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Harri
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Good ass books?
#15433391 - 11/27/11 10:48 PM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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I'd say Rant by Chuck Palahniuk
post some of your favorites
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cateyes
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Re: Good ass books? [Re: Harri]
#15433490 - 11/27/11 11:17 PM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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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
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Re: Good ass books? [Re: cateyes]
#15433695 - 11/28/11 12:17 AM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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Be Here Now by Baba Ram Dass.
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HugaDeadHead
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A book titled 'Taoist Tales.'
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HugaDeadHead said: A book titled 'Taoist Tales.'
I read the Tao of Pooh
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ishmael story of b 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) |
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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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Galaxie500
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Re: Good ass books? [Re: Sunny]
#15435946 - 11/28/11 03:17 PM (12 years, 4 months ago) |
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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.
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Mr. Bojangles
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Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5 and Galapagos especially, although it's all good if you ask me.
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HunterChez
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Fighters heart - Sam Sheridan
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Yohlugax
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Vurt by Jeff Noon
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HeadTripVertigo
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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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XUL
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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human experience
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Re: Good ass books? [Re: XUL]
#15444527 - 11/30/11 11:49 AM (12 years, 3 months ago) |
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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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a social revolt
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Re: Good ass books? [Re: Harri]
#15445024 - 11/30/11 01:31 PM (12 years, 3 months ago) |
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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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shred805
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black hawk down
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shred805
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Re: Good ass books? [Re: shred805]
#15447830 - 11/30/11 11:39 PM (12 years, 3 months ago) |
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the old man and the sea
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black soul
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Re: Good ass books? [Re: shred805]
#15448685 - 12/01/11 08:41 AM (12 years, 3 months ago) |
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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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Ishmael.
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ivander
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Re: Good ass books? [Re: Guernica]
#15449748 - 12/01/11 01:57 PM (12 years, 3 months ago) |
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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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Galaxie500
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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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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.
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Edited by Galaxie500 (12/01/11 02:42 PM)
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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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ivander
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Quote:
Galaxie500 said:
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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
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Re: Good ass books? [Re: Harri]
#15450453 - 12/01/11 04:41 PM (12 years, 3 months ago) |
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Cosmic Banditos by A.C. Weisbecker.
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Mnboardin
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Re: Good ass books? [Re: muistrue]
#15455740 - 12/02/11 05:40 PM (12 years, 3 months ago) |
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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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Galaxie500
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Re: Good ass books? [Re: Mnboardin]
#15455946 - 12/02/11 06:33 PM (12 years, 3 months ago) |
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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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LayinUp
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Can't believe nobody has said 1984 by George Orwell yet.
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RabbiSchmuley
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Re: Good ass books? [Re: LayinUp]
#15456053 - 12/02/11 07:06 PM (12 years, 3 months ago) |
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Narciss And Goldmund by Herman Hesse
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millzy
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Mr. Bojangles said: 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) |
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i can't recommend Les Miserables any higher
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