Moss Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 Piling on the Owen Meany love. My favorite book. Me too. I made a friend read it and he couldn't get into it. I couldn't even fathom that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kidsmoke Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 I ditto you again! I've been contemplating re-reading some Russo books, specifically Nobody's Fool and the hilarious Straight Man. I haven't gotten to Nobody's Fool yet. It's on my reading list. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The High Heat Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 I haven't gotten to Nobody's Fool yet. It's on my reading list. Nobody's Fool is my favorite Russo novel. Sully may be Russo's most well-developed and memorable character. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kidsmoke Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 Nobody's Fool is my favorite Russo novel. Sully may be Russo's most well-developed and memorable character. Great! I only have about 500 pages of Infinite Jest left to get through, give or take a 20-pg. footnote or two, and then I'll get a copy of Nobody's Fool!* * I don't mean to make Infinite Jest sound like a struggle, because it's magnificent, but it is very very long! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 Me too. I made a friend read it and he couldn't get into it. I couldn't even fathom that. I can relate to your friend though - took me two failed attempts before finally getting hooked and devouring it. Now re-re-reading: The World According To Garp - I always sorta thought I'd pick this up again when I became a dad, and that's how it's worked out. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Moss Posted July 19, 2010 Share Posted July 19, 2010 Got it for $0.50 at a garage sale. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Analogman Posted July 19, 2010 Share Posted July 19, 2010 Got it for $0.50 at a garage sale. I have a first edition of that book. There was probably only one paperback edition, so I bet it is the same one I have. The copy I have was given to me by a teacher in high school, who is now a friend of mine on Facebook. He use to call me "Moon". It's pretty much junk, but there is some funny stuff in there. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Moss Posted July 19, 2010 Share Posted July 19, 2010 I have a first edition of that book. There was probably only one paperback edition, so I bet it is the same one I have. The copy I have was given to me by a teacher in high school, who is now a friend of mine on Facebook. He use to call me "Moon". It's pretty much junk, but there is some funny stuff in there. Yeah, i'm about half way through and it is pretty much junk but entertaining. Kind of like "then we got drunk and took a bunch of various medicines, shagged some birds, got in the car and wrecked, the police let us go so we started drinking brandy...." over and over. I do get a kick out of the writing though, it's very, very British. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Analogman Posted July 19, 2010 Share Posted July 19, 2010 Yeah, i'm about half way through and it is pretty much junk but entertaining. Kind of like "then we got drunk and took a bunch of various medicines, shagged some birds, got in the car and wrecked, the police let us go so we started drinking brandy...." over and over. I do get a kick out of the writing though, it's very, very British. I have seen Mr. Butler interviewed in various Moon/Who documentaries. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jff Posted July 19, 2010 Share Posted July 19, 2010 Got it for $0.50 at a garage sale. I got that from my university library in the '90s. Fun read. That cover is hilarious. I'd never seen it before, sicne the library has plain covers on a lot of the books. Now reading: This thing is THOROUGH! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Analogman Posted July 19, 2010 Share Posted July 19, 2010 This is probably the one to read: Moon: The Life and Death of a Rock Legend (it is over 600 pages). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
redpillbox Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 Just "finished" The Passage by Justin Cronin on audio-book. Very well read and captivating while commuting. 36 hours long. Around hour 35 I started to feel like there was no way he could satisfactorily wrap up the saga -- googled the title and it turns out it's a trilogy. I'll have to wait, until 2012 for part II and 2014 for the final book, but I'll be waiting. Good stuff. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bigshoulders Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 Owen Meany is 10,000,000x better a book than Simon Birch is a movie. Glad you read it.John Irving didn't approve of the movie and withdrew his blessings, hence the name change. As for myself: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
welch79 Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 and have begun i saw this book's adaptation as a movie before i knew about the book. loved the movie...really endearing. i read the book. not near as endearing. there are endearing bits, don't get me wrong, but i just don't like/don't get all the sexual magical realism stuff...i mean, edit that out, and you have a really good story. in fact, i was so disappointed in the book that after i was done with it, i threw it straight into the trash can. sue me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
alison the wilca Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 John Irving didn't approve of the movie and withdrew his blessings, hence the name change. i was wondering about that! i still love that movie but is totally different in the sheer magnitude of the depth of this story. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
anthony Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 I love TR. My favorite author. Frog Pajamas is such a great book! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Good Old Neon Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 Continuing my streak of post-apocalyptic fiction... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
knotgreen Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 i saw this book's adaptation as a movie before i knew about the book. loved the movie...really endearing. i read the book. not near as endearing. there are endearing bits, don't get me wrong, but i just don't like/don't get all the sexual magical realism stuff...i mean, edit that out, and you have a really good story. in fact, i was so disappointed in the book that after i was done with it, i threw it straight into the trash can. sue me. funny you say that... i read it, then rented the movie, which i turned off after 30 minutes. read his follow up which is also very good- i think you'll like that one. it lacks the really eloquent prose that i loved about his first, but maintains that quirky postmodern style that foer is trying to reinvent. check it out! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
welch79 Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 funny you say that... i read it, then rented the movie, which i turned off after 30 minutes. read his follow up which is also very good- i think you'll like that one. it lacks the really eloquent prose that i loved about his first, but maintains that quirky postmodern style that foer is trying to reinvent. check it out!yeah, i wondered to myself if things would have been different had i read first and watched later...i may check out his follow up because there was quite a bit about his writing that i enjoyed. in the meantime, i'm starting Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oil Can Boyd Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 in the meantime, i'm startingMe too. I read about half of it today (I'm on vacation). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Preferred B Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 I once borrowed Owen Meany from a friend for approximately five years, and never read it. She told me it was one of her favorite books ever, but the plot just doesn't sound appealing to me at all. I gather, from all the love it's getting around here, that it would be worth a try anyway. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Moss Posted July 22, 2010 Share Posted July 22, 2010 yeah, i wondered to myself if things would have been different had i read first and watched later...i may check out his follow up because there was quite a bit about his writing that i enjoyed. in the meantime, i'm starting Oh I forgot about this one! I love Sheffields writing, have to pick this up. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted August 6, 2010 Share Posted August 6, 2010 Been taking in chunks of Chuck Klosterman's Eating The Dinosaur in between unpacking boxes and quieting a crying baby. It's surprisingly good. I'd accepted Klosterman's writing/thought process as an ongoing disappoint: interesting but not deep, entertaining but too cute at times, and overall not essential. He's surprised me here though - this is sober, thought-provoking stuff, and his usual over-the-top pop culture references have been sheered away to the point that they show up only when necessary, and he seems a lot less driven by an aim to impress his target audience. Which is fitting, since the theme of the book is people being true to themselves (i.e., Rivers Cuomo, David Koresh and the Unabomber). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
u2roolz Posted August 6, 2010 Share Posted August 6, 2010 I'm sure Rivers Cuomo enjoys the company that he finds himself in. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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