jaedmc Posted July 18, 2013 Share Posted July 18, 2013 Right, so I'm moving the due date to the 29th, so I can figure out who from the old board is back on the new board. Also, I ended up picking up an extra book, and I need the extra week to get it and read it. If you sent me a review, even if I published it on the old board, send it back to me AGAIN, because I don't have copies. Hedges, has sent me one on this board that I'll publish soonish. I'll probably re-edit this in the future to include all the book picks so people can pick another book. How is everyone else doing with their book? THE LIST FICTION All the Names by Jose Saramago Another Road Side Attraction by Tom Robbins The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Catch-22 by Joseph Heller A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore East of the West: A Country in Stories by Miroslav Penkov Freeman by Leonard Pitts Jr. The Gone Away World by Nick Harkaway High Rise by JG Ballard The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson Miracle Monday by Elliott S. Maggin In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami The Kryptonite Kid by Joseph Torchia The Rook by Daniel O'Malley The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell The White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty NON-FICTION A Curious Life: The Strange & Brilliant Life of Robert 'Believe It Or Not' Ripley by Neal Thompson Ghosts of Manila: The Fateful Blood Feud Between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier by Mark Kram Happy: A Memoir by Alex Lemon Lost in the Funhouse: The Life and Mind of Andy Kaufman by Bill Zehme Love Is A Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time by Rob Sheffield Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire by Eric Berkowitz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Posted July 19, 2013 Share Posted July 19, 2013 Jae, I don't have a copy of the review I wrote that you put up on the old board. I deleted it when you posted it as a topic. I figured I didn't need it anymore. Sorry. Don't be angry! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted July 19, 2013 Share Posted July 19, 2013 Thank you very much for the extra week. As ridiculous as it is that it's taken me seven weeks to get around to reading a hundred-page kids' book, I have been so swamped with bullshit RL that there was no way I could've read it and written about it in time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.K.o.S. Posted July 19, 2013 Share Posted July 19, 2013 Finished reading my book. I'm glad for the extra week, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted July 19, 2013 Share Posted July 19, 2013 Yeah, as am I. I'll need to write it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane Posted July 19, 2013 Share Posted July 19, 2013 I'll likely finish my book this weekend. Happy for the extra time to do a write up, though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRGoldman Posted July 19, 2013 Share Posted July 19, 2013 Jae, can you post the list of questions you'd like us to address in our write up again? I never wrote them down as a reference or anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgundy LaRue Posted July 19, 2013 Share Posted July 19, 2013 I'm going to try and finish my book in the next few days. The write-up shouldn't take too long, hopefully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaedmc Posted July 19, 2013 Author Share Posted July 19, 2013 Jae, can you post the list of questions you'd like us to address in our write up again? I never wrote them down as a reference or anything. It was probably something like this: Were you excited or disappointed when you got your book? Was it good? did it Suck? Why? Was it the writing? The characters? The plot? What specifically was awesome/sucky about it? Had you heard of the writer of the book or the book itself prior to this? If so, had you heard good things? Bad things? How far outside of your reading box was the book you got? Once you finally read it, was the book what you initially expected it to be? Would you read more books by this author or more books like the book you read? Was the book exchange a good experience? Would you do it again? Shit like that. You don't have to use this as a strict guideline, it's just some suggestions if you need inspiration. I'm not expecting a dissertation, you could probably answer all these questions in a couple of paragraphs if you wanted to. Just give enough to facilitate some sort of discussion. However many words you need to do that is however many words you need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted July 19, 2013 Share Posted July 19, 2013 Hey Jae - can you re-post the list of all the books so folks can read them (if they are so inclined) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaedmc Posted July 19, 2013 Author Share Posted July 19, 2013 FICTION All the Names by Jose Saramago Another Road Side Attraction by Tom Robbins The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Catch-22 by Joseph Heller A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore East of the West: A Country in Stories by Miroslav Penkov Freeman by Leonard Pitts Jr. The Gone Away World by Nick Harkaway High Rise by JG Ballard The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson Miracle Monday by Elliott S. Maggin In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami The Kryptonite Kid by Joseph Torchia The Rook by Daniel O'Malley The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell The White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty NON-FICTION A Curious Life: The Strange & Brilliant Life of Robert 'Believe It Or Not' Ripley by Neal Thompson Ghosts of Manila: The Fateful Blood Feud Between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier by Mark Kram Happy: A Memoir by Alex Lemon Lost in the Funhouse: The Life and Mind of Andy Kaufman by Bill Zehme Love Is A Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time by Rob Sheffield Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire by Eric Berkowitz EDITED into the first post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unholy Dragon Posted July 20, 2013 Share Posted July 20, 2013 Still working on my book, Page 436 out of 574 so I'm getting there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beast Posted July 21, 2013 Share Posted July 21, 2013 Heading to a book store this afternoon. Have a list of all these titles and hopefully will pick up some. This is such a fantastic resource and must continue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tele-Viper Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 Jaedmc -- I'm finally back on the board but I don't have the write-up I penned for my book as I composed it in the old boards PM's. Are you sure you don't have a copy as I'd hate to have to re-write from memory (as I returned the book to the Library like three weeks ago so don't have it to refresh my memory). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaedmc Posted July 22, 2013 Author Share Posted July 22, 2013 Sadly, I do not. I didn't save anything on my harddrive, I was just saving the PMs via this board. This is the problem with THE CLOUD. If you wrote a review that got killed by the Boardquake of 2013, I'm not going to ask anyone to rewrite it. That's way too much to ask for a fun project like this. I'll just reopen the threads and maybe conversation will cover the points lost in the fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 My pity for the poor bastard who reads Love is a Mixtape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tele-Viper Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 It was me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 Oh God Dammit - the one review lost and its of the book I picked... and the one that had seemed to have been read by the most people Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaedmc Posted July 22, 2013 Author Share Posted July 22, 2013 It's not the only one lost. If that makes you feel better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tele-Viper Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 I'll still have plenty of thoughts to share on it but it won't be the coherent thing I'd worked out previously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 Returned under a new name (rvdwannabe here). I read Love is a Mixtape myself, after all of the glowing reviews on here. I enjoyed it, but perhaps not as much as others. It was legitimately upsetting, but even though I was a fan of music, I seemed to miss a lot of the jokes/references. Worth a read though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted July 26, 2013 Share Posted July 26, 2013 I've been lazy and slacking, but I will read my book. I almost promise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted July 26, 2013 Share Posted July 26, 2013 Wanted to write today, but bedridden by flu. Hopefully, over the weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRGoldman Posted July 26, 2013 Share Posted July 26, 2013 I'm almost done writing mine. Will PM it over the weekend hopefully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unholy Dragon Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 My book's done. Just gotta collect my thoughts and do the writeup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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