Comments on: Friday Happy Hour: Book Club Edition

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 06:12:10 +0000

I absolutely cannot say enough good things about “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy. I couldn’t put it down. At the end, I was truly sorry it was over.

By: yvie

yvie — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:35:19 +0000

Can’t finish One Hundred Years of solitude? I believe I read that one in one sitting! So life-changing, as was Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson. It made me decide to become a journalist. I was fortunate enough to tell him that when Interviewed him for the L.A. Times.
Btw–hi everone! Hope you don’t mind if I join the conversation.

By: Rosemary

Rosemary — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 15:45:30 +0000

I am currently reading “The Undercover Economist” by Tim Harford and “Thirteen Moons” by Charles Frazier. I can’t think of any books that truly changed how I think, but certainly ones that had a lasting impact: “My Name is Asher Lev” by Chaim Potok, “My Antonia” by Willa Cather, “Black Beauty” by Anna Sewell (we are going back to early childhood here)and a book in Swedish called “The Thief” (Tjuven) by GÃ¶ran TunstrÃ¶m, come immediately to mind. And the one I’ve never able to finish and feel guilty about: One Hundred Years of Solitude.

By: katie

katie — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:05:05 +0000

i know i’m way behind but _Love in the Time of Cholera_ (Marquez) is the most beautiful book I have ever read. this is important.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:42:16 +0000

I have to say that I love reading and I’ve always loved reading.

However, I have a serious aversion to having to read books, with deadlines and whatnot. I’m reading a very interesting book for school this summer called “Over the Earth I Come”. Its about the Great Sioux Uprising of 1862, culmanating in Abraham Lincoln ordering the record largest mass execution of the United States (32 some indian braves).

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:41:58 +0000

I have to say that I love reading and I’ve always loved reading.

By: Kaberi

Kaberi — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 06:04:58 +0000

Just got back from Border’s for the midnight release of Harry Potter. I was interested to see that they funneled the line to buy the book through their entire literature section, so when I got to the register I asked the girl if she had seen anyone buying anything other than Harry Potter. She said only a couple. Even though it will be a good long while before I finish it, it was an extraordinary experience to be there with some 1000 other people, knowing this same thing was going on in hundreds of bookstores all over the country…

Love, love, love Agatha Christie, most especially the ones with Poirot and Hastings, have read them way more often than it makes sense to read any murder mystery.

So, I’m planning a trip to Europe (Spain, southern France, and Northern Italy) with a friend of mine in several months. He’s not much of a reader but I think if I got him a couple of audiobooks to put him in that southern European mood he would appreciate it. Any suggestions? So far, all I’ve thought of is Tales of the Alhambra by Washington Irving.

By: JaneM

JaneM — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 01:40:12 +0000

Great beach read – ‘The Time Traveller’s Wife’

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:43:27 +0000

I also strongly recommend Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. And if you enjoy it, then check out Gladwell’s other book, The Tipping Point. Both are engaging reads.

By: Allison

Allison — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:10:06 +0000

As a PS to my last post – Brother Cadfael is the one Melanie is trying to remember, I’d be sure.