gogo Posted May 7, 2009 Author Share Posted May 7, 2009 For the past few years (ever since the first time I did it, at midnight on a beautiful hot night in July), I make a point of walking across it every time I'm in New York. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Francis X. Hummel Posted May 9, 2009 Share Posted May 9, 2009 Link to post Share on other sites
VenusStopsTrain2 Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 Ok have gotten about 1/2 way through Columbine. If this was our book club book I think we'd be having some great conversations. It's opening my eyes to how much we don't learn about events that are so widely broadcast on national news. Seriously. Plus the insights are amazing. I've been recommending this book to everyone I talk to...Check it out! Link to post Share on other sites
gogo Posted May 10, 2009 Author Share Posted May 10, 2009 Ok have gotten about 1/2 way through Columbine. If this was our book club book I think we'd be having some great conversations.I've been thinking about doing another book club thread here. I think this would be a great book to do. Link to post Share on other sites
Pitsby Posted May 11, 2009 Share Posted May 11, 2009 Don't start it up again yet. I'm still #78 on the waitlist at the library for Columbine! Link to post Share on other sites
gogo Posted May 11, 2009 Author Share Posted May 11, 2009 Oh yeah, I forgot about that. I'm #81. Link to post Share on other sites
nalafej Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 Just finished Columbine tonight. Fascinating book. Big recommend. Link to post Share on other sites
The High Heat Posted May 16, 2009 Share Posted May 16, 2009 Columbine...Fascinating book. Big recommend.Ditto. Link to post Share on other sites
Lodestar Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 First novel by Willy Vlautin, lead singer-songwriter in Richmond Fontaine. I'm almost finished and it's quite excellent. Link to post Share on other sites
Three dollars and 63 cents Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 I've got about 75 pages of this left that I'll probably finish later today: Then I'm going to try to zip through J.D. Salinger's Nine Stories, because my library books are due on Tuesday. Link to post Share on other sites
lamradio Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 Purdy powerful stuff. Wow.. Still reading that? Looks interesting. I'm currently reading: Definitely powerful stuff here.. Lots of eyewitness accounts by the soldiers themselves: One horse was trailing what Blackford at first took to be a rider caught in a stirrup "but to my horror discovered that the horse was dragging his own entrails from the gaping wound of a cannonball." Link to post Share on other sites
isadorah Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 onto this. am starting a book group here in DC and this was the first pick out of the hat. i gave up on Omnivore's Dilemma. He lost me when he started debating to be or not to be a vegetarian after hundreds of pages about the necessity of proper natural omnivore eating. Link to post Share on other sites
anthony Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 Well, I invested in the first 1200 pages, might as well finish off the last measly 600. Link to post Share on other sites
gogo Posted May 27, 2009 Author Share Posted May 27, 2009 And on hold for me at the library, once I've finished that:I'm still waiting for this one from the library! About 100 pages in on Swann's Way. And in between, I also read and Both meh, for different reasons. Now on hold at the library (in addition to the Brooklyn Bridge one...): and by San Francisco's new Poet Laureate. Link to post Share on other sites
RainDogToo Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 by San Francisco's new Poet Laureate. AWESOME!! That is a great book! Love it! Link to post Share on other sites
Uncle Jeffro Posted May 28, 2009 Share Posted May 28, 2009 Damn good poetry! Link to post Share on other sites
ikol Posted May 28, 2009 Share Posted May 28, 2009 Currently reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Link to post Share on other sites
Somnambulist Posted May 28, 2009 Share Posted May 28, 2009 Had this one recommended to me a few times. I'm liking it. Link to post Share on other sites
Three dollars and 63 cents Posted May 28, 2009 Share Posted May 28, 2009 I tried so hard to like that book, and I just couldn't get into it. He seemed so whiny. I came across this at the library yesterday after I already had an armload of other books, but it sounded too good to pass up: I'm about 75 pages into it, and so far it's been funny and enjoyable. There are a lot of the typical rock band cliches, but there's some substance beneath them, and I'm hoping he turns those cliches on their heads by the end of the book. Link to post Share on other sites
Gobias Industries Posted May 28, 2009 Share Posted May 28, 2009 I like it a lot. I haven't read a novel in so long. The actual freedom to not be grammatically correct confused me greatly, since all I read a lot prior to this were academic articles and textbooks and shit. I know I'll have to reread this when I'm not in a fucking academic mindset right now. Hell, I'm reading an article right now. That's how sad it is. Link to post Share on other sites
The High Heat Posted May 28, 2009 Share Posted May 28, 2009 Just finished Columbine, then 180ed over to: (Is she wearing Lugz?) Link to post Share on other sites
Moss Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 I like it a lot. I haven't read a novel in so long. The actual freedom to not be grammatically correct confused me greatly, since all I read a lot prior to this were academic articles and textbooks and shit. I know I'll have to reread this when I'm not in a fucking academic mindset right now. Hell, I'm reading an article right now. That's how sad it is. He has such a simple, terse style, it works really well for this book. What a harrowing book. Of course, I have been out of the academic mindset for quite a while. Link to post Share on other sites
PopTodd Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Just ordered:King Dorkby Frank Portman (aka "Dr. Frank" from The Mr. T Experience) Gonna start it as soon as it arrives! Link to post Share on other sites
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