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Bright Lights, Big City - Jay McInerney :stars4: Nice story about a troubled young man living in New York and struggling with family loss, sudden divorce, and a quickly disintegrating career. His answer? Cocaine, alcohol, and loose women of course. McInerney's writing is funny, thought...

^ They are. I have been in that place before. It's a lot different than it looks on TV.

Nicky Santoro from the movie Casino. The full quote is funnier, but includes a lotta expletives. I'm trying to honor my new years resolution regarding the F-bomb. :whistling:

Quote from movie I've seen too many times : "...And just about the time that I'm comin' out of jail, hopefully, you'll be coming out of your coma. And guess what?...."

"Rhino horn good for Yang" - Confucius(?) :lol:

2 degrees. Michigan.

I don't know if the act itself would necessarily be unethical. I think you would have to ask why on earth would we do that? What would we be trying to achieve? In the article, that guy seemed to be pretty vague about how this might benefit society, or at least his answers seemed extremely...

Back to Blood - Tom Wolfe :stars2: Could not get into this. I gave it the old college try, but Wolfe's style ANNOYS the heck out of me. It is filled with sound effects and repetitive exclamatory thoughts that are distracting and add nada to the story. Some of the characters had potential so...

:lol: Nice.

The first thing I thought when I opened that link was : "Holy cow!! They already did it?!! And they dressed him in a corduroy sport coat??"

Happy Birthday Will!

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Since the retired couple aren't going to have to pay more, that old black dude must just be sad because of how his wife dresses him.

@hedwig It came as a recommendation, and after reading it I googled the author and found out it was a finalist for the National Book Award last year. There is a lot more going on in the story : A lucrative movie deal for the Bravo's story is dying, Billy's recollections of his friend that died...

True dat. I guess I should just sit back and enjoy it. It's not like he is re-writing Shakespeare or anything.

@ the Hobbit viewers : I enjoyed the movie, but.... I thought I knew this story like the back of my hand and there were a lot of parts of that movie that I had no recollection of from the book. Did you guys think they added or "developed" a lot of pretty minor happenings into major story...

Billy Flynn's Long Halftime Walk - Ben Fountain :stars5: The entire story takes place on Thanksgiving day at a Dallas Cowboys football game at Texas Stadium. Billy Lynn is now a seasoned combat veteran, recipient of the Silver Star, nominated for the Congressional Medal of Honor, and a...

What the frack!? We don't even have flying cars yet. THEY'RE SKIPPING THINGS!!! Seriously though if that's for real, it's pretty cool

Drown - Junot Diaz 4 Stars Great.

Ha! Just realized I haven't changed my "currently reading" in a loooong time. I finished that book sometime last summer I think. It was good! Good luck with Diaz. I have become a pretty big fan of his.