It is a bit more brilliant than I.
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Originally posted by mark e smith:
I am half way through Please Kill Me! Which works so much better than I thought it would.
Good choice. I love that book.
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I'm reading this Forum...DUH! :)
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Originally posted by Samantha:
I'm reading this Forum...DUH! :)
It's relatively new - copyright 2001. It's out in trade paperback now - you can pick one up cheap on ebay for him if interested. It's not a graphic novel though like the Sandman series.
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Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
Couldn't get through that one.
Originally posted by allmy$to930:
Last week:
John Kennedy Toole: Confederacy of Dunces
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Really? You should give it another try sometime. I would have thought this nearly a perfect book for you.
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And because you never know when the dead shall rise, The Zombie Survival Guide
http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/zombiesurvivalguide/ (http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/zombiesurvivalguide/)
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Just finished "Broken Summers" by Henry Rollins...great read. I highly recommend that one.
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Originally posted by bunnyman:
Just finished "Broken Summers" by Henry Rollins...great read. I highly recommend that one.
Rollins' books get on my nerves after a while. They all seem to boil down to everyone-sucks-but-me-nobody-understands-i-hate-everyone-and-everything-
in-this-world-and-i-want-to-kill-everybody-and-i-need-more-coffee.
"Get in the Van" was interesting though.
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just starting this puppy tonight.
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Originally posted by Sir HC:
And because you never know when the dead shall rise, The Zombie Survival Guide
http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/zombiesurvivalguide/ (http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/zombiesurvivalguide/)
I've seen that book - it looks pretty funny. Wasn't it written by the son of Mel Brooks?
All of those Dawn of Dead type movies really freaked me out as a kid. That's still my most frequent nightmare. Maybe this would help me conquer those demons, er, zombies.
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Straight Dope - Cecil Adams (as soon as I get it!)
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Originally posted by grotty:
Originally posted by Sir HC:
And because you never know when the dead shall rise, The Zombie Survival Guide
http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/zombiesurvivalguide/ (http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/zombiesurvivalguide/)
I've seen that book - it looks pretty funny. Wasn't it written by the son of Mel Brooks?
All of those Dawn of Dead type movies really freaked me out as a kid. That's still my most frequent nightmare. Maybe this would help me conquer those demons, er, zombies. [/b]
I am about 1/2 way through and am amazed how thorough the author (a Max Brooks no relation mentioned but no real background info on him is in the book either). For fun the book is great, I got the book because the author did a chat on the Washington Post site around Halloween and it was insanely funny. I can say I now look around thinking how my situation is if zombies started to walk...
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Originally posted by Sir HC:
For fun the book is great, I got the book because the author did a chat on the Washington Post site around Halloween and it was insanely funny. I can say I now look around thinking how my situation is if zombies started to walk...
I just ordered a used copy -
Thanks Dr Phil :D
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Happy New Year everybody. Just got back to the states last night. I've been reading this one over the holidays:
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Actually, the new Rollins book is a bit more mature...he's grown into himself. He still does a bit of the intense macho guy thing, but there are times when he seems to be more human than in previous books. Get in the Van was amazing, though. I loved that book.
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Originally posted by bunnyman:
Actually, the new Rollins book is a bit more mature...he's grown into himself. He still does a bit of the intense macho guy thing, but there are times when he seems to be more human than in previous books. Get in the Van was amazing, though. I loved that book.
Maybe I'll check it out then. Have you heard the CD that goes with "Get In The Van"? I haven't. I'm curious what's on it. Is it just him reading excerpts from the book? Is it worth tracking down?
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Originally posted by grotty:
Originally posted by Samantha:
I'm reading this Forum...DUH! :)
It's relatively new - copyright 2001. It's out in trade paperback now - you can pick one up cheap on ebay for him if interested. It's not a graphic novel though like the Sandman series. [/b]
Or you can subscribe to the Neil Gaiman Author's Preferred Limited Edition Series (http://www.hillhousepublishers.com/), which gets you thge "director's cut" of each book plus a never-before-published screenplay.
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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Originally posted by grotty:
Originally posted by Samantha:
I'm reading this Forum...DUH! :)
It's relatively new - copyright 2001. It's out in trade paperback now - you can pick one up cheap on ebay for him if interested. It's not a graphic novel though like the Sandman series. [/b]
Or you can subscribe to the Neil Gaiman Author's Preferred Limited Edition Series (http://www.hillhousepublishers.com/), which gets you thge "director's cut" of each book plus a never-before-published screenplay. [/b]
lol...I can't even afford the Sandman books...so I will stick to borrowing my ex's Gaiman novels...when I ever see him again :roll:
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I just finished Please Kill Me, and I agree with you. I wasn't sure how well an oral history would work, but it was pretty tough to put down.
Originally posted by mark e smith:
I am half way through Please Kill Me! Which works so much better than I thought it would.
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Originally posted by nkotbie:
I just finished Please Kill Me, and I agree with you. I wasn't sure how well an oral history would work, but it was pretty tough to put down.
I couldn't put it down. I read it straight through until about 8 am the next morning. It's amazing some of those people are still alive and able to function. And it's really weird to meet and talk with them now, knowing what they were up to back then.
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Originally posted by twangirl:
Originally posted by nkotbie:
I just finished Please Kill Me, and I agree with you. I wasn't sure how well an oral history would work, but it was pretty tough to put down.
I couldn't put it down. I read it straight through until about 8 am the next morning. It's amazing some of those people are still alive and able to function. And it's really weird to meet and talk with them now, knowing what they were up to back then. [/b]
I think it's the best rock and roll book ever. I've read it through three or four times, and it gets a lot of action in the bathroom.
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Thoreau's Walden and at the same time slaving through Ulysses... but the latter is on my long long term completion list.
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Originally posted by Dupek Chopra:
:D
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I'll have to pick this up. "Edie" is one of my favorite books, an oral history of socialite and Warhol groupie Edie Sedgwick by George Plimpton. Just amazing. And yeah, I was surprised at how well the format worked.
Originally posted by nkotbie:
I just finished Please Kill Me, and I agree with you. I wasn't sure how well an oral history would work, but it was pretty tough to put down.
Originally posted by mark e smith:
I am half way through Please Kill Me! Which works so much better than I thought it would.
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Originally posted by myuman:
Thoreau's Walden and at the same time slaving through Ulysses... but the latter is on my long long term completion list.
Ulysses is amazing. Do you know anyone else reading it? It's hugely helpful to talk about while getting through it.
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A hilarious story told solely through the interoffice email messages of an ad agency in London. The assorted cast of characters is immediately recognizable. I highly recommend it.
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Started this one last night:
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"The New York Dolls: Too Much Too Soon"
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Originally posted by mark e smith:
I have also been trying to read James Frazers, The Golden Bough. It is a bit more brilliant than I.
A fine book, if a bit dense. In college an English professor pointed out that this book, along with From Ritual to Romance, are on Kurtz's bookshelf in Apocalypse Now, so I made it a point to read both. Fascinating things therein.
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Go and Tell Pharaoh (http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=1&q=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385475837%3Fv%3Dglance&e=1102), by Al Sharpton
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Originally posted by myuman:
Thoreau's Walden and at the same time slaving through Ulysses... but the latter is on my long long term completion list.
Walden's the next book I'm about to start, except I think I might have lost it (grrr) I just read Cyrano de Bergerac this morning (started & finished).
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Originally posted by Dupek Chopra:
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I've heard interviews with this guy. Quite interesting.
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I gotta check this out.
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Originally posted by Dandy01:
Annie Leibovitz - American Music
I gotta check this out.
I saw it in the Virgin Music Store two days ago. It's unbelievable. It's also unbelieveably expensive (like $70).
Oh, and I'm currently reading:
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Yeah, I saw it on the Barnes and Noble site, it's one of their top 10 books on music, but the only one that really caught my attention. It's "on sale" for $52.
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Originally posted by vansmack:
I saw it in the Virgin Music Store two days ago. It's unbelievable. It's also unbelieveably expensive (like $70).
have you, or anyone here for that matter, actually seen GOAT: Greatest of All Time, the muhammed ali biography? i just want to look at it, as the first run of them are a bit out of my price range (amazon is selling it for $3,000)
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disturbing, but funny stuff
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I got it at Wal-Mart. It's not quite as good as TIMELINE was.
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Thanks to markie and lulu.
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If anyone is interested in the London punk scene during it's infancy, the book I just finished is good......it's also a "must read" for any Shane MacGowan/Pogues fans.
A drink with Shane MacGowan, by Victoria Mary Clark (his missus)
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Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
have you, or anyone here for that matter, actually seen GOAT: Greatest of All Time, the muhammed ali biography? i just want to look at it, as the first run of them are a bit out of my price range (amazon is selling it for $3,000)
I haven't seen it yet, but I heard it was HUGE, like 75 pounds and takes up a whole table. Each copy is autographed by Ali and the author. There's no way I missed it at Virgin if it was there, but somebody has to be displaying it somewhere, right?
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Been reading "The clash: return of the last gang in town" by Marcus Gray. It's an updated edition of the earlier (95 or 96) "The last gang in town: the story of the clash." It's very very detailed, & sometimes tedious. About a 100 pages to go.
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I'm reading the current issue. <img src="http://pages.prodigy.net/rogerlori1/emoticons/bj1.gif" alt=" - " />
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hey dandy
try amazon's used and new
$39.50 for the annie libovitz book is a pretty good deal
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"The Amiable Baltimoreans" by Beirne
It is a history of Baltimore City from 1952. Has some classic lines in it:
More recently the "Sea Urchin" has assumed the nature of guardian of the city's wishing well. It has become the custom to make wishes and then toss coins into the fountain. The wishes at least benefit the human Baltimore urchins who fish out the coins.
From ints entry into the city limits near Mt. Washington all the way to Mt. Royal Avenue, Jones falls is little better than an unsightly open swer. It has often been described as Baltimore's Cloaca Maxima.
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Originally posted by poorlulu:
hey dandy
try amazon's used and new
$39.50 for the annie libovitz book is a pretty good deal
ooh, thanks Lulu!
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Just started this book last night.
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Michael Jackson's Complete Guide to Single Malt Scotch (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/076240731X/qid=1077732224/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-5581319-7019021?v=glance&s=books)
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..and my wife just finished so I'm just starting..
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The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde