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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #6165317 - 10/13/06 10:38 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Hmmmm. I haven't really read much about serial killers. Helter Skelter by V. Bugliosi was excellent, but you've probably read that by now.

To be honest, with the exception of In Cold Blood, I don't really care too much for historical fiction. So if I do decide to finish Devil in the White City, it'll just be for the interesting history rather than what looked like a cool murder story.

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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #6165560 - 10/13/06 11:44 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Just finished Jitterbug Perfume.

Almost done with Choke by Chuch Palahniuk. Will start some soemthing by Mark Twain next.

Non-fiction. I'm reading Intoxication by Ronald Siegal, which is about how humans are pre-wired to strive for intoxication. Seems interesting so far.

Also started The Philosophers Stone, which is about the history of alchemy.

I buy my books at many places. First one is always Goodwill. Paperbacks are $.99 and hardbacks are $1.49. I've found some amazing deals there. Then next is the used bookstores around my neighborhood. There's about 5 of them in a 3 block radius. Then I'll go to Barnes and Noble and Tattered Cover, which is the biggest bookstore I've ever been in. I think it's 4 floors, could be 5 though.


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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: Penguarky Tunguin]
    #6165575 - 10/13/06 11:47 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Choke was my least favorite Palahniuk book...the most repetitive by far.


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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #6165589 - 10/13/06 11:51 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

I haven't read Choke yet, but I've heard decent things about it (other than from you OMR). Diary was probably my favorite of his books so far.

I tend to buy books from Barnes & Nobel or Amazon (if I want them used=cheaper).

I'm kind of a snob with my books (or in general, if you ask my boyfriend.  :grin: ), and I like them to be nice and new so that I can highlight them and write all over their wonderfully pristine pages.

Amazon is nice because they have the whole "you might enjoy..." thing, but it's also fun just to wander around B&N and check out the displays to find some new authors and topics and such.

I'm reading Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs right now, then I want to read Go Ask Alice (just bought it, all my friends read it in high school and I never did).

Just recently finish In the Pond (or Into the Pond?) which was pretty enjoyable.


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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: Geneephurr]
    #6165602 - 10/13/06 11:54 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

I've heard such good things about Running with Scissors.


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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: Geneephurr]
    #6165616 - 10/13/06 11:58 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Go Ask Alice is a really good book :thumbup:

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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #6165621 - 10/13/06 11:59 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

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OneMoreRobot3021 said:
I've heard such good things about Running with Scissors.



They made a movie out of it, and the preview looks really funny and like it'd be a good movie, so that really enflamed my need to read it myself.


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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #6165635 - 10/13/06 12:02 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

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Choke was my least favorite Palahniuk book...the most repetitive by far.




It's the first book I've read of his and I'm enjoying the hell out of it. Fucking hilarious in some parts, where I'm actually laughing out loud, which I rarely do when I read.

I just like his writing style, it's different and I think fits the story exactly.

I've got so many books to read that I'm not sure when I'm going to get around to reading another one of his.


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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: Penguarky Tunguin]
    #6165644 - 10/13/06 12:05 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

If you like his writing style then you'll find in his other books he's much better...I think Survivor is his best.


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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #6165842 - 10/13/06 12:56 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

We need pics of people's collections...


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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #6166057 - 10/13/06 02:09 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

I hardly ever buy books. This is because Kevin's rich grandparents sends us packages of leather-bound personally signed (some of them) sci-fi classic editions in big boxes. I have just about every sci-fi classic there is in leather and the books take up three big bookshelves.

It's pretty nice. Most of them I haven't read. About to start Dune, maybe today.

Other books I've been wanting to start: Ender's Shadow, The Dispossessed (not sure if I spelled that right, but whatever)

I usually read science fiction, but after I read all these books I already have, I think I'm going to move on to horror.

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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #6166065 - 10/13/06 02:16 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

I've been really diggin the William Gibson novels as of late, and as such I went out and bought 3 of them.

Idoru
Count Zero
All Tomorrow's Parties

I've read the first two now, and they were great! Only a couple of chapters into the third one, so we'll see on it!


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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: trendal]
    #6171864 - 10/15/06 01:45 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

skip "pattern recognition" by Gibson, boring
read dmt-the spirit molecule u can find the ebook on line
check out henry miller,tolstoy, dosteyvsky, lermontov, pushkin, turgenev,

Last Exit to Brooklyn
Reqiuem for a Dream by Hubert Selby
1984
Animal Farm
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainance
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

the fountainhead
Edgar Allen Poe: The Pit And The Pendulum
Notes from Underground
Hard Travellin by Kenneth Allsop
Dhalgren-sam delany
Behold a Pale Horse-william cooper
Life At The Bottom: The Worldview That Makes The Underclass - Theodore Dalrymple
The Stranger" by Albert Camus
The Rum Diary" by Hunter S. Thompson
The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
Art of War
The Catcher In The Rye - J.D. Salinger
metamorphasis
the turner diaries
Naked Lunch
Vissions of Cody
Biograhphies of Jim Morrison
Notes From Underground (Modern Version) - by Eric Bogosian
Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer
The Jungle, Sinclair
The Outsider" by Albert Camus
Johnny Got His Gun
The Alchemist
The Idiot - Dostovesky
William Blake's "Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman
William Gibson's Neuromancer
media control --- noam chomsky
watership down
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita
Tom Sawyer
Robert Heinlein
Walden" -- Henry David Thoreau
red badge of courage - stephen crane

if there is just a title and no author name just put into google with book reviews and the name will come up
all these r good books and will be a diversion from your mundane existence


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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: 5150]
    #6171890 - 10/15/06 01:54 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Hmmph, I liked Pattern Recognition.

Anyway, I'm sure the majority of clever/obscure/self-important literary masterpieces have already been mentioned here. But I assure you, I am incredibly well read and smarter than all of you because of the books I claim to read.

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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: unbeliever]
    #6171954 - 10/15/06 02:15 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Some good fantasy/sci-fi books


Enders Game - Dunno
The Darkness that comes before - R Scott Bakker
Dark Tower series - Stephen King


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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: MOTH]
    #6172149 - 10/15/06 03:05 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

I used to read compulsively, than somewher along the line i lost interest.
I'm trying to pick the habit back up again. I just read marilyn Mansons auto bigraphy: Long hard road out of hell.
Good read. Lots of crazy rockstar stories.


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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: unbeliever]
    #6178407 - 10/17/06 12:31 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

u liked pattern recognition it is by common agreement of all readers of cyberpunk that it,s his worst most infantile book
he writes about firewalls, emails,instant messaging, ooh how creative, terrible uninspired rubbish, i think u need to expand on your inadequate reading base


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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: 5150]
    #6178982 - 10/17/06 02:49 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

right now im reading
the stranger by camus
the areas of my expertise by john hodgman

last few good books ive read
man without a country by vonnegut
what we believe but cannot prove
enders game by card

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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: knumb]
    #6179045 - 10/17/06 03:03 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

any thing by David Icke


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Re: Books: The Thread About Them [Re: LosAngelesGraff]
    #6179296 - 10/17/06 04:04 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

:lol:


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