The "What Are You Reading" Thread

[BlaqueCreole]

Originally posted by LADYHOOPS
Just curious, what do you guys think of 'The Catcher and the Rye'?

Overrated piece of shyt with no point or plot

[M Eazy 2004]

Sweet St. Louis by Omar Tyree.

[Aces11]

"Serpico".

[Chronic 3000]

Another Day In Paradise - eddie little

Heroin, safe crackin.... adventures of a Whiteboy junkie his chicano girlfreind and an older criminal white couple.

Film was not even on the same level of the plot but the book is a nice read. Loved the ending.

Someone i know is clockin 'Steel Toes' by the same author should be dope.

[yaga]

Originally posted by BlaqueCreole
Overrated piece of shyt with no point or plot

Sure, you have an opinion about the book, but no point or plot? LMMFAO!!!

[NME_HPK]

Originally posted by Stylus


"On The Road" by Jack Keroac
= Finally got around to reading this one, mad rambling prose style, about the beat wandering of two men, looking for something....anything....funny and moving, with a real sense of sadness. I enjoyed it.

I got a $60 giftcard for the bookstore for Christmas and almost bought this last night. I got One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest instead and so far it's great. Probly go get On the Road though, I've been wanting to read it for awhile and for some reason haven't.

[BlaqueCreole]

Originally posted by yaga
Sure, you have an opinion about the book, but no point or plot? LMMFAO!!!

A boy who is outkasted by his school, acts crazy, says "corny" every other line and gets beat up by a pimp, wow, interesting. :rolleyes:

The book left me empty and it didn't have a conclusion. What was the plot and point of the book?

[CottonCandie]

i read THE COLDEST WINTER EVER, by sista souljah a while ago but that is my all time favorite book....dis book is the Sh!t....

rite now i'm readin toni morrison's book:the bluest eye....so far so good

[Julius Hodge]

Originally posted by AmmunitionVX
Steven King - IT.

you will love that one.....read insomnia as well, that one takes place in Derry too!

[PRINCE HAKEEM]

"Nutricide" - Leila Afrika

[Julius Hodge]

I loved "Catcher In The Rye"

I am 23 and about to graduate from college. It makes me happy to see that people still enjoy reading, since I will become an English teacher. Right now I am working on a short story about "Estranged Hubby" but with a twist....I will find a way to post it when I am done

[NME_HPK]

Just finished "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"-fantastic. After I got past the first chapter I couldn't put it down.

Started "On the Road" last night. Very good so far.

[guvno0or]

Originally posted by Julius Hodge
you will love that one.....read insomnia as well, that one takes place in Derry too!

i read insomnia some time last summer, that was a really good little book.

im currently reading the constants of nature by john d barrow, its a physics book and is quite interesting.

also stephen king bag of bones, but im not that into it.

umm another book about genes/genetics, but its boring.

[Y2Killa]

"Society Within" by Courttia Newland

[Julius Hodge]

Originally posted by guvno0or
i read insomnia some time last summer, that was a really good little book.

im currently reading the constants of nature by john d barrow, its a physics book and is quite interesting.

also stephen king bag of bones, but im not that into it.

umm another book about genes/genetics, but its boring.

bag of bones starts out kinda slow but gets really good.....try the dark tower series as well, that's like the center of his creative world!

[MizzJayCee]

im trying to read the maintenance man cuz im suppose to go to the play...still on page 3, had the book for a week...

[SakuragiGT]

I suggest everyone read 'A Brave New World'
Excellent book considering the subject matter and when it was actually written.

[guvno0or]

i just finished john d barrow the constants of nature, physics, quite interesting but boring at times.

now im starting iceberg slimm death wish, and my dad is gonna give me science: a history.

[TeeShines]

Sister Souljah-No Disrespect

[daphnee]

I just read 'God's gift to women' I forgot the author's name. My aunt gave it to me yesterday morning and I finished it the same night!

Kinda predictable but still good.

[knowmadd23]

Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neal Hurston and

Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class - Lawrence Otis Graham

[Basikally]

Sandra Brown's "Fat Tuesday"

[offthabooks]

Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover

[Free Agent]

ego trips big book of racism
crimes of the century

[PRINCE HAKEEM]

Africans In Early Asia - Ivan Van Sertima

[Stylus]

Been a while since I replied.....

Finished 'Survivor' by Chuck Palahnuik which was ****ing fantastic! Such an original and daring story, I love every minute of it, so so so black though, but political and socially relevant in so many ways. Now I just got to go find where that plane crashed...

I also read 'The Hottest State' by Ethan Hawke Yes, the actor! My friend lent it to me with a high recommendation, and at first I was like pshhhh, he only got a publishing deal coz he's an actor, but damn the book was great. Mad short, only 200 or so pages, but it was ill. Its a painful love story about how hard it is to love someone when they don't want to be with you. It's mad funny with complex and very human characters. Hawke really impressed me with this. Sad though..... Check it out.

And now I half-way through James Ellroy (who is the ****ing man)'s fictional re-working of the 1940's real life murder case of Elizabeth Short, an aspiring actor who was tortured, murdered and mutilated. The book is called 'The Black Dahlia' and its damn good. Ellroy invents new, fascinating characters and hypothesises about the murderer, investigation and corruption of 1940's Los Angeles, Hollywood. It's mad dark, but fascinating and extremely well written in typical ironic Ellroy prose. The Black Dahlia case was never solved!

So yeah, nearly finished that one......anyone wanna help me decide what I should read next out of the following:

Chuck Palahnuik - Invisible Monsters
Bret Easton Ellis - Less Than Zero
Elmore Leonard - Riding The Rap
Hunter S. Thompson - The Rum Diary

[RadJack]

Michael Chabon
The Amazing Advntures of Kavilier and Clay- fukkin classic!

Wonder Boys- ditto. especially for potheads


Chuck Barris
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind- so well written! I don't know if he was a good game show host ( I was too young to see the Gong Show), and I don't know if he truly was an assasin, but he is one great writer! I wish he had more books.

Gregory McDonald
Fletch Won- Fletch when he was starting out.

[M_Eazy 2004]

Y'all need to holla at me

[M_Eazy 2004]

someone, anyone?

[M_Eazy 2004]

M Eazy wont leave the book club needs me

[PeoplesChampTheRock]

The Rock read a book once, it was called "How The Rock Will Lay The Smack Down On Alllllllll Your Candyasses"

The Rock feels the need to tell you that this book has something each and every one of you need to know...

And that is, The Rock breaking down... step by step... exactly how he will Layeth, The Smacketh Down, On Your CANDYASS!

It's a great book... even better than Underworld by Don Delillo... In fact, The Rock says it may just be the most important book ever written... so mama, drop the kids at the nannys and run down to Barnes & Noble to pick yourself up a copy...

What? You can't right now? KNOW YOUR ROLE AND SHUT YOUR MOUTH W-W-W-What In The Blue Hell Do You Mean You Can't? This is THE ROCKS BOOK you two pound pile of monkey droppings so you need to pancake your Aunt Jemima ass on outta here and get to the bookstore right this very second before The Rock slaps the taste out your mouth!

And Thats Why The Rock Is... The Peoples Champ... The Rock Is... The Peoples Choice... The Rock is Theeeee best damn author ever...


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*cocks eyebrow*

[Absolut da poet]

Originally posted by PeoplesChampTheRock

*cocks eyebrow* [/B]

God~damn...

This ALias is Ten Times better than Spelling Bee and Suge Knight.

[Jellybean]

I'm reading The Women Of Brewster Place in english class....so far so good.

[bigpapakango]

Originally posted by Scottie C
A Darkness At Sethanon - Raymond E. Feist.

3rd book in The Riftwar Saga, it's good and bad.

Not many peeps in here read fantasy......strange.

I read all them ****s in my teen years. They were off-the-heezy. I refuse to read the Krondor series and Daughter of the Empire series.

[bigpapakango]

Originally posted by Julius Hodge
you will love that one.....read insomnia as well, that one takes place in Derry too! I only ****s with Stephen King when it comes to the Dark Tower series. I've read em all and I'm waiting for his lazy ass to finally complete the ****.

[Sharps]

Originally posted by knowmadd23
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neal Hurston and

good one

[rck584s]

I am reading Gumbo: An Anthology of African AMerican Writing and I am reading "Baby's Momma Drama" by Carl Weber.

[Invalid]

I recently have read:

Chuck Palahnuik - Choke
William Burroughs- Naked Lunch, Junkie
Charles Bukowski- Factotum, Post Office, Ham on Rye
Albert Camus- The Outsider
Hunter S. Thompson- Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas
Henry Miller- Tropic of Cancer
Jack Kerouac- On The Road
Franz Kafka- The Metamorphasis, The Great Wall of China

thats all i can remember.

[role model]

im currently reading..
The Plague by Albert Camus

[freesoulpoet]

A really good book I read was "First they Killed my Father" by Loung Ung...You wannna know about the conditions in which I was born, read that. There's ghettos all over the world, yall. Be advised though, if you couldn't handle the "Killing Fields," you shouldn't read it.

[CottonCandie]

N e 1 ever read "the Coldest Winter Ever" by Sista Souljah.
i read it a while ago but its an excellent....

now i'm reading 'Beloved' by Toni Morrison...i never saw the movie so i figured i read the book first...so far its really good

[emerkhay2]

"Own your own corporation"

[Stylus]

Ok all, help me pick what I should read after Chuck Palahnuik's 'Invisible Monsters' which is really dope by the way:

These are the options:

Elmore Leonard - Riding The Rap
Bred Easton Ellis - Less Than Zero
Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale
Rod Jones - Billy Sunday
David Guterson - Snow Falling On Cedars
Laura Esquivel - Like Water For Chocolate

[Pooh630]

Toure- The Portable Promised Land
The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

[Spizz]

P.E.A.C.E.!

Currently:
"Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria" And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum, PH.D.

Before:
If Beale Street Could Talk by James A. Baldwin

Please
Educate
All
Children
Everyday
-->Spizz

[Jeremi]

I'm currently reading Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. So far I'm impressed!

[Jellybean]

I'm reading true to the game..........again

[Sexonthebeach]

A Man Most Worthy by Marcus Major.

[bigpapakango]

I'm reading my Performance Fitness Exam. I think the edition I got is outdated.

[the kid]

Originally posted by Afrrikan Rennaisance
still reading that "9 steps to Financial Freedom" and also W.E Du Bois's "The Soul of Black Folks".

I read SOULS. Nice ideas. Speaks the truth. I'm reading the New NEGRO