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jeffml
Joined: April 18, 2005 at 05:01 AM UTC
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Re: Books May 13, 2023 at 01:51 AM UTC #
Just finished The Body.  What other of his books do you recommend?

Space wrote:
Cock wrote:
My favorite book. Always blows my mind.




One of my favorite authors, not sure which book is my favorite, read most of his
BAGLEY
Joined: January 06, 2006 at 06:01 AM UTC
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Re: Books May 13, 2023 at 06:23 PM UTC #
A Walk in the Woods
Space Freely
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Re: Books May 13, 2023 at 09:48 PM UTC #
Bagley wrote:
A Walk in the Woods


Or any of his travel books. Sorry I can't be more specific. I've read most of his stuff and all equally good.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Bryson#Writings
jeffml
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Re: Books May 14, 2023 at 02:48 AM UTC #
Thanks
grateful
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Re: Books May 14, 2023 at 03:32 AM UTC #
Cock wrote:
Thanks


This. This is what the board is all about.
jeffml
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Re: Books May 14, 2023 at 04:42 PM UTC #
Hey…fuck you.

contradiction wrote:
Cock wrote:
Thanks


This. This is what the board is all about.
jeffml
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Re: Books May 15, 2023 at 03:08 AM UTC #
Just kidding of course
Sidehatch
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Re: Books May 16, 2023 at 01:13 AM UTC #
Bagley wrote:
this one's getting a lot of attention:

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Harold/Steven-Wright/9781668022696

he narrates the audio version, hell yeah this is going in my queue
https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Harold/dp/B0BS81LZB1
Sidehatch
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Re: Books May 21, 2023 at 07:28 PM UTC #
SideUAPhatchıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl wrote:
Bagley wrote:
this one's getting a lot of attention:

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Harold/Steven-Wright/9781668022696

he narrates the audio version, hell yeah this is going in my queue
https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Harold/dp/B0BS81LZB1

burned through this quickly and was quite a ride
felt like I was in the young mind of Steven Wright, add to that the audible he narrates…it really felt like it
Hutch
Joined: February 23, 2023 at 09:34 PM UTC
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Re: Books July 13, 2023 at 12:15 AM UTC #
Finally picked this up




Just started it..never realized Bob and Tommy were half brothers….or I had forgotten?
Sidehatch
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Re: Books July 14, 2023 at 11:08 PM UTC #
This sounds promising

Kathleen Hanna Announces Memoir Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
Hutch
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Re: Books July 15, 2023 at 04:08 AM UTC #
Didn’t Carrie Brownstein right that book already?
kosmo
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Re: Books August 16, 2023 at 12:29 PM UTC #
No idea if this will be released in the US or not and given shipping from the UK…

IN THE JINGLE JANGLE JUNGLE

Tambourine hero  Joel Gion's anarchic adventures keeping time with one of the great contemporary American rock and roll bands Brian Jonestown Massacre

Telling the story of the first 10 years of
@BJM_Band
,
@realjoelgion
's book is a wild account of the hazards and pleasures of life on and off the road - and a guaranteed future cult classic.



.https://twitter.com/WhiteRabbitBks/status/1691736748697522631?s=20
Hutch
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Re: Books August 21, 2023 at 03:57 PM UTC #
Finally finished the book about the Replacements by Mehr (Trouble boys).

Lordy that was depressing. I knew they were raging alcoholics who had shot themselves in the foot whenever they had a chance to make it big but not the extent.

I got to say it felt like an official biography. I felt like I was reading what Westerberg wanted…

I know people love this book but I didn’t. Also it didn’t quite explain why Bob was kicked out. I mean if it was the drugs and booze it’s nothing Tommy and Paul didn’t get into after Bob was kicked out. And if it was creative differences well I think the Replacements missed him once he left. Both Don’t tell a soul and All Shook Down are pretty weak.

Sadly it’s one of those books that after you read it you realize Paul and Tommy were assholes and Bob and Chris were the nice guys.
jeffml
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Re: Books August 21, 2023 at 09:41 PM UTC #
I liked the last 2 albums.
jeffml
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Re: Books August 21, 2023 at 09:43 PM UTC #
Cock wrote:
I liked the last 2 albums. But I don't have a hard time believing Bob and Tommy were assholes.  And then add drugs/alcohol to the mix. 
Space Freely
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Re: Books August 21, 2023 at 09:59 PM UTC #
Cock wrote:
Cock wrote:
I liked the last 2 albums. But I don't have a hard time believing Bob and Tommy were assholes.  And then add drugs/alcohol to the mix. 



Hutch said Paul and Tommy were the addholes.
jeffml
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Re: Books August 22, 2023 at 12:31 AM UTC #
Yeah. That's what I meant. 
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