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Cleveland wrote:has anyone read For Whom The Bell Tolls? I started it at the docs ofiice and made it throught th first chapter. Is the rest of the book as good as Chapter 1?

I read it and thought it was good.

steep4me wrote:

Cleveland wrote:has anyone read For Whom The Bell Tolls? I started it at the docs ofiice and made it throught th first chapter. Is the rest of the book as good as Chapter 1?

I read it and thought it was good.

Just good? Chapter 1 made me think it was going to be amazing. Do you thing it is worth buying or just worth a trip to the library?

I realize to each his or her own but your a cool chick and i tottally trust your judgment.

everyone should read everything e. hemingway ever wrote.

either way, supporting the local library is awesome - free books/dvds/cds etc. Sure they smell bad or be with dog-eared pages, but it helps keep the libraries open the more we use 'em.
Oh, and I think I rushed through that book for school, sorry

heidiramma wrote:either way, supporting the local library is awesome - free books/dvds/cds etc. Sure they smell bad or be with dog-eared pages, but it helps keep the libraries open the more we use 'em.
Oh, and I think I rushed through that book for school, sorry

I hear ya Heidirama, but there are just certain books i like to add to the collection, this could be one. However I did go to the librbay the otherday and pick up The Hopi by Frank Waters. Im not finished with it yet but it's an excellent read and their Philosophy on creation and life is amazing. I recomend it to anyone.

heidiramma wrote:either way, supporting the local library is awesome - free books/dvds/cds etc. Sure they smell bad or be with dog-eared pages, but it helps keep the libraries open the more we use 'em.
Oh, and I think I rushed through that book for school, sorry

Yeah, I just finished 100 Years of Solitude and am wrapping up The Fall by Camus, both chock-full of amateur liner notes...it drives me fucking nuts. It's totally distracting, and reeks of jackassery. But you can't beat the price.

I read All the Pretty Horses pretty recently too; probably my favorite McCarthy book. Blood Meridian though is infinitely more gripping.

Also just finished Halfway to Heaven by Mark Obmasick (sp?), a book about him trying to climb all of Colorado's 14er's in a year. It's like A Walk in the Woods-lite. Trite and kind of vapid, but I read the whole thing in a few days so I might have betrayed my own harsh analysis. Enjoyable and easy to read, I'll leave it at that.

I thought 100 Years of Solitude sucked, totally boring, the only book I didn't finish all the way through but went ahead and read the last 5 pages just for kicks. The last five were the best part I read though so maybe it got better. I do know of at least one person who loved it. Not sure what my point is here, just wanted to ramble for a moment while at work I suppose.

It is just about the weirdest book I've ever read, but I enjoyed it. I felt like it could have been captured in about a hundred pages or so.

Finished Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand. Wow.