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[anonymouswriter]

A friend who had nothing better to do actually printed out a copy of this new interpretation of the Tao, which is cool, 'cause I just finished reading "A Million Little Pieces" by James Frey. (Yeah, yeah. It's an Oprah pick. It's not hideously bad like Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections". Dare I say it? I actually thought it was okay

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[shaddup]

the link wouldn't work, jo.

[anonymouswriter]

I'll fix the link, but here it is again:
http://www.beatrice.com/TAO.html

[blackdreams]

we seem to be into the same kind of books. (once you were saying you were reading "me talk pretty one day")
i've acctually just finished "social blunders" by tim sandlin. and i was looking for a new good read.
tell me more about this one?

[anonymouswriter]

I'm such a book whore, it's not even funny. Instead of a book shelf, I've stacked all of my books from floor to ceiling like some crazy person.

Anyways, some recommendations:
"A Working Stiff's Manifesto" by Iain Levison --- relateable to anyone who's had a crappy 9-to-5 office job

"Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers" by Mary Roach --- mentioned in season four of "Six Feet Under". Surprisingly funny, interesting look at cadavers.

"The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini --- the last piece of fiction that really haunted me. It's set in Afghanistan.

If you decide to try "The Kite Runner" and enjoy it, you might like "Family Matters" by Rohinton Mistry, too. I loved that book so much, I had to go out and buy a copy.

"The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night Time" by Mark Haddon --- a mystery written in the perspective of a 15-year-old kid with autism. Much more intriguing than I'm making it out to seem.

[blackdreams]

i read the first one, that was deffinatly a good one. made me feel like crap for ever complaining about my past jobs when i got to the alaskan fishing boat part.

the other ones i'll check out. i think i'm most interested in the last one and the cadavers book...and is that a novel or what? explain more if you can...

[anonymouswriter]

"Stiff" is non-fiction. It's about what happens to the human body after you die. It looks at everything from uses for the human body post-mortem to methods of disposal. It sounds grim, but it's written in a surprisingly humourous way.

The last book, "The Incident of The Dog In the Night-Time" is a novel by first-time author Mark Haddon. It's written really well and attempts to capture what it's like to be autistic...though we can't ever really know since the author isn't autistic.