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Cormac McCarthy's The Orchard Keeper seemed a damned winding interminable mess until the last couple of pages. After that, I realized it was a brilliant piece of work based on a simple yet elegant idea.

And I'm not going to tell you what that idea is because to do so would ruin the book for you. Do yourself a favor and read it sometime. Then marvel at McCarthy's genius.

I will, however, give you a sample sentence from the book. Fair warning ... it's filled with passages like this:

A warm wind on the mountain and the sky darkening, the clouds looping black underbellies until a huge ulcer folded out of the mass and a crack like the earth's core rending rattled panes from Winkle Hollow to Bay's Mountain. And the wind rising and gone colder until the trees bent as if borne forward on some violent acceleration of the earth's turning and then that too ceased and with a clatter and hiss out of the still air a plague of ice.

For a more conventional story from Cormac, I highly recommend reading his tale about Lester Ballard titled Child of God. Some of the stuff in there would give Stephen King nightmares.

If you're not into the older stuff (Orchard Keeper is (C) 1965), then maybe try out his recent novel The Road. It recently won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.

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The Looming Tower, by Lawrence Wright, just out in trade paperback. If you want to find out how Al Qaeda came together and pulled off the 9/11 attacks, you won't find a better history than this one.

Funniest moment so far: a defector from Al Qaeda leaves after bin Laden in Sudan is stripped of his Saudi citizenship and divested of his share in the family construction business. The defector is taken in by the Americans...and then wins the New Jersey Lottery. Doink!

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You can take the heart out of the hooker but you can't take the hooker out of the heart. -- Frankenhooker

Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain. It is the history of punk told entirely through interviews. It is a great.

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Poop.

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what if nigger meant kite

I just finished Marvel Zombies and I really enjoyed it. Gory but quite funny.

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The following statement its true. The previous statement is false

Robert Cormier's I Am the Cheese.

Another entry from the "hangin' round my bookshelf yet never been read" series. The book itself is an easy read. The pages breeze by much like Adam Farmer's bike through the countryside. However, the ending is absolutely devastating. While reading, I imagined that the ending would be bad. Instead, it was horrible...for the lead character Adam, that is.

Again, sorry, but I don't want to give away too much. If you've read the book, you know what I'm talking about. If you've heard of the book, go ahead and read it. It's a quick read and well worth the knife in your brain.

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recently i read 'The Life of Pi" by something Patel.

it had entirely too much religion and soul searching for my tastes, though the lead character was likable enough. well written, yet still boring for the most part. think 'Old Man and the Sea' with a protagonist who doesn't know which religion he wants to be, and agonizes about it through the whole book.

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Kill Whitey.

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It was such a waste of everyone’s time and money that even the Tokyo stadium’s rape robots apologized– something they were programmed specifically never to do.

A few Christopher Moores, who I only just discovered. Easy, fast, fantasy-fictionish novels that are a cross between Carl Hiaasen and, well, sci-fi.

crackpantherI love Christopher Moore. I've only read the Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove, but I've been looking for more ever since.

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It was such a waste of everyone’s time and money that even the Tokyo stadium’s rape robots apologized– something they were programmed specifically never to do.

I got a bunch at the public library. Worth a shot for ya.

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I have a screenplay of this inside my head. Someone has already filmed the book, though. It wasn't as good as the book requires.

I have finished The Looming Tower, and now am reading The First Word by Christine Kenneally, an excellent summary of inquiries into the evolution of language and all the pertinent issues.

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You can take the heart out of the hooker but you can't take the hooker out of the heart. -- Frankenhooker

The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin

Under the Black Flag: The Romance and Reality of Life Amongst the Pirates

Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell- great novel about 2 magicians in early 19th century england who began as teacher and student and became bitter rivals. 

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Kill Whitey.

Thus Spake Zarathustra Nietzche

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"Into the Wild" -- This movie coming out got me curious to read the book.

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I was gonna send a robot back in time, but I got high.

The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillippa Gregory, because I'm a history nerd and historical fiction makes my heart go 'ka-thump'

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Okay, Lindsay, are you forgetting that I was a professional twice over - an analyst and a therapist. The world's first analrapist.

this had me putting rocks under my mattress to sleep on when i when i was 4 or 5. found it on amazon recently :)

i never knew much about this book other than the controversy, but it has a pretty cool premise based in reality. basically, Muhammad taught some things in the Koran that later Islamic leaders didn't agree with, so they did the quick fix of announcing that Muhammad had been fooled into thinking he was interpretting the words of god when in reality he was interpretting the words of the sneaky devil. these got dubbed the Satanic Verses

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what if nigger meant kite

On a firend's recommendation, I'm reading...

So far it's a bit sloppy and cliche'd

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-=- You eat one lousy foot and they call you a cannibal. What a world. -=-

Rereading the incomprehensible-unless-you-remember-every-damn-word-and-panel 'The Invisibles' from Vertigo comics.

Finally got to read most of the brilliant '100 Bullets' series, also.

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"Only things I approve of should exist." -some guy on the internet

Much like his characters trudging the streets of Dublin, I've been mucking about James Joyce's Dubliners for weeks now. Aside from "The Dead" and a couple of others, the way has been quite boring. With much trepidation, I'd pick up the collection of shorts and start another story hoping for some brilliance or insight into the human condition. Each time I'd put down the book and wonder why the hell I was still reading the damned thing.

I'd think Joyce was busy making Dublin come alive in contrast to his lifeless characters, but other than naming the same several streets over and over, there doesn't seem to be much life in Joyce's Dublin, either.

And it's not like the stories became better as the pages turned. Each one finds me imagining Joyce sitting at a large window, looking over Dublin, and then reporting exactly what he sees. All too often, what he sees and describes are surfaces. His characters have little depth. Their motives and desires are shallow. Their goals are within easy reach (and often in a bottle), yet often discarded out-of-hand when even the flimsiest obstacle pops up before them.

"A-ha!" you shout, "You've countered your own argument, mate. Joyce's milieu is the mundanity of life itself." "So what," I counter, "I experience that mundanity every day myself. I don't need some asshole pointing out my own or other people's shortcomings in the most simplistic manner possible and passing it off as literature!"

And further I'd argue that the only reason "The Dead" is considered a great story is because it's surrounded by such mediocrity that even a fool could hardly help but see the quality of it. Gabriel's many moods and the battle within himself make for a stirring read, but I can only hope that the majority of Joyce's ouput is more like it and less like the rest of Dubliners.

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Now I've started Gulliver's Travels*. I must say there's more life in its introductions than all of Dubliners. So I'm looking forward to a much better reading experience from Mr. Swift.

*Note that it is possible for someone, even an English Major, to spend about 20 years in educational institutions without reading the whole of Gulliver's Travels. It wasn't easy, but I managed it having read only a couple of chapters. And I'm the type to read everything assigned. The only time I ever used Cliffs Notes (without also reading the book) was for Conrad's Heart of Darkness.

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Just finished up "The Diamond Age" by Stephenson. I'm only about a dozen years late to the party there. Awesome book, though.

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I was gonna send a robot back in time, but I got high.

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Poop.

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