Loreallie --
[noun]:
A poltergeist sent back in time to change the course of history forever
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I like meeting people. And a lot of that means getting to know someone I have already met. I enjoy meeting new people, warning: I am erratic and prone to sensationalism. I'm pretty great though, and if you are too, we'll be fabulous.
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i PLAY what the dial is spinning.
I can't buy new music, I can't justify it. So, I'm a little outdated, but that doesn't mean I've heard most of what I've got. Its a start. New to me. I'm excited.
GO SEE DIE HARD 4
My two favorite movies are: FIGHT CLUB and THE USUAL SUSPECTS. I can watch both THE ROCK and POINT BREAK whenever they are on, wherever I am. (Sneaking in: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN-s and KILL BILL-s) Oh, wait, DONNIE DARKO, FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS, and Kurosawa's DREAMS, fill out the list.
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LAW & ORDER.
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Also, I'm a photogra-ph-ile:
THE AGONY & THE ECSTASY
Irving Stone
Yea [good] historical fiction! @Michaelangelo
THE ALCHEMIST
Paulo Coelho
Really good. @doing whatever it takes for your personal destiny: forsaking the known world, crossing seas, learning language, practicing a trade, trekking the desert, and becoming the wind
ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
Lewis Carroll
Wonderful, wonderful book. The best is the red queen, when she's like, hurry!hurry! run!faster! and they do and when they stop: the are in the same place: for in Wonderland one must move in order to stay put. Hmm…social commentary?
THE UNTOUCHABLE
John Banville
Good. Lots of mixed thoughts…for how *does* one come to terms with a traitor? Who and how and whyfor does it happen? Sobering.
THE BORGIA BRIDE
Jeane Kaogridis
Fun. Ok. Not as good at A&E, but historical fiction—especially among power players—reads nicely for me.
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED
Evelyn Waugh
Amazing. This is one of my favorite books. It is so good. Uhh…I wouldn’t know where to begin..
CHOKE
Chuck Palahniuk
Great. Pretty funny. A little psychotic, but the author is (thankfully/gloriously) off his rocker. Mom is in the home, hot “doctor†is hitting on you, your friend is in the gutter and you earn money because people save your life at nice restaurants.
THE DARK IS RISING
Susan Cooper
My favorite ‘young’ book. I’ll read this once or twice a year. Spectacular and haunting. It’s an Arthurian series set in present day Cornwall, Buckinghamshire and Wales.
DIARY
Chuck Palahniuk
Well, well. This was crazy. I will never look at gaudy jewelry again. I will never drink paint thinner. I will not believe everything I hear. I will not…set [xxxx] to the island [xxxx] so that everyone can make the [xxxx] go away. Art is scary.
DUNE
Frank Herbert
*The* quintessential science fiction. Beware though…fear is the mind killer… so let it wash through you and then you can go enslave the known universe. But is that really what you want to do?
EAT LOVE PRAY
Elizabeth Gilbert
Good Book. I liked it. I’m trying to chill out, I want to travel. It was a pretty nice gift and I have applied as fit and necessary—thankyouverymuch.
THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN
Mitch Albom
I liked it. It’s sweet and sad. And there is a blue man, there is hope, there is comprehension. Neat.
IL GIGANTE
Anton Gill
Awesome. @The making of Michaelangelo’s David during the times of Savanorola, the Medici and the [vile] Pope Alex no.2. nonF. Yea Florence!
INTO THE WILD
Jon Krakauer
[buzzbuzzbuzzblah] So I hear they’re-a-gonna make a movie. Shrug. The book is great. It’s a seriously turbulent read and it’s all after-the-fact. nonF. I’d love to get off the grid…but I don’t want to fall off the planet…but I would if that landed me in Alaska…
THE KITE RUNNER
Khaled Hosseini
Not read yet. I’ve got some trepidation. It’s gotta be good though, it is a recommended gift I received last Xmas. I don’t like to feel uncomfortable reading the books I enjoy. Like All Quiet on the Western Front? I tore out the page about the horses. At least I’ll be able to read it again. So: not yet determined, but I’ve got it up so I will just darn do it.
LAST DAYS OF SOCRATES
Plato
Uh, awesome? Who doesn’t love a little Socratic Method when death is knocking at the door? I like the Crito and Phaido best.
LYSISTRATA
Aristophanes
Honestly I prefer Greek Tragedy. I will lay down my holy hands and head and tell you that I don’t think anything else should exist, but Greek Tragedy. But. Lysistrata is sooooo funny…maybe I’m not 100% correct (maybe). Women, are awesome. Men, are predictable. Solidarity is how-it-gets-done.
MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL
John Berendt
Great book. I loved traveling through Savannah, SC a number of years ago. They have these incredible squares…this retro-Main Street…and excellent southern drawls. Oh, but the book: murder, wealth, legality, sexuality, society, journalistic integrity.
THE ORIENT EXPRESS
Graham Greene
This was really good. Shyly engaging. A well written book about various characters, their interrelationships and the magnificent Orient Express. Have you taken a train? Take one. Give yourself time, and take one.
THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH
Ken Follett
n/a---yet. This was this year’s recommended Xmas book. So, I’m going to read it, but I have to work up to it. It’s really big. I wonder what its about.
THE EYRE AFFAIR
Jasper Fforde
GREAT BOOK.MONEY BOOK for the YOUNG, FABULOUS + BROKE
Suze Orman
People swear by this lady. Perhaps why I’ve been gifted several of her books? This one is good and really-really accessible [finally!]. Sure, read it, read it. I’ve paid off *my* credit card [finally!]. You?
RUNNING WITH SCISSORS
Augusten Burroughs
Psycho mom. No dad. Statua-torily raped. This book is messed up. nonF. Really. Short stories from the author’s life. Its very compassionate and unself-conscious. So it was pretty good. I read it out of order for fun.THE SECRET HISTORY
Donna Tartt
One of my favorites. I read this book every other year. Exclusive Greek language students, private liberal arts college, contemporary, menacing, devastating…what is a friend? What do you do when you lose it—control, reason, rationality? First person narrative and gosh, its good.
THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD
John LeCarr
Really good really good really good. A spy book. Actually, this too I can relate to All Quiet on the Western Front. @The Cold War, getting in, getting out. Secrets, *lies*, weariness, identity. Cool.
SUICIDE CASANOVA
Arthur Nersesian
Weird book. *Not* what I expected when I picked it up. Let me get this straight: your wife *murders* herself; our hero messes with a “normal†lady; and simultaneously begins stalking his former, faded, porn-star lover.
THE BEACH
Alex Garland
I love this book. I pick it up every few years. I also liked The Tesseract by the same author…and for the next two weeks I tried to make a 4-dimentional cube via the 3-D or 2-D planes.
THE LIAR’S CLUB
Mary Karr
TIME MACHINE
H.G. Wells
i only believe in figments of my imagination