jamie
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Post by jamie on Apr 23, 2006 21:02:18 GMT 10
So we don't just listen to music right? What are you reading?
Shantaram - Gregory Roberts
This guy broke out of Pentridge in broad daylight and escaped to Bombay, where he joined the Bombay mafia. An amazing story and an incredible writer.
Broken Wings - Kahlil Gibran
It's Kahlil Gibran....
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Post by alimcg on Apr 23, 2006 21:18:06 GMT 10
Just finished Tolkien's Unfinished Tales. Some of them more unfinished than others. Now on to Give The Drummers Some, by Jim Payne. There's a contrast for you. Basically bios and interviews of/with the great funk, soul and r'n'b drummers.
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pk
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Post by pk on Apr 23, 2006 23:25:51 GMT 10
Everything's Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
This guy is good, really different, really worth checking out
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
I love Julian Barnes have done ever since I read Flaubert's Parrot years ago
Collapse by Jonathan Diamond
The stuff on Easter Island is amazing, and also the way people survived on Greenland for centuries before eventually starving to death... good bedtime reading
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aka
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Post by aka on Apr 24, 2006 0:03:37 GMT 10
Hairy Maclairy..the one where he pinches all the shoes/sox /sausages etc...
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Post by shaggaz on Apr 24, 2006 2:51:48 GMT 10
from Donaldsons dairy?
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Post by isaacs on Apr 24, 2006 7:50:44 GMT 10
Harold Bloom "The Western Canon" - reading about all the things I haven't read, but should, and hopefully will one day.
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Post by ladylex on Apr 24, 2006 11:57:52 GMT 10
Does a Batman comic classify as reading?
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kimba
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Post by kimba on Apr 24, 2006 15:14:42 GMT 10
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time --
an incredible story from the perspective of an autistic boy -- quite astounding.
Vernon Godlittle - another teen protagonist, this one is way warped and incredibly written!
Harry Potter and the Half blood prince -- I admit it, I bawled.
Shantaram was a recent winner as well!
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kimba
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Post by kimba on Apr 24, 2006 15:22:41 GMT 10
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time --
an incredible story from the perspective of an autistic boy -- quite astounding.
Vernon Godlittle - another teen protagonist, this one is way warped and incredibly written!
Harry Potter and the Half blood prince -- I admit it, I bawled.
Shantaram was a recent winner as well!
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Post by plunk on Apr 24, 2006 15:25:59 GMT 10
A 1903 edition of the Act of Touch by Tobias Matthay.
Not only great detail in beautiful english, but beautifully thought out as well.
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jamie
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Post by jamie on Apr 24, 2006 17:05:46 GMT 10
Hey PK, yeah collapse was a great read, especially the Easter island stuff.
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Post by ladylex on Apr 24, 2006 19:07:15 GMT 10
PK: just curiously: is Collapse written by Jonathon Dimond the muso? Or is he lucky to have someone else with his name?  PS Im still reading Batman. But Im chuckling over page 156 of Miles Davis' Biography. gee.. who knew chicken could be so .... interesting.. lol |
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Post by mim on Apr 24, 2006 19:09:35 GMT 10
Songs of the Suitcase - Anna Maria Dell'oso (A collection of short stories)
THAT book by Kenny Werner
The Crossing - Kathy Watson - about Matthew Webb, the 1st man to swim the English Channel
Kimba, I've been meaning to read The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night time for aaaaages, it's always on my list, but I forget to buy it or borrow it. Is it something one might read more than once?
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Post by ladylex on Apr 24, 2006 19:13:01 GMT 10
Im staying away from Harry Potter. I'm a sympathy crier - if anyone looks like theyre going to cry.. Im right in there with them. I even cry when sportmen/women get their medals at the olypmics or commonwealth games or something like that.
Sounds like The Curious Incident would make me cry too.
No wonder I read batman comics. He wont make me cry. *sniffle
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Post by ladylex on Apr 24, 2006 19:15:09 GMT 10
Songs of the Suitcase - Anna Maria Dell'oso (A collection of short stories) Hey - I read that. It was an awesome read. I think I cried for that one too. I usually do. Except Stephen King's It. I didnt cry for that one. Just developed an unhealthy fear of clowns instead. |
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