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Old 06-04-2008, 12:57 PM   #91
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I just started Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!) again. I like it a lot, it's perfect for a little reading in bed.

 
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Old 06-04-2008, 05:04 PM   #92
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Joyce Carol Oates - We Were the Mulvaneys
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Old 06-04-2008, 05:07 PM   #93
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - B (Mary Roach)
I thought this was pretty interesting. The last couple of chapters dragged but I would still highly recommend it. Not as morbid or gross as one would assume from the title and the author does a good job of making a joke to lighten things up but still not for the overly sqeamish.

 
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Old 06-04-2008, 06:11 PM   #94
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what a piece of shit book. ugh. i'm so disappointed. i can't pinpoint exactly what makes me hate this while i liked all of his other stuff. all of the stupid stuff with none of the good stuff. i might re-read Choke to make myself feel better.
have you finished reading the book and still feel this way? I was thinking of reading it but maybe not

 
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Old 06-04-2008, 06:13 PM   #95
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now reading: Vonnegut - God bless you, Dr. Kevorkian

should take about an hour

 
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Old 06-04-2008, 06:16 PM   #96
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anyone else not really like vonnegut

 
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Old 06-04-2008, 06:18 PM   #97
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Old 06-05-2008, 03:32 AM   #98
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anyone else not really like vonnegut
no. you suck.

I read Player Piano last week. It was ok...not his best.

 
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Old 06-15-2008, 11:49 AM   #99
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Kurt Vonnegut - Timequake - A

first book I read by him. i can't tell if it was a great one to pick as the first one. but whatever. it was enjoyable. won't be the last.

 
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Old 06-15-2008, 12:05 PM   #100
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Stephen King's The Running Man. A-

They showed the movie last night. What the fuck? It's terrible (and not only because of Schwarzenegger).

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Old 06-15-2008, 12:58 PM   #101
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Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell - B+
I liked it. Really interesting.

 
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Old 06-16-2008, 10:46 AM   #102
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Just finished All Quiet On the Western Front and I absolutely loved it. What an awesome book.

Next up is The Old Man and the Sea.

 
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Old 06-16-2008, 10:58 AM   #103
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Glad you liked it!

 
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Old 06-16-2008, 11:02 AM   #104
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i just really loved the poetic way the guy wrote it all out. i put the movie on my netflix queue.

 
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Old 06-16-2008, 12:42 PM   #105
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Breakfast of Champions: C+ The only Vonnegut I read before this was Slaughterhouse Five which changed my life but this was pretty sub-par compared to that. Cool style and tone, but the "plot" totally fell apart at the end.

Mysteries of Pittsburgh: D- What a load of bullshit. 300 pages of people talking like they were in a Kevin Smith movie. Only cool part was that I live in Pittsburgh and knew all the settings.

The Idiot: A- I still have about 70 pages or so but I can tell it's going to end well. This dude would be the best if he didn't have so many long passages that are completely irrelevant to the main plot.

 
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Old 06-16-2008, 03:10 PM   #106
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Finished Old Man and the Sea. A much better novella than Of Mice and Men, although two completely different books.

I dunno what's next, though. Have to wait to get home and see what's on my shelf. I love covering on the morning shift! Less movies, more books.

 
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Old 06-17-2008, 04:09 PM   #107
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Today I am starting The Stranger by Albert Camus

 
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Old 06-18-2008, 09:07 AM   #108
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Finished The Stranger. What a briliant book. Oh man.

So, to rank the books I've read up to the middle of the year:

01. The Stranger by Albert Camus
02. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
03. All Quiet On the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
04. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
05. Animal Farm by George Orwell
06. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway
07. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Next Up: Lord of the Flies by William Golding!

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Old 06-25-2008, 11:56 AM   #109
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Finished Lord of the Flies, now onto Brave New World by Aldous Huxley!

01. The Stranger by Albert Camus
02. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
03. All Quiet On the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
04. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
05. Animal Farm by George Orwell
06. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
07. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway
08. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

 
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Old 06-25-2008, 11:58 AM   #110
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Stephen King's Carrie.
Not as good as I remembered it to be, but still kinda nice to read.

 
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Old 06-25-2008, 01:01 PM   #111
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Brave New World sucks.

The Great Gatsby: A+, I read this in high school and was floored by it, but when trying to recap the plot for somebody I realized I couldn't remember it at all, so I read it again. It's even better than I thought. Really just a perfect work of art.

 
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Old 06-25-2008, 01:38 PM   #112
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The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood - B+
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon - B+

I need to read books within a shorter timespan.

 
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Old 06-25-2008, 01:41 PM   #113
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The Great Gatsby: A+, I read this in high school and was floored by it, but when trying to recap the plot for somebody I realized I couldn't remember it at all, so I read it again. It's even better than I thought. Really just a perfect work of art.

 
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Old 06-25-2008, 01:50 PM   #114
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The Stranger's pretty great too. When we read that in high school everyone said Mersault reminded them of me. =/

 
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Old 06-25-2008, 02:29 PM   #115
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i tried to recap the great gatsby for someone a few days ago and i tried, but made it end up sounding boring.

i liked the writing style so much, i immediately went out to half price books and got two of his other novels.

 
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Just finished How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions by Francis Wheen

B+ Excellent

 
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Old 06-25-2008, 03:26 PM   #117
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The Stranger is awesome. and I loved Brave New World. suck it, bitches.

 
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Old 06-27-2008, 06:03 PM   #118
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finished Brave New World and I ended up enjoying it for the most part.

01. The Stranger by Albert Camus
02. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
03. All Quiet On the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
04. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
05. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
06. Animal Farm by George Orwell
07. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
08. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway
09. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Next up is 1984! No, I haven't read it yet. Yes, I know it's high school.

 
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Old 06-27-2008, 06:05 PM   #119
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Brave new world is pretty good, 1984 is awesome!

 
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Old 06-27-2008, 06:07 PM   #120
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Brave new world is pretty good, 1984 is awesome!
i'm looking forward to it!

 
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