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Larabar
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Re: Books for the Anti-reader [Re: LordSenate]
#19268800 - 12/13/13 12:06 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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All of these seem great. Foundations seems particularly fascinating 
I love dungeons and dragons too
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LordSenate
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Re: Books for the Anti-reader [Re: Larabar]
#19268808 - 12/13/13 12:08 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Alright. I think I'm going to go out to the barn to look through the rest.. I hate the dark but I need to get something for my computer thats out there anyway.
Foundation was great..but the sequel was pretty damn awful..
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Re: Books for the Anti-reader [Re: Larabar]
#19268821 - 12/13/13 12:13 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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I know they aren't books but you should also check out "The Watchmen", "V for Vendetta" and "Sin City".
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Re: Books for the Anti-reader [Re: LordSenate]
#19268832 - 12/13/13 12:17 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Shantaram. You won't put it down. I've always found it hard to get into a good reading habit but that book had me glued to the pages.
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Re: Books for the Anti-reader [Re: MycoPirate]
#19268838 - 12/13/13 12:20 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Sometimes getting glued takes a few pages longer than most people are willing to read.. If they would just read a tiny bit longer, most of the time they would get really into a book.
Like you said though after a bit of time you will be able to read really well even if a book starts off slow. But I've read plenty of books that kept me turning pages well after bed time even though my eyes were hardly open.
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moonrockmushy
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Re: Books for the Anti-reader [Re: shLong]
#19268840 - 12/13/13 12:21 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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I don't really like Steven King but 'The Stand' was awesome. Postapocalyptic drama/suspense I guess.
'Trainspotting' by Irvine Welsh is pretty awesomely gritty with an interesting yet simple writing style.
'Siddhartha' by Hermann Hesse if you are looking for some light spiritual narrative.
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Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch - Fantasy
Labyrinths or The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges - Short stories
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Magical Realism
Cannery Row or East of Eden - John Steinbeck (both are infinitely superior to Grapes of Wrath imo)
The Player of Games or The Use of Weapons by Iain Banks - SF
Neuromancer by William Gibson. - SF/Cyberpunk - All scifi nerds should read this. No exceptions.
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace - Postmodernism (Note: This is a big fucking book. I'm serious. You could use it to bludgeon a disobedient child or a ghetto hoodlum to death if need be. It's also exceedingly complicated and disjointed. If you're gonna read this you're gonna need to put quite a bit of effort into it)
Gravity's Rainbow or Mason and Dixon by Thomas Pynchon - Postmodernism (Note: Above note also goes for both of these)
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - SF - If you haven't read this at some point in your life you've wasted it. GO GET A COPY RIGHT FUCKING NOW.
Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out - Mo Yan - Sorta like Animal Farm by George Orwell but infinitely better.
I could go on but thats plenty methinks. I'd honestly be surprised if anyone here had actually read more than half of these.
-------------------- "I have no way of knowing whether you, who eventually will read this record, like stories or not. If you do not, no doubt you have turned these pages without attention. I confess that I love them. Indeed, it often seems to me that of all the good things in the world, the only ones humanity can claim for itself are stories and music; the rest, mercy, beauty, sleep, clean water and hot food (as the Ascian would have said) are all the work of the Increate. Thus, stories are small things indeed in the scheme of the universe, but it is hard not to love best what is our own—hard for me, at least."
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LordSenate
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Re: Books for the Anti-reader [Re: Cj-B]
#19268941 - 12/13/13 12:55 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Damn.. I wanted to read Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy a long time ago, I completely forgot.
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Larabar
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Re: Books for the Anti-reader [Re: MycoPirate]
#19270248 - 12/13/13 11:08 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Shantaram seems great and I've definitely read all of the Douglas Adams books..they make me extremely happy
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Re: Books for the Anti-reader [Re: Larabar]
#19270383 - 12/13/13 11:41 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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I'm reading Awaken The Giant Within right now. It's great read it.
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Patlal
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Re: Books for the Anti-reader [Re: brokentv]
#19270609 - 12/13/13 12:43 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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I have too many suggestions to list. I don't have half an hour ahead of me
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Re: Books for the Anti-reader [Re: brokentv]
#19270634 - 12/13/13 12:49 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
brokentv said: I'm reading Awaken The Giant Within right now. It's great read it.
Why is it great? A family member of mine strongly recommended it to me as well. I never gave it a chance because I assumed it was just a bunch of pat-yourself-on-the-back rhetoric.
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