This idiot is about to make a road trip with RM95's Girl and her parents up to Wichita on Friday. I just finished a couple of books and am looking for a new one to read. Haven't made it over to the bookstore, so I thought I'd ask my fellow BBSers for some recommendations. I'm wanting a fiction paperback, preferably. I just finished Richard Russo's Empire Falls, which was a great one.
codell: Not necessarily. DHB: read it already. Got kicked out of the same casino in Shreveport this weekend that those guys did. FreakyDeaky: Very possible possibility.
Seven Storey Mountain is pretty good RM95, Mr. M would recommend it to you, and its a biography that reads like a novel.
Cuckoo's Egg: interesting book about the very early days of hackin. I guess it's boring if you're not into computer or technology, but it tracks the process this guy at the Cal-Berkeley computer lab went through to catch a hacker back in 1983 or so. What he thought was some random nerd looking for kicks turned out to be be something much more.....
I'm in the middle of Ugly Americans right now. Good book, very easy read, but very light in the way of finance knowledge (which it is supposedly based on). It's by the same author, but I never did read Bringing Down The House. I actually just got back into reading for pleasure again. And I'm really glad I did...
Funny you should mention that because that's what I was thinking about purchasing the most. It seems that it's always at the top of my list, but when I walk into the store, that title gets erased from my mind.
Catch-22 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Confederacy of Dunces The Sicilian Ghost Soldiers Clockers Galapagos The Alienist
If I knew, I'd tell you. We got to the Horseshoe at 4:00am Saturday morning, gambled until 9. My roommate decided to quit and went to the restroom. I watched him walk down there and then on his way back a security guard came up to him and said something. My roommate then came over to me and told me we were getting kicked out. The guard escorted us to our car, but he claimed he had no idea why we were asked to leave. We can't think of anything we did to warrant expulsion from the casino, but I didn't really want to make a fuss about it.
His sense of humor isn't for everyone, but you might want to check out David Sedaris if you haven't yet. Maybe starts with Me Talk Pretty one day. He's an incredibly gifted storyteller. His sister is Amy Sedaris, star of Strangers With Candy which used to come on Comedy Central.
That's a tough question. I honestly don't think it is, but that's probably becuase I'm Catholic and not noticing things...but its a great take on one man's search for meaning. If anything its about the need for a little bit of the aesthetic life in us all. I only recommend it because I think you'd like it.
There are several books I recommend to anyone who hasn't read them, but my usual first one is The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco ( Eco's stuff is generally good, but this is his best, IMO). Others, like the Unbearable Lightness of Being, Graves' Claudius books, High Fidelity, L.A. Confidential, the Great Gatsby, Remains of the Day, etc. are also great. Do you have types? I like general fiction, mysteries, historical fiction, and political works, aside from basic history.
