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TheMercenary · 05-08-2008, 12:13 AM

Deep Survival

by Laurence Gonzales

http://books.google.com/books?id=PHa...with-thumbnail

Griff · 05-08-2008, 06:49 AM

Quicksilver- very good stuff but I'm buying the next one cuz its too long for a library book and I don't have TIME!

Cloud · 05-08-2008, 09:58 AM

"Dead to Worse" -- the newest Sookie Stackhouse book by Charlaine Harris. Just received it yesterday afternoon (yay for Amazon pre-order!). Finished it at 1 am.

am suffering this morning.

sweetwater · 05-08-2008, 11:40 AM

Still in the first hundred pages of True Women by Janice Woods Windle.

BigV · 05-08-2008, 03:02 PM

The Rolling Stones -- Robert Heinlein

lumberjim · 05-08-2008, 03:23 PM

Has anyone read Strangers to Love by Rick Roller?

DanaC · 05-09-2008, 06:34 PM

I just started reading a book today that I know, ten pages in, is going to stay in my head. The writing is beautiful, challenging and lyrical. It's called Riddley Walker, by Russel Hoban.

Written 20 years ago and republished in an anniversary edition, it's set in a post nuclear holocaust Kent in the South of England. The english language has evolved and a kind of strange mix of iron-age culture and remnants of our own culture translated through many generations until they are echoes.

The opening lines caught me as I browsed in the library:

"On my naming day when I come 12 I gone front spear and kilt a wyld boar he parbly ben the las wyld pig on the Bundel Downs any how there hadnt ben none for a long time befor him nor I aint looking to see none agen."

Sundae · 05-09-2008, 06:36 PM

Damn Dani, am gonna have to find it just on your recommendation.

wolf · 05-15-2008, 08:31 PM

John Adams - David McCullough

I'm finding out exactly how many corners were cut by HBO for the sake of pacing.

There's a lot of rich detail regarding Adam's life because he was a frequent letter writer and diarist, so there's a wealth of primary sources.

Tree Fae · 05-15-2008, 08:48 PM

I'm not even sure where I picked up the book I just started. Its called A Salty Piece of Land and it's by Jimmy Buffett. It's about a guy rebuilding a lighthouse to be a womans last resting place.

liyaHuang · 05-16-2008, 03:31 AM

well , now I am reading "who says the elephant can't dance"

dar512 · 05-22-2008, 03:53 PM

Welcome to The Cellar Liya.

I'm reading "The Maltese Falcon" by Dashiell Hammett. Very readable. So far it looks like the movie stuck very close to the book.

richlevy · 06-07-2008, 02:58 PM

I just finished Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates. I've had the book for a while, so I assume it was one of a bulk of books I got at deep discount from Barnes & Nobles or possibly at a library book sale (I will NOT pay $12 for a paperback).

Sex, CIA, drugs, shaman ism & Catholicism, as well as the protagonists unrequited lust for his 15-year-old stepsister.

There are also stilts and a wheelchair involved.

Tom Robbins mentions James Joyce's Ulysses a lot in this novel, and, while Fierce remains readable, you can see the connection. A disgruntled CIA agent who knows how to refer to a woman's privates (I am unsure if it's the vagina or clitoris) in 75 languages has a series of mind expanding adventures.

I found it an interesting book. It was incredibly strange, but I may have made a mistake in reading this book while sober. Unfortunately, I don't drink or otherwise indulge, so there's no way for me to tell.

Chocolatl · 07-23-2008, 04:31 PM

In the past few months I went on a Neil Gaiman binge. I went through the entire Sandman series, Coraline (with one of the kids I'm tutoring), The Wolves in the Walls (with the other kid I'm tutoring), M is for Magic, Fragile Things, Marvel 1604. Oh, and a not-so-good graphic novel adaption of Neverwhere.
I think I'd probably sell a kidney to own the Absolute Sandman books.

Anyway, what I am currently reading is Philip Pullman's The Ruby in the Smoke and Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Tink · 07-23-2008, 06:13 PM

"Make Them Go Away: Clint Eastwood and Christopher Reeve and the Case Against Disability Rights" by Mary Johnson.

Shows all the loopholes that businesses in America find to avoid having to accomodate those with special needs. Really pisses you off sometimes as you read through it. I think I'll pick a crime drama next.

REVIEWS . . .

"You really need to read this book. If it makes you grit your teeth, read it anyway. It will help you explain to others why we need to change our way of thinking about disability rights in general and the Americans With Disabilities Act in particular."

05-08-2008, 12:13 AM	#1156
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales http://books.google.com/books?id=PHa...with-thumbnail __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

05-08-2008, 06:49 AM	#1157
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Quicksilver- very good stuff but I'm buying the next one cuz its too long for a library book and I don't have TIME! __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

05-08-2008, 09:58 AM	#1158
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	"Dead to Worse" -- the newest Sookie Stackhouse book by Charlaine Harris. Just received it yesterday afternoon (yay for Amazon pre-order!). Finished it at 1 am. am suffering this morning. __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

05-08-2008, 11:40 AM	#1159
sweetwater lives inside a Mobius strip Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 1,120	Still in the first hundred pages of True Women by Janice Woods Windle. __________________ I knew I shoulda taken that left turn at Albuquerque! - Bugs Bunny

05-08-2008, 03:02 PM	#1160
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	The Rolling Stones -- Robert Heinlein __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

05-08-2008, 03:23 PM	#1161
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	Has anyone read Strangers to Love by Rick Roller? __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

05-09-2008, 06:34 PM	#1162
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	I just started reading a book today that I know, ten pages in, is going to stay in my head. The writing is beautiful, challenging and lyrical. It's called Riddley Walker, by Russel Hoban. Written 20 years ago and republished in an anniversary edition, it's set in a post nuclear holocaust Kent in the South of England. The english language has evolved and a kind of strange mix of iron-age culture and remnants of our own culture translated through many generations until they are echoes. The opening lines caught me as I browsed in the library: "On my naming day when I come 12 I gone front spear and kilt a wyld boar he parbly ben the las wyld pig on the Bundel Downs any how there hadnt ben none for a long time befor him nor I aint looking to see none agen." Last edited by DanaC; 05-09-2008 at 07:07 PM.

05-09-2008, 06:36 PM	#1163
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Damn Dani, am gonna have to find it just on your recommendation. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

05-15-2008, 08:31 PM	#1164
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	John Adams - David McCullough I'm finding out exactly how many corners were cut by HBO for the sake of pacing. There's a lot of rich detail regarding Adam's life because he was a frequent letter writer and diarist, so there's a wealth of primary sources. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

05-15-2008, 08:48 PM	#1165
Tree Fae Major Inhabitant Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Raytown, MO Posts: 120	I'm not even sure where I picked up the book I just started. Its called A Salty Piece of Land and it's by Jimmy Buffett. It's about a guy rebuilding a lighthouse to be a womans last resting place. __________________ May the Forest Be With You!!

05-16-2008, 03:31 AM	#1166
liyaHuang Kinda New Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 1	well , now I am reading "who says the elephant can't dance"

05-22-2008, 03:53 PM	#1167
dar512 dar512 is now Pete Zicato Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago suburb Posts: 4,968	Welcome to The Cellar Liya. I'm reading "The Maltese Falcon" by Dashiell Hammett. Very readable. So far it looks like the movie stuck very close to the book. __________________ "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." -- Friedrich Schiller

06-07-2008, 02:58 PM	#1168
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates by Tom Robbins I just finished Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates. I've had the book for a while, so I assume it was one of a bulk of books I got at deep discount from Barnes & Nobles or possibly at a library book sale (I will NOT pay $12 for a paperback). Sex, CIA, drugs, shaman ism & Catholicism, as well as the protagonists unrequited lust for his 15-year-old stepsister. There are also stilts and a wheelchair involved. Tom Robbins mentions James Joyce's Ulysses a lot in this novel, and, while Fierce remains readable, you can see the connection. A disgruntled CIA agent who knows how to refer to a woman's privates (I am unsure if it's the vagina or clitoris) in 75 languages has a series of mind expanding adventures. I found it an interesting book. It was incredibly strange, but I may have made a mistake in reading this book while sober. Unfortunately, I don't drink or otherwise indulge, so there's no way for me to tell. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

07-23-2008, 04:31 PM	#1169
Chocolatl Glutton for Gluttony Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Tampa, FL Posts: 1,409	In the past few months I went on a Neil Gaiman binge. I went through the entire Sandman series, Coraline (with one of the kids I'm tutoring), The Wolves in the Walls (with the other kid I'm tutoring), M is for Magic, Fragile Things, Marvel 1604. Oh, and a not-so-good graphic novel adaption of Neverwhere. I think I'd probably sell a kidney to own the Absolute Sandman books. Anyway, what I am currently reading is Philip Pullman's The Ruby in the Smoke and Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

07-23-2008, 06:13 PM	#1170
Tink Why oh why? Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Seattle Posts: 186	"Make Them Go Away: Clint Eastwood and Christopher Reeve and the Case Against Disability Rights" by Mary Johnson. Shows all the loopholes that businesses in America find to avoid having to accomodate those with special needs. Really pisses you off sometimes as you read through it. I think I'll pick a crime drama next. REVIEWS . . . "You really need to read this book. If it makes you grit your teeth, read it anyway. It will help you explain to others why we need to change our way of thinking about disability rights in general and the Americans With Disabilities Act in particular."

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