Trained Goucho wrote:
This will be the thread that breaks the silence of Mike Hunt.
That turncoat whore is no longer welcome here.
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| Author: | Tit Whistle [ Sun Sep 12, 2010 2:58 pm ] |
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I just finished reading No Country for Old Men, and after reading The Road, I'm suddenly on a Cormac McCarthy kick. I want Blood Meridian next but can't find a copy at Half-Price (that's the only place I buy books, fuck paying full price.) Anyone know about his other stuff? There are always plenty of copies of All the Pretty Horses but that sounds gay. In the meantime, I'm reading Goodbye 20th Century, the biography of Sonic Youth. Good stuff. |
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| Author: | Rockme [ Sun Sep 12, 2010 3:51 pm ] |
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have you checked on amazon for a used copy? Looks like you can get a copy for about $15 bucks. or the library for free? |
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| Author: | Tit Whistle [ Sun Sep 12, 2010 4:01 pm ] |
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I'm asking about the man's entire oeuvre. Anyone besides Rockme know? |
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| Author: | Trained Goucho [ Sun Sep 12, 2010 4:07 pm ] |
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This will be the thread that breaks the silence of Mike Hunt. |
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| Author: | Sweet Greggo [ Sun Sep 12, 2010 4:12 pm ] |
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Does it matter if it's a physical book? Maybe it's time for a Nook. |
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| Author: | or somesuch [ Sun Sep 12, 2010 4:20 pm ] |
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Tit Whistle wrote: There are always plenty of copies of All the Pretty Horses but that sounds gay. The movie is good. |
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| Author: | Tit Whistle [ Sun Sep 12, 2010 4:33 pm ] |
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Trained Goucho wrote: This will be the thread that breaks the silence of Mike Hunt. That turncoat whore is no longer welcome here.
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| Author: | bigboy [ Sun Sep 12, 2010 4:36 pm ] |
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The Road is the only McCarthy I've read, so I can't help you there. For cheap used books, try half.com. I've gotten some good deals there. |
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| Author: | Tit Whistle [ Sun Sep 12, 2010 4:58 pm ] |
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Good God! This thread is about what to read, not where to find the best bargains. Go clip coupons, you fuckin' fairies! |
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| Author: | Sweet Greggo [ Sun Sep 12, 2010 6:12 pm ] |
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Have you read this? Pretty funny. 
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| Author: | cap [ Sun Sep 12, 2010 7:37 pm ] |
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I'm going to watch the tv show |
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| Author: | Cledus [ Mon Sep 13, 2010 8:34 am ] |
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cap wrote: I'm going to watch the tv show 
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| Author: | Sweet Greggo [ Mon Sep 13, 2010 8:40 am ] |
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Cledus wrote: cap wrote: I'm going to watch the tv show I'll bet the Shat will be good in that
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| Author: | fruitdog [ Mon Sep 13, 2010 10:25 am ] |
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The Border Trilogy(All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing and Cities of the Plain) is good stuff. I liked them better than the Road but not as much as No Country for Old Men. Llewelyn Moss just had so many great lines in that. I think I have all three books at home. You can borrow them next time we dunch if you remind me. I haven't read Blood Meridian yet as I too cannot find it at half-price books. I hear it's his best but it's also the toughest to read. |
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| Author: | fruitdog [ Mon Sep 13, 2010 11:03 am ] |
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I just started Nathaniel Philbrick's The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Philbrick always picks great topics to write about. I recomend his other books- In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex which is the story the whaleship Essex being attacked and sunk by a sperm whale in the Pacific Ocean in 1820 ala Moby Dick(Melville used the account of one of the Survivors as one of the inspirations for his novel). It also follows what the survivors had to resort to after their ship sunk. Sea of glory: America's voyage of discovery : the U.S. Exploring Expedition tells the story of the U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838-'42. Its lengthy list of accomplishments includes confirmation of a "new continent" (Antarctica); hundreds of new species of plants and animals identified and cataloged; dozens of Pacific islands charted for the first time; and a valid U.S. claim to the Columbia River and Puget Sound region. Also, the leader of the expedition, Charles Wilkes, was fucking nuts. He was a lot like William Bligh but fucking nuts. It's amazing the accomplished all they did and came back with almost everyone. Mayflower: a story of courage, community, and war another great book about the pilgrims. The first part was about the trip over there and getting set up. The second part and better part was about the second generation pilgrims and the Bloody war the Plymouth colony waged against the English with indians mixed in there on both sides. |
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| Author: | Tit Whistle [ Mon Sep 13, 2010 11:43 am ] |
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Does the pilgrim book mention anything about eating turkey on Thanksgiving, because I'm tired of turkey of Thanksgiving and would love to throw some historical shit in someone's face next time they try to feed me turkey on Thanksgiving. |
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| Author: | Sweet Greggo [ Mon Sep 13, 2010 11:51 am ] |
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Now see, wasn't just the other day you were yelling like so much Stu about not taking this thread seriously? And I think the main course and the first Thanksgiving was lobster and clams and whatnot. Wasn't a lot of turkeys in the area. |
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| Author: | fruitdog [ Mon Sep 13, 2010 11:52 am ] |
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Tit Whistle wrote: Does the pilgrim book mention anything about eating turkey on Thanksgiving, because I'm tired of turkey of Thanksgiving and would love to throw some historical shit in someone's face next time they try to feed me turkey on Thanksgiving. I don't remember. It took me a while to finish that one. I picked it up and put it down a few times. I probably read 2 or 3 books in between reading that one so that one is kinda fuzzy. The other two I really liked but I'm a big sucker for a good sea story. |
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| Author: | Tit Whistle [ Mon Sep 13, 2010 1:22 pm ] |
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Sweet Greggo wrote: Now see, wasn't just the other day you were yelling like so much Stu about not taking this thread seriously? And I think the main course and the first Thanksgiving was lobster and clams and whatnot. Wasn't a lot of turkeys in the area. I was all bitter and shit then. I'm over it now. |
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| Author: | Trained Goucho [ Wed May 23, 2012 2:19 pm ] |
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I excused myself from a post coital cup of decaf on the back porch Sat. night to return to the world of Defending Jacob, a good suspense read by William Landay. I was a bit buzzed, as was the wife, after walking back from the Arts Goggle festival. It wasn't even 2 pages in and i conked out. I felt bad when i awoke and found her still outside, ravaged by mosquitoes. Didn't pick it up Sunday. Just seemed shitty to be enjoying a good book while watching her in itchy misery, lathered in pink cream and deet. Finally finished it last night. Man, what a good read. Spellbinding. Think I'll read Lee Child's latest Jack Reacher thriller next. |
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| Author: | Tit Whistle [ Wed May 23, 2012 3:04 pm ] |
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I'm close to the end of A Feast for Crows, the 4th book in the Song of Ice and Fire series which has brought us Game of Thrones. It's going slow because this book doesn't focus on my favorite characters. There's only so much Brienne and Sam you can take. |
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| Author: | cap [ Wed May 23, 2012 3:16 pm ] |
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I'm reading sniper |
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| Author: | fruitdog [ Wed May 23, 2012 4:33 pm ] |
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Tit Whistle wrote: I'm close to the end of A Feast for Crows, the 4th book in the Song of Ice and Fire series which has brought us Game of Thrones. It's going slow because this book doesn't focus on my favorite characters. There's only so much Brienne and Sam you can take. Sam seems kinda worse in the books, or at least in the first one. He doesn't annoy me as much on the screen as in print. |
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| Author: | Tit Whistle [ Wed May 23, 2012 5:02 pm ] |
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fruitdog wrote: Tit Whistle wrote: I'm close to the end of A Feast for Crows, the 4th book in the Song of Ice and Fire series which has brought us Game of Thrones. It's going slow because this book doesn't focus on my favorite characters. There's only so much Brienne and Sam you can take. Sam seems kinda worse in the books, or at least in the first one. He doesn't annoy me as much on the screen as in print. The problem with him is I don't see how he's important enough to warrant his own chapters. I like Brienne, but in this book she just kinda wanders around a lot. |
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| Author: | TerdFerguson [ Thu May 24, 2012 1:21 pm ] |
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cap wrote: I'm reading sniper Sniper no sniping. Sniper no sniping. Sniper no sniping. |
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| Author: | Sweet Greggo [ Thu May 24, 2012 1:47 pm ] |
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aw, man! |
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| Author: | Tit Whistle [ Thu May 24, 2012 2:18 pm ] |
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| Author: | Sweet Greggo [ Thu May 24, 2012 2:51 pm ] |
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First we go OVER the bridge Then we go THROUGH the forest Then we climb UP the mountain! |
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| Author: | TerdFerguson [ Thu May 24, 2012 3:39 pm ] |
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Sweet Greggo wrote: aw, man!
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| Author: | fruitdog [ Tue May 29, 2012 1:06 pm ] |
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So Woot.com has a 7" android tablet for $50. I'm thinking about picking it up but I wonder if I'm better off going with the $70 kindle. I just want to read books and don't really care about web browsing or apps. |
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| Author: | TerdFerguson [ Tue May 29, 2012 1:43 pm ] |
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But then you couldn't play Angry Birds. |
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| Author: | Tit Whistle [ Tue May 29, 2012 2:56 pm ] |
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Unless the tablet is some cheap Chinese knockoff, go with that. The Kindle app works the same on it. If you're worried about quality, splurge for the Kindle. |
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| Author: | Sweet Greggo [ Tue May 29, 2012 3:12 pm ] |
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If you buy a knockoff you will be disappointed. Android has a hard enough time running on the more powerful tablets. If you ONLY want to read, just get a basic Kindle or Nook (that new one with the glow light is pretty slick). If you even think you might want to be able to check email or do some light browsing, splurge and get the Kindle Fire or Nook Tablet. Both are pretty damn nice and they're cheap enough they won't kill your wallet. |
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| Author: | Trained Goucho [ Mon Jun 11, 2012 2:22 pm ] |
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Started Cannery Row by John Steinbeck. It was an impulse buy at some shop in Monterey a couple weeks ago on vacation. He apparently fell in love with the area and wrote a lot of stuff based on it. I had to read Grapes of Wrath in high school and it seemed like a good enough book at the time. So far this one is ok. |
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| Author: | Tit Whistle [ Mon Jun 11, 2012 2:35 pm ] |
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Of all the stuff they made us read in high school, Steinbeck was one of the few I agreed on. Good choice. |
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| Author: | fruitdog [ Mon Jun 11, 2012 2:44 pm ] |
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I've always loved Of Mice and Men but I tried reading East of Eden not long ago and kind of got bogged down with it. |
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| Author: | Tit Whistle [ Mon Jun 11, 2012 2:52 pm ] |
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It helps that Of Mice and Men is only like 90 pages long. |
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| Author: | fruitdog [ Mon Jun 11, 2012 2:58 pm ] |
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Tit Whistle wrote: It helps that Of Mice and Men is only like 90 pages long.  Listen jerkface, I'm already halfway through the second game of thrones book and they're like 800 pages each! I am read good!
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| Author: | Tit Whistle [ Mon Jun 11, 2012 3:01 pm ] |
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fruitdog wrote: Tit Whistle wrote: It helps that Of Mice and Men is only like 90 pages long. Listen jerkface, I'm already halfway through the second game of thrones book and they're like 800 pages each! I am read good!I didn't mean for that to be snide. I like Steinbeck cuz I'm a dummy and I like short books. It also takes me 4-6 weeks to get thru a Game of Thrones book. Please don't hurt me. |
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| Author: | fruitdog [ Mon Jun 11, 2012 3:07 pm ] |
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That's about my pace too, I think I bought the first one back in April. |
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| Author: | Sweet Greggo [ Mon Jun 11, 2012 3:09 pm ] |
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I've heard a few folks say those are a good read. Is this an ongoing series? |
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| Author: | fruitdog [ Mon Jun 11, 2012 3:14 pm ] |
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Yeah, I think he's written 5 so far with 2 more to come. I bet he dies before he finishes tho. |
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