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Post by Fishing Maniac on Aug 12, 2009 11:50:36 GMT -5
The Wanting Seed - Anthony Burgess A dark future where the population is out of control, couples are limited to 1 birht live or dead, the people have no teeth, there is no meet or even food and the gov't promotes homosexuality to keep the population down. Oh yeah there's also a war designed to reduce the population. Similar to 1984 with a different bent. Fits into that whole Fahrenheit 451, brave New World, et. al. category.
Seductive Poison - Deborah Layton. The story of Rev. Jim Jones and the peoples temple. Written by a survivor and member of Jone's inner circle. Reads like fiction. Will blow your mind.
Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer (author of Into the Wild). The history of Mormonism and Mormon fundamentalism told side by side with the story of one of the most tragic religion fueled murders in history. Compelling and informative. Possibly my favorite book.
As you can see, my taste in literature is very dark.
I also really liked: Heyday by Kurt Andersen The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster
Anything by Margaret Atwood
Here is my TBR list: The Northern Clemency by Phillip Hensher The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox Seven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Pearlman 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
Wolfman, have you read The Pillars of the Earth? If not I have a copy I can send you. I seriously need to get rid of some books.
Meg, I think I have some JD Robb @ the house along with hundreds of other authors that aren't really my taste but I acquire books on a daily basis regardless of whether or not I will read them. I will bring you some next month if you want. Dallas wil be thrilled to get some of thmy collection out of the house.
I have read all of Gaiman and Vonnegut, but good recommendations. American Gods is one of my favorites as well. I actually just picked up a book called Hitlers War by Harry Turtledove that has promise.
One from me try Path Between the Seas, by David McCullough. It is a wonderful history of the Panama Canal.
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Meg, I think I have some JD Robb @ the house along with hundreds of other authors that aren't really my taste but I acquire books on a daily basis regardless of whether or not I will read them. I will bring you some next month if you want. Dallas wil be thrilled to get some of thmy collection out of the house.
Oh - that would be awesome - the teenager and I will promise to love you forever. I just unloaded a ton of books onto another friend that needed stuff to read - she left my house with a big box - so I have room for more.
ooh, timley thread, wolfman! I was just thinking this to myself yesterday. All of the books I really want to read on checked out for months at the library so I need some filler material.
Amazon.com Review Bad things come in threes for Toru Okada. He loses his job, his cat disappears, and then his wife fails to return from work. His search for his wife (and his cat) introduces him to a bizarre collection of characters, including two psychic sisters, a possibly unbalanced teenager, an old soldier who witnessed the massacres on the Chinese mainland at the beginning of the Second World War, and a very shady politician.
Haruki Murakami is a master of subtly disturbing prose. Mundane events throb with menace, while the bizarre is accepted without comment. Meaning always seems to be just out of reach, for the reader as well as for the characters, yet one is drawn inexorably into a mystery that may have no solution. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is an extended meditation on themes that appear throughout Murakami's earlier work. The tropes of popular culture, movies, music, detective stories, combine to create a work that explores both the surface and the hidden depths of Japanese society at the end of the 20th century.
If it were possible to isolate one theme in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, that theme would be responsibility. The atrocities committed by the Japanese army in China keep rising to the surface like a repressed memory, and Toru Okada himself is compelled by events to take responsibility for his actions and struggle with his essentially passive nature. If Toru is supposed to be a Japanese Everyman, steeped as he is in Western popular culture and ignorant of the secret history of his own nation, this novel paints a bleak picture. Like the winding up of the titular bird, Murakami slowly twists the gossamer threads of his story into something of considerable weight. --Simon Leake
-When I Hear My Name -Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground -Blue Orchid -Passive Manipulation -Red Rain -Death Letter -My Doorbell -Hotel Yorba -Same Boy You've Always Known -Lovesick -Little Ghost -We're Going to Be Friends -The Hardest Button to Button -Black Math -The Nurse -I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
Encore: -Ball and Biscuit -Seven Nation Army -Screwdriver
Kushiel's series by Jacqueline Carey. And on a non-fiction note I can highly recommend "Mushroom Wisdom", though it is of a spiritual bent and I don't know if that is your thing.
i remember seeing a lot of nods to Stephen King's Dark Tower series from the old book thread, and i can't take the time to go back and crunchy all you folks but i really should. i'm deeply lost in the series at this point. i love it. I just started book 5, the Wolves of Calla.
Thanks for the thread Wolfman. We need to keep one of this up every 6 months or so. I'm looking for some new reading material. I've read most of these but there are a couple I'll try.
I just cleaned out my books. Donated 4 boxes to Goodwill and have 10 boxes to take to a used bookstore (unfortunately the nearest decent one is 30+ miles away. It's a crime that M'boro has no used bookstore.) Need some trade in ideas though.
Hate to get rid of books I might read again but there is a limit to what can be saved and I made some needed room by getting rid of two of my 6 bookcases and emptying some tubs.
A Thieve's Parade 2/24 Conspirator 2/26 Kevin Smith 3/11 Keller 3/17 Papadosio 3/18 JJ Grey 3/25 Bela Fleck/Edgar Meyer 3/26 Toubab Krewe 3/27 O'Death 4/11 Budos Band 4/22 EOTO 4/28 Summer Camp 5/6-29 All Good
6/18: Phish in Hartford 6/25: Phish in Camden 7/2-7/4: Nateva 7/17: God Street Wine at Irving Plaza 7/23-7/25: String Cheese at Red Rocks!! 8/17-8/18: Phish at Jones Beach 9/3: Rush at PNC
This Bonnaroo lineup is in dire need of some Rush.
Post by insidejoke on Aug 19, 2009 16:07:44 GMT -5
Well, dear friends, I am working on the Twilight series. I recently visited Forks, Washington and the Quileute Indian Reservation where the books are set and was hooked once again. You gotta love a hot vampire and a pack of werewolves.