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06-09-2011, 12:18 PM | #3531 (permalink) | |
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06-09-2011, 06:45 PM | #3535 (permalink) | |
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I got to meet Patrick Rothfuss at a book signing for his new book not too long ago...seems like a pretty rad guy.
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06-11-2011, 01:08 PM | #3537 (permalink) |
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Just started this for my school book club. A schizophrenic kid explores the subway tunnels of Brooklyn, while his mom and a missing persons specialist search for him and discover/reveal strange things... or something like that. Definitely an interesting concept, so I hope the book lives up to it. |
06-12-2011, 07:34 PM | #3539 (permalink) |
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Hello! Newbie here. I just finished reading William Burroughs - Junky for the umpteenth time. The book never lets me down. I got the 50th anniversary issue of Naked Lunch for my birthday yesterday (from my ex-wife) so that will likely be next.
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06-12-2011, 08:35 PM | #3540 (permalink) |
Killed Laura Palmer
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I definitely dig that book. We have a little thing every year with our Big Read event in my city where we celebrate Jack Kerouac; he mentions my city in On the Road...he says he was sitting in front of an old movie theatre in Ashland, KY, looking at the Ohio River. That building? The Paramount.
I didn't even know that until I read the book in high school. Then I was like,
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