The Golden Compass since I never read it as a young'n.

12/5/2007 4:42:00 PM

Quote :

"it didn't like a clockwork orange because it sucked"

everyone's welcome to have an opinion

but some opinions are just wrong

12/5/2007 6:23:01 PM

The Kite Runner ... only 5 chapters in but so far I really like it.

12/5/2007 7:43:10 PM

Because i'm looking to buy a house, lol

12/6/2007 8:04:32 AM

Finished Kite Runner a couple of days ago. I was impressed. I'm going to give his follow up a read but I'm going to wait a while. STILL struggling to get through Angela's Ashes.

12/6/2007 8:38:44 AM

^ Do you not like it? I liked it when I read it, but that was back when it came out quite a few years ago. Enough to buy 'Tis, but not enough to motivate me to ever read it, apparently.

12/6/2007 9:10:17 AM

i wanna get the girl a book for Christmas but im not 100% sure which because ive heard about so many this year. any suggestions? im going to glance back over this thread and may just pick one up from that but we'll see

oh and PS i was thinking 'love is a mixtape' off the top of my head.

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12/11/2007 10:10:08 AM

^ go with some porn, but make sure its high quality stuff

12/11/2007 10:13:53 AM

no thanks.

i went ahead with 'love is a mixtape' since i was already ordering some stuff from amazon..but i may get another before christmas for her so suggestions are still welcome

12/11/2007 10:15:44 AM

I enjoyed Love is a Mix Tape The Time Traveler's Wife is another one that I read and plan on re-reading again sometime soon.

12/11/2007 1:28:20 PM

i finished "born standing up" (steve martin's new book) last week.

i really liked it. but youd probably need to either be a steve martin fan or have a lot of appreciation for stand up to enjoy it.

12/11/2007 3:43:59 PM

^ which has got to be like 90% of the population

12/11/2007 3:55:49 PM

well, true...but i dont think younger people are as likely to know steve martin's stuff, besides maybe cheaper by the dozen or father of the bride, which isnt like his stand up at all.

and if you are the type of person who likes dane cook, then you have no appreciation for stand-up.

12/12/2007 8:48:06 AM

Picked up A Confederacy of Dunces today.

Friggin' hilarious.

12/13/2007 7:13:26 PM

read China Miéville's The Scar for my Fantasy class and really liked it. then I found his previous novel, Perdido Street Station at the library book sale, so now i'm reading it. pretty cool author if you like 'new weird' fantasy and lots of monsters and creatures.

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12/13/2007 10:51:23 PM

read all of Bukowski's Post Office today, more hilarity

Skwinkle, still working on the poetry book and I'll get it back as soon as I can

12/24/2007 2:50:56 AM

reading alan greenspan's "the age of turbulence"

12/24/2007 10:26:07 AM

started Heller's God Knows

12/24/2007 11:04:27 AM

12/24/2007 12:28:18 PM

^^you're going to fucking ROFL a lot. seriously.

12/24/2007 12:48:59 PM

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"Picked up A Confederacy of Dunces today. Friggin' hilarious. "

One of the best books I've ever read.

12/24/2007 1:23:43 PM

The Devil in The White City was really good...

12/24/2007 1:33:21 PM

12/24/2007 2:25:01 PM

just started on this, a christmas present

12/24/2007 3:07:33 PM

^ that's the best book of the three <3

12/24/2007 6:18:10 PM

Just started Proust's Swann's Way

12/24/2007 7:19:08 PM

just finished

overall i found it amusing but parts of it kind of made me realize that klosterman is kind of a poseur, so i probably wont pick up another of his novels

about to start (for the first time)

12/25/2007 9:48:49 PM

^ agree with the Klosterman... and On the Road is my favorite book ever

12/25/2007 10:02:22 PM

On the Road has some good (and very quotable) parts

but on the whole it underwhelmed me

12/25/2007 10:07:14 PM

having sex with still furshia for dummies and stretching for dummies

12/25/2007 10:09:01 PM

^^ I think the reason I like it so much is that my dad had an old ass record set with Kerouac reading the entire book with the jazz accompaniment in the background and I remember having that on a lot growing up... (didnt understand much at the time obviously)

12/25/2007 10:19:04 PM

The Amber Spyglass, the third book in the His Dark Materials trilogy.

Apparently I missed a lot of good shit the first time I read this because I was 15.

12/25/2007 10:48:23 PM

I'm confused: what would you have missed?

I loved that book when I was 15, and I still love it.

12/25/2007 10:50:36 PM

^ Some of the whatnot regarding religion. The meaning of Dr.Malones speech at the end about love.

12/25/2007 10:54:09 PM

ok still furshia this is where you reply to her and keep the convo going...i am wondering what you would say next and then what vix would say next after that

12/26/2007 2:43:05 PM

and then would you rub her back a little?

yeah. nice and slow.

mmmm just like that.

don't stop, baby.

[A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain]

12/26/2007 5:32:29 PM

Nightfall and other stories - Isaac Asimov
Halo: Contact Harvest - Joe Staten

got my dad Steve Martin's Born Standing Up - I'll steal it when he's done

12/26/2007 5:42:45 PM

Rant (Chuck Palahniuk) has been extremely entertaining so far.

12/26/2007 6:40:24 PM

i got john grisham the innocent man in my stocking. never read a grisham book before

12/26/2007 8:33:38 PM

i've never read one of his books but i've listened to 2 of his audiobooks...the runaway jury was really good on audio book...i like the movie the client which he wrote...goodluck...i know i couldnt devote that much time to read one of his books

12/26/2007 8:37:58 PM

I assigned my students to read The Scarlet Letter and Frankenstein just before Christmas break. I suppose I'll get around to reading them sooner or later.

12/26/2007 8:55:14 PM

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"read China Miéville's The Scar for my Fantasy class and really liked it. then I found his previous novel, Perdido Street Station at the library book sale, so now i'm reading it. pretty cool author if you like 'new weird' fantasy and lots of monsters and creatures. "

His books are awesome. Iron Council is a real winner too, if you enjoy PSS and The Scar.

12/26/2007 10:08:32 PM

i enjoyed The Scarlett Letter a lot more when I read it in eng252 w/prioli than when it was assigned as summer reading in hs. I did my senior paper in hs on Frankenstein, it's still one of my favorite stories.

about to start reading Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West or The Memory Keeper's Daughter

12/26/2007 10:11:48 PM

^Prioli is the shit.

I just got Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance from my big sis for Xmas. Anyone read this? Supposedy it has gotten some pretty good reviews.

12/27/2007 3:38:40 PM

i read it last spring... i liked it, i thought it was kind of a dense read though he gets into some heavy stuff and it can get confusing

12/27/2007 4:00:06 PM

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"it kind of made me realize that klosterman is kind of a poseur"

who isn't?

12/27/2007 4:41:31 PM

ok he is all sorts of a poseur

some essays were interesting and funny and others were really really lame

12/27/2007 5:05:21 PM

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"I just got Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance from my big sis for Xmas. Anyone read this? Supposedy it has gotten some pretty good reviews."

Great book - I read it on a trip to Europe one summer.

12/27/2007 5:56:57 PM

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. I'm enjoying it in the same way that I enjoyed Faulkner's As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury. The most interesting perspectives are the one's of the young children and the mentally disabled.

12/27/2007 6:08:19 PM

Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane, the same guy who wrote Mystic River and Gone Baby Gone. Good so far.

12/27/2007 6:16:39 PM