Full Circle (Michael Palin). He travelled for nearly a year through 18 countries bordering the Pacific Ocean.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)

Winter's Bone (Daniel Woodrell)
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A Russian Affair, a collection of short stories by Anton Chekhov.

Just finished this. I'd heard a lot of it in bits and pieces and watched a lot of it unfold as a fan of 70's- 80's wrestling. I really liked the illustrated book format as it packed a lot of information into a fast-reading book.

The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War by Tim Butcher.

Interesting. I'm not much of a WWI buff, but I guess I always assumed that he was arrested on the spot.

He was, as were most of the others. Probably should have been called In Search of Gavrilo Princip.

Yea, that whole austria/hungary scene back in 1912 was very wacky. lots of things at play. looks interesting.

Yes, he was arrested immediately. The author retraced his journey to Sarajevo and researched his formative years.

Interesting fact: Princip died of tuberculosis in Terezin, where he was sentenced to 20 years (he was 19 when he committed the murder and the law stated he had to be 20 to be eligible to be executed). He was being treated by a doctor. A Jewish doctor. So a quarter century later, the doctor is sent to Terezin, now a concentration camp, and dies after being sent to Auschwitz.

Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha by Jack Kerouac.

1913: The Year Before the Storm by Florian Illies.

simpsons world.my mom got it for me when i was locked up.

its a huge omnibus of simpsons goodness.has a recap of every ep from the first twenty seasons,with new exclusive pictures,and all of this:

• Every couch gag
• A complete filmography of "Itchy & Scratchy"
• Every "D'oh" or "Mmm..." Homer has ever uttered
• Every song ever sung by the citizens of Springfield
• Every marquee message from the First Church of Springfield
• A tribute to star of stage, screen, infomercials, and filmstrips, Troy McClure
• The largest collection of Krusty the Clown merchandise outside of Bart's bedroom
• A complete list of celebrity guest stars

one of my favorite parts is that it prints the funniest dialogue from each episode.i dont plan on reading it in order,i want to skip around and find something new each time i pick it up like i tend to do with bigger books.



my aunt lent me this to read^. only read the intro so far but it seems like an easy read.


got this for free in the booty house^.im half way through.the part im at right now stresses the importance of being really active in church.id much rather watch joel olstein than get close to people at church that could probably be dickheads.hopefully it gets better after this part.

other than that i have a nice stack of super street magazines that were waiting for me when i got back home.

sin city vol 2:a dame to kill for.i read this today and loved it,like i have with the other sin city books ive read.they didnt go to war with rourke, and hartigan wasnt in this so i guess i have to get family values next before i watch the movie.im assuming if and when sin city three comes to theatres itll have all the stories from booze,broads,and bullets in it(minus the josh hartnett hitman story from the first movie).

Follow the Money (David McWilliams)

By Any Means: His Brand-New Expedition from Wicklow To Wollongong (Charley Boorman)

Interesting read on brain plasticity. he does not mention how well my brain expands on adderall though

Maxim Gorky - The life of a useless man.

love it.

After "Trainspotting" and "Porno", Irvine Welsh has taken all his notes about all the characters he'd made while writing both books and has written a new book called "Skag Boys". It's about the boys in the books, Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie and everyone else and Edinborough's addicition to heroin, and their descent into it in Thatcher's 80's. There wasn't much else but booze and fighting. It's almost like Detroit. But a great read, if you like Welsh.

Sound Man. The autobiography of Glyn Johns, a man who recorded and/or produced some of most iconic rock albums of the sixties and seventies.

Have you read any David Peace? He has the whole Welsh stream-of-consciousness type prose and nasty, dark edge, except his stories take place mainly in Yorkshire and have a James Ellroy-like plot-driven focus on crime, murder, corruption, etc

Based on Wright's 2011 New Yorker article about Scientology. They're all fucking nuts, in case you didn't know.

They really are. You never hear about the reasonable Scientologists.

then again, i don't recall any of them flying jets into buildings or fucking kids and covering it up.

All religions are nuts. Scientology just has the market cornered on a certain type of nuts.

Rich, successful, movie star nuts.

Can't say that I have, but it sounds worth looking into.

Hahah, defending scientologists? What a worthless fucking turd.

Tell that to the Sea Org.

uhhhh, yeah.............



anyways picked up this


http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3673325-quiet-mind

The cops in Sarasota, FL worked out a deal with the Scientologists who had more street surviellance cameras than the city could deploy, and used them to help solve crimes.

yea, Sea Org == Brown Shirts

Just finished "Hurricane Punch" by Tim Dorsey. I never bothered to read all the Serge books in order but it isn't necessary anyway. I love Serge Storms and the stories are all set where I grew up.

Around the World in 80 Days (Michael Palin)

That was also a damned good TV series ^

Will look for it, thanks.

I Really Should Have Stayed Home: Worst Journeys from Harare to Eternity (Edited by Roger Rapport and Bob Drews)

Stories of Your life: and Others
by Ted Chiang
(speculative fiction)

Andrea Martin's Lady Parts

I'm back into collecting comics to some degree. Been trying to reacquire some of the ones my mother gave away while I was in college. [thats a short bitter story] Mystery in Space, Strange Adventures, Challengers of the Uncknown, Tales to Astonish, etc.....plus Dell/Gold Key titles like Turok, Lost in Space, Magnus Robot fighter and on and on. I even bought full runs on cd/dvd for reading and some book compilations that have the full run. The rest is as much for investments as well as reading. A mint version of Action Comics #1 1938 just sold two weeks ago for 3.2 million.

The Punisher was always a good comic. Well, good for a laugh anyway. The nerds used to ask what his "super power" was. I guess it was just staying alive and marginally sane. He liked evening the score.

CanHead

I saw a huge run of The Punisher the other day but don't think theres much upside as an investment.

If I still had those comics from my childhood I'd be a millionaire if not a multi millionaire.

There probably isn't a much upside as an investment, but the stories in the comics are about killing bad people. Well, people the Punisher considered guilty. I enjoyed the stories. It was like the first Punisher movie. Dolph Lundgren as the Punisher, "If you're guilty, you're dead". Good stuff.

CanHead

Just got a huge assortment of Charltan comics. Attack, Forbidden Worlds etc.... I've gone back to collecting vinyle lps as well. Can't take it with you when you go ...right ?

Just finished Blood Meridian
About to tackle Gravity's Rainbow

Life and Times of Charles Manson.

That was one rough book - Blood Meridian

It's rather akin to a hieronymus Bosch painting if it was a book

Just have to requote this as one of the most retarded fucking comparisons ever made on this board, and that's truly saying a lot.

The Road of Danger - Drake
Pretty good so far. Lots of intrigue. I love sci-fi.