kick_ass_books ClairE Gail_Godwin's The_Odd_Woman. Richard_Farina's Been_Down_So_Long_It_Looks_Like_Up_To_Me. I'll add more later. 011202 ... god ramsey_campbell_the_hungry_moon 011202 ... shiva i was thinking of Marooned_in_Realtime the other day. I don't remember it that well now, but I liked it at the time. The_Little_Prince I would love for someone to make me a list. I have a lot of thinking to not do... 011203 ... ClairE Authors? 011203 ... ClairE Charlotte's_Web was a class book. It is ALWAYS good. 011213 ... Jenna Fight_Club, Palahniuk Girl, Interrupted, Kaysen The_Beach, Garland Yes, ironically all books made into movies. But you know that thing they say about the books being better? (Although Fight_Club the movie is a work of art in it's own right) 011213 ... Grievance Anthropology and a Hundred Other Stories. The title is not what it suggests. Read an amazon review, this treasure will amaze you. at least some of it will. art's never perfect. 011213 ... oren See Random_Acts_of_Badness. 011213 ... ClairE Stay Here With Me, Robert_Olmstead. *dies* It involves New_York, love, the land, and writing. And growing up, I suppose. In this book of memoirs, his love Afton says to him, "When you write about me, make me fiery and lunar." (misquoted). And he did. 011217 ... silentbob Enders Game, and all the sequels after Eyes of the Dragon Skeleton Crew Different Seasons Fools Die Fight Club Survivor The Portable Henry Rollins Fly Boy Action Figure Comes With Gas Mask Live From Death Row, By Mumia Abu Jamal 011218 ... pushpins white oleander by janet fitch she's come undone by wally lamb boy still missing by john searles lying by lauren slater 020102 ... Jenna On the Road, Jack Kerouac 020102 ... yummychuckle kingsuperspecial gave me that book for my birthday. (on the road) 020102 ... kerry white oleander- janet fitch brave new girl- louisa luna 020102 ... yummyC oh, and 'skin games' by caroline (something) I'm too lazy to get up and look. I'll post it later. 020103 ... SuicidalAngel "A Boy Called It" by Dave Pelzer also: A Man Named Dave and.. I dunno theres another one. This is the only book I've read for enjoyment in the past 4 years or so. Not sure if you've already read it but I'm sure you've heard of it. It's about child abuse. 020104 ... Teenage Jesus John Barry - Power Plays ...and all Robert Anton Wilson. 020104 ... oren To_Sail_Beyond_The_Sunset Time_Enough_For_Love Both by Robert_A_Heinlein 020104 ... yummyC I read "a boy called it"...god that made me cry! Its a really good book, though. 020104 ... unhinged i six nonlectures --- e.e. cummings prayer for owen meany --- john irving the winter queen and the summer queen --- joan vinge ee_cummings in book format is pretty special 020105 ... Becky I read "a boy called it" I cried.. I couldn't believe the stuff his mother did to him.. but anyway: Sabriel - Garth Nix Earth Sea trilogy - ? can't remember Harry Potter - (heheh) Helter Skelter - (about charles manson) don't know author False Memory - Dean Koontz Intensity - Dean Koontz Skeleton Crew - Stephen King I love reading.. I used to get lost in my books and never wanted them to end... Too bad I can't remember them all. 020106 ... Every last thing about this elevator was worlds ap Hard Boiled Wonderland and THE END OF THE WORLD by Haruki Murakami Excerpt: "The elevator continued its impossibly slow ascent. Or at least I imagined it was ascent. There was no telling for sure;: it was so slow that all sesnse of direction simply vanished. It could have been going down for all I knew, or maybe it wasn't moving at all. But let's just assume it was going up. merely a guess. Maybe I'd gone up twelve stories, then down three. Maybe I'd cicled the globe. How would I know? 020113 ... G r i e v a n c e Hard Boiled Wonderland and THE END OF THE WORLD by Haruki Murakami Excerpt: "The elevator continued its impossibly slow ascent. Or at least I imagined it was ascent. There was no telling for sure;: it was so slow that all sesnse of direction simply vanished. It could have been going down for all I knew, or maybe it wasn't moving at all. But let's just assume it was going up. merely a guess. Maybe I'd gone up twelve stories, then down three. Maybe I'd cicled the globe. How would I know? Every last thing about this elevator was worlds apart from the cheap die-cut job in my apartment building, scarcely one notch up the evolutionary sacale from a well bucket. you'd never believe the two pieces of machinery had the sam name and the same purpose. The two were pshing the outer limits conceivable as elevators. First of all, cosider the sapce. ... Another thing, most of the gadgets an elevator is supposed to have were missing. Where, for examplewas the panel with all th ebuttons and switches? No floor number to press, no DOOR OPEN and DOOR CLOSE, no EMERGENCY STOP. Nothing whatsoever. Alll of which made me feel utterly defenseless.And it wasn't just no buttons; it was no indication of advancing floor, no posted capacity or warning, not even a manufacturer's nameplate. Forgett about trying to even locate an emergency exity. Here i was, sealed in. No way this elevator could have gotten fire department approval. There was a norm for elevators after all." 020113 ... Grievance S T R A N G E we both typed about the same book, on the same page, at the same time, and both used excerpts of the same passage. W O W 020113 ... sheesh oh wait, that was me. silly, silly me. 020113 ... ClairE The Dispossessed, Ursula_Leguin. 020114 ... MollyCule I agree with most of the posts up here (just not Harry Potter) and would like to add: Speak by Laurie Halse-Anderson The Perks Of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Sloppy Firsts by Megan McAfferty, I think This is my wisdom for the day. 020116 ... tourist Cats_Cradle by Kurt Vonegut also Slaugterhouse_Five 020116 ... yummyC the perks of being a wallflower! thankgod you posted that! one of my school friends was reading that and said it was good, and Ive been eharing about it everywhere and wanting to find it, but i kept forgetting the title! ughh! thanks, tho! 020117 ... oren In Watermelon Sugar 020117 ... MollyCule deeds are done and done again 020126 ... carne de metal rayuela. 020206 ... ...ooo... the perfume _ patrick süskind 020213 ... god soul shadows- victor klein 020221 ... Mateo Sirens of titans Kurt Vonnegut 020221 ... Syrope dandelion wine - ray bradbury einstein's dreams - not sure who wrote that one... 020302 ... reitoei stranger in a strange land-heinlein graveyard for lunatics-bradbury dune-frank herbert keep the apsidistra flying-orwell 020303 ... lycanthrope anna karenina...haha 020303 ... admit one the little prince by antoine de saint-exupery 020504 ... bethany brave new world-huxley how the irish saved civilization-cahil go ask alice-anon fast food nation buddhism-hagen the mcdonaldization of america leaves of grass-whitman the sailor who fell from grace with the sea-mishima pimp lady chaderly's lover the bluest eye song of solomon god i miss owrking at my bookstore 020504 ... poetic_onslaught i just finished reading "the talisman" by stephen king and peter auburn. it wasnt as good as people made it out to seem but it had its climaxes. anywayz there was a part of it that i didnt understand and i was wondering if anyone here knows. throughout the book jack sawyer kept saying "who plays those jerry bledsoe changes, daddy?" what does that mean? it seemed to evolve from "who plays that sax, daddy?" to "what changes, what changes" to "who plays those changes" to "who killes jerry bledsoe?" to "who played those jerry bledsoe changes, daddy?" then when that building colapsed because of an earthquake and killed those guys working on it he says "those changes? i know who plays them." i figured it would explain it later on in the book but it never did. does anyone here know? 020506 ... silentbob i certainly don't know but its been a long time since i read the book. maybe there's other connections in other stephen_king books or other peter straub books. i dont know. my teacher would tell me to read it again. maybe if you read the black house it might explain. its the sequel doncha know. but i doubt it would explain. i don't know. stephen king and peter straub can often be obscure and bizarre. maybe it was their own inside joke. 020510 ... possessed angel The_Virgin_Suicides - Jeffrey_Eugenides 020524 ... no reason the blather title right beside this one was "about a boy". i was very pleased at this coincidence. 020524 ... misstree tourist already mentioned cat's_cradle by vonnegut, and teenage jesus mentioned robert anton wilson... but no sign of tom_robbins, especially still life with woodpecker. mindbending, hilarious, a critic once wrote that "tom robbins writes like dolly parton looks".. dripping, luscious wordplay, and "play" is the proper adjective. also brokedown_palace by steven brust, which reads like a hungarian fairy tale written with the dreamlike realism that brust has truly mastered, as seen in his Taltos series (which this one vaguely ties in to). and the_consumer by michael gira, not for the faint of heart... gira is more well known for his part in the gothic group "the swans", and has been named the angriest man in gothdom (though i would just vote for most twisted). i believe there is a brief example in stichomancy from this book of short stories. again, not for the faint of heart. 020524 ... Effingham Fish The Box Man by Kobo Abe 020525 ... DaughteroftheMoon The oddessy The iliad Tithe by holly black the Divine comedies by Dante the Canturbury Tales by geoffry chaucer Oedipus the King by Sophocles all those old books are rather interesting tithe is just cool 040314 ... ...AntiqueClocks... Peter Pan Alice In Wonderland The Neverending Story The Princess Bride Turnabout Inkheart The Theif Lord Stargirl A Tale of Time City Howl's Moving Castle Castle In the Air The Giver Gathering blue There's more but i'm too lazy to write them all.... There's A lot.... 040314 ... no reason the_unbearable_lightness_of_being milan kundera 050209 ... emmi the_great_gatsby (f. scott fitzgerald) the house_of_the_spirits (isabel allende- i love all her stuff, but i love this one the most) kartography (kamila shamsie) the god_of_small_things (arudhati roy) and finally, the_alchemist (paulo coelho). 050212 ... kelc like the red panda a terrible beauty gingerbread a blue eyed daisy peter pan alice in wonderland crank feeling freakish now excuse me as i go kill my 1/2 bro. 050212 ... kelc The_perks_of_being_a_wallflower i just read it and i loved it and im going to read it again.. its just beautiful. Sorry, im a book fanatic. 050305 ... andru235 My_Year_of_Meats by Ruth L. Ozeki 050307 ... kelc andru are you stalking me? Or are just forgetting to close your Moosejaw infront of me? 050718 ... falling_alone how about the hitch-hickers guide to the galaxy series by douglas adams. 050718 ... andru235 no, kelc, i am NOT stalking you. i only stalk you during june; in july i stalk someone else. sorry it took me so long to respond, by the way. i guess my Moose Jaw got carried away by the river's Swift Current. 051112 ... oren Island_In_The_Sea_Of_Time (trilogy). By S.M. Stirling 051112 ... kelc June is a good month. I have much too much sugar. And i think that came out bitchyer than it should have. Im sorry, i get carried away really easy. Its pretty foolish. Wonder When You'll Miss Me - Amanda Davis. Its a great book, she runs away and joins the circus, only it's not as simple as that. 051112 ... IGG house_of_leaves - danielewski my journal is a kick ass book but you won't be reading it. robin_hobb's fitzchivalry series. the bell jar - this is quite weird but good. apparently american psycho is kick ass but sounds gory to me. girl, interrupted i would agree with, as i would fight club. when i get to typing i just don't remember anything. stupid memory. 051113 ... The End a long way down - nick hornby the curious incident of the dog in the night time - has forgotten authors name. 051113 ... andru235 kelc, i didn't think you were being bitchy. i thought we were having a witty repartee of Saskatchewan township punnery. "Flatlands" by E. Abbott 051113 ... andru235 no s - "Flatland" 051113 ... kelc It takes me a while to respond andrew. But my Beatty eyes do grow Biggar when i see you have responded. Wasteland. 060217 what's it to you? who go blather from