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Psilocybeingzz
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yay
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OneMoreRobot3021
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The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Moon Palace by Paul Auster
Underground by Haruki Murakami
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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RoosterCogburn
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Science = 'Six Easy Pieces'
Drama = Steven King's UNABRIDGED 'The Stand'
Humor/Fun = 'Guards, Guards' by Terry Pratchet
Pratchet is awesome, but his style is crazy... Just read one and find out.
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funnybunny
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Everything Hermann Hesse.
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gema
Freedom from the Known
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Anythang by H.P. Lovecraft
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Re: What book to read? [Re: karn09]
#6243680 - 11/03/06 01:16 PM (17 years, 4 months ago) |
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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
-------------------- "the way of the warrior is the resolute acceptance of death" Miyamoto Musashi
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WhiskeyClone
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The Debt to Pleasure - John Lanchester
Life of Pi - Yves Martel
Leviathan - Paul Auster
-------------------- Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it. ~ R.W. Emerson, "Self-Reliance"
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headieherbs
originalgangster (oflove)
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I agree, read philosophy books like they're gonna disappear forever tomorrow.
Also read:
Chronicles by Bob Dylan The Life of PI by some canadian dude (good story) The Ender's Game books by Orson Scott Card (good sci-fi stories, not too weird though!) Any classic literature you can get your hands on Any Poetry you can get your hands on (chicks love poetry) Any book by Aristotle you can get your hands on (I know I mentioned philosophy already, but Aristotle rules!)
And last but not least: The Big Book of Buds, Volume 1 & 2 (a lot of pictures if you don't like words so much! )
there are many more good books I've read that I can't think of.... the way I find a new one is quite simple. Go to Barnes and Noble or Borders or whatever and pick up a book that looks interesting. Stick it down your pants or buy it and go home. Sit down near a light. Read it in it's entirety. (unless it's really bad) That's it, you've just found a new book/author/genre that you are interested in.
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Psilocybeingzz
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"I agree, read philosophy books like they're gonna disappear forever tomorrow."
I read philosophy every day, without fail.
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headieherbs
originalgangster (oflove)
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oooo 1984, thats a good one... they should have made you read that in highschool if your in the US... if you haven't though check that shit out.
-------------------- please don't take away my highway shoes.. Write In Your Vote.com - US Politics. For the People, by the People. Everything posted by the user(s) Headieherbs is either an outright lie or a work of complete fiction
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karn09
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Yea, 1984 was a great book, and yes, they did make us read it in highschool.
If your into fantasy novels, I personally have enjoyed The Wheel of Time series.
Dark Tower series also, i've only read the first three though, been waiting for the others to come out in paperback, takes forever
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