Calexico Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Anyone into football, yes football not soccer, should pick up a copy of this wonderful book all about Dutch football and it's origins. Link to post Share on other sites
jahilia Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 I'm on a huge Raymond Chandler kick right now... Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 I'd like to read me some Chandler. Any recommendations for an RC virgin? Link to post Share on other sites
kathyp Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 A couple of library requests came through today: I'd forgotten how much I love Eugene Meatyard's work... Only picked through this, but I badly want to like it. Link to post Share on other sites
jahilia Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 I'd like to read me some Chandler. Any recommendations for an RC virgin? I'd probably start with his first one - The Big Sleep. That and The Long Goodbye are probably his best known. I think he's at his peak with The Lady in the Lake though - you really can't go wrong with any of the three. Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 I'd probably start with his first one - The Big Sleep. That and The Long Goodbye are probably his best known. I think he's at his peak with The Lady in the Lake though - you really can't go wrong with any of the three.Gracias. Link to post Share on other sites
bobbob1313 Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 One of those books I've been meaning to read for the last year or so but have never gotten around to it. It sits their silently judging me as I move past it for other books, so I've finally decided to pick it up and get into it. Not too bad so far, but I'm not far in it at all. Link to post Share on other sites
austrya Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 Just finished: Just started: Link to post Share on other sites
Attack With Love Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 just finished; reading for school: Link to post Share on other sites
KNevitt Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 Post Office and One Hundred Years of Solitude are two of my favorite books. Bukowski is blunt and in your face and Garcia Marquez is just a master. After you read One Hundred Years, I highly recommend Love in the Time of Cholera. Equally amazing, but completely different than Solitude. Very subtle. I am reading Great stuff, really interesting. Link to post Share on other sites
paul137 Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 A couple of library requests came through today: I'd forgotten how much I love Eugene Meatyard's work... Only picked through this, but I badly want to like it.when i was in new york for the new years eve wilco show a meatyard exhibit was up at the photography museum and it was really interesting. i've been wanting to check out that show i'll never forget book is it any good? Link to post Share on other sites
brianjeremy Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 making my way through a vonnegut stage now. Link to post Share on other sites
Pecan_Pie Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 working my way through some more heinlein. Link to post Share on other sites
jahilia Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 After you read One Hundred Years, I highly recommend Love in the Time of Cholera. Equally amazing, but completely different than Solitude. Very subtle. I've never read One Hundred Years, but I second the Love in the Time of Cholera recomendation. One of my favorite books of all time. Link to post Share on other sites
Welsh Rich Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 Going to start this tonight Link to post Share on other sites
Oil Can Boyd Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 i've been 'ing the whole time. an amazing, amazing book.I am about 150 pages in and really enjoying it. It is pretty intense. Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 I've got that on my library hold list.In the meantime, I just started the second Harry Potter book. Link to post Share on other sites
kathyp Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 when i was in new york for the new years eve wilco show a meatyard exhibit was up at the photography museum and it was really interesting. i've been wanting to check out that show i'll never forget book is it any good? It was okay. I'm glad I didn't buy it though. I thought some of the essays could have been a bit longer, a few of them run only a couple pages. And let's face it, many of them were "before my time" which should have meant nothing, but hey, I'm a child of the eighties and nineties. Link to post Share on other sites
rwrkb Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 I am about 150 pages in and really enjoying it. It is pretty intense. i have that in my pile of books to read. i can't wait. i loved You Shall Know Us By Our Velocity Link to post Share on other sites
awatt Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 It's time for.... MOBY DICK! Really. Link to post Share on other sites
Lammycat Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 It's time for.... MOBY DICK! Really.I was assigned to read this in college and surprised myself in completing it (as well as the Brothers Karamazov, another tome with heft). I really enjoyed it, too. I've always been a big fan of books involving the sea (pirate tales, true story sea adventures, etc.) and love the whole New England whaling lore. The book's a bit verbose with details at times, but Melville does an outstanding job accurately conveying the art of whaling in his tale. If you haven't read it before, my advice is to forge through the dry parts. It's worth it. I'm going to start this book tonight (assuming I can keep my eyes open long enough). I saw an interview with the author, an autistic savant, on 60 Minutes or something similar a week or so ago and the guy was pretty fascinating. I'm not sure how he is as a writer, but it's worth a shot: Link to post Share on other sites
redpillbox Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 I've always been a big fan of books involving the sea (pirate tales, true story sea adventures, etc.) I just finished a book called "Star of the Sea" by Joseph O'Conner. I really good read. It's a historical novel that comments on politics and class; partially being set in Ireland during the potato famine. Sounds like a slog, but there's are murderous underpinnings. Link to post Share on other sites
kathyp Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 I just started Madison Smartt Bell's Anything Goes. (To lazy to Google a picture.) I had a brief obsession with novels about the "rock 'n' roll" lifestyle last year. (I possibly have archived a bunch of those reviews on my site.) They tend to be fantastic or entirely clich Link to post Share on other sites
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