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Post by cultstatus on Sept 5, 2014 22:53:05 GMT -5
We don't have a dedicated board to books but this should suffice for book discussion.
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dbsm
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Post by dbsm on Sept 5, 2014 23:04:39 GMT -5
Just started "The Boys Of Summer" about the Brooklyn Dodgers. Despite being a diehard Dodger fan, I haven't been able to track this book down till now.
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Post by projectblue on Sept 6, 2014 8:43:02 GMT -5
Was intrigued with the Gone Girl Fincher trailer so read that (and the author's other two books, Sharp Objects and Dark Places). For the most part, they weren't horrible, but it seems like Flynn is trying to be edgy for the sake of being edgy and the poor girl has no idea whatsoever on how to end a book. All three were readable and moved along at a decent clip, all three had laughably bad (and quick) endings.
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Post by projectblue on Sept 6, 2014 8:44:28 GMT -5
Finally read Something Wicked, This Way Comes by Bradbury too. (try to sneak in a classic every summer as well). Really liked it. Moody take on an old time-y carnival and a couple of kids growing up in the midwest.
Another one I enjoyed (and mentioned on the blog recently) was Bryson's One Summer, America-1927. That and his Short History of Nearly Everything are both very good.
Help my cousins out with their school work sometimes too so read a bunch of young adult pulp too.
If I Stay and Where She Went, chick books, predictable but short at least.
An Abundance of Katherines - kind of lame, again short
Perks of Being a Wallflower -actually liked this one, the movie's not bad either. Bunch of kids with social and/or mental problems finding each other in High School
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Post by ape on Sept 6, 2014 9:18:33 GMT -5
Confederates In The Attic by Tony Horowitz
also - you should find Bryson's "Made in America" it's a history book about how the US changed the English language. I think it's the best one he's done
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Post by projectblue on Sept 6, 2014 9:39:13 GMT -5
also - you should find Bryson's "Made in America" it's a history book about how the US changed the English language. I think it's the best one he's done I'll have to look that one up. Read his The Lost Continent too this summer but it was soooooo whiny and negative, you'd think I ghost wrote it. |
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Post by Stan cHansen on Sept 6, 2014 10:55:16 GMT -5
Made in America is pretty great, not quite as good as Brief History of Everything but still good. It makes a great companion to Mother Tongue. Home was a fascinating read as well, I never put much thought into the evolution of our way of living. Bryson's just got such an easy to read style it's hard not to like him.
Just finished 'Berlin Diary' the record of CBS radio's William Shirer's time in Germany from about 1935-41. He was basically on the same level as Murrow only had the misfortune of broadcasting out of Berlin rather than London so none of his radio talks could get through without heavy editing by military censors. I'm always fascinated reading commentary from that era, it seems like the entire fucking world knew exactly what it was in for.
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Post by cultstatus on Sept 11, 2014 15:36:10 GMT -5
Rereading American Gods. I really hope the tv show does the book justice. Starz has a spotty track record though.
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