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Old 02-21-2007, 10:34 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Jon Stewart and Colbert are on vacation...

I guess I'll have to actually pick up a book tonight
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Old 02-22-2007, 10:58 AM   #2 (permalink)
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You like fiction? I never got into fiction until I started reading the "Keller" series by Larrence Block. It's pretty good.
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Old 02-22-2007, 11:00 AM   #3 (permalink)
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You could always read Jon Stewart's book. I think it may even have some Colbert sections in it, but I can't remembe for sure.
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You like fiction? I never got into fiction until I started reading the "Keller" series by Larrence Block. It's pretty good.

Those are my favourite books! I picked up Hit List about four years ago by fluke, I just picked a random book off a mismatched shelf. I liked it so much I went on a hunt for Hit Man. I love both of them, but I think Hit List is my favourite out of the two.
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There is the 1/2 Hour Comedy Hour on FOX. It's not funny in the way FOX intended it to be but at least you can have a chuckle about politics
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There is the 1/2 Hour Comedy Hour on FOX. It's not funny in the way FOX intended it to be but at least you can have a chuckle about politics

I'm sure you loved that Limbaugh/ Coulter bit, huh? :p
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Are they on vacation together or something??
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You like fiction? I never got into fiction until I started reading the "Keller" series by Larrence Block. It's pretty good.
Yeah.... I was an English Lit. major so I've read quite a bit of fiction. Haven't read anything by Larrence Block, I'll check him out.

At the moment I'm reading "Kitchen Confidential" by Anthony Bourdain. It's a bit low-brow and asshole-ish but so am I so it works.
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Those are my favourite books! I picked up Hit List about four years ago by fluke, I just picked a random book off a mismatched shelf. I liked it so much I went on a hunt for Hit Man. I love both of them, but I think Hit List is my favourite out of the two.
The first one I read was Kellers Adjustment. It's a few chapters at the end of a Jeffrey Deaver story "Forever". It hooked me, so I had to go back and see what led up to it. I read Hit Man and am almost done with Hit List, and then I will begin Hit Parade. There making a movie too.
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At the moment I'm reading "Kitchen Confidential" by Anthony Bourdain. It's a bit low-brow and asshole-ish but so am I so it works.
That's a great read.
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I had no idea Hit Parade even existed! I use to check under his name whenever I was in the book store, but I stopped after a while figuring he wasn't going to write another Keller story. Thanks for the heads up McCarley!
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I had no idea Hit Parade even existed! I use to check under his name whenever I was in the book store, but I stopped after a while figuring he wasn't going to write another Keller story. Thanks for the heads up McCarley!
You bet! Enjoy.
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I'm sure you loved that Limbaugh/ Coulter bit, huh? :p
Absolutely! I know natural comedic talent when I see it:p
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They're going to be doing another bit in the next couple months.
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