He is a career bench player/training camp/euro league/10 day contract guy.

He has a love/hate relationship with the NBA and the players. He writes about being on the road with CBA teams playing in YMCAs, and about being on the Suns as a bench warmer.

Very funny insight into the absurdity of professional sports. It's like if someone from this board happened to be 6'10" and had a lot of good luck and then wrote a self depricating journal about his life.

thats the kind of stuff i wanna read!!!

thx for the recommendation

A lot of the Suns stuff is taken from this old Blog.


More here.

The Dead Father - Donald Barthelme

My first Barthelme novel. While clearly removed from a majority of his short fiction, it remains episodic and the style of prose changes from chapter to chapter. It reads almost as a series of shorts about the same subject. The Beckett influence is much clearer here. There is potential for this to be great. I hope it doesn't fizzle in the coming chapters.

I haven't read any, and I could be wrong, but I'm not certain that these were written in order. Seems like a lot of characters change also.

i'm reading no country for old men. it had been sitting on my table for about a month, but it took seeing the trailer for me to finally pick it up.

It's completely fucking over the top violent, i love it. In the first 40 pages or so, the villian kills two guys with a fucking air-powered cattle stun gun. As in those guns they use to completely blow a cow's brain out in the slaughterhouse. Dude walks around with a fucking oxygen tank strapped to his back, he fears no man.

The main character is on the run with $2 million in cash that isn't his, and a very bad guy wants it back. Before he goes back to the place where he found the money, he tells his wife:

'tell my momma i love her'

she says...'your momma's dead'

'well, i'll tell her myself then'

fucking brutal, i love it.

Great book. Totally psyched for the movie. I have a friend who worked on the trailer and he says it's the most violent movie he's ever seen. And he's seen a lot of movies.

Pssshhhh.

I didn't find it to be that violent.

I'm reading it, too. Enjoying it a great deal.

Yeah, I found it to be an odd statement, what with all the Saws and gore porn coming out these days.

This is over the top and very enjoyable.

Wish I would have thought of the catlegun as a weapon.

The Dangerous Book for Boys

It reminds me of books from the Turn of the (20th) Century I used to read as a kid; with instructions on how to build a tree house, make your own bow & arrows, find fossils, learn the history of famous people & battles, how to tie basic knots, etc. There's also a Girl's version, The Daring Book for Girls, and numerous spin offs, copy cats & reprints of the old books I used to read back in the '70s.

The Road - Cormac McCarthy

Is that good? I started the Border Trilogy last night. Really digging it.

Yeah, I think I'm on a McCarthy kick right now. I started with No Country for Old Men (because of the movie coming out) and now I want to read the Border Trilogy and Blood Meridian.

I thought The Road was really good. It's post-apocalyptic so it's really desolate and grey. It's much more dependent on character than No Country. McCarthy's got one hell of a voice, so if you like his voice, you'll like this.

I am reading an HP Lovecraft collection, heavy, thick stuff.

Don Quixote. I am taking a break from factual books, because I damn well need one. I like this so far. A dreamers book or a cynics book. Depends on whether I want to sympathise with the author, or Quixote. :3

I stare at this book for five minutes every day and think "Is today going to be the day?"



Not today.

It's quite an investment of time and thought, even more so than Gravity's Rainbow in some ways. I borrowed it from the library, and of course could not finish it before the return date. Don't know if I want to buy it.

The thing is, not only is it 1000+ pages long, but its printed in that tiny bible type. I've been reading a lot of McCarthy and each Against The Day page is at least three times longer than any McCarthy page, no to mention it already takes me three times longer to digest any Pynchon sentence than almost every other writer.

Looks like I'm not the only one. Read it in two days, it was a quick read. Much faster than his others that I've read. But it was riveting. I didn't think that the sherriff's narration really added much to the story, however. That's my only qualm with it. Really his most stripped down novel, that added to the tension. I'm looking forward to the movie now.


Why not? He's the greatest living writer today.

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Started:

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My first real fantasy book and I'm really enjoying it so far. So much so that I've order the rest of the series on ebay.

Anyone else into their fantasy? Further recommendations?

Speaking of San Diego authors... Feist writes mostly about the interlocking worlds of Midkemia and Kelewan, I think there's 26 novels in 8 linked series? Midkemia was originally created by Feist & some buddies for an RPG they wrote in college, and some of the buddies still write games based in it.

Yeah, there's a whole bunch of different series.

The first 3 books are called 'The Rift War Saga'. Then there's a whole bunch more about the happenings in a city called Krondor and so on.

I'm looking forward to reading more. Go Pug!

how is it
i love(d) douglas coupland

So far so good. I generally like most of his books. I just read J Pod and thought it was pretty good. I got an unread used reviewer's copy for $13, which is what the paperback would cost so I figured what the hell. I def. wouldn't buy it in hardcover, but then there is not too many books I would.

It was forced, and really didn't tell us that much more about the sherrif than what we got out of his interaction and dialog in the narrative section of the book.

Otherwise, it was fucking great.

I just bought the girl version for my friend's birthday present. It looks like a lot of fun!

This is the best thing I've read this year. Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh. It's about like, all of my favorite things: travel, London, war

I've been meaning to read Cormac McCarthy for awhile, so I'm reading No Country For Old Men now. I wanted to read it before I see the movie. I also bought The Great Gatsby today. That's next in the line-up.

So, what's it mean?



I read the first 5-6 of Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber. Lost interest or the series lost steam but the first 2-3 in particular were great.

Jeff Long's The Descent (no relation to the movie) presents an interesting mix of paleolinguistics, religion, spelunking and geopolitics in search of the historical basis for Satan. It goes astray a couple of times but in general it's good.

More sci-fi than fantasy and one of my favorite books ever, Gateway by Frederik Pohl, makes quantum physics fun.

Cool, I'm thinking of getting both of those for my niece (the boys' version seems less biased)...

I've only read a few chapters from that book, but everything I read was really fantastic.

Any good?

I've been trying to track down some sci-fi book that I saw at Borders a few months ago, but naturally I can't remember the title and have just been reading plot synapses on Amazon to see if I can find it again. I thought this might be it -- cover looks familiar -- but it seems set too far in the future. Is one of the characters in this obsessed with an internet message board? Eh, didn't think so, but that's almost all I remember about the book I'm looking for.

The British Labour Party and the Indian Independence Movement

This is one of most boring books I've ever read. Peripherally related to my thesis--I have been trying to plow through this book since August. If I don't finish it tonight I'm going to kill myself.

Rather good.

That novel sounds awesome.

Zero, you'd probably like this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Flyboy-Action-Figure...1080&sr=1-1

awesome read.

Phenomenal.

A great read describing why Christians usually miss the point of what it is they claim to believe.

Challenging my whole mindset on several topics.

That sounds great too.

The only reason I never became a comic book Nerd was lack of space. It's easy to store CDs and books, not so much magazines.