I am about to start reading The name of the rose by Umberto Eco. I hope it's good. I haven't seen the movie.
I also like to re-read my favorite books every now and then. I LOVE Bel-Ami and everything by Guy de Maupassant. I love I, Claudius by Robert Graves. I also enjoyed Brothers Karamazov and Idiot by Dostojevskij.
What are you reading? Which books are your favorite?
The heart is on the left. The blood is red.
Just finished Conagher from Louis L'Amour yesterday. Great book, great author. Most of his books are pretty short and fast reads. Dude knew his subject material extremely well. Now I'm about to start another of his titled Silver Canyon.
“Great losses often bring only a numb shock. To truly plunge a victim into misery, you must overwhelm him with many small sufferings.”
Brothers Karamazov... Bought it 4 years ago and I still haven't made it past the halfway marker. Should've bought "The Idiot" instead...
Can't go wrong with Henry Miller, though.
Why settle for something you have, if it's not as good as something you're out to get?
Originally Posted by Seshmeister
It's like putting up a YouTube of Bach and playing Chopstix on your Bontempi...
Brothers Karamazov is much better then Idiot. I was thinking of reading Crime and punishment too, but my dad told me it's pretty tragic and sad, and I don't don't deal with tragedy very well, so I'm not gonna read it. My dad gave me White nights to read, I still haven't gotten to it though. He says it's beautiful, not tragic at all. So, I'll definitelly read that one.
A Storm of Swords...
ROTH ARMY MILITIA
Originally posted by EAT MY ASSHOLE
Sharky sometimes needs things spelled out for him in explicit, specific detail. I used to think it was a lawyer thing, but over time it became more and more evident that he's merely someone's idiot twin.
Was it good?
I'm only about 1/3 of the way through, but it's excellent. It's book 3 of the series that has spawned the current "Game of Thrones" show on HBO, so I'm catching up on reading them for the first time.
Just finished headhunter by jo nesbo .. Really enjoyed it
fuck your fucking framing
The Gold Coast....Nelson Demille
Nobody else has admitted it, so I will. "Fifty Shades of Gray", "Fifty Shades Darker", "Fifty Shades, Freed". Whips and Chains meets Harlequin romance. Sex on every other page. Perfect Beach reading.
Oh dear.
I purchased this trilogy for my wife and all I will say is I am fucking glad I did.
Holy shit!!!!
WE'RE ON A MISSION FROM ROTH.
I think I'm benefitting in the same way. Married life has it's surprising rewards from time to time.
Ms. Pervy McPervertson!
Sheesh. I'm the only 1 into westerns? Not surprising. I never had read one really until this year. But really digging them. Up until then I always read the classics. Hemingway, Steinbeck, Tolstoy, etc... Sure I read a few in high school & college, but not a wide range of them. Bookstores have sections for classics & the paperback are usually under $5. Thinking of the original Dracula next. Will be nice to go back to the original story since it's been bastardized so much since.
It hasn't come out in swedish yet, I think it'll come out in september or october. I am SO buying it. If you enjoy that one maybe you'll enjoy The story of O
Even I've heard of the story of o... Mrs vandeler has it .,.. Whoah the army ladies like it on the wild side lol
Yeah, I read it like years ago. Before 50-shades guy was even born
Story of O huh? Hmmmmmn... Christmas is fast approaching.
Sounds like the forum might be quiet this Christmas ... The members will be a bit tied up lol
Lmao
Ummm...NO.
Johnny Carson: Do you know why divorces cost so much? It's because they are worth it.
Finer words have never been said.
On the reading front, I just finished plowing through William C. Dear's O.J. Is Innocent And I Can Prove It, which suggests the title and goes a long way toward exposing Simpson's son Jason as the real murderer of OJ's ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. It is an at times preposterous read, as the details are laid out in a redundant fashion chapter after chapter. I also call into question some events the author claims to have witnessed and experienced, along with the "testimony" of some of his so-called "experts", whose opinions come from years and geographical locations away from the event. Nonetheless, a captivating and compelling way in which to spend several hours contemplating the dire travesties mob-mentality thinking and the rush to judgement fueled by it could bring about.
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”― Stephen Hawking
It sounds really interesting. Wasn't it difficult to read it knowing that who ever of the two of them did it, was free?Ummm...NO.
Johnny Carson: Do you know why divorces cost so much? It's because they are worth it.
Finer words have never been said.
On the reading front, I just finished plowing through William C. Dear's O.J. Is Innocent And I Can Prove It, which suggests the title and goes a long way toward exposing Simpson's son Jason as the real murderer of OJ's ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. It is an at times preposterous read, as the details are laid out in a redundant fashion chapter after chapter. I also call into question some events the author claims to have witnessed and experienced, along with the "testimony" of some of his so-called "experts", whose opinions come from years and geographical locations away from the event. Nonetheless, a captivating and compelling way in which to spend several hours contemplating the dire travesties mob-mentality thinking and the rush to judgement fueled by it could bring about.
I love true crime. One of the best books I have read is The stranger beside me by Ann Rule. It's mindblowing. She was a co-worker of Ted Bundy and also a true-crime writer.
BTW, to have read close to half of Brothers Karamazov is a great accomplishment, that book is dense and difficult. Just keep reading, you'll get to the end :-)
I'll admit, marriage is way harder than any job I've ever worked, but having made it to the 10 year mark through many peaks and low fuckin' valleys, I'd like to think my better 7/8's is gonna keep my sorry ass for the long haul at this point.
Ann Rule is extraordinary! Her manner of portraying events and seemingly putting the reader inside them is captivating as hell. For newcomers, check out 2007's compilation Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder. Mind-blowing stuff.
I have to do that. I have The want-ad killer, I just haven't gotten to it yet. I have a huge pile of books to plough through. Unfortunately there isn't one single book of Ann that is translated to swedish, and my english isn't very good. But I do what I can, I have read The stranger beside me in english, and it went well.
She is amazing.
When my dad told me that he was reading Anna Karenina really slowly so it wouldn't end, I couldn't understand. But I experienced the same thing with Ann Rule.
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Ummm...NO.
Johnny Carson: Do you know why divorces cost so much? It's because they are worth it.
Finer words have never been said.
On the reading front, I just finished plowing through William C. Dear's O.J. Is Innocent And I Can Prove It, which suggests the title and goes a long way toward exposing Simpson's son Jason as the real murderer of OJ's ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. It is an at times preposterous read, as the details are laid out in a redundant fashion chapter after chapter. I also call into question some events the author claims to have witnessed and experienced, along with the "testimony" of some of his so-called "experts", whose opinions come from years and geographical locations away from the event. Nonetheless, a captivating and compelling way in which to spend several hours contemplating the dire travesties mob-mentality thinking and the rush to judgement fueled by it could bring about.
The theory that Jason Simpson is the actual murderer has been around since day 1. Makes some sense too, as he was more physically able than old, arthritic OJ ( some speculate Ron Goldman wouldve kicked his feeble ass), absolutely HATED Nicole, and was the only other person whose DNA would be that close a match to OJ's...
The Name of The Rose is wonderful - in true Eco style it is a little wordy in places, but well worth savouring.....
The Power Of The Riff Compels Me
bit of light reading ... Air, bubbles, pffff. No, really, fantastic stuff if you are interested in philosophy.
THINK LIKE THE WAVES
Loved foucalts pendulum ... A great read
Read it years ago. Disturbing ending. "O" makes "Grey" look like a children's book.It hasn't come out in swedish yet, I think it'll come out in september or october. I am SO buying it. If you enjoy that one maybe you'll enjoy The story of O
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If you are going to buy Fifty Shades for your wife, remember to budget for the handcuffs
and blindfold she will eventually TELL you to purchase.
If you guys like the kind of litterature as Grey and O, do NOT let anybody fool you into buying something by marquis de Sade. It's waay to much, I wouldn't even call it erotic, it's just plain violence. Made me feel sick after couple of pages. It's NOT sexy.
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This all reminds me Of when me and the wife decided to spice up our sex life ... So I went in one night and said .. Honey Any chance we can do that rape fantasy I've always fancied .. She said ..fuck off , I replied that's the spirit
Lol... So, did she rape youThis all reminds me Of when me and the wife decided to spice up our sex life ... So I went in one night and said .. Honey Any chance we can do that rape fantasy I've always fancied .. She said ..fuck off , I replied that's the spirit
...
'shark attack; greg norman's guide to aggressive golf'
lol
I read Name Of The Rose a LONG time ago. Kickass book, and I felt the casting in the movie (Sean Connery as the elder monk) was great.
I just finished the latest Carrie Fisher book "Shockoholic" tonight. Not a lengthy book. Fairly hilarious. Knocked it out in 3 hours.
Yesterday I finished "Howling At The Moon", an autobiography of CBS Records mogul Walter Yetnikoff
A few days ago I finished a bio of Charlie Parker written in the early 70s called "Bird Lives" that was a good read about the tragic life of a badass musician.
And just before that I finished "Shout Sister Shout!" a biography of the incredible gospel guitarist and singer Sister Rosetta Tharp.
2 hours ago I started reading "The Illustrated Bloodline Of The Holy Grail", one of many factual historical books that basically demonstrate beyond a shadow of a doubt that Jesus had children, the bloodline survived to this day, the Catholic Church have lied to the human race for over 1700 years, and Christianity as a religion is based on a pack of lies. But that has been cussed and discussed in numerous other threads.
That is currently what I am reading.
Am going to start something else tomorrow. I usually read 3-4 books simultaneously. A little of one, then a bit of another, until I get done with them all. Sorta like watching bits and pieces of various shows on Tivo, back and forth, lol.
Last edited by Hardrock69; 07-03-2012 at 06:35 AM.
Man I so couldn't do it that way , I gotta read 1 at a time , gotta get in to it and keep at it . If I put it down for a couple a days its usually a bad sign and I always struggle to get back into it .
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