I just started Philip Roth's The Plot Against America. Basically, it's Roth's family when he was growing up; however, Lindbergh has just been elected president in 1940 and he forges an understanding with Hitler while promoting a sort of folksy anti-semitism in the U.S. I'm only on page 25 and can barely put it down. I'm also reading Contempt of Court, but I'll finish after I complete Roth's book. Any suggestions after that?
Good time for this thread, I need a new book. Last thing I read was The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe.
I just finished the Seabiscuit book by Laura Hillenbrand. I burned through it in less than a week, and spent several hours yesterday finishing it. One of the best books I've ever read -- if you've seen the movie, you MUST read the book. I found the book to be better because I'd seen the movie. I was able to picture people and events from the movie, and they seemed more real. I haven't decided what to read next. I'm like 60 pages into "Zen and the art of Motorcycle maintenance", but I don't know if I want to keep going.
I finished Diary, by the way. Great book. I haven't read Fight Club, but it's my favorite Chuck Phualasaksnak novel.
It is a book written by a guy who travelled across country on bicycle to the basketball hall of fame. He is a filmmaker and made a documentary about it that was released a couple years ago. This is the book. Kinda backwards. Usually, book first, but whatever. Basically, the guy and his friend set out from California with a "virgin" basketball on bicycles going to the hall of fame in Massachusetts. They get the ball signed by every person kind enough to help them along the way and then try to get the ball inducted. Just started it but it looked interesting.
Cool, it's one of my favorites too (Probably behind Invisible Monsters). Gets stranger and stranger as it goes on huh?
after watching the HBO series Rome, I've gotten Rome-fever - so on the recommendation of a friend I've just started.. The Gates of Rome (Emperor, Book 1) by Conn Iggulden http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/04...103-3530210-4312631?n=507846&s=books&v=glance
I may go re-read Invisible Monsters. That was my first introduction to his writing and it took me a while to get used to it. I probably could've gone all my life without that graphic a description of felching.
wow, that sounds like something i could do for fun when i roadtrip. just grab strangers for signatures. i'm sure it would be easy to strike up conversations with them too with this as an ice breaker.
you had me at Seabiscuit!! great book. reading A Christmas Carol, again. i do every December. and trying to finish the Brothers Karamazov..have been for months. can't seem to find time to finish it and keep reading other books along the way.
My wars are laid away in Books- Emily Dickinson Biography Anthology of all of Dickinson's poems- Paper due soon...heading down home stretch...
The Penultimate Peril - Lemony Snicket The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
