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I'm reading the 50 Shades of Grey books and am not impressed. I'm on the third one (I'm no quitter but now I'm just skipping the sex scenes. The book is not well written and doesn't have much of a plot outside the sex so far. I'm about 60 percent done with the third one. At least the second one had somewhat of a storyline. What's strange is that my sisters, my mother-n-law and her friends suggested that book and now I just think they're all freaks
My girlfriend read all three and said that they aren't well written but that the plot has enough potential throughout to keep reading until the end. And when you finish, you realize that the book never tapped that potential and you get mad for wasting your time.
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im just getting finished with "The Chris Farley Show" written technically by all of the closest people (in excerpts) to him including his family, friends, and comedians he worked alongside with during his greatest and most vulnerable times. Some of these people are David Spade, Adam Sandler, Alec Baldwin, Chris Rock.
"While fans knew Chris as the sweaty, swaggering Motivational Speaker and the hyperkenetic Chippendales stripper, his family and friends knew him as a deeply spiritual and earnest kid who never stopped trying to make people laugh. This oral biography includes exclusive interviews with those who knew him best.....The result is a portrait, hilarious and heartbreaking, of a young man whose battle with addiction began long before he became famous. This is a book about the intersections of comedy, celebrity, performance, and family---with a deeply moving message about the demons that face even the most gifted among us."
Post by amandasessions on May 22, 2012 14:57:45 GMT -5
I have just read an incredible political thriller ebook. I was browsing around at amazon.com and found this ebook called The Cain Sanction, I read the preview and a few chapters. It really was a page turner can’t put it down kind of book. I didn’t know how it ends until the last sentence of the last page.. great read!!
Post by billypilgrim on May 24, 2012 20:11:55 GMT -5
I'm finishing this:
It's an essay collection and I have no idea how it got on my list. (I went back through half of this thread to see if anyone here recommended it. If you did, thank you.)
There are essays about a Christian rock festival, Bunny Wailer, Michael Jackson, the Tea Partiers, Axl Rose, the Blues, exploring caves in Kentucky, and other topics. The guy has a contagious enthusiasm about the topics he covers. I'm liking it a lot and will be sorry when it ends.
Post by Dave Maynar on May 25, 2012 8:24:07 GMT -5
I started reading In Cold Blood because of JHo's recommendation and not having anything at the forefront of my list. I really like Capote's writing so far. It's weird, but I have a narrator voice that I am reading it in. I don't know why, but it seemed fitting.
Hard to go wrong with Game of Thrones Juggs. Recently I picked up Death and the Penguin, and Penguin Lost by Andrey Kurkov who is a really interesting Ukranian writer. They are great black comedies about a guy who is a obituary writer and his pet penguin named Misha he got when a zoo in Kiev gave all its animals away, and his friend the girl Misha, or Misha non-penguin as she is called. It is almost a zany mob caper book, but his writing is really kind of existentialist, and they have been really hard to put down.
Just ordered the first Game of Thrones book, pretty excited about early morning Roo readings. I can never sleep past the sun coming up and get very bored waiting on every one else to wake up. This will be a great way to pass the time and start the day.
I started reading In Cold Blood because of JHo's recommendation and not having anything at the forefront of my list. I really like Capote's writing so far. It's weird, but I have a narrator voice that I am reading it in. I don't know why, but it seemed fitting.
I finished it last weekend; it was a great read.
EDIT: I am about halfway through The World According To Garp now, and I am loving it. Unfortunately class started back up this week so I haven't been able to give it long stretches of attention, which always sucks, but I am really into it when I can be.
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I finished this run today. They were all really great, save for Beautiful Losers, which, as much as love Leonard Cohen the songwriter, I did not care for at all. It was just too trippy and confusing for me, but there was some really terrific writing throughout that I was really appreciative of.
In Cold Blood was a fantastic account of a true crime, where it reads just like a novel and is an absolute page-turner. The writing is fantastic and descriptive and I really felt like I was there with Capote's beautiful writing.
The World According to Garp was definitely one of my favorites in recent memory. It was one of those books that teeters on the edge of ridiculous and completely realistic in a really touching and beautiful way. I loved every character in their own way, and was really moved by their troubles and successes.
Siddhartha was a great little tale of a man's ever-changing soul searching throughout his life. I really enjoyed it, yet I didn't ever really feel like I could have used more of it. I didn't ever feel like I could use less of it either, which is a good thing.
The Road was intense. I would have read it all in one sitting if not for having to get sleep. I am definitely interested in revisiting Blood Meridian and his older works thanks to this one. It was just completely enthralling and SO intense, from start to finish.
Post by Dave Maynar on Jun 1, 2012 13:25:54 GMT -5
Now that In Cold Blood is finished (agree with Zapp btw, very good book), I moved on to this. I want to see the movie but have heard it is really confusing if you haven't read the book. It was $2 at McKay's, so I figured I would give it a read before I watched the movie.
Just finished Blueprints of the Afterlife by Ryan Boudinot and I absolutely loved it! Best thing I have read this year by far. If you are into dystopic sci-fi (in a Brave New World kind of way) then this is worth checking out.
Post by nodepression on Jul 5, 2012 10:32:06 GMT -5
Finished this a week ago,
and loved it. Pynchon's really on his own, absolutely gorgeous book at points, and funny enough that I was chuckling quite a bit. If you want an intro to Pynchon and the Crying of Lot 49 doesn't appeal to you, check out this one.
Then finished this, I think this was banned when it was first published for pornography. It's hard to think of Lawrence as a pornographer, especially as nothing is explicitly mentioned in the novel. Lots of great stuff to chew on with this book though.
Post by abrakapokus on Jul 5, 2012 12:42:28 GMT -5
Read, Cormac McCarthy's The Road. It was a very quick read and interesting book. I wish I hadn't heard the hype before reading it because it felt like sort of a let down. It was a good book, just certainly not the best book I've read in the last 5 years (as someone stated in chat) or even the last year. Again, if you haven't read The Art of Fielding, you really should. That is the book which all others must live up to this year.
I'm finishing up a book called "zombie" right now which is pretty great. Its from the perspective of a 14 year old boy who is obsessed with zombie movies, has a tough home life, and is dealing with starting high school. There may also be actual zombies in the book but I'll let that be a surprise
Looks like we will read no more great works by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. If you havent read his work do it. 100 Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera and many of his others are just unbelievably stunning.
but now I'm just skipping the sex scenes. The book is not well written and doesn't have much of a plot outside the sex so far. I'm about 60 percent done with the third one. At least the second one had somewhat of a storyline. What's strange is that my sisters, my mother-n-law and her friends suggested that book and now I just think they're all freaks 
