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Post by Ale Was Here on Mar 17, 2006 15:37:04 GMT -5
what book...?
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Post by Phankam on Mar 17, 2006 22:04:36 GMT -5
the one i'm reading for school ("Los Renglones Torcidos de Dios")
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Post by Ale Was Here on Mar 18, 2006 11:51:00 GMT -5
oh okay
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Post by rockandrollmyworld on Mar 19, 2006 11:56:30 GMT -5
hmm I just read a book I really enjoyed this weekend called Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez (I think that's his name). It wasn't very good writing, but I still really liked it...it was my "I need an easy book to read because my mind is about to explode"
but if you don't like reading about gays in high school, then it won't be for you
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Post by Ale Was Here on Mar 19, 2006 13:11:32 GMT -5
hah
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Post by bonno on Mar 21, 2006 20:27:47 GMT -5
I'm only three chapters in, but I'm completely in love with Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher. Let me bless you with an excerpt:
I think people don't consider sometimes how arbitrary things are. If this country had been founded by photographers, fathers and sons could bind their connections bringing back pictures of the animals they now bring draped over the hoods of their four-wheel-drive pickups. They could do that now if they understood that the whole hunting thing got started back before you could get meat at a drive-up window. But when an activity has outlived its usefulness in this country, we keep it alive by calling it a sport. It's a sport to drive to the edge of the woods and fire a nine-hundred-mile-an-hour missle that tears a hole in its target before that target even hears the crack of the rifle. Listen, if you want to make a sport of deer hunting, take any weapon no sharper than an antler, chase it down, and get it on. Yeah, yeah, the deer would then have the advantage of speed, but you'd still have the overwhelming advantage of malicious intent.
A digression into politics there, but I'm better now.
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Post by rockandrollmyworld on Mar 21, 2006 21:27:06 GMT -5
I've been wanting to read that book since 7th grade
so I'll take the fact that you talked about it as a "You should read this" so maybe I'll get off my lazy ass and read it
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Post by carkey on Mar 21, 2006 21:29:27 GMT -5
Maybe I'll read that when I'm done Catcher in the Rye.
Have you all read 1984 by George Orwell? That's got to be one of my favourites.
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Post by bonno on Mar 21, 2006 21:32:29 GMT -5
No, and I haven't read Animal Farm either. I'm so uncultured! *smacks forehead*
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Post by rockandrollmyworld on Mar 21, 2006 21:34:44 GMT -5
I have a huge list of books that I need/want to read and both Animal Farm and 1984 are on it
I was going to read 1984 a couple weeks ago, but then I remembered that I needed to read The Historian...which I am still only like 100 pages into, out of 600 and something pages
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You know, I'm in your band too Bill
