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InvisibleHarri

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Good ass books?
    #15433391 - 11/27/11 10:48 PM (12 years, 4 months ago)

I'd say Rant by Chuck Palahniuk

post some of your favorites

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Re: Good ass books? [Re: Harri]
    #15433490 - 11/27/11 11:17 PM (12 years, 4 months ago)

my wife and children visited her sister down the shore for the weekend and i managed to read this in two days... i've read it before when it was first released but i just got the itch to stir up some memories...

The Evolutionary Mind: Conversations on Science, Imagination and Spirit

Kensho :psychsplit:

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Re: Good ass books? [Re: cateyes]
    #15433695 - 11/28/11 12:17 AM (12 years, 4 months ago)

Be Here Now by Baba Ram Dass.


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Re: Good ass books? [Re: countchocula420]
    #15433705 - 11/28/11 12:22 AM (12 years, 4 months ago)

A book titled 'Taoist Tales.'

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Re: Good ass books? [Re: HugaDeadHead]
    #15433710 - 11/28/11 12:23 AM (12 years, 4 months ago)

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A book titled 'Taoist Tales.'





I read the Tao of Pooh


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Re: Good ass books? [Re: countchocula420]
    #15434970 - 11/28/11 11:06 AM (12 years, 4 months ago)

ishmael
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fear and loathing in vegas


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Re: Good ass books? [Re: Harri]
    #15435138 - 11/28/11 12:02 PM (12 years, 4 months ago)

On The Road by Jack Kerouac
Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Factotum by Charles Bukowski
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley


there are plenty more of course.


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Re: Good ass books? [Re: Sunny]
    #15435946 - 11/28/11 03:17 PM (12 years, 4 months ago)

I really enjoyed Factotum too... 

Running with Scissors is another good read, what a fucked up family that dude had...

My favorite Thompson book was Hell's Angels...

Right now I'm in the middle of Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God. It's a extremely interesting book, if you're into that kind of thing. Greg Graffin wrote it, he's the lead singer for the punk bad Bad Religion (my favorite!), has a masters in geology from UCLA, a Ph.D from Cornell in evolutionary biology, and lectures at UCLA when not rockin' out. He has some pretty interesting views (his lyrics reflect them, too), and it's not a hard read, as you might expect.

The next book I want to read is White Line Fever, Lemmy Kilmister's, from Motorhead, autobiography. I don't really get into a lot of autobiographies (I've started many I've never finished), but I bet his is pretty awesome.

I like reading the short stories in Tell Tale Lilac Bush and Coffin Hollow, both have "true" ghost stories that take place mainly in WV, several from the town I live in. Its more of a nostalgia thing, I read them back in grade school, but they're still fun.

I'm waiting for my son to get old enough to read the Wrinkle in Time books so I can read them again, too. :rolleyes:


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Re: Good ass books? [Re: Galaxie500]
    #15436956 - 11/28/11 06:58 PM (12 years, 4 months ago)

Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5 and Galapagos especially, although it's all good if you ask me.


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Re: Good ass books? [Re: Mr. Bojangles]
    #15439229 - 11/29/11 07:38 AM (12 years, 3 months ago)

Fighters heart - Sam Sheridan


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Re: Good ass books? [Re: HunterChez]
    #15443966 - 11/30/11 09:13 AM (12 years, 3 months ago)

Vurt by Jeff Noon

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Re: Good ass books? [Re: Harri]
    #15444139 - 11/30/11 10:07 AM (12 years, 3 months ago)



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Re: Good ass books? [Re: HeadTripVertigo]
    #15444181 - 11/30/11 10:16 AM (12 years, 3 months ago)

To Kill a Mockingbird

Atticus Finch is my hero.


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Re: Good ass books? [Re: XUL]
    #15444527 - 11/30/11 11:49 AM (12 years, 3 months ago)

Brain Droppings - G. Carlin
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
Porno - Irvine Welsh
The Book of 5 Rings - M. Myomoto
Physics of the Impossible - Michio Kaku
Walden - H.D. Thoreau
Man' Search for Meaning -  V. Frankl

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Re: Good ass books? [Re: Harri]
    #15445024 - 11/30/11 01:31 PM (12 years, 3 months ago)

Marijuana Horticulture by Jorge Cervantes

Psychedelics Encyclopedia by Peter Stafford

Guns, Germs, And Steel by Jared Diamond

A Walk In The Woods by Bill Bryson

Critique of Judgement and Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant


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Re: Good ass books? [Re: a social revolt]
    #15447826 - 11/30/11 11:39 PM (12 years, 3 months ago)

black hawk down

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Re: Good ass books? [Re: shred805]
    #15447830 - 11/30/11 11:39 PM (12 years, 3 months ago)

the old man and the sea

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Re: Good ass books? [Re: shred805]
    #15448685 - 12/01/11 08:41 AM (12 years, 3 months ago)

Anything and everything from Alan Watts.

Edit: Oh yeah, cateyes, thanks for the share! I'm about to order it.

Edited by black soul (12/01/11 08:59 AM)

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Re: Good ass books? [Re: black soul]
    #15449578 - 12/01/11 01:05 PM (12 years, 3 months ago)

Ishmael.


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Re: Good ass books? [Re: Guernica]
    #15449748 - 12/01/11 01:57 PM (12 years, 3 months ago)

Why do people post books which are more of science then novel story like.
Anyway.. House of Leaves from Mark Daniliewski.. is most awesome and most interesting book I;ve read in my life.. its a bit long too, but worthwhile.


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Re: Good ass books? [Re: ivander]
    #15449878 - 12/01/11 02:41 PM (12 years, 3 months ago)

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Why do people post books which are more of science then novel story like.





OP just asked for some of everyone's favorites books, not within a specific genre... There are plenty of non-fiction science-ish books that are great reads, if that's your thing.


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Re: Good ass books? [Re: Galaxie500]
    #15449949 - 12/01/11 02:57 PM (12 years, 3 months ago)

American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
The Red Book - Carl Jung
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Island - Aldous Huxley
Prometheus Rising - Robert Anton Wilson
Journey to Ixtlan - Carlos Castaneda
Be Here Now - Ram Dass
The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan
The Dark Tower series - Stephen King
The Stand - Stephen King
The Elegant Universe - Brian Greene
Fabric of the Cosmos - Brian Greene
The Way of Zen - Alan Watts
The Book - Alan Watts

All very good!!!

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Re: Good ass books? [Re: Galaxie500]
    #15450024 - 12/01/11 03:14 PM (12 years, 3 months ago)

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ivander said:
Why do people post books which are more of science then novel story like.





OP just asked for some of everyone's favorites books, not within a specific genre... There are plenty of non-fiction science-ish books that are great reads, if that's your thing.



Sure I agree with you, and its not like Im in error with that.. :P
Its just when I hear word book.. I get the idea of papper thing, hard covers and imagination as a boundary.. When I want to learn about astrophysicist and drug world trips and stuff(science of sorts).. I tend to turn to pdf's and so on.. not that things like these are't books.. anyway its seems im just rumbling.. carry on :tongue:


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Re: Good ass books? [Re: Harri]
    #15450453 - 12/01/11 04:41 PM (12 years, 3 months ago)

Cosmic Banditos by A.C. Weisbecker.



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Re: Good ass books? [Re: muistrue]
    #15455740 - 12/02/11 05:40 PM (12 years, 3 months ago)

The Sleepwalkers by Hermann Broch

Journey to the End of the Night by Celine



I recently read The Thin Red Line by James Jones which was fine war novel.


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Re: Good ass books? [Re: Mnboardin]
    #15455946 - 12/02/11 06:33 PM (12 years, 3 months ago)

Someone mentioned some Stephen King... I'm not really that much of a fan, but I read the Green Mile serial novelas when they were just coming out (they released one a month). I really liked them alot. Obviously, you can get all 6 of them together now. I didn't even think the movie was all that bad and paralleled fairly well, but the books were a lot better.


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Re: Good ass books? [Re: Galaxie500]
    #15455972 - 12/02/11 06:41 PM (12 years, 3 months ago)

Can't believe nobody has said 1984 by George Orwell yet.


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Re: Good ass books? [Re: LayinUp]
    #15456053 - 12/02/11 07:06 PM (12 years, 3 months ago)

Narciss And Goldmund by Herman Hesse


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Re: Good ass books? [Re: Mr. Bojangles]
    #15460007 - 12/03/11 04:37 PM (12 years, 3 months ago)

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Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5 and Galapagos especially, although it's all good if you ask me.




been meaning to read galapagos. vonnegut is the shit.

i've mentioned this in the book rec thread, but i read jd salinger's franny and zooey for one of my classes recently. one of the best, and funniest, novels i've read in a long time. lots of great dialog and theology. it has a permanent place on my shelf.


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Re: Good ass books? [Re: millzy]
    #15462068 - 12/04/11 12:04 AM (12 years, 3 months ago)

i can't recommend Les Miserables any higher


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