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Whoops, forgot to reply to this. I've read Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and that it was really entertaining. It was surprisingly well-researched and the prose was definitely good enough. The only thing I didn't like about it was the ending. It's not as bad as the end of the first Walking Dead novel, but I still strongly disagreed with it.

I would have still probably read Post Office if I started with Ham On Rye but you were right reading Post Office first was the way to go. I liked Ham On Rye almost as much. The third Chinaski book Hot Water Music wasn't nearly as good though. I really dig Bukowski's almost minimalist prose . What are you reading now chump ? I'm thinking about doing Hunger next but the new Dark Tower just came out.

I have about 30 pages left on Ashes. I've decided my next read is some Huxley (even though the dude can have some ass-kickingly long chapters):

Euge's next read is his semi-autoibographical I Was a Teenage Wrestling Groupie. It's a touching story of what one young man will do for some baby oil and roids.

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Definitely a "touching story".

I'm sure he's gonna love that I told everyone.

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This post's mostly directed at deadmike, wherever he is



I hate how long it took me to read this - I've had some severely scaled back reading time the past month, but I finally finished Angela's Ashes. It was an excellent read just like deadmike said it would be. As far as memoirs go, you can't get much better than this - the book reads like straight up well-written fiction. If you're not familiar with the plot, the story is told by Frank McCourt, detailing his family and childhood spent briefly in NYC and then until he's 19 in Limmerick, Ireland. It's mostly a story of persevering against extreme poverty, hunger and the family patriarch's alcoholism. I'd say I really rooted for poor "Frankie" until about the final 3 or 4 chapters when he started to act more like an a-hole. You can't really blame him for his later teenage angst since he had about the shittiest childhood ever. Despite some pretty grim material, McCourt does a pretty good job of incorporating dark humor and tender moments so it's not a totally depressing read.

The only thing that really really annoyed me here was the lack of quotation marks and most punctuation. Sometimes it took a reread of a sentence to figure out who was really talking or if something was thought instead of spoken. Anyway, thanks for making me read this one deadmike, you asswhore...

Word, I forgot to reply to you. Thanks for your opinion.

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I finished reading Toni Morrison's Tar Baby a few days ago. It's the first book of hers I've read and I'm immensely impressed. There were so much layers upon layers and I truly love her attention to details, even if at times if feels like overload. But I feel all the details help paint this picture into a more 3D world and in truly making the characters whole. While there are minor characters, even their stories carry weight and affect overall themes and parts of the plots going on. A beautiful and unfiltered story of race and self identity. We follow a young black woman, Jadine, who is a model and her relationship with a fugitive black man, Son, who sneaks into the house she is staying at, owned by the Streets, a white couple with black help. Among the racial tension between Jadine and Son, there's also a lot of passion and strong dialogue concerning their two different worlds and how they relate to the other occupants of the house. This book is filled with symbolism, the most obviously being the folklore elements of the Tar Baby from the African American oral tales. While giving you a lot to use and make interpretations, Morrison doesn't hold you hand and this is what definitely made me love the reading even more. I'm actually surprised to hear this is one of Morrison's least favored books. There seem to be a lot of people who don't seem to "get it" either.