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[RottingCorpse]

I just finished this.

Hollywood Monster: A Walk Down Elm Street with the Man of Your Dreams

Robert Englund's autobiography. Strictly for fans, but there's some amazing Elm Street and V anecdotes in it.

[RottingCorpse]

I got 100 pages into the copy of 'Under the Dome' Nacho gave me  while waiting for the pulled muscle in my back to stop hurting.

It's better than Cell. I'll say that. I'm pretty addicted to what's going to happen and what made that god damned dome drop in the first place.

Really, it's only Nacho's comments while reading that have me scared, though the 'science' of the dome seems pretty wonky.  (Sound seems to travel through without hindrance, fire hose water comes through as mist, smoke doesn't seem to pass through at all?) King has always been about Suspension of disbelief.

Will report back!

[nacho]

Oh, just you wait for the explanation. 

[monkey!]

I know I'm very late, but last week saw me finally getting around to starting Catch 22: marvelous so far.

[nacho]

Catch 22 is great.

I've moved on to:

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[Tatertots]

Can you guys see my profile?

http://readernaut.com/guywithabike/

If not, you big homos better sign up and friend me!

[nacho]

Yay!  Yet another social networking thing.

I'll join when I get to work.

[monkey!]

Gays.

[Cassander]

I'm about to give up on the "Dirty thirty" book list because I keep finding really interesting books and not learning a damn from the so-called "Recommended reading" ones.  So anyway.  This is a look at Stalin through the prism of the well-known novelist and silver spoon set Martin Amis who goes about denouncing the Soviet agenda as well as all western liberals who sympathize with Trotsky and communists in general.  Basically he's trying to point out how Communism will always lapse into Stalinist tendencies, and how, through basic strokes of luck, Stalin took power and altered the course of history forever.   I've never read much about the Great Terror or even that much about the Bolshevik revolution, and Amis' book is a great and emotional primer. 

[nacho]

And moving on to a book Cass loaned me...

Hotel Babylon


Cornwell sucked.  Which is sad.  I love his stuff...

[Cassander]

I haven't read that book.

[nacho]

Oh, it was L's?

[Matt]

Communism will always lapse into Stalinist tendencies

hahaha

[nacho]

Hotel Babylon was great.  It, weirdly, makes me want to work at a hotel.  The reaction should be the opposite, but, man, the face of true insanity is just so compelling.

Need it sent back to you, Cass?

[Cassander]

no rush.  i have yet to start the mine wars book.  i may start the bukowski instead.  the hell ride through the stalin years of russia was enough stark history to last me a month or two...