BOOKS. whatcha readin...?
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BOOKS. whatcha readin...?
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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.
-MR MANAGER
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.
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Re: BOOKS. whatcha readin...?
I like the cover... I always judge a book by its cover.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.
'Nuff said.
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the quote on the back says it all about the author...The Drunken Poet wrote:
I like the cover... I always judge a book by its cover.
"I am in awe of Dan Simmons." - Stephen King.
i grabbed the book from the bargin bin at B&N for $5. Hardcover.
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Just finished this
and then took a break because reading is a lot harder than watching TV with my mouth hanging open.
Looking for a new read though. Might pick up The Terror per darkwingduck's endorsement; the title sounds promising.
and then took a break because reading is a lot harder than watching TV with my mouth hanging open.
Looking for a new read though. Might pick up The Terror per darkwingduck's endorsement; the title sounds promising.
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Wish I got the one with that cover, I like it better. Not my favorite Murakami book so far, but still great.Comprising two distinct but interrelated plots, the narrative runs back and forth between the two, taking up each plotline in alternating chapters.
The odd chapters tell Kafka's story as he runs away from his father's house to escape an Oedipal curse and to embark upon a quest to find his mother and sister. After a series of adventures, he finds shelter in a quiet, private library in Takamatsu, run by the distant and aloof Miss Saeki and the androgynous Oshima. There he spends his days reading the unabridged Richard Francis Burton translation of A Thousand and One Nights and the collected works of Natsume Sōseki until the police begin inquiring after him in connection with a brutal murder.
The even chapters tell Nakata's story. Due to his uncanny abilities, he has found part-time work in his old age as a finder of lost cats (a clear reference to The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle). The case of one particular lost cat puts him on a path that ultimately takes him far away from his home, ending up on the road for the first time in his life. He befriends a truck-driver named Hoshino. Hoshino takes him on as a passenger in his truck and soon becomes very attached to the old man.
Nakata and Kafka are on a collision course throughout the novel, but their convergence takes place as much on a metaphysical plane as it does in reality and, in fact, that can be said of the novel itself. Due to the Oedipal theme running through much of the novel, Kafka on the Shore has been called a modern Greek tragedy.
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just finished:
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
can't wait for the movie... book was a quick read too.
I'm just going to start reading all his shit.
currently:
Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller
i was entranced by Tropic of Cancer... Capricorn hasn't caught me though, probably because he actually has a job in this book and writes about it for the first 60pgs.
still, he throws in some incredible passages that keep me going.
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
can't wait for the movie... book was a quick read too.
I'm just going to start reading all his shit.
currently:
Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller
i was entranced by Tropic of Cancer... Capricorn hasn't caught me though, probably because he actually has a job in this book and writes about it for the first 60pgs.
still, he throws in some incredible passages that keep me going.
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man, i would love to go to his restaurant..pretty expensive or what?ALASKA wrote:that was a good book. i've eaten at his restaurant a few times. pretty killer.RacquetballGangsta wrote:
funnest read ive had in a while...educates u a bit about eating out/cooking too. dude is a really really entertaining, sometimes eloquent writer.
do u watch his show on the travel channel? shit is DOPE
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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.Y@k Bollocks wrote:Blastmaster - how is that Irvine Welsh book?
I am about to crack open Fury by Salman Rushdie.
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I agreedrizzle wrote:the foundation is the shit, sequels start to diminish in quality. the one with the Mule is the best one
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