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Book Club - Not Tits, Books
 I just started reading Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi and I'm enjoying it! Jan 06 10 07:13 pm Link  It's basically a diary of this woman's quest to lose weight, but the writing is hysterical. I literally laughed out loud.  Jan 06 10 07:18 pm Link  Jan 06 10 07:55 pm Link Crimson Clover wrote: +1 Everyone should read this book, it's awesome. Jan 06 10 11:12 pm Link  Amusing and informative. Also a fan of everything Mary Roach has written, most especially  which explains the history of, and current and future possibilities for what happens to your body when you die. Also, hilarious and informative. and  Is an amazing amazing book.  was a great book about whores and the crusade on sin in Chicago. Jan 07 10 12:53 am Link  It's about a family that immigrated from Vietnam. But it's not the typical story of immigrants sticking together to make the American dream. Its sections are concisely written, often very poetic, and packed with complexity. It's about the relationship of a daughter to her father, a child dying for freedom, the innocence of children, the loss of a brother, class differences in Vietnam... Stirring and powerful, but a small enough book to read in an afternoon. Fun fact: The author graduated from the same high school as I did. Jan 07 10 01:06 am Link Eric Haywood wrote: I love all things Scottish .. why not their heroin addicts as well Jan 07 10 02:42 am Link Right now im reading: In Defense of Food: An Eaters Manifesto - Eat Food, Not Too Much, Mostly Plants By Michael Pollan A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawkings O'Reilly's Excel Macro Programming in Visual Basic Visionmonger (awesome photog book!) Jan 07 10 05:56 am Link Jennifer Barker wrote: I loved the movie and am going now to Amazon Wish List it Jan 07 10 06:23 am Link From an earlier post of mine: At the beginning of this year, I went on an Irish Holiday (quit drinking), for two months. I read quite a bit during that time and decided to keep a list of the books I would read throughout the year. I had read the Irvingâs previously but the rest were new to me. Some were excellent, some not so much. I plan on going on another Irish Holiday this coming year and would appreciate recommendations from you as to titles worth reading. The list, in order read. 2666 - Roberto Bolaño Recommended Christine Falls - Benjamin Black Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk Conversations with HST - University Press/Missouri Recommended Outlaw Journalist - William McKean The Polysyllabic Spree - Nick Hornby High Fidelity - Nick Hornby A History of Reading - Alberto Manguel Highly Recommended Tom Waits, Wild Years - Jay Jacobs Man in the Dark - Paul Auster Recommended Annals of the Former World - John McPhee Brief Interviews with Hideous Men - David Foster Wallace Recommended Collected Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges The Broom of the System - David Foster Wallace The World According to Garp - John Irving Highly Recommended London Fields - Martin Amis The Cider House Rules - John Irving London, the Biography - Peter Ackroyd The Great Bridge - David McCullough Recommended Nixonland - Rick Perlstein Recommended Alexander Hamilton - Ron Chernow History of Ireland - Malachy McCourt The Wilderness Warrior - Douglas Brinkley The Death of Bunny Monroe - Nick Cave The Secret of Lost Things - Sheridan Hay Books - Larry McMurtry Recommended Last Night in Twisted River - John Irving Looking In: Robert Frank's, The Americans - Sarah Greenough Highly Recommended The Tender Bar - J.R. Moehringer Started but didnât finish. Swannâs Way - Marcel Proust (yawn) Ulysses - James Joyce (need to read Homer first) Three Novels - Samuel Beckett (one down, two to go) Doesnât look like much when written out this way does it? Jan 07 10 07:37 am Link That Chernow biography of Alexander Hamilton is great. Long read, but really awesome. Didn't know much about that dude outside of he was killed in a duel. Jan 07 10 07:39 am Link AJ Sullivan wrote: I quite enjoyed it as well though it bordered on hagiography. Jan 07 10 07:52 am Link Yeah, from other reports I've read, Hamilton was very very very flawed individual and responsibile for a lot of turmoil in early America. McCulloughs "John Adams" bio showcases that a lot, as do some works about Thomas Jefferson. Jan 07 10 08:24 am Link AJ Sullivan wrote: I think McCullough's "John Adams" had many of the same hagiographic tendencies (though it was a great read). Jan 07 10 09:30 am Link MMDesign wrote: I think its partially because the writers get so deeply involved with these characters that its hard to step back and be hyper critical of them at the same time. Plus I think there were enough quotes from John Adams pointing out his own flaws and errors! Jan 07 10 09:57 am Link AJ Sullivan wrote: I agree. McCullough writes history about as interesting as anyone. The Brooklyn Bridge book is another example. I'm reading his "1776" as we... type. Jan 07 10 11:00 am Link Feb 07 10 11:01 am Link Pterigiontuurani wrote: Yes! I have this and the Te of Piglet:) Feb 07 10 11:03 am Link The Plumed Serpent by DH Lawrence Mar 14 10 08:18 pm Link I keep getting excited when I see this thread because the title mentions tits.  Mar 14 10 08:21 pm Link Oh oh oh! I wanna join. I love reading like nothing else. Mar 14 10 08:22 pm Link Corwin Prescott II wrote: Ooo. That sounds interesting. I would ask a few questions, because it has nautilus on the front & you said "and a house that is somehow bigger on the inside than on the outside by a couple inches," but I don't wanna ruin it for others. Mar 14 10 08:36 pm Link Model Sarah wrote: Umm... ouch. My head hurts now. lol Mar 14 10 08:38 pm Link Oh my gosh. Books.  I don't know anyone that does a better job of capturing a person's essence than Carson McCullers. It's so real.  The only book that's made me actually laugh out loud. Multiple times. Plus, I'm in love with Yossarian. *swoon*  My favorite comfort read. Amazing journey. Mar 14 10 08:40 pm Link This book had me from cover to cover.  Mar 14 10 08:43 pm Link Karin Atkinson wrote: I think if I ever see this book, I will buy it. It sounds really good. Mar 14 10 08:47 pm Link  Barbara Tuchman's the Guns of August is easily the best dang nonfiction book I've ever read. Her ability to make known established facts read as a thriller just blows my mind away. Mar 14 10 09:43 pm Link  You'd think that a quest story involving 5 inanimate objects wouldn't get very far but you'd be surprised at how well written & kooky this is. Mar 14 10 09:49 pm Link nathan combs wrote: Ha, I loved Good Omens! Mar 14 10 10:06 pm Link Now reading Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking... Mar 20 10 08:46 pm Link i'll second House of Leaves...i'm a little more than half-way through, but because i can no longer read on the job, i've had to put it down. It's certainly interesting, I'll give it that. There are a few moments you really find yourself a little too sucked into it. I nearly jumped through the roof when the rolling chair i was sitting in moved by itself at one point while reading it. lol i was also making my way through the Hitchhiker's Guide series, and Crime & Punishment. All highly recommended. for a good intro to Dostoevsky:  it's not for everybody...but for a lot of people i think it can hit home on a lot of things. it's basically a retired civil servant being existentialist, philosophizing on the human condition, and how we make ourselves miserable because it's what we really want. Mar 20 10 09:40 pm Link David Sedaris is one of my favorite writers. My friend Lauren gave me his book Naked and I was hooked. His writing is just so amazingly hilarious. Much of his humor is autobiographical and self-deprecating, and often concerns his family life, his middle class upbringing in the suburbs of Raleigh, North Carolina, Greek heritage, various jobs, education, drug use, homosexuality, and his life in France with his partner. I was hooked when I read the chapter in Naked called; Dinah the Christmas Whore.  Mar 21 10 05:11 am Link Rick Edwards wrote: I read this last summer, also from a dogs perspective: Mar 21 10 06:39 pm Link just starting...  Madly by William Benton Mar 23 10 07:44 am Link finished above and below   The World of Sex by Henry Miller Apr 21 10 07:34 pm Link   Apr 21 10 08:37 pm Link  just started... Jun 28 10 05:39 pm Link MMDesign wrote: Bolaño (posthumously) and I have had the same editor. By the way, my first celebrity photograph is of Irving outside his car with his "GARP" license plate showing. Jun 28 10 06:21 pm Link YvonneEmilie wrote: I love this like reading: Jun 28 10 06:49 pm Link  Other than the LOTR series, this is my most often-read story ever. The main characters may be wild rabbits, but you'd never know it. Adams creates their world so that you just fall into it, complete with its own language and mythology - similar to LOTR in that regard. It's a brilliantly-written allegory about survival in the face of human-like tyranny and man's destructive tendencies. Jun 28 10 08:58 pm Link |
