Books

K8teebug wrote:
Anxiously awaiting the Murakami new one. Should get it Tuesday.

I tried the Kindle thing, but I need book books.

My local indie bookstore is doing a midnight release party at a sushi restaurant. I'm thinking of going.

This one is highly entertaining.

^^ I read that last year when it came out. Thought the OJ/Kareem chapter was really good. The central thesis that the bad guy is whoever "knows the most and cares the least" is an interesting conversation starter as well.

I'm re-reading some Russian novels after my 6-book Murakami kick. Finished Fathers and Sons by Turgenev last week and about halfway through The Idiot right now.

Julian, wrote:
I bought Wind-Up Bird and Kafka On the Shore over the weekend. Finished Wind-Up Bird already and about halfway thru Kafka (which I think is the better of the two so far). Might try reading 1Q84 before the "new" one comes out next month.

I also liked Kafka on the Shore best.  1Q84 is very good as well, although it could have been a tad shorter.

ggw wrote:

Julian, wrote:
I bought Wind-Up Bird and Kafka On the Shore over the weekend. Finished Wind-Up Bird already and about halfway thru Kafka (which I think is the better of the two so far). Might try reading 1Q84 before the "new" one comes out next month.

I also liked Kafka on the Shore best.  1Q84 is very good as well, although it could have been a tad shorter.

I turned up reading all three of those, Colorless, Hardboiled Wonderland, and Sputnik Sweetheart. I really enjoyed them all.

When do you guys who read four hours a day and also watch tv five hours a day have time to cook dinner? Sleep? Have a girlfriend?

It doesn't compute!  :o

James wrote:
When do you guys who read four hours a day and also watch tv five hours a day have time to cook dinner? Sleep? Have a girlfriend?

It doesn't compute!  :o

According to this thread's tracking of it, I've read 7.5 books in 3 months, to the very day. (This is also during the summer which is when most TV programs are on hiatus, and therefore I don't have 5 hours of programming – apparently – to watch daily.) I don't know how quickly you read, but for the average person, that doesn't work out to 4 hours per day. Perhaps you have a learning disability?

Julian, wrote:

ggw wrote:

Julian, wrote:
I bought Wind-Up Bird and Kafka On the Shore over the weekend. Finished Wind-Up Bird already and about halfway thru Kafka (which I think is the better of the two so far). Might try reading 1Q84 before the "new" one comes out next month.

I also liked Kafka on the Shore best.  1Q84 is very good as well, although it could have been a tad shorter.

I turned up reading all three of those, Colorless, Hardboiled Wonderland, and Sputnik Sweetheart. I really enjoyed them all.

You've got to read South of the Border, West of the Sun

Ooh, this looks very cool….



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I envy those of you who not only have the ability to read in the common sense of the word but more so are not stricken with dyslexia as badly as I am and thus just cannot read.  The last book I read was the Lord Of The Rings trilogy which I read while I was in the Marine Corps from 77-81.  It took me the entire four years to finish.  Quite a labor.  How the hell I made it through four years of college I'll never know.  The one book I have always wanted to read (made it about ½ way through chapter 1 a few times) is One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. 

RatBastard wrote:
The last book I read was the Lord Of The Rings trilogy which I read while I was in the Marine Corps from 77-81.  It took me the entire four years to finish. 

this explains oh so much….

hutch wrote:

RatBastard wrote:
The last book I read was the Lord Of The Rings trilogy which I read while I was in the Marine Corps from 77-81.  It took me the entire four years to finish. 

this explains oh so much….

Yep it does.  It explains that reading disabilities can be overcome! And to think, I did not lean on a gubmint handout to make me better either.  :)

Last book I read was Rod Stewart's autobiography…

quite interesting.. I have to say much like his career its pretty good til about 1975…

I was curious if he would admit to stealing Jorge Ben's Taj Mahal for the music of if ya think i'm sexy or whatever that hideous song is called….He does…

but about 1975 or when he moves to LA the book begins to be all about the blondes and hardly at all about the music….boring….

RatBastard wrote:

hutch wrote:

RatBastard wrote:
The last book I read was the Lord Of The Rings trilogy which I read while I was in the Marine Corps from 77-81.  It took me the entire four years to finish. 

this explains oh so much….

Yep it does.  It explains that reading disabilities can be overcome! And to think, I did not lean on a gubmint handout to make me better either.  :)

it explains your ignorance is what it does…

hutch wrote:

RatBastard wrote:

hutch wrote:

RatBastard wrote:
The last book I read was the Lord Of The Rings trilogy which I read while I was in the Marine Corps from 77-81.  It took me the entire four years to finish. 

this explains oh so much….

Yep it does.  It explains that reading disabilities can be overcome! And to think, I did not lean on a gubmint handout to make me better either.  :)

it explains your ignorance is what it does…

Me thinks you need to do a bit of research into the meaning of certain words.  In actuality though, reading is not the only way to gain knowledge, in fact it could be argued that it is one of the poorest ways depending on the reader.  Nighty night.

RatBastard wrote:

hutch wrote:

RatBastard wrote:

hutch wrote:

RatBastard wrote:
The last book I read was the Lord Of The Rings trilogy which I read while I was in the Marine Corps from 77-81.  It took me the entire four years to finish. 

this explains oh so much….

Yep it does.  It explains that reading disabilities can be overcome! And to think, I did not lean on a gubmint handout to make me better either.  :)

it explains your ignorance is what it does…

Me thinks you need to do a bit of research into the meaning of certain words.  In actuality though, reading is not the only way to gain knowledge, in fact it could be argued that it is one of the poorest ways depending on the reader.  Nighty night.

you're right man…listening to rush limbaugh is the way..

what are you talking about? Reading is bad now?

I cannot believe you just wrote that you haven't read a book since 1981…..wow…just wow

and Ratbastard..if you haven't read a book since 1981 this is the wrong thread for you man..

how about you start a thread for cruises or something?

My husband and I are reading Station Eleven right now. So far, so good. I'm a sucker for a good dystopia.

I've had copies of this book for years but finally got around to it…Ian McEwan's "Saturday"


boy..its a tour de force….

hutch wrote:

RatBastard wrote:

hutch wrote:

RatBastard wrote:

hutch wrote:

RatBastard wrote:
The last book I read was the Lord Of The Rings trilogy which I read while I was in the Marine Corps from 77-81.  It took me the entire four years to finish. 

this explains oh so much….

Yep it does.  It explains that reading disabilities can be overcome! And to think, I did not lean on a gubmint handout to make me better either.  :)

it explains your ignorance is what it does…

Me thinks you need to do a bit of research into the meaning of certain words.  In actuality though, reading is not the only way to gain knowledge, in fact it could be argued that it is one of the poorest ways depending on the reader.  Nighty night.

you're right man…listening to rush limbaugh is the way..

what are you talking about? Reading is bad now?

I cannot believe you just wrote that you haven't read a book since 1981…..wow…just wow

I'll let you figure out what fallacy of logic you just committed in that (poor) line of reasoning (particularly the 2nd line).  But I'm not one that enjoys reading for pleasure.  There are a lot of people who don't.