Jessica ([info]spiraldown) wrote,
@ 2004-06-13 17:30:00
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Current mood: gloomy
Current music:Stone Temple Pilots - Sex Type Thing

I have no feelings where I am
I finally graduated. I would like to thank the streakers for making the whole affair very classy.

Zach Craig's goal made me think of all the books I wanted to read this summer. So far this summer I have read "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown. I liked it because of all the art history in it but I become bored with books that have all action and no character depth.

The books I am planning to read this summer (hopefully I will get through more than these) are:
"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson
"The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" by Greg Palast
"Mother Night" by Kurt Vonnegut
"A Moveable Feast" by Ernest Hemmingway
"Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte
and "Daughter of Fortune" by Isabel Allende

any other recommendations are welcome.

I hope this summer goes well. I can tell I am going to have to work hard.

I'm ready.


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[info]billiemockrat
2004-06-14 01:37 am UTC (link)
"Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right" by Al Franken. Very funny.

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[info]volcanomasta
2004-06-14 03:16 am UTC (link)
yay fear and loathing in las vegas its exactly like the movie though. I mean like word for word.

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[info]feiticeiro
2004-06-14 05:54 am UTC (link)
let me tell you, "fear and loathing in las vegas" is one of my favorite books......ever.


i must have read it at least three times.


i highly suggest hunter's other writings as well.

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[info]antiaktiv
2004-06-14 07:02 am UTC (link)
Mikhail Bulgakov's Master and Margarita.

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[info]withoutego
2004-06-14 10:44 am UTC (link)
fear and loathing = okay
A Moveable Feast = lame

A Fine Balance is a good book. Also Life of Pi. Also Alias Grace, 1984, Farenheit 451, Slaughterhouse Five, Choke, This Side of Paradise. You've probably read those or you won't read them. But they're all sweetass choices.

Now you give me five bands I have never heard of.

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[info]swimmingsux
2004-06-14 07:55 pm UTC (link)
"The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" by Greg Palast.. now, who do you think owns a copy of that? Haha, if you want to borrow it you are more than welcome. Now.. lets stop this being glomy business.

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[info]spiraldown
2004-06-14 11:37 pm UTC (link)
I bought a copy, did you enjoy it?

I'm trying but I took seeing all my friends, yourself included, for granted.

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Books! Yay!
[info]xeroticax
2004-06-15 02:25 am UTC (link)
Anything by Tom Robbins (though I reccomend Jitterbug Perfume, Feirce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, or Still Life with Woodpecker). And Lullyby by Chuck Palaniuk. :)

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[info]dismalascent
2004-06-15 09:57 pm UTC (link)
Fear and Loathing is a truely excellent book. soooo much better than the movie. I used to have the entire passage about dealing with highway patrol committed to memory. =)

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[info]spiraldown
2004-06-25 02:27 pm UTC (link)
You know, I didn't really like the book? Maybe because I'm not big in the drug culture but it just didn't impact me like it seemed to do to others.

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[info]dismalascent
2004-06-26 05:24 am UTC (link)
I understand what ya mean. When I read it, I was very deep into the drug culture (keyword: was). =)

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