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Louder Than Words
A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism. By: Jenny McCarthy. Yes, that Jenny McCarthy. Her son has Autism.
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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
I haven't even finished and honestly its one of the best books I've ever read. I'm going to be picking up Island pretty soon. |
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Christopher is an autistic fifteen-year old who excels at math, won't eat anything that is brown or yellow, and needs to have the world just-so or he will scream, hit, or moan for hours. Late one night he finds the neighbor's poodle impaled on a pitch fork, and his subsequent search for the poodle's murderer leads him to some clues about a darker secret in his own life. Really good book, quick read, and it's pretty touching too.
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls-Peter Biskind
How the sex, drugs, and rock and roll generation saved Hollywood. Recommended to me by my sister the film student. (go figure)
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ya, yo.
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i just bought The Beatles Biography by bob spitz. it should make for a good read.
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Heroism...dirt cheap
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Just finished The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. It's an amazing book, I highly recommend it.
Now, I'm starting Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill. After this, I think I'll pick up some more Chuck Klosterman |
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Nice sig Logan^^
I just read Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S Thompson. It has first hand accounts from some of his closest friends, families, and even a couple of enemies. They discuss everything good and bad about him and holds nothing back. I enjoyed the book and consumed it in no time. I'm looking for something good to read now and am in the mood for something political because of the election but I need to pick up RA Salvatore's The Orc King and get caught up on the latest Drizzt book. Or I may go with Barry Greenstein's Ace on the River and get ready for my next casino trip.
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I'm usually a heavy fiction reader with occasional lapses into nonfiction, but ever since Thanksgiving, I've been on the total opposite schedule (I've also been reading about ten times as much as I usually do - your best friend and smokin' buddy moving across country at the same time as you're getting ready to go back to grad school will do that to ya...) I just finished up "Charlie Wilson's War," "Into the Wild," and "K-19" and am about to get rolling on Jimmy Carter's new book about Palestine. I highly recommend all three. I tried to get started on "The Pentagon Papers" right after Thanksgiving, but my GOD is that ever a dense book. I barely made it through "All the President's Men," and this one makes Woodward and Bernstein look like Dr. Seuss. On the fiction side, I checked out Doug Coupland's "jPod." It was okay - very interesting concepts - but a lot more outlandish than I like from him; I much prefer "Microserfs." My next fiction endeavor will probably be "The Kite Runner," 'cause I apparently like being depressed. May have to insert some trashy '70's spy fiction in there to break up the gloom.
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The fall of Tez Roman Empire: A New Zistory of Rome and tez Barbarians by Peter Heatzer
In tez middle of R.A. Salvatore's Orc King: Transitions I (but tez fantasy genre in general is wearing tzin witz me.) I also zave R.A. Salvatore's Spearweilder's Tale in tez que. My |-| key broken god damnit so im using z instead.
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this post, are you fucking retarded?
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OMG great thread, I am surprised I hadn't seen it before...
Right now I am reading: A Stone for Danny Fisher by Harold Robbins. Before that it was Gingerman by J.P. Donleavy. Gingerman was an awesome book, and so far, Mr. Robbins does not disappoint.
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The New Dynamics of Goal Setting - Denis Waitley
I'm trying to act on my goals after procrastinating for a few months. The suggestions in this book aren't bad although it does have the whiney "motivational" book element to it.
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I just got finished reading The Mysterious Stranger, a short story by Mark Twain. It was very twisted, my first encounter with Mark Twains work, giving me a new found respect for him.
Here's a clip of a 1980's cartoon, based on the short book of short stories the Mysterious Stranger comes from. <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cqi5F5MqqTQ&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"> </param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cqi5F5MqqTQ&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object> Now I'm taking on the works of Karl Marx. A book called Capital Volume 2... they didn't have Volume 1 at the library. |
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I'm reading nothing but college text books out the ass right now, but I just recently finished reading "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman. He's a badass, I love everything of his (everything I've read so far anyway).
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I've got 3 books I'm working on right now.
Beyond Good and Evil - Nietzsche god Is Not Great - Christopher Hitchens Why I Am Not A Christian - Bertrand Russell I gotta sneak when I read these, cause my mom is a hardcore fundie, and if she finds out I'm an atheist she'll boot me out of the house. Plus I got, Introduction to Film, Political Philosophy: In Moral Conflict, and English Composition 110. College education ftw.
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