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Japillahan
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| Arrière du pelotonJoined: Fri Aug 29, 2008 7:12 amPosts: 524Location: Banned
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suggest/discuss books yes? i read best i can. i read slowly so i havent read as much as i should have by this point in life. i also get distracted easily.
my ADD dictates i read more than one book at a time. right now i'm working on:
-a stack of The Ticks books a friend lent me
-Swamp Thing; a murder of crows AND voice of the fire, both written by Alan Moore (AKA holy shit)
-Reinventing comics by Scott McCloud
-The Professional Chef by the culinary arts institute (trying to learn about food junk)
-holy science by swami sri yukteswar
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Radlerin
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| Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 10:03 pm |
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 Dances on the pedals in a most immodest wayJoined: Tue Aug 29, 2006 6:03 pmPosts: 5567Location: Funkytown
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I'm monolibrogamist (I read just one book at a time),
and have to finish a book, even if I hate it.
Right now I'm reading "Facing the Congo:
A Modern-Day Journey Into the Heart of Darkness"
by Jeffrey Tayler. It's riveting on all sorts of levels:
cultural, travel, action adventure, multi-lingual.
I have no idea how it made its way into my bookshelf.
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xHOBOCOREx
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| Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 10:11 pm |
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Terry Pratchett is the man. Nuff said.
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hokan
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| Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 10:34 pm |
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My girls have loaned me a couple of books:
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
I've already seen the movie of Howl, and liked it a lot. After I've read Eragon I'll watch that movie.
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Snak Shak
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| Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 10:48 pm |
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 Pretends the bricks at St. Anthony Main are the PaveJoined: Sat Jan 05, 2008 10:35 pmPosts: 2924Location: So.MPLS
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig is a personal favorite I just finished re-reading. It's a very good book if you are into philosophy, quality and art or science (Pirsig wrote it while he was teaching at the U of M and living above Robert's Shoes on Lake Street).
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace is a challenging read but worth the effort you have to put into it.
The Shipping News and That Old Ace in the Hole by Annie Proulx is very good (most of Proulx's stuff she is good; she can make the setting and sense of place in her novels as much a character as the people in the stories).
Another local author I really like is Louise Erdrich. Her novel The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse was very good, but most of her stuff is worth picking up.
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Josh_IRO
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| Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 11:18 pm |
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| Spoke TwiddlerJoined: Wed Sep 16, 2009 10:35 amPosts: 204
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Because I'm taking human evolution right now and love Vonnegut anyways I decided to pick up galapagos. I just finished it and it is a great read. I think that Vonnegut is one of those authors that you just cannot go wrong with.
Lately I've been reading a lot of the so called "classics." The Prince, by Machiavelli, Women, by Bukowski, Siddhartha, by Hesse, etc. Kinda all over the map in terms of content, but all of them have been amazing.
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Kc<3
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 12:42 am |
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| Cottered CrankJoined: Thu May 28, 2009 12:19 amPosts: 68
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xHOBOCOREx wrote: Terry Pratchett is the man. Nuff said. I agree with this man, I'm just sad that Terry Pratchett has alhemizers though. 
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Kc<3
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 12:44 am |
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| Cottered CrankJoined: Thu May 28, 2009 12:19 amPosts: 68
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Also anything by Neil Gaiman. He's my favorite author.
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Atomkinder
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:54 am |
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 If you can't see a blinky, how do you know it's really blinking?Joined: Wed Jan 10, 2007 5:52 pmPosts: 5297Location: S Murderapolis
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Right now I'm re-reading "Anarchism: and Other Essays" by Emma Goldman.
What can I say? For being a bitter asshole, I love equalitarian (sp?) anarchist essays and literature.
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andy
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:37 am |
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 Sometimes worries that steel is not realJoined: Sun Jun 14, 2009 1:28 amPosts: 1040Location: Powderhorn
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Just finished "In cold Blood", Truman Capote.
Working on "On the Road", Jack Kerouac
Next up, "Dr. Sax", also by Kerouac
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Whatsisname
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 7:35 am |
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 Saw Greg Lemond once at a restaurantJoined: Tue Dec 26, 2006 7:01 pmPosts: 1975Location: Lake Calhoun
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I have that textbook. Its pretty dece, although it's kinda short on the chemistry aspect which I think would be useful. Japillahan wrote: -The Professional Chef by the culinary arts institute (trying to learn about food junk)
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squirrelesque
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:01 am |
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I just finished Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, and am pretty excited about reading his new one, Eating Animals. Right now, though, I'm in the middle of A Happy Death by Albert Camus. I'm in love with his writing style. The last 50 or so pages of Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac is also on my list... I'll finish it one day, I swear.
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coalescekid
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:04 am |
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 Secret: wants a tall bikeJoined: Thu Nov 08, 2007 10:01 pmPosts: 435Location: Soo Foo, SD
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Post Office - Charles Bukowski <---this book is funny as hell, read it
The Chomsky Reader
Also, Snak Shak...good choice with Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance...GREAT book.
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poorimpulsecontrol
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:34 am |
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| EscapeeJoined: Tue Jul 15, 2008 6:32 pmPosts: 2473Location: MINNEAPOLIS
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Kc<3 wrote: Also anything by Neil Gaiman. He's my favorite author. + a lot! I'm currently reading Daughter of Forest for my english class, and a biography of Nikola Tesla that I re-encountered on my bookshelf.
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fafnir
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| Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:42 am |
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Just finished reading a thousand splendid suns and started reading John Sandford's Rough Country.
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