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Post by caz on May 25, 2010 11:06:23 GMT -5
I can't find the old thread so I thought I'd start a new one... I just read Things The Grandchilden Should Know, which is the autobiography of E from Eels. It was really good, I read the start yesterday and then read all the rest in one sitting today while I should have been revising. I found some of it quite emotional (but weirdly it was some of the less obvious stuff that really got to me). I definitely recommend it to Eels fans but also to anyone, especially music lovers. E has a really genuine attitude to music. And he's also really funny at times. Next I'm going to read Freefall: The Strange True Life Growing Up Adventures of Oran Cranfield. My friend lent it to me, and he says it's good. It's the autobiography of the son of the guy who wrote Chicken Soup For The Soul, who was apparently kind of messed up in his own life. I also just read volume one of Fables for the first time and I liked it a lot so I'm going to catch up with the rest of that. What are you reading?
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Post by meoskop on May 25, 2010 11:17:09 GMT -5
I want to read that E book! That is one of my favorite songs.
I'm reading Scoundrels in Law by Cait Murphy about the celebrity firm of Howe & Hummel from the days when you didn't have to go to law school to be a lawyer. Just finished The Other Wes Moore (by Wes Moore, natch) - which compares two young men - one from a place of slight privilege and one from a place of none. A Rhodes scholar and an inmate, from the tiniest differences in opportunity.
Also lost my ability to spell.
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Post by bloodystereos on May 25, 2010 11:25:22 GMT -5
I am reading Rule of the Bone. I saw it mentioned by several posters on another thread , thought I would give it a shot. Not really my kind of book but I am enjoying it.
Normally I like Steven King above all else. I also have gotten into some dark fantasy stuff , my girlfriend has tons of books. One of the books she gave me to read was Imajica by Clive Barker - if you are into fiction I would highly recommend Imajica....
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Post by laurenjean on May 25, 2010 12:39:47 GMT -5
I'm rereading "Love is a Mixtape" right now. Beyond all the music talk, the book is really beautiful and honest. I recently read the new Sookie Stackhouse book which was good, but I don't like how dark the series is getting. Hopefully I'll get to read Louise Erdrich's "Plague of Doves" before school starts next week. I also just read volume one of Fables for the first time and I liked it a lot so I'm going to catch up with the rest of that. I really love "Fables" but I wish the Fables would be nicer to each other.
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Post by chipsahoy240 on May 25, 2010 21:31:27 GMT -5
ive been reading alot of richard matheson lately. i love him. Button, Button, I Am Legend, What Dreams May Come, Hellhouse. what dreams may come actually brought tears. its my most favorite book. if anyone reads/has read it, let me know how you felt. i love discussing books.
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Post by Camie on May 25, 2010 21:36:56 GMT -5
With the Sookie books, I need to get my hands on the new one.. but I am one of very few Bill fans... so the recent books... meh.
Last book I finished was Will Grayson Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan. It was good, and I recommend it to any young adult fiction fan.
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Post by laurenjean on May 25, 2010 23:06:16 GMT -5
Camie, you're a Bill fan? Nooooo......
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2010 1:38:07 GMT -5
ive been reading alot of richard matheson lately. i love him. Button, Button, I Am Legend, What Dreams May Come, Hellhouse. what dreams may come actually brought tears. its my most favorite book. if anyone reads/has read it, let me know how you felt. i love discussing books. not a fan of What Dreams May Come but i love I Am Legend... haven't seen a film that gets it right, though the first 20 minutes of Wall-E is close and yeah i love Matheson finished The Master and the Margarita, a neat bit of horror/fantasy set in Russia. working my way through a random 60s anthology of Australian sci-fi, which should probably have a few gems i mostly read random 60s/70s sci fi and a bit of horror and fantasy, though i have/can read 'real' books
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2010 1:39:30 GMT -5
Normally I like Steven King above all else. what's your favorite Stephen King? The Stand, Dark Tower, and Different Seasons for me... heard there was a TV adaptation of Nightmares and Dreamscapes recently. they shot in Melbourne, which isn't exactly New England
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Post by meoskop on May 26, 2010 1:52:27 GMT -5
Camie, you're a Bill fan? Nooooo...... Can we all agree that the Sookie books, while addictive, are absolutely awful? and I don't mean that in a snobbish way, I mean that in a Charlaine Harris, keep track of your own mythology, way. (Team Sam if Sookie doesn't come down with about a dozen STD's.)
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Post by mike on May 26, 2010 6:28:50 GMT -5
i'm in the middle of 'get in the van' by henry rollins right now. it's a cracking read.
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Post by hoodrat on May 26, 2010 8:43:19 GMT -5
I just finished House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni, which I picked up at the library because Franz did an interview with the author. It's a breezy, funny coming-of-age story pitting Buckminster Fuller futurism against punk rock nihilism. One finds out they are much the same. I get the sense someone could make a really cute movie out of it.
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Post by five on May 26, 2010 8:56:58 GMT -5
Normally I like Steven King above all else. what's your favorite Stephen King? The Stand, Dark Tower, and Different Seasons for me... heard there was a TV adaptation of Nightmares and Dreamscapes recently. they shot in Melbourne, which isn't exactly New England Bag of Bones is mine, characterization over plot etc. although the plot is pretty good too I've been on a nonfiction bender for like a year, just finished Thomas Ferguson's Golden Rule, which is about the investment theory of politics. The simplified example is, take a community with textiles as the only economy. 97% of the people in this community are workers, and want full unionization. 3% of people are owners, and want zero unionization. The political parties (whether there's two or ten or whatever) are going to enact a policy of zero unionization because the owners are the only class willing and able to front the large cost of running a campaign - parties with other platforms can't afford to make it past the gate. It's a little dry but he analyzes a couple elections in these terms, the New Deal, 1988, and 1992, and it's pretty convincing. The chapter on 1992 is a good read, especially, with the analysis of Perot's run. I'm now reading The Geography of Nowhere, which is a pretty easy read about the historical and economic influences that acted on the development of America, from townships and farming communities to cities and finally to suburban sprawl.
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Post by parock on May 26, 2010 16:45:57 GMT -5
i'm in the middle of 'get in the van' by henry rollins right now. it's a cracking read. Hank is nuts.
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Post by Camie on May 27, 2010 2:12:00 GMT -5
Camie, you're a Bill fan? Nooooo...... Can we all agree that the Sookie books, while addictive, are absolutely awful? and I don't mean that in a snobbish way, I mean that in a Charlaine Harris, keep track of your own mythology, way. (Team Sam if Sookie doesn't come down with about a dozen STD's.) About Bill....IDK... there is just something there that makes me think..... I know he was an ass, but still, I really think he does love her. About the books... yes they are pretty bad and she needs a better continuity editor. They are way better than Twilight though...
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Post by bloodystereos on May 27, 2010 23:07:39 GMT -5
Normally I like Steven King above all else. what's your favorite Stephen King? The Stand, Dark Tower, and Different Seasons for me... heard there was a TV adaptation of Nightmares and Dreamscapes recently. they shot in Melbourne, which isn't exactly New England Dark Tower is just so damn good its hard not to say it is my fave. My girl has still not finished it she read them all years ago but will not read the last one yet. The Stand is def a close second. Liseys Story is another one of my faves , I only got around to reading it last year and was surprised how much I liked it , as I prefer his older stuff over the newer. The first King I read was my mothers copy of Night Shift, I think it was called - a bunch of short stories. Some killer stuff there. I was like 10 when I read that and The Boogeyman had me sleeping with one eye on the closet for the next couple years !
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Post by meoskop on May 28, 2010 0:27:11 GMT -5
About Bill....IDK... there is just something there that makes me think..... I know he was an ass, but still, I really think he does love her. About the books... yes they are pretty bad and she needs a better continuity editor. They are way better than Twilight though... Who cares if he loves her? Somebody loves Sookie every five minutes. She needs to quit hanging out with these bloodsucking losers and look into canine loyalty. (Re: better than - I am going to leave that alone. Otherwise I'll be making Lists. Things Better Than Twilight. The Cullens, Sick Pedophiles Or Drama Llamas? Werewolves, Why Must They Chase The Vamp's Girls. Childbirth By Teeth, You're Doing It Wrong. Y'know, lists like that.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2010 1:35:48 GMT -5
when i was growing up the supernatural porn was Anita Blake... i was always an Anne Rice guy. that and White Wolf RPGs. just for a bit tho
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Post by Camie on May 28, 2010 22:41:10 GMT -5
I would like to read some of those lists... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
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Post by stringer on May 29, 2010 7:21:21 GMT -5
Currently reading this book called The Flood (or also titled The Preservationist), by David Maine. I picked it up in Poundland, because it had a fucking awesome cover - and I know they say you shouldn't, but it is super rad. It's kind of a re-telling of The Great Flood story, and it's actually really good. It's really heavy though, it's not easy to just sit down and read.
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Post by laurenjean on May 29, 2010 12:29:15 GMT -5
About Bill....IDK... there is just something there that makes me think..... I know he was an ass, but still, I really think he does love her. About the books... yes they are pretty bad and she needs a better continuity editor. They are way better than Twilight though... Who cares if he loves her? Somebody loves Sookie every five minutes. She needs to quit hanging out with these bloodsucking losers and look into canine loyalty. (Re: better than - I am going to leave that alone. Otherwise I'll be making Lists. Things Better Than Twilight. The Cullens, Sick Pedophiles Or Drama Llamas? Werewolves, Why Must They Chase The Vamp's Girls. Childbirth By Teeth, You're Doing It Wrong. Y'know, lists like that. This is a great list. I can't support Sam because he's her boss. And I think if anyone is going to get an STD it's probably Jason. Team Eric because he's a jerk too but he doesn't try to hide it. I just started "Wicked." So far it's interesting and well written, but vaguely disturbing. I wasn't hoping to read something disturbing in my two weeks between classes, but now I'm hooked.
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Post by meoskop on May 30, 2010 14:38:03 GMT -5
I was split on "Wicked" - I read all the Baum books, all the Thompson books and one of the Snow's, so I am all about the Oz mythology (transgender in 1900's kid lit? BRING IT) but I was ultimately disappointed. "Wicked" was strong for the first half, but it collapsed under it's own politics for the second half (subverting the characterization in the process, I thought). I gave "Son of a Witch" a try, but skipped the third. It was all a bit 'college thesis' for me - not the good kind, but the kind where they have a Big Idea and think they're the first to ever have it and develop it past all sense.
Said description might be influenced by the book I'm reading (and loathing) right now - Walter Kirn's "Lost In The Meritocracy" which also started strong but is collapsing into a tale of someone who thinks self destruction is noble. Gatsby - not a hero. Casting yourself as Gatsby - tedious. My distaste for Kirn's book is that he is a child of some privilege whining about not being a child of enough privilege.
(Edited to add - Jason already totally got an STD - that whole half animal thing)
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Post by campfirewood1980 on May 30, 2010 17:41:12 GMT -5
I'm back on my Philip Roth books for fiction- I've got The Counterlife going right now. On the nonfiction tip, it's Eating the Dinosaur.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2010 18:25:45 GMT -5
saw a nice documentary on HP Lovecraft yesterday... guys like Ramsey Campbell and Neil Gaiman (used to hang out on his forum for years) and Gullarmo Del Toro were interviewed
still working through this anthology of Aussie sci-fi... the story i'm reading now is introed as being typically Australian...
it starts with a naked guy on a beach
yep
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Post by five on May 30, 2010 23:44:37 GMT -5
This might be better for the comics thread, but what should I look at of Gaiman's? I read about halfway through Sandman, and I really liked the short, 1-2 issue stories (too many of the longer ones were 'bad stuff happens until Dream arrives and instantly solves the problem') and I saw Coraline which was OK but a little formulaic. I know he's pretty prolific, can you name a couple titles (novels, comics, whatever) I should check out?
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