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Dec 03 '07 by Fermata
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Read any good books lately?

I'm making a Christmas list and if I don't specify which books I want my family will buy me YA (young adult) books, and no one wants that.

Go!

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squeegebeckenheim on Dec 03 '07 at 7:16pm

I'm reading East of Eden and I'm really loving it so far.

squeegebeckenheim on Dec 03 '07 at 7:16pm

Woops. I meant to underline that.

Khol on Dec 03 '07 at 7:17pm

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls.

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Naked by David Sedaris

I haven't had much time to read during this semester.

Fermata on Dec 03 '07 at 7:17pm

I have that already. I have an entire shelf of unread Steinbeck. Which is very sad.

Khol on Dec 03 '07 at 7:17pm

I always thought that you use italic in type and underline in handwriting?

No?

Fermata on Dec 03 '07 at 7:17pm

Haha, I have the first two on there, Khol. And I'm reading Me Talk Pretty One Day right now.

Fermata on Dec 03 '07 at 7:19pm

Just thinking of The Glass Castle makes me laugh. Something caught on fire in like every chapter. I'm sure it's a metaphor or something, but when I read it it just seemed funny.

Fermata on Dec 03 '07 at 7:24pm

Come on guys, I know you read.

Fermata on Dec 03 '07 at 7:30pm

I need ideas! So far I have on my list...

We The Living and Anthem by Ayn Rand

The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

Plus the new PostSecret book.

Fermata on Dec 03 '07 at 7:33pm

Dead blogs are deeeead?

Fermata on Dec 03 '07 at 7:35pm

Seriously. Come on.

shakethesheets on Dec 03 '07 at 7:37pm

The Colbert book

Fermata on Dec 03 '07 at 7:38pm

Don't mention Colbert, you'll make me sad.

But yeah, I should get that.

juliejeremiah on Dec 03 '07 at 7:40pm

On my own Christmas list I asked for Fast Food Nation, the Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe, and a book of ee cummings poetry...

Also, I think I'm going to buy myself A Christmas Carol....to get into the spirit, and because Dickens is awesome.

kirstenlovesdinner on Dec 03 '07 at 7:42pm

Get Truth and Consequences by Keith Olbermann. I can't wait for it to come out.

Fermata on Dec 03 '07 at 7:46pm

We read Fast Food Nation in English. If you ever want to eat McDonald's again, I don't recommend it. XP

I found a 1920's copy of Poe's Masterpieces of Mystery at a book sale a couple weeks ago. Loooove.

Chipmnk on Dec 03 '07 at 7:51pm

Clockwork Orange and A Confederacy of Dunces though I have yet to finish either.

Pizazz on Dec 03 '07 at 7:53pm

The first of the Dune series was spectacular.

I'm currently reading a free e-book called The Banjo Players Must Die. it's a quite hilarious look upon our future troubles.

Also, A Year Of Living Biblically is awesome. It's about an agnostic who tries out living along side the Bible for a whole year literally, fairly. Funny and informative.

margolove on Dec 03 '07 at 7:54pm

Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch - Solzhenitsyn

Nobody Belongs Here More Than You - Miranda July

and picking up a book of EE Cummings poetry would be nice

I also love Carl Sandburg

Khol on Dec 03 '07 at 7:56pm

Oh! I'm reading Love in the Time of Cholera right now.

justabean on Dec 03 '07 at 7:56pm

Life of Pi?

Collected poems of TS Eliot?

TheArtRobot on Dec 03 '07 at 7:57pm

The Timewaster Letters

Fermata on Dec 03 '07 at 8:06pm

I was going to read Love in the Time of Cholera, but then silly Oprah had to go and ruin it. (I don't read anything Oprah tells people to read.

Fermata on Dec 03 '07 at 8:11pm

It is a silly reason, but it's just one of my things. I have to wait for the hype to die down so I don't look like I'm only reading it because some lady on TV told me to.

The Good Earth is my favorite book, and she 'ruined' it too.

margolove on Dec 03 '07 at 8:12pm

I LOVE The Good Earth.

yeah, the Oprah's book club thing is annoying... but obviously that's really superficial and not a good reason to deprive yourself of a good piece of literature.

Fermata on Dec 03 '07 at 8:14pm

We all have our quirks, and one of mine is that I absolutely despise Oprah. Maybe it was my childhood when my mom would make me watch that instead of cartoons. I'll get over it, and I'll read all the books I say she has 'ruined' eventually. I have plenty of things to read in the mean time.

No one appreciates The Good Earth. It's pretty much amazing.

Fermata on Dec 03 '07 at 8:15pm

In other news, my mom is watching Oprah right now and Oprah just said "va-jay-jay". Wooow.

margolove on Dec 03 '07 at 8:17pm

aw, we read it in my Female American Lit. class and most people actually really liked it.

Fermata on Dec 03 '07 at 8:18pm

I keep trying to make my school book club read it, but I always get voted down. I think historical fiction gets a bad rap. They'd much rather read YA and freaking Dean Koontz. Argh.

Fermata on Dec 03 '07 at 8:18pm

Sometimes you have to require people to read good books for them to know which books are good.

FionaB on Dec 03 '07 at 8:54pm

I'm reading 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez right now

I'm having a tough time getting much into it though, I dont have alot of time to read

so far its good though!

Before that I read Cat's Cradle By Kurt Vonnegut

for young adult books, I used to be really into the author Sarah Dessen, and Jodi Picult

Fermata on Dec 03 '07 at 10:20pm

I 've had 100 Years of Solitude written down somewhere for a while, I've heard it's good. Cat's Cradle too.

10 days later

Fermata on Dec 14 '07 at 9:15pm

I still need more. Suggest! Go!

Maltzmania on Dec 14 '07 at 9:16pm

apparently everybody poops.

Fermata on Dec 14 '07 at 9:18pm

I never understood that shirt. I mean really.

SheepMan22 on Dec 14 '07 at 9:20pm

What is the What by Dave Eggers

Maltzmania on Dec 14 '07 at 9:20pm

shirt?

SheepMan22 on Dec 14 '07 at 9:22pm

Desert Places and Locked Doors both by Blake Crouch

Fermata on Dec 14 '07 at 9:23pm

Hahaha, that never would have occurred to me. XD

Fermata on Dec 14 '07 at 9:25pm

Now I want to buy that book for someone. Because I still find the premise absolutely hilarious.

Sir_Minimus on Dec 14 '07 at 9:26pm

The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Klay by Michael Chabon

The Moon and Six Pence by W. Somerset Maugham

A Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

Empire Falls by Richard Russo

todiefor on Dec 14 '07 at 9:27pm

The Sun Also Rises by hemingway is amazing.

Sir_Minimus on Dec 14 '07 at 9:28pm

yeah, the sun also rises. and the books i mentioned. seriously.

Sir_Minimus on Dec 14 '07 at 9:32pm

i read slaughter hosue 5 and breakfast of champions by kurt vonnegut. they were both very very bery good. i actually laughed out loud during 'breakfast.' thats the only time i have laughed out loud while reading.

todiefor on Dec 14 '07 at 9:33pm

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5

I have it, but I haven't gotten around to reading it.

Fermata on Dec 14 '07 at 9:49pm

Slaughterhouse 5 is fantastic. We read it in our school book club and no one "got it". There's nothing to get. Kids these days...

Chipmnk on Dec 14 '07 at 10:16pm

I came home and checked out my brother's bookshelf (which has much more contemporary novels) and I'm now working on The Fourthe Bear by Jasper Fforde and The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon.

Sir_Minimus on Dec 14 '07 at 10:19pm

chabon is teh shitz for sho

Sir_Minimus on Dec 14 '07 at 10:20pm

i love books.

Jewstice on Dec 14 '07 at 10:50pm

Anything by Hunter S. Thompson

Finished the "Rum Diary" a while back. Want to pick up "Gonzo" pretty soon.

I also just started reading "The Haymarket Tragedy". Great book about the strike/riot/bombing/trials from the Chicago Haymarket incident.

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