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 Re: So what's your all-time favorite book?  [Re: zeta]
#2255264 - 01/20/04 07:10 AM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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hehe,
MMGG = Magic Mushroom Grower's Guide ( A controversial topic )
GGMM = Growing Gourmet and Medicianl Mushrooms ( A tome of biblical proportions )
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scotsman1
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Re: So what's your all-time favorite book? [Re: debianlinux]
#2255479 - 01/20/04 08:59 AM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld
By Herbert Asbury....
I dont read many books but i read this book long before the
film was ever thought of, some of the stories were wild.
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Llamanose
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Re: So what's your all-time favorite book? [Re: manna_man]
#2256964 - 01/20/04 05:36 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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1984- George Orwell (mandatory)
Dune - Frank Herbert
Farenheit 451- Ray Bradbury
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
The Archaic Revival - Terence McKenna
Sacred Mirrors - Alex Grey (a book of art, but a book nonetheless, he did the Tool cover art for Lateralus)
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"I don't know," Alice answered.
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~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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Re: So what's your all-time favorite book? [Re: Llamanose]
#2263915 - 01/22/04 08:19 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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I'm reading Watership down right now. Definetly one of the best books I've ever read. It's not a kids book like you'd think. Give it a try! 
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pineal666
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Re: So what's your all-time favorite book? [Re: debianlinux]
#2264057 - 01/22/04 08:53 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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Huck Fin
To kill a mockingbird
Youth in Revolt
A heatrbreaking work of staggering genius
You shall know my Velocity
The Hobbit
The lord od the rings
Sacred Mirrors
Dali
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Squid
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Re: So what's your all-time favorite book? [Re: pineal666]
#2272140 - 01/25/04 03:59 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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a few more of my favorites
Alive - Piers Paul Reid
Helter Skelter the true story of the Manson murders - Vincient Bugliosi
The Hobbit - Tolkien
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
Day of the Triffids - John Wyndam
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Intensity - DeanKoontz
Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger (this is a must read!)
In the heart of the seathe true story of the whaleship essex - Nathaniel
Philbrick
And then their were none - agatha christie
DMT the spirit molecule - Strassman
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Re: So what's your all-time favorite book? [Re: Squid]
#2272298 - 01/25/04 05:15 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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Out of control - Kevin Kelly
I don't tend to read much fiction now for some reason. I used to be into fantasy/sci-fi, so notables from there would be:
Magician - Raymond E Feist
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
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Re: So what's your all-time favorite book? [Re: huxmush]
#2274771 - 01/26/04 01:29 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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The Illuminatous Trilogy
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Slapstick - Kurt Vonnegut
The Wasp Factory
The Wheel of Time (series)- Robert Jordan (Fiction. Possibly the greatest series ever written. If you like or LOVE L.O.T.R. by Tolkien, you'll be infatuated with this series. He took Tolkien's world and expanded on it, yet making it his own at the same time. Book 1 = The Eye of the World.)
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Re: So what's your all-time favorite book? [Re: manna_man]
#2274803 - 01/26/04 01:42 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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The Little Price- Saint Something or other
Slaughter-House 5-Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast of Champions- Kurt Vonnegut
I like all Vonneguts books that ive read.
Sirens Of Titan
SlapStick
Good Bless You Mr. Rosewater
and Timequake
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JonnyOnTheSpot
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Re: So what's your all-time favorite book? [Re: waterbug]
#2275460 - 01/26/04 05:46 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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One Hundred Years Of Solitude
Lord Of The Rings
Earth
Dune
i'm in the middle of reading 1984 right now...good so far.
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Noviseer
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Re: So what's your all-time favorite book? [Re: manna_man]
#2275467 - 01/26/04 05:47 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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Rule of the Bone - Russell Banks
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Re: So what's your all-time favorite book? [Re: manna_man]
#2275561 - 01/26/04 06:21 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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The Rum Diary- Hunter S. Thompson
The Hobbit- J.R.R Tolkien
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Re: So what's your all-time favorite book? [Re: Squid]
#2275654 - 01/26/04 07:06 PM (20 years, 7 months ago) |
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I second watership down
heh pineal is that NGC 5128 in your avatar?
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zappaisgod
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Re: So what's your all-time favorite book? [Re: shaggy101]
#2334251 - 02/14/04 12:46 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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American Psycho- Bret Easton Ellis is a masterpiece as is:
The Sotweed Factor- John Barth
Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov
Moby Dick- Herman Melville
Infinite Jest- David Foster Wallace
Sometimes a Great Notion- Ken Kesey
Catch 22- Joseph Heller
And the funniest book ever written
A Confederacy of Dunces- William Kennedy Toole
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Re: So what's your all-time favorite book? [Re: manna_man]
#2335492 - 02/14/04 07:26 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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triggerfish twist-tim dorsey
pretty much any book by this guy.
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Re: So what's your all-time favorite book? [Re: manna_man]
#2335548 - 02/14/04 08:03 PM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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Island - Aldous Huxley
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell - Aldous Huxley
High Priest - Timothy Leary
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe
A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn
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Re: So what's your all-time favorite book? [Re: slime_R]
#2336247 - 02/15/04 01:52 AM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
I've always really liked "The Giver".
I forgot about that book. Thanks for reminding me!
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Re: So what's your all-time favorite book? [Re: SpecialEd]
#2336272 - 02/15/04 01:58 AM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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A brave new world
1984
Animal Farm
The Jungle-Upton Sinclair
The first four books of Carlos Castaneda
The Dharma Bums and On the Road-Jack Keroac
Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance-Pirsig
The Godfather-Mario Puzo
The Satanic Bible-LaVey
The Grapes of Wrath
Electric KoolAid Acid Test
Any book by Laura Ingles Wilder
Junkie-Burroughs
TO kill a Mocking Bird
Where the Red Fern Grows
Old Yeller
Oh, get this guys, I HATE Kurt Vonnegut!
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skoomaguitarist
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Re: So what's your all-time favorite book? [Re: SpecialEd]
#2336347 - 02/15/04 02:21 AM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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the red badge of courage - ??? (can't remember)
farenheit 451 - bradbury
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La_La_Land
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Re: So what's your all-time favorite book? [Re: manna_man]
#2336921 - 02/15/04 09:55 AM (20 years, 6 months ago) |
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Fifth Business - Robertson Davies
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