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Nick Hornby – 31 Songs
…just started reading it, enjoy it very much, it’s about songs (from Teenage Fanclub via Nelly Furtado via Santana to Paul Westerberg and back to Suicide) and their effect on the author, a lot of it is very recognizable…
Felt brave today so I picked up…
Human Wildlife: The Life That Lives On Us
:aliensmile: 
Not for the queazy, some of the pics/stories may make you want to wrap yourself in plastic after applying strong antibacterial lotion
Pretty well written considering the author is Canadian
:aliensmile:Not gonna buy Gene Simmons book but this story is too funny…
Finished Don Quixote just before summer ended, another summer spent in spain, sort of…
Picked up Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. Back to Buddism it seems. Quite interesting, self discovery type book.
Should be done soon, if I could only think less and read more…
Siddhartha was interesting and uplifting, yet distant at the end. I hate ends
Started Jaidbird by Kurt Vonnegut, never read him before, should be fun.
i’m not reading this, but listening to it on tape … but i would most definitely recommend motherless brooklyn by jonathan lethem … it’s about a brooklyn "detective" w/tourette’s syndrome … he’s kind of connected to the mob + in the 1st chapter his boss is killed + he has to find out who did it + why …
i think this would be better to listen to rather than read b/c the narrator gets the tourettic (is that a word?) outbursts down to a comedic "t"
almost @ the end … but still haven’t finished it yet
"dB stands for den Buck" wrote:….just started in DBC Pierre’s "Vernon God Little", think it’s great, more later…. DBC Pierre wins Booker Prize (from BBC News)
….he deserves it, it IS a great book!!!
More literature:
That book sounds pretty pleasing dB, will have to pick it up soon
Just started Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk…Lovin’ it, I want one of those distressed homes
Chuck Palahniuk will be on Conan October 30th :aliensmile:
Cerebus The Aardvark
canadian comic book that`s been around for over 25 years;I have a bunch of them;finished ready no 8 last night.Here`s what it looks like:http://www.mycomicshop.com/megastore/search.cfm?pcat=Comics%2DAll&til=3803″>http://www.mycomicshop.com/megastore/se … l&til=3803
slacktopia.
I haven’t gotten past the author’s introduction of Jailbird. I hate aurthor’s introductions. I can’t skip them, yet I know they are going to give away parts of the book which pisses me off like trailers and reviews of movies, yet they might give valuable information to reading the book, anyway, I’ve been steering clear of that book hidden under my alarm clock. Now the current non-fiction book resting under the kleenxes in the room with no windows has been getting more play. It is the autiobiography of Minnesota Fats. It is much fun indeed. I dig people that know what they want to do and do it because that is the way it is. Simple to sound never i found.
hey chalupa, you’re probably reading the Great Gatsby for school, but if you dig it you should give This Side of Paradise a try. F. Scott is one of my favorites and i’d recomend anything by him, but TSOP is his first and best and should be read by everyone like the Catcher in the Rye is these days, not that there is anything wrong with TCITR, but everyone reads Gatsby in high school and it is Great and all that but your really missing out if that is as far as you go with Fitzgerald. anyway, enjoy Gatsby
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