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Old 02-08-2007, 05:51 PM   #151
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I found it pretentious and overrated myself.
Today's literature is in sad hands and sorry shape.
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Old 02-08-2007, 06:19 PM   #152
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Today's literature is in sad hands and sorry shape.
On the contrary I think there is still quite a lot of good literature being written.
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Old 02-08-2007, 06:21 PM   #153
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Old 02-08-2007, 06:23 PM   #154
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No, we're proving that 1000 monkeys with a 1000 typewriters couldn't reproduce shakespeare's works, but that another story.....
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Old 02-08-2007, 06:34 PM   #155
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Old 02-08-2007, 06:37 PM   #156
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"State of Denial" - Bob Woodward
"We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families" - Philip Gourevitch
"Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road" - Neil Peart

Reading Ghost Rider also.
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Old 02-08-2007, 06:38 PM   #157
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Just finished 3 Nights in August.

Just started Boss of Bosses The Fall of the Godfather: The FBI and Paul Castellano
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Old 02-08-2007, 07:50 PM   #158
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The Timeline History of Islam.
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Old 02-09-2007, 01:38 AM   #159
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Ditto. Plus The Thomas Jefferson Reader by Thomas Jefferson, The Blind Side by Michael Lewis and All the Laws but One by William Rehnquist.
The Blind Side is great, but I'm a big Michael Lewis fan. I'm really interested now to see how Michael Oher's career progresses.
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Old 02-09-2007, 09:43 AM   #160
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bits and pieces of The Portable Dorothy Parker
Adam Gopnik's Paris to the Moon
The Dark Side of Genius, The Life of Alfred Hitchcock - Donald Spoto
Run River by Joan Didion
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Old 02-09-2007, 09:58 AM   #161
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Reading Ghost Rider also.
What do you think? I'm finding it to be somewhat disappointing. It's much more of a straight-up travel narrative than what I was expecting.
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Old 02-09-2007, 12:30 PM   #162
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Yeah, it's turning into a travel log. I'm finding it harder to pick up. Especially since I'm getting the baseball jones and picked up a couple baseball books that I'll probably start.

My buddy is a complete RUSH freak and he didn't get all the way through it either.
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Old 02-09-2007, 02:48 PM   #163
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Yeah, it's turning into a travel log. I'm finding it harder to pick up. Especially since I'm getting the baseball jones and picked up a couple baseball books that I'll probably start.

My buddy is a complete RUSH freak and he didn't get all the way through it either.
His prose is so rigid, it annoys me sometimes. He has a hard time expressing the pain he's going through, but can go on for pages about the spruce pines that he's riding by. And I really don't need to know what he ordered at every single restaurant he stopped at.
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Old 02-13-2007, 11:11 AM   #164
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I'm reading Oscar Peterson's autobiography, A Jazz Odyssey. For those of you who don't know who he is, he is one of the greatest jazz piano players who ever lived, and he's among the select few living jazz legends.
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Why, Ball Four, of course. Like every year around this time.
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