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Re: Reading! [Re: meatcakeman]
    #14279906 - 04/12/11 07:46 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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You should also read the Bible if you feel up to the task of reading through crazy-ass Hebrew names and long genealogical tables.




the koran is better.

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I actually just picked up a Quran the other day, but I haven't read very far past the introduction...

It seems like it's both easier and harder to follow than the Bible, since it's all poetry, but also poetry from another language.


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Re: Reading! [Re: I AM SWIM]
    #14279910 - 04/12/11 07:47 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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especially thangs like DUNE




Dune is the single best science-fiction novel ever. No contest.

The sequels are highly optional, though.


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Re: Reading! [Re: muistrue]
    #14279939 - 04/12/11 07:51 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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You should also read the Bible if you feel up to the task of reading through crazy-ass Hebrew names and long genealogical tables.




I've read the New Testament and the Urantia Book both in their entirety for fun. The Urantia Book is better imo.




Hmm, never heard of the Urantia Book but it actually looks pretty interesting...


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Re: Reading! [Re: Sophistic Radiance]
    #14279946 - 04/12/11 07:51 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

It blew my mind.


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Re: Reading! [Re: ROFL_my_ WAFFLE]
    #14279956 - 04/12/11 07:52 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

if you start out reading sci fi, read this.



classic. beautiful prose, fast paced. from the first page you can just see what's happening in your mind. this was the book that started my "adult" sci fi career at age 11 (grew up reading golden age stuff like asimove, clark, heinlein etc). it still blows me away and i cannot count how many times i've read it since i was a boy.

to me dune is a bit dense. not dogging herbert at all, but i never got enjoyment out of his style. i equate him to tolkein. really cool conceptually, but just too much material to keep me interested.


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Re: Reading! [Re: muistrue]
    #14280040 - 04/12/11 08:02 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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It blew my mind.




Looks pretty mindblowing. I'll have to pick up a copy, take some LSD, and get crackin'. :awecid:


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Re: Reading! [Re: Sophistic Radiance]
    #14282435 - 04/13/11 06:40 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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Dune is the single best science-fiction novel ever. No contest.

The sequels are highly optional, though.




I find this book so incredibly hard to get into. That and I can't see it being better than "Hyperion".


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Re: Reading! [Re: Rocker232]
    #14282474 - 04/13/11 06:57 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

these are good starters too.





i currently have pkd's 'the three stigmata of palmer eldritch' and 'now wait for last year' on my shelves for the summer.


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Re: Reading! [Re: millzy]
    #14282743 - 04/13/11 08:50 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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'the three stigmata of palmer eldritch'




Great and strange book  :batboy:

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Re: Reading! [Re: Eshu]
    #14282772 - 04/13/11 08:58 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

I strongly recommend "Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo.

It's one of the all time great books, written with just an amazing ammount of detail and character developement. The story is the characters, and thats it, it really puts you in the mind of the character and carries you along through the journey with the characters as things occur and effect them and whatnot. It's a style of writing that doesn't really happen anymore. Now-a-days you have books like the da vinci code that are all about the scene at hand or the situation.

My dad showed me the book and told me about it, and at first i was thinking yeah....that sounds like some lame ass old piece of literature, and i just started reading it more to please him then for actually wanting to read it myself, but after reading it i was actually enthralled with it. I couldn't put the book down, and thats a big thing for me, because i'm a person who never wants to read anything much unless i'm forced to.



also " Crime and Punishment " by dostoyevski.


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Re: Reading! [Re: Eshu]
    #14282847 - 04/13/11 09:20 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

I wasn't sure if I had read The Giver or not so I looked it up, turns out it was the book I read in middle school.  The wiki page also points out that The Giver forms a loose trilogy with Gathering Blue (2000) and Messenger (2004), two other books set in the same future era.


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Re: Reading! [Re: Eshu]
    #14283079 - 04/13/11 10:25 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

READING..!
i have been doing this a lot in my freetime,
when im not nauseous & the room isnt spinning..

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Re: Reading! [Re: Eshu]
    #14283143 - 04/13/11 10:35 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

I have pretty much grown up with the Wheel of Time novel series, by Robert Jordan. I'm about to finish book twelve.



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Re: Reading! [Re: thePatient]
    #14284665 - 04/13/11 03:43 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

i'm reading a little bit of dostoevski for one of my classes (brothers k). i like him alright. i'm going to try to tackle 'notes from the underground' at some point. it's another one sitting on my shelf waiting to be read.


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Re: Reading! [Re: millzy]
    #14284832 - 04/13/11 04:11 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

A friend of mine has read Duma Key, says it's one of her favorite's from King.

I'm reading Lisey's Story by King, but i think it's more of a book a girl could get into easier than a guy. I heard Tommyknockers is a good one by King too.


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Re: Reading! [Re: Eshu]
    #14284848 - 04/13/11 04:13 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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15 year olds :awetongue:





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Re: Reading! [Re: robbyberto]
    #14285020 - 04/13/11 04:39 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Tchan - Dune is good, but the best I'd say belongs to Neal Stephenson's "Anathem".

Millzy - If you like William Gibson, see the above. Also, "Snow Crash" by Stephenson. I effing love Neuromancer, but Stephenson pretty much invented the whole concept of cyberspace (I could be wrong) in Snow Crash. Also, it's got a 15-year-old with a booby-trapped vagina, and people getting infected by a digital virus.

But Anathem, guys. Anathem. Get through the first, oh, three or four chapters, and once you're moving along through the book at a good clip, it will blow your mind. Seriously blow it right the fuck out of your head.

Bruce Sterling is also good, I like his short story collection "A Good Old Fashioned Future".

BY THE WAY. If you guys haven't read the Song of Ice and Fire books by George R.R. Martin, you're COMPLETELY dropping the ball. Start with "A Game of Thrones" and if you aren't hooked by the end of the second or third chapter, watch the TV show. Seriously the best fantasy I've EVER read.


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Re: Reading! [Re: guywiththegun]
    #14286274 - 04/13/11 07:59 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

i've read and listened to the audio book of 'snow crash' actually. not as impressive as any of the sprawl books, but good. i got more out of the audio book tbh. it would make an awesome movie imo.

i thought 'the tommyknockers' was a bit long. i've read almost everything by king, and here are my rec's:

the shining
eyes of the dragon
the dark tower
hearts in atlantis (short stories)
different seasons (short stories)
everything's eventual (short stories)
bag of bones

in that order.

i cannot recommend 'the shining' enough. i had seen the movie probably a hundred times when i read it and it's the only novel that has ever scared me, like to the point to where i lost sleep. i was 21 when i read it btw. lol. and the tower series is king's opus.


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Re: Reading! [Re: millzy]
    #14286359 - 04/13/11 08:10 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

If ur after a good sci-fi anything by Raymond Fiest is very entertaining.  Isaac Asimov is also very good.

I'd reccomend "my family and other animals" by Gerald Durrell.  If your not into animals you probably wont like it.  Its a very good book.


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Re: Reading! [Re: cryptic_pickle]
    #14286416 - 04/13/11 08:22 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

So I picked up this book at wal mart that sounded appealing called "a Dark matter" by Peter Straub, it was a New York Times best seller, and like I said, it sounded appealing, but so far it's confusing as fuck, and makes NO sense.

He jumps all over the place, and he gives all his charactors real names AND nicknames. So it's hard as hell to follow who is who.

ugh. I hope it gets better. I paid for it, I'm gonna read it!!

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