thebrowncoat Posted March 21, 2006 Report Share Posted March 21, 2006 Ash recommended it to me, I just finished it, and it's a great, great book. Highly recommended, especially if you liked Andy Greenwald's other book, Nothing Feels Good. This book's fiction, but it has the same appreciation of music and what it means... Miss Misery link at Amazon.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I Run With Scissors Posted March 21, 2006 Report Share Posted March 21, 2006 Sounds interesting, but I've got a major backlog of books to get through first before I can even consider picking it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsunamibombx Posted March 21, 2006 Report Share Posted March 21, 2006 miss misery is an amazing Elliott Smith song. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebrowncoat Posted March 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2006 miss misery is an amazing Elliott Smith song. That it is. It's also the name of one of the main characters in the book. Or actually, it's the name she uses on her LiveJournal... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robin Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 I haven't read either of those books mentioned but I am almost finished with what I'm currently reading with nothing to read afterward so maybe if I still have time at that point to read for the sake of wanting to read I'll check it out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephler Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 i read Jude the Obscure (thomas hardy) for school and i surprisingly loved it. really good stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephler Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 oh but my favorite book is THE GLASS CASTLE by Jeannette Walls i've read it like 4 times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebrowncoat Posted March 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 i read Jude the Obscure (thomas hardy) for school and i surprisingly loved it.really good stuff. Wow, you liked a Hardy book? His stuff was always too dreary for me... And yes, I was an English major... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glorya Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 what's the book about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebrowncoat Posted March 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 what's the book about? Which book? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glorya Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 miss misery Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebrowncoat Posted March 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 It's about a guy in his mid 20s who lives in New York with his girlfriend. She gets a job overseas and leaves and he's just kind of stuck - not sure what to do next with his life - whether to move forward or stay where he is or whatever. And, he's supposed to be working on a book about online journals, which is how he's found Miss Misery (a girl named Cath) and this other girl named Ashleigh... Anyway, he creates his own journal and starts writing all this fake stuff about his "more interesting" life that he makes up...and then suddenly, another him appears and starts living that life. And Cath moves to New York and he meets her and, well, I don't want to tell the whole story. It's a book about music and life and love and it sounds kind of silly, but it really hit home (at least for me) in some places. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glorya Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 sounds good-i'll check on it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I Run With Scissors Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 Anyone here read any Chuck Palahniuk books? Or Time Travellers Wife? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robin Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 Anyone here read any Chuck Palahniuk books? Or Time Travellers Wife? I've read Diary and Choke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebrowncoat Posted March 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 Anyone here read any Chuck Palahniuk books? Or Time Travellers Wife? I really enjoyed Time Travellers Wife. Really good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I Run With Scissors Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 Yeah I'm in the middle of it, it confused me initially but it's become a fascinating story. Believe it or not I think the character Clare has something to do with me becoming slightly obsessed with redheads nowadays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashhh Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 Anyone here read any Chuck Palahniuk books? Or Time Travellers Wife? I've read Invisible Monsters, Diary, Fight Club.. I have Lullaby but I have to restart reading it cause I haven't read it in a longggg time. And I have Choke somewhere, I have to read that too. I love his stuff though. And Miss Misery was a great book. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebrowncoat Posted March 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 Yeah I'm in the middle of it' date=' it confused me initially but it's become a fascinating story. Believe it or not I think the character Clare has something to do with me becoming slightly obsessed with redheads nowadays.[/quote'] I'm permanently obsessed with redheads, but that's a different topic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fire At Will Posted March 23, 2006 Report Share Posted March 23, 2006 we should have a book thread theres a freaking thread for everything else Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebrowncoat Posted March 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2006 we should have a book threadtheres a freaking thread for everything else I think that's exactly what I'm going to change this thread into... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fire At Will Posted March 23, 2006 Report Share Posted March 23, 2006 yay a book thread I read too much so I can babble about my books now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebrowncoat Posted March 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2006 yaya book thread I read too much so I can babble about my books now Yeah, me too. I just started Jen Trynin's Everything I'm Cracked Up To Be: A Rock & Roll Fairy Tale. It's supposed to be a great book about music and the music industry and all that that entails... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsunamibombx Posted March 23, 2006 Report Share Posted March 23, 2006 Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt. i can't stop reading it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x3__kim Posted March 23, 2006 Report Share Posted March 23, 2006 just got down readign shattering glass, and gabriel's gift both not that great i'm working on this new book. i just got today. forgot the title. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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