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 plektheplek
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 Re: What book are you currently reading?  [Re: plektheplek]
#16473330 - 07/03/12 03:28 AM (11 months, 11 days ago) |
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Some quick recommendations:
Fear and Loating in las vegas
The plains of abraham
The count of monte cristo
Treasure island
The scarlet pimpernel
The picture of dorian gray
Scar tissue
Oh yeah, and PSYCHEDELIC PENS AND A HOPELESS ROMANTIC. Can't forget that classic 
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August grass
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Hyper_Panda_GO]
#16473356 - 07/03/12 03:37 AM (11 months, 11 days ago) |
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"Too Far" by Rich Shapero
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ChaosOne
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: August grass]
#16478581 - 07/04/12 04:00 AM (11 months, 10 days ago) |
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Zombie Survival Guide
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Lion
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: ChaosOne]
#16479607 - 07/04/12 11:58 AM (11 months, 9 days ago) |
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I just read Freedom by Jonathan Franzen. I read it way faster than my normal pace, partially due to a power outage and partially because I just couldn't put it down. Some popular media has called it the "Great American Novel," but I think that's a concept, like "the American dream," that is pretty much meaningless at this point. I think it was a tour de force, remarkably similar to The Corrections in subject matter but much more involving, less self-consciously satiric, and more emotionally charged. I'm becoming a fan of Franzen.
Currently reading Links by Nuruddin Farah, a devastating and very literary novel about the nightmare of living in modern Somalia.
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jackSpearows
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Lion]
#16480018 - 07/04/12 01:50 PM (11 months, 9 days ago) |
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FIght CLUB mo fuckers 
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ChaosOne
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: jackSpearows]
#16483803 - 07/05/12 06:46 AM (11 months, 8 days ago) |
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Friend gave me - The Psychedelic Experience by Timothy Leary to read today.
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Darkman
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: ChaosOne]
#16484597 - 07/05/12 11:50 AM (11 months, 8 days ago) |
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The Last Juror by John Grisham, its a classic I've read many times, still enjoy it.
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ashfiken
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Darkman]
#16500649 - 07/08/12 10:09 PM (11 months, 5 days ago) |
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Just cracked open
The sun also rises by Ernest Hemingway for a much needed light read .
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"I'm naked and fearless... And my fear is naked."
"life isn't worth living without the threat of death"
"I got my plans in a ziploc bag, let's see how unproductive we can be"
"nobody lives their lives fully except for bull fighters"
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Madtowntripper
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: ashfiken]
#16501481 - 07/09/12 12:34 AM (11 months, 5 days ago) |
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Hemingway is my all-time favorite author, and it's not even close.
The Sun Also Rises is great. Really really great.
And it's not even close to my favorite Hemingway book, so that says a ton.
For Whom The Bell Tolls is easily the best novel ever written. I wouldn't change five words in the entire book.
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After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action. If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it. - Ernest Hemingway
If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -Cormac MacCarthy
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
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ashfiken
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: Madtowntripper]
#16501786 - 07/09/12 01:31 AM (11 months, 5 days ago) |
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Ahh I love Hemingway way as well!! Although I've not been able to dive into the rest of his books before now simply for lack of time!
I know this particular one it sposed to be good and I've only read one or two others of his.
I especially like getting really into an author of hemingways caliber(Orwell,Russian writers, bring done of my personal faves) and reading their whole trilogy to really squeeze the life out of who that fellow is and what he's trying to convey. It's delicious and Hemingway is one great one to sit back to that is apparent!
Cheers!
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"I'm naked and fearless... And my fear is naked."
"life isn't worth living without the threat of death"
"I got my plans in a ziploc bag, let's see how unproductive we can be"
"nobody lives their lives fully except for bull fighters"
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OneMoreRobot3021
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: ashfiken]
#16509712 - 07/10/12 03:32 PM (11 months, 3 days ago) |
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Memories of Ice by Steven Erikson. Raises the bar for epic..
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-Erik Davis
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Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson and 1984 by George Orwell.
Recently breezed through The Alchemist, Veronika Decides to Die and The Valkyries by Paulo Cohelo (I preferred them in that order).
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: jackSpearows]
#16513433 - 07/11/12 11:10 AM (11 months, 2 days ago) |
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FIght CLUB mo fuckers
Ever read any of Palhaniuk's other works? Haunted is, by far, my favorite, followed closely by Invisible Monsters. They are pretty much all gems. With a few exceptions.
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: geokills]
#16513564 - 07/11/12 11:48 AM (11 months, 2 days ago) |
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Oh, I loved The Alchemist & Veronika. Have you tried By The River Piedra?
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jackSpearows
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: sun_spots]
#16520778 - 07/12/12 05:38 PM (11 months, 1 day ago) |
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sun_spots said:
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jackSpearows said:
FIght CLUB mo fuckers
Ever read any of Palhaniuk's other works? Haunted is, by far, my favorite, followed closely by Invisible Monsters. They are pretty much all gems. With a few exceptions.
I havent.. I'm just getting into reading and I'm lovin' it ! I'll check those two out for sure. I really like his writing style
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OneMoreRobot3021
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: jackSpearows]
#16520982 - 07/12/12 06:12 PM (11 months, 1 day ago) |
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Haunted is such garbage. He took his art of repeating himself ad nauseum and elevated it to new heights. (Or plummeted to new depths, as it were.) Fight Club, Survivor and Invisible Monsters are great books. The rest is mostly trash.
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-Erik Davis
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Really? Haunted is my favorite work by Palahniuk, and I've read all his novels except 'Survivor'.
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phaded
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The Dancing Wu Li Masters
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: phaded]
#16522739 - 07/13/12 12:07 AM (11 months, 1 day ago) |
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200 pages into The Stand by Stephen King.
This book is the shit!!!!!!
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obesetwig
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Re: What book are you currently reading? [Re: jackSpearows]
#16522774 - 07/13/12 12:13 AM (11 months, 1 day ago) |
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i like damned rant and survivor not the biggest fan of invisible monsters but i haven't finished it yet if you liked Chuck Palahniuk you should check out Carl Hiaasen i liked sick puppy and skinny dip also i have to say christopher moore is one of my absolute favorite authors can anyone give me some suggestions on similar books/authors
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