The Meatmen were joking, Husker Du and Black Flag were leftie just not dogmatic and Minor Threat have got to be the most self-righteous gaggle of slumming rich brats ever, although they happened to write good songs.

It has been a while since this came up, so I wonder how many of you have made the transition to e-books?

I had a change of opinion recently about book readers. After being strongly biased toward the Kindle as the only decent e-book reader, I have become partial to the iPad. I think the iPad wins out for in home reading or taking along to your doctor's appointment, while the Kindle is best for traveling (especially if flying out of a busy airport) or reading outside.

I was just curious to see if they have begun to catch on any more than the last time this came up.

I use both iBooks and the Kindle app equally and don't really have a preference. Any books you bought for your Kindle device should transfer over so you can access them on your iPad.

I like the iPad reader because I like the visuals (e.g. the color of the pages, the font size and design, the "turning pages", the info on the number of pages remaining) but the iPad is more bulky and heavier and there aren't any good covers (in my opinion), and it lasts less than a day off charge so you need to be near an outlet.

I like the Kindle because it is small, lightweight, reads great outside by the pool or on the beach, doesn't need to be around a charger or an outlet for about a month at a time and has great covers that make it feel like you are reading a quality leather-bound book. Unfortunately, the software isn't as good.

I have had kindles since the very first version came out, so I have hundreds of books on my kindle/amazon account, but since the thing I like better about the iPad is actually the software rather than the hardware, instead of using the free downloadable kindle software on my iPad, I have bought some books through the apple store as well.

While going home to visit family I got nostalgic and decided to read some classics that everybody knows, but that for some reason I overlooked or never finished.

Recently read:














And I just recently started reading:

I've gone through 4 ereaders. All knockoffs. The newest one a Polaroid tablet. I'm really happy with it. Currently reading O'Reilley's book on the JFK assassination.

theres a documentary on netflix and from the description its about george bush seniors alleged involvement in it.i havent watched it but how the hell was he involved?

They have a good one on FocalPrice [I think] for under $60

IIRC, it was his connection to Texas oil, which was one of the myriad of groups conspiring to get JFK that sunny November day.

To Have and Have Not (Ernest Hemingway)

I think I had this conversation with Bornyo, but I prefer Scott Fitzgerald to Ernie. They're both great, just taste I guess. What I'm trying to get at is, I'm glad to see you posting about something other than, well, yourself. Keep up the good work, BI.

We did have that conversation and I prefer Hemingway. His economy with words is impressive.

I have no problem with F. Scot Fitzgerald but I love knocking down a Hemingway novel in a weekend and being left floored.

I think I've read a couple Tom Dorsey's Serge Storms novels since I last posted here but if you don't have an old Florida connection you might not get them.

I've hauled another of Ludlum's Jason Bourne novels several thousand miles in the past couple months but I haven't cracked it yet.

Going to watch 1944's film version of To Have and Have Not. It's where Lauren Bacall tells Bogart, "You know how to whistle, don't you? Just put your lips together and blow."

^^^See, he did make it about him, after all.

I've always pictured you as more of a Steinbeck man.

Well, sometimes when I've had a few, I'll start posting like Lennie.

Awesome movie, has nothing to do with the book though. Apparently it was made because Howard Hawks bet Hemingway he could make a good movie out of his shittiest book. It was also remade in the early 50s with John Garfield under the title Breaking Point.

My favourite Hemingway stuff is the early short stories and The Run Also Rises. Only stuff I've read by Fitzgerald is GG and The Crack Up. Good stuff.

Right now I'm reading Open Doors by Leonardo Sciascia, it's a novella about a judge during the fascist period in Italy.

Thanks, Claude. Yep, that movie was nothing like the book. Bizarre.

Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Journey by Frederick Lenz. It's Buddhism 101.

The Heroin Chronicles.

How the French Invented Romance.

trying to finish both before work monday

Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea (Chelsea Handler)

The Bible

Opium Fiend by the badly named Steven Martin. Great read. I can see how it would easily get out of control. Best high ever.

http://www.amazon.com/Opium-Fiend-Century-Slave-Addiction/dp/0345517830

"Bust" by Ken Bruen and Jason Starr. If you liked Pulp Fiction, Snatch, Fargo, etc you'll probably like this. Published by Hard Case Crime, a favorite of those topless NYC girls.

The Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and Articles of Confederation.

I got a bunch of books at the library

The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures (Louis Theroux)

I like Theroux. He was great with the Nazis. I think his intrusion into the Gaede household helped get the Prussian Blue girls over to the Jew side.

Yeah, he does great interviews and let's people reveal themselves. The book ends with his impressions of April, Lamb, and Lynx.

i read that sin city book i got for free months ago the other day:to hell and back.i read it in one sitting and found it to be a real page turner.miller can sure draw the hell out of women too.

April is a total piece of shit.

Chasing Daylight: How My Forthcoming Death Transformed My Life (Eugene O'Kelly).
O'Kelly was the 53-year-old Chairman and CEO of accounting firm KPMG when diagnosed with advanced brain cancer in 2005. He died less than 4 months after diagnosis and wrote the book.

Do you read physical books or use a tablet/e-reader?

So he wrote the book after he died? Did he have a ghost writer?

I buy my books at Goodwill up the street.

Naked Pictures of Famous People (Jon Stewart)

I got that book for my 30th. its not very good.

I'm reading a stupid wine book.



http://www.amazon.ca/Kevin-Zralys-Complete-Wine-Course/dp/1402787936

Stewart's book is good if you like Woody Allen humour. Didn't read America. Did anyone else?

Never cared for Stewart. Eben in the MTV days. Kilby never illusions of greatness. Seriousness makes it not near as funny.

Reading "Inside the Kingdom". About Saudi Arabia. Actually a pretty good read. Not as dry as I was expecting. They're a little stric wit de hos.

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden SIde of Everything (Levitt and Dubner). My favorite part? In Chapter 6, learning that the Most Common Low-End White Boy Names were: Cody, Brandon, Anthony, Justin, and Robert.

Some Russian 3-year-old kid's name at the Walgreens yesterday was Brandan.

3-year-olds are having kids these days? Wow!

It's a real fine way to start. . .

you talk to 3 year old boys at stores?

It's how he dates between trannies ...

Listening to this audiobook. TNB bullshit: he constantly gets caught with drugs and/or handguns, robs people etc. But it's everybody else's fault.
Extra points for "We beez Ejipshuns n shit" and conspiracy nonsense. He's a fucking loser.
http://www.amazon.ca/My-Infamous-Life-Autobiography-Prodigy/dp/1439103186

Just ordered the Life of Greece by Durant on Kindle.

I've read it [and much of his Story of Civilization] before and have 2 hardcovers of it, but it is most convenient to carry the pad than the ultra-heavy hardcover.

Also reading the complete works of Dickens I got for 99 cents for the Kindle.

Arsetrology: How Your Poo Can Predict Your Future by Harry Holland and Oliver Scheidt.

was that off panzers shelf?^

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell.