Glad you received it without a hitch. I've sold two copies to the UK in the past month and each time it scares the crap out of me because of the whole customs thing and because without fail, everytime a person from the UK has mailed ME something it's taken a few months or never shown up.

I'm in the middle of High Fidelity, I liked the movie a lot but this is the first time I have gotten around to reading the book. It puts a different spin on the story since it is based in London.

Also reading a book of poems and short stories by Henry Rollins called "Body Bag", some of it blows my mind with the gritty heart of society style he writes and then some sounds like an angsty 14 year old which completley ruins it...

Thats the Royal Mail for you, but I was pleasantly surprised at the speed of the books arrival.

As was I both times I sent books to the UK. I've sent things to people in the states that have taken like ten days.

If Chins Could Kill - Bruce Campbell

i knew i would dig this book - bit i had no idea i'd love it as much as i am.

cant put the damn thing down ... funny and informative.
i'm going to have to track down the other one he wrote

Weird - I'm actually reading that book now too.

Just started.

And I love it. :D

If Chins Could Kill is great.

i'm close to the end .. just past him talking about new zealand.

how far in are you ... i mean, how deep in are you... oops, i mean....


where are you in the book ?

*giggles*

I honestly just started, as in picked it up for the first time the other night - So I'm just at his autobiographical beginnings.

I'm cutting into this reading with the latest volume of The Walking Dead. Not quite as satisfying as If Chins Could Kill, though.

thats funny - i just read everything up to the last vol of Walking Dead (vol 9?) only because they didnt have it in stock.

looks like we belong to the same book club

i'm in the middle of the brief wondrous life of oscar wao - which i think won the pulitzer last year. very good and really well written.

Re-reading Less Than Zero, by Bret Easton Ellis.

I've had a collection of works by Elmer Rice sitting around for awhile now...think I might start into them pretty soon.

Kathleen Turner - send yourself roses

had a hard time getting into it at first - getting more into it now.
(family history bores me to tears - i'm really only interested in the filmmaking)

Just finished
An Ordinary Soldier
its a story about an irish soldier who fought in Garmsir Afghanistan.

Iggy Pop: Open Up And Bleed
great biography, I have much more respect for Iggy now than i did before.

The Time Machine

HG Wells

Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga, by Hunter S. Thompson.

That book is awesome.

Definetly, Thompson is quickly becoming one of my favourite authors.

Have you read Kerouac's Dr. Sax? If you like Naked Lunch and you like Thompson's writing you might enjoy Dr. Sax.

Unfortunately I've not read any of Kerouac's stuff. Been meaning to pick up a copy of 'On the Road' for quite a while now. I'll keep my eyes open for a copy of Dr. Sax as well.

I'm actually just finishing up Naked Lunch. Probably the most intense novel I've ever read. Are all Burrough's books written in that style?

Just finished Elmer Rice's The Adding Machine, now I'm tearing through Street Scene.

Surprised I didn't come across this guy earlier...fantastic playwright.

"The Shack" by William P. Young

No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan, by Robert Shelton.

The Summer of the Danes by Ellis Peters

I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not.

His others are much more narrative and I don't like them half as much.

Read F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button yesterday. Great story...movie mangled it though.

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus - Mary Shelley

This is my first time reading the actual novel...kind of excited.

Lush

Peter Benchley

Big Sur, by Jack Kerouac.

Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse by Victor Gischler

Awesome. Very Tarantino.

People forget what a great surrealist Fitzgerald could be sometimes. The haunting imagery in the Great Gatsby is proof enough of that. Have you read a Diamond as Big as the Ritz or any of his other short works?

Not yet, but I plan to - I picked up a collection of his short works not long ago, which is where I read Benjamin Button. Diamond as Big as the Ritz is in there, plus a ton of others. Planning to dig into the rest of 'em in the near future.

Spook Country by William Gibson
Infoquake by David Edelman
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemmingway

Although Hemmingway is on hold at the moment. I find his writing style to be pretty annoying. Huge amounts of near-pointless dialogue separated by long, drawn out sections of compound sentences. I don't think I have ever read the word "and" so many times in my life.

I must warn you to steer clear of Bob Dylan Chronicles. Blood on the Tracks is my favorite album ever, I know every word to Desolation Row and Dylan's book pissed me off. It's sad how the greatest post Ginsberg poetic voice in America can turn into your senile great uncle at the drop of a hat.

Really? I was actually looking forward to reading that. What made it so bad?

It has some nice anecdotes, but it's dull, disjointed and positively maddening. The story straight from the horse's mouth is quite confusing and ranty. It's readable if you're prepared to skip pages to get past really obtrusive digressions.

Complicity by Ian Banks....

Berlitz Korean Phrase Book and Dictionary

Beowulf
The Script Book as told by Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary

While My Sister Sleeps by Barbara Delinsky

Bushido By Inazo Nitobe (2nd attempt, it's hard to absorb)

Crafts For The Spirit by Ronni Lundy