Book recommendations

[sweetcell]

Been reading 2-3 books at a time...I switch off when one has a lull

currently:
On The Road/Jack Kerouac
The Wisdom Of Crowds
Washington Confidential (crazy gossip paperback from 50's)

you have time to read?  shouldn't you be booking shows instead?

[walkonby]

Been reading 2-3 books at a time...I switch off when one has a lull

currently:
On The Road/Jack Kerouac
The Wisdom Of Crowds
Washington Confidential (crazy gossip paperback from 50's)

you have time to read?  shouldn't you be booking shows instead?

you have time to notice?  shouldn't you be bitching and complaining . . . oh wait.

[DeathFromAbove1979]

Been reading 2-3 books at a time...I switch off when one has a lull

currently:
On The Road/Jack Kerouac
The Wisdom Of Crowds
Washington Confidential (crazy gossip paperback from 50's)

you have time to read?  shouldn't you be booking shows instead?

you have time to notice?  shouldn't you be bitching and complaining . . . oh wait.

oooooooooohhh!!!

[Relaxer]

What? Sweetcell is like the most upbeat, positive person here, pot.

[yohansen5b]

I just finished Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts.

http://www.amazon.com/Shantaram-Novel-Gregory-David-Roberts/dp/0312330529

A great, great read.

Shantaram is indeed quite good.  It took me a while to get into the book, though.  The narrator (read: author) thinks a whole lot of himself and I didn't quite buy into the quality that everyone everywhere (even in the criminal underworld or the third world) was good at heart.  Other than that, an epic read.  Are they still making a movie of it?

Anyhow, I can also recc The Hunger Games series for a good, light read.

I just finished this over the holiday break.  It was enjoyable.  I was surprised at how quickly violent it became.  I need to borrow the other two books from my girlfriend.

I just finished Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections"  I just started Greg Milner's "Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music"

[killsaly]

Im reading the Dexter books now and give them praise.  For Burroughs, the Western Lands trilogy is pretty sweet and a good head trip.

[ggw]

A Visit From the Good Squad

http://www.amazon.com/Visit-Goon-Squad-Jennifer-Egan/dp/0307592839

I don't know about you, but I have been looking for pauses in songs ever since I finished the book.

And the Pulitzer people liked the book too:
http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/2011

[Mobius]

Patti Smith Just Kids . . .is fantastic

[K8teebug]

I am going to start Goon Squad soon. 

Currently reading book 4 of song of ice and fire and Undaunted Courage.

anyone here on goodreads?

Has anyone else read Everything Matters!  One of my favorite reads of last year.

[HoyaSaxa03]

A Visit From the Good Squad

http://www.amazon.com/Visit-Goon-Squad-Jennifer-Egan/dp/0307592839

I don't know about you, but I have been looking for pauses in songs ever since I finished the book.

And the Pulitzer people liked the book too:
http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/2011

did you guys read it on a kindle?  if so, was the reading experience as bad as the first reviewer describes?

[ggw]

did you guys read it on a kindle?  if so, was the reading experience as bad as the first reviewer describes?

The kindle is to reading as the CD player is to music.

[sweetcell]

The kindle is to reading as the CD player is to music.

a more faithful reproduction of the art, as the artist intended it to be experienced?  that's hardly the case for kindles.

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[ggw]

harDCore, straightedge, AIDS, teen pregnancy, overdoses, even name-checks the 9:30 Club two or three times.

[Papa_Wallace]

Does anybody have any suggestions on books about parenting difficult children?

Papa

[ggw]

Does anybody have any suggestions on books about parenting difficult children?

Papa