Books you should read - Page 5

Goat · #**101** (**permalink**) May 15, 04

combine all 4 and you got yourself a fuckin party

juice · #**102** (**permalink**) May 15, 04

-'memoires of a geisha' by arthur golden
-'the bonesetter's daughter' by amy tan

charly · #**103** (**permalink**) May 15, 04

^ i've been wanting to read memoires of a geisha.

reading "choke" [chuck palahniuk] right now.

just finished "girl, interrupted" [susanna kaysen] the other night.

"middlesex" [jeffrey eugenides] was a really good book. not sure if it's been mentioned already, i didn't read the entire thread.

after i'm finished choke, i'm going to start on "the last time i wore a dress" [daphne scholinski]. heh, can you tell i get excited when i go to the library?

juice · #**104** (**permalink**) May 15, 04

^ ooOooo......u so have to pick it up then. i've lent mine out to a bunch of ppl, and they've all loved it.

sidekick · #**105** (**permalink**) May 15, 04

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Originally Posted by charly

reading "choke" [chuck palahniuk] right now.

"middlesex" [jeffrey eugenides] was a really good book. not sure if it's been mentioned already, i didn't read the entire thread.

Choke is a damn good book. I love Palahniuk, i've read/have all his stuff. I have my copy of Choke signed :)

I read Middlesex too, that's also a damn good book. i have his first book 'the virgin suicides' but haven't got around to reading it yet.

charly · #**106** (**permalink**) May 15, 04

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Originally Posted by Sidekick

Choke is a damn good book. I love Palahniuk, i've read/have all his stuff. I have my copy of Choke signed :)

I read Middlesex too, that's also a damn good book. i have his first book 'the virgin suicides' but haven't got around to reading it yet.

i haven't gotten very far into choke yet, but so far so good. i still want to read fight club. i love the movie.

i've got the virgin suicides and middlesex. i read the virgin suicides first and decided to pick up middlesex after that. anyways, the book is good.. but the movie is just.. not so good. the book is much better.

now the plan is to read memoirs of a geisha after the last time i wore a dress. good thing i've got a job! hah

sidekick · #**107** (**permalink**) May 15, 04

have you read any other palahniuk other than Choke?

charly · #**108** (**permalink**) May 15, 04

not yet. i've been wanting to read fight club though. i haven't gotten to it yet though. one day!

sidekick · #**109** (**permalink**) May 15, 04

it's my favourite of his books. i liked lullaby a lot too. and choke of course.

charly · #**110** (**permalink**) May 15, 04

so many books that i want to read, and not enough time to read them all in!

sidekick · #**111** (**permalink**) May 15, 04

i know!

i have a whole shelf of books i want to read sitting beside me right now. it's been growing all year. and now that i have time to read them, i'm overwhelmed. i can't figure out which to read first!

charly · #**112** (**permalink**) May 15, 04

haha this is why i've been keeping myself away from chapters! especially when i've got money to spend. it's so bad, but so good at the same time.

sidekick · #**113** (**permalink**) May 15, 04

i know! i always buy a book when i go in there. so bad.

but yes, so so good.

charly · #**114** (**permalink**) May 15, 04

for serious.
i'll spend hours in there at a time and buy something. so i've been keeping myself away from there. it's the only way to control myself!

for now, the library has been doing me good.

sidekick · #**115** (**permalink**) May 15, 04

i can't use the library. that's like using public washrooms for me, only in book form.

i need to own my books.

juice · #**116** (**permalink**) May 15, 04

hahaha......i always thought of it that way too ..... i just never actually said it =P

charly · #**117** (**permalink**) May 15, 04

i know. some books i refuse to read. they smell funny. :(
but when you're a broke ass, it's the only way!

sidekick · #**118** (**permalink**) May 15, 04

^true, i agree with that one. but since i only buy books, even if i'm broke i have like 400 books on my shelf i can read. i'm like my own personal library.

charly · #**119** (**permalink**) May 15, 04

oh how convenient for you jake. HOW CONVENIENT INDEED!#%

i wish i was my own personal library. one day! i can dream, can't i?

sidekick · #**120** (**permalink**) May 15, 04

no. no you can't.

charly · #**121** (**permalink**) May 15, 04

oh. okay then. :(

sidekick · #**122** (**permalink**) May 15, 04

ohh i'm just kidding. dream all you want.

just think of all the starving children in africa who could be eating right now if i had spent my money on them instead of all these books. just warms my heart.

Discord · #**123** (**permalink**) May 17, 04

The Red Tent
By:Anita Dimant

sidekick · #**124** (**permalink**) May 31, 04

just finished:

A heartbreaking work of staggering genius by Dave Eggers

i'm sure some of you have heard/read it before. really good book and a good read if you're looking for something that doesn't stick to the normalities of novel writing style.

trance_bunny · #**125** (**permalink**) Jun 13, 04

"White Oleander"-Janet Fitch
if you liked the movie you'll love the book.. it takes you to places that the movie never could. you get to see the world through the mind of a very troubled young girl trying to make it in a world that she has never had to see through her own eyes, only her mothers. the book draws you in and makes you feel like you are living in Astrid's (the main character) world.