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Offlinejcdangerously
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Recommend some books
    #5632877 - 05/15/06 02:25 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

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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Re: Recommend some books [Re: jcdangerously]
    #5632912 - 05/15/06 02:33 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Hmm.. Jurassic park has always been a personal favorite. Its an intense book. That resparked my love for reading,.


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Offlinejcdangerously
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Re: Recommend some books [Re: Toddo]
    #5632924 - 05/15/06 02:37 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

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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Re: Recommend some books [Re: jcdangerously]
    #5633030 - 05/15/06 02:58 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

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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Re: Recommend some books [Re: PinballWizard]
    #5633043 - 05/15/06 03:00 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

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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Offlinejcdangerously
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Re: Recommend some books [Re: PinballWizard]
    #5633084 - 05/15/06 03:07 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

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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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Re: Recommend some books [Re: jcdangerously]
    #5633127 - 05/15/06 03:16 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

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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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What's Naked Lunch about?




Hard to say. :crazy:  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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Re: Recommend some books [Re: PinballWizard]
    #5633151 - 05/15/06 03:20 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

the illuminatus! trilogy. awesome.


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Re: Recommend some books [Re: PinballWizard]
    #5633193 - 05/15/06 03:28 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

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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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Re: Recommend some books [Re: jcdangerously]
    #5633595 - 05/15/06 04:23 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

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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Re: Recommend some books [Re: Birds_Can_Swim]
    #5633704 - 05/15/06 04:40 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

<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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Re: Recommend some books [Re: SneezingPenis]
    #5633912 - 05/15/06 05:29 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

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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Re: Recommend some books [Re: jcdangerously]
    #5634276 - 05/15/06 06:56 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

The Dark Elf Trilogy (if you like fantasy)
The Holographic Universe
Toward a Psychology of Awakening
The Cosmic Game


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Re: Recommend some books [Re: KungFu_Shaman]
    #5634310 - 05/15/06 07:03 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

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)

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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Re: Recommend some books [Re: KidgardFromSRQ]
    #5634830 - 05/15/06 08:30 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Botany of desire, by micheal pollan GREAT GREAT read


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Re: Recommend some books [Re: jcdangerously]
    #5634945 - 05/15/06 08:55 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

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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Re: Recommend some books [Re: HSIHd]
    #5634978 - 05/15/06 09:01 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

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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Re: Recommend some books [Re: Snaggletooth]
    #5635086 - 05/15/06 09:22 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

richard bach - illusions


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Re: Recommend some books [Re: jcdangerously]
    #5635105 - 05/15/06 09:25 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

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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Re: Recommend some books [Re: jcdangerously]
    #5635163 - 05/15/06 09:36 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

I found Catcher to be an outstandingly boring book. This book was banned in some schools because if you read closely some of the things the narrarator says are, without spoiling anything, a little fucking psychotic.


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Re: Recommend some books [Re: Hawkeye3]
    #5635770 - 05/15/06 11:56 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)



It's a true story. :naughty:


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Re: Recommend some books [Re: pantsboy]
    #5635838 - 05/16/06 12:07 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

the fountainhead by ayne rand.

It will blow your mind.


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Re: Recommend some books [Re: dr0mni]
    #5636474 - 05/16/06 06:02 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Aint Nobodies Business If You Do--should be on everones bookshelf

For Whom The Bell Tolls--- :thumbup:

Vacations In Hell---a little bit dated but still good

Kennedy v. Kruschev--- :thumbup:

The Bible---


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Re: Recommend some books [Re: gregorio]
    #5636545 - 05/16/06 07:01 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

True Hullucinations- Terrence McKenna

im about half way done with it.. its been a GREAT read so far, and i dont like reading usually


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Re: Recommend some books [Re: jcdangerously]
    #5636553 - 05/16/06 07:06 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

I highly recommend The Search Function.
Like any other book, you get to do something by yourself and have some alone time. It's awesome. You get to see stuff that was written on a topic of your interest by people at some past time. No one needs to be bothered. You get do do it all by yourself.


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Re: Recommend some books [Re: nunciate]
    #5636554 - 05/16/06 07:07 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

:syringe:


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Re: Recommend some books [Re: Konnrade]
    #5636559 - 05/16/06 07:09 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

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...gurb?


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Re: Recommend some books [Re: dr0mni]
    #5636657 - 05/16/06 08:21 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

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the fountainhead by ayne rand.

It will blow your mind.




yeah, if you can get through the whole thing before you realize she's just repeating the same one-sided propaganda over and over, in an attempt to brainwash the reader via monotonous repetition.

yeah, if you can get through the whole thing before you realize she's just repeating the same one-sided propaganda over and over, in an attempt to brainwash the reader via monotonous repetition.

yeah, if you can get through the whole thing before you realize she's just repeating the same one-sided propaganda over and over, in an attempt to brainwash the reader via monotonous repetition.

yeah, if you can get through the whole thing before you realize she's just repeating the same one-sided propaganda over and over, in an attempt to brainwash the reader via monotonous repetition.

yeah, if you can get through the whole thing before you realize she's just repeating the same one-sided propaganda over and over, in an attempt to brainwash the reader via monotonous repetition.

yeah, if you can get through the whole thing before you realize she's just repeating the same one-sided propaganda over and over, in an attempt to brainwash the reader via monotonous repetition.

yeah, if you can get through the whole thing before you realize she's just repeating the same one-sided propaganda over and over, in an attempt to brainwash the reader via monotonous repetition.

yeah, if you can get through the whole thing before you realize she's just repeating the same one-sided propaganda over and over, in an attempt to brainwash the reader via monotonous repetition.

yeah, if you can get through the whole thing before you realize she's just repeating the same one-sided propaganda over and over, in an attempt to brainwash the reader via monotonous repetition.


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Re: Recommend some books [Re: DoctorJ]
    #5636733 - 05/16/06 08:50 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Another recomendation

I just started Duncan Sprott's The Ptolemies

Holy awesome, batman


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Re: Recommend some books [Re: Birds_Can_Swim]
    #5637157 - 05/16/06 11:58 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Highly recommend 'The power of now - A guide to spiritual enlightenment' by Eckhart Tolle

A good book for sitting around smoking and having a few deep thoughts.


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