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15 March 2017
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NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories by NOFX and Jeff Alulis.
And in the end the lunch you take is equal to the lunch you bake.
3.07am
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29 August 2013
Offline More comics.
I put together a DC reading list from the 1980s up to this year.
Currently reading a bunch of ‘New 52’ titles beginning with Batgirl and then Batwing.
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11.56am
14 June 2016
Offline My Sociology textbook.
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"Sometimes I wish I was just George Harrison" - John Lennon
12.47pm
15 November 2018
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I’m going to read Spin the Dawn as soon as I can get my hands on it, but that might take a few days.
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8.42am
26 January 2017
Offline Got home to my copy of Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five, which arrived while I was away, so I’m going to be starting on that.
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I've sat there on the barstool and I've looked him in the face.
He seemed a little haggard, but it did not slow him down,
he was humming to the neon of the universal sound.
10.34pm
15 March 2017
Offline Robert Murphy – Leather Soul: A Half-bank Flanker’s Rhythm and Blues.
And in the end the lunch you take is equal to the lunch you bake.
9.28pm
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29 August 2013
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5.43pm
15 March 2017
Offline Corey Taylor – America 51: A Probe into the Realities That Are Hiding Inside “The Greatest Country in the World”.
And in the end the lunch you take is equal to the lunch you bake.
8.33pm
11 November 2010
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The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (1943)
Currently reading:
The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War by Richard Rubin (2013)
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1.50pm
11 November 2010
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Temples, Tombs & Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt by Barbara Mertz (1964, updated 2007)
Am:
Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville (1851)
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I'm also ewe2 on weekends.
Most likely to post things that make you go hmm... 2015, 2016, 2017.
6.03am
26 January 2017
Offline I was reading Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five (and enjoying it) but now I can’t find my copy in my dorm room, and I’m worried I left it on the bus or something idiotic like that 
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Von BonteeI've been up on the mountain, and I've seen his wondrous grace,
I've sat there on the barstool and I've looked him in the face.
He seemed a little haggard, but it did not slow him down,
he was humming to the neon of the universal sound.
10.33am
14 December 2009
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QuarryMan said
I was reading Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five (and enjoying it) but now I can’t find my copy in my dorm room, and I’m worried I left it on the bus or something idiotic like that
So it goes. 
(Lol sorry. Hope you find it.)
Reading Bruce Springsteen’s autobio now, and am a few days from starting a Beethoven bio that my local library has helpfully reserved for my enjoyment.
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QuarryManPaul: Yeah well… first of all, we’re bringing out a ‘Stamp Out Detroit’ campaign.
12.15pm
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17 December 2012
Offline Just finished Victor Maymudes’ 2014 memoir, largely about his time as Dylan’s road manager, Another Side of Bob Dylan. He was working on it at the time of his death in 2001, and had recorded many hours of memories for it, but died before he could pull it together. Over a decade later his son, Victor, returned to the tapes and completed the book.
Fascinating chapter on Dylan and the Beatles in August 1964, and the Beatles first proper engagement with marijuana in the company of Dylan at the Delmonica Hotel in New York City on the 28th. A lengthy account is given of that night which differs in many aspects to the version, largely based on the Beatles accounts, we are used to, including that Brian didn’t partake that night (with him first smoking, and having a total meltdown, toward the end of the tour) and Bob quickly ending up asleep on the floor after having been up for roughly three days straight.
Have been dipping out of Peter Asher’s The Beatles from a to Zed. It’s probably the worst Beatles book from any of those closely involved at the time, and probably one of the worst Beatles books from anyone. Largely based on his series on the Beatles channel, it seems that it just collects together largely facile scripts which barely scratch the surface of any subject it touches upon, and not seeming to have rewritten any of the scripts for the different medium of the page as opposed to the ear, is often incredibly cheesy radio-speak that you wouldn’t expect in a book:
On to another B song, a couple of B’s right there, “Baby’s In Black .“ Three B’s to be exact — a veritable swarm of B’s.
Oh, feck off, Peter. Dreadful, dreadful, dreadful.
He asks in his introduction whether the idea behind the radio show can work as a book. It might have, but not without major work to change it into a written exercise. rather than an audio format stripped of the audio that might have made on the radio but is a car crash on the page.
About to start Ken McNab’s And in the End: The Last Days of The Beatles, which takes a month by month look at 1969.
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The Beatles Bible 2020 non-Canon Poll Part One: 1958-1963 and Part Two: 1964-August 1966
7.08pm
15 March 2017
Offline Vicky Hamilton – Appetite For Dysfunction: A Cautionary Tale.
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7.34pm
14 December 2009
Offline Jan Swafford’s “Beethoven: Tragedy & Triumph”
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12.24pm
26 January 2017
Offline I found my copy of Slaughterhouse Five (it had fallen behind my other books on the shelf) so almost finished with that, and I’m also giving a go to Descartes’ Meditations.
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Von BonteeI've been up on the mountain, and I've seen his wondrous grace,
I've sat there on the barstool and I've looked him in the face.
He seemed a little haggard, but it did not slow him down,
he was humming to the neon of the universal sound.
7.18pm
14 December 2009
Offline QuarryMan said
I found my copy of Slaughterhouse Five (it had fallen behind my other books on the shelf) so almost finished with that
Yay!
Now I don’t have to feel any guilt for making that joke at your expense (perfectly set up, thanks again) 
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2.32pm
26 January 2017
Offline Von Bontee said
QuarryMan said
I found my copy of Slaughterhouse Five (it had fallen behind my other books on the shelf) so almost finished with that
Yay!
Now I don’t have to feel any guilt for making that joke at your expense (perfectly set up, thanks again)
Oh don’t worry, the joke made it bearable 
For a while there I was wishing I could become unstuck in time like Billy back to when I still had it
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vonbonteeI've been up on the mountain, and I've seen his wondrous grace,
I've sat there on the barstool and I've looked him in the face.
He seemed a little haggard, but it did not slow him down,
he was humming to the neon of the universal sound.
7.58am
22 July 2019
Offline I have just bought a huge haul books from my country’s very own “Big Bad Wolf Sale”, with extremely good first-hand book deals. I do plan to share my new collection of books with my younger sister. Here is the first one which I am currently reading at the moment:
P.s: Are there anyway to upload one’s own taken photos on this forum. I do appreciate it as I am not very technologically-savvy.
P.s.s: Would anyone else be interesting in me sharing the rest of my haul?
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9.57am
24 March 2014
Offline Tindersticks released new stuff recently. I’m listening to this song a lot:
Well, i don’t know how this post ended up in the “waht are you reading these days” as i posted it in the “song you are on a kick right now”
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