Red Mosquito

Bammer wrote:Someone hook me up with a book recommendation please. I have enjoyed Dan Brown and David Baldacci.

Prefer fiction, nothing sappy or uber-intellectual. Looking for a page turner. Gracias.

Finished this a week or so ago and I can't recommend it enough.

I looked up all these rec's and The Martian lools like the big winner. Gracias.

Pastoralia by George Saunders.

Finally reading Ellroy's 'The Black Dahlia'.

Birds in Hell wrote:Finally reading Ellroy's 'The Black Dahlia'.

Halfway through and thinking of putting it aside. Not finding it particularly enjoyable, which is both surprising and a little disappointing.

Birds in Hell wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:Finally reading Ellroy's 'The Black Dahlia'.

Halfway through and thinking of putting it aside. Not finding it particularly enjoyable, which is both surprising and a little disappointing.

Skip ahead to LA Confidential.

Birds in Hell wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:Finally reading Ellroy's 'The Black Dahlia'.

Halfway through and thinking of putting it aside. Not finding it particularly enjoyable, which is both surprising and a little disappointing.

How dare you not like a piece of literature that other people tell you you're supposed to enjoy.

Bammer wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:Finally reading Ellroy's 'The Black Dahlia'.

Halfway through and thinking of putting it aside. Not finding it particularly enjoyable, which is both surprising and a little disappointing.

How dare you not like a piece of literature that other people tell you you're supposed to enjoy.

It's not that, it's more that I'd recently read tons of Raymond Chandler and thought Ellroy would be a satisfying progression.

It's not like I viscerally hate the book or anything, it's just been kind of a thankless slog so far.

bart wrote:Skip ahead to LA Confidential.

Duly noted.

I think I'll stick with it for now and, once I've got through a few other books I've been waiting on starting, try Ellroy again and see if I have more luck.

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Chabon...this is one gay a$$ novel.

Sean Bean's AMA

[–]iheartoptimusprime 32 points an hour ago
Do you have anecdotes about your time filming National Treasure?

[–]RealSeanBean 140 points an hour ago
There was one where I went back to Nic Cage's house, and we'd had a few drinks, we were playing pool and he accidentally knocked over his prehistoric cave bear skull and smashed it. And he was really upset about it, and the next day went and buried it in a field.

i don't care how many terrible roles he's been in, i'll always love cage

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Chabon...this is one gay a$$ novel.

Birds in Hell wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:Finally reading Ellroy's 'The Black Dahlia'.

Halfway through and thinking of putting it aside. Not finding it particularly enjoyable, which is both surprising and a little disappointing.

So I finished it. Glad I stuck it out, things picked up a bit through the last portion of the book. I'll give this Ellroy fellow another shot.

Bob Loblaw wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Chabon...this is one gay a$$ novel.

am i art and you arthur?

thinking about going with empire falls next...would mickey approve?

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:thinking about going with empire falls next...would mickey approve?

only if you do it while sticking a finger down your throat

Alex wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:thinking about going with empire falls next...would mickey approve?

only if you do it while sticking a finger down your throat

that's rude

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

Alex wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:thinking about going with empire falls next...would mickey approve?

only if you do it while sticking a finger down your throat

that's rude

to you or to mickey?

Alex wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

Alex wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:thinking about going with empire falls next...would mickey approve?

only if you do it while sticking a finger down your throat

that's rude

to you or to mickey?

neither

I read the Blue is the Warmest Color graphic novel last night. It was quite good, which made the movie seem even worse (and I already hated it).