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| mat_j | Posted: Mon Aug 25 07:53:08 2008 | Post | Quote in Reply |
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Anybody reading any good books lately?
I'm reading 'Innocent When you Dream' the Tom Waits collected Interviews. and Iain M. Banks's 'Excession' both are treating me well! T x |
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| addi | Posted: Mon Aug 25 18:30:46 2008 | Post | Quote in Reply |
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mat_j said:
>Anybody reading any good books lately? no reading books makes the gums bleed I do however read each issue of The New Yorker every night. |
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| CriminalSaint | Posted: Mon Aug 25 20:38:42 2008 | Post | Quote in Reply |
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type: the secret history of letters: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1850433976/
Meggs' History of Graphic Design: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471699020/ Learning jQuery: http://www.packtpub.com/jQuery/book/mid/100407j4kh3d yep, all business these days. |
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| Kira | Posted: Mon Aug 25 21:43:51 2008 | Post | Quote in Reply |
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Haha I am theoretically still reading Gormenghast by I haven't touched that book since my favorite character died. I'm in mourning.
Also reading a couple of Jorge Luis Borges' stories a week. |
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| choke | Posted: Tue Aug 26 03:11:11 2008 | Post | Quote in Reply |
| Reading a few of Barry Crumps books, he's a NZ author. Writes about farming, hunting, that sort of thing. Haha. In an amusing fashion.
Um. What else. Been getting sick of reading bad books, so have turned more to true stories (concentrating on mafia and prison - I have a weird obsession) and classics, just finished War and Peace and have started Grapes of Wrath. Mmm. That is all. |
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| choke | Posted: Tue Aug 26 03:12:04 2008 | Post | Quote in Reply |
| Oh yes, and I enjoy Tom Waits greatly. Let me know if the book is worth hunting, our libraries aren't really that well stocked. |
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| mat_j | Posted: Tue Aug 26 06:08:52 2008 | Post | Quote in Reply |
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Oh it's very good, you don't learna great deal of truth about tom but it certainly carries his legend.
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| jennemmer | Posted: Tue Aug 26 10:10:22 2008 | Post | Quote in Reply |
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I just finished reading "Wicked" and was really unimpressed. Maybe I was expecting too much as a couple of my friends had really built it up... but I just never got into it.
Choke : Of Steinbeck's stuff I remember liking "East of Eden" more than "Grapes of Wrath" but it might be because I read the first on my own time and the second as a novel study at school. |
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| Christophe | Posted: Tue Aug 26 10:51:51 2008 | Post | Quote in Reply |
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I'm a Waits fan, but every interview I've seen him in he acts like a total asshole.
Not as bad as bob dylan though. |
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| addi | Posted: Tue Aug 26 13:31:19 2008 | Post | Quote in Reply |
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jennemmer said:
>I just finished reading "Wicked" The new hubbie allows you to read?! You wicked wicked little monkey. Goodness gracious...canadian men are playing with fire. The next thing I suppose you'll tell us is that he let's you walk right next to him at the mall, or likes you on "top". What is this world coming to? |
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| jennemmer | Posted: Thu Aug 28 09:57:37 2008 | Post | Quote in Reply |
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addi said:
>The new hubbie allows you to read?! I need something to do while he does the cooking and the cleaning ;) |
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| addi | Posted: Thu Aug 28 11:46:45 2008 | Post | Quote in Reply |
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jennemmer said:
>I need something to do while he does the cooking and the cleaning ;) lol Trained him well already I see. It took my wife over a decade to get me in line...and I'm still a work in progress |
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| misszero | Posted: Fri Aug 29 05:15:49 2008 | Post | Quote in Reply |
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well, you see, men are like floor tiles. lay em right the first time, and you can walk all over them for the rest of your life. |
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| ifihadahif | Posted: Fri Aug 29 08:02:18 2008 | Post | Quote in Reply |
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misszero said:
>well, you see, men are like floor tiles. lay em right the first time, and you can walk all over them for the rest of your life. > so true . . . |
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| mat_j | Posted: Tue Sep 2 06:06:06 2008 | Post | Quote in Reply |
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But beware,
If there's a plumbing leak they may lift. |
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| PackMan | Posted: Wed Sep 10 21:17:19 2008 | Post | Quote in Reply |
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I have become addicted to Dave Eggers recently...anything he has edited or written. Favorites are:
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Author) How We Are Hungry (Author) The Best American Non-required reading (editor) |
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| PackMan | Posted: Wed Sep 10 21:18:06 2008 | Post | Quote in Reply |
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Oh, and of course Foundation Design...not |
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| libra | Posted: Thu Sep 11 12:16:42 2008 | Post | Quote in Reply |
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PackMan said:
>I have become addicted to Dave Eggers recently...anything he has edited or written. Favorites are: ooo, Dave is my favorite. I'm very jealous because my cousin knows him. I would love to hang out with him. And throw frisbees. |
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| Christophe | Posted: Thu Sep 11 13:23:35 2008 | Post | Quote in Reply |
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Why is nobody reading any Hayek.
Damn hippies. |
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| Zacq | Posted: Thu Sep 11 15:37:00 2008 | Post | Quote in Reply |
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Kira said:
>Also reading a couple of Jorge Luis Borges' stories a week. The Lottery of Babylon, any chance? I'm somewhere in the middles of Doctor Zhivago and The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat. |
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| addi | Posted: Thu Sep 11 16:57:42 2008 | Post | Quote in Reply |
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Great Penguin's Ghost! It's zacq.
Nice to see you around partner. |
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| Kira | Posted: Thu Sep 11 17:31:42 2008 | Post | Quote in Reply |
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Zacq said:
>Kira said: > >>Also reading a couple of Jorge Luis Borges' stories a week. > >The Lottery of Babylon, any chance? > LOL! Yes. |
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