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 Aug 11 2006, 01:41 PM
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 Fear and Loathing...  Group: Members Posts: 4,368 Joined: 29-March 05 From: St. Paul, Minnesota Member No.: 6 Favourite Rider: Nicky Hayden Favourite Track: Road America   |
Just thought that since we had a thread dedicated to movies, why not books. I'm currently working on Hunter S. Thompson's The Rum Diary and so far am very impressed. Having never read any of Thompson's work before but seeing Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, I was a bit nervous that his incoherent writing would be his tool to get his intoxicated stories across. But thusfar, it has been very clear and a pleasure to read. If you like Hunter S. Thompson or Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and haven't read The Rum Diary, I recommend it.
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| Guest_Alex_* |
Aug 11 2006, 01:58 PM
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Ummm I think it was a Series of Unfortunate Events and that was a good 6+ months ago now.
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Aug 11 2006, 02:44 PM
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 VIP Member Group: Staff Member Posts: 3,533 Joined: 27-July 05 From: Gelderland Member No.: 73 Favourite Rider: rossi, hayden Favourite Track: Assen, Istanbul  |
I'm a big literature reader! the books I usually read are in dutch so I guess you've never ever heared of the titles before, but I try to read 3 books a month. I've read the english classics, like roald dhal - uncle oswald/poison, shakespeare othello, a poison tree etc.
if you ever get the chance to get a translation of a Arthur Japin book, I recommend it. he's my favorite dutch writer  I also have read a lot of english books, like 'the vampire lestat', 'Hook' and 'mother of the entire world'. they're nice if you like the genre
-------------------- You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one. - John Wooden
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. - Ella Williams Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart. - Alan Alda A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. - David Brinkley |
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Aug 11 2006, 02:59 PM
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 74 Fan Group: Admin Posts: 3,943 Joined: 19-May 05 From: Shanghai Member No.: 24 Favourite Rider: Daijiro Kato Favourite Track: Sepang Circuit  |
Finished reading
Wild Swans/ 3 Daughters of China - by Jung Chang Seeing as Im off there ... True story of the Authors life in China before settling here in London a few years back, also from her Grandmothers perspective as a concubine to a General, then her Mothers who Joined the communists.....the story takes you through the cultural Reveloution where Mao and his cronies ruled with an iron fist, tinged with a lot of sadness and horror at what that nation went through, but a very absorbing read. -------------------- If the musics too loud then you are too old!
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Aug 11 2006, 05:35 PM
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 Forum Mack Daddy Group: Members Posts: 1,350 Joined: 26-January 06 From: Lancashire UK Member No.: 166 Favourite Rider: The Doctor, Pedrosa & Capirossi Favourite Track: Laguna Seca  |
i read all the time for fun and as part of my degree.
two books i would recommend to anyone would be 'mr.nice'.. howard marks autobiography! fantastic book! the other is 'king of the gypsies' by bartley gorman who was a bare knuckle gypsy fighter... absolutely crazy but really good fun to read -------------------- myspace.com/oldskool_raver
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Aug 12 2006, 07:46 AM
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 go away Group: Staff Member Posts: 3,885 Joined: 9-March 06 From: Philippines Member No.: 218 Favourite Rider: Valentino Rossi Favourite Track: Sepang Circuit  |
Language development and Language Disorders by Lois Bloom and Margaret Lahey
 I'm working on Canterbury Tales. Finished reading the latest addition to my Michael Crichton collection: Great Train Robbery. --- took me months before I found a copy, sheesh... -------------------- On the seventh day, God made man. But everything else is made in China.
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| Guest_Katt_* |
Aug 12 2006, 08:56 AM
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Leathers by Donna Gardener ... the biggest book i've ever read.
I didn't think it was half bad ... maybe a 3/5? Highway To Nowhere .... true crime story of Ivan Milat... if you dont know who he was/is ... he was a backpacker murderer in Australia, picked up hitchhikers and took them into a forest and .... yer ... i love reading crime stuff, and for some reason im fascinated by the milat murders... 5/5 other than that the most recent book i've read is Raw by Scott Monk ... its shit. why is it that compulsory school texts are never good reads? |
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Aug 12 2006, 10:20 AM
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 Ascendo tuum! Group: Members Posts: 4,110 Joined: 6-December 05 Member No.: 151 Favourite Rider: Troy Bayliss Favourite Track: Autopolis  |
jidosha no undo to seifu
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Aug 12 2006, 10:54 AM
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 Factory Rider Group: Members Posts: 105 Joined: 4-July 06 From: Australia Member No.: 452 Favourite Rider: Valentino Rossi Favourite Track: Assen |
I just finised reading 'The power is within you' from Louis L. Hay. A book about how you can influence your life by positive thinking
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Aug 12 2006, 02:16 PM
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Forum Mack Daddy Group: Members Posts: 1,350 Joined: 26-January 06 From: Lancashire UK Member No.: 166 Favourite Rider: The Doctor, Pedrosa & Capirossi Favourite Track: Laguna Seca |
QUOTE (richo @ Aug 12 2006, 11:20 AM)  jidosha no undo to seifu bless you
-------------------- myspace.com/oldskool_raver
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Aug 13 2006, 10:52 AM
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 Token Israeli Group: Staff Member Posts: 2,027 Joined: 9-April 06 From: Look behind you.... Member No.: 302 Favourite Rider: /Driver: Richard Burns. RIP. Favourite Track: Lift Me Up by Moby  |
Ooooh boy you're all gonna regret asking me which books I've read recently......
Emperor: The Gates Of Rome / Conn Iggulden /Historical Emperor: The Death Of Kings / Conn Iggulden / Historical No Place Like Home / Mary Higgins Clark / Crime Thriller Artemis Fowl And The Lost Colony / Eoin Colfer / Fantasy Thats in the last two weeks. I bought so far 21 books to read when I get back to Israel. Will keep you updated on them  The Emperor Series, about the life of Julius Caesar from his childhood through all the major events of his life, is an incredible series. Its really really well written, and there's not much higher praise a history book can recieve than "I wish I'd written it" from Bernard Cornwell. The other two books are very good too. -------------------- Basically, creationism means that someone somewhere, maybe a beardy bloke in the sky, actually designed you the way you are. On purpose.
Whereas Darwinism would suggest that you are just an accidental and somewhat random evolution from a bunch of apes. The evidence would suggest the latter. |
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Aug 13 2006, 01:36 PM
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 Loris's fan through and trough Group: Members Posts: 965 Joined: 27-January 06 From: in the stands Member No.: 167 Favourite Rider: Loris Capirossi, Robert Muresan Favourite Track: Mugello and Brno  |
Hmm... i curentlly read "Primavara Scandinava" by Al Caprariu... "Scandinavian Spring" a travel journal very well written.
I've recently read "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Brothers Karamazov" of Dostoievsky, "Anna Karenina" of Tolstoy...i discovered the russian literature...love it!! After i finnish this one i've planned a whole list of books that i want to read: "War and Peace" by Tolstoy, "Crime and Punishment" and "The Idiot" by Dostoievsky and "The Vampire Chronicles" of Anne Rice(...can't wait to read them ) -------------------- Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.
Pain is temporary, glory…lasts forever! World Champion of Our Hearts: Paul Hunter ( RIP 14.10.1978-9.10.2006) |
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Aug 13 2006, 02:49 PM
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 cruisin thru the ether Group: Staff Member Posts: 6,190 Joined: 28-September 05 From: washington DC, USA Member No.: 123 Favourite Rider: p.j.jacobsen, s.bonsey, j.herrin, n.hayden, j.lorenzo, m. pasini a.dovizioso Favourite Track: miller motorsports park |
the latest issue of playboy
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Aug 13 2006, 09:51 PM
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 250 Screamer Group: Members Posts: 37 Joined: 26-May 06 From: Sardinia, Italy Member No.: 367 Favourite Rider: Alex de Angelis, Mattia Pasini, Fabrizio Lai, Marco Melandri Favourite Track: Monaco  |
The last... mmh... It's "Al di là del ponte" ("outside the bridge" in english), written by Regina Zimet-Levy.
This book talks about shoah, like as the last 4 books that I've read... Lately mum takes only this kind of books from library |
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Aug 14 2006, 01:42 PM
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Ascendo tuum! Group: Members Posts: 4,110 Joined: 6-December 05 Member No.: 151 Favourite Rider: Troy Bayliss Favourite Track: Autopolis |
QUOTE (frosty58 @ Aug 14 2006, 01:49 AM) the latest issue of playboy surprise surprise
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Aug 14 2006, 01:45 PM
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cruisin thru the ether Group: Staff Member Posts: 6,190 Joined: 28-September 05 From: washington DC, USA Member No.: 123 Favourite Rider: p.j.jacobsen, s.bonsey, j.herrin, n.hayden, j.lorenzo, m. pasini a.dovizioso Favourite Track: miller motorsports park |
QUOTE (richo @ Aug 14 2006, 08:42 AM) surprise surprisei like those deep read's! 
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Aug 14 2006, 03:09 PM
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Loris's fan through and trough Group: Members Posts: 965 Joined: 27-January 06 From: in the stands Member No.: 167 Favourite Rider: Loris Capirossi, Robert Muresan Favourite Track: Mugello and Brno |
anyone read "Doctorcosta:Tears & Triumph My Life In The Clinica Mobile"?
Is it worth buying? -------------------- Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.
Pain is temporary, glory…lasts forever! World Champion of Our Hearts: Paul Hunter ( RIP 14.10.1978-9.10.2006) |
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Aug 14 2006, 03:16 PM
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 Sir Loin Group: Members Posts: 5,909 Joined: 13-July 06 Member No.: 476 Favourite Rider: ME Favourite Track: Suzuka |
not done yet but working on:
What if I had never tried it, the Vale autobiography..... last one complete was Green Eggs and Ham, Dr Suess...great read!
-------------------- Jerry Burgess: "Valentino moved through the field in Barcelona and everyone that he passed got a riding lesson."
"I think that if Casey had raced in the '80s and '90s with Kevin Schwantz, Wayne Rainey and Mick Doohan, he'd have seen that every weekend," the Australian told the official MotoGP website. "It was probably something that he wasn't particularly expecting; [he] probably expected to win the race easily like he'd dominated in the practices." "Pedrosa put up so little a fight it would have embarrassed a Frenchman" |
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Aug 20 2006, 08:39 PM
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 MotoGP Rookie Group: Members Posts: 84 Joined: 25-May 06 Member No.: 363 Favourite Rider: Valentino ROSSI Favourite Track: Assen | Holland  |
I read the MIT's history ( Its an agent in Turkey like CIA or FBI ) It was 900 pages. But not exhausting if you like to reading.
I recommend a book for you. Lance Armstrong's biografy. If you read you say what a difficult life for a man for all of the stages . |
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Aug 21 2006, 12:58 AM
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go away Group: Staff Member Posts: 3,885 Joined: 9-March 06 From: Philippines Member No.: 218 Favourite Rider: Valentino Rossi Favourite Track: Sepang Circuit |
The New KGB --- finally finished!
-------------------- On the seventh day, God made man. But everything else is made in China.
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