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[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 10/25/12 at 9:51pm

I leafed through Bill O'Reilly's Killing Kennedy today by way of procrastination, and despite the author being a moron it didn't totally suck. I have no intention of finishing it, though - a flick will suffice. 666 reviews on amazon too, which I thought appropriate.

[zepka102]

Posted: 11/1/12 at 10:20pm

I just started JK Rowling's new book for adults, The Casual Vacancy. 19 pages in and I already feel like I need to get a huge wall of post-its with character names and connections, like what I felt I needed to do with the HP series to remember everything.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 11/8/12 at 12:06pm

[dreaming]

Posted: 11/8/12 at 12:53pm

I just finished The Fun House and am now reading Are You My Mother?.

[Plum]

Posted: 11/8/12 at 4:08pm

On the fluffy/ridiculous side of things, I'm rereading a couple of Dresden Files books to tide me over until the Cold Days comes out. I'm also still working on that big Mielziner biography I've been leafing through since Sandy.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 11/8/12 at 4:57pm

I'd love to read a Mileziner bio--had no idea there was one, though I loved the glimpses they had into his life in that beautiful coffee table book of his designs. I'll have to look for it.

To fill up some credits I had to take for school I've been doing a class that compares books to their film adaptations, and is focused on American ideas of masculinity. In the past two weeks I had to finish Deliverance and Revolutionary Road--I loved Rev Road, though it was pretty depressing (a lot of people I talk to in class found it tough going just because it is pretty long, and despite some satire, prtty heavy), and I liked Deliverance--certainly more than the film--but I get why Dickey is considered himself more as a poet than a novelist. Still, I'm glad I read both, and probably wouldn't have without the class.

When I have time right now to read something I want to read I'm still thumbing through Pulp Friction, a collection of excerpts of gay pulp novels. It's really fascinating--often campy, but a number of the excerpts are actually really good and make me want to try to track down the full book--and there's great historical context about each choice.

[sally1112]

Posted: 11/8/12 at 6:55pm

I am 115 pages into Chris Cleaves' Gold.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 11/25/12 at 1:34am

About to start reading Outlander. I love time travel books, and I heard it's a great series

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[spiderdj82]

Posted: 11/25/12 at 1:34am

double post

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[Plum]

Posted: 11/25/12 at 2:31am

Carl Hiaasen's Stormy Weather, which is filled with his usual cast of Florida eccentrics.

[uncageg]

Posted: 11/25/12 at 1:09pm

I really need to play catch-up in this thread!

I just finished AMBERVILLE by Tim Davys. A cool little book about a town inhabited by stuffed animals. The story follows 4 of them on a quest to find "the death list" for the residents there. Not a kids book. Loved the pill popping, s&m loving stuffed gazelle!

[Yawper]

Posted: 11/25/12 at 2:58pm

Well, my new (used) car has a CD player so I've been listening to books that I otherwise probably wouldn't have the patience to read. Driving three hours a night allows for a lot more listening time than reading time. One recently finished BOCD was the fantastic Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul. Examining the life of Williams allows a plunge into a historical view of the separation of church and state in Colonial America. It reveals a huge, early chunk of the backstory of an American debate that continues today.

http://www.amazon.com/Roger-Williams-Creation-American-Soul/dp/0670023051

Reading-wise I recently started Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago. "Heat waves in the United States kill more people during a typical year than all other natural disasters combined." In July, 1995, Chicago experienced a week long heat wave that resulted in the deaths of over 700 residents. The author, Eric Klinenberg, looked into the whys of such a high death toll and found that the social breakdowns typical in most large American cities played a major role.

http://www.amazon.com/Heat-Wave-Autopsy-Disaster-Illinois/dp/0226443221




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[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 11/25/12 at 3:11pm

Re-reading one of my all-time faves, Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray - but this time the uncensored version, published for the first time last year. New and improved, now with added homosexual deviancy.

Updated On: 11/25/12 at 03:11 PM

[uncageg]

Posted: 11/25/12 at 3:21pm

I am currenty reading "Who Stole the American Dream" by Hedrick Smith.

Updated On: 11/25/12 at 03:21 PM

[yodamarie78]

Posted: 11/25/12 at 5:57pm

Sacré Bleu by Christopher Moore

[MotorTink]

Posted: 11/26/12 at 11:35am

"In Cold Blood" & "The Virgin Suicides" - bit took a break yesterday to read "Daughter of Smoke and Bone" a young adult supernatural fiction series. Pretty entertaining for a YA novel. I didn't want to put it down.

[Kad]

Posted: 11/26/12 at 12:09pm

Finishing up Ron Chernow's bio of Alexander Hamilton.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 11/26/12 at 12:55pm

I just finished Patron Saint of Liars. Not sure how I feel about it.

[Jim Colyer]

Posted: 11/26/12 at 5:18pm

Astronomy books by Bob Berman.

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 11/26/12 at 5:35pm

The Twelve, Book Two in the Passages Trilogy.

Basically a bit of the apocalypse and horror related to military experiments gone awry, in one handy dandy book.

[kc2]

Posted: 11/27/12 at 11:18am

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 11/27/12 at 1:02pm

Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell books. Finished Wolf Hall, almost through Bring Up the Bodies. Recommend.

[Plum]

Posted: 11/28/12 at 12:49am

Ooh, I tried to pick up Wolf Hall at the library a few weeks back but it's been unexpectedly popular for a book that's a few years old. I'll just have to keep trying.

What I am reading right now is Jim Butcher's Cold Days. Anyone else do Dresden Files?

[Jim Colyer]

Posted: 11/28/12 at 10:19pm

All the astronomy books I can find.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/28/12 at 10:33pm

Jim, why are you comfortable posting the word "faggots" on your personal Twitter account and them coming here posting on a board with so many gay men?