What are we reading?

[Pedro]

Umm... don't celebrate Columbus day?

Does anyone really celebrate Columbus Day?

department stores?

[©brad]

banks.

on a side note, does it not piss anyone else off that banks in america close for every jackass, bullshit holiday? columbus day- closed. national ice cream day- closed. stupid banks.

[kotte]

Know any good books on philosophy, fact and fiction?

[pete]

"sophie's world", that's a book on philosophy that is both fictional and nonfictional.

[cron]

and you'd have the advantage of reading it in its original language, sort of.

[Just Withnail]

Yup, I'll second that one. Great read.

[hedwig]

Just finished this! One word: wow. What a hilarious, oddly moving and totally invigorating book --

by Aaron McGruder who does my favo: The Boondocks -- et al.

And the illustations by Baker are amusing in so many different ways (idiosyncracy, irony, whackiness, etc.)!!!

The story is of East St. Louis seceding From the US after they are totally disenfranchised in 2000 and forming their own country called BLACKLAND. (They have their own currency -- Sade is on the dime, and tonight's topic of debate, Who should get the one hundred dollar bill -- 2Pac or Biggie?)

Makes fun of everyone! White supremacists, Republicans (redundancy) including Bush Cheney Powell Rice Etc., black nationalists (the Neo Black Panthers confer and one of their mothers brings cookies into their meeting for them...eheh), Muslims, nerdy revolutionaries, everyone!

SUCH A BEAUTIFUL BOOK! Buy it, tell me if you like it.

Jeremy Blackman you must ,must ,must read this book!

[Jeremy Blackman]

Jeremy Blackman you must ,must ,must read this book!

I think you're right. I love Aaron McGruder.

So he just co-wrote the text, basically?

[hedwig]

Jeremy Blackman you must ,must ,must read this book!

I think you're right. I love Aaron McGruder.

So he just co-wrote the text, basically?

Yes, with Hudlin, the writer/director of Boomberang (?). Actually, it was originally a screenplay but they decided that Hollywood would never greenlight a story like that and instead turned into a graphic novel.

The book is fantastic but when I heard that it was originally intended to be a film I almost went insane thinking about how GREAT it could have been...

[Gamblour.]

Umm... don't celebrate Columbus day?

Does anyone really celebrate Columbus Day?

*takes off party hat...whistle whistle

[kotte]

- Atomised

Finished it two weeks ago and man...does it change your perspective on things?

- The Five People You Meet In Heaven

Finished it in two days. Didn't make me laugh...but it's not supposed to. Made me shiver and cry though. A bit too sentimental perhaps but it made me think and that's what matters to me

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[tpfkabi]

The Shining by Stephen King

i have wanted to read it for years and i'm wanting to see why King disapproves of Kubrick's adaptation.

[The Perineum Falcon]

And it's complete nonsense!

[kotte]

Tuesdays with Morrie

Finished it this weekend. So simple, so sweet and so eye-opening.

I'm reading Sophie's World at the moment. Not sure if I like it yet, I'm only a couple of pages into it.
The letters are interesting but the whole Sophie part is so...hmm, don't know yet.