"The Odd Stray"
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> On Sat, 07 Jul 2007 13:19:14 +0100, Halla
> drunkenbastards.spam.com> wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 07 Jul 2007 01:04:40 GMT, Baz
>>yahoo.co.uk> blethered:
>>
>>>On Sat, 07 Jul 2007 01:38:38 +0100, Halla
>>>drunkenbastards.spam.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 22:42:04 GMT, Baz
>>>>yahoo.co.uk> blethered:
>>>
>>>>>>Have you read the book though? Or 'the Bridge'?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>I've read Trainspotting but not The Bridge. No more challenging than A
>>>>>Clockwork Orange innit
>>>>
>>>>Heh, ICBA with a Clockwork Orange. :-) I've got a copy on a shelf
>>>>somewhere.
>>>>
>>>>The Bridge is an Ian Banks one, BTW, not that potato-head Welsh.
>>>
>>>Ahhh
>>>/me looks at unread book pile...Crow Road...
>>
>>That's good too. :-) I liked Complicity too.
>>
>>>nope...don't have that.
>>>Will add it to my list.
>>
>> I have had to close my list. <;-/
>
> A coupla' weeks ago I ran out of reading material, so we made an
> emergency Barnes & Noble run. A hundred or so dollars later ...
>
> Amy Tan: "Saving Fish From Drowning": I give it a B+. It's a bit of
> a chick-flick book. But it was fun to read descriptions of the
> characters' travels.
>
> Charles Frazier: "Thirteen Moons": I give it an A+. It's not
> particularly easy to read, but provides an entirely different
> point-of-view of the horrible way we colonials treated the First
> Peoples.
>
> National Philbrick: "Mayflower": I've just barely started this. It's
> also not easy to read, but so far looks to be interesting enough to
> enjoy working on it.
>
i don' know why, but i've lost all interest in books. and i even have a
library card. and the library is a 2 minute walk from my apartment. i just
can't bring myself to open a book and read.
zol---used to love books, would have 3 or 4 going at once