For those of you who can read on this forum, and these days it seems like slim pickings...for christ sakes some people don't even know that the fucking debates where in the city they live in, or if the debates are a one time only thing or not, but for the rest of you check these out if you have the time.. "I'm a Stranger Here Myself" by Bill Bryson Fucking great book, funny as hell and very insightful. "Me Talk Pretty Some Day" by David Sedaris Same write up as the one before actually "Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America With Einstein's Brain" by Michael Paterniti This one is hard to describe, but it is actually about pathologist Thomas Harvey, the guy who did the autopsy on Einstein in 55'. He actually had Einsteins brain yet after all those years and...well just go out and read it. Just thought I'd share if anyone is interested.
I'm up to my ears in fucking text books and course related readings. By the time the semester winds down I usually seek out fiction for the pleasure reading.
I would like to recommend the rather excellent ' Spot goes shooping. ' A rollercoaster ride of a novel filled with thrills and spills and red hot gypsies.
Yeah, that's why I mentioned when I have to read I stear away from the non-fiction when its time for leisure reading.
I read a lot of Dean Koontz. I've read: From The Corner Of His Eye Demon Seed Intensity The Eyes Of Darkness The Key to Midnight Winter Moon The Funhouse The Door To December Dark Rivers Of The Heart Mr. Murder Dragon Tears The House Of Thunder Hideaway Cold Fire Midnight The Bad Place Lightning The Vision The Door To December Whispers Strange Highways Darkfall Phantoms I also have read some Steven King, but not much. Short stories: 1408 All That You Love Will Be Carried Away Autopsy Room Four The Death of Jack Hamilton Everything's Eventual In the Deathroom L.T.'s Theory of Pets Little Sisters of Eluria Luckey Quarter Lunch at the Gotham Cafe The Man in the Black Suit Riding the Bullet The Road Virus Heads North That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is In French Novels: Rose Madder Bag of Bones Misery Needful Things Aldo read The Regulators, written under King's pseudonym Richard Bachman I only read horror. Used to really like the book, "The Gatekeeper" by Dana Reed. Well, I did read the whole Flowers in the Attic series and cried and uh... Where the Red Fern Grows made me cry and so did Flowers for Algernon.
And you know, Mark Furhman writes some good shit. "Murder In Brentwood" and Murder in Greenwich" are both good. And there was a book called, "Bully" that they made a movie from (it was a true story) and it was pretty good too. I like horror movies, horror books, and crime tv.
You should move to the midwest and get fat (er) and maybe inbetween trash novels you could read US Weekly for a change of pace. Though I do like the Gunslinger series which just finally got finshed after like 12 fucking years.
One man's "trash (novel)" is another man's treasure. I don't read to be "enlightened". I read to get away from reality. And I don't give a shit about Justin Tiberlake and who he's dating, so fuck you for insinuating that I would read US Weekly.
Ok, well I just finished The Similarion a Tolkien book, yes I am reading Tolkien, and am now reading The Unfinished Tales. Look I need someting to read, during my shits, while I wait for my new Maxims and Playboys each month.
i can relate. what are you taking? i am still in nursing classes and have recently learned the proper technique of inserting a urinary catheter and a nasogastric tube. then i washed some old man's ass. :shock:
Gerald's Game is even worse. Its a novel about being handcuffed to the bed, which is an interesting situation and I think would have worked ok in a short story...but ffs, 300 pages of it just doesn't work me.
Yeah it does, I have heard of people reading it and taking notes to really understand it. Hard as hell to follow, but interesting none the less.
