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[Randy Reed]

Mercury69, on Thursday, July 9th, 2009, 2:14 PM, said:

If you like Gibson, you will probably like Neil Stephenson. Cryptonomicon was excellent.

I read Anathem and really enjoyed it. I have to put that on the list.I guess I'll check out Gibson as well as Infinate Jest.Currently on Scarpetta (reading) and Pillars of the Earth by Follett (audio).

[Graydon]

Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris

[Dirtydutch]

Graydon, on Sunday, August 2nd, 2009, 9:00 PM, said:

Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris

I like Sedaris a bunch in the right doses. His Esquire columns were intermittently hysterical.

[Graydon]

Dirtydutch, on Monday, August 3rd, 2009, 5:35 AM, said:

I like Sedaris a bunch in the right doses. His Esquire columns were intermittently hysterical.

I like nearly all of his work. "SantaLand Diaries" and the story where they tried to get their youngest sister ran over were pretty hilarious.

[Jadaki]

Currently reading The Gang They Couldn't Catch: The Story of America's Greatest Modern-Day Bank Robbers-And How They Got Away With ItI'm reading it because book is the story of a guy I play poker with regularly. It's nice to know the FBI still follows him around, especially since I talk to the guy 3-4 times a week.

[Graydon]

Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs. There were a couple pretty graphic chapters in there about Augusten's young sex life...Still a hilarious memoir IMO.

[BigDMcGee]

I'm reading The family about a group of power brokering Evangelical christians in DC..http://en.wikipedia......organization)this books is giving me the creeps.

[Dirtydutch]

McGee turned me on to some graphic novels, with mostly fantastic results. Most nobably:- The Preacher- Transmetropolitan - Sandman

[frautotenkinder]

Dirtydutch, on Monday, August 10th, 2009, 6:23 AM, said:

McGee turned me on to some graphic novels, with mostly fantastic results. Most nobably:- The Preacher- Transmetropolitan - Sandman

The graphic novel series I'm loving is Fables, by Bill Willingham. Recommend highly.

[CaneBrain]

Preacher graphic novels are very good.My wife picked up "God is not great" by Christopher Hitchens. I am sure Crow, VB, LLY et al could give me a good synopsis but I am looking forward to reading it.

[GeneralGeeWhiz]

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

[runthemover]

posting of graphic novels, I read 100 Bullets a few weeks ago. =thumbs up=, of course.as I said elsewhere, I read the latest Psych book (no not a textbook sillies) called Mind Over Magic. the author is quite good at capturing the spirit of the show. it really feels like an episode which is seemingly quite a difficult task.I'm just starting Seinfeld's Seinlanguage book (I've read it before).

[BigDMcGee]

frautotenkinder, on Monday, August 10th, 2009, 12:51 PM, said:

The graphic novel series I'm loving is Fables, by Bill Willingham. Recommend highly.

I love Fables a whole lot

runthemover, on Monday, August 10th, 2009, 10:07 PM, said:

posting of graphic novels, I read 100 Bullets a few weeks ago. =thumbs up=, of course.as I said elsewhere, I read the latest Psych book (no not a textbook sillies) called Mind Over Magic. the author is quite good at capturing the spirit of the show. it really feels like an episode which is seemingly quite a difficult task.I'm just starting Seinfeld's Seinlanguage book (I've read it before).

100 bullets, not so much. I liked the way it started off, but I lost interest in it quickly when it didnt' seem to go anywhere.

[Dirtydutch]

frautotenkinder, on Monday, August 10th, 2009, 9:51 AM, said:

The graphic novel series I'm loving is Fables, by Bill Willingham. Recommend highly.

BigDMcGee, on Monday, August 10th, 2009, 8:38 PM, said:

I love Fables a whole lot

I'll add it to the queue.

BigDMcGee, on Monday, August 10th, 2009, 8:38 PM, said:

100 bullets, not so much. I liked the way it started off, but I lost interest in it quickly when it didnt' seem to go anywhere.

It sounds interesting to me as a man of revenge, so I'm still adding it to the queue.

[LongLiveYorke]

WTF?Anyone a Thomas Pynchon fan:

[Dirtydutch]

LongLiveYorke, on Thursday, August 13th, 2009, 7:01 AM, said:

WTF?Anyone a Thomas Pynchon fan:

Yeah, I haven't started reading it yet, but that video is el-oh-el weird, and I'm not really sure what to expect.

[RonBurgundy]

GeneralGeeWhiz, on Monday, August 10th, 2009, 4:22 PM, said:

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

great book, as is kesey's other classic 'sometimes a great notion'.been into dostoevsky lately: 'memoirs from the house of the dead'<'notes from underground'<'crime and punishment''brothers karazamov' is probably next in my "serious reading" queue.also read a lil vonnegut to split up the heaviness mentioned above- 'slapstick'it was okay but certainly not near 'slaugherhouse 5'/'cats cradle'/'breakfast of champions' level.just started 'new orleans, mon amour' by andrei cordescu, which is basically a series of vignettes about new orleans. he calls himself a surrealist, and the style lends itself well to that crazy place.

[RonBurgundy]

Tactical Bear, on Friday, July 3rd, 2009, 4:17 PM, said:

Anybody have any suggestions for reading on Linguistics or Stylistics or something?.

jacques derrida- 'of grammatology'probably one of the most influential books of the past half-century (within the field at least)

[RonBurgundy]

also, i would delve into infinite jest but the hardcover copy i have (recently stolen from a beach house where its absence will go unknown among the orgy of romance/action/spy novels) is currently maintaining my tv in an upright position.also, a little intimidated by the sheer size of it.i did read a collection of DFW's essays, consider the lobster and really enjoyed it (although if pretension had a voice, his would be in the running).there are worse things than pretension after all. idiocy, for one.

[LadyGrey]

I'm on Hocus Pocus by Vonnegut right now. Not sure what to read next, maybe The Age of Reason by Sartre. Anyone read it/other Sartre stuff? Recommend it or not?