Just finished Werewolves in Their Youth by Michael Chabon and Stranger than Fiction by Chuck Palahniuk. Both are recommended, though I thought Werewolves was a bit better.
About to start The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler.
Just finished Werewolves in Their Youth by Michael Chabon and Stranger than Fiction by Chuck Palahniuk. Both are recommended, though I thought Werewolves was a bit better.
About to start The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler.
"The choices we discern as having been made in the Constitutional Convention impose burdens on governmental proceses that often seem clumsy, inefficient, even unworkable, but those hard choices were consciously made by men who had lived under a form of government that permitted arbitrary governmental acts to go unchecked." INS v. Chadha, 462 U.S. 919 (1983) (Burger, C.J.)
Breakfast at Tiffany's Truman Capote, for a class
Candide Voltaire, also for a class
Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett, for leisure
Originally Posted by Jack Handey
The Cash Nexus by Niall Ferguson, and Roots by Alex Haley.
For the good old American lifestyle: For the money, for the glory, and for the fun... mostly for the money.
Just Now finished the "Brass Verdict"
By Michael Connelly
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If God wanted Men to look women in the eyes, He wouldnt have gave em Boobs !
it's the Big Lebowski. it's a spoof of the detective/film noir genre based mostly on the Big Sleep (narrative structure)....with an "updated" version of the "anti-hero" who isn't quite Edward G. Robinson or Jimmy Cagney but very much a product of the social alienation of HIS time, heh.
avoid the movie version of the Big Sleep with Robert Mitchum, it's pretty average.
"The Captive Mind; Alpha the Moralist"--Czelaw Milosz
"The Garden Party"-- Vaclav Havel
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“someone's controlling the vibes!"--apache dropout
"Oklahoma: A History" by Baird and Goble.
So I was doing a piece for Black History Month on Oklahoma's historic all-black towns. It's a very unique part of Oklahoma's past; there were once 50 of them, more than any other state. Many of them were in Eastern Oklahoma because they were settled by freed slaves of the Cherokees.
It just fascinates the hell out of me how stuff that happened 150 years ago is still influencing Oklahoma politics today.
Fatu-Hiva published in 1974, by archaeologist and explorer Thor Heyerdahl, detailing his experiences and reflections during a one-and-a-half-year stay on the Marquesan island of Fatu Hiva in 1937-38.
Reading this book has convinced me that the "back to nature" concept is very over rated. That is unless you dig parasites, mosquitoes, and communing with the rocks and trees.
"Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.."
Penn Jillette
Chainfire - Terry Goodkind
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When the Shooting Starts, We Kill What Moves
Roland Deschain of Gilead
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- Olevet Posse Gunslinger -
Just finished "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson. Excellent book.
I'm now reading "Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond. So far so good, but Bryson puts Diamond to shame in the writing category.
The Halflings Gem (Book 6 of the legent of Drizzit)
I have watchmen to read, but not sure if i'll read that next, or read the next 4 legend of Drizzit books
“If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.”
Bud Wilkinson
i think i only read six of those books, i don't even remember which ones. like first 3 and then the ones about his back story?
i should probably read Stranger than Fiction, but i read Choke, Survivor and Fight Club in pretty short succession recently and was kinda burned out on his style
right now i'm kinda in the middle of a book of lectures by Richard Feynman
they just re-released them. They now order the first 2 trilogies into chronological order (his history, then icewind dale). I think there's atleast 5 series now. Either 3 or 4 are in the legend of drizzit series though.
“If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.”
Bud Wilkinson
I just reread Watchmen. Then the newest trade paperback for Spidey. I've just started reading The Boys trades, too. good stuff.
I got a bad mustache
a recurring rash
and not a lot of cash.
I spend it on my stash.
Man it's good to be a geek!
I need a couple good batman's to read maybe.
I'll be readin the drizzit stuff for a bit though
“If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.”
Bud Wilkinson
"Give me a Break" - by John Stossel.
About to start that one.
Currently reading "The Happiest Baby on Earth"
I picked it up because I just saw that he wrote a sequel for it that came out last fall to good reception.
I'm trying to read the Stimulus bill but the co**suckers put a line through all the words, so I have to read all 1437 pages.
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."
- Fred Bastiat
"Liberal Fascism", by Jonah Goldberg.
Aztec Fire- Gary Jennings. I would recommend his book Spangle.
" Ok children put your hands on your heart... and face Norman."
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