The Cellar - Books you're currently reading???

In honor of Edgar Allan Poe's birthday today I am going to read some of his short stories.

I really can't wait for the Poe movie to come out this fall.

Pete Zicato

01-20-2011 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Number 2 Pencil (Post 706802)

In honor of Edgar Allan Poe's birthday today I am going to read some of his short stories.

I really can't wait for the Poe movie to come out this fall.

Poe movie?

Shawnee123

01-20-2011 10:52 AM

There's a Poe movie? Do tell!

Happy Monkey

01-20-2011 10:58 AM

It's about a guy who nobody can tell whether he's insane or joking.

Number 2 Pencil

01-20-2011 01:06 PM

Starring John Cusack, and not much else is known

http://blog.moviefone.com/2010/08/28...llen-poe-role/

Shawnee123

01-20-2011 01:25 PM

Ohhhh, John Cusack, even better!

I always thought if I had been alive then, I would have been E A Poe's girlfriend. :lol:

Happy Monkey

01-20-2011 01:28 PM

More info. And another upcoming Poe movie. Possibly a third?

Lamplighter

01-20-2011 06:14 PM

From Bill Hicks (edited)

Quote:

I've noticed a certain anti-intellectualism going around this country;
since about 1980, coincidentally enough. … I was in Nashville, Tennessee,
and after the show I went to a Waffle House.
I'm not proud of it, but I was hungry. And I'm sitting there eating and reading a book.

I don't know anybody, I'm alone, so I'm reading a book.
The waitress comes over to me like, [gum smacking] "What'chu readin' for?"
I had never been asked that. Not "What am I reading?", but "What am I reading for?"

Goddangit, you stumped me. Hmm, why do I read?
I suppose I read for a lot of reasons, one of the main ones being so I
don't end up being a fucking waffle waitress.

Gravdigr

01-22-2011 12:58 PM

"Ford County Stories" by John Grisham - meh.

wolf	01-22-2011 03:21 PM

Mercury Falls - Robert Kroese

Apocalypse done funny.

Griff

01-22-2011 03:29 PM

Saw dat on the kindle page. Worth a shot?

wolf	01-23-2011 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Griff (Post 707349)

Saw dat on the kindle page. Worth a shot?

Completely. I'm 75% through, and having a great time.

I also recommend "The Force is Middling in this One."

He is a funny guy.

I would favorably compare Bob Kroese to Douglas Adams, except that Adams had a typically dry British sense of humor, and Kroese is decidedly American, geeky American at that, using Linoleum as a plot point and sneaking in a reference to Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics.

Griff

01-23-2011 10:43 AM

Thanks!

busterb

01-24-2011 06:40 PM

Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls. At page 11. I like.