Members mlwarriner Posted March 17, 2010 Members Share Posted March 17, 2010 i need some new {censored} to read. i'm tired of the crap i've got laying around the house. so...what're you reading? why should i read it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Poltergeist Posted March 17, 2010 Members Share Posted March 17, 2010 what kind of stuff do you like? prose? poetry? fiction? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Svi Posted March 17, 2010 Members Share Posted March 17, 2010 Right now I'm reading "Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot" by John Callahan. Amazing, he takes a total tragic situation and makes it into a laughingstock. And really, the story is mind opening, sad, funny and a lot of comedy. I love it. Editorial Reviews: "When people laugh like hell and then say, 'That's not funny', you can be pretty sure they're talking about John Callahan." -- P.J.,O'Rourke, author of Holidays in Hell "Actually Callahan goes too far, and he'll take you with him.... He'll move muscles you don't know you have." -- Roy Blount, Jr. "John Callahan doesn't need feet to go far. He does it with guts, brains, fingers, and a wonderful sick sense of humor." -- Review "When people laugh like hell and then say, 'That's not funny', you can be pretty sure they're talking about John Callahan." -- P.J.,O'Rourke, author of Holidays in Hell "Actually Callahan goes too far, and he'll take you with him.... He'll move muscles you don't know you have." -- Roy Blount, Jr. "John Callahan doesn't need feet to go far. He does it with guts, brains, fingers, and a wonderful sick sense of humor." Callahan, whose quirky and irreverent cartoons attract a national following, describes his life as a quadriplegic with mordant, relentless and utterly unsentimental humor. Even before the accident that left him paralyzed, Callahan was on a self-destructive trajectory. An adolescent alcoholic, a youth in rebellion against authority, including his adoptive parents and his church, the author had his life forever changed when at age 21 he became a quadriplegic. In the course of his long rehabilitation and his continuing struggles with alcoholism, his endurance was bolstered by self-directed humor. As his sense of himself reemerged, Callahan undertook a search for his birth mother and now enjoys a healing of the break with his adoptive parents and siblings. The 60 of his cartoons reproduced here illustrate his life in Portland, Ore., where he has "twice the drive of the average able-bodied person." First serial to Mother Jones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mlwarriner Posted March 17, 2010 Author Members Share Posted March 17, 2010 what kind of stuff do you like? prose? poetry? fiction? bored with fiction. thinking about getting the basketball diaries. dunno... was pondering some hunter s. thompson or??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Svi Posted March 17, 2010 Members Share Posted March 17, 2010 bored with fiction. thinking about getting the basketball diaries. dunno...was pondering some hunter s. thompson or??? read my above suggestion. Next on my list is "Running with Scissors" by Augusten Burroughs. Both I've suggested are autobiographies. True stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members s4001 Posted March 17, 2010 Members Share Posted March 17, 2010 I really liked 'To the Last Man' by Michael Shaara. Narrative of WWI. Did a great job of bringing it off the page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Super_Donut_Man Posted March 17, 2010 Members Share Posted March 17, 2010 Solipsist - Henry Rollins And... (a very good read IMO) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mr.Mow Posted March 17, 2010 Members Share Posted March 17, 2010 bored with fiction. thinking about getting the basketball diaries. dunno... was pondering some hunter s. thompson or??? Can't go wrong with some HST.. 'Vegas', 'Hell's angels', 'kingdom of fear'.. hell, you can't really go all that wrong with any of his stuff.. I recently reread (for the 4th time) the entire catalogue of the Japanese author Haruki Murakami, his stuff is pretty weird, slightly twisted but mellow and interesting. He's been described as a Japanese Kafka.. I like 'The windup bird chronicles' the best, but they are all great, nice thing is after reading them all.. the characters and locations start to overlap and in your mind just become this one huge twisted story! non fiction wise.. "Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone" is really good, shows how stupid government red tape and corruption effect the average guy on the ground. (yes it was turned into that godawful Matt Damon movie, really they have nothing in common though). "The Cat from Hue: A Vietnam War Story" is exceptional.. a Journalists diary of his time there. as is "Dispatches" by Michael Herr (I've read an awful lot of journalist books about the Vietnam war!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rpsands Posted March 17, 2010 Members Share Posted March 17, 2010 Pulp sci fi/fantasy in the kind of Roger Zelazny and Fritz Leiber are my favorite reading materials lately. The "new wave" or whatever it's called. Philip Jose Farmer is not so good for the writing but interesting stories. Conan stuff was super fun too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members willsellout Posted March 17, 2010 Members Share Posted March 17, 2010 The God Delusion, Dawkins. The dude is no nonsense about his point of view and presents it in a logical and captivating way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Poltergeist Posted March 17, 2010 Members Share Posted March 17, 2010 Hunter S. Thompson is absolutely worth reading. have you read Jack Kerouac? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mlwarriner Posted March 17, 2010 Author Members Share Posted March 17, 2010 just ordered a bunch of stuff from amazon. half my total order cost was shipping Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mlwarriner Posted March 17, 2010 Author Members Share Posted March 17, 2010 have you read Jack Kerouac? not on purpose. and again, where to start? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members oldivor Posted March 17, 2010 Members Share Posted March 17, 2010 Try reading a stats for engineering and science majors book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members oldivor Posted March 17, 2010 Members Share Posted March 17, 2010 where to start? I love On the Campaign Trail 72 and The Great Shark Hunt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mlwarriner Posted March 17, 2010 Author Members Share Posted March 17, 2010 Try reading a stats for engineering and science majors book. i did once. i've never been quite the same since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members oldivor Posted March 17, 2010 Members Share Posted March 17, 2010 i did once. i've never been quite the same since. I know what you mean. ;_; Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Poltergeist Posted March 17, 2010 Members Share Posted March 17, 2010 where to start?not on purpose. and again, where to start? Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Jack Kerouac - On the Road, The Dharma Bums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fretless Posted March 17, 2010 Members Share Posted March 17, 2010 http://www.amazon.com/House-Leaves-Mark-Z-Danielewski/dp/0375420525/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268798677&sr=1-1 best book of the last 20 years ? you decide Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members zachoff Posted March 17, 2010 Members Share Posted March 17, 2010 I just read The Count of Monte Cristo. It was good. I'm now reading Freakonomics. It's really good. After this I'll read 1984 again because I'm scared. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members coyote-1 Posted March 17, 2010 Members Share Posted March 17, 2010 Really want to expand your mind? Get Huxley's Brave New World. Get a couple hits of acid.Do 'em, and start reading. i need some new {censored} to read. i'm tired of the crap i've got laying around the house.so...what're you reading? why should i read it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mlwarriner Posted March 17, 2010 Author Members Share Posted March 17, 2010 Really want to expand your mind?Get Huxley's Brave New World. Get a couple hits of acid.Do 'em, and start reading. i read brave new world about 12 years ago, minus the acid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vanlatte Posted March 17, 2010 Members Share Posted March 17, 2010 bored with fiction. thinking about getting the basketball diaries. dunno... was pondering some hunter s. thompson or??? Are you a history buff at all? Just about anything by Stephen Ambrose is top notch. http://www.snowcrest.net/jmike/ambrose.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mlwarriner Posted March 17, 2010 Author Members Share Posted March 17, 2010 i've read this one actually. i went through a long military history obsession, especially with vietnam. kinda over that, though. i ordered an assload of stuff last night. we'll see how that plays out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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