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Where do I get this? Any name, ISBN? Or is it just a print-out of some geek's Internet ramblings?

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I don't know how you can get it. No author or ISBN sorry. Is not a geek internet rambling. It's a real book!. I wish the book would be on internet, but..supposedly... it has been distributed hand hand by hand. If you really super die for reading it, send me a pm and i send you a copy. is really small. But if you are not into "non-Bolshevik revolutionary milieus" (!) you might not even want to read it.
Is really beautiful and inspiring though.

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"Barrel Fever" - by David Sedaris... this is his first collection (1994) of stories and essays. Unlike his hilarious later autobiographical accounts, these works are mostly fictitious...sarcastic and occasionally funny, but he hadn't yet found his niche or voice.

"The Lost Continent" -by Bill Bryson (just finished during a weekend plane-trip). Travelogue of small-town Americana. Scathing in its criticism of dumpy two-bit towns and stripmalls/tourist traps; heartwarming when he assesses the essence of life out in the wilds of America.

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I have two other books going on too, but I've been warned to not let anyone know what I'm reading. ??? Bit odd, no?

One's on American folklore in american writing, the other is about this handicapped man who achieves great success in everything he does despite the odds. I'm beginning to think it was just his good looks that got him through, but that's just me.

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Were you too content with yourself to notice his criticisms of (sub)urbia? :p

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Content with myself how? For finishing the book? :confused:

Thing is, he didn't really visit "suburbia" as the term applies to affluent outskirts of a larger town (with the exception of visits near Detroit and Philadelphia). The criticisms in the book are mostly on the consumerism excess of truck-stop or tourist-magnet towns and the resultant disappearance of a pre-suburbian small town way of life. His eventual return to his home in Iowa made it pretty clear that for all the tiny towns he'd seen, that sort of lifestyle is still quite charming.

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reading brisingr by christopher paolini, 3rd book of inheritance cycle

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Thanks ppl re Banks. He is hard to find near me. I wanted to buy some for my dad first but couldnt get any so got Bright Shiny Morning by James Frey. He wrote A Million Little Pieces and My Friend Leonard both of which I enjoyed a lot.

Anyway, dad liked this and he gave me one in return, Weapons Of Choice by John Birmingham. I was thinking that it might be the same guy who wrote He Died With A Falafel In His Hand, but it looked like a Clive Cussler cover... turns out to be the same guy after all. This is real different to HDWAFIHH but the same aussie slacker humour is apparent and it works so well.

Weapons is about a close future maritime war situation off the coast of Western Australia. We are at war with the Indos and Malaysians and the high tech gadgetry is headed by a research vessel commandeered by the navy which is still carrying out its research regardless. When they execute their experiment the fleet is moved to Midway circa 1942 as the yanks prepare to nuke Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The fleet lands right in the middle of the large US '42 fleet and in some cases fuses ships together as the suddenly take up the same space - this is really interesting in fact. Im currently here in the story. The mess is slowly being realised.

There are 3 books in the series it seems. Im hooked to reading an actual book again as opposed to those audiobooks.

Still want to get those Banks recommendations still and will try ordering them if no luck.

Onya Underworlders.

Croz

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Tricked by Alex Robinson

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Widows of Eastwick, John Updike. What a let down. Felt like reading stories in Good Housekeeping.

Now,

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle