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Offlinebarfightlard
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Reccomend me some books
    #4102653 - 04/27/05 12:37 PM (18 years, 10 months ago)

I think I'm going to force myself to start biking to the library and hang out there for a bit and read. I've been struggling with life lately, maybe some inspirational books would be good?

what are some of the good books out there?


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Re: Reccomend me some books [Re: barfightlard]
    #4102667 - 04/27/05 12:43 PM (18 years, 10 months ago)

I don't know of any inspirational books but I recommend the following

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
anything by Arthur C. Clarke, especially the 2001/2010 A Space Odyssey books
anything by Kurt Vonnegut, especially Breakfast of Champions
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
anything by Lewis Carroll (the guy who wrote Alices Adventures in Wonderland)
Brain Droppings by George Carlin

Just go there and browse, I'm sure you'll find something of interest.


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Re: Reccomend me some books [Re: mantis]
    #4102670 - 04/27/05 12:44 PM (18 years, 10 months ago)

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway


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Re: Reccomend me some books [Re: barfightlard]
    #4102682 - 04/27/05 12:48 PM (18 years, 10 months ago)


maybe some inspirational books would be good?


Try "Requiem for a Dream". It usually gets people smiling.

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Re: Reccomend me some books [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #4102702 - 04/27/05 12:56 PM (18 years, 10 months ago)

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Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami




Haruki Murakami is the man. I highly recommend Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World


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Re: Reccomend me some books [Re: RandalFlagg]
    #4102707 - 04/27/05 12:57 PM (18 years, 10 months ago)

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maybe some inspirational books would be good?


Try "Requiem for a Dream".  It usually gets people smiling.




:lol:

And as for Haruki, yeah he truly is the man. I just read Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche, his nonfiction work, but his fiction is fucking amazing. Hard-Boiled....  and also The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle are great, trippy.


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-Erik Davis

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Re: Reccomend me some books [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #4102726 - 04/27/05 01:02 PM (18 years, 10 months ago)

Good authors you should check out:

Robert Anton Wilson
Terence McKenna
Ken Kesey
Allen Ginsburg
Alan Watts
William Burroughs

Good luck man. I need to start reading more too, it's been a while.


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Re: Reccomend me some books [Re: LiveByFreedom]
    #4102731 - 04/27/05 01:03 PM (18 years, 10 months ago)

I'm an English major...it's been my job to read for four years. Time for me to take a break. :lol:


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Re: Reccomend me some books [Re: mantis]
    #4102813 - 04/27/05 01:20 PM (18 years, 10 months ago)

thanks guys, I'll check those out.


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Re: Reccomend me some books [Re: barfightlard]
    #4102887 - 04/27/05 01:46 PM (18 years, 10 months ago)

I strongly recommend Conversations With God by Neale Donald Walsch. Changed my life forever.




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Re: Reccomend me some books [Re: mantis]
    #4102897 - 04/27/05 01:50 PM (18 years, 10 months ago)

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anything by Arthur C. Clarke, especially the 2001/2010 A Space 




:thumbup:


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