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iSaint said:
Great book, did that several years ago. Never caught the movie which, I believe, is based only on a portion of the book.
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I haven't seen the movie either...I've finished all of my books and am slowly trying to make my way through the more interesting of my girlfriend's books. I'm enjoying Owen Meany so far...she also has A Son of the Circus...that one's next on the list.
 
I'm struggling with Frank Herbert's Chapterhouse Dune. I've read all the others, and this one starts as dull as Heretics was most of the way through, but I've read all the others and really want to get through the last one, too... ;)
 
jefhatfield said:
the content is very elegant

but doesn't richard sound somewhat like homer simpson? :)
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Yes. It's like he's the middle of Flowers for Algernon, and Homer's the beginning and end. ;)
 
iGary said:
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. :eek:
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The best of them IMO, barring possibly the latest one, The Half Blood Prince.

I'm poking around Victorian English books...I just finished Emma by Jane Austen (ugh...) and I'm reading Great Expectations by Charles Dickens right now (a very cool book. :)
 
jsw said:
Yes. It's like he's the middle of Flowers for Algernon, and Homer's the beginning and end. ;)
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my wife was born and raised in manhattan, but lived some of her teen years in far rockaway and graduated from far rockaway high, where richard feynman did, and she mentioned his very inarticulate sounding speech was very "bbq" (brooklyn, bronx, queens) and not unlike john travolta's character from "saturday night fever" or achie bunker from "all in the family"

a person could sound very illiterate and be from that area and actually be a top phd in their chosen field...or be totally uneducated but as well read, or better, and accomplished, like matt damon's character from "good will hunting"...a dime a dozen as she tells me about the borroughs in new york

a great public library system, indeed
 
finished Generation Kill a few weeks ago. i highly recommend this book, some of you might have caught the original articles from rolling stone.

rereading Porsche: The man and his cars (a true icon of mine... sorry steve lol)

attempting to finish (though i started it a while back) American Psycho
 
Good Thread! It's nice to find a cache of good book titles to look up . Right now I am reading:

"The Diary Of A Madman" by Nikolai Gogol
Hilarious and absurd short stories. Think Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphisis" in Russia.

Before that I read:

"Sex, Drugs, And Coca Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto" by Chuck Klosterman
I was excited about this book- but it was less than stellar. Still- loaded with witty observations on pop culture, satire, and contemporary references.
 
jefhatfield said:
a person could sound very illiterate and be from that area and actually be a top phd in their chosen field...or be totally uneducated but as well read, or better, and accomplished, like matt damon's character from "good will hunting"...a dime a dozen as she tells me about the borroughs in new york

a great public library system, indeed
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I've met more than one 5th grade drop out blue collar worker who has quoted classical literature greats and made pretty awesome conversation with me about various authors and books.

It restores some faith in humanity. :)
 
Robert Jordan's Knife of Dreams. Last book in the series was a bit weak, I'm hoping this is a tad better.

I'm also in the middle of Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Origin of the Species, the second of which is taking me awhile...
 
The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins

An excellent book telling the story of evolution from the present to the "dawn of time"
 
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk. Disappointing so far, doesn't to have been much real effort put into this one.
 
jsw said:
Gibson's Pattern Recognition. Bought a while ago, just getting around to it....
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Very good book-- I think its a better novel than his Neuromancer books-- not as visionary, of course, but just a better plotted novel with better characters. Plus the main prop of the novel is an ibook. :cool:
 
The latest issue of Rollingstone w/ Bono on the cover. Also, Integrated Device Physics sixth edition. Such exciting reading!
 
I'm currently reading The End of Racism by Dinesh D'Souza. I have read What's so Great about America by him as well, and they're both very interesting reads. I'm on a predominantly liberal campus (as most are) and he offers me a perspective that simply isn't presented in the Liberal Education system today.
 
Just finished Anyone Can Do It: Building Coffee Republic from Our Kitchen Table - 57 Real-Life Laws on Entrepreneurship by Sahar Hashemi & Bobby Hashemi. Very inspiring book.
 
Just finished:

* Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
* The Skinner by Neal Asher
* Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson

Next in the queue:

* The Peshawar Lancers by S. M. Stirling
* Cosmonaut Keep by Ken MacLeod

Also recommend:

* The Kushiel's Dart series (Kushiel's Dart, Kushiel's Chosen, Kushiel's Avatar) by Jacqueline Carey
* The Fall Revolution series (The Star Fraction, The Stone Canal, The Cassini Division, The Sky Road) by Ken MacLeod
* Snow Queen, World's End, Summer Queen by Joan Vinge
* Fire Upon The Deep and Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
* The Great Book of Amber and Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
* George R. R. Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire" series
* The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
* Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars, The Martians by Kim Stanley Robinson

Yes, I'm a prolific reader since I don't have TV (just Netflix)... To balance out "The End of Racism" someone suggested above, I'd also suggest reading Lenin's "State and Revolution." :D
 
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