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What are you reading?

nkotb
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Re: What are you reading? January 09, 2004 at 12:22 AM UTC #
I just finished Please Kill Me, and I agree with you. I wasn't sure how well an oral history would work, but it was pretty tough to put down.

Originally posted by mark e smith:
I am half way through Please Kill Me! Which works so much better than I thought it would.
twangirl
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Re: What are you reading? January 17, 2004 at 12:28 AM UTC #
Originally posted by nkotbie:
I just finished Please Kill Me, and I agree with you. I wasn't sure how well an oral history would work, but it was pretty tough to put down.
I couldn't put it down. I read it straight through until about 8 am the next morning. It's amazing some of those people are still alive and able to function. And it's really weird to meet and talk with them now, knowing what they were up to back then.
Relaxer
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Re: What are you reading? January 17, 2004 at 01:08 AM UTC #
Originally posted by twangirl:
Originally posted by nkotbie:
I just finished Please Kill Me, and I agree with you. I wasn't sure how well an oral history would work, but it was pretty tough to put down.
I couldn't put it down. I read it straight through until about 8 am the next morning. It's amazing some of those people are still alive and able to function. And it's really weird to meet and talk with them now, knowing what they were up to back then.
I think it's the best rock and roll book ever. I've read it through three or four times, and it gets a lot of action in the bathroom.
myuman
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Re: What are you reading? January 17, 2004 at 01:17 AM UTC #
Thoreau's Walden and at the same time slaving through Ulysses… but the latter is on my long long term completion list.
Jaguär
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Re: What are you reading? January 17, 2004 at 08:03 AM UTC #
Originally posted by Dupek Chopra:
:D
bags
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Re: What are you reading? January 19, 2004 at 03:19 PM UTC #
I'll have to pick this up. "Edie" is one of my favorite books, an oral history of socialite and Warhol groupie Edie Sedgwick by George Plimpton. Just amazing. And yeah, I was surprised at how well the format worked.

Originally posted by nkotbie:
I just finished Please Kill Me, and I agree with you. I wasn't sure how well an oral history would work, but it was pretty tough to put down.

Originally posted by mark e smith:
I am half way through Please Kill Me! Which works so much better than I thought it would.
bags
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Re: What are you reading? January 19, 2004 at 03:20 PM UTC #
Originally posted by myuman:
Thoreau's Walden and at the same time slaving through Ulysses… but the latter is on my long long term completion list.
Ulysses is amazing. Do you know anyone else reading it? It's hugely helpful to talk about while getting through it.
kurosawa-b/w
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Re: What are you reading? January 20, 2004 at 03:04 AM UTC #
<img src="http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0452281881.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" alt=" - " />

A hilarious story told solely through the interoffice email messages of an ad agency in London. The assorted cast of characters is immediately recognizable. I highly recommend it.
RiddickBowe
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Re: What are you reading? January 20, 2004 at 09:12 PM UTC #
Originally posted by mark e smith:
I have also been trying to read James Frazers, The Golden Bough. It is a bit more brilliant than I.
A fine book, if a bit dense. In college an English professor pointed out that this book, along with From Ritual to Romance, are on Kurtz's bookshelf in Apocalypse Now, so I made it a point to read both. Fascinating things therein.
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Re: What are you reading? January 21, 2004 at 05:54 PM UTC #
Go and Tell Pharaoh, by Al Sharpton
Samantha
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Re: What are you reading? January 21, 2004 at 06:23 PM UTC #
Originally posted by myuman:
Thoreau's Walden and at the same time slaving through Ulysses… but the latter is on my long long term completion list.
Walden's the next book I'm about to start, except I think I might have lost it (grrr) I just read Cyrano de Bergerac this morning (started & finished).
vansmack
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Re: What are you reading? January 28, 2004 at 06:04 PM UTC #
Originally posted by Dandy01:
Annie Leibovitz - American Music

I gotta check this out.
I saw it in the Virgin Music Store two days ago. It's unbelievable. It's also unbelieveably expensive (like $70).

Oh, and I'm currently reading:

<img src="http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0099578514.02.LZZZZZZZ" alt=" - " />
Dandy01
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Re: What are you reading? January 28, 2004 at 06:06 PM UTC #
Yeah, I saw it on the Barnes and Noble site, it's one of their top 10 books on music, but the only one that really caught my attention. It's "on sale" for $52.
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