Sweet Papa Crimbo Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 Cormac McCarthy's The Road...again (Best Book of 2006): Good to see Mr. McCarthy won the Pulitzer for this one. So very dark, but with the ultimate hope never lost...the last 5 pages had me in tears Link to post Share on other sites
MattZ Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 Julian Barnes - Metroland. That dude can write. Link to post Share on other sites
Welsh Rich Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 Enjoying this... Link to post Share on other sites
aricandover Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain he should be King of the world. Link to post Share on other sites
jimmyjimmy Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 Bone you can't beat a good 1000 page comic book. I haven't read those since they were first published. I need to revisit them. Mysteries of Pittsburg Me too.I have Summerland on deck following this one.Just noticed he has a new one coming out next month.... Link to post Share on other sites
paul137 Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 started this its pretty entertaining. Link to post Share on other sites
jahilia Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 Julian Barnes - Metroland. That dude can write. I just finished History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters - I loved it so much I immediately moved on to England, England - which was pretty disappointing. So, Metroland is good? Has anyone read the new Martin Amis book, House of Meetings? Link to post Share on other sites
Azzurri Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 Cormac McCarthy's The Road...again (Best Book of 2006): Good to see Mr. McCarthy won the Pulitzer for this one. So very dark, but with the ultimate hope never lost...the last 5 pages had me in tears this book should be required reading for all world leaders... it's a classic, and McCarthy is up there with the giants of literature. Link to post Share on other sites
jhh4321 Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon Link to post Share on other sites
MattZ Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 I just finished History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters - I loved it so much I immediately moved on to England, England - which was pretty disappointing. So, Metroland is good? Yes, Metroland is quite good. A quick read too. Your proverbial coming of age story. Reminds me of Tolstoy's Childhood, Boyhood, Youth mixed with a bit of Catcher in the Rye. If that makes any sense. Link to post Share on other sites
explodo Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 Cormac McCarthy's The Road...again (Best Book of 2006): Good to see Mr. McCarthy won the Pulitzer for this one. So very dark, but with the ultimate hope never lost...the last 5 pages had me in tearsCan't wait to check this one out. Gald that they rushed it to paperback because of the Oprah Book Club thing. Now I can actually afford to read it (of course, I could and probably will just go to the library for it....). Link to post Share on other sites
Fritz Posted April 17, 2007 Share Posted April 17, 2007 In memory of... Tiger got to hunt,Bird got to fly;Man got to sit and wonder, "Why, why, why?"Tiger got to sleep,Bird got to land;Man got to tell himself he understand. Link to post Share on other sites
Attack With Love Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 read Still Life With Woodpecker over the summer and loved loved loved his quirky style...these short stories and articles he's written for various things are hilarious and i think it's so cool to see the way he writes in so many different contexts. Link to post Share on other sites
Welsh Rich Posted April 18, 2007 Share Posted April 18, 2007 Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon I recently read that - reminded me of a David Lynch film! Link to post Share on other sites
Willkoman Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 Cormac McCarthy's The Road...again (Best Book of 2006): Good to see Mr. McCarthy won the Pulitzer for this one. So very dark, but with the ultimate hope never lost...the last 5 pages had me in tears One of my favorites. Link to post Share on other sites
Oil Can Boyd Posted April 20, 2007 Share Posted April 20, 2007 I'm usually not much of a short story guy, but these are excellent. Link to post Share on other sites
Hippycat Posted April 20, 2007 Share Posted April 20, 2007 Reading this one at work:Light and fluffy second sequel to Clan of the Cave Bear. Clan is still the best of the bunch, where the 1st sequel, The Valley of Horses, while having some interesting moments also had far too many poor story elements, notably the story of the two brothers, which I felt was silly and not up to the level that Clan started. I'm about halfway through Mammoth and so far it's better than Horses, but a notch down from Clan. Rereading this one at home:Hopefully I plan to reread this one and and the next 3 sequels in time for the release of the fifth book, which I believe is suppose to be in the fall. Also plan to reread the last 2 Harry Potters in time for the publishing of the final one, so I better get reading them soon. Link to post Share on other sites
Spawn's dad Posted April 20, 2007 Share Posted April 20, 2007 edit: this is Alec Baldwin Link to post Share on other sites
Lammycat Posted April 27, 2007 Share Posted April 27, 2007 A buddy of mine used to own a bookstore in VA with his wife and used to send me a bunch of advance copies of books and I'm just now getting to the meat of them. I've never read Rushdie before and like his style as exemplified in the first 30 pages of this I knocked out last night: Link to post Share on other sites
rwrkb Posted April 27, 2007 Share Posted April 27, 2007 A buddy of mine used to own a bookstore in VA with his wife and used to send me a bunch of advance copies of books and I'm just now getting to the meat of them. I've never read Rushdie before and like his style as exemplified in the first 30 pages of this I knocked out last night: i like some of rushdie's stuff, but i thought that book was a piece of crap. i didn't even finish it. but that's just me. now reading: Link to post Share on other sites
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