What are you reading?

Soozy · Post by **Soozy** » 1/22/2006, 9:06 am

oooh Raymi's book. how is it jenny?

clumsychild_ · Post by **clumsychild_** » 1/22/2006, 12:30 pm

I wanna read that!! :nod:

its4am_isanybodyhome · Post by **its4am_isanybodyhome** » 1/22/2006, 12:45 pm

i keep starting it, leaving it for a while, reading other books, and coming back to it. i'm determined to finish it this time though...my friend wants it back.

Hope · Post by **Hope** » 3/16/2006, 6:10 pm

thread revive!

Soozy wrote:oooh Raymi's book. how is it jenny?

there are a lot of usual raymi parts, and really scary parts also, about the shit she went through and how she went crazy and became depressed. plus her paint drawings are always amusing. she also included a few of her stories, which i absolutely love.

i recently finished James Frey's A Million Little Pieces.
i'm currently reading Anais Nin's Journal of a Wife. I've barely started and i already love it.

Kathy · Post by **Kathy** » 3/16/2006, 6:12 pm

A Million Little Pieces... what did you think of it? Sooo much controversy surrounding this book but no one I know has read it.

Hope · Post by **Hope** » 3/16/2006, 6:30 pm

I didn't know there was that much controversy over it... At first I was engrossed in the story but afterwards, in the second half or so of the book, the whole thing seemed too wild/crazy to be true. The bits about Lilly i didn't like, because it seemed almost contrived.

the part where Frey goes into the sketchy building to rescue Lilly was just insane. It made me doubtful, partially because it's obscenely dangerous and unlikely, and also because Frey didn't even stop once to reach out to the drugs once again (all for Lilly's sake, which is just weird.) It doesn't ring true to me how he was so single-minded about rescuing Lilly... but I guess it's possible.

Overall, it was a pretty intense read, but I'm not sure if everything in the book actually happened.

Kathy · Post by **Kathy** » 3/16/2006, 6:36 pm

A lot of people were mad and felt conned when it came out that parts of the book were made up but passed of as the truth. He was extremely successful as a result of being chosen for Oprah's bookclub, and when the truth came out there were a lot of shows (incl Oprah and Larry King) confronting him on it.

http://people.aol.com/people/articles/0 ... 55,00.html
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/01 ... frey1.html

Hope · Post by **Hope** » 3/16/2006, 6:43 pm

woah.

Kathy · Post by **Kathy** » 3/16/2006, 6:45 pm

I just assumed you knew about it! A lot of people have read the book specifically because of the controversy.

Hope · Post by **Hope** » 3/16/2006, 6:50 pm

no, i had no idea.... thats really funny. wow. and all my friends think it's a true memoir also.

He waffled on whether he'd had novocaine when a dentist repaired four of his teeth (the book says he did not).

"I've struggled with the idea of it," he said of his account in the dentist's chair. "No," Winfrey shot back. "Not the 'idea' of it. The 'lie' of it."

that visit to the dentist part was so scary... i thought that part was real.

magicseamonkey · Post by **magicseamonkey** » 3/16/2006, 7:40 pm

I just started Kurt Vonnegut's A Man Without A Country yesterday, and it's really good.

I'm also in the middle of a Douglas Adams bio.

its4am_isanybodyhome · Post by **its4am_isanybodyhome** » 3/16/2006, 8:08 pm

Axtech · Post by **Axtech** » 3/16/2006, 8:13 pm

YESSSSSSSSSS!!!!! :love:

its4am_isanybodyhome · Post by **its4am_isanybodyhome** » 3/16/2006, 8:16 pm

i'd heard good things about the series, and i'm a big fan of fantasy, so i bought the first one, and now i've got this one from the library...it's soo goood

don't ask why · Post by **don't ask why** » 3/16/2006, 9:37 pm

the hades factor by the guy who wrote the bourne series
and nelson mandela's photograph book or something like that. i'm really too lazy to get the title.

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » 3/16/2006, 11:11 pm

its4am_isanybodyhome wrote:

i keep starting it, leaving it for a while, reading other books, and coming back to it. i'm determined to finish it this time though...my friend wants it back.

Oooooooooooooooooooooh, intro by Terry Brooks, I like that author.

tasha · Post by **tasha** » 3/17/2006, 2:41 pm

i'm reading a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.

it better be as good as everyone says.

pit_girl1 · Post by **pit_girl1** » 3/17/2006, 2:42 pm

Small Gods - Terry Pratchett
(from the Discworld series)

magicseamonkey · Post by **magicseamonkey** » 3/17/2006, 5:52 pm

pit_girl1 wrote:Small Gods - Terry Pratchett
(from the Discworld series)

I was just thinking today that I need to go get the 3rd book, but then I remembered how many other books I have on my list at the moment to read before I go out and buy more books.

Bandalero · Post by **Bandalero** » 3/18/2006, 11:19 pm

.........i hate books. i know i've said that frequently on here, but i'm going to say it again.

that being said, i bought a bunch of books at a book giveaway/i went to waldenbooks.

i'm currently reading Noam Chomsky's Hegemony or survival: america's quest for global dominance.

i also bought Che.

and at that book giveaway i also bought the phylosophy of ayn rand.

:uh: