Author Topic: What book(s) are u reading now? (Read 12254 times)

Me! · « **Reply #120 on:** June 15, 2006, 01:10:38 pm »

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You\'d better have ALOT of time to undertake the Dark Tower, it\'s a journey, no doubt.
~2700pgs

A lot of people have told me to read that series but I don\'t know if I have that much time to commit to it! I\'m currently slowly making my way through Howard Zinn\'s A People\'s History of the United States. I would highly recommend it. A friend of mine read World\'s End on my recommendation and I agreed to read something he liked and he picked Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs (Chuck Klosterman). Anyone read it? Is it any good?

I read a good chunk of Sex Dugs and Cocoa Puffs. Def a good book. Some parts are slower than others, there\'s a chapter on basketball in the 80\'s and I really couldnt\' care, but ther\'e some interesting **** in there all in all......

lightheavyweight · « **Reply #121 on:** June 15, 2006, 02:20:10 pm »

it should be mandatory for all to read "The Giver", actually I think it was in middle school....but nevertheless, an amazing book.

Jim Cobb · « **Reply #122 on:** June 15, 2006, 03:53:14 pm »

The Giving Tree by Shell Silverstein

SlimPickens · « **Reply #123 on:** June 15, 2006, 04:01:03 pm »

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The Giving Tree by Shell Silverstein

Silverstein is awesome. Everytime a friend or family becomes a new parent I buy the child a copy of Giving Tree.

FreeSpirit · « **Reply #124 on:** June 15, 2006, 04:01:13 pm »

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The Giving Tree by Shell Silverstein

That\'s my favorite book of all time!!! I used to read that to my kindergarten students -- good morals & an easy read

Another good kids/adult book is Smoky Night by Eve Bunting - it\'s about a kid going to a shelter during the LA Riots a few years back... great pictures & great storyline

Me! · « **Reply #125 on:** June 15, 2006, 04:16:07 pm »

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The Giving Tree by Shell Silverstein

It\'s funny to me that the same guy wrot ethis an dvarious other kids books and also wrote "A Boy Named Sue" the Johhny Cash tune....... not exactly kid friendly

krispy · « **Reply #126 on:** June 15, 2006, 09:46:03 pm »

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The Giving Tree by Shell Silverstein
It\'s funny to me that the same guy wrot ethis an dvarious other kids books and also wrote "A Boy Named Sue" the Johhny Cash tune....... not exactly kid friendly

quite a lot of silversein is \'not kid friendly\'

I\'m currently reading confessions of an economic hit man. interesting if you know how to sift out the bullshit. worth picking up if your into politics and international economics

Me! · « **Reply #127 on:** June 16, 2006, 09:28:28 am »

His kids stuff and boy named sue are really the only silverstein stuff I know, Where the SIdewalk ends and Light in the attic where all I ever knew about him till I was much older, sounds like an interesting book though....

wildcoyote · « **Reply #128 on:** June 16, 2006, 09:49:37 am »

For a few years, Silverstein also lived in the Playboy Mansion, as he was a frequent contributor to the magazine. Way better gig than writing children\'s books if you ask me.

SlimPickens · « **Reply #129 on:** June 16, 2006, 10:23:03 am »

his music career extends beyond Boy Named Sue:

I Got Stoned and I Missed It: The Best From Shel Silverstein 1971-1979
Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show Revisited

Me! · « **Reply #130 on:** June 16, 2006, 10:27:24 am »

I knew he did other stuff but, Sue is really what I know.

Hwo is the other stuff worth the purchase?

SlimPickens · « **Reply #131 on:** June 16, 2006, 10:33:50 am »

I only knew about that album cause a friend has it. If I\'ve heard the album, I wasn\'t in a state of mind to realize what I was hearing.

Me! · « **Reply #132 on:** May 16, 2009, 01:05:15 am »

thread from the dead!!!

I\'ve been plowing through books lately, in the last few months I\'ve read Orson Scott Card\'s Ender\'s Saga (Ender\'s Game, Ender in Exile, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind) Ender\'s Shadow series (Ender\'s Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets and Shadow of the Giant) Chuck Palahniuk\'s Snuff, Stephen King\'s The Talisman, and I\'m finishing Black House now. Which I really like btw, knew it was Dark Tower involved but didn\'t realize how deeply and blatantly.

I was thinking of reading Hearts of Atlantis or Chuck\'s new book which just came out or is coming out soon, Pygmy. But I also kinda want something entirely new and fresh. Any recommendations? I\'m a big fan of series and sagas, but I basically just love a good story.

skalnbyc · « **Reply #133 on:** May 16, 2009, 05:41:43 am »

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Keep this up and we\'re gonna need a book forum. I suggest either:

"Book-quebus" or "Spacey, Don\'t Even Bother Clicking This"

"Book-Queebus...Book-Queebus...Book-Queebus..."

Can\'t believe it has been three years with no activity in this thread.

Vassillios · « **Reply #134 on:** May 16, 2009, 09:18:17 am »

I\'m reading Buyout. Good book if you want to be an investment banker.