what are you reading? - Page 153

demonrail666 · 01.27.2013, 07:40 PM

James Hannon - Lost Boys of the Bronx

I became interested in (more like obsessed with) the Ducky Boys gang through the book/film The Wanderers and couldn't believe someone had actually a written a bio about them. I didn't even realise they were a real gang. I'm only a couple of chapters in and it's already one of my favourite books.

Sonic Youth 37 · 01.29.2013, 01:41 PM

Rob Instigator · 01.29.2013, 02:25 PM

Talks about all the art that is not covered in the "standard" texts about the Middle Ages. Lots of bawdy stuff!

GravitySlips · 01.29.2013, 03:34 PM

Foundation - Asimov

just started this, the first few pages are GOOD! ! !

Severian · 01.29.2013, 07:58 PM

I have been stopping and starting books for months and nothing's grabbed me by the balls yet. The few I have finished had zero impact.

I'd better find some existentially challenging fiction pretty goddamn quick or I think my soul is going to disappear.

I'm almost in "re-read Lord of the Rings" mode. That's how bad it is.

Shit I hate being in between books. I usually read two or three every couple weeks. It's my solace. But I'm coming up with fuckin nothing!

!@#$%! · 01.29.2013, 08:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Severian

I'd better find some existentially challenging fiction pretty goddamn quick or I think my soul is going to disappear.

did i recommend a day in the life of ivan denisovich? hot damn, that book rules.

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me, i'm reading a bunch of business books...

...

thrilling stuff!

Trama · 01.29.2013, 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!

me, i'm reading a bunch of business books...

Like what?

!@#$%! · 01.29.2013, 08:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Trama

Like what?

it's kind of funny to find someone here interested in this which is why i didn't post anything at first.

currently this:

someone recommended it to me recently. it's hilarious. also very good.

also looking again at this:

it's a bit "old" (2003!) but it was game changer i think. actually i think it informs the one above.

Trama · 01.29.2013, 09:07 PM

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WILL ELABORATE ON THIS
(have to take off now)

]

!@#$%! · 01.29.2013, 09:16 PM

shoot a PM alert if you do cuz i look at this thread rarely

Pookie · 02.03.2013, 10:28 AM

Reading this again, seeing's it's free on kindle.

Dr Chocolate · 02.06.2013, 01:16 AM

WATCH YOU BLEED by Stephen Davis (it's the GNR book)
please excuse my bad taste, but it was only $5 for a hardcover
and after reading Stephen Adler's autobiography last fall
i thought that this would be a good one as well
not like i give a fuck about GNR anymore

Severian · 02.06.2013, 08:21 PM

I too have been looting the free selection on Kindle. I've also been "sampling" books and had myself a nice little surprise when I realized that if you accidentally buy the book when trying to sample it, and then cancel the order, the thing will be in your carousel until you close it out. Yeah, that means reading a book in full in one sitting; of just leaving your kindle on and not doing any of the amazing other things it does (bullshit) but I don't mind for free books.

Anyway, the actually free books have given me A Tale of Two Cities to go over again, which I'm doing in small chunks, and Moby Dick.

I know- not supposed to read it until you're 40. Well, I fuckin feel forty, and I'll be forty sooner than I'd like to believe. So fuck it. Great goddamn book, so far.

Severian · 02.06.2013, 08:21 PM

What the fuck? That posted five times. Deleting now.

Sorry about that.

Keeping It Simple · 02.09.2013, 11:18 AM

I've just read Survivors by Terry Nation. It laughably reads like a post-apocalyptic jolly for the middle and upper class nobs and snobs who live in the countryside of the Home Counties of England who were fortunate enough to have survived a plague that wiped out 99% of the worlds population.

I concluded after reading the book that the author has to either be a nob or snob of middle or upper class origin living in the countryside of one of the Home Counties who wishes a plague on everyone else on the planet who isn't like him. In other words, he's a wanker.

!@#$%! · 02.09.2013, 11:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trama

WILL ELABORATE ON THIS
(have to take off now)

as the internet used to say a few ages ago, "i am disappoint"

Trama · 02.10.2013, 11:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

as the internet used to say a few ages ago, "i am disappoint"

Ha, sorry. Seth Godin I do follow closely, no clue about the other guy.

Will elaborate on this.

!@#$%! · 02.10.2013, 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Trama

Will elaborate on this.

lies, sir lies!

but godin is alright.

h8kurdt · 02.16.2013, 04:44 AM

Is that the first Murakami book you've read?

LifeDistortion · 02.16.2013, 05:02 AM

So far this year I've read "The Wind Through the Keyhole" by Stephen King, and I'm currently reading "Robopocalypse" by Daniel H. Wilson. I don't read much science fiction even though I like the genre generally. The book's good so far, but nothing mind-blowing, even though some of the quotes in the book have compared him to early Michael Crichton.

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demonrail666 invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 18,510	James Hannon - Lost Boys of the Bronx I became interested in (more like obsessed with) the Ducky Boys gang through the book/film The Wanderers and couldn't believe someone had actually a written a bio about them. I didn't even realise they were a real gang. I'm only a couple of chapters in and it's already one of my favourite books.
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01.29.2013, 01:41 PM	#3042
Sonic Youth 37 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: if there is a bright spot in the universe, the farthest point from it Posts: 9,443	__________________ "One: Where's the fife? and Two: Gimme the fife."
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01.29.2013, 02:25 PM	#3043
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,959	Talks about all the art that is not covered in the "standard" texts about the Middle Ages. Lots of bawdy stuff! __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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01.29.2013, 03:34 PM	#3044
GravitySlips children of satan Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 373	Foundation - Asimov just started this, the first few pages are GOOD! ! !
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01.29.2013, 07:58 PM	#3045
Severian invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 11,743	I have been stopping and starting books for months and nothing's grabbed me by the balls yet. The few I have finished had zero impact. I'd better find some existentially challenging fiction pretty goddamn quick or I think my soul is going to disappear. I'm almost in "re-read Lord of the Rings" mode. That's how bad it is. Shit I hate being in between books. I usually read two or three every couple weeks. It's my solace. But I'm coming up with fuckin nothing!
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01.29.2013, 09:07 PM	#3049
Trama stalker Join Date: Jul 2012 Posts: 419	[ WILL ELABORATE ON THIS (have to take off now) ]
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01.29.2013, 09:16 PM	#3050
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,546	shoot a PM alert if you do cuz i look at this thread rarely
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02.03.2013, 10:28 AM	#3051
Pookie invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 9,877	Reading this again, seeing's it's free on kindle.
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02.06.2013, 01:16 AM	#3052
Dr Chocolate children of satan Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: woly boly Posts: 275	WATCH YOU BLEED by Stephen Davis (it's the GNR book) please excuse my bad taste, but it was only $5 for a hardcover and after reading Stephen Adler's autobiography last fall i thought that this would be a good one as well not like i give a fuck about GNR anymore
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02.06.2013, 08:21 PM	#3053
Severian invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 11,743	I too have been looting the free selection on Kindle. I've also been "sampling" books and had myself a nice little surprise when I realized that if you accidentally buy the book when trying to sample it, and then cancel the order, the thing will be in your carousel until you close it out. Yeah, that means reading a book in full in one sitting; of just leaving your kindle on and not doing any of the amazing other things it does (bullshit) but I don't mind for free books. Anyway, the actually free books have given me A Tale of Two Cities to go over again, which I'm doing in small chunks, and Moby Dick. I know- not supposed to read it until you're 40. Well, I fuckin feel forty, and I'll be forty sooner than I'd like to believe. So fuck it. Great goddamn book, so far.
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02.06.2013, 08:21 PM	#3054
Severian invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 11,743	What the fuck? That posted five times. Deleting now. Sorry about that.
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02.09.2013, 11:18 AM	#3055
Keeping It Simple invito al cielo Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 3,721	I've just read Survivors by Terry Nation. It laughably reads like a post-apocalyptic jolly for the middle and upper class nobs and snobs who live in the countryside of the Home Counties of England who were fortunate enough to have survived a plague that wiped out 99% of the worlds population. I concluded after reading the book that the author has to either be a nob or snob of middle or upper class origin living in the countryside of one of the Home Counties who wishes a plague on everyone else on the planet who isn't like him. In other words, he's a wanker.
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02.16.2013, 04:44 AM	#3059
h8kurdt invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In Mulder's Basement room Posts: 5,459	Is that the first Murakami book you've read? __________________ Down with this sort of thing.
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02.16.2013, 05:02 AM	#3060
LifeDistortion expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: CA Posts: 2,457	So far this year I've read "The Wind Through the Keyhole" by Stephen King, and I'm currently reading "Robopocalypse" by Daniel H. Wilson. I don't read much science fiction even though I like the genre generally. The book's good so far, but nothing mind-blowing, even though some of the quotes in the book have compared him to early Michael Crichton.
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