Guest Ron Cey Posted November 14, 2005 Share Posted November 14, 2005 Link to post Share on other sites
Reni Posted November 14, 2005 Share Posted November 14, 2005 isn't Ann Rule the woman who murdered her mother with her friend and was the inspiration for Heavenly Creatures? Link to post Share on other sites
jonbama Posted November 14, 2005 Share Posted November 14, 2005 Then Ninth Square- Gorman Bechard. Great read so far. He also directed You Are Alone, The Pretty Girl, and Object in the Mirror are Closer Than They appear. This is the first of his novels I have read and it is great. He also thanks Wilco and the Replacements at the beginning. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest carlos Posted November 14, 2005 Share Posted November 14, 2005 Next up: Someone recommended this months ago. Can't wait to start.It's gooood. Link to post Share on other sites
embiggen Posted November 14, 2005 Share Posted November 14, 2005 isn't Ann Rule the woman who murdered her mother with her friend and was the inspiration for Heavenly Creatures? no. she never murdered anyone. she wrote the book about Ted Bundy, 'The Stranger Beside Me'. she worked with him at a volunteer crisis help line before he was known to be a serial killer. Link to post Share on other sites
Reni Posted November 14, 2005 Share Posted November 14, 2005 (edited) oh, who am I thinking of? *edit....I figured it out....Anne Perry (and she was the friend of the girl whose mother was killed) oooh Ann Rule writes all those true crime books.....I used to have a few by her. The woman who Heavenly Creatures was based on was/is a mystery writer. Edited November 14, 2005 by Reni Link to post Share on other sites
Jeci81 Posted November 14, 2005 Share Posted November 14, 2005 We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwandaby Philip Gourevitch Just finished this. It is excellent. Link to post Share on other sites
Reni Posted November 14, 2005 Share Posted November 14, 2005 I just picked this up today......can't wait to get home to start it!! Link to post Share on other sites
M. (hristine Posted November 15, 2005 Share Posted November 15, 2005 It's gooood.I can' seem to put this one down. Wow. She is weaving such a compelling story. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest carlos Posted November 15, 2005 Share Posted November 15, 2005 I can' seem to put this one down. Wow. She is weaving such a compelling story. Link to post Share on other sites
lastgoodbye Posted November 15, 2005 Share Posted November 15, 2005 Great, great book. I highly recommend this one. LG Link to post Share on other sites
gogo Posted November 15, 2005 Share Posted November 15, 2005 I went a little nuts in the bookstore during my lunch hour. I went in looking for this but didn't find it, so instead I got and and and !!! Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ron Cey Posted November 15, 2005 Share Posted November 15, 2005 Does your copy of How We Are Hungry have the cool jacket and rubber band thingy on it? and the Non Required Reading series? Very good stuff. Last year I think I gave out 5 copies as Christmas gifts. Link to post Share on other sites
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Guest rwrkb Posted November 15, 2005 Share Posted November 15, 2005 i haven't read "how we are hungry" yet, but i love dave eggers... "you shall know our velocity" is one of my favorite books. does anyone here subscribe to mcsweeneys? issue 17 was crazy. Link to post Share on other sites
gogo Posted November 15, 2005 Share Posted November 15, 2005 Does your copy of How We Are Hungry have the cool jacket and rubber band thingy on it? and the Non Required Reading series? Very good stuff. Last year I think I gave out 5 copies as Christmas gifts.No, I cheaped out on HWAH and got the paperback. And on the Non Required Reading. I thought last year was a slight dip in quality from the previous year, but I'd still put any of these at the top of my recommendations list. Link to post Share on other sites
jimmyjimmy Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 Not a book: (Yet?) but I thought it would be a good fit for this crowd.It's a segment from NPR's All things considered called "My Lobotomy" You can read an abridged version of the narrative here but I'd really suggest listening to it. It has to be the most profoundly moving piece I've ever heard on from NPR. Maybe it's because I'd just gotten through the first 60-70 pages of Frey's "My friend Leonard" and was feeling a little melancholy anyway but ...damn.Very touching disturbing story. link Link to post Share on other sites
PigSooie Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 Upon Vc's advice. Link to post Share on other sites
Reni Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 I picked this up today after hearing this man speak at a conference.....he was amazing. He is speaking again in Joliet tomorrow and I might just drive down to see him.....hmmm.......that's how awesome he was!! Link to post Share on other sites
ms. yvon Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 (edited) I went a little nuts in the bookstore during my lunch hour. I went in looking for this i've heard his reports on this american life . i wasn't aware he'd written a book. wow! (quite a haul, there. ) **i checked "botany of desire" out of the library 1.5 weeks ago, but haven't had a chance to read more than the introduction! Edited November 17, 2005 by ms yvon Link to post Share on other sites
gogo Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 i've heard his reports on this american life . i wasn't aware he'd written a book. wow! (quite a haul, there. )I know! It was like I was possessed or something. That Afghanistan book got perhaps the best review I've ever read, of anything, in the SF Chronicle Sunday Book section. It will be mine. Oh yes, it will be mine. Link to post Share on other sites
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