What are you reading right now?

[Moony]

I was just curious to see what my fellow bookworms were into right now.

I've just finished Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke. It's a very strange but interesting book about two English magicians in the last century. A very long read, but it was engaging and enjoyable.

I've also just finished Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh. Funniest book ever! If you've seen the movie, the novel is like everything x10. It's told in a Scottish accent written phonetically, with a lot of odd Scottish slang. Here's a little sample:
"Whoah. Likesay, gaunnae huv tae stoap ye thair, catboy. The O Grades wis bull****, ken? Thought ah'd use that tae git ma fit in the door. Showin initiative, likeseay. Ken?"
(that's one of the more understandable passages..)
There's even a glossary in the back of the book to translate the slang words.
It's radge. (radge = crazy)

As of now, I'm reading Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz. It's about a young man that can see ghosts. It seems pretty cool so far.

:wavey:

[Neal]

I just got Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell in the mail from Amazon yesterday! I'm going to start it tonight, since it'll probably take me 6 months to finish it... :rolleyes:

Last week I finished Christpher Rice's The Snow Garden (which sat on my shelf for almost a year before I got around to it...)

[DrummerDeanna]

I just finished Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (second time reading it) - it was even better then second time around..I LOVE Harry Potter..

I just started reading The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks - I haven't seen the movie yet - and I was buying a journal at a Barnes and Noble when I saw TN at the checkout stand - it was an impluse buy :D

[Moony]

I just got Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell in the mail from Amazon yesterday! I'm going to start it tonight, since it'll probably take me 6 months to finish it... :rolleyes:

Just a word of advice - it starts out rather slow. If you feel like you want to just stop b/c it's too slow for you, don't! LOL. It gets more interesting by like the 6th chapter or so. ;)


I just finished Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (second time reading it) - it was even better then second time around..I LOVE Harry Potter..
I liked the book too, but damn if I didn't want to smack Harry around. The kid was such a whining bastard in this one!

[amber]

Just finished a book called Faerie Tale, by i can't remember. It was good, another real life/fantasy tale. (love those. If anyone else likes them, i recommend Jonathan Carroll, and Elisabeth Hand) But i haven't been able to get a new book, so before i go to bed i've been rereading my Calvin N Hobbes.

[SuzeQuze]

I just finished Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (second time reading it) - it was even better then second time around..I LOVE Harry Potter..

I just started reading The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks - I haven't seen the movie yet - and I was buying a journal at a Barnes and Noble when I saw TN at the checkout stand - it was an impluse buy :D

Ohh, The Notebook is a wonderful story, happy reading! I've read all of Sparks' books (sort of sappy but I like that :p) I didn't see the movie either, but I'd like to. I LOVE HP too!

Right now I'm trying to get through Bill Clinton's autobiography. His childhood was very interesting. I am halfway through it and have stalled with my reading. Anyone get through this one?

[DrummerDeanna]

Ohh, The Notebook is a wonderful story, happy reading! I've read all of Sparks' books (sort of sappy but I like that :p) I didn't see the movie either, but I'd like to. I LOVE HP too!



Yep - I'm a big fan of the sap lol....I have enjoyed what I've read so far - and if I really like it then I can look forward to reading his other books...

Although next in line after the Notebook is The Las of Similars by Chris Bohjalian.

[heyjupiter678]

Last week I finished Christpher Rice's The Snow Garden (which sat on my shelf for almost a year before I got around to it...)
Was it a good book?

I finally finished A Place of Execution by Val McDermid last week, and I haven't decided what's next -- In the Fall by Jeffrey Lent or a re-read of 1984 by George Orwell.

[chiliD]

What are you reading right now?

This thread.



:laugh:

[DrummerDeanna]

I liked the book too, but damn if I didn't want to smack Harry around. The kid was such a whining bastard in this one!

aww..come on he just has all sorts of teenage angst to deal with ;)

Seriously though - Harry is a little pain in the ass like in this one - refusing to listen to Hermione toward the end....that always gets me...

But the one I wanted to slap around in that book was Umbridge - ugh - I HATE that character...I don't think a book character has even inspired so much anger in me haha...

[Neal]

Was it a good book?

I finally finished A Place of Execution by Val McDermid last week, and I haven't decided what's next -- In the Fall by Jeffrey Lent or a re-read of 1984 by George Orwell.

It was decent, but not as good as his first, A Density of Souls, Though no one else seems to agree with me :shrug:

Never read In The Fall, but 1984 is great! :nod:

[DrummerDeanna]

OMG YES! I loved the scene when she was "inspecting" Prof. McGonagall. Ole Minerva doesn't take crap from anyone :laugh: I wanted to squash Umbridge like the little toad she was.

Me too....but I loved the fleeing of Fred and George and the fact that Peeves totally gave her hell....loved that - and I did like how Umbridge was finally handled...though Harry and Hermoine almost got it too...

Umbridge's quill punishment also got to me -that character is pure evil...I think I disliked her more than I do Voldemort lol

McGonagall kicks ass for sure - one of my absolute favorite Hogwarts profs :nod:

[hayley]

LOVE Order of the Phoenix- best HP yet. Each one just gets better and better. Harry's teenage angst drove me a little bit nuts in it as well, but I'm so excited at how dark and scary everything's finally getting. I've reread it a few times, and everytime I read Dumbledore's speech at the end, I get weepy. And Umbridge was such a well-written villain. Ugh, now I want to read it again!

I'm rereading "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" for the millionth time. I love Carson McCullers. Also rereading "Jude the Obscure." Just finished reading "Anna Karenina," which I'd always guilted myself about not reading. I've been trying to smart myself up lately. I'm watching too much TV and feeling like a drooling idiot.

[estranged4life]

Nothing. Didnt start back on Anne Rice's "Blood Canticle" because the print is so small it's hurting my eyes to read...But once I get glasses I will finish it.

Brian j.

[skcin]

Alice Hoffman Blackbird House I LOVE this author, I can actually FEEL her writing.

Some chick, can't remember her name PS - I Love You Kind of sappy for me, but not a bad read - this chick's husband dies when they're still young & he leaves her a list of things she must do every month after he's gone.

Paula

[ThePenguin]

I am reading 'Never Break the Chain: FMac and The Making of Rumours'. It was one of my birthday presents a few days ago. It's not too bad; i am learning some new stuff. However I did spot a couple little mistakes, I'm such a nitpicker. I'm also getting a kick out of seeing this website mentioned in there, and also seeing our names mentioned in the back of the book, very weird! I may have to show that to my parents. :p

-Lis

[princessblair]

The 2004 AP Stylebook for my quiz in advanced public relations....mmmm good stuff!

[hayley]

Alice Hoffman Blackbird House I LOVE this author, I can actually FEEL her writing.

I REALLY like Alice Hoffman. I still haven't read "Blackbird House," but I've been meaning to. Thanks for the reminder.

My favorites of hers are "Practical Magic" (the movie is dreadful in comparison) and "The River King."

Forgot- I've also been reading in pieces "Dangerous Angels" by Francesca Lia Block for about the millionth time.

[amber]

Alice Hoffman Blackbird House I LOVE this author, I can actually FEEL her writing.

Some chick, can't remember her name PS - I Love You Kind of sappy for me, but not a bad read - this chick's husband dies when they're still young & he leaves her a list of things she must do every month after he's gone.

Paula
Alice Hoffman is very good, i have many of her books. :thumbsup: Have not read blackbird house though :(

[GODDESS6]

i just finished "go ask alice" by anonymous, this is like the 20th time i have read it, tho it is sad, i can't stop reading it, for any1 who hasn't ever read it, i highly recommended~ i give it 3 :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

blessed be~

[sara1998]

Gosh, I'm so boring... I'm reading The Power of a Positive Mom. I love reading my mommy books. Always ready for new ideas in motherhood...

[GODDESS6]

Gosh, I'm so boring... I'm reading The Power of a Positive Mom. I love reading my mommy books. Always ready for new ideas in motherhood...

aaawwwwwwww, i LUV mommy books also!!! :] ~

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blessed be~

[amber]

i just finished "go ask alice" by anonymous, this is like the 20th time i have read it, tho it is sad, i can't stop reading it, for any1 who hasn't ever read it, i highly recommended~ i give it 3 :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

blessed be~
Omigosh, i remember when i read that! i was young...maybe, jr. high? I loved it though...I reread books all the time, and the other night, i thought i had finally completed the "Wrinkle in Time" set (if you have kids, or even if you're an adult, you must get these for them/read them yourself) but it turns out I didn't buy Wrinkle in Time like i thought :mad: others are "A swiftly tilting planet" "A wind in the door" and "many waters" many waters is awesome, it goes back to the time of Noah and has so many lessons, and weird thoughts. Masterpieces, all of them. Oh, and don't forget the Narnia books, which i reread all the time! (except, again, i am missing one - The lion, witch, and wardrobe) :mad:

[amber]

Gosh, I'm so boring... I'm reading The Power of a Positive Mom. I love reading my mommy books. Always ready for new ideas in motherhood...
I think it's great you guys are reading those. Everyone who has kids should have to read about raising them, IMO! Kudos to you, not boring at all! God, i wish my mom had occasionally been in a good mood! :laugh:

[ontheEdgeof17]

I'm reading the Bible. I need some spiritual guidance right now. :thumbsup:

[markolas]

I'm reading the Bible. I need some spiritual guidance right now. :thumbsup:

It wouldn't be my first choice for spiritual guidance, but whatever floats your boat. :)

[greatdarkwing]

I *FINALLY* finished "It" by Stephen King...its such a long book it took me forever, plus I was re-reading "'Salem's Lot" at the time too (my fav King book). I think I'm gonna start Christine next, and Ann Coulter's latest.


~Alex

[skcin]

I REALLY like Alice Hoffman. I still haven't read "Blackbird House," but I've been meaning to. Thanks for the reminder.

My favorites of hers are "Practical Magic" (the movie is dreadful in comparison) and "The River King."



The fact that she can make me believe that there COULD be fish still alive in a dead guy's coat pocket is what gets me! It's like, "oh, of course, that makes so much sense" even though it does not. The River King is great, so is P.M.

Blackbird House is different from her others - it's like a collection of short family stories, but they all take place over years & years in the same house.

I've read all of her books, and I have yet to be disappointed, but I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE Blue Diary and Here on Earth.

Paula

[ShamHy89]

Antigone - Sophocles :rolleyes:

Shamus

[jadegypsy]

At the moment I am reading "Interview with the Vampire", just needed a good halloween book a while back.

Also still in the middle of "From Russia with Love, James Bond"

Thinking next book might be "The Amber Room."

I also LOVE Harry Potter, though my fave still remains POA, I really liked Sirius, awful that she had to kill him :mad: Looking forward to the next one being out eventually!

[macmar71]

The Disappearence By J F Freedman

[amber]

Thinking next book might be "The Amber Room."

What's that?

[golddustwoman77]

I'm reading Never Break The Chain: Fleetwood Mac And The Making Of Rumours (The Vinyl Frontier Series) by Cath Carroll.

[jadegypsy]

Amber: Why am I not surprised that you are curious!

It's a Thriller/Mystery like the Da Vinnci Code, but it's by Steve Berry. Should be in a paperback at any major book store...The title refers to a room in Russia that was supposedly made entirly of the gem Amber, and then after WWII it was hidden, hence the search to find it...

[markolas]

I'm reading <i>Opening the Hand of Thought</i> by Kosho Uchiyama Roshi. Sort of an intro book to the practice of Soto Zen Buddhism.

[heyjupiter678]

At the moment I am reading "Interview with the Vampire", just needed a good halloween book a while back.
I love that book. :) But my all-time favorite Anne Rice book is "Witching Hour" -- I usually read it once every year or so.

[Hawkeye]

I'm not a big reader, but I did recently read and liked suprisingly The Killing Season. The only book I've ever truly enjoyed was And Then There Were None, the best book ever.

[amber]

Amber: Why am I not surprised that you are curious!

It's a Thriller/Mystery like the Da Vinnci Code, but it's by Steve Berry. Should be in a paperback at any major book store...The title refers to a room in Russia that was supposedly made entirly of the gem Amber, and then after WWII it was hidden, hence the search to find it...
oh yeah, that room. Cool, i like thriller/mysteries, thanks.

[Mari]

Just finished Stephen Fry's The Hippotamus (sp?? obviously, I read the dutch translation). Very funny :D
Now reading The Black Album by Hanif Kureishi. About a pakistani student in the UK who comes into contact with muslim fundamentalism. So far, quite good.

[RavenOfRhiannon]

I just finished 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire for the 6th (Yes, 6th) time. It's my favorite book. This is the first time I have reread it since the musical debut last year.
Now I am reading 'Sweet Potato Queen's Field Guide to Men' as I met the author last Friday.
HPIV is also floating around on my nightstand for the 3rd time...

Randy

[GateandGarden]

I just got finished with All Quiet on the Western Front, and I'm starting I Had Seen Castles. I've read that one before (years ago), and I remember being more devastated than I was after finishing AQOTWF, so I'm re-reading it so I can compare the two.

Hillary

[GODDESS6]

I just finished 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire for the 6th (Yes, 6th) time. It's my favorite book. This is the first time I have reread it since the musical debut last year.
Now I am reading 'Sweet Potato Queen's Field Guide to Men' as I met the author last Friday.
HPIV is also floating around on my nightstand for the 3rd time...

Randy

holy wow!!!!!!!!~ i have that book & i loved it also :blob1: :nod: :blob1: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!~
fabamundo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!~

blessed be~
jill

[ShamHy89]

It's my favorite book. This is the first time I have reread it since the musical debut last year.
I've only yet heard Defying Gravity but I want to see this musical soon. A friend of mine said it was awesome.

Shamus

[RavenOfRhiannon]

The entire Cast Recording is incredible, as is the show. I have a boot dvd of one of the preview shows, and I have just about worn it out. Can't wait for the national tour in 2005.
(BTW, Kristin Chenoweth, who played G(a)linda, is now a supporting character on The West Wing, my fav. show. It looks like Rhiannon is watching over me.

Randy

[SuzeQuze]

I love that book. :) But my all-time favorite Anne Rice book is "Witching Hour" -- I usually read it once every year or so.

Ooh that book is so good. I don't have my copy anymore but I should get one. I loved that one. It sort of falls apart at the end but the whole book is riveting.

[GateandGarden]

I'm reading Elie Wiesel's Night, but I had to put it down today because it's just beyond devastating. And I get so angry when I remember that my Political science professor said that a small percentage of a American's still deny that the Holocaust happened. :distress:

Hillary

[Moony]

Thought I'd revive this for a bit...

I just finished A Home At The End of The World by Michael Cunningham. Having mixed feelings about it. I'll have to reread, I guess.

Starting on Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides now. It seems promising :)

[amber]

Thought I'd revive this for a bit...

I just finished A Home At The End of The World by Michael Cunningham. Having mixed feelings about it. I'll have to reread, I guess.

Starting on Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides now. It seems promising :)
I love this thread, I was just thinking about it. Last night I just got the third installment of the Anasazi mystery series I've been reading. This one is called "Bone Walker" ooo, *shiver* :laugh: I love these authors. Apparently I like to read Archaeological Native American fiction.... :D *dork*. But at least the authors are archeologists, so the info is correct and all that. It's weird, they have this huuuuuuuge bibliography of research materials for a fiction work.... :thumbsup:

[dissention]

Thought I'd revive this for a bit...

I just finished A Home At The End of The World by Michael Cunningham. Having mixed feelings about it. I'll have to reread, I guess.

Starting on Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides now. It seems promising :)

I LOVE Michael Cunningham. :woohoo: And that book was fabulous. Movie sucked major ass, though, because of the atrocity that is Colin Farrell.

[Moony]

I LOVE Michael Cunningham. :woohoo: And that book was fabulous. Movie sucked major ass, though, because of the atrocity that is Colin Farrell.
...I hated Clare. Such a bitch. :laugh: I've yet to see the movie. I know you detest Farrell, but I kinda like him so :shrug:

I love this thread, I was just thinking about it. Last night I just got the third installment of the Anasazi mystery series I've been reading. This one is called "Bone Walker" ooo, *shiver* I love these authors. Apparently I like to read Archaeological Native American fiction.... *dork*. But at least the authors are archeologists, so the info is correct and all that. It's weird, they have this huuuuuuuge bibliography of research materials for a fiction work....
Those books sound interesting, Amber. I kind of like historical fiction myself :)

[amber]

...I hated Clare. Such a bitch. :laugh: I've yet to see the movie. I know you detest Farrell, but I kinda like him so :shrug:


Those books sound interesting, Amber. I kind of like historical fiction myself :)
yeah, I like it a lot. I'm always watching shows like that, too. If you do happen to pick one up ( :rolleyes: ) I recommend one of the "People of the" books. (People of the Earth, People of the Fire, etc) they're better than the mysteries.
Sounds like I should check out this Michael Cunningham guy. I dunno, though, People of the Raven is coming out in paperback soon... :laugh: :p
Amber "Ancient Mysteries" g.

[dissention]

...I hated Clare. Such a bitch. :laugh: I've yet to see the movie. I know you detest Farrell, but I kinda like him so :shrug:

It's one of very few novels where I liked all of the characters; they were so well-written and fleshed out. The movie is worth seeing for Sissy Spacek and Robin Wright, but that's it. He was at his skanky worst. Couldn't act out of a paper bag. That blasted unibrow drives me to drink.

[dissention]

Sounds like I should check out this Michael Cunningham guy.

He wrote The Hours, which is a masterpiece. The movie butchered it like you wouldn't believe. :cool:

[Serrart]

I've just finished Daughter Of The South by Eudora Welty, which was really beautiful. :thumbsup:

Romy

[amber]

I've just finished Daughter Of The South by Eudora Welty, which was really beautiful. :thumbsup:

Romy
Niiiice. I'll have to read that one.I love this thread, I can refer to it for recommendations! :thumbsup:

[Serrart]

Niiiice. I'll have to read that one.I love this thread, I can refer to it for recommendations! :thumbsup:

It's a great book, but the friend who gave it to me, just made me notice I told the wrong title, the right one in English is The Optimist's daughter :sorry: . I read it in Italian and thought for some reason the original title was different. Anyway, the leading characters, two very different women are really intriguing, and the description of the small city in the South evokes Capote's best stories. Ms. Welty deserved that Pulitzer. :nod:

Romy

[seeker007nmss]

I am reading this post. Does that count?

[dissention]

Anyway, I'm reading The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. I think it might just be a perfect book.

[hayley]

Thought I'd revive this for a bit...

I just finished A Home At The End of The World by Michael Cunningham. Having mixed feelings about it. I'll have to reread, I guess.

Starting on Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides now. It seems promising :)

Middlesex is FANTASTIC. I loved it. I really like Eugenides.

I'm reading Lyndall Gordon's bio of T.S. Eliot, and re-reading "The End of the Affair" by Graham Greene for about the millionth time.

ETA: The Handmaid's Tale is fantastic. Chilling. I think I've read it a million and a half times.

[David]

I'm reading Lyndall Gordon's bio of T.S. Eliot, and re-reading "The End of the Affair" by Graham Greene for about the millionth time.I'm reading a book titled "How to Read a Book" by Mortimer Adler & Charles Van Doren, & another book titled "Ancient Israel" by Professor Orlinsky.

Soon, I will start on "Steamboat Gothic" by Frances Parkinson Keyes.

[dissention]

ETA: The Handmaid's Tale is fantastic. Chilling. I think I've read it a million and a half times.

I picked up the movie today and I'm a little hesitant to watch it because the book is so good. But it has a super cast. I've always wondered what happened to Victoria Tennant.

[hayley]

I picked up the movie today and I'm a little hesitant to watch it because the book is so good. But it has a super cast. I've always wondered what happened to Victoria Tennant.

I was always too scared to watch it. I'm curious to know how you like it.

[dissention]

I was always too scared to watch it. I'm curious to know how you like it.

I'm going to watch it tonight, along with The Minus Man with Owen Wilson (<333333333), so I'll let you know if it's any good tomorrow. :wavey:

[LikeAWillow]

:wavey: Hi guys, this is my first post here on The Ledge! I just finished reading A Cold Heart by Jonathan Kellerman, which I thought was good, and i'm usually not that big of a fan of his.



~Marissa~

[amber]

:wavey: Hi guys, this is my first post here on The Ledge! I just finished reading A Cold Heart by Jonathan Kellerman, which I thought was good, and i'm usually not that big of a fan of his.



~Marissa~
Nice to meet you, Welcome! :wavey: :woohoo: :)

[macfanken]

Thought I'd revive this for a bit...

I just finished A Home At The End of The World by Michael Cunningham. Having mixed feelings about it. I'll have to reread, I guess.

Starting on Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides now. It seems promising :)


I really liked A Home At The End Of The World, although it kind of fell apart for me towards the end. Middlesex is on my list of books to read.

I'm currently reading Choke by Chuck Palahniuk.

[irishgrl]

Ohh, The Notebook is a wonderful story, happy reading! I've read all of Sparks' books (sort of sappy but I like that :p) I didn't see the movie either, but I'd like to. I LOVE HP too!

Right now I'm trying to get through Bill Clinton's autobiography. His childhood was very interesting. I am halfway through it and have stalled with my reading. Anyone get through this one?

I too found his growing up years (including post college) interesting (I am at the part where he and Hillary moved in together) and for some reason I am not moving forward (tho my life is kinda chaotic right now)

Authors I read over and over: Marion Zimmer Bradley, the Avalon series.
Roger Zelazny, the Chronicles of Amber, Diana Gabaldon, Butterfly in Amber/Outlander/Voyager/Drums of Autumn (I want a Jamie Frasier of my OWN! HUBBA HUBBA)

I just finished Da Vinci Code, the Red Tent, and Digital Fortress. I think Dan Brown is AWESOME. Truly.

[GateandGarden]

Welcome to The Ledge, Marissa! :wavey: :)

Right now, I'm finishing up Solomon Northup's Twelve Years a Slave, which is pretty depressing, and Bev Marshall's Right as Rain (again). After that, it's on to Ellen Gilchrist's I, Rhoda Manning, Go Hunting with my Daddy. (For class).

[Moony]

I'm going to watch it tonight, along with The Minus Man with Owen Wilson (<333333333), so I'll let you know if it's any good tomorrow. :wavey:
OH, jeeze...Minus Man was so ..stupid. :laugh:

I really liked A Home At The End Of The World, although it kind of fell apart for me towards the end. Middlesex is on my list of books to read.

I'm currently reading Choke by Chuck Palahniuk.
:thumbsup: Choke is a good read. Twisted, weird, but good.

That was kind of my problem with Home as well. I just didn't like how it turned out. And I still hate Clare. :p

[dissention]

OH, jeeze...Minus Man was so ..stupid. :laugh:

:eek: You are officially stripped of all your Princess Points!

I <3 the movie (like the book better, tho). Janeane Garofalo and Owen Wilson rocked. And so did Brian Cox and Mercedes Ruehl. Hell, even Sheryl Crow rocked. Such a good flick. :p

And I still hate Clare. :p

She hates you, too. :p

[Moony]

:eek: You are officially stripped of all your Princess Points!

Princess Points??? :laugh:


She hates you, too. :p
I'm sure she would. She'd probably find something wrong with me...too boring or something :laugh:

[dissention]

Princess Points??? :laugh:

You've never seen Too Wong Foo?! :laugh:

HYSTERICAL movie. Patrick Swayze in drag. :D

I'm sure she would. She'd probably find something wrong with me...too boring or something :laugh:

Everyone is boring to the rest of the world, dear. Fact of life, I suppose. :laugh:

[irishgrl]

The Southern Belle's Handbook : Sissy LeBlanc's Rules to Live By

by Loraine Despres

[Moony]

You've never seen Too Wong Foo?! :laugh:

HYSTERICAL movie. Patrick Swayze in drag. :D

:eek: Isn't Wesley Snipes in that one as well? Sounds scary, not hysterical :laugh:

[dissention]

:eek: Isn't Wesley Snipes in that one as well? Sounds scary, not hysterical :laugh:

Well, I do love my queens, after all. :o

Yeah, Snipes is in it, as is Stockard Channing, Robin Williams, and John Leguizamo. :thumbsup: It's a total rip-off of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, but it's still hilarious.

[Brwn_eyes0511]

I'm reading "The Burning Bed". I have to write a report on it for my Criminal Law class! I have always loved the TV Movie (Farrah should have gotten that Emmy!), but I never have read the book until now! It's pretty good and I have enjoyed it thus far.

[GretaRhiannon]

I'm reading Wuthering Heights

[CreepingDeath]

I'm currently reading Dante's Inferno. I read it once before when I was in high school, but decided to give it another go. A couple days ago I took one of those "which level of hell would you end up in" tests. I got the 5th. :angel: :o

[estranged4life]

except for everyone else's posts to this thread...Was reading the lyrics to the new Judas Priest release "Angel of Retribution".

[Brwn_eyes0511]

I'm reading Wuthering Heights

Love that book! British Lit. rocks!

[GretaRhiannon]

Love that book! British Lit. rocks!

Yes it does! Frankenstein is my fave book lol

[dissention]

I'm reading "The Burning Bed". I have to write a report on it for my Criminal Law class! I have always loved the TV Movie (Farrah should have gotten that Emmy!), but I never have read the book until now! It's pretty good and I have enjoyed it thus far.

I read that when I was in elementary school. My mother and my teachers were pissed.

It's sooooooooo bad, but you can't put it down.

[golddustwoman77]

Chronicles, Vol. 1 by Bob Dylan

I'm sure that I won't be much closer to know anything about Bob after reading this book; you never know when he is telling the truth and when he isn't. He is such a mystery. It is still an interesting read though. I would recommend it.

[DrummerDeanna]

lol- I'm reading The Little HOuse on the Prairie books because I never have :laugh:

Right now I"m reading "These Happy Golden Years" - then I only have one more to go to finish the series...they're great old books..can't believe I never read them as a kid :p

After that I'm going to read War of the Worlds...which has nothing to do with the crappy movie soon to come out - I just realized the other day that I've never read any H.G. Wells - so I got a book that has four novels in it :D

[hayley]

lol- I'm reading The Little HOuse on the Prairie books because I never have :laugh:

Right now I"m reading "These Happy Golden Years" - then I only have one more to go to finish the series...they're great old books..can't believe I never read them as a kid :p


"These Happy Golden Years" is my favorite, for some reason. I never watched the show at all, so I have no clue who the actor that played him is, but I had the biggest crush on Almanzo. I think it's the only one that I still own.

I went on a major kick rereading all of the Anne books by L.M. Montgomery a few months ago.

[Brwn_eyes0511]

lol- I'm reading The Little HOuse on the Prairie books because I never have :laugh:

Right now I"m reading "These Happy Golden Years" - then I only have one more to go to finish the series...they're great old books..can't believe I never read them as a kid :p

After that I'm going to read War of the Worlds...which has nothing to do with the crappy movie soon to come out - I just realized the other day that I've never read any H.G. Wells - so I got a book that has four novels in it :D

The Little House on the Prairie books are so much better than the series! When I was in 1st grade, my teacher would always read us the books after lunch. God I miss my youth! :cool: I had never seen the show until after I became familiar with the books, and the show was not how I pictured the characters in my head!

[DrummerDeanna]

"These Happy Golden Years" is my favorite, for some reason. I never watched the show at all, so I have no clue who the actor that played him is, but I had the biggest crush on Almanzo. I think it's the only one that I still own.

I went on a major kick rereading all of the Anne books by L.M. Montgomery a few months ago.


So far On the Shores of Silver Lake has been my favorite - but I'm now really enjoying These Happy Golden Years :D

The episodes of the show where Laura meets Almanzo have always been my favorite - and though the book is different from the series...I love them both....:D

So yeah - I don't know that the books are "better" than the series - they are just different - I love them both....I absolutely adore the show - and actually I think ABC is coming out with another Little House show - based on the books - like they are actually going to follow the books more closely so I'm anxious for that to come out :D

[dissention]

I was always too scared to watch it. I'm curious to know how you like it.

Well, good news. It wasn't the bust I thought it would be. I found it quite disturbing to actually see the things described in the novel, especially the hangings. And Faye Dunaway was chilling. They changed the ending, though, but it didn't bother me too much.

[GateandGarden]

Setting Them Straight: You CAN do something about homophobia in your life by Betty Berzon, PH.D.How is that? I bought it and started it but never really got into it because I started reading stuff for school. Are you enjoying it? Is it telling you things you didn't already know, or is it the same old stuff?

[Serrart]

I'm currently reading Dante's Inferno. I read it once before when I was in high school, but decided to give it another go. A couple days ago I took one of those "which level of hell would you end up in" tests. I got the 5th. :angel: :o

Tough level :( , a lot of irritable people there, you're immersed in stinky mud and the punishment is really hard to take. I'd recommend the second, though, it's for those guilty of lust. The wind is annoying but the people is generally nice. :D

Romy

[GateandGarden]

Tough level :( , a lot of irritable people there, you're immersed in stinky mud and the punishment is really hard to take. I'd recommend the second, though, it's for those guilty of lust. The wind is annoying but the people is generally nice. :D

Romy:laugh::lol:

[Serrart]

I read that when I was in elementary school. My mother and my teachers were pissed.

Where did you find it?

Romy

[CreepingDeath]

Tough level :( , a lot of irritable people there, you're immersed in stinky mud and the punishment is really hard to take. I'd recommend the second, though, it's for those guilty of lust. The wind is annoying but the people is generally nice. :D

Romy

:lol:

I don't really know why I ended up in the 5th anyway. I'm not that bad. A few of my friends got the 9th, so compared to them I'm positively tame.

[Serrart]

:lol:

I don't really know why I ended up in the 5th anyway. I'm not that bad. A few of my friends got the 9th, so compared to them I'm positively tame.

I'd sign for the 5th anyday to avoid the 9th. There you 're stuck in the ice or become Lucifer's appetizer. At least in the fifth there's someone to speak to. :)

Romy

[dissention]

Where did you find it?

Romy

The public library. :laugh:

[ShamHy89]

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
(school)

Shamus

[GODDESS6]

"garden of shadows" by vc andrews the 5th & final in the "flowers in the attic" series~
tho i have read other book by vc andrews & loved them, i had never read these 1st books she had written, i have however many, many times seen the movie "flowers in the attic" where the wretched louise fletcher plays the ruthless "grandmother"<<< gr8 movie~ i decided 2 read this series & can't put them down, they r fabamundo!!! :thumbsup: ~

[Miss Vicky]

"Blast From the Past" by Ben Elton.

Found this one in the $1.00 clearance bin (and its a hardcover!) at my local bookstore and recognized the author's name as being one of the writers from Blackadder.

The book is not at all what I was expecting but is very very good. :thumbsup:

[GateandGarden]

So far, I have read the first chapter and introduction only. It is an interesting read. Doesn't make me feel particularly "empowered" but then again I don't know what will. Of course, there may be more to the book than the first chapter. Stranger things have happened. :laugh::laugh: All right. You'll have to let me know if it moved you or not whenever you finish it. :nod:

[dissention]

"garden of shadows" by vc andrews the 5th & final in the "flowers in the attic" series~
tho i have read other book by vc andrews & loved them, i had never read these 1st books she had written, i have however many, many times seen the movie "flowers in the attic" where the wretched louise fletcher plays the ruthless "grandmother"<<< gr8 movie~ i decided 2 read this series & can't put them down, they r fabamundo!!! :thumbsup: ~

:thumbsup:

I loved the Dollanganger series when I was a teenager, I read them all. :nod: My favorites were Petals On the Wind (the TRASHIEST one!) and If There Be Thorns. Julian and Cathy cracked me up in Petals, they were such sluts. :laugh: The return of Corrine in Thorns was awesome, but I hated how she burned to death at the end. I was hoping Bart would die in the fire. :laugh:

VC Andrews is so weird and it's hard to believe that the only books she actually wrote herself were the Dollanganger ones and a few other ones in the 80s. She was obsessed with incest, man. :laugh:

[DrummerDeanna]

You know - I always feel like though I read a lot- I'm really lacking on intelligent reading you know?

I read a lot of novels...but I always feel like I should take the effort to read classics or just something more intelligent to like keep up the learning or whatever...sigh - I just don't know where to start....:shrug:

but then I think...well hey - at least I read a lot of people don't read at all...

[David]

I read a lot of novels...but I always feel like I should take the effort to read classics or just something more intelligent to like keep up the learning or whatever...sigh - I just don't know where to start.I recommend starting with Bernard De Voto's "Across the Wide Missouri," a beautifully researched & written exploration of the fur trading among the Americans, British & French during the days of the early Republic.

I named my dog Benny in honor of Professor De Voto, & I joined the Oregon-California Trails Association many years ago as an homage to De Voto's "1846: The Year of Decision."

Come join me on the Overland Emigrant Trail!

[DrummerDeanna]

I recommend starting with Bernard De Voto's "Across the Wide Missouri," a beautifully researched & written exploration of the fur trading among the Americans, British & French during the days of the early Republic.

I named my dog Benny in honor of Professor De Voto, & I joined the Oregon-California Trails Association many years ago as an homage to De Voto's "1846: The Year of Decision."

Come join me on the Overland Emigrant Trail!


Thanks for the suggestion - I'm excited because today on something I was listening to they profiled a book on the Spanish Armada that sounds absolutely fascinating....:D

[Sugar]

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

[skcin]

You know - I always feel like though I read a lot- I'm really lacking on intelligent reading you know?

I read a lot of novels...but I always feel like I should take the effort to read classics or just something more intelligent to like keep up the learning or whatever...sigh - I just don't know where to start....:shrug:

but then I think...well hey - at least I read a lot of people don't read at all...

Oh my gosh, I feel the same way! I always think I should be reading something...I don't know, better? But on the other hand, I have a couple of friends that don't read anything! :shocked: That is just unbelievable to me.

I like to pick up a book, read the jacket & decide if I think I will enjoy it or not. So yes, I DO judge a book by its cover. :laugh: And I've gotten over finishing a book just because I started it. It doesn't happen often, but if I'm not into it after the first couple of chapters, forget it. Why waste my time?

I've had a dry spell on reading lately. Haven't found anything that I really like. I have a book from the library called "The Trees of Eden" right now, but I can't seem to get into it. :shrug:

[DrummerDeanna]

Oh my gosh, I feel the same way! I always think I should be reading something...I don't know, better? But on the other hand, I have a couple of friends that don't read anything! :shocked: That is just unbelievable to me.

I like to pick up a book, read the jacket & decide if I think I will enjoy it or not. So yes, I DO judge a book by its cover. :laugh: And I've gotten over finishing a book just because I started it. It doesn't happen often, but if I'm not into it after the first couple of chapters, forget it. Why waste my time?

I've had a dry spell on reading lately. Haven't found anything that I really like. I have a book from the library called "The Trees of Eden" right now, but I can't seem to get into it. :shrug:

I'm the same way - if I don't get into it then it's out - although I couldn't get into Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil at first -and it ended up being one of my favorite books!!

Still - I also judge books by their covers lol...I used to go into this old used bookstore and randomly select books based on their covers - I found some interesting reads that way :nod:

Now though - my selection process is a tad more refined...

And I, too, know people who don't read anything at all - which I could never do - my life seems incomplete if I'm not reading something - I mean right now I'm reading the Little House Books...but at least I'm reading :)

AND - I just got two free books at work, Founding Mothers - by Cokie Roberts and The Orientalist by Ton Reiss :D

[CreepingDeath]

I just finished with Dante's Imfeno.

I'm currently reading A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking and The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Also, I decided to read Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix again to brush up my memory for when The Half Blood Prince comes out. Yep. I'm a geek. :o

[DrummerDeanna]

I just finished with Dante's Imfeno.

I'm currently reading A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking and The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Also, I decided to read Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix again to brush up my memory for when The Half Blood Prince comes out. Yep. I'm a geek. :o


:laugh: I just finished re-reading Order of the Phoenix recently...it was way better the second time around :blob1: I can't WAIT for Half Blood Prince!!!

[CreepingDeath]

:laugh: I just finished re-reading Order of the Phoenix recently...it was way better the second time around :blob1: I can't WAIT for Half Blood Prince!!!

I can't wait for HBP either. :thumbsup:


I'm not too far into the Order of the Phoenix yet, but it does seem better the second time. I forgot what an evil cow Umbridge was. :eek:

[Moony]

I
and The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien.

:thumbsup: One of my favorite books ever.

Along with Middlesex I'm also reading The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe. :woohoo:

[Gailh]

I just finished Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (second time reading it) - it was even better then second time around..I LOVE Harry Potter..

I love Harry Potter too! I'm trying (and mainly failing) to combine that and improving my french by reading the books in french. I'm up to The Prisoner of Azkaban but it's getting tough. You do get to learn cool phrases like Baguette Magique (Magic Wand)

Gail

[DrummerDeanna]

I can't wait for HBP either. :thumbsup:


I'm not too far into the Order of the Phoenix yet, but it does seem better the second time. I forgot what an evil cow Umbridge was. :eek:


Oh I know...I LOATHE her character....such utter hatred for Umbridge...but it makes what the Weasley boys do even better :D :thumbsup: I love Fred and George :D

[CreepingDeath]

:blob2: :thumbsup:

HBP cover ( http://www.mugglenet.com/viewer/?image_location=harrypotter6_HR.jpg)

[SuzeQuze]

I'm reading <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/034544177X/qid=1110478423/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-8123165-3402411">All Souls, A Family Story from Southie</a> and Suze Orman's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1573222976/ref%3Dnosim/suzeormanmedi-20/002-8123165-3402411">The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous and Broke</a>. I'm really digging both of these! I just got them yesterday. However, I am still only halfway through Clinton's autobio and Great Expectations. So I've got a lot going on. I think All Souls will get me back into reading becuase it is a modern story, and it has a sociological tone so I will naturally be sucked right into it. :thumbsup:

[dissention]

I'm reading <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/034544177X/qid=1110478423/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-8123165-3402411">All Souls, A Family Story from Southie</a> and Suze Orman's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1573222976/ref%3Dnosim/suzeormanmedi-20/002-8123165-3402411">The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous and Broke</a>. I'm really digging both of these! I just got them yesterday. However, I am still only halfway through Clinton's autobio and Great Expectations. So I've got a lot going on. I think All Souls will get me back into reading becuase it is a modern story, and it has a sociological tone so I will naturally be sucked right into it. :thumbsup:

I WORSHIP SUZE ORMAN. :woohoo:

That is all...

[SuzeQuze]

I WORSHIP SUZE ORMAN. :woohoo:

That is all...

I wish you had seen the talk then! She is stunning in person! She almost didn't show because of the weather but I told her I was glad she did because my Mom and I had taken the day off to see her. :D

The book is great and even has a companion Web site. You answer 20 questions and then you get a task to complete. Then you revise your answers and get another. It is good for people like me who have trouble focusing. :]

[dissention]

I wish you had seen the talk then! She is stunning in person! She almost didn't show because of the weather but I told her I was glad she did because my Mom and I had taken the day off to see her. :D

The book is great and even has a companion Web site. You answer 20 questions and then you get a task to complete. Then you revise your answers and get another. It is good for people like me who have trouble focusing. :]

:thumbsup: I went to a talk she held in Connecticut last year and I learned a helluva lot. I always scour my Suze books and software come tax season because she always gets me a big refund. :laugh: Been following her advice/books since, cripes, 1998 I think. She's a gem!

[SuzeQuze]

:thumbsup: I went to a talk she held in Connecticut last year and I learned a helluva lot. I always scour my Suze books and software come tax season because she always gets me a big refund. :laugh: Been following her advice/books since, cripes, 1998 I think. She's a gem!

Next time I will be taking a notebook and taking notes. :D She was like, "I never married, and never had children, which is why I still have all my money." :laugh: The gem spouted lots of little gems!

[dissention]

Next time I will be taking a notebook and taking notes. :D She was like, "I never married, and never had children, which is why I still have all my money." :laugh: The gem spouted lots of little gems!

:lol:

Have you ever watched her show on CNBC Saturday nights? She is a RIOT!!!!!!

[SuzeQuze]

:lol:

Have you ever watched her show on CNBC Saturday nights? She is a RIOT!!!!!!

No I haven't. I felt like I OD'd on her. But then she wrote this perfect book for my generation and I am back to fandom. :thumbsup: Plus I am finally ready to deal with my money (see shopping thread) issues. :rolleyes: So I will probably tune in now, I never thought she would be so entertaining!

Also, I'm hazy on the details but she said she was recently consulted by folks high up in the treasury. They wanted her advice on America's money attitudes and such. This woman has become quite powerful!

[dissention]

No I haven't. I felt like I OD'd on her. But then she wrote this perfect book for my generation and I am back to fandom. :thumbsup: Plus I am finally ready to deal with my money (see shopping thread) issues. :rolleyes: So I will probably tune in now, I never thought she would be so entertaining!

Also, I'm hazy on the details but she said she was recently consulted by folks high up in the treasury. They wanted her advice on America's money attitudes and such. This woman has become quite powerful!

Because she knows her ****! :laugh:

I hate dealing with money, I loathe paying bills, and I just wish money would grow on trees. But it doesn't and the next best thing is Suze. Her tax tips are ace, she's saved me a helluva lot of money over the years. My first year out of college, I got refunds that came to a total of over four grand. That was a happy week at my place. :laugh:

[SuzeQuze]

Because she knows her ****! :laugh:

I hate dealing with money, I loathe paying bills, and I just wish money would grow on trees. But it doesn't and the next best thing is Suze. Her tax tips are ace, she's saved me a helluva lot of money over the years. My first year out of college, I got refunds that came to a total of over four grand. That was a happy week at my place. :laugh:

WOW. Where do you get her tax advice? I sure could use some. I always take the standard deduction. The year I was out of work I tried to itemize everything and it didn't exceed the standard deduction. I probably screwed myself. Stupid tax man. :mad:

[DrummerDeanna]

Because she knows her ****! :laugh:

I hate dealing with money, I loathe paying bills, and I just wish money would grow on trees. But it doesn't and the next best thing is Suze. Her tax tips are ace, she's saved me a helluva lot of money over the years. My first year out of college, I got refunds that came to a total of over four grand. That was a happy week at my place. :laugh:


I've always wondered what Suze Orman did :laugh: Seriously - I know who she is - what she looks like - I've never paid attention or know what the hell her purpose was..or what she was all about...

now you guys have my curiosity piqued :D I am first off - putting off taxes because I fear they will be UGLY this year (last year I had three jobs in three different states ) - blah

Also I totally don't do well with money issues - I'm not in deep trouble there but I could use some help ya know - so I think I'll start educating myself on Suze Orman :p

[dissention]

WOW. Where do you get her tax advice? I sure could use some. I always take the standard deduction. The year I was out of work I tried to itemize everything and it didn't exceed the standard deduction. I probably screwed myself. Stupid tax man. :mad:

She has a software out with Quicken that's REALLY good. :nod: I always use tha tbefore anything because it automatically deducts stuff that could be considered for work and the like. It's REALLY thorough. Some of the books with good tips are Suze's Financial Guidebook, You've Earned It Don't Lose It, The Road To Wealth, and Ask Suze. She also has lots of videos that you could probably get from the library and she has some great exclusive books and stuff when she goes on QVC. :thumbsup:

[SuzeQuze]

She has a software out with Quicken that's REALLY good. :nod: I always use tha tbefore anything because it automatically deducts stuff that could be considered for work and the like. It's REALLY thorough. Some of the books with good tips are Suze's Financial Guidebook, You've Earned It Don't Lose It, The Road To Wealth, and Ask Suze. She also has lots of videos that you could probably get from the library and she has some great exclusive books and stuff when she goes on QVC. :thumbsup:

:cool: I've only read 9 steps to financial freedom and courage to be rich. I didn't realize she had software out there, that is good to know. I love software that does stuff for me!

I remembered another funny thing she said, "I'm 54, don't I look good?" Crowd agrees. "You wouldn't say that if I were standing up here naked." :eek: :laugh:

[SuzeQuze]

I've always wondered what Suze Orman did :laugh: Seriously - I know who she is - what she looks like - I've never paid attention or know what the hell her purpose was..or what she was all about...

now you guys have my curiosity piqued :D I am first off - putting off taxes because I fear they will be UGLY this year (last year I had three jobs in three different states ) - blah

Also I totally don't do well with money issues - I'm not in deep trouble there but I could use some help ya know - so I think I'll start educating myself on Suze Orman :p

Cool. I would start with her latest book that is targeted at us (20s through 35ish). It is laid out very nicely and not at all intimidating. Plus the content seems really straighforward and practical.

And 3 jobs in 3 states? :eek: I feel for ya. :wavey: I've been putting mine off and I've just had the one in one state.

[dissention]

:cool: I've only read 9 steps to financial freedom and courage to be rich. I didn't realize she had software out there, that is good to know. I love software that does stuff for me!

I remembered another funny thing she said, "I'm 54, don't I look good?" Crowd agrees. "You wouldn't say that if I were standing up here naked." :eek: :laugh:

:lol::lol::lol:

She says stuff like that all the time on her show! She once said "I've loaned family members money and I have a better chance of naturally growing Anna Nicole's breasts than getting any of it back." :shocked:

[strandinthewind]

:lol::lol::lol:

She says stuff like that all the time on her show! She once said "I've loaned family members money and I have a better chance of naturally growing Anna Nicole's breasts than getting any of it back." :shocked:

Liten to the voice of experience here - unless someone, relatives included, signs a contract - consider the money a gift not a loan and you can then only be surprised when the 10% of all donees actually pay you back :laugh:

[DrummerDeanna]

Cool. I would start with her latest book that is targeted at us (20s through 35ish). It is laid out very nicely and not at all intimidating. Plus the content seems really straighforward and practical.

And 3 jobs in 3 states? :eek: I feel for ya. :wavey: I've been putting mine off and I've just had the one in one state.


lol....well I finished college in 2004 - I had a job there in NM - then I moved to DC for a summer (paid) internship...which NO state taxes were taken out of) - THEN I moved to New York and now have this job....my tax stuff is a mess and I don't even want to deal with it - so I'm going to go to a service for the first time ever.

I will totally check out her latest book....what is the title? I'm all for something that's not intimidating and won't make me feel like a complete idiot for spending too much money on things I don't need :laugh:

[amber]

lol....well I finished college in 2004 - I had a job there in NM - then I moved to DC for a summer (paid) internship...which NO state taxes were taken out of) - THEN I moved to New York and now have this job....my tax stuff is a mess and I don't even want to deal with it - so I'm going to go to a service for the first time ever.

I will totally check out her latest book....what is the title? I'm all for something that's not intimidating and won't make me feel like a complete idiot for spending too much money on things I don't need :laugh:
It might... :lol: She was on PBS AGAIN last night (I? Can't get away from the woman! :laugh: Our PBS is apparently all Suze, all the time...) anyway, she was talking from her new book, and she was all "work late, work all the time, be the first one there in the morning, if they ask you to come in at 8, come in at 7, Don't leave till 7 at night, make yourself the most valuable employee there. Do not ask for a raise." :lol: And then she was talking about Credit cards, and she was like "A good use of a credit card is going to the store to buy groceries. A bad use is buying takeout or eating at a restaurant. A good use is buying a car, or fixing your car that will get you to work. A bad use is..." etc. She was just saying, basically, what everyone already knows but that is hard to do!!! :laugh: :p :wavey:

[SuzeQuze]

lol....well I finished college in 2004 - I had a job there in NM - then I moved to DC for a summer (paid) internship...which NO state taxes were taken out of) - THEN I moved to New York and now have this job....my tax stuff is a mess and I don't even want to deal with it - so I'm going to go to a service for the first time ever.

I will totally check out her latest book....what is the title? I'm all for something that's not intimidating and won't make me feel like a complete idiot for spending too much money on things I don't need :laugh:

Haha, cute. She won't either. One of the other funny things she said yesterday was, "By all means get your Starbucks. I know I have advised people not to go there and to save $4 a day which translates into $1460 a year but it isn't that simple. You go through your days, working hard, depriving yourself of Starbucks. Then you go shopping and you see a $1,000 handbag and you think 'I can't even get my Starbucks, I work my tail off, I deserve that handbag.' And you buy it. For god's sake, GET YOUR STARBUCKS." :laugh:

It's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1573222976/qid=1110496733/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-8123165-3402411">The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous and Broke</a>. She also has a website, www.suzeorman.com.

[amber]

Haha, cute. She won't either. One of the other funny things she said yesterday was, "By all means get your Starbucks. I know I have advised people not to go there and to save $4 a day which translates into $1460 a year but it isn't that simple. You go through your days, working hard, depriving yourself of Starbucks. Then you go shopping and you see a $1,000 handbag and you think 'I can't even get my Starbucks, I work my tail off, I deserve that handbag.' And you buy it. For god's sake, GET YOUR STARBUCKS." :laugh:

It's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1573222976/qid=1110496733/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-8123165-3402411">The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous and Broke</a>. She also has a website, www.suzeorman.com.
That is different from what I heard her saying on PBS last night. JUst so you know. I'll have to watch again, god knows it will be on probably about 25 more times this week. :lol:

[dissention]

I will totally check out her latest book....what is the title? I'm all for something that's not intimidating and won't make me feel like a complete idiot for spending too much money on things I don't need :laugh:

The Money Book For the Young, Fabulous, and Broke!
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1573222976/qid=1110497046/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/002-7821841-5236840?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

I got it last week, but I haven't read it yet. Should be good, though. :nod:

[dissention]

It's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1573222976/qid=1110496733/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-8123165-3402411">The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous and Broke</a>. She also has a website, www.suzeorman.com.

Oops, didn't your post, Suze. :o

[macmar71]

Heather Graham If Looks Could Kill

[SuzeQuze]

Oops, didn't your post, Suze. :o

No problem. With all this promotion, I think we need to get on Suze's payroll!

I haven't gotten past chapter one of the book because I'm caught up in All Souls which is really interesting.

Gotta hit it, 'night all! :wavey:

[dissention]

Soooooooo...

I was given Suze's "FICO Kit" for my birthday. :laugh: It comes with three FICO scores, three credit bureau reports, a lifetime discount of 15% on the FICO scores after the three, and a bunch of different software. I was going to do it today, but I'm too lazy to get all the paperwork out to do it. :cool:

[SuzeQuze]

Soooooooo...

I was given Suze's "FICO Kit" for my birthday. :laugh: It comes with three FICO scores, three credit bureau reports, a lifetime discount of 15% on the FICO scores after the three, and a bunch of different software. I was going to do it today, but I'm too lazy to get all the paperwork out to do it. :cool:

I've gotta get my Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare form witnessed and notarized and then I am on to FICO. :eek:

So your kit comes with "gift certificates" to get your scores one time from each credit bureau? :cool: And it's the day after your birthday, be lazy dammit! :laugh:

I'm still reading All Souls. Right now I'm at the part where Southie has to go through forced bussing. What an absolute nightmare mess that was. :distress:

[amber]

Hee. I just now finished it. I'm pretty sure that's a new record for me. A book in 2 hours.

Anyway. Anthem? Awesome.
Is that Ayn Rand's Anthem?

[dissention]

Yep. :)

I started 1984 today. I tried to read it a while ago (7th grade, I think) but never really got into it.

:thumbsup: That's one of my favorite books. You should read The Handmaid's Tale immediately after you finish 1984. I read them one after the other and it's incredibly chilling.

[amber]

Yep. :)

I started 1984 today. I tried to read it a while ago (7th grade, I think) but never really got into it.
Oh. I despise her politics, but I really like her books. My favorite is Atlas Shrugged, you would probably enjoy that.

[GODDESS6]

Hee. I'm mainly reading 1984 because I L.O.V.E.D. Animal Farm (my favorite book everrrr!!!). And there's the whole "it sounds interesting" part. But mainly because Animal Farm was hella tight. But feel free to keep piling books on me ;P

After this I want to read, in no particular order:
Brave New World
Wicked (I got it a year or so ago and haven't read it)
The Fountainhead
Atlas Shrugged

I'm going to be a reading whore. :eek:
i just read wicked & LUVED it, now i am reading
looking for mr. goodbar~

[amber]

Yay! I got my new "People of the (Raven)" book! I had to get the hardback, cause the paperback comes out in August, and I couldn't wait. Anyways, this one is cool, because part of the fictional story is based on the "Kennewick Man" discovered on the NW coast. It is a 9000 year old Caucasoid skull they found, which is monumental cause they didn't know about white people in the area at that time. Unfortunately, as the forward told me, there was much opposition to it being studied by Native American religious fundamentalist (gosh, religious fundamentalists are never good, are they? :laugh: ) and they had to rebury it and covered it with tons of dirt, Cause of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. Anyway, this one should be great...Again, set about 9000 years ago in the pacific NW.... :p Aren't you all just drooling at the prospect of archeological fiction??? :laugh:

[GypsySorcerer]

Hee. I'm mainly reading 1984 because I L.O.V.E.D. Animal Farm (my favorite book everrrr!!!). And there's the whole "it sounds interesting" part. But mainly because Animal Farm was hella tight. But feel free to keep piling books on me ;P

After this I want to read, in no particular order:
Brave New World
Wicked (I got it a year or so ago and haven't read it)
The Fountainhead
Atlas Shrugged

I'm going to be a reading whore. :eek:

I love Brave New World. It's always stuck with me.

[jadegypsy]

Well I just finished Gone With the Wind, and AWESOME book, starting Scarlett, the squel.
Also have on to read list:
Tales of a Body Theif, Steal This Book, The Godfather Returns (the origional was great).

[SuzeQuze]

Well I just finished Gone With the Wind, and AWESOME book, starting Scarlett, the squel.
Also have on to read list:
Tales of a Body Theif, Steal This Book, The Godfather Returns (the origional was great).

I really liked Gone with the Wind too. My Mom has her Nana's copy (the fabulous Celine) and that's the copy I read, that was kind of neat because we just do not have a lot of things passed down.

I finished reading All Souls and it was an excellent book. It's kind of strange reading about the changes that were made to South Boston when that's all I've ever known. Apparently the waterfront properties were NOT desirable in the 70s due to polution and rats so they put the projects there. Now that's where all the prime real estate is, offices, expensive gyms, and luxury apartments. A lot of people in Southie are becoming homeless because they can no longer afford to live where they grew up.

[DrummerDeanna]

Angels and Demons - Dan Brown :D

And

Founding Mothers - Cokie Roberts...

[amber]

I really liked Gone with the Wind too. My Mom has her Nana's copy (the fabulous Celine) and that's the copy I read, that was kind of neat because we just do not have a lot of things passed down.

I finished reading All Souls and it was an excellent book. It's kind of strange reading about the changes that were made to South Boston when that's all I've ever known. Apparently the waterfront properties were NOT desirable in the 70s due to polution and rats so they put the projects there. Now that's where all the prime real estate is, offices, expensive gyms, and luxury apartments. A lot of people in Southie are becoming homeless because they can no longer afford to live where they grew up.
That is interesting! Same thing happening in SF and Oakland, of course. It's called "gentrifying". Apparently, in SF, a lot of it is gay couples totally moving into previously bad neighborhoods and making everything all nice and stuff, and making the prices rise. :shrug: It sucks, in a way, but on the other hand...do you want nice people who don't do drugs, crime, etc. to live in your neighborhood, or do you want people like that to live there? The bad part, of course, is when nice poor people can't afford to live anywhere. It's quite the issue, really. :nod:
Oh, and GWTW is a fantabulous book, I read it in highschool... :)

[jadegypsy]

Did you guys read Scarlett, it's actually pretty good, not quite the same as the origional but, very good. I ended up reading it after listening to my Mom tell me how faboulas it was, she read it when she was about my age. Now if only I could find my own Rhett out where I am :)

[SuzeQuze]

That is interesting! Same thing happening in SF and Oakland, of course. It's called "gentrifying". Apparently, in SF, a lot of it is gay couples totally moving into previously bad neighborhoods and making everything all nice and stuff, and making the prices rise. :shrug: It sucks, in a way, but on the other hand...do you want nice people who don't do drugs, crime, etc. to live in your neighborhood, or do you want people like that to live there? The bad part, of course, is when nice poor people can't afford to live anywhere. It's quite the issue, really. :nod:
Oh, and GWTW is a fantabulous book, I read it in highschool... :)

Right, gentrifying, he actually used that word, I had forgotten. My last boss bought a condo over there. He used to live in the South End which is gay and fabulous, and then he moved over there. Even he couldn't afford something in the SE. But I made the mistake of walking to his condo and there was a broken down bus in someone's yard and trash everywhere, everything was run down. Then you get to his side of the block and the facades of the buildings shape up and things begin to look nicer. Then you get to the waterfront where the gadgillionaires live.

The book talked about Whitey Bulger too, who is still on the run. It was interesting to see what someone from the neighborhood's perspective was on him. He is an Irish mobster, he was the Irish godfather, I suppose, of Southie. The author's brother worked for him as did many many others.

And the forced bussing, that ruined the neighborhood because all of the teens dropped out of school, they feared for their life if they went. :distress:

[SuzeQuze]

Did you guys read Scarlett, it's actually pretty good, not quite the same as the origional but, very good. I ended up reading it after listening to my Mom tell me how faboulas it was, she read it when she was about my age. Now if only I could find my own Rhett out where I am :)

You know, I never did read it, keep me posted as to whether you liked the whole thing when you finish. I hope you enjoy it! :)

[amber]

Right, gentrifying, he actually used that word, I had forgotten. My last boss bought a condo over there. He used to live in the South End which is gay and fabulous, and then he moved over there. Even he couldn't afford something in the SE. But I made the mistake of walking to his condo and there was a broken down bus in someone's yard and trash everywhere, everything was run down. Then you get to his side of the block and the facades of the buildings shape up and things begin to look nicer. Then you get to the waterfront where the gadgillionaires live.

The book talked about Whitey Bulger too, who is still on the run. It was interesting to see what someone from the neighborhood's perspective was on him. He is an Irish mobster, he was the Irish godfather, I suppose, of Southie. The author's brother worked for him as did many many others.

And the forced bussing, that ruined the neighborhood because all of the teens dropped out of school, they feared for their life if they went. :distress:
That's too bad, about the forced bussing... :distress: But that Whitey Bulgar things sound really interesting, I've never heard of him!!! Course, you know we all love mob stories.... :p I'm Irish and Italian, I love them even more... :laugh:

[SuzeQuze]

That's too bad, about the forced bussing... :distress: But that Whitey Bulgar things sound really interesting, I've never heard of him!!! Course, you know we all love mob stories.... :p I'm Irish and Italian, I love them even more... :laugh:

You have to read this book, Amber. I know you would really really like it. Southie is mostly Irish American. The author's name is Michael Patrick MacDonald. You dont' get much more Irish! He lost half his brothers to untimely deaths but it is still ultimately a triumphant story for him. His mother is sassy, she was known as the looker of the projects. :laugh: She never left the house unless she was in spike heels!

Whitey Bulger has been a fugative for 10 years. He was a big FBI informant for years so they would look the other way while he did his dealings (and paid them off). He had a vast network of crooked cops/agents on his side keeping him in business. There isn't a lot of detail about that in the book but it talks about how he basically owned Southie and that folks thought of him as a hero. It is interesting to learn their perspective, why they would see a crooked mobster as a hero. Very interesting.

[amber]

You have to read this book, Amber. I know you would really really like it. Southie is mostly Irish American. The author's name is Michael Patrick MacDonald. You dont' get much more Irish! He lost half his brothers to untimely deaths but it is still ultimately a triumphant story for him. His mother is sassy, she was known as the looker of the projects. :laugh: She never left the house unless she was in spike heels!

Whitey Bulger has been a fugative for 10 years. He was a big FBI informant for years so they would look the other way while he did his dealings (and paid them off). He had a vast network of crooked cops/agents on his side keeping him in business. There isn't a lot of detail about that in the book but it talks about how he basically owned Southie and that folks thought of him as a hero. It is interesting to learn their perspective, why they would see a crooked mobster as a hero. Very interesting.
What's the book called? That does sound very interesting...

[dissention]

You have to read this book, Amber. I know you would really really like it. Southie is mostly Irish American. The author's name is Michael Patrick MacDonald. You dont' get much more Irish! He lost half his brothers to untimely deaths but it is still ultimately a triumphant story for him. His mother is sassy, she was known as the looker of the projects. :laugh: She never left the house unless she was in spike heels!

Whitey Bulger has been a fugative for 10 years. He was a big FBI informant for years so they would look the other way while he did his dealings (and paid them off). He had a vast network of crooked cops/agents on his side keeping him in business. There isn't a lot of detail about that in the book but it talks about how he basically owned Southie and that folks thought of him as a hero. It is interesting to learn their perspective, why they would see a crooked mobster as a hero. Very interesting.

Oh my, you can't go a week without hearing about that ****er in this state. The Boston Globe has a HUUUUUUUUUUUUGE database just for him, have you ever checked it out? Thank gawd his asshole brother quit as president at UMASS. I met him *once* at a college assembly and he was...weird.

[SuzeQuze]

What's the book called? That does sound very interesting...

It is called "All Souls".

[belladonna.]

i just started ishmael, by daniel quinn

it is supposedly "life changing"
we shall see about all that...

[SuzeQuze]

Oh my, you can't go a week without hearing about that ****er in this state. The Boston Globe has a HUUUUUUUUUUUUGE database just for him, have you ever checked it out? Thank gawd his asshole brother quit as president at UMASS. I met him *once* at a college assembly and he was...weird.

I know, him being president of that college was so weird. Since we hear about Whitey all the time I figured Amber would say, "Oh yeah, that guy, I heard about him, but I guess not!" :laugh: Apparently Boston is not the center of the universe. :rolleyes:

[amber]

i just started ishmael, by daniel quinn

it is supposedly "life changing"
we shall see about all that...
I have that, but never read it. I started it, but it was too boring, somehow. Hope you like it. :)

[belladonna.]

I have that, but never read it. I started it, but it was too boring, somehow. Hope you like it. :)
haha.

at least it isn't very long, if it totally sucks

Sorry! The administrator has specified that users can only post one message every 60 seconds.

damn 60 second limits getting in the way of my post-whoring
for shame.

[macmar71]

Jodi Picoult~~The Pact

[Moony]

Re-reading The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

I don't think ANY book has ever moved me like this one.

[dissention]

Rereading my favorite book, Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow.

[amber]

Re-reading The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

I don't think ANY book has ever moved me like this one.
I think I'll read that. I just ran out of book. :) And by that, I mean I read an entire series, and they haven't written the next one. :(

[Moony]

I think I'll read that. I just ran out of book. :) And by that, I mean I read an entire series, and they haven't written the next one. :(
LOL - isn't that the worst? I've been waiting FOREVER for the next book in the LOTR series ;)

Perks is very Catcher in the Rye...not sure if you'd like it Amber, but then again, I don't know. All I know is I really related to it. :wavey:

[amber]

LOL - isn't that the worst? I've been waiting FOREVER for the next book in the LOTR series ;)

Perks is very Catcher in the Rye...not sure if you'd like it Amber, but then again, I don't know. All I know is I really related to it. :wavey:
I will, then. I like that book, and I actually like most books, so...

[SuzeQuze]

LOL - isn't that the worst? I've been waiting FOREVER for the next book in the LOTR series ;)

Perks is very Catcher in the Rye...not sure if you'd like it Amber, but then again, I don't know. All I know is I really related to it. :wavey:

Sounds intriguing. I'll have to look into that one, I loved Catcher in the Rye.

[dissention]

Re-reading The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

I don't think ANY book has ever moved me like this one.

Gawd, that sounds so familiar but I can't place it. :o Sounds like something I read in college.

[cliffdweller]

I'm re-reading Handelser Vid Vatten translation: Blackwater by Swedish novelist Kerstin Ekman. It's a great literary murder mystery, I HIGHLY recommend it and (surprisingly) the English translation is very, very good.

[skcin]

I'm still reading nothing. I have not found anything I wanted to read lately. I am a littel depressed about it. So whether you care or not, here are a few of my recommendations for good books that I really liked:

The Red Tent - Anita Diamont (sp?) A Biblical story, but not really. I am not religious at all, but this is a really good fictional story about what "may" have happened, from a woman's POV.

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and You Shall Know Our Velocity, both by Dave Eggers. You MUST read these: they are filled with dark humor, cynicism, sadness, confusion & dumb little details (kind of like The Ledge, lol!)

Blue Diary Alice Hoffman - heartbreaking how one little moment/incident can change/ruin everything you've ever known.

[Moony]

re-reading The Once And Future King by T.H. White.

I love this book :)

[NaiveMelody23]

Germinal by Zola.

[strandinthewind]

I'm in the middle of The House Of The Spirits by Isabel Allende. It's for school, so naturally I start it out thinking, "Oh, this is going to SUCK" and end up liking it. Go figure. . . .

GREAT book and I LOVED the movie, though many did not.

[Miss Vicky]

Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaason.

Bought it on a whim because Warren Zevon, who was a friend of the author, came up with the title shortly before he passed.

[strandinthewind]

Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaason.

I think CH is HYSTERICAL in his writing. I have read almost all of his stuff :cool:

[irishgrl]

I think CH is HYSTERICAL in his writing. I have read almost all of his stuff :cool:

my mom gets his stuff and then sends it on to me, he's great! and he's anti-development (at least in Florida!) so he's ok by me! She also sends me Dave Barry books, and another series about a male/female detective duo (the names escape me, its been awhile) that is good....for a long time, she was on the "the cat who....." series which were good...

I myself just finished Bobby Darin: the Amazing Story of an incredible life.
That man was awesome...as Billy Joel says: Only the Good Die Young!
:angel:

[dissention]

I think CH is HYSTERICAL in his writing. I have read almost all of his stuff :cool:

Striptease is one of my favorite books of all time. That thing kills me. Absolutely hysterical.

[GateandGarden]

I'm reading my Latin American history textbook, which is as boring as any textbook.

I just got finished with A Fever in Salem: A New Interpretation of the New England Witch Trials by Laurie Winn Carlson and it wasn't anything to get excited about at all.

[DrummerDeanna]

I'm catching up on some more lost reading from my youth - I'm reading The Chronicles of Narnia. I'm on THe Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe right now. LOVING them!

I'm also reading Pride and Prejudice because I never have and I figure I should read at least some of the classics :D

[hayley]

GREAT book and I LOVED the movie, though many did not.
I didn't like it because I had problems with the casting. I loooooooove the book, though.

I'm rereading Donna Tartt's A Secret History and A Confederacy of Dunces right now. When I'm working, it's easier for me to reread books I love than to try and start anything new because I get so distracted. It's annoying.

[skcin]

Just read Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman. I recently discovered her books & I've been reading them one by one.

Currently reading The Money Book for The Young, Fabulous & Broke by Suze Orman. Loving it! She's so damn cool. :nod:

and

The Ice Queen, Alice Hoffmann's new one.

[ShamHy89]

Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Ambroise Laclos.

Shamus

[chiliD]

Chronicles, Vol 1---Bob Dylan

[markolas]

I'm currently reading The Practice of Perfection by Robert Aitken. Before that, it was Not Always So by Shunryu Suzuki, and Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin & Joe Dominguez.

[SuzeQuze]

I'm reading John Stewart's America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction. It's laid out like a text book with a foreword from Jefferson. It's laced with innuendo and sophomoric wit, very silly. I'm enjoying it. :lol: BJs had it on sale. One funny thing I remember was he had a suggested class project: Give the students a veto card. When anything they don't want to do comes up, e.g. a test or homework, they can use the card. See how much sh*t gets done. :laugh:

I'm also still reading the Suze Orman book that Paula mentioned. I took a break from it while I had a backsliding spending spree. :shocked: Spring fever I guess but I'm back on track.

[skcin]

I'm reading John Stewart's America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction. It's laid out like a text book with a foreword from Jefferson. It's laced with innuendo and sophomoric wit, very silly. I'm enjoying it. :lol: BJs had it on sale. One funny thing I remember was he had a suggested class project: Give the students a veto card. When anything they don't want to do comes up, e.g. a test or homework, they can use the card. See how much sh*t gets done. :laugh:

I'm also still reading the Suze Orman book that Paula mentioned. I took a break from it while I had a backsliding spending spree. :shocked: Spring fever I guess but I'm back on track.


America? Funniest.Book.Ever :laugh: I actually haven't even gotten all the way through it, but what I have read cracked me up. Have you gotten to the "match the robe with the Supreme Court Justice" part yet? Classic.

[SuzeQuze]

America? Funniest.Book.Ever :laugh: I actually haven't even gotten all the way through it, but what I have read cracked me up. Have you gotten to the "match the robe with the Supreme Court Justice" part yet? Classic.

Haha, no, but I saw that page when I was flipping through it in BJs. My Mom was like, "I'm all set with that." :eek: :lol: O Magazine had a good interview with him and she said to buy the book and I do what she says. Okay, I also happen to love that smarmy little SOB! Hehe.

[dissention]

Haha, no, but I saw that page when I was flipping through it in BJs. My Mom was like, "I'm all set with that." :eek: :lol: O Magazine had a good interview with him and she said to buy the book and I do what she says. Okay, I also happen to love that smarmy little SOB! Hehe.

Wal Mart refused to sell it because of the nude Justices. :laugh:

LOVE that book.

[Hippocampus]

As always, two books at the same time:

Sense & Sensibility - Jane Austen

Luck In The Shadows - Lynn Flewelling

[Chilly Willy]

Brilliant book! Along with Dave Barry's Dave Barry Hits Below The Beltway and P.J. O'Rourke's Parliament of Whores, a great primer for anyone who wants to understand government without being bored to tears.

I also just finished Skinny Dip. Good to see that Skink is alive and (relatively) well.

[SuzeQuze]

Wal Mart refused to sell it because of the nude Justices. :laugh:

LOVE that book.

:lol: It figures. :rolleyes: Wusses.

[amber]

I'm reading a series of books that were at my friend's house the night I got locked out. It's like...the history and views of a bunch of stuff. I started with Cosmic Connections, which was the history and views on astrology, and included info. Next I did the "Monsters" one, which went through all the stuff about Loch Ness, Yetis, Bigfoot in the pacific Northwest, and various other repeated sightings of strange creatures. That one was good. Now I'm doing...UFO's? Yeah, I just started that one. Anyway, I really like them, lots of good info and pictures. The other ones are like...Healing Powers, Ghosts and Stuff (not called that, though) and Psychic Powers. Score, since my friend hardly has any books in her house and rarely reads. :thumbsup:

[heyjupiter678]

I finally finished The Demon-Haunted World a couple weeks ago, now I'm reading The Dragons of Eden also by Carl Sagan.

[GypsySorcerer]

"I'll Take You There" by Joyce Carol Oates

[amber]

"I'll Take You There" by Joyce Carol Oates
How is it? She's one of my favorites. Although I read one book of hers that was soooooo meandering. I think it was called...."Do with me what you will" or something.

[GypsySorcerer]

How is it? She's one of my favorites. Although I read one book of hers that was soooooo meandering. I think it was called...."Do with me what you will" or something.

I'm only about 30 pages in, but I am liking it so far. Oates is one of my favorites too, though sometimes she frustrated the hell out of me. :laugh:

[dissention]

How is it? She's one of my favorites. Although I read one book of hers that was soooooo meandering. I think it was called...."Do with me what you will" or something.

Also known as We Were the Mulvaneys. :laugh: I couldn't even finish that one.

[amber]

Also known as We Were the Mulvaneys. :laugh: I couldn't even finish that one.
What do you mean? Sorry. I slogged through it, though. I'm a book whore. and in this case, the whore really applies. :laugh: I kept waiting for something to occur.....

[amber]

I'm only about 30 pages in, but I am liking it so far. Oates is one of my favorites too, though sometimes she frustrated the hell out of me. :laugh:
I thought Foxfire was brilliant. I was....there's no words to describe how disappointed with the movie I was. :( That was a travesty.

[dissention]

What do you mean? Sorry. I slogged through it, though. I'm a book whore. and in this case, the whore really applies. :laugh: I kept waiting for something to occur.....

She wrote a book called We Were the Mulvaneys about a girl that gets raped and how it affects her family (i.e. they had to sell their farm, the father blamed the daughter, etc.), and it was just so dull and pointless that I felt like throwing it across the room. :laugh: I loved Blonde, though. Thought it was brilliant.

[macfanken]

I'm reading a series of books that were at my friend's house the night I got locked out. It's like...the history and views of a bunch of stuff. I started with Cosmic Connections, which was the history and views on astrology, and included info. Next I did the "Monsters" one, which went through all the stuff about Loch Ness, Yetis, Bigfoot in the pacific Northwest, and various other repeated sightings of strange creatures. That one was good. Now I'm doing...UFO's? Yeah, I just started that one. Anyway, I really like them, lots of good info and pictures. The other ones are like...Healing Powers, Ghosts and Stuff (not called that, though) and Psychic Powers. Score, since my friend hardly has any books in her house and rarely reads. :thumbsup:


Those books sound really interesting... especially the "Monsters" and "UFOs".


I'm reading "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" by Robert Heinlein AND "With God On Their Side" by Esther Kaplan.... it's about how the fundies have taken control of our government.

[amber]

She wrote a book called We Were the Mulvaneys about a girl that gets raped and how it affects her family (i.e. they had to sell their farm, the father blamed the daughter, etc.), and it was just so dull and pointless that I felt like throwing it across the room. :laugh: I loved Blonde, though. Thought it was brilliant.
oooohhhhh. So, you're saying that We Were was really dull, just like Do With Me What You Will, but you didn't read Do With Me. I haven't read Blonde. I almost bought it once, though. :laugh: I'm sure I eschewed it in favor of some fast paced chick mystery set in SF....hehehehe.

[dissention]

oooohhhhh. So, you're saying that We Were was really dull, just like Do With Me What You Will, but you didn't read Do With Me. I haven't read Blonde. I almost bought it once, though. :laugh: I'm sure I eschewed it in favor of some fast paced chick mystery set in SF....hehehehe.

Blonde is HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE! I flew through it because it was so good, but I never thought I was actually going to finish it. The miniseries sucked big time, though, what a disappointment that was.

[amber]

Those books sound really interesting... especially the "Monsters" and "UFOs".


I'm reading "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" by Robert Heinlein AND "With God On Their Side" by Esther Kaplan.... it's about how the fundies have taken control of our government.
They are great!!!!! The whole series is called "Mysteries of the Unknown" and all the titles are:
Mysterious Creatures
The UFO Phenomenon
Psychic Powers (I'm reading that one now)
Search For the Soul
Spirit Summonings
Powers of Healing
Cosmic Connections
They sound cheesy, but they are not. They just present all the historical evidence, and who did what, and who photographed what, and the fakers with the real evidence. it kicks ass!!!!! It's like it was made for me! :p
I've tried to read Heinlein before, but never got into it. With God on their Side sounds great....unfortunately I very rarely read non fiction. :) But Still.... :thumbsup:

[amber]

Blonde is HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE! I flew through it because it was so good, but I never thought I was actually going to finish it. The miniseries sucked big time, though, what a disappointment that was.
Oh! I guess I should read it then! Thanks...I'll need something after I finish this series. :thumbsup: I love huge books. I hate skinny books. It just means you have to buy another book the next day. :laugh:

[macfanken]

They are great!!!!! The whole series is called "Mysteries of the Unknown" and all the titles are:
Mysterious Creatures
The UFO Phenomenon
Psychic Powers (I'm reading that one now)
Search For the Soul
Spirit Summonings
Powers of Healing
Cosmic Connections



Are they Time/Life books or something like that? :confused: I think I remember seeing them advertised on TV a few years ago.

[amber]

Are they Time/Life books or something like that? :confused: I think I remember seeing them advertised on TV a few years ago.
ooo...yep! :laugh: They're good, though! I like them. :thumbsup: They're basically just like history books. :shrug:

[SuzeQuze]

She wrote a book called We Were the Mulvaneys about a girl that gets raped and how it affects her family (i.e. they had to sell their farm, the father blamed the daughter, etc.), and it was just so dull and pointless that I felt like throwing it across the room. :laugh: I loved Blonde, though. Thought it was brilliant.

That book was so depressing. The girl is raped and so she is sent away from her family against her will and they don't even really speak to her for years. It was awful awful awful. A TV movie was made out of it but I couldn't even watch it.

[Sugar]

That book was so depressing. The girl is raped and so she is sent away from her family against her will and they don't even really speak to her for years. It was awful awful awful.

I felt the same way about The Lovely Bones. Everyone said how good it was, and I kept hoping for some life-affirming thing to happen or SOMETHING. I couldn't find anything by the time I was half way through, so I just put it down. I never finished it. :(

[macmar71]

Just finished Elizabeth Lowell's No Esape and started Linda Howard's To Die For

[dissention]

That book was so depressing. The girl is raped and so she is sent away from her family against her will and they don't even really speak to her for years. It was awful awful awful. A TV movie was made out of it but I couldn't even watch it.

I LOVED the TV movie, I thought Blythe Danner, Tammy Blanchard, and Beau Bridges all should have won Emmy's. :nod: But the book? Blech.

[dissention]

I felt the same way about The Lovely Bones. Everyone said how good it was, and I kept hoping for some life-affirming thing to happen or SOMETHING. I couldn't find anything by the time I was half way through, so I just put it down. I never finished it. :(

That one disturbed me to no end, just like Alan Duff's brilliant Once Were Warriors. Those were both books that I couldn't finish for a long time because they were so heavy. :laugh:

[macmar71]

Lisa Gardner~~The Next Accident

[Sugar]

That one disturbed me to no end, just like Alan Duff's brilliant Once Were Warriors. Those were both books that I couldn't finish for a long time because they were so heavy. :laugh:

So was Lovely Bones worth it in the end? If you say so, perhaps I'll give it another shot. :lol:

[DrummerDeanna]

Just finished The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, and now onto The Horse and His Boy. :D

[amber]

Just finished The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, and now onto The Horse and His Boy. :D
:) The Magician's Nephew is my favorite.

[SuzeQuze]

I felt the same way about The Lovely Bones. Everyone said how good it was, and I kept hoping for some life-affirming thing to happen or SOMETHING. I couldn't find anything by the time I was half way through, so I just put it down. I never finished it. :(

Thanks for the heads up, I will not read that one. Stay away from WWTM and you will avoid the same feeling. I mean, at the end there was peace and closure but it was after decades of suffering. Blech.

[SuzeQuze]

I LOVED the TV movie, I thought Blythe Danner, Tammy Blanchard, and Beau Bridges all should have won Emmy's. :nod: But the book? Blech.

Dammit, I missed the movie, and I love those actors. I didn't want to watch it because the book made me feel so lousy.

[DrummerDeanna]

:) The Magician's Nephew is my favorite.


So far that one has been my favorite as well :nod: I'm glad I've finally gotten around to reading these :D

[darklinensuit]

So far that one has been my favorite as well :nod: I'm glad I've finally gotten around to reading these :D

If you enjoy C.S. Lewis, I'd recommend The Dark Is Rising sequence by Susan Cooper (Hume Cronyn's writing partner & wife after Jessica Tandy died), which I find superior. The Grey King (4th book) remains my favorite kid's book.
Incidentally, her book Seaward, which is not part of the series, has Rhiannon as a character.

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

Just finished re-reading Rachel Calof's Story, which I'm requiring as a text in the coming year. I'm also reading The Kidnapping Of Edgardo Mortara, which I keep putting aside because it's depressing. :distress:

- Jake

[LikeAWillow]

Well amidst all the intellectual books being read here, I'm going to have to say that I'm in the middle of Hidden Star by Nora Roberts :o

~Marissa~

[seeker007nmss]

Does CD liner notes count? :shrug:

[darklinensuit]

Had to put the Mortara book aside again. I just received about a thousand pages of assigned reading, beginning with A Problem From Hell. I imagine someone here has read it already. I'm four chapters in, & I'm embarrassed that I never read it when it came out. It's a powerful book.

- Jake

[dissention]

I stopped by Barnes and Noble on the way home today and ended up getting Metroland by Julian Barnes. I've always loved the movie and when I saw it on one of the front tables, I figured there's no better time than the present to read it.

[golddustwoman77]

I just finished Riders on the Storm by John Densmore (the drummer for the Doors). Now, I am reading Papa John, an autobiography by John Phillips (The Mamas and the Papas).

[darklinensuit]

I just finished Riders on the Storm by John Densmore (the drummer for the Doors). Now, I am reading Papa John, an autobiography by John Phillips (The Mamas and the Papas).

About two months ago I almost special ordered Michelle Phillips's autobiography.

- Jake

[skcin]

Also known as We Were the Mulvaneys. :laugh: I couldn't even finish that one.


I loved that book! Figures you'd hate it - I couldn't get through Blonde. :laugh:

Oates is odd for me - sometimes I read her books really fast cuz I'm really into them ( We Were The Mulvaneys, Rape: A Love Story) and other times I can't be bothered with them (Blonde, I'll Take You There) If she doesn't have me within the first 20 pages, I ditch it.

BTW, I adored The Lovely Bones. A book I don't get the hype about is The 5 People You Meet in Heaven. It's OK, I guess. But I don't get why people rave about it.

[hayley]

I've had Joyce Carol Oates' Middle Age sitting on my bookshelf for like three years waiting to get slogged through. It's so not happening. I loved Blonde, and liked We Were the Mulvaneys well enough. I do love Foxfire, though.

Right now, I am inexplicably excited for the new John Irving novel, <a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=7113185&Mytoken=20050623155356">Until I Find You</a>, even though initial word says it's a stinker. I also unashamedly LOVE Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series, and the sixth book is going to be out in September. Yay! <a href=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385324162/qid=1120141721/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/102-6255921-8916110?v=glance&s=books&n=507846">A Breath of Snow and Ashes</a>.

[macmar71]

I am about half way through Phillip Margolin's Wild Justice. First time reading a book of his and I like it despite its gruesome nature of someone who seems to frame others for the murders is killing people for their organs~kidneys, heart~~ to sell on the blackmarket.

[glitter_fades]

Just finished Under The Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer. Polygamy finally gets some long overdue scrutiny by a journalist close to the situation. Krakauer rips the lid off the sorted history and current illegal practices of the Fundamentalist LDS. The members of this sect break the law openly in AZ and UT and defraud taxpayers to support their supposed constitutionally protected lifestyle. I don't know why people worry about the Taliban in Afganistan when we have religious zealots oppressing women and children right in our own backyard, and at taxpayer expense to boot! Good expose by Krakauer. :nod:

[littlecricket2]

I love this thread, I was just thinking about it. Last night I just got the third installment of the Anasazi mystery series I've been reading. This one is called "Bone Walker" ooo, *shiver* :laugh: I love these authors. Apparently I like to read Archaeological Native American fiction.... :D *dork*. But at least the authors are archeologists, so the info is correct and all that. It's weird, they have this huuuuuuuge bibliography of research materials for a fiction work.... :thumbsup:

I just caught this thread and haven't gotten a chance to read everything yet, but just wanted to tell ya that I was actually on an archaeological dig in southern Utah and the site was an Anasazi community. I should post pics or something. :)

Oh, and I looove Jeffrey Eugenides. The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex are two of my favorite books of all time. I also love Mary Karr, who wrote two memoirs that I think are more entertaining than a lot of fiction I've read (Eugenides excepted): The Liars Club and Cherry.

The most recent book I read was The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, and I have to admit that Stevie (who names Wilde and Edgar Allen Poe as her two key poets) sparked my curiosity about Wilde (although I had seen and thoroughly enjoyed his comedy The Importance of Being Earnest at the Shakespeare Festival in Canada.) I can see his influence on Stevie's writing just from reading that one book! "I like a man with a future and a woman with a past." "He hated to be separated from that picture..." The Picture of Dorian Gray is a great book--very chilling. Not at all what I expected.

[DrummerDeanna]

I'm on to Prince Caspian on the Chronicles of Narnia...


I've decided that when I get tired of this radio journalism thing I am going to be a teacher of children's literature at a college somewhere :D

[littlecricket2]

Just finished Under The Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer. Polygamy finally gets some long overdue scrutiny by a journalist close to the situation. Krakauer rips the lid off the sorted history and current illegal practices of the Fundamentalist LDS. The members of this sect break the law openly in AZ and UT and defraud taxpayers to support their supposed constitutionally protected lifestyle. I don't know why people worry about the Taliban in Afganistan when we have religious zealots oppressing women and children right in our own backyard, and at taxpayer expense to boot! Good expose by Krakauer. :nod:

Wow, what a coincidence that this post was just above mine. When I was at archaeological field school in Utah, we saw many fundamentalist Mormons (most Mormons are not like them, I'd like to mention before going any further--I had some friends in college who were Mormon). The women wore their hair long but up in braids and always wore long dresses, and the men always dressed up in button-up shirts and khakis (that was their most casual dress). We were told by our professor and her husband about what goes on; that the man legally marries one woman, but "unofficially" marries other women and then those women, who also bear his children, go on government aid. Totally unfair.

And I will never forget a bunch of us going into town to a rural convenience store and being sized up by the men there, who never addressed the women among us directly, but asked the men with us, "are these your women?" :lol:

[amber]

I just caught this thread and haven't gotten a chance to read everything yet, but just wanted to tell ya that I was actually on an archaeological dig in southern Utah and the site was an Anasazi community. I should post pics or something. :)

Oh, and I looove Jeffrey Eugenides. The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex are two of my favorite books of all time. I also love Mary Karr, who wrote two memoirs that I think are more entertaining than a lot of fiction I've read (Eugenides excepted): The Liars Club and Cherry.

The most recent book I read was The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, and I have to admit that Stevie (who names Wilde and Edgar Allen Poe as her two key poets) sparked my curiosity about Wilde (although I had seen and thoroughly enjoyed his comedy The Importance of Being Earnest at the Shakespeare Festival in Canada.) I can see his influence on Stevie's writing just from reading that one book! "I like a man with a future and a woman with a past." "He hated to be separated from that picture..." The Picture of Dorian Gray is a great book--very chilling. Not at all what I expected.

Yes, you should. :) Also, now I'm reading a book about UFO's, so, if you have anything on that.... :laugh: I liked the Virgin Suicides a lot, too, I should pick up middlesex. I love the Picture of Dorian Gray, too. Very good. :nod: I read it a million years ago, though, B.S. (Before Stevie :p ).

[mylittledemon]

Books I've read within the last 6 months that I dug:

Wicked (good)
Sideways (awesome)
His Dark Materials trilogy (fair, but overrated)
Childhood's End (good)

[DrummerDeanna]

Books I've read within the last 6 months that I dug:

Wicked (good)
Sideways (awesome)
His Dark Materials trilogy (fair, but overrated)
Childhood's End (good)


ugh. What the hell. A guy who reads....where are they in real life!?! None of the men I have met in the last couple of years read...and it's annoying - anyway lol...

I really liked Wicked :nod:

[mylittledemon]

ugh. What the hell. A guy who reads....where are they in real life!?! None of the men I have met in the last couple of years read...and it's annoying - anyway lol...

I really liked Wicked :nod:


HA! Well I dont get to read as much as I'd like too what with playing music and full time work and all. But...I have over 200 books in my collection.

[dissention]

The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard. I love him and it's a great book.

[mylittledemon]

The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard. I love him and it's a great book.

21,000 posts in two years?! how is that even possible...? I wont even be at that many posts in the yr 2020.

[dissention]

21,000 posts in two years?! how is that even possible...? I wont even be at that many posts in the yr 2020.

Ask Amber how she racked up 15,000 in one year. :lol:

[DrummerDeanna]

The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard. I love him and it's a great book.


Ack another straight (ish) man who reads :mad:

Seriously - if I meet one more stupid male...ugh. Seriously - the most persistent guy right now is dumb as a box of hair - which is why he hasn't gotten the hint as of yet that I hate him.

lol..."I hate you, leave me alone" did work :p

Anyway - my gripe: the men I've been meeting are idiots. I've met no women at all.

Actually - I've met no one who really strikes my fancy in more than a year.

blah - at least I have a collection of good books :D

[/rant]

[mylittledemon]

Ack another straight (ish) man who reads :mad:

Seriously - if I meet one more stupid male...ugh. Seriously - the most persistent guy right now is dumb as a box of hair - which is why he hasn't gotten the hint as of yet that I hate him.

lol..."I hate you, leave me alone" did work :p

Anyway - my gripe: the men I've been meeting are idiots. I've met no women at all.

Actually - I've met no one who really strikes my fancy in more than a year.

blah - at least I have a collection of good books :D

[/rant]


Well God love ya, I hope you meet someone as dumb as a box of rocks that you are totally smitten with. It would be your fate.

[dissention]

Ack another straight (ish) man who reads :mad:

Seriously - if I meet one more stupid male...ugh. Seriously - the most persistent guy right now is dumb as a box of hair - which is why he hasn't gotten the hint as of yet that I hate him.

lol..."I hate you, leave me alone" did work :p

Anyway - my gripe: the men I've been meeting are idiots. I've met no women at all.

Actually - I've met no one who really strikes my fancy in more than a year.

blah - at least I have a collection of good books :D

[/rant]

:laugh: You'll meet a good one eventually, it's all about waiting.

I'm always reading. My collection of books is almost as big as my collection of movies. :laugh: Maybe we should start a "Top Ten Books" thread.

[DrummerDeanna]

Well God love ya, I hope you meet someone as dumb as a box of rocks that you are totally smitten with. It would be your fate.

Gee thanks :rolleyes:

Actually I did meet a guy who I was smitten with - and he became smitten with me - then I discovered what an arse he actually is - seriously - stupidity is the biggest turn-off - I don't see myself falling for someone stupid - brains are one of the first things I look for in a mate :shrug:

[mylittledemon]

other stuff:

Robert E Howard's original collection of CONAN stories...which was fascinating

and I read God Knows by Joseph Heller. Great stuff.

[SuzeQuze]

Ack another straight (ish) man who reads :mad:

Seriously - if I meet one more stupid male...ugh. Seriously - the most persistent guy right now is dumb as a box of hair - which is why he hasn't gotten the hint as of yet that I hate him.

lol..."I hate you, leave me alone" did work :p

Anyway - my gripe: the men I've been meeting are idiots. I've met no women at all.

Actually - I've met no one who really strikes my fancy in more than a year.

blah - at least I have a collection of good books :D

[/rant]

:lol: There's this guy in another department at work that is hella cute and he dabbles in photography and we have other things in common. However, I think he's kind of a mess. :( So I have steered clear. Although one night I told my coworker Ashlee of my fancy and said, "I should probably stay far away, huh?" and she agreed, although they are friends. That says alot. It also says, I'm sure he knows about my little crush. :rolleyes: See what cocktails with coworkers can do?

The last guy that was very interested in me was this guy I am "friends" with, well I thought we were friends. One day he tells me he's met his "Michelle" who is one of his good friend's wife. But later that evening he propositioned me. :confused: You boys are maddening I tell ya.

[littlecricket2]

Gee thanks :rolleyes:

Actually I did meet a guy who I was smitten with - and he became smitten with me - then I discovered what an arse he actually is - seriously - stupidity is the biggest turn-off - I don't see myself falling for someone stupid - brains are one of the first things I look for in a mate :shrug:

I'm curious as to where you're looking. I'm surrounded by intelligent males--but it helps to be enrolled in a graduate math program, LOLOL. I don't think the bar scene would treat me very well.

[DrummerDeanna]

I'm curious as to where you're looking. I'm surrounded by intelligent males--but it helps to be enrolled in a graduate math program, LOLOL. I don't think the bar scene would treat me very well.

Well I'm not actively looking anywhere - when I do go out - I'm usually with friends and NOT looking for anyone - that said, one guy I met at a coffee shop - which I thought was promising - but he's the dumbest of the dumb and LOVES the bar scene.

I? HATE The bar scene. I'll go with friends, like I said, to have fun - but I do not want to meet anyone there because well it's really not my thing - the few times I've actually gone to a bar we stay to ourselves mostly.

Being in a graduate math program would help lol - I've thought about going to grad school - but I just don't think I'm ready at this point....

[littlecricket2]

I? HATE The bar scene. I'll go with friends, like I said, to have fun - but I do not want to meet anyone there because well it's really not my thing - the few times I've actually gone to a bar we stay to ourselves mostly.


Yeah, that is really the only reason to go to a bar, :o . To dance and have a good time w/ friends and <i>not</i> worry about meeting anyone! A lot of people meet their lifelong mates at church, but that's out for me since I don't go, and I'm not sure I want a devout churchgoing guy--they tend to really see things in black and white and sorta take for granted that they are the leaders in the relationship, etc. :shrug: