what book are you reading this time?

[diva]

Originally Posted by charly

esi - i saw part of the show, and i guess i can see how that can shock them. the book didn't shock me so much as it got to me on a more emotional level. having done drugs myself (obviously not to that point) and knowing people who haven't gotten to that point, it was completely different for me. i wanted to cry in the end, and i just sat there for about 30 minutes after i put the book down. it really is a good read, but in a different way that most middleclass housewives would see it.

anyone doing the 50 book challenge for this year?

those are really good points, cheryl. i guess there are different layers within any book or story, and different meanings to be derived by each person. it just didn't seem as though oprah dug very deeply into what the book was about.

today's oprah was much more moving to me. that lady should write a book called "a million little donuts" =P
ok, really bad joke.

what's the 50 book challenge?
details, please

[charly]

Originally Posted by diva

those are really good points, cheryl. i guess there are different layers within any book or story, and different meanings to be derived by each person. it just didn't seem as though oprah dug very deeply into what the book was about.

today's oprah was much more moving to me. that lady should write a book called "a million little donuts" =P
ok, really bad joke.

what's the 50 book challenge?
details, please

i only caught the last 10 minutes of the show, so i don't know what they really talked about. it is a good book though, and i think it's definitely worth the read.


the 50 book challenge is basically just a challenge to yourself to read at least 50 books over the course of the year. i found the idea through an lj community for the 2005 50 book challenge. the community lets people post book reviews, their lists, etc, but i didn't feel the need to join. i think it's a great little personal challenge though.

[diva]

i want to do it now

do you have a lot of books?
any suggestions?

i'll have read 3 books this year by the end of this week.

you should make a thread about it in the lounge. no one really ventures into habitual habits.

[sidekick]

i want to do it now too!

i read 37 books in 2005. i'm sure i can up that to 50 for this year if i try hard enough!

[stringbeans]

CALCULUS: EARLY TRANSCENDANTS

[diva]

^ i own that book

is it by stewart? if so, which edition?

:P

[miss.myra]

slowly combing through anna karenina (still! depressing russian literature must be taken in small doses, sometimes), the tipping point and savage beauty (a biography on edna st. vincent millay),

[Grapes]

Finally got around to reading Girlfriend in a Coma.. it was really good, but it subsequently made me like Hey Nostradamus (which I'd read months earlier) less because there was so much overlap.

I just read a book called "Mutant Message from Down Under" by Marlo Morgan, which is a semi-fictional tale of a woman who ends up walking across Australia with an Aboriginal Tribe. It's not exactly complex stuff, but it was illuminating look at the Abos' ancient culture... which ends up reflecting back on our own society, often shading it in a negative light.

I'm starting a book called "Oyster" by the intriguingly named Janette Hospital. More Australiana, this time about a tiny isolated rural community situated in the uncharted depths of the Outback... I've already got a really creepy vibe from it and I've only read the prologue *Stoked*

Something about Australian literature is so compelling.. I had a course covering 5 such novels at UBC, I'd fully recommend David Malouf's "Remembering Babylon" and Murry Bail's "Eucalyptus".. there was another novel that was entirely more sick and fucked up than these previous 2, which are generally good hearted. I wish I could remember the author or the name of the book but I cannot.

[crookedking]

thud! by terry pratchett.

[DJKUNZ]

"You Shall Know Our Velocity" by Dave Eggers

[Asheai]

Originally Posted by Sidekick

i want to do it now too!

i read 37 books in 2005. i'm sure i can up that to 50 for this year if i try hard enough!

not that i count but I am quite sure I've read way over 50 books last year (and every year, for that matter)... but then I am an avid reader and get through books in a day or two sometimes.... depending on how busy my social/work/school life is. I suppose since this is the beginning of 2006 maybe I just might keep a record... sounds like a good idea, and I can see exactly how much of a geek I really am... lol


oh, and on topic of this thread, I am currently reading Catch 22 by Joseph Heller - which is suprisingly interesting for a war book... and The Debt-Free Graduate by Murray Baker....

[decypher]

Currentlying plowing through Naomi Klein's "No Logo"

Then continue reading Helena Blavatsky's "isis unveiled"

[sidekick]

just started:

The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault

still reading:

Che: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Anderson Lee

[sNyx]

Half-way
The Wisdom of the Ego
by George Vaillant

[Qtee]

a million little pieces - James Frey



Watch CNN tomorrow night....James Frey will be on.

Apparently his book is full of lies....

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive...amesfrey1.html

[thechix0r]

Currently reading

Angels and Demons - not for school

Interestingly enough, I am also reading for my history class

How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed
by Slavenka Drakulic

[Goat]

The eagle

by jack whyte

finished up:
Jarhead by Anthony Swafford - amazing book
and
Game of Thrones
by i forget.

[thechix0r]

Originally Posted by Qtee

a million little pieces - James Frey



Watch CNN tomorrow night....James Frey will be on.

Apparently his book is full of lies....

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive...amesfrey1.html

I hear this book is awesome... I am going to read it

[Rayeine]

Just finishing In A Sunburnt Country by Bill Bryson, im also reading Howl by Allen Ginsberg for about the 20th time...amazing book

[shift]

I'm most of the way through "Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs" by Chuck Klosterman. The book is basically a series of rants about very specific aspects of pop culture and how they relate to life, relationships, and pretty much everything else. There are a lot of interesting and insightful ideas, but because the topics are all over the place, and some are better than others, it can be a bit hard to get into at times. Still a good read though. Like 3 pages in he drops this one thought that stuck with me... "relationships are a power struggle in which the one with the most power is the one that likes the other less". As depressing as it is to admit it, I think to a large degree he is right.

[Drafted]

So You're Gonna Be a Dad by Peter Downy

and What expect when expecting...its kinda like the bible of having babies

[crookedking]

Originally Posted by Goat

The eagle

by jack whyte

finished up:
Jarhead by Anthony Swafford - amazing book
and
Game of Thrones
by i forget.

a game of thrones is by george rr martin and i met him last night *swoon*.

i wasn't all that fond of the eagle.

[Goat]

Did you let him sign your tits?

It's alright, I havn't been able to get really into.
Game of Thrones fuckin rocked. I remember reading it and the second book a couple years ago, found it in my room and started it again. Went out and bought the others in the series.

[crookedking]

naw, he's a fat old man. i'm not letting him anywhere near me.

book three and four kick so much ass. clothar is a pansy compared to the characters in martin's world. book five will be coming out sometime this year.

[esoter1c]

Originally Posted by decypher

Currentlying plowing through Naomi Klein's "No Logo"

Then continue reading Helena Blavatsky's "isis unveiled"

I read No Logo in a day and found nothing relevant in it.

Isis unveiled is insanely good.

Currenntly reading Running on Emptiness by John Zerzan.

Zerzan is my Hewo:285:

http://www.primitivism.com/emptiness.htm