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[glitterbot]

everyone should go out and read A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore. it is my favorite book that i have read in a long long time. i drove matt insane alternately laughing out loud and crying all the way through it. it was awesome.

[The Real Jeffrey Lebowski]

on every must read list : a confederacy of dunces

For reals. I couldn't agree more. The funniest book I've ever read, by far.

And I second the nomination for "Choke"

[weener]

Confederacy of Dunces was added to my To Be Read list recently because I've been hearing so much about it. But I work in a library, and hear about books all day long, so my list is HUGE.

I recently read the book Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey, and I consider it the finest piece of literature I have ever read. It's 500+ pages and the moment I finished it, I read it again from cover to cover. It's about a logging family in Oregon. The loggers in town are striking against the main logging outfit in town, but this small family-owned company refuses to strike to support them. They need labor to fill a huge contract, so they write to the stoned, suicidal intellectual dandy half-brother asking him to come back home from Yale and help. The book switches perspectives from character to character constantly, which is confusing at first, but means that there are no flat characters in the book. Even the villians are humanized when it comes time for them to tell their side. I highly recommend it.

[johnnytron]

I wish I knew how to read to take part in this discussion!

[raubhimself]

i've been reading A Brief History of Time, and boy is it getting tough. at first it's easy enough to read, but once hawking starts getting into matter creation and whether black holes are singularities or not...

[psychicsoccermom]

i am looking for some new books to get into....drop recommenmdations here....i am a fan of fiction mostly in the vein of good science fiction, but i will read any story worth reading...

thanks!

check out "Limbo" by Bernard Wolfe....in the vein of "Brave New World" and "1984" but seriously twisted post-apocalypse viewpoint....dig it

[ladydemon]

i'm on the third installment: it rules.

[chadk]

currently reading the Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

[johnnytron]

I just finished fight club. I know it's old, but I've never read it...only watched the movie.

Has anybody read CHOKE? I heard their making a movie from this book too!

Also, has anybody heard of People of paper?

Just wondering...Thanx for your time!

[The Real Jeffrey Lebowski]

I just finished fight club. I know it's old, but I've never read it...only watched the movie.

Has anybody read CHOKE? I heard their making a movie from this book too!

Also, has anybody heard of People of paper?

Just wondering...Thanx for your time!

I love Choke. I can't imagine it as a movie though, but who knows...

[johnnytron]

Somebody from the willow house said it was a good book.

As for the movie, I have no idea whether it would be a good movie or not.

[weener]

I've read Choke. I remember it as being a good book on its own, but as Chuck P's books usually follow a very similar trajectory, after a few of his books you feel like you're reading the same thing. So I didn't enjoy Choke as much as I might have.

[dharma_bum]

Somebody from the willow house said it was a good book.

As for the movie, I have no idea whether it would be a good movie or not.

you can read?

[Big_Poppa]

I'm currently reading "Income Tax & Executive Benefits Planning for High Net Worth Clients" for a course I am taking through the College for Financial Planning. Next up, "Deferred Compensation & Other Benefit Plans for Key Executives." It's not exactly Hawking but I still would not recommend them .

Helping the rich get richer and retain their wealth, well, that's just my little way of "giving back"

[unluckycharm]

Don't feel so bad. The last book I read was: The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression . It wasn't even for a class.