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jcdangerously
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Recommend some books
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Anything worth reading. I'm going to be kicking it for a bit, toking a j and watching some movies while I get my leech on via IRC. I'm currently snagging all of Piers Anthony's stuff, mostly for nostalgia value.
So, let's hear it. I'm game for any genre.
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Toddo
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Hmm.. Jurassic park has always been a personal favorite. Its an intense book. That resparked my love for reading,.
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jcdangerously
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Re: Recommend some books [Re: Toddo]
#5632924 - 05/15/06 02:37 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Crichton's a pretty decent writer. That reminds me, I ought to nab The 13th Warrior. I've heard that it blows the movie right out of the water.
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PinballWizard
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Catcher in the Rye A Clockwork Orange 1984 Brave New World One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Naked Lunch
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notapillow
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cuckoo's nest for sure if you want a book that will make you think and not so much a good story i would recomend "zen mind beginers mind"
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jcdangerously
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Catcher in the Rye A Clockwork Orange 1984 Brave New World One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Naked Lunch
Did you know that Catcher in the Rye is the book that caused Chapman to shoot John Lennon? I found this out a few months ago while watching his biography. At any rate, it sounds like it ought to be a pretty solid read.
I'm definitely snagging A Clockwork Orange. I've been meaning to grab that for a while now.
What's Naked Lunch about?
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PinballWizard
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jcdangerously said: Did you know that Catcher in the Rye is the book that caused Chapman to shoot John Lennon? I found this out a few months ago while watching his biography. At any rate, it sounds like it ought to be a pretty solid read.
Sadly, that's what made me read the book in the first place.
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jcdangerously said: What's Naked Lunch about?
Hard to say. I guess it's about a junkie in the late fifties and the whole beat generation. It was written by William S. Burroughs, and has been hailed as the most important novel of the 20th century (only opinion).
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the illuminatus! trilogy. awesome.
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irascible_raunch
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PinballWizard said: Catcher in the Rye A Clockwork Orange 1984 Brave New World One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Naked Lunch
Good.
I like nonfiction. Scheherazade Goes West by Fatema Mernissi is good.
Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky. As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner.
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Birds_Can_Swim
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The People of Paper by Salvado Plascencia
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
And theres some really hot gay porn that's worth reading, but I need to find them (for the next best thing, pick up anything by Daniel Cooper)
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SneezingPenis
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<b>Geek Love</b> - by (angela?) Dunn. it is the first person narrative by a female albino dwarf who is the offspring of carnies who got the bright idea to make their own circus by causing themselves to have freak of nature children which include siamese twins who end up becoming prostitutes, Arturo the Aqua Boy who ends up making his own religion and 1 normal child.
A Prayer for Owen Meaney (sp?) - also about a dwarf (coincidence, but I can't give too much away, because it has the best ending in a book ever. I don't cry, ever, but the ending of this book would make anyone cry.
Anything by Tom Robbins - my favorite is Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates.
but one of the best books I have ever read was by a science fiction writer, supposedly, who has IMO the best writing ability. Storm Constantine is her name and the book is called "Wraeththuu" ....i think that is how you spell it, with the "thth". The book is 3 in one, each book changes to a narrative/persepctive from a main character as well as changes times in the overall story with very interesting overlaps.
It is about how a mutation in the future creates not just androgenous people, but more like a sum of male and female and different sects and regions split up and have different beliefs, magic, powers, politics and such..... but it is so well written, and so vivid, that I read the 1200+ page book in under a week.
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theuser
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I enjoy audio books, here ya go:
Hitchhicker's guide to the galaxy series. (1st 3) The Dark Tower series The Davinchi Code Sherlock Holmes
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KungFu_Shaman
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The Dark Elf Trilogy (if you like fantasy) The Holographic Universe Toward a Psychology of Awakening The Cosmic Game
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Yarry
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anything from the sword of truth series for fantasy, and if your lookng to be reading alot, start at the beginning and work your way through the books
animal farm was great. i also liked lord of the flies, assuming you havnt read it. like the guys have said above too, anything by micheal crichton is awesome.
if your looking to read and learn, check out darwins ghost. its basically a rehash of all of darwins studies about evolution and stuff, but put into modern and more understandable language. More accesable to most people
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Re: Recommend some books [Re: Yarry]
#5634698 - 05/15/06 08:09 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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if you havent read it already and like the doors, check out No one here gets out alive. im reading riders on the storm right now, i just started it. i hear that theres one that digs into his death alot and his "secret life"
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Botany of desire, by micheal pollan GREAT GREAT read
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HSIHd
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Any book by David Sedaris. The only author who can make me laugh out loud(or lol for the more internet savvy). Very quick reading, and at the same time very intelligent.
Me Talk Pretty One Day Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim Barrel Fever /\----Just to name a few
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Snaggletooth
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Re: Recommend some books [Re: HSIHd]
#5634978 - 05/15/06 09:01 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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JRR Tolkien , The Hobbit, and The Lord Of The Rings (well this is the audio version)

Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker Guide To the Universe and the others that followed

Terence Mckenna
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barto
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richard bach - illusions
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if you like peirs anthony you should try robert aspirin, specifically the 'myth' series.
a little juvenile, but fun reads. about 100x better than harry potter, though not as famous.
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