AWeeJig Posted April 18, 2008 Report Share Posted April 18, 2008 Reading:Touching The Void - A True story It a mountain climing story and it's great.I watched a documentary on CBC a couple years back with that exact same title. It was very well done. Therefore, the book must be better. I'll go on the hunt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AWeeJig Posted April 18, 2008 Report Share Posted April 18, 2008 I figure that the ability of an author to make the reader feel very strongly (either good or bad) about a character is the sign of a very well-written novel. Personally, I can think of few literary characters I would be more eager to strangle than Holden Caulfield. He's a complete twerp.Well put my friend. Holden Caulfield is one of the most effective characters in literature. Whether, it be American or Non. Bye Da Bye, wareds dem udder otters like Aldous Huxley, ind George Orwell n dis tread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bokonon Posted April 21, 2008 Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 Reading Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood right now. It's been a while since I've read any of her work (a year or so, maybe). Thoroughly enjoying it. It's symbolic and cryptic so far, love it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmoothedShredder Posted April 21, 2008 Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 East of Eden by John Steinbeck... and just to wash the "women are bad/manipulative" out of my mouth, I've jumped into Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. Yay railroads! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted April 21, 2008 Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 Chuck Klosterman - IV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybone Posted April 21, 2008 Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 I just finished an easy read called Eat, Pray, Love. It was the best book I've picked up at an airport in a while. Chic-lit, but guys should enjoy it as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timouse Posted April 21, 2008 Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 I just finished an easy read called Eat, Pray, Love. It was the best book I've picked up at an airport in a while. Chic-lit, but guys should enjoy it as well. jennifer is just finishing it, it's coming to me highly reccommended. we heard the author on tapstry on the cbc last fall and she seemed very cool. "the best book that i've picked up at the airport in a while" isn't really a ringing edorsement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybone Posted April 21, 2008 Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 I've actually picked up a few good one on my airport travels. Usually it's just best-sellers, which I'm not always in to. I got turned on to Haruki Muarakami by buying a book at the airport and I've since read a few by him. The airport book stores aren't all bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bokonon Posted April 21, 2008 Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 I bought my favourite book at YYZ. I was thirteen, going on my first flight ever. We were heading to Vancouver and Whistler. I bought To Kill a Mockingbird. I've read it at least once a year for fourteen years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bokonon Posted April 21, 2008 Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 I'm glad I'm not the only one on here that reads Ayn Rand. (how do you pronounce her first name? I say it like Ann.) Atlas Shrugged I've read twice. Each time it took me more than four months. I have to take it in tiny little bites and chew over her ideas for quite a while. I think I've combined her ideals with my own sugary, hippie-dippy shit. I like to think that she is basically saying we have a responsibility to be the best person we could possibly be and that is the optimal way to improve the world. I kind of glaze over the ruthlessness of her philosophy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted April 21, 2008 Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 how do you pronounce her first name? I say it like Ann.http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_ayn_rand_faq_index2#ar_q3Aloha,Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdy Posted April 21, 2008 Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 I think I've combined her ideals with my own sugary, hippie-dippy shit. Hahah!I'm a Rand fan too... and while she was a little ruthless, that chick was onto something. It's a mean world out there and the only way it can ever get better is to better our individual selves. I really believe people who don't agree with her on that one are fucking off their rocker and feel sorry for those who can't get beyond the ruthlessness to see the wisdom of her ways.I'm on a big nobel peace prize winner, read all about 'em kick right now and just finished Wangaari Mathai's "Unbowed: a Memoir" - all about the building of the Greenbelt Movement in Kenya, where she put thousands of women to work replanting the country's lost forests... and in doing so created a national movement for democracy. That woman is just plain unbelievably awesome.Now i'm on to Desmond Tutu's "No Future without Forgiveness", his story of his time as the chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa post-apartheid. Should be a goodie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms Zimmy Posted May 9, 2008 Report Share Posted May 9, 2008 I just started reading Clapton the Autobiography, and it’s pretty great. I never did get really into Clapton, but he writes really well. Anyone else read it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewRider Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 Holy crap was this book ever good! Any fan of Gram's, Country, Alt-Country or addiction should read this book! WOW! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorgnor Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 I think I might be sharing my mind with Bokonon like the guys in Summer School. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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