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Posted by money on May-13-2009 02:22:

Clubland, Frank Owen

Posted by yukii on May-13-2009 02:28:

so many books to read.so little time..

Posted by eROs.au on May-13-2009 03:23:

Posted by Lebezniatnikov on May-13-2009 04:09:

quote:
Originally posted by jennypie
Peekay, right? I saw the movie...Morgan Freeman is in it, so you know it's awesome.

Yeah, I had no idea it was even a movie. It was a really fantastic book though, so I just added it to the Netflix queue.

Posted by Lebezniatnikov on May-13-2009 04:10:

quote:
Originally posted by enydo
Just finished up A Brief History of Time and am now starting:

To save you some time, if you've read the first section you've read the whole book. Interesting stuff, but all the original ideas are run through by the end of the first hundred pages.

Posted by Silky Johnson on May-13-2009 04:11:

quote:
Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
Yeah, I had no idea it was even a movie. It was a really fantastic book though, so I just added it to the Netflix queue.

The music in it is so good.

Posted by stren on May-13-2009 09:28:

quote:
Originally posted by weymouth
American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Gaiman is pretty popular with a lot of "hipster" fantasy readers and wanted to see what it is all about. Not really that impressed after 400 pages in. He's an imaginative guy but he doesn't weave that great of a story.

I didn't like it at all, I can tell you it doesn't get any better after 400 pages. Some nice tips for con artists though

Posted by Moral Hazard on May-13-2009 11:51:

quote:
Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
Yeah, I had no idea it was even a movie. It was a really fantastic book though, so I just added it to the Netflix queue.

Don't bother... the movie was decent but what makes the book so great is the depth of the character development, which the movie just guts in order to boil the book down into a 2 hour run time movie. You'll be incredibly disappointed with the movie despite Morgan Freeman.

Posted by elFreak on May-13-2009 11:55:

started leafing through this last night, it is pretty interesting as well.

Posted by Lebezniatnikov on May-13-2009 12:44:

quote:
Originally posted by Moral Hazard
Don't bother... the movie was decent but what makes the book so great is the depth of the character development, which the movie just guts in order to boil the book down into a 2 hour run time movie. You'll be incredibly disappointed with the movie despite Morgan Freeman.

Yeah, I imagine that Doc and Peekay in particular don't translate well to a shortened form. The book develops slowly, but that's part of what makes it so rich, in my opinion. I'm still interested in seeing it, but my expectations aren't terribly high.

Posted by Moral Hazard on May-13-2009 14:12:

Yeah, the movie condenses the entire first half of the book into about 20-30 minutes then goes on to focus almost exclusively on his private school boxing days. Morgan Freeman is great as Geel Piet though.

Posted by narcism on May-13-2009 14:29:

currently reading this:

Posted by Lebezniatnikov on May-13-2009 16:11:

quote:
Originally posted by Moral Hazard
Yeah, the movie condenses the entire first half of the book into about 20-30 minutes then goes on to focus almost exclusively on his private school boxing days. Morgan Freeman is great as Geel Piet though.

Damn - the train ride and the prison stuff were the best parts.

Posted by Enjoy on May-13-2009 17:15:

Posted by Omega_M on May-13-2009 17:27:

Just Finished

Currently Reading

Next in line...

Posted by nefardec on May-13-2009 17:31:

quote:
Originally posted by eROs.au

that book looks awesome

Posted by daydreamer on May-13-2009 18:15:

i wanted to read it in spanish but i could not find it anywhere
and a friend bought if for me in english, so i said feck it.
halfway through.

ace so far.

Posted by Lebezniatnikov on May-13-2009 18:17:

quote:
Originally posted by Enjoy

Great book - really hard to follow even in English, but totally worth it.

Posted by Stasis on May-13-2009 19:40:

Just started on these two:

I'm on a "slumming it in the city" bent I guess. I just finished, "Service Included"--another one that's interesting if you're into the New York City restaurant world, or just fancy restaurants in general.

Posted by Unique2701 on May-13-2009 20:17:

Just finished Anna Karenina and now reading Banana Yoshimoto's N.P.

Posted by Capitalizt on May-14-2009 02:25:

I'm listening to the audiobook. Does that count?

Posted by Silky Johnson on May-14-2009 02:26:

Man, I still fucking love that book. I'm tempted to re-read...but I really must get through the rest of my to-read list. :/

Posted by Capitalizt on May-14-2009 02:50:

quote:
Originally posted by jennypie
Man, I still fucking love that book. I'm tempted to re-read...but I really must get through the rest of my to-read list. :/

in case you change your mind..

http://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Shrugge...d/dp/0452011876

Posted by Silky Johnson on May-14-2009 02:53:

Haha I already have it sitting on my bookshelf.

Also:

Posted by Domesticated on May-14-2009 03:03:

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. I'm enjoying it. It reminds me a lot of Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front.

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