What are we reading?

[bonanzataz]

i saw david sedaris at a reading about a month ago and he recommended it to the audience. it's a nonfiction story about a family where the mother is a coke addict, the daughter gets pregnant as a teenager and then falls in love with a heroin dealer, and the son is an up and coming gangsta (at this point in the book). it's very interesting and i read 100 pages in two days (it's a pretty long book and my attention span for nonfiction generally doesn't last that long) but i haven't read in a little while b/c i've got work. can't wait to finish it.

[Myxo]

[03]

[Raikus]

Never was much into King, but after finishing the Dark Tower series I wanted to read some of his shorter stuff. Just finished 'Rage' and am starting 'The Long Walk' now.

[grand theft sparrow]

Glad to see I'm not the only one on a King binge.

[hedwig]

I'm a big Carlin fan but I find that book cover and the title to be pretty stupid. His humour was never exactly SUBTLE but it seems like he's making the whole religious thing a bit...I don't know -- TOO blunt.

[Ravi]

So Carlin's got another shitty book out...

I couldn't even finish half of Napalm and Silly Putty.

[ᾦɐļᵲʊʂ]

I couldn't even finish half of Napalm and Silly Putty.

Did you try reading it, or did you decide it sucked when you wanted to sound cool?

[hedwig]

So Carlin's got another shitty book out...

I couldn't even finish half of Napalm and Silly Putty.

Hmmm....Napalm and Silly Putty was the first of his books that I read, and strangely it was my first exposure to him as well -- so I absoutely love it. Then Brain Droppings, I thought, was all right. But then I saw his comedy on tape, and there was one moment where he says, "Fuck Mickey Mouse. Fuck Mickey Mouse in the ass with a big rubber dildo, then break it off and hit him over his fuckin' head with it." -- and immediately, I was a fan.

[Pedro]

[ᾦɐļᵲʊʂ]

I thought Peter Griffin wrote that.

[Ravi]

I couldn't even finish half of Napalm and Silly Putty.

Did you try reading it, or did you decide it sucked when you wanted to sound cool?

I did try reading it, but I didn't like it. At least it wasn't as ranty as some of Carlin's later stuff.

Just bought this one



and ordered this one



but I'm saving them to read on the trip to India.

[tpfkabi]

The Man Called Cash
by Steve Turner

[jasper_window]

Jesus' Son.  It's very good.

[Gloria]

Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang - Joyce Carol Oates