I'm currently reading The Waste Lands, the third book in the Dark Towers series. I would definitly recommend the first two as well, The Gunslinger and The Drawing of the Three.
I'll probably check it out. I may be converting soon, but I'll probably only be a "Catholic". (completely meant as a joke and not meant to start a debate!)
Thanks...by the way, A-Train has been totally lurking for like the past 30 mins. We should probably make a we see you lurking A-Train thread.
Them: Adventures With Extremists A very entertaining book that I read a couple of months ago. Here's what Amazon has to say: In Them, British humorist Jon Ronson relates his misadventures as he engages an assortment of theorists and activists residing on the fringes of the political, religious, and sociological spectrum. His subjects include Omar Bakri Mohammed, the point man for a holy war against Britain (Ronson paints him as a wily buffoon); a hypocritical but engaging Ku Klux Klan leader; participants in the Ruby Ridge and Waco, Texas, battles; the Irish Protestant firebrand Ian Paisley; and David Ickes, who believes that the semi-human descendants of evil extraterrestrial 12-foot-tall lizards walk among us. Despite these characters' disparities, they are bound by a belief in the Bilderberg Group, the "secret rulers of the world." In a final chapter, Ronson manages, with surprising ease, to penetrate these rulers' very lair. He writes with wry, faux-naive wit and eschews didacticism, instead letting his subjects' words and actions speak for themselves.
You have no idea... a review In an unnamed city (seems like New York), Ira Fishblatt, a bleeding-heart liberal Legal Aid lawyer, is rejected by his live-in lover, The Gypsy. This is much to the dismay of the other inhabitants of Ira's place: hundreds of cockroaches with names like Bismarck, Rosa Luxemburg, and Julia Child (they were born in bookshelves), who enjoyed The Gypsy's messiness and food-throwing. After a brief despondent period, Ira meets the overweight, matronly Ruth Grubstein. Cosseted into the role of good Jewish boy, Ira goes to such lengths to please Ruth that he renovates the kitchen, forcing the kibitzing circle of Blattelae Germanicae out of their homes. The roaches, led by their ringleader Numbers, who's also the book's narrator, swear vengeance. They disrupt a dinner party of Ira and Ruth and their neighbors, the Wainscotts, by causing a blackout that, in a good bit of screwball writing, forces Ira and Elizabeth Wainscott into close quarters in the dark. But Plan A fails, and thus begins Numbers's long journey of the soul to find a more effective revenge on humankind. What follows are comically gruesome scenes described from Numbers's roachy point of view: from toilets, in Ira and Ruth's bed, in the hair of a coke dealer named Rufus, in the sewer system. Weiss's broad ethnic comedy--in dialogue between Jewish Ira, black Rufus, and old-money racist Wainscott--is bracing at first, then flattens. A well-modulated comic novel (one hesitates to say ``picaresque''), only for those with really, really wicked sensibilities.
mc mark, Yeah, I read that over at Amazon. That's definitely on my list. T_J, I started this thread after a moderator basically called me an idiot.
I recently finished the book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060730552/qid=1084999347/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/002-6552559-6448029?v=glance&s=books&n=507846">Touching the Void</a> by Joe Simpson. Heard about him on Rome, saw the movie, then read the book. It's basically the story of he and Simon Yates climbing the Siula Grande, their failed descent when Joe breaks his leg, and Joe's survival and return to base camp after being left for dead. It's a fantastic book that you won't be able to put down. It's also a very simple and fun read.
unbearable lightness of being - kundera the book of laughter and forgetting - kundera a hearbreaking work of staggering genius - eggers half a life - naipaul in love with the night - rfk biography good luck with the road trip!
