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Oisin On January 27, 2012




Glasgow, United Kingdom
#1New Post! Jul 01, 2011 @ 20:18:36
5. the road to McCarthy - pete mccarthy. i have never laughed while reading a book as much as i did whilst reading this. it came out a few years ago but i like to reread it often.

4. crime and punishment - fydor the prick. i've been reading this for years, i refuse to be beaten by a book, it's boring as f*** though.

3. hemmingway - for whom the bell tolls. i have a love for the spanish civil war. it's not hemmingway's best work but it really appeals to me.

2. nothing but an unfinished song - denis o'hearn. essentially it's about bobby sands. truthfully it's about so much more.

1. at the minute it's probably the gadfly, ask me next week though
Eaglebauer On July 23, 2019
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#2New Post! Jul 01, 2011 @ 20:29:13
@Oisin Said

5. the road to McCarthy - pete mccarthy. i have never laughed while reading a book as much as i did whilst reading this. it came out a few years ago but i like to reread it often.

4. crime and punishment - fydor the prick. i've been reading this for years, i refuse to be beaten by a book, it's boring as f*** though.

3. hemmingway - for whom the bell tolls. i have a love for the spanish civil war. it's not hemmingway's best work but it really appeals to me.

2. nothing but an unfinished song - denis o'hearn. essentially it's about bobby sands. truthfully it's about so much more.

1. at the minute it's probably the gadfly, ask me next week though



Fyodor the prick????

That's actually one of my favorite books!

Bah...I admit Dostoevsky isn't for everyone. My wife, who is a much better reader than I am and I suspect is smarter than me can't stand reading him!

My last five:

5. I Don't Want to Go to Jail - Jimmy Breslin- A good, light book about the mob a la Quinton Tarantino dry humor.

4. Physics for the Rest of us - Roger S. Jones- I've always been really weak in the hard sciences and I've decided to do something about it for the hell of it.

3. Time Won't Let Me - Bill Scheft- Funny novel about a group of guys who start a garage band in school together in the 1960s and then reform in their fifties to tour again.

2. The Pugilist at Rest - Thom Jones- Collection of short stories. I've always liked short story anthologies because it's a book full of stuff you can read when you have a few spare minutes and put down to run off. I also write them so it's kind of like studying for me as well.

1. Yeats is Dead - 15 different Irish authors- Brilliant novel written in 15 chapters about a murder, each chapter written by a different author. Clever, hilarious, and hard to put down.

3.
Octavarium On December 23, 2021




Pacific North West,
#3New Post! Jul 02, 2011 @ 02:43:53
5. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden ~ Joanne Greenberg

4. The Poet ~ Michael Connelly

3. Lisa, Bright and Dark ~ John Neufeld

2. Marat/Sade (or: The persecution and assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as performed by the inmates of the asylum of Charenton under the direction of the Marquis De Sade.) ~ Peter Weiss

1. Aghora III, The Law of Karma ~ Robert E. Svoboda
aneil On February 20, 2023




Freeport, Trinidad and Tobago
#4New Post! Jul 02, 2011 @ 02:49:48
5- A Game of Thrones- G.G. Martin

4- The Regulators- Stephen King

3- Rita Haywood and Shawshank Redemption- Stephen King

2- Ivanhoe- Sir Walter Scott

2- Heir to the Empire- Timothy Zahn
JorieJukebox On January 29, 2024
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Right Here, Not There,
#5New Post! Jul 02, 2011 @ 03:09:33
5. Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson
4. Helter Skelter - Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry
3. The Shelters of Stone - Jean M. Auel
2. The Plains of Passage - Jean M. Auel
1. The Mammoth Hunters - Jean M. Auel

These are ones I read for myself... I read a lot of Dr. Seuss n such to my boy.
Oisin On January 27, 2012




Glasgow, United Kingdom
#6New Post! Jul 02, 2011 @ 03:33:12
don't just post lists, what's the point. a wee description of the books too pleasse.
chisa96 On December 29, 2014
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Out in Nature, Wisconsin
#7New Post! Jul 03, 2011 @ 13:16:27
Memnoch the Devil by Ann Rice
The Vampire Armand by Ann Rice
Merrick by Ann Rice
Blood and Gold by Ann Rice
Lowboy by John Wray

The first four are part of Ann Rice's vampire chronicles that I became a bit obsessed with for a time because she's such an obvious artist, and the last is about a schizophrenic riding around on the subway with some kind of mission to save the world. I'm only part way through that one.
plebian_angel On April 25, 2012
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a great future,
#8New Post! Jul 03, 2011 @ 13:19:26
Death Masks by Jim Butcher
All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris
Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris
Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
Summer Knight by Jim Butcher
sister_of_mercy On March 11, 2015




London, United Kingdom
#9New Post! Jul 03, 2011 @ 13:26:14
1. Coffee at Luke's: An Unauthorised Gilmore Girls gabfest- Jennifer Crusie.

2. Princes- Machiavelli

3. Much Ado About Nothing- Shakespeare

4. A Woman of No Importance- Oscar Wilde

5. Les Miserables- Victor Hugo
chisa96 On December 29, 2014
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Out in Nature, Wisconsin
#10New Post! Jul 03, 2011 @ 13:29:56
@sister_of_mercy Said

5. Les Miserables- Victor Hugo



What did you think of this one?
sister_of_mercy On March 11, 2015




London, United Kingdom
#11New Post! Jul 03, 2011 @ 14:11:31
@chisa96 Said

What did you think of this one?



Brilliant, though I read the abridged version. The longer version is supposedly a bit more of a difficult read.
chisa96 On December 29, 2014
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Out in Nature, Wisconsin
#12New Post! Jul 03, 2011 @ 14:16:33
@sister_of_mercy Said

Brilliant, though I read the abridged version. The longer version is supposedly a bit more of a difficult read.


Everybody says that it was amazing, but I couldn't get into it. I don't know. Maybe I was just too young and too much of it was over my head or something.
plebian_angel On April 25, 2012
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a great future,
#13New Post! Jul 03, 2011 @ 14:18:54
@sister_of_mercy Said

Brilliant, though I read the abridged version. The longer version is supposedly a bit more of a difficult read.



I loved that book. It's one of my favorites to date. I also read the abridged version. I dragged my mom to the musical as I loved it that much when I had to read it in high school
guardian On August 07, 2011




New York, New York
#14New Post! Aug 07, 2011 @ 13:43:46
1. Chuck Pallanick "The Diary"
2. Bernard Werber "The Angel's empire"
3. Ernest Hamingway "Old man and the sea"
4. Dostoevskiy "The crime and the punishment"
5. Jean-Paul Sartre "The words"

sorry for bad translation. I've read 'em all in russian
hoppy On August 27, 2013




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#15New Post! Aug 07, 2011 @ 13:49:56
"Hell, I was there" by Elmer Keith.
And everything I could find by Peter Hathaway Capstick.
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