what are you reading?

er...title is pretty self explanatory...

 

ive never read a whole book in my life!!!

 

Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser

The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen

I enjoy being double teamed.

 

I like to read many books at the same time. So right now I am reading:

Vineland - Thomas Pynchon
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
The Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky

 

is fast food nation worth reading? i keep hearing everyone talk about it.

 

i'm reading fates worse than death by kurt vonnegut, and the bible.

 

I liked Fast Food Nation a lot. It just reconfirmed my beliefs that fast food is evil though. But it did give me some good facts about why it is horrible.

 

It's funny and well researched. Schlosser has a knack for getting his point across with relevant and easily accessible anecdotes. I'd recommend it, if you're looking for an entertaining read, but don't look for something to change your life or anything.

 

damn i wish i could read a whole book cuz that sounds interesting

 

Don't listen to Antithesis, her head is full of doody. Fast food is not, and will not be, the downfall of this nation, and it certainly isn't evil in the sense that, say, Hitler, killer of Jews, was evil. It may make you get a bit pudgy around the waist, but it won't slow roast your family and friends.

 

cat, i didn't figure that it would be life changing, just funny, maybe.

i don't think fast food is particularly evil. it's not good for you, but everyone knows that and eats it anyway, so if you get fat and have a heart attack, it's not mcdonald's fault. they didin't make you eat the food.

and i can't help myself, i have to bust you on this, since you busted me yesterday...in the email notification that i just got about your response to this thread this thread, you typed waste, and then went back and changed it to waist. hahaha. now we are even.

 

How come you can't read a whole book Willy?

Fast Food culture isn't just about people getting fat, by the way.

 

Quick eye. That typo was there for all of five seconds.

Antithesis, I'd like to hear why you think fast food is so evil, if you would.

 

yeah, anti, i know.


hey, willy, why haven't you read anything lately? no magazines? comic books? anything?

 

~The Psychedelic Experience

~Mind Controllers

 

I am reading what I am typing at this moment.

 

I am currently reading:

Hope and Help for Your Nerves
Peace for Nervous Sufferers
A Wizard of Earthsea.

I've heard a lot of good things about Fast Food Nation. There was a class at my university that had that book as one of the texts.

 

I also read more than one book at a time and switch back and forth. am now reading
No Great Mischief - Allistair MacLeod
The Bonesetter's Daughter - Amy Tan
On South Mountain, the story of the Goler Clan
and a few magazines on the go

I love reading and the feeling of finishing a really good book.

 

I'm reading a book called Wicked by Gregory Maguire, it's about the life and times of the Wicked Witch of the West before Dorothy landed in Oz... it's quite funny, actually.

 

Sadly I am still reading "Fortress in the Eye of Time" by C.J. Cherryh. Its good, but I find this damned computer so distracting that I never allow myself the time to read it. maybe 2 pages a night..........then I fall asleep.