What Book Did You Read Last Night??? (6 Viewers)

[David Kronenbourg]

wonderful

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

wonderful

oh yes, that was great

 

[David Kronenbourg]

ordered this from amazon but it was too big to fit through my letterbox so now i have to collect it from the post office. 800 pages of death, despair, crack, prostitution, pornography and violence. can't wait!

 

[baltimore sun]

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut.

Fantastic read, laugh out loud funny at times and quite depressing and bleak at others, but a terrific journey of a book, especially the aliens!

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut.

Fantastic read, laugh out loud funny at times and quite depressing and bleak at others, but a terrific journey of a book, especially the aliens!

i also have this on order from amazon. looking forward to it

 

[Jim Daniels]

800 pages of death, despair, crack, prostitution, pornography and violence. can't wait!

Ha! Jesus! Biblical!

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

ordered this from amazon but it was too big to fit through my letterbox so now i have to collect it from the post office. 800 pages of death, despair, crack, prostitution, pornography and violence. can't wait!

have you read any of this lad before? i got Rising Up and Rising Down recently, im considering reading it. i got the abridged single volume edition and not the 3000-page 7-volume edition.

Rising Up, Rising Down is Vollmann's meditation on the age-old conundrum: when is violence justified? Vollmann writes: 'My own aim in beginning this book was to create a simple and practical moral calculus which would make it clear when it was acceptable to kill, how many could be killed and so forth.' Vollmann has consulted hundreds of sources, scrutinizing the thinking of philosophers, theologians, tyrants, warlords, military strategists, activists and pacifists. He has visited more than a dozen countries and war zones to witness violence firsthand - sometimes barely escaping with his life. The result is a deeply personal book, full of insight, that is a major publishing event, hailed by Zembla magazine as possibly 'the most ambitious literary project ever'.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

have you read any of this lad before? i got Rising Up and Rising Down recently, im considering reading it. i got the abridged single volume edition and not the 3000-page 7-volume edition.

yes, i've read europe central. it's set during WW2, it's incredibly long and and takes real life people and puts them in fictional situations. it's really gripping and quite brilliant, particuarly the middle section which deals with kurt gerstein. i would recommended it highly

 

[hugh]

This Vollmann guy sounds like he needs an editor ...

Sounds good though all the same. When I'm finished with 2666 I might check him out. I'm all for the big books these days.

 

[dunderhead]

homer and langley by e.l doctorow
great short read. based on two real life brothers who grew up in bourgeois home in new yoik. one loses sight, the other comes back from first world war mentally scarred.they slowly become more and more reclusive as the century moves on while all sorts of folk pass through their crazy home.

 

[baltimore sun]

It's great Bernie, even if it's only about 150 pages-ish but I have to say, I'm hooked on Vonnegut now

 

[jonah]

I just finished reading Vonnegut and have moved on to this... uh.

 

[Hector Grey]

homer and langley by e.l doctorow
great short read. based on two real life brothers who grew up in bourgeois home in new yoik. one loses sight, the other comes back from first world war mentally scarred.they slowly become more and more reclusive as the century moves on while all sorts of folk pass through their crazy home.

the collyer brothers?
great story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collyer_brothers

 

[Moods For Mallards]

I'm still reading Howard Zinn's A People's History of the US.
One atrocity after another. Can't wait until it gets to the section on chillwave.

 

[dunderhead]

the collyer brothers?
great story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collyer_brothers

thats the lads
those pics on the wiki page are brilliant

 

[Lili Marlene]

The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean, amazing!

 

[Jill Hives]

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I'm finding it very depressing. I don't think it's suppose to be.

 

[Lili Marlene]

What's it about? besides brooklyn, like

The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean, amazing!

i can't stop thinking about it

i'm so buying this right now

apparently it's 'contentious'

 

[Jill Hives]

What's it about? besides brooklyn, like

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/books/review/Schillinger-t.html?pagewanted=all

 

[Lili Marlene]

oh, did you write that review? well done so