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jchrisobrien ([personal profile] jchrisobrien) wrote2006-09-01 11:18 am

What's better than a good book?

A FREE good book.

On my walk to work this morning, I passed an old Chinese man poking thorugh a pile of books someone left on a street corner.  Among these books were Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, and the Killer Angels by Michael Shara (a civil war novel which heavily influenced Joss Whedon's thoughts for Firefly). 

I now have some new reading material.

[identity profile] silas7.livejournal.com 2006-09-02 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
It's the whole atmosphere of the kids in the town: hanging out at drug stores, getting stoned in basements listening to Ministry and Dead Kennedys, people with no prospects watching their lives vanish away. It could have been in any town, but having it set in Gettysburg always brings up those memories.