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Books for the Anti-reader
    #19268625 - 12/12/13 11:23 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I like to read, but hate it too.  It always seems like such an unrewarding task.  I just can never find the right book to grab my attention and keep me reading.

What are some good books that you think might suck me in and cure my hate for reading?

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Re: Books for the Anti-reader [Re: Larabar]
    #19268636 - 12/12/13 11:25 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

The Stand (LONG, but great)
The Green Mile
Fight Club
LSD: My Problem Child
Harry Potter


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Re: Books for the Anti-reader [Re: shLong]
    #19268666 - 12/12/13 11:32 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I like to read, but I like doing other things a lot more so it's hard for me to read much. I liked the bit i read from Eragon :shrug2: if you like dragons you'll probably like it


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Re: Books for the Anti-reader [Re: Larabar]
    #19268668 - 12/12/13 11:32 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Short stories.


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Re: Books for the Anti-reader [Re: Larabar]
    #19268677 - 12/12/13 11:34 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

A Scanner Darkly
Do Androids Dream of electric sheep.
Foundation

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Re: Books for the Anti-reader [Re: LordSenate]
    #19268680 - 12/12/13 11:34 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Crime and punishment


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Re: Books for the Anti-reader [Re: shLong]
    #19268686 - 12/12/13 11:35 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Thanks!:thumbup:

The Stand and The Green Mile seems quite interesting.
I've been meaning to read LSD: My Problem Child, for quite some time now.  I totally forgot about it until you suggested it.


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Re: Books for the Anti-reader [Re: s240779]
    #19268689 - 12/12/13 11:36 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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Da2ra said:
Short stories.



Good idea...
Skeleton  Crew by S King is great. Especially the story "The Jaunt"


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Re: Books for the Anti-reader [Re: LordSenate]
    #19268697 - 12/12/13 11:37 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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A Scanner Darkly
Do Androids Dream of electric sheep.
Foundation

..... still thinking, give me a minute.




These all seems great too :thumbup:
Thanks so much :awesome:


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Re: Books for the Anti-reader [Re: Larabar]
    #19268700 - 12/12/13 11:38 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

And I do have some Stephen King short story compilations lying around.  I shall have to crack them open


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Re: Books for the Anti-reader [Re: Larabar]
    #19268702 - 12/12/13 11:38 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

No problem.. I may think of more, I'm trying really hard.. my memory is atrocious.
Do android dream of electric sheep is the book the movie "Blade Runner" was based off of.


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Re: Books for the Anti-reader [Re: Larabar]
    #19268708 - 12/12/13 11:40 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I will look through all my books tomorrow and see what I have still. Send me a PM so that I can respond to you and let you know what I have. I wouldn't mind sending you any of the ones you might find interesting.


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Re: Books for the Anti-reader [Re: LordSenate]
    #19268716 - 12/12/13 11:42 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Daww thank you so much! I surely will.

I've never seen the movie or read the book, so I may attempt the read and then see the movie if I actually make it through the book heh :smile:


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Re: Books for the Anti-reader [Re: Larabar]
    #19268724 - 12/12/13 11:45 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

The movie is old as shit.. it has Harrison Ford in it but its pretty darn good..  Its a Philip K Dicks book.. They are all relatively small compared to other authors.

No problem man, they are literally just sitting in my basement so I would much rather give them to someone who might use them.


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Re: Books for the Anti-reader [Re: Larabar]
    #19268728 - 12/12/13 11:45 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe


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Re: Books for the Anti-reader [Re: Larabar]
    #19268745 - 12/12/13 11:50 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

Without Remorse

Such a good book, I read it last time I was in jail.

It's about this guy who rescuse this prostitute then helps her start to get her life back together, then she gets recaptured, and he goes bat shit crazy on the whole town.

There's much more to it though...


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Re: Books for the Anti-reader [Re: TrentBoyett]
    #19268754 - 12/12/13 11:55 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

John dies at the end was a fun one, like a horror comedy


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Re: Books for the Anti-reader [Re: Larabar]
    #19268762 - 12/12/13 11:57 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

LOL, go figure that most of the books that I've read that are only one novel and not extremely difficult to read... are harder to get to.. Oh well, I'll look in the morning.

I do have these listed below if you want to read up on them on amazon or something to see if you want to read them.

Foundation - Isaac Asimov
Fall of Highwatch - Mark Sehestedt
Elminster in Myth Drannor - Ed Greenwood
Elminster: The making of a mage - Ed Greenwood
realms of the Dead - R.A. Salvatore and Richard Lee Byers

I believe the Elminster books were some of the first books created in the Forgotten Realms (Dungeons and Dragons) . I have a shit ton of Forgotten Realms books.. Quite a few of those are very long series though.. But I certainly have some that are just one and easy to get into if you have an open mind. I know some people think Dungeons and Dragons and are very critical of them without ever taking the time to read one.


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Re: Books for the Anti-reader [Re: deladude]
    #19268784 - 12/13/13 12:02 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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John dies at the end was a fun one, like a horror comedy



I have this book and will sell it for $5 plus shipping to anyone interested... :derfase:
I didn't care for it myself.


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Re: Books for the Anti-reader [Re: shLong]
    #19268790 - 12/13/13 12:03 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

I actually think the sequel was quite a bit better


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Re: Books for the Anti-reader [Re: LordSenate]
    #19268800 - 12/13/13 12:06 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

All of these seem great.  Foundations seems particularly fascinating :thumbup:

I love dungeons and dragons too :wizardfail:


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Re: Books for the Anti-reader [Re: Larabar]
    #19268808 - 12/13/13 12:08 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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)

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)

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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    #19268838 - 12/13/13 12:20 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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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Re: Books for the Anti-reader [Re: shLong]
    #19268840 - 12/13/13 12:21 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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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Re: Books for the Anti-reader [Re: moonrockmushy]
    #19268929 - 12/13/13 12:50 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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.


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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)

Damn.. I wanted to read Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy a long time ago, I completely forgot.


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Re: Books for the Anti-reader [Re: MycoPirate]
    #19270248 - 12/13/13 11:08 AM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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)

I'm reading Awaken The Giant Within right now. It's great read it.


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Re: Books for the Anti-reader [Re: brokentv]
    #19270609 - 12/13/13 12:43 PM (10 years, 1 month ago)

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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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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