Amadeus's comments (member since Jul 09, 2008)

Amadeus's comments from the The Next Best Book Club group.

Leppaluoto, can't complain - Norman Mailer has managed to pull me in for the past 400 pages, I just can't believe I'm not even half way done :S. I'll have to check out Oswald's Tale thanks for the recommendation!

A User's Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attention, and the Four Theaters of the Brain (Paperback)
by John J. Ratey

The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill by David M. Buss

For an overview of psychological idea's you could try.
Great Ideas in Psychology: A Cultural and Historical Introduction by Moghaddam.

Had to read it for an Intro Psych course alongside Putting Psychology in Its Place: A Critical Historical Overview by G. Richards (this I wouldn't recommend, it's a bit dry & he name drops a lot - expects you to already know).

I skipped a lot of pages so i'm a little behind on whats been posted, so sorry if this has already been mentioned, but has anyone else seen this

http://www.blindness-themovie.com/

A trailer for Blindness based on José Saramago's novel - this group seems to be obsessed with the book I imagine the theater will be packed when it comes out.

1)The Doomsday Book

2)The Tomb

3)Ham on Rye

How about indigo.chapters.ca - I know they offer free shipping for orders over 39$. I usually use this site since I live in Canada so I'm not sure if the offer translates over to Australia. I tried checking but I couldn't find a postal code so .. it didn't work.

Sherry, did you read All the pretty horses before the crossing? I bought it but am putting off reading it before I get the others - I don't want it to take away from the trilogy.

Blood Meridian was a little..well for the most part gruesome but after watching no country for old men I figure this is a trademark of his, plus he writes it with so much style I hardly care who dies next lol.

I'll definitely have to check out The Road & Child of God.

1) Hunter S. Thompson; though, like MOLE (tim) said, it is journalism - he's only really written 1 actual novel but I eat up everything of his.
2) Graham Greene
3) Kurt Vonnegut
4) Douglas Coupland

And after reading Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy I think he'll be added to the list - I couldn't get enough of it. Does anyone have any recommendations for a 2nd by him? I heard the Border Trilogy is good.

Same goes for J.M Coetzee

Man without a Country - Kurt Vonnegut
A nice little 192 pages. I finished it on a train ride back home and find myself always reading it for a chuckle or as an in between book.

As well, I buy a lot of books with authors short stories in them - for example devils race track & letters from the earth by mark twain, that way i'm still reading but don't have the same commitment of a full novel.

Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
The Tenth Man - Graham Greene
Samedi the Deafness - Jesse Ball
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Diary of a Bad Year - J.M Coetzee
Einsteins Dreams - Alan Lightman

And if they count, Kurt Vonnegut's memoirs / social commentaries - such as Man without a Country and Armageddon in Retrospect.