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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: on May 24, 2004, 02:20:00 pm
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It amazes me, sometimes, the reading levels bboarders possess. So... What literate tome are you currently reading?
What U B readin', then, eh?
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Has anyone else read it?
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I realize this one won't qualify me as literate
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fraid mine's not much better than rhett's. . .but it's got lots of words in it.
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Originally posted by Dupek Chopra:
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Has anyone else read it?
i read it a couple years ago...its an interesting story, but drags along after a while
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Originally posted by MaLo:
i read it a couple years ago...its an interesting story, but drags along after a while
Alaska tends to be a bit of a kook-magnet. How about that guy who forgot to make plans to fly out of the bush? That's kind of an important detail to omit, don't you think?
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Just finished reading The Da Vinci Code....talk about a completely over-hyped very average book!!!!!
Just started another one...don't remember it's name but it's about the most devastating hurricane to hit Texas around the turn of the century....(last century)
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Originally posted by Bollocks:
Just finished reading The Da Vinci Code....talk about a completely over-hyped very average book!!!!!
Just started another one...don't remember it's name but it's about the most devastating hurricane to hit Texas around the turn of the century....(last century)
I saw that one...is it any good?
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very slowly:
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Originally posted by Bollocks:
Just started another one...don't remember it's name but it's about the most devastating hurricane to hit Texas around the turn of the century....(last century)
isaac's storm or something like that, right? i enjoyed that one alot. the author's most recent one is also supposed to be very good, the devil in the white city. . it's about the 1893 world's fair in chicago.
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A pretty great book. I enjoyed it more than Into Thin Air, but only because of the mystery element in Krakuer's pieceing together of the kids death. Pretty heavy stuff.
I currently am bookless. Unless you count the copy of Lucky magazine currently residing in my girlfriend's bathroom.
Originally posted by Dupek Chopra:
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Has anyone else read it?
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yes, isaac's storm - its a great read and yes his new one also looks interesting - I just finished this little piece of fluff - twas ok - newer editions have two cookies on the cover because the goldfish people threatened to sue
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Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
Originally posted by Bollocks:
Just started another one...don't remember it's name but it's about the most devastating hurricane to hit Texas around the turn of the century....(last century)
isaac's storm or something like that, right? i enjoyed that one alot. the author's most recent one is also supposed to be very good, the devil in the white city. . it's about the 1893 world's fair in chicago. [/b]
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Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
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isaac's storm or something like that, right? i enjoyed that one alot. the author's most recent one is also supposed to be very good, the devil in the white city. . it's about the 1893 world's fair in chicago. [/QB]
That's it......only just started so just a few pages in at the moment.
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Can't say I ever stop reading Baseball Prospectus at all during the season, but I am reading this as well:
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Only "OK"?
I really enjoyed Bad Haircut and The Wishbones. But then again, I'm a Northern Jersey boy like Perrotta.
Originally posted by brennser:
I just finished this little piece of fluff - twas ok - newer editions have two cookies on the cover because the goldfish people threatened to sue
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Recently finished the DaVinci Code. I thought it was very enjoyable, even with the cliffhanger-at-the-end-of-every-chapter structure.
Now I'm reading:
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Excellent book.
I haven't read Baseball Prospectus before this year, but they seem to be dead wrong on a number of predictions about how teams will do, as well as individual player performances. Have you found this to be true? Is this year an anomoly so far?
Originally posted by vansmack:
Can't say I ever stop reading Baseball Prospectus at all during the season, but I am reading this as well:
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what do you think? I really liked it
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Now I'm reading:
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Originally posted by brennser:
what do you think? I really liked it
I'm only 40 pages in, but so far so good. His writing style is interesting.
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Originally posted by Dupek Chopra:
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Has anyone else read it?
Yes, about 3 months back. Took about a plane flight to read. Damn that kid went for the rough life, shocked he lasted as long as he did with some of the risks he took.
Finished recently:
"Shit Magnet" and "Redneck Manifesto" by Jim Goad. The first is a book about his history of abuse leading to him going to prison for beating up his girlfriend. Second is a brilliant history of rednecks and how they are the last group (maybe fat people will come into it now) that can be made fun of.
"Lexicon Devil" the biography of Darby Crash. ANother, damn he lasted that long book.
Reading "Please Kill Me", another great book about the punk years.
"Analog VLSI: Signal and Information Processing" sometimes you need a bit of light reading...
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Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
I haven't read Baseball Prospectus before this year, but they seem to be dead wrong on a number of predictions about how teams will do, as well as individual player performances. Have you found this to be true? Is this year an anomoly so far?
I don't read their team projections with a careful eye, usually. I do pay attention to the smaller projections for offensive categories(should score more runs, should steal more bases, etc.). It's so hard to make predictions in January in print, and not be able to change them when people get injured and players get traded. If they are particularly bad right now, I wonder if those results will hold true at the end of the season? Maybe I'll check past issues. I know they completely missed the 2002 Angels, but who didn't?
What I really like about BP is their methodology for having more than the usual categories for stats. The stats are basically useless to everybody but sabermatricians and die-hard Fantasy/Roto players, but their methodology has always been of keen interest to me. I can't explain it really, but I've always been interested in the intricacies of baseball: lefties vs. righties, how it is impossible to measure the value of players relative to one another because of the differences in opposition and ballparks, years played, etc.
As far as use, I mainly use BP for Fantasy Baseball and their translated stats about day/night, LHP/RHP, ballpark analysis and monthly performance for day to day rosters. But I read BP for its methodology.
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The story of Radio Venceremos during El Salvador's civil war.
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Originally posted by Sir HC:
"Lexicon Devil" the biography of Darby Crash. ANother, damn he lasted that long book.
I thought the brief mentions of the Go-Go's were pretty interesting. I always forget that they were actually part of the whole LA scene.
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the author's travels with a very conflicted former Rhodesian soldier...amazing so far.
Re: Into The Wild - as far as crazy Alaskans go, check out T.C. Boyle's novel Drop City. It's about a disintegrating hippie commune in Cali in the late 60's that get into a school bus and drive to AK. Wild.
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I guess I qualify....
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Originally posted by brennser:
what do you think? I really liked it
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Now I'm reading:
:) Everyone should pick up a copy.
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slow at the beginning, but it's so worth it
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Just finished Steinbeck - East of Eden, about to start All Quiet on the Western Front because I have to read it for class.
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Originally posted by Skeeter:
Originally posted by Sir HC:
"Lexicon Devil" the biography of Darby Crash. ANother, damn he lasted that long book.
I thought the brief mentions of the Go-Go's were pretty interesting. I always forget that they were actually part of the whole LA scene. [/b]
Jane Weidlen (Jane Drano?) sounds pretty wild. Joan Jett too was a bit of a powder keg.
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Ok, here are some of their team predictions, and the current records:
Underestimation of the team:
Team BP Prediction Record
Cincinati 62-100 26-18
San Diego 65-97 24-20
Anaheim 80-82 29-16
Detroit 47-115 21-22
Overestimation of the team:
Arizona 84-78 17-27
Atlanta 96-66 21-22
Montreal 80-82 14-30
San Fran 93-69 19-24
Seattle 98-64 15-28
Originally posted by vansmack:
Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
I haven't read Baseball Prospectus before this year, but they seem to be dead wrong on a number of predictions about how teams will do, as well as individual player performances. Have you found this to be true? Is this year an anomoly so far?
I don't read their team projections with a careful eye, usually. I do pay attention to the smaller projections for offensive categories(should score more runs, should steal more bases, etc.). It's so hard to make predictions in January in print, and not be able to change them when people get injured and players get traded. If they are particularly bad right now, I wonder if those results will hold true at the end of the season? Maybe I'll check past issues. I know they completely missed the 2002 Angels, but who didn't?
What I really like about BP is their methodology for having more than the usual categories for stats. The stats are basically useless to everybody but sabermatricians and die-hard Fantasy/Roto players, but their methodology has always been of keen interest to me. I can't explain it really, but I've always been interested in the intricacies of baseball: lefties vs. righties, how it is impossible to measure the value of players relative to one another because of the differences in opposition and ballparks, years played, etc.
As far as use, I mainly use BP for Fantasy Baseball and their translated stats about day/night, LHP/RHP, ballpark analysis and monthly performance for day to day rosters. But I read BP for its methodology. [/b]
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for you red sox fans, today in 1984, the red sox aquired bill buckner from the cubs for dennis eckersley and a minor leaguer.
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Originally posted by Barcelona:
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The story of Radio Venceremos during El Salvador's civil war.
And now many of those selfsame death squad members lead happy productive lives working behind the counters at our local Long John Silvers's & KFC's.
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I just started it. Fascinating cold war spook stuff.
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I finished Pi a while ago. I thought it was great -- best book I've read in recent memory.
In keeping with the Booker Prize theme, I just finished Possession by AS Byatt. Good - but not great.
Now I'm deciding which of these two to start next. Anybody have an opinion?
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Originally posted by brennser:
what do you think? I really liked it
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Now I'm reading:
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these have been good reads - ggw - tough choice between roddy doyle and coetzee - being irish I'm obviously partial to Doyle although I recall some people being irritated by his 'life through the eyes of a child' writing style, but coetzee is great - disgrace was a good book
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i just read this
its mildly amusing
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by Paulette Jiles
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Just finishing this novel:
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Getting ready to read this Linebacker-raid tome:
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I started this last night:
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Somebody wrote this on amaz.com
"There's often been discussions about the "beauty of the dark", and here in Tom Pic's novel A Choir of Ill Children you'll find gorgeous wonders abounding. The lush southern atmosphere will have you dripping sweat as you make your way through the haunted swamps and backwoods of this book. There are hex women, a down on his luck private eye, ghosts, killers, and plenty of haunted and doomed characters. Despite how horrific this might sound, the story is actually quite darkly humorous, which adds a whole new level of eerieness to the plot. Highly recommended."
Sounds just like my taste in music.
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Sartoris
by William Faulkner
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I guess I missed this in May ggw - yeah, only ok -I thought the premise for the book was great but the characters seemed a little thinly drawn and I found the whole pedophile subplot a bit over the top
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Only "OK"?
I really enjoyed Bad Haircut and The Wishbones. But then again, I'm a Northern Jersey boy like Perrotta.
Originally posted by brennser:
I just finished this little piece of fluff - twas ok - newer editions have two cookies on the cover because the goldfish people threatened to sue
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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
In keeping with the Booker Prize theme, I just finished Possession by AS Byatt. Good - but not great.
I *love* Possession...
I'm about to start this, though I hear it's incredibly dense and technical:
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Just finished this, which was 'lighter' than I thought it would be...truly a 'summer' read:
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for what it's worth, the best native american novel I've read.
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Saint Morrissey (http://www.marksimpson.com/pages/saint_morrissey.html)
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Not a biography as much as a humorous analysis of why Morrissey is the way he is.
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Finishing up:
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Prior to that, read a collection of her short stories.
She's excellent.
Also highly recommend this graphic novel:
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Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
Not a biography as much as a humorous analysis of why Morrissey is the way he is.
Is it a good read, or overly british rag/music magazine profile-y (does that make sense?)
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Originally posted by Bagalicious Tangster:
Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
Not a biography as much as a humorous analysis of why Morrissey is the way he is.
Is it a good read, or overly british rag/music magazine profile-y (does that make sense?) [/b]
I think it's pretty good. It's definitely very British, but not in a tell-all-tabloid kinda way.