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Sportsdude

#255
Jun 05 07 03:01
read more of my book. fascinating.  
"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

Gopher

#256
Jun 07 07 01:28
Good Behaviour - Molly Keane
A fool's paradise is better than none.

PostMonkee @(^_^)@

#257
Jun 07 07 10:22
Teacher Man by Frank McCourt (the Angela's Ashes guy).

So far it's amazing and unlike Angela's Ashes won't leave you looking for a sharp thing to cut yourself with.

  Also the Dark Elf trilogy by R.A. Salvatore.

If you enjoy fantasy it's an amazing display of character development and world-building.

It's also great if you like to read about angry elf chicks whipping subservient men until they bleed.
Jesus, bad waves of paranoia, madness, fear and loathing - intolerable vibrations in this place. Get out. The weasels were closing in. I could smell the ugly brutes. Flee.

kitten

#258
Jun 07 07 10:43
If it has angry elf chicks I've got to read this one!  Just kidding, but it seems interesting.  I'll look for it at the library.
Thousands of years ago cats were worshipped.  They have not forgotten.

PostMonkee @(^_^)@

#259
Jun 07 07 10:50
It raises some interesting questions, Miss K, about what would happen if an entire society was based upon what we would consider to be "evil", and in such a setting what would be considered deviant and obscene.  
Jesus, bad waves of paranoia, madness, fear and loathing - intolerable vibrations in this place. Get out. The weasels were closing in. I could smell the ugly brutes. Flee.

Sportsdude

#260
Jun 07 07 11:03
still reading my book. Trying to find another urban planning book to read after I finish my first one. I like the authors of the first book, they're sort of activists that are shaking up the building community. They've got their own organization and everything. But the book mainly deals with suburbs, I need a city book now.  
"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

Gopher

#261
Jun 08 07 11:24
The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A fool's paradise is better than none.

PostMonkee @(^_^)@

#262
Jun 08 07 11:30
^^^^ what's it about?
Jesus, bad waves of paranoia, madness, fear and loathing - intolerable vibrations in this place. Get out. The weasels were closing in. I could smell the ugly brutes. Flee.

Gopher

#263
Jun 08 07 11:33
Oh that's a hard one. It's a mystery, but very different to any other which I have read. Concerns someone who selects a book from the cemetary of forgotten books. Other people become interesting in acquiring it from him - mainly they are doppelgangers of the characters in books. I've not read all that far yet, but it looks as though fiction and reality are going to blend.  
A fool's paradise is better than none.

PostMonkee @(^_^)@

#264
Jun 08 07 11:44
Waow.

So it's fantasy? Sounds very strange and wonderful.

What made you choose it?
Jesus, bad waves of paranoia, madness, fear and loathing - intolerable vibrations in this place. Get out. The weasels were closing in. I could smell the ugly brutes. Flee.

Gopher

#265
Jun 08 07 11:45
Someone gave it to me and I vaguely recalled hearing about it a few months ago (in glowing terms).
A fool's paradise is better than none.

Sportsdude

#266
Jun 08 07 11:56
 I can't decide on which book about Vancouver urbanism to buy.

This one:
[b class="sans"]Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination
[/b][span class="sans"][a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dream-City-Vancouver-Global-Imagination/dp/1553651030/ref=sr_1_1/105-8065872-6743615?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1181299398&sr=8-1"]http://www.amazon.com/Dream-City-Vancouver-Global-Imagination/dp/1553651030/ref=sr_1_1/105-8065872-6743615?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1181299398&sr=8-1[/a]

or this one:

[/span][b class="sans"]The Vancouver Achievement: Urban Planning and Design
[/b][span class="sans"][a href="http://www.amazon.com/Vancouver-Achievement-Urban-Planning-Design/dp/0774809728/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b/105-8065872-6743615?ie=UTF8&qid=1181299398&sr=8-1"]http://www.amazon.com/Vancouver-Achievement-Urban-Planning-Design/dp/0774809728/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b/105-8065872-6743615?ie=UTF8&qid=1181299398&sr=8-1[/a][/span][b class="sans"]
[/b]
personally I think I'm going with the second one because the Dream City book is more like a novel, you can read excerpts from it.
   
"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

Lil Me

#267
Jun 12 07 01:18
Lost Girls and Love Hotels by Catherine Hanrahan  
"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."  Robert Heinlein

purelife

#268
Jun 13 07 08:49
Firestarter - Stephen King  

Lil Me

#269
Jun 13 07 08:51
Ooooh!  How is it?  I haven't read Stephen King for ages.  I used to stay up all night in HS and read Stephen King because I was too scared to sleep!  
"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."  Robert Heinlein
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