I don't know if this counts as a book, but it definitely left an imprint on me.
For Christmas, my girl bought me the Calvin and Hobbes collection by Bill Watterson. I already had nearly every one of his paperback comic strip books except some of them were colored up since my little sister was a fan of Watterson on a different level and would color up the black and white strips.
So I picked up the first volume and started reading. I couldn't put it down. It brought back so many memories. I stopped reading the funnies habitually once Watterson retired. Calvin and Hobbes was better than anything else out there at the time. Even better than Peanuts or Momma. I still have the clipping from the L.A. times of his last strip - the one where Calvin says, "Let's go Exploring."
Yes, well addicts are a fickle lot and often feeling like the world owes them something...
What else good have you read Memphis?
i had been on a literary dry-spell prior to frey's book.....i was into the more instant gratification that watching a movie provided.....and the book on feng shui doesn't really count.
i think that is why your thread with gamma grabbed my interest because i thought i might see something here that i might want to pick up and read.
gamma: i do have to admit, i did read some calvin & hobbs this morning on the back window of a pickup truck......calvin was pissing on something
Your girl?!?? Good Lord, I thought she was your fiance? Maybe that is what you meant...just being nosy.
Uh, yea...it counts as a book but really persons like myself are supposed to be reading six books at the same time. That is a bit much, I prefer three or four.
Like I say it would be fun to read with some people on here but I doubt very many people in here pick up much classic lit or contemporary fiction on a regular basis. Just doesn't have the following it should have...
i had been on a literary dry-spell prior to frey's book.....i was into the more instant gratification that watching a movie provided.....and the book on feng shui doesn't really count.
i think that is why your thread with gamma grabbed my interest because i thought i might see something here that i might want to pick up and read.
gamma: i do have to admit, i did read some calvin & hobbs this morning on the back window of a pickup truck......calvin was pissing on something
What do you like? Genre? Topics? I'll find your next great read...
What do you like? Genre? Topics? I'll find your next great read...
not a big fan or horror, demonic themes, or things too dark.... but suspense is acceptable. i'm bored with the military-themed-clancey works and the legal-themed-grishom works. crichton & patterson had some that held my interest.....patterson's depended on whether the alex cross character was in it....if not, it got tossed in the trash. i enjoyed douglas adams long before they jacked-up the first book in his 'trilogy' of 5 books in a movie. my interests have been varied....
i don't know if that is enough for you to go on to find my next great read....i sort of focused on the negatives of what i don't like as opposed to what i do like......i think that is why took a reading sabbatical because don't know now what i like.....
Yea, I think that a beautiful prose or writing style could keep me interested in a work regardless of the topic or theme. I enjoyed American Tabloid by James Ellroy which is close to the things you have described reading but certainly the writing style must be better than that mainstream stuff and could maybe be a good fit.
Give me something about yourself and your needs as a reader and I'll make sure before I push this first option on you.
i had been on a literary dry-spell prior to frey's book.....i was into the more instant gratification that watching a movie provided.....and the book on feng shui doesn't really count.
i think that is why your thread with gamma grabbed my interest because i thought i might see something here that i might want to pick up and read.
gamma: i do have to admit, i did read some calvin & hobbs this morning on the back window of a pickup truck......calvin was pissing on something
Bill Waterson hated those stickers even if they gave him free publicity.
LC, I do confess to gravitating toward lighter fare when it comes to my reading. Most often, you'd find me reading a James Patterson book (easy to read at night because of the short chapters), and I enjoy a good biography (recent reads include "Get in the Van: On The Road with Black Flag" by Henry Rollins and "Heavier than Heaven" about the life and times of Curt Cobain, both books were incredible tales about the devastating impact that fame and fortune can have on some people).
I do have a copy of "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" by T.E. Lawrence that I've been meaing to get to for about a year now
Nothing wrong with something lighter, Lar...my all time favorite is heavy and not always easy on the reader but I've read chick lit as well. I made the mistake of reading The Devil Wears Prada and when I was done I threw it in the kitchen of my company and it disappeared - good riddance...but my one soulmate who will never be mine...he reads much more than even I have ever read...and he reads at least one chick lit a month. The important thing is to read and it is a big thing to be entertained. I happen to be a book snob but I don't think everyone should be like me about books.
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The important thing is to read and it is a big thing to be entertained. I happen to be a book snob but I don't think everyone should be like me about books.
