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Post by Aims on Aug 27, 2006 22:39:32 GMT -5
My Sister's Keeper. I feel like I've jumped on a bandwagon? But my friend Amy was telling me a while ago that I had to read this book. Hearing you guys go on about it lately gave me the push. She'll be glad I've gotten round to it
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Post by Natasha~ on Aug 28, 2006 0:20:30 GMT -5
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson, I love it! xo
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Post by Koalapupu on Aug 28, 2006 8:32:19 GMT -5
Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve.
(Pssst, girls, I read Me Talk Pretty One Day! Now I have Devil in the White City to wait for me! I'm all about jumping on bandwagons...)
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Post by veela on Aug 28, 2006 9:09:24 GMT -5
i agree!! bandwagons are great and Aims, we'll be excited to have you chime in when you're finished! i've been quite the bandwagon jumper myself but that's how we get so many good reads!!
Matzy-- hardly got any reading in this weekend so i'm still on page 80 or so of hornby. and i start school tonight so that means school reading! blech... we just might finish the same time!
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Post by ♪Carly♪ on Aug 28, 2006 9:21:07 GMT -5
I just re-read Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim.
Now I'm reading The Blind Assassin
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Post by Koalapupupu on Aug 28, 2006 10:10:53 GMT -5
Carly, I LOVE The Blind Assassin!
Ok I first wrote "The Bling Assassin". Not good.
Now back to work...
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Post by veela on Aug 28, 2006 12:04:43 GMT -5
Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve. (Pssst, girls, I read Me Talk Pretty One Day! Now I have Devil in the White City to wait for me! I'm all about jumping on bandwagons...) i forgot to ask-- what did you think of david sedaris???
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Post by mana on Aug 28, 2006 13:18:10 GMT -5
I'm reading now a book by Vladimir Krjukov, called Tsjortov Palets in Russian, I'm of course reading it in Finnish but I have no idea is it translated to other languages, so better to use the original name now. It's the first book of this author and published 2005. The events take place in St. Petersburg and partly in Finland in 1910s. It's a romance novel, the backcover promises "wonderful philosophical romance and thriller novel". As far as I have read it has been good.
I'm reading also The Silmarillion still, I have just a pause from it because I'm reading this book. It's from the library, so I'll read this one first and continue with Silma after that... Heheh.
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Post by ♣Miranda♣ on Aug 28, 2006 14:01:54 GMT -5
I just re-read Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim. Now I'm reading The Blind AssassinOh! Hooray! I am so in love with that book, it's not even funny!
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Post by ♣Miranda♣ on Aug 28, 2006 14:02:14 GMT -5
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson, I love it! xo Nattie, Hunter is one of my favorite authors. ♥
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Post by ♪Carly♪ on Aug 29, 2006 13:29:52 GMT -5
Jenni and Miranda, I KNEW you two would comment on The Blind Assassin. I'm about 3/4 done with it and I looooove it.
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Post by ♣Miranda♣ on Aug 29, 2006 15:02:23 GMT -5
Jenni and Miranda, I KNEW you two would comment on The Blind Assassin. I'm about 3/4 done with it and I looooove it. I even made my mom read it, I love it that much. Margaret Atwood is ridiculously good at what she does.
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Post by matzy on Aug 31, 2006 12:40:58 GMT -5
carly - is it just me or are you a really quick reader? i'm almost done with "a long way down". loving it, i think it deserves its own thread. soon. first i have to get my first book club entry done...
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Post by veela on Aug 31, 2006 13:33:57 GMT -5
carly - is it just me or are you a really quick reader? i'm almost done with "a long way down". loving it, i think it deserves its own thread. soon. first i have to get my first book club entry done... goody! i'll contribute. but i'm still "a long way behind". haha. page 160 or so. almost half-way. i need to do my BC entry too. only thing is, i read "neverwhere" and well, there's already a gaimen thread...
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Post by Koalapupu on Aug 31, 2006 14:15:22 GMT -5
Veela--that thread is about Gaiman in general, so feel free to start a thread on something particular he has written We have a thread on Philip Pullman's books in general, but I wouldn't mind if one of those books had its own thread. Oh and about Paul Sedaris: I'm such a dork. I remembered a news show about Me Talk Pretty One Day where the reviewer focused on his speaking problem. So I figured that that's what the book is about. So I was pretty much pissed off when I was reading, going "Why is this book jumping about from one event to the other? This makes no sense!" Then half-way through I realized, oh, it's essays just put under one title. *headdesk* When I got over that and realized it's a collection, I enjoyed it much more. I didn't think it was as lough out loud fun as the jacket claimed, but I was entertained--funnily enough, the more towards the end I went. Then at the end, with the story of his dad keeping all food items until they were shriveled and rank, I did some laughing out loud ;D The fun thing about the book: I keep it on the kitchen table, so that when I'm having breakfast and I want to read something I can leaf through it and re-read fun bits! A really easy and entertaining a read. (But I wouldn't say he's the funniest modern writer--he has a sort of a dry humor I like a lot, not the kind that would result in loads of belly laughs when it comes to me. Does this make any sense?)
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Post by ♪Carly♪ on Aug 31, 2006 14:51:57 GMT -5
carly - is it just me or are you a really quick reader? It's not just you. I'm a really quick reader. And it helps that I'm unemployed right now. I've been a reading maniac lately.
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Post by veela on Aug 31, 2006 14:55:43 GMT -5
i think it makes sense (oh, just fyi -- david, not paul! ) i read it years ago but i'm having a hard time remembering any details. i just know that i loved it and definitely laughed out loud quite a bit! though when i read "dress your family in courduroy and denim" i didn't laugh out loud so much as just generally smile or snicker to myself. his stories are definitely funny but most of all, he just tells them well and i love his voice. and i TOO thought when i picked the book up that it was going to focus around his speech impediment! haha! i had the same moment (though probably by the second or third story) where i realized that it was just an essay collection! haha.
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Post by Koalapupu on Aug 31, 2006 15:06:58 GMT -5
What was I thinking! Paul! I meant David. I had only 1,5 margaritas prior to writing that... The one author that has really made me laugh out loud is Douglas Adams. I've sometimes had to stop reading his stuff in the library because I had to muffle guffaws so much! So when I read all these raves about how the reviewers were wiping tears off their eyes after reading Sedaris I was looking forward to a similar an experience. His humor is somehow more dry, but it works. Apparently things that make me laugh a lot are all kinds of silly plays on words (and Gary Larson's comic strips) Oh, but a modern American author that really made me laugh at points was Dave Eggers in his first book. Some of the scenes about sibling rivalry at the frisbee field just made me roll on the floor. A great combination of wit, self-loathing and idiocy, or something like that. I'll look forward to reading "Naked" and "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim"!
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Post by veela on Aug 31, 2006 15:12:49 GMT -5
Oh, but a modern American author that really made me laugh at points was Dave Eggers in his first book. Some of the scenes about sibling rivalry at the frisbee field just made me roll on the floor. A great combination of wit, self-loathing and idiocy, or something like that. oh me too!! i was so let down when i read his first book of fiction. never finished it. i'll have to check out that other guy you mentioned. there was a book i read called Join Me! by an English guy but i can't remember his name. it was nonfiction about how he basically got this cult-like following from putting a random ad in a paper that just said "join me!" and asked for people's passport photos. he got huge responses from all over and it led to all sorts of whacky stuff... i laughed out loud through that whole book, i think!
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Post by veela on Aug 31, 2006 15:15:39 GMT -5
oh, i just looked it up. his name is danny wallace...
hilarious book.
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