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Joyce and Kipling are both good, Miracles sucks.

blastmaster wrote:

Y@k Bollocks wrote:Blastmaster - how is that Irvine Welsh book?

The conclusion is kinda predictable and rushed, but its a solid, very fun read. If you like his older stuff, its similar. A little more tame, but its still an Irvine Welsh novel. There is a cool male on male rape scene.

Sounds delightful - might pick it up.

'Filth' is my favourite Welsh book. I don't think anyone has ever created a character as loathsome as that Bruce guy - a complete cunt!

Y@k Bollocks wrote:

blastmaster wrote:

Y@k Bollocks wrote:Blastmaster - how is that Irvine Welsh book?

The conclusion is kinda predictable and rushed, but its a solid, very fun read. If you like his older stuff, its similar. A little more tame, but its still an Irvine Welsh novel. There is a cool male on male rape scene.

Sounds delightful - might pick it up.

'Filth' is my favourite Welsh book. I don't think anyone has ever created a character as loathsome as that Bruce guy - a complete cunt!

Mine too. I just wish the fucking worm thing wasnt running through the text like that. Pretty annoying.

Sebastian gets busy wrote:anton checkov - collected works

chekhov. but word the fuck up.

just finished:



just started:

pretty fascinating shit even though i am rarely in said predicament. good stuff to know though.



re-reading this. very sobering book. Martin Rees basically suggests that humans have a 50/50 chance of surviving till the end of the 21st century and outlines 12 probable ways that we'll go out.

agent b wrote:

oooh. this looks good.

darkwingduck wrote:im about 100 pages deep into a 800+ Dan Simmons novel. THE TERROR.

holy shit! this book is a fucking crazy edge of your seat, page turner.

This book is really really good. But the ending is disappointing. There are some serious moments in it though.


I just finished Confederacy of Dunces and it was amazing. Same level of humor as Catch 22.

Raphael De La Ghetto wrote:

such an incredible book.
i think i'll re-read this sometime soon.

(lack of cable gives me lots of reading time between soccer games)

Although mine has a different cover. Decent read.




As dope as usual

A book about the most notorious mafia hitman in history. Guy has over 200 bodies to his name, including an unverified account that he was in a group of 5 that killed Jimmy Hoffa and threw his body into a car compactor.

This guy would torture motherfuckers for fun. It is actually very poorly written, but the subject matter is too entertaining not to like it.

Just finished:



currently reading:



that Confessions of a mafia contract killer sounds like my cup of tea.

The Iceman is the truth. I saw both HBO specials on the guy and enjoyed both.

Going to start reading this tomorrow:



picking up this tomorrow:



I think I might pick up this tomorrow too:



I am a big Chabon fan. He is from Pittsburgh, and we went to the same university. Mysteries of Pittsburgh is a must read for everyone.

I finally started the life of pi last night

I'm reading like 5 books at once, but the best thing I got going right now is

HIP HOP DECODED by The Black Dot
www.matrixofhiphop.com
GOD DAMN MINDBLOWING.

and
From Samuel Colt to 50 Cent: Unpacking Gun Culture by Rodrigo Bascunan and Christian Pearce. Fucking incredible.

Sebastian gets busy wrote:I finally started the life of pi last night

started reading that after a reccomendation from a pretty stand-up guy. Had to return it after I noticed a visible vagina growing in between my legs after reading sections of it. What a fucking crock of shit. I just finished:

was pretty meh. I assume that Lehane kind of steadied himself around the time Mystic River hit (which I haven't read, but I've seen the movie). This book is pretty overwrought, some of the dialouge had be rolling my eyes and groaning audibly at the metro, but I had to finish it just to see who was bodying all of those people. There's some pretty decent suspense and violence, but overall a generous C-minus.


Started this this morning. Hiaasen is fucking tits with the pen, all of his Florida crazies are so off-the-chain looney, endless entertainment. Basically a Hurricaine has ravaged the keys and a clatch of characters look for ways to scam off of it. Floridians should read all of Hiaasen's shit. Non-Floridians too.

i'm rereading kurt vonnegut - cat's cradle and hunter s. thompson - fear and loathing in las vegas (this is my third time reading it, it still makes me literally lol at points).

'Can't Find My Way Home'

'Scar Tissue'

'The Satanic Bible'

RacquetballGangsta wrote:
man, i would love to go to his restaurant..pretty expensive or what?

do u watch his show on the travel channel? shit is DOPE

Nah, not that crazy expensive. Been to the mid-town one and there are (or were) plenty of entrees at or under 20 bucks.

and yeah, book and tv show are dope.

Was on a trip for a week and just finished



Very good read. Too much of the bells and whistles bullshit that plagues motherfucker's whole generation of writers, and the ending falls apart, but still a great book.




One of the more interesting books I've read in awhile. Was really worried about it looking at the cover, but got a good rec on it, and shit is hella readable, and just entertaining as hell. Basically looking at various injuries that start to explain the crazy ass way the brain works (phantom limbs and the like).




Michael Lewis sports writing is always dope, but this book comes off as kind of disjointed. He's basically telling the story of a kid who is projected to be an NFL caliber LT, while also explaining the rise in prominence of LT's across the NFL. He stops to explain the rise of the passing game -- and the chapters on Bill Walsh and the rise of the WCO are the dopest -- but in the end it's kind of a mess. If you come to terms with the facts that Lewis college buddy took in a six-six, 320 HS sophomore (that lewis wanted to write about), and that lewis is a 9er fan (and he wanted to write about them), then it's a dope ass read. Most convincing section was on why Montana and Young are so overrated as QB's (and I'm a 9er fan).



Fast, entertaining read about/by Henry Hill (Ray Liotta from Goodfellas). Most of this shit is already covered in Wiseguy, and a lot better. Only interesting fun fact was that Hill's Witness Protection Program agent (and homie) was married to Norah Ephron, and most of My Blue Heaven was lifted directly from his experiences. Outside of that, pretty wack.


right now, gonna go back to finally getting around to Everything is Illuminated, which I'm hoping will be Foer before he got the McSweeney's meat hooks in him.

just started this, I found it in a pile of free books sitting on a table in front of a house late one night while walking home from the bar. I haven't really been reading much lately though.


I bought this a long time ago and started reading it a month ago, I read a little every now and then. I've been lazy about reading lately.


yep


I haven't started yet, but it is lying near my bed. I read Mother Night not too long ago. It was cool.

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PEACE

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Yes, its on the Oprah bookclub list. Don't even get me fucking started on that!

beans79 wrote:The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Yes, its on the Oprah bookclub list. Don't even get me fucking started on that!

It's actually pretty fucking good.

b0mbs_of_death wrote:

beans79 wrote:The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Yes, its on the Oprah bookclub list. Don't even get me fucking started on that!

It's actually pretty fucking good.

Recommended by a good source...I was just kinda shocked when I bought it and it was an Oprah book.

Sebastian gets busy wrote:I finally started the life of pi last night

i disliked this book...

manwhore wrote:

very very dope book

kato wrote:

manwhore wrote:

very very dope book

co-signed. read that when i was a yout. loved it.