(no subject)

[grindmonkeh]

the SUCK!!!!!...........it's DEAFENING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bowmaster - an addictive flash game to occupy time at work. Your browser will auto-save your progress. I'm at level 31.

Book thing taken from JellyLee and Arty...

1)Total number of books owned?
Hundreds.

2) The last book I bought?
Star Wars - Labyrinth of Evil

3) The last book I read?
Star Wars - Labyrinth of Evil

4) 5 books that mean a lot to me?
1. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - J.R.R. Tolkien - These were the first really challenging books I ever read. I still have the set my mom bought me for Christmas when I was ten years old.
2. The Dark Tower Series - Stephen King - It took King over 20 years to complete the series, so every few years with the release of each book I've continued reading a tale I began as a kid.
3. Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - This book taught me that literary rules are imaginary.
4. 7 Tattoos - Peter Trachtenberg
5. Cycle of the Werewolf - Stephen King - It reminds me of my childhood with my brothers and our infatuation with anything horror. It offers little as far as literary importance, but it's still entertaining.

5) Tag 5 people and have them fill this out on their ljs.
Nah.

Comments

[brokn2pieces.livejournal.com]

7 Tattoos - Peter Tracthenberg - I read that book last winter, March 2004, as I was making my way around the country, post lay off. Things that come to mind when I think of 7 Tattoos: sitting in the back of an old bus for the handicapped, wrapped in a sleeping bag but still freezing. Minnesota, Nebraska, Wyoming and Kansas landscape blurred past me as I took bouts of gazing out the bus window pondering my future. I got sick the day I left Seattle and really never got better until I made it to Detroit about three weeks later. It was a good time.

[grindbastard.livejournal.com]

Interesting story. Did the book in any way influence how you were pondering your future? ...just curious.

[brokn2pieces.livejournal.com]

I can't say that the book helped me in a way that I remember. The book was a good read though a bit eye-roll iducing when he'd write things cuch as, "I was feeling (insert emotion here) so I decided to go spend 6 months with the Myans in south Africa." Maybe I was just jealous.

[grindbastard.livejournal.com]

Haha...yeah. I was left wondering a time or two on the origins of his disposable income every time he had a spiritual/life crisis, but he brought a lot of interesting stories and perspective to the plate with his book.

[eidora.livejournal.com]

Have you ever read Venus on the Half Shell?
You'd like.

[grindbastard.livejournal.com]

I haven't. I may. Thanks for the recommendation.

[eidora.livejournal.com]

If I remember correctly, the pen name taken for the book was from a Kurt Vonnegut character, Kilgore Trout.
When I saw Vonnegut's name in your post I immediately thought of the book.