Currently Reading: A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Just Finished Reading: The Immortal Class: Bike Messengers and the Cult of Human Power by Travis Hugh
Currently Reading: A short history of nearly everything (omg book buddies)
Just Finished: The Confusion: Neil Stephenson
Currently Reading: west point atlas for world war 1
*Just Finished Reading: * Island of the Day Before by Eco
Currently Reading: Auto Trader, looking for a '70 Chevelle 'vert
Just Finished Reading: A 1985ish Rolling Stone with a feature on Billy Idol.
current: SIMARD, Francis. Pour en finir avec octobre. (about the FLQ)
just finished: WOLFE, Tom. Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. (about freaky hippies)
Currently Reading The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby by Tom Wolfe
Just Finished Reading Jail Bird by Kurt Vonnegut
Current: Maximum PC Vol 9, No. 8
Former: Asus P4P800-SE User Guide.
Currently Reading: Super-cannes - J G Ballard
Just Finished Reading: Empire of the Sun - J G Ballar
I'm a huge Ballard fan myself, I really love the range of his work.
It was actually your suggestion. I started with Empire and really liked it. Now I love Super Cannes. It's amazing.
_Originally posted by clayinspector _ *It was actually your suggestion. I started with Empire and really liked it. Now I love Super Cannes. It's amazing. *
Ive heard of Empire, what is it about?
Currently Reading: freelancing for dummies
*Just Finished Reading: * Robbie William's - Angels and Demons
Currently Reading:http://cj.fxsonet.com/~weeksie/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18425
Just finished reading:http://cj.fxsonet.com/~weeksie/forums/showthread.php?threadid=18427
_Originally posted by bit-101 _ [B]Currently Reading:http://cj.fxsonet.com/~weeksie/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18425
Just finished reading:http://cj.fxsonet.com/~weeksie/forums/showthread.php?threadid=18427 [/B]
You still visit 12s on the temp site?
old bookmarks die hard
_Originally posted by sKtd_ne _ *Ive heard of Empire, what is it about? *
Empire of the Sun, by J.G. Ballard, is the poignant, unsettling story of Jim, a British boy living in Shanghai whose life is altered beyond recognition by the Japanese invasion of China during World War II. The book begins in the winter of 1941, as Jim, a carefree eleven-year-old, and his wealthy parents attend high-class Christmas parties with other foreigners who have prospered in Shanghai. The only life that the inventive, intelligent boy knows is one of luxury and privilege, hardly touched by the war in Europe. Everything changes after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Suddenly the Japanese soldiers that have long been a fixture on the Shanghai streets are forcefully, uncompromisingly rounding up foreigners and sending them to military prisons. Separated from his parents, Jim wanders through Shanghai until he "surrenders" to the Japanese and finds himself in a squalid, disease-ridden detainment center and eventually in Lunghua camp, his home for the next three years. The book is based on the author's experiences in a Chinese interment camp from 1942 until 1945. Ballard has an incredible talent for articulating Jim's perspective and describing how the protagonist changes from an adventurous boy in a school uniform to an emaciated, resilient, thoughtful (and still adventurous) young man who desperately tries to make sense of the world. In Empire of the Sun, Ballard pointedly recounts the squalor, disease and starvation of the camp just as Jim sees them. While Jim quickly becomes immune to the sight of such things - along with constant the death, murder, and beatings - the reader remains deeply affected. Perhaps one of the most interesting aspects is how Jim comes to rely on the camp because there he can build his own little universe amidst the absurdity of the world. Empire of the Sun is an arresting, shocking, frequently comical book that won't leave the reader unchanged.
Same here on the bookmarks.
Currently: Don DeLillo Libra Just finished: Don DeLillo White Noise
Having a hard ti9me waiting for 9/21 for the release of Stephenson's Vol 3, The Sysatem of the World
D'Ito, the Stephenson trilogy is a great complement to the Bryson book.
yeah im gonna move onto that series from stephenson next, ive read just about everything else hes written so far
i wanted to wait until they were all out
I tried stretching out vol 2 but it was too good to put down. 9/21 I'll be at Borders for vol 3. HBDTMe
_Originally posted by FlamingoJeff _ *I tried stretching out vol 2 but it was too good to put down. 9/21 I'll be at Borders for vol 3. HBDTMe * Ditto. I'm at least slowing down with Bryson, so I may be able to stretch it until next month.
Just Finished: a bunch of Michael Connelly books.
Currently: 2nd of a few novels by some random authors found at the used bookstore.
I'm in a homicide detective phase. 
just finished (in the last 3 weeks)
Ecstasy - Irvine Welsh The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser
Currently reading
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson.
this is my third read of fear and loathing, i fucking love it. 
Just Finished: Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
Currently Reading: Essential Actionscript by Colin Moock
just finished: digital fortress
currently: the manchurian candidate
_Originally posted by arigato _ *amazon.com review *
I saw "Empire of the Sun" with Christian Bale, and it was sadly disappointing as compared with the book.