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Post by queenjaneapprxmtly on Jul 6, 2007 11:59:19 GMT -5
Hey, I've heard of Pamela Des Barres -- and that book. I'm sure my library doesn't have it, but I've been wanting to read it for a while now. I heard about her on the Swingin' Chicks of the 60s website a couple of years ago, and I thought she was so cool (even though I would never be a groupie myself, lol).
One of my idols, Pattie Boyd, has a book coming out I think in August or something. It's called "Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me." For some reason one of my online friends seems to think that it's going to be filled with a bunch of "false and degrading crap," as she puts it, but I don't know how any of it could be false OR degrading when Pattie herself wrote it. Whatever.
Anyway. That's going to be next on my reading list for whenever it comes out. :)
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Post by queenjaneapprxmtly on Jul 6, 2007 15:50:33 GMT -5
Oh, wow. That's really interesting. Weird how connections work out like that. :)
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Post by fosterchild on Jul 6, 2007 21:45:47 GMT -5
Queen Jane....you will love the book, you being such a big fan of all the 60's/70's TV shows and music and whatnot!! Go to the book store and buy it. My copy is literally falling apart because I've had it since 1989 and have read it a number of times!! I'm gonna bring it with me next week and have her sign it!!! mars....that is funny about Glenn and Michael Des Barres! Who knew?? Oh, that's right.....YOU knew!  |
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Post by BlindedxxFalcon on Jul 8, 2007 21:53:06 GMT -5
Some really good books I've read besides S.E. Hinton books are Acelleration, which is about a boy, Duncan, who finds the diary of a serial killer and tries to stop him and The Body of Christiopher Creed, which is about a boy, Chris Creed, who dissapers and anoother guy is trying to figure out why.
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Post by queenjaneapprxmtly on Aug 28, 2007 21:46:37 GMT -5
Okay, I know this thread has been virtually dead for like a month, but I thought I'd mention that, since it was being discussed here a while ago, I bought that book I'm With the Band by Pamela Des Barres at Borders tonight. I'm reluctant to bring it to school and read it there because of the picture on the cover, but I guess I can conceal it somehow, lol. It looks really good, though.
One of the reasons I bought it was because I really needed something to read while I waited for them to order my Pattie Boyd book, lol. It was released today but they didn't have it in yet. So hopefully they'll call like, tomorrow or Thursday or something ... I hope ... because I really want to read it. :D
What else has everybody been reading lately? :)
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Post by Tensleep on Aug 28, 2007 21:58:46 GMT -5
I haven't had time to read lately, but I want to! I have a few Janet Daileys waiting on me and a Harlequin romance, too. The last one is embarrassing, but hey. I can even pick up that discarded Bobbi Smith book - the one that turned me off her - or, like I often do, pick up a Louis L'Amour I've read fifteen million times. Anyone else read the same thing over and over again and never get tired of it? It's fun.
I have been reading a lot of Fan fiction lately and writing like made when I have the chance. I'm waiting on Karen Marie Moning's next book Blood Fever due out in October. Excitement! So after I absorb it like mad I'll tell y'all about it!
See ya in the funny papers!!!
Tens
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Post by maxiekat on Aug 28, 2007 22:40:21 GMT -5
One of the reasons I bought it was because I really needed something to read while I waited for them to order my Pattie Boyd book, lol. It was released today but they didn't have it in yet. So hopefully they'll call like, tomorrow or Thursday or something ... I hope ... because I really want to read it. :D Oh, QJ, that sucks. We got it and I put it out today (which Borders was it? I'll tell on them, lol). I thought of you as I was putting it on the wall display, but I figured you knew it was coming out today. I'm trying to remember what I read this summer but the only ones I can think of are New Moon and Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer. They were terrific and I don't want to wait until next year for book four. Oh, I did read Thursday Next by Jasper Fforde. I love his stuff. It's a series about Thursday Next who is a literary detective who investigates crimes against fiction. They're full of fun word play and literary references. In the world he's created, people and characters can move between the real world and the book world. So you end up with situations like Heathcliff disappearing from Wuthering Heights to pursue a successful career in soap operas. Another good one was You Suck by Christopher Moore. He has a really off-the-wall sense of humor that he blends with the most bizarre horror stories. He has a Christmas story called The Stupidest Angel that involves zombies. Seriously, all Christmas novels should involve zombies. Anyway, You Suck is a vampire love story and is full of great one liners. I don't have it with me right now, or I'd share a few. I'm reading one now called The Winter Rose by Jennifer Donnelly. It's set in London in the 1900s and is about a woman doctor who is working in a clinic in Whitechapel, treating the poor. She is pulled into the world of a dangerous gangster who she, naturally, falls in love with. I'm not very far into it, but I'm really enjoying it (though, I wouldn't suggest eating lunch while reading about wound debridement, lol). It doesn't come out until January, though. |
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Post by queenjaneapprxmtly on Aug 29, 2007 15:37:19 GMT -5
Oh, QJ, that sucks. We got it and I put it out today (which Borders was it? I'll tell on them, lol). I thought of you as I was putting it on the wall display, but I figured you knew it was coming out today. My Borders must be hella slow then, lol. You should so call them and give them the what for -- it's the one in Danada, in Illinois, lol. Danada's not the town, it's just a shopping center, lol. They still haven't called yet and I figured it'd be in by today. It's really driving me quite nuts, because now I'm even more anxious to read it than I was before, lol. Although I started I'm With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie last night, and it's absolutely brilliant. I seriously cannot put it down. I didn't get to sleep until about one in the morning because I was listening to my new Who CD and reading that, lol. It's amazing! And Pamela Des Barres is so awesome. I mean, yeah, she's known for being a groupie, but as I've been reading this I've discovered that there is so much more to her than that. It's such a great book. And I absolutely love this little passage I read today, where her "Beatlesweeties" had written her a letter because they were mad that she went from being a Paul McCartney fan to a Mick Jagger fan, partly because of a free-thinking boy she met named Victor. So she wrote back to them, and I just felt the need to share this, because it's just so great. Plus I can totally relate to it. First, this is the mean letter her friends wrote her: 5-9-65 ... Dear Pam, I suppose you are wondering why Linda, Stevie and I acted the way we did after school yesterday. The main reason is because you are a phony person. You had better watch out before you become completely friendless. Why on earth could you even start to like Mick over Paul? You think you are an individualist. But an individualist isn't one who wears strange clothes. Pam, you try to be strange, but you aren't. You are just being a loser. Nobody likes you when you act the way you do. Personally, I'd much rather go around with my crowd than with moody Victor who chops everybody down just because he knows he isn't popular. Just remember you won't be a teenager all your life, and when you get in your twenties you will regret your actions. I thought I knew you real well, you were always so enthusiastic about the Beatles and now you're a Rolling Stones fan. I don't see how you could pick them over The Beatles unless ... you were being phony all that time. The Stones are dirty and sloppy and they repugnate me. When I think back to how you used to sign your name "Paul 'n Pam," I can't believe you're the same girl. I don't hate you, but frankly, I don't like you much ... Kathy 'n' Stevie.And Pamela's amazing letter back: K & S ... I have very sensible answers to your ridiculous questions. Paul and Mick cannot be compared. They are two opposite types with two opposite types of love connected with them. I have not taken The Stones over The Beatles. I have just let them become a part of my life too. Is that so wrong? The Beatles can never be topped, but the Stones will never be topped either. Oh, you don't understand. They play two different types of music. They cannot be compared. It makes me literally sick how you think you know so much about the "sloppy" Stones, that you feel you can call them "dirty." Just because they don't all wear the same suits and comb their hair the same way. You know nothing of Victor, and if you did, your opinion would change. Well, maybe not, he doesn't get along very well with people who's minds are rather narrow. He can also spot a phony, and if I were a phony, he would have told me long ago. I don't think I'm one bit strange. I go to my closet and pick out things that I think look good together. I don't stand there and say "Oh, I think I'll look strange today." I do what I like and say what I like, and I don't hate you either. I don't hate anybody. ... Pamela
I left Pam in the dust and became Pamela, leaving all the Beatlesweeties gasping for breath.It's definitely a must read, if I do say so myself. I just love that part about, "I don't stand there and say, 'Oh, I think I'll look strange today.'" :D I just had to share that because it was awesome, lol. And it pertains to the book, and this is the book section, so yeah. Sorry if it was too long. :p |
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Post by fairlane on Aug 29, 2007 18:03:53 GMT -5
I haven't read anything lately. I can't go to the library to get any books out because I've got this huge fine which I can't pay right now lol.
Anyway the last book I read was We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. The story of a teenage boy who goes on a killing spree, written from his mothers pov. It took me absolutely ages to get into it, especially since it was written in letter format which I hate. But at some point, about 150 pages in, I suddenly got totally hooked and couldn't put it down.
I haven't been reading any fanfiction at all lately, when I want to entertain myself on the net I've been going to PerezHilton. He's mean but good!
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Post by BlindedxxFalcon on Sept 5, 2007 16:28:53 GMT -5
Well...I just started When Pigs Fly by...I don't know who. And I don't fell like digging the book out of my backpack. I got one of those sling bags. I hate it! So I just wear it over one shoulder like I did with my regular backpack. Other then that I'm re-reading Harry Potter and the Deatly Hallows. The best book of them all! Anybody like Charlie Bone? Not me!
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Post by fairlane on Sept 5, 2007 16:37:24 GMT -5
I'm hoping a book that I bought online will arrive today - it's called Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson. I've just read another book of hers called Case Histories and really enjoyed it. And I've found out that it is really cheap to buy second hand books - I only paid three bucks for it!
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Post by zevie on Sept 5, 2007 16:48:22 GMT -5
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE no one say anything about Harry Potter without spoiler warnings! (Not that anyone has, but just pre-emptive.) I'm half-way through the fifth only...
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Post by fairlane on Sept 5, 2007 21:37:07 GMT -5
I thought Case Histories was great, it had a lot of humor despite tackling pretty dark subjects. My other book has just arrived this morning so I'm hoping this one will be as good.
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Post by Maddiecake on Sept 5, 2007 22:05:51 GMT -5
I've been reading Les Miserables since sometime in mid-August and I'm only on page 400-something... but it's a very interesting book. When I learn more French I'll be able to understand exactly how to say the names of different places, but for right now my small knowledge will have to do.
The only thing I'm not happy with is that Victor Hugo seems to go off on these tangents and I'll find myself sitting there reading something off-topic. Later in the book he takes about 100 pages or so to describe the French sewer system.
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Post by Des on Sept 7, 2007 6:42:54 GMT -5
I've given into Danny and started reading the Harry Potter books.
I'm on Goblet of Fire right now, and so far I have to say that JKR is a very talented writer, and has one hell of an imagination.
I expected it to be more for the younger set, but the books seem to be maturing as the characters do, and I'm surprised at how much I like it.
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