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	Posted:	Sep 22, 2007 - 5:37 PM
	By:	CAT (Member)

Nothing right now. I keep looking at The Fountainhead on my nightstand but......I'm scared.


	Posted:	Sep 22, 2007 - 6:51 PM
	By:	Altamese (Member)

Nothing right now. I keep looking at The Fountainhead on my nightstand but......I'm scared.

Howard Roarke stood naked at the edge of a cliff..

It's a good book, just dive right in! It's not nearly as full of Objectivist polemics as Atlas Shrugged, just a good argument for being an individual and trusting your own abilities rather than subsuming them in other people's.

For myself, I'm reading Into The Unknown: The Fantastic LIfe of Nigel Kneale, by Andy Murray, and am about to start on Hal Spacejock, by Simon Haynes.


	Posted:	Sep 22, 2007 - 9:02 PM
	By:	TominAtl (Member)

Hey Tom, it was a nail-biting book and a true horror novel. And yep, Hollywood is making the movie.

You know, they have to do this one right or it could end up being schlocky or silly. And I wonder if Hollywood will keep the ending? I just finished it by the way, and I feel spent!

Tom


	Posted:	Sep 22, 2007 - 10:15 PM
	By:	joan hue (Member)

Tom, I felt depressed for DAYS when I finished it. To do the movie will certainly take CGI effects. If it follows the book (which I doubt), they should use really good actors.


	Posted:	Sep 23, 2007 - 1:05 AM
	By:	Thread Assasin (Member)

"The Card: Collectors, Con Men, and the True Story of History's Most Desired Baseball Card" -Michael O'Keeffe and Teri Thompson


	Posted:	Sep 23, 2007 - 5:13 PM
	By:	Jon A. Bell (Member)

Tom, I felt depressed for DAYS when I finished it. To do the movie will certainly take CGI effects. If it follows the book (which I doubt), they should use really good actors.

...And knowing Hollywood, I'll lay odds of about 100 to 1 against them keeping the original ending of the book. (And Joan, if you want depressing, read Cormac McCarthy's "The Road." Brilliant and bleak as hell.)

Most recent book read: "To the White Sea," by James Dickey. Existentialist survival novel that's simultaneously a difficult read... but almost impossible to put down. Brad Pitt has been rumored to have been wanting to make this for years, but it would be tough (especially since it's told in the first person, and it's a very "interior" book, despite its action and violence.)

-- Jon


	Posted:	Sep 23, 2007 - 6:07 PM
	By:	joan hue (Member)

Hey Jon, if you scroll back to maybe around May, you'll see that I have read The Road. I loved it. What an amazing piece of writing and what an amazing love story between father and son. And yes, it was depressing. And yes, Hollywood is making a movie of The Road too. That will be hard to watch.


	Posted:	Sep 23, 2007 - 11:23 PM
	By:	JSWalsh (Member)

A PRAYER FOR THE DYING by Stewart O'Nan

Diptheria comes to a small Wisconsin town in the post-Civil War era in this "philosophical horror story".

I loved this dark little book. It has the slow accumulation of dread of a waking nightmare, or a "daylight" nightmare. Horror that takes place in the open, in the daytime, is the toughest to pull off, and O'Nan does it.

Written in second person ("You walked to the sheriff's office..."), this is a story of non-supernatural horror that I had to force myself not to rush through. It gave me the same pleasure I used to get from Stephen King novels, though O'Nan is a very different kind of writer.


	Posted:	Sep 24, 2007 - 10:25 AM
	By:	Thread Assasin (Member)

"The Mortal Storm," by Phyllis Bottome.


	Posted:	Sep 25, 2007 - 4:17 AM
	By:	JSWalsh (Member)

LADIES' MAN by Richard Price

Definitely a time capsule piece but wonderfully-written story about a week in the life of a New Yorker who breaks up with his girlfriend and prowls the city wondering why his life sucks. A fun read, lots of funny observations.


	Posted:	Sep 25, 2007 - 2:20 PM
	By:	Viscount Bark (Member)

Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov" -- I was inspired to tackle this after listening to the FSM soundtrack album for the 1958 film. I assume that movie leaves out most of the long philosophical lectures and concentrates on the basics of the plot? I'm still intrigued to watch it.


	Posted:	Sep 29, 2007 - 4:01 AM
	By:	JSWalsh (Member)

Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things by Gilbert Sorrentino

This seemed too post-modern for my tastes but it's so readable, which is not a word I'd use to describe most po-mo novels. This is a roundup of "types" who inhabit the literary world of NY in the 60's, but the oddest (most post-mo) thing is how these chapters of descriptions of "types" form a novel.

I read about this writer in another recent read:

Bound to Please by Michael Dirda

Erroneously labelled a "one volume literary education," it's a collection of reviews. Dirda's intelligence is rivalled only by his enthusiasm. A most readable collection--I found myself reading "just one more" for hours.


	Posted:	Sep 30, 2007 - 2:12 PM
	By:	Jehannum (Member)

Raw Spirit - Iain Banks

This is the only book by Banks I hadn't read, until a surprising and recently developed taste for both whisky and Scotland brought it into the sphere of things relevant to me. It's a blend of travelogue, whisky-tasting guide, and a little bit of autobiography.

Also started Stephen Fry's The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within, his highly personal guide to prosody.


	Posted:	Sep 30, 2007 - 3:57 PM
	By:	Sarge (Member)

Joseph Wambaugh. Lots of Joseph Wamaugh. In particular, ECHOES IN THE DARKNESS, THE BLOODING, HOLLYWOOD STATION, THE ONION FIELD, and THE CHOIRBOYS.


	Posted:	Oct 5, 2007 - 2:52 PM
	By:	Thor (Member)

Currently reading:

Hvorfor Smiler Mona Lisa? (Why does Mona Lisa smile?) (1995) by Søren Kjørup.

An interesting and easily read book about picture interpretation.


	Posted:	Oct 6, 2007 - 12:53 AM
	By:	JSWalsh (Member)

Lullabye by Chuck Palahniuk

A quick read, starts out with an intriguing idea, and while it has a gruesome scene involving a dead baby, is surprisingly dull in the second half. It seems that once he got going with the kind of dull plot, he felt trapped. The whole "road" section seems like something written in a weekend. When he introduces a lot of magic into the story, the whole thing goes down the tubes. There's a lot of hype about CP and so far I'm not all that impressed.


	Posted:	Oct 25, 2007 - 7:22 AM
	By:	Thread Assasin (Member)

"Joan Blondell: A Life Between Takes" by Matthew Kennedy. Nice to finally have a full biography of one of my all-time favorites.


	Posted:	Oct 25, 2007 - 8:33 AM
	By:	Jehannum (Member)

Just finished Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic. It's my first book by him. I'd been interested in reading one since the late 80s, but hadn't known where to start. My girlfriend is a big fan, and suggested TCOM - the first in the series. D'oh!


	Posted:	Oct 25, 2007 - 9:55 AM
	By:	MICHAEL HOMA (Member)

THE POSSESSED by DOSTOEVSKY


	Posted:	Oct 26, 2007 - 10:10 AM
	By:	Montana Dave (Member)

Juggling two books for me 'aint easy. Still on 'Streets of Laredo' by MacMurtry. In anticipation of the film that's currently out but will probably not even get to Montana anytime soon, I read 'INTO THE WILD' about the real-life 'free spirt', Chris MacAndles who led a disturbing, tragic but ultimately uplifting life. (Sean Penn recently made the film of the book and, the film I hope is winging it's way to Montana?)

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