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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #675 on: March 16, 2013, 07:12:21 AM »
can´t beat the fucking Beano...look you can even get a bed quilt... ;D
http://shop.beano.com/products/beano-comic-quilt-set

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #676 on: March 16, 2013, 08:20:00 AM »
can´t beat the fucking Beano...look you can even get a bed quilt... ;D
http://shop.beano.com/products/beano-comic-quilt-set


I always loved the Beano and General Jumbo in particular. Wanted his remote control army.

http://www.beano.com/retro-beano/general-jumbo?decade=1970

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #677 on: March 16, 2013, 08:29:15 AM »

I always loved the Beano and General Jumbo in particular. Wanted his remote control army.

http://www.beano.com/retro-beano/general-jumbo?decade=1970
remember as a kid getting my annual every year for xmas and a selection box with chocolates and that was my whack.... ;D

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #678 on: March 16, 2013, 08:33:27 AM »
don´t forget the Commando comics....printed by DC thompson in Dundee Scotland...my old man used to get them and read them.. ;D
http://www.commandocomics.com/

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #679 on: March 16, 2013, 02:26:40 PM »

I always loved the Beano and General Jumbo in particular. Wanted his remote control army.

http://www.beano.com/retro-beano/general-jumbo?decade=1970
Had a stack of those. Loved Baby Face. Wonder where they are now? And stepping down the street to the candy store with the newspaper sandwich board outside and getting your purchase scooped, weighed and put in a white paper bag. All those candy places now a memory.   :-\

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #680 on: March 16, 2013, 03:11:40 PM »

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #681 on: March 17, 2013, 02:10:16 AM »
Will be picking this up
http://www.total911.com/guy/

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #682 on: March 17, 2013, 10:02:07 PM »
Rereading the Filtico Homoeroticus.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #683 on: March 22, 2013, 05:47:20 AM »
Just finished Walter Mosley's 'The Long Fall.' Mosely's back with another detective, Leonid McGill, who is yet another complicated, relationship-torn, hard-drinking, Black PI. Entertaining book. The interior Chandler-esque monologue is always cool, and the writing is mostly good with the odd cliche lapse, here and there. Mosely's plotting is secondary to character, like Elmore Leonard's, but the ride is complicated and enjoyable and he ties it all up at the end. One quibble is that Mosely's protagonists are always in personal contact, if not friends of, with the city's baddest and most powerful people - rings false every time Walter. Looking for a good, quick read? Can't go wrong with this one. If you can find it remaindered, like me, even better.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #684 on: March 22, 2013, 08:05:14 AM »
Sad news. Chinua Achebe has died. His first novel 'Things Fall Apart' should be required reading.

Guardian obit. notice: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/mar/22/novelist-chinua-achebe-dies

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #685 on: March 22, 2013, 08:42:43 AM »
Sad news. Chinua Achebe has died. His first novel 'Things Fall Apart' should be required reading.

Guardian obit. notice: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/mar/22/novelist-chinua-achebe-dies


too bad his passing is completely overshadowed by that of the great Nascar.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #686 on: March 22, 2013, 08:45:28 AM »
neurosurgery 8)

 ::)  everyone knows surgery is more mechanical than mental.


bunch of posers in this thread.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #687 on: March 23, 2013, 10:26:57 AM »

too bad his passing is completely overshadowed by that of the great Nascar.
Like the great Groucho Marx by Elvis.   

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #688 on: March 24, 2013, 07:42:11 AM »
Junot Diaz does it again. If you haven`t read his stuff, start now. Totally nice guy, too.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/mar/22/junot-diaz-wins-short-story-prize


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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #689 on: March 24, 2013, 07:57:37 AM »
Junot Diaz does it again. If you haven`t read his stuff, start now. Totally nice guy, too.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/mar/22/junot-diaz-wins-short-story-prize


Seems as a good Bloke, I'll have to check his writings out.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #690 on: March 24, 2013, 08:16:24 AM »
Junot Diaz does it again. If you haven`t read his stuff, start now. Totally nice guy, too.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/mar/22/junot-diaz-wins-short-story-prize



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Díaz's story, "Miss Lora", is about a high-school-age boy having a relationship with an older woman in 1980s New Jersey, and is written in the "Spanglish" for which the Dominican-born writer is known."

Using Dominicanized Spanglish to chronicle the interior world of Washington Heights tigres is not my idea of what merits MacArthur recognition.
But Díaz has been on a roll (deserved or not), and let a hundred flowers bloom.

I had the opportunity to meet Díaz in an academic setting where I was invited to present some work (I didn't go). I have no doubt that he's a very nice guy, but I find his work gimmicky. Still, his star keeps rising.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #691 on: March 25, 2013, 03:55:20 AM »
I had the opportunity to meet Díaz in an academic setting where I was invited to present some work (I didn't go). I have no doubt that he's a very nice guy, but I find his work gimmicky. Still, his star keeps rising.
Perhaps it's less being gimmicky than it is being a one-trick pony. I see that; but at least he's out there swinging. As TA might say, not every writer can be a Nabokov.  ;D

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #692 on: March 26, 2013, 05:30:59 PM »
Fredrick Forsyth-Cobra


...bleck :-\

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #693 on: March 26, 2013, 05:53:07 PM »
The Grasshopper: Games, Life, and Utopia- by Bernard Suits

deserves to be much more known that it is. Instead of Wittgenstein's "family resemblance" regarding games, Suits sets out to give a definition. I'm about 1/3 through the book.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #694 on: March 27, 2013, 09:43:08 AM »
The House of God

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #695 on: March 29, 2013, 05:23:40 PM »
Philosophical Foundations of Language in the Law- edited by Andrei Marmor and Scott Soames

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #696 on: March 31, 2013, 03:58:46 PM »
vindicated by jose canseco. ;D ;D ;D ;D it's a story of a small time boy and his love of steroids. :o :o :o :o :o
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #697 on: April 06, 2013, 10:16:13 AM »
The Game by Neil Strauss. Just finished the 4-hour work week by Tim Ferris.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #698 on: April 13, 2013, 02:00:31 AM »
The Wolf of Wall Street.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #699 on: April 16, 2013, 01:27:37 PM »
Way of the Wasp: How It Made America, and How It Can Save It, So to Speak