Feliz cumpleaños, man!!Matov wrote:i was just given this one for my birthday
anybody here read it? i know its not exactly a novelty, but i usually like to get some reviews before getting into a book
so, thanks in advance!
Veinticuántos?
Feliz cumpleaños, man!!Matov wrote:i was just given this one for my birthday
anybody here read it? i know its not exactly a novelty, but i usually like to get some reviews before getting into a book
so, thanks in advance!
Thanks Larry! it's veintiocho for meLarry B. wrote:Feliz cumpleaños, man!!
Veinticuántos?
Hahaha, sos una semana mayor que yo!Matov wrote:Thanks Larry! it's veintiocho for meLarry B. wrote:Feliz cumpleaños, man!!
Veinticuántos?
Matov wrote:i was just given this one for my birthday
anybody here read it? i know its not exactly a novelty, but i usually like to get some reviews before getting into a book
so, thanks in advance!
Thank you Artemis!Artemis wrote: hello and happy belated birthday!
i didn't read that book but i am familiar with some of Hanif Kureishi's work.
i saw the films my beautiful laundrette and sammy and rosie get laid. he wrote the screenplays for both of them. i also read a more recent book called something to tell you.
rom the films and the book i read, he writes about the experiences of immigrants and the children of immigrants growing up in london. he writes about racism, identity(sexual and individual), cross-cultural variation, social commentary.
i think he is a good writer. very smart and witty.
Great book. The eccentric (and non-fictional!) cast of characters reminded me a little of some of the craziness in the novel A Confederacy of Dunces.hokahey wrote:Absolutely incredible book.
Even if you have zero interest in running it's still a great read.
Wow, I had a really diiferent idea of how BTR was framed.chaos wrote:Great book. The eccentric (and non-fictional!) cast of characters reminded me a little of some of the craziness in the novel A Confederacy of Dunces.hokahey wrote:Absolutely incredible book.
Even if you have zero interest in running it's still a great read.
Overall BTR is both informative and inspirational. I was referring to some of the interactions among the characters during the journey. They add some comedic flavor to McDougall's narrative.SR wrote:Wow, I had a really diiferent idea of how BTR was framed.chaos wrote:Great book. The eccentric (and non-fictional!) cast of characters reminded me a little of some of the craziness in the novel A Confederacy of Dunces.hokahey wrote:Absolutely incredible book.
Even if you have zero interest in running it's still a great read.
Well put. The characters are just amazingly colorful and so fun to read about.chaos wrote:Overall BTR is both informative and inspirational. I was referring to some of the interactions among the characters during the journey. They add some comedic flavor to McDougall's narrative.
Scott Jurek is amazing.hokahey wrote:Well put. The characters are just amazingly colorful and so fun to read about.chaos wrote:Overall BTR is both informative and inspirational. I was referring to some of the interactions among the characters during the journey. They add some comedic flavor to McDougall's narrative.
Yes! Such an interesting guy. It seems like a lot of ultra runners are. They have their own subculture.Everybody's Friend wrote:Scott Jurek is amazing.hokahey wrote:Well put. The characters are just amazingly colorful and so fun to read about.chaos wrote:Overall BTR is both informative and inspirational. I was referring to some of the interactions among the characters during the journey. They add some comedic flavor to McDougall's narrative.
happy belated birthday to you, sirLarry B. wrote:Joseph Emperaire's 'Nomads of the Sea'.
Beautiful book about the yaganes, aborigines from Punta Arenas, by a French anthropologist who spent a few years with them. Today, they are pretty much extinct. Only 3 grandmothers are 'pure yaganes', one of whom I visited 3 months ago.
Lovely book for me.
Muchas gracias, maestro.Matov wrote:happy belated birthday to you, sirLarry B. wrote:Joseph Emperaire's 'Nomads of the Sea'.
Beautiful book about the yaganes, aborigines from Punta Arenas, by a French anthropologist who spent a few years with them. Today, they are pretty much extinct. Only 3 grandmothers are 'pure yaganes', one of whom I visited 3 months ago.
Lovely book for me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_FellowsThink about the most wretched day of your life. Maybe it was when someone you loved died, or when you were badly hurt in an accident, or a day when you were so terrified you could scarcely bear it. No imagine 4,000 of those days in one big chunk.
In 1978, Warren Fellows was convicted in Thailand of heroin trafficking and was sentenced to life imprisonment. The Damage Done is his story of an unthinkable nightmare in a place where sewer rats and cockroaches are the only nutritious food, and where the worst punishment is the khun deo - solitary confinement, Thai style.
Fellows was certainly guilty of his crime, but he endured and survived human-rights abuses beyond imagination. This is not his plea for forgiveness, nor his denial of guilt; it is the story of an ordeal that no one would wish on their worst enemy. It is an essential read: heartbreaking, fascinating and impossible to put down.
Bandit72 wrote:I reasd this book about 8 years ago and I came across it again on Kindle so I bought it. If you like travelling, or have ever been to Thailand or that part of the world or maybe you are interested in what happens in a Thai prison? Read it. Gripping stuff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_FellowsThink about the most wretched day of your life. Maybe it was when someone you loved died, or when you were badly hurt in an accident, or a day when you were so terrified you could scarcely bear it. No imagine 4,000 of those days in one big chunk.
In 1978, Warren Fellows was convicted in Thailand of heroin trafficking and was sentenced to life imprisonment. The Damage Done is his story of an unthinkable nightmare in a place where sewer rats and cockroaches are the only nutritious food, and where the worst punishment is the khun deo - solitary confinement, Thai style.
Fellows was certainly guilty of his crime, but he endured and survived human-rights abuses beyond imagination. This is not his plea for forgiveness, nor his denial of guilt; it is the story of an ordeal that no one would wish on their worst enemy. It is an essential read: heartbreaking, fascinating and impossible to put down.
Terry Shortall, a very good Irish friend of mine was arrested by Hong Kong police in August 2009 for allegedly assaulting two female students in his private office. He strenuously denied the charges and was given a longer sentence by the judge for "failing to show remorse". There were no witnesses to the offense and the arrest, judgement, and subsequent jail sentence were based entirely on the accusations of two 19-year-old female students who were failing his English course. To cut a VERY long story short, he was locked up in a Hong Kong prison for just over a year, lost his work permit and other rights and eventually got out because one of the girls admitted to lying about everything. He now lives with his son in Brazil. He wrote a book about it which I read a draft of. Fucked up.hokahey wrote:There was a show on for awhile called "Locked Up Abroad" (I think) and was full of these types of stories. Terrifying stuff. It's like my worst nightmare. I'd rather be dead.
chaos wrote:For those of you familiar with the book Born to Run, Caballo Blanco aka Micah True died a few days ago.
http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=ap-missingrunner
That Maus graphic novel is truly heartbreaking. I read it when i was about twelve i think. So i don't remember the specifics of the plot, other than the timeframe of the story and what obviously went on there. Still i remember feeling like the world was one shitty place.Adurentibus Spina wrote:These are summer reading, really, but I'm starting one of them now...