I FINALLY got The Da Vinci Code on reserve at the library for me today, so I put Angels & Demons aside and just read the prologue which reads really similar to the prologue in Angels and Demons. Hmmm . . .
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
I just picked up The Basketball Diaries and I am going to start reading it tonight. It is short, so I will probably be looking for another book tomorrow.
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
Broadway actress Sharon Wheatley's book, 'Til the Fat Girl Sings was just named as one of the best reads for the summer on Good Morning America!! Here's the link for the complete list, check it out.
LaVieHilary, you might like The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. It's not about drug or alcohol addiction, but it's semi-autobiographical (that's a mouthful..) and it deals with a young woman having a mental breakdown. Not exactly like A Million Little Pieces, but I think you'd like it if you haven't already read it :)
MisterMatt: Yeah, I'm a huge King fan. Like I said, I thought the book was a bit on the silly side, but I loved it anyway. I read it in one day. As for Saving Fish, the only other Amy Tan I've ever read was The Bonesetter's Daughter, which I also loved... Should I bother with her other ones, or are they just way too "girly?"
I just finished Raymond Chandler's THE LONG GOODBYE, which was very good and made me wonder what on earth Robert Altman thought he was doing when he made that film.
I picked up David Foster Wallace's INFINITE JEST, which I have already read 4 times. I don't know if I'll get all the way through it, but it has been on my mind a lot lately.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
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Probably THE THREE STIGMATA OF PALMER ELDRITCH, or maybe that new translation of Dumas' THE THREE MUSKETEERS by Richard Pevear.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed