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Patisotagami
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Good Books You've Read/Are Reading
#9263444 - 11/17/08 10:44 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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I'm shocked that I haven't found a thread about some great fiction or nonfiction books shroomites read for fun when they aren't browsing the forum!
I'm currently loving Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. It's an often hillarious commentary on religion, society, and the creation of the atomic bomb the United States dropped on Hiroshima.
I'm also reading The Pursuit of Happiness by Bertrand Russell. It's a philosophical book about what makes people unhappy when there should be no apparent cause of the unhappiness, and what they can do to combat it. I can't say I agree with everything in Russell's book... but it's interesting. Not nearly as good as Vonnegut though!
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Re: Good Books You've Read/Are Reading [Re: Patisotagami]
#9263575 - 11/17/08 11:10 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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I loved Cat's Cradle, it's probably my favorite of his... other than slaughterhouse five.
Right now I don't have much time to read, so hopefully I'll be able to read Catch 22 during my Thanksgiving/Christmas break.
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Re: Good Books You've Read/Are Reading [Re: jenns_hot]
#9263618 - 11/17/08 11:18 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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"the electric kool-aid acid test" never gets old. i've probably read it 5 times and i'm reading it again.
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Re: Good Books You've Read/Are Reading [Re: jenns_hot]
#9263697 - 11/17/08 11:30 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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I read Slaughterhouse Five, but it wasn't really my type of tea...aliens and ww2 flashbacks? ehh. My favorite books got to be the Rum Diaries by Hunter Thompson.. his writing style puts you in the character and the atmosphere is great. Books i've recently read are 21 which was good, but if you saw the movie theres not much else there, and Leaving Dirty Jersey, the meth memoirs of a man from Princeton who goes to inpatient in cali, leaves, gets fucked up, gets in trouble, and heads back again. All in all it was entertaining, but if your looking for some sort of life lessons to walk away with besides don't overdo drugs it's kinda dry. I'm looking for a new book and i'm unhappy in life right now. Is Pursuit of Happiness something that might be beneficial to read?
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Re: Good Books You've Read/Are Reading [Re: Shroomsbrrr]
#9263710 - 11/17/08 11:32 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: Good Books You've Read/Are Reading [Re: Patisotagami]
#9263780 - 11/17/08 11:40 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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I just grabbed Fahrenheit 451. I'm glad I've waited this long so I can fully appreciate it on an intellectual level for the type of literature it is and what it presents to the reader. Let alone the undertones of literary theory that run throughout the work; in regard to mechanical reproduction, mass media, the dissolution of the individual, etc. Very far ahead of it's time. Nearly forgot it was written in 1953.
I'm reading "The Crisis of the Aristocracy 1558-1641" by Lawrence Stone for a paper and it's pretty interesting. Very good source material.
The Penal Colony is next on my list.
I may very well challenge myself to read something I deem really shitty. If it still sucks at the end, I have the capacity to validate the fact that it does, indeed, suck.
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Re: Good Books You've Read/Are Reading [Re: Adden]
#9263815 - 11/17/08 11:47 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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I just finished A Clockwork Orange this evening and will now begin Naked Lunch.
A few of my favourites: Revolution for the Hell of It (Abbie Hoffman) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) Treasure Island (Robert Louis Steverson)
and for all of you philosophers out there: Totality & Infinity (Emmanuel Levinas)
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Re: Good Books You've Read/Are Reading [Re: Patisotagami]
#9263826 - 11/17/08 11:49 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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The only book I've read and finished in a long time that I actually enjoyed was Fats Domino's biography. I also have a book about essential jazz albums throughout history that I like, but it's not really a book you just sit down and read cover to cover.
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Re: Good Books You've Read/Are Reading [Re: jewunit]
#9264163 - 11/18/08 01:05 AM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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Slaughterhouse Five is one of my favourite books ever.
Although good ones I've read recently include Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk, and A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, the most interesting book about science that I've ever read.
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Re: Good Books You've Read/Are Reading [Re: Goomba]
#9264263 - 11/18/08 01:43 AM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Rick Strassman (should be required reading for shroomerites)
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (about ken kesey and friends)
All My Friends Are Going to be Strangers by Larry McMurtry (really well written, set in Texas)
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney (pretty breezy read set in the 80's coke/clubbing scene)
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Re: Good Books You've Read/Are Reading [Re: ThreeChe]
#9264294 - 11/18/08 01:57 AM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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I finished East of Eden about a month ago. That book was phenomenal in how Steinbeck was able to weave such a large theme into such a tight package. It was long, but very, very good. I also re-read Slaughterhouse Five recently as well, and found it much better the second time around.
I would have been reading more, but my laser eye stuff has temporarily sidelined my sight.. My reading goes in spurts anyhow. The Brothers Karamozov is next.. I know I can do it!
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Re: Good Books You've Read/Are Reading [Re: thedefone]
#9264299 - 11/18/08 01:59 AM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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Another Vote for Electric kool Aid Acid Test Fear and Loathing by HST is a must have/read. Breakfast of Champions by kurt vonnegut is a classic
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Re: Good Books You've Read/Are Reading [Re: Patisotagami]
#9264373 - 11/18/08 02:25 AM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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smmu said: I'm shocked that I haven't found a thread about some great fiction or nonfiction books shroomites read for fun when they aren't browsing the forum!
There is (used to be?) a list like that in the Art & Literature forum, but it won't hurt to have one here.
Don't really have anything to recommend at the moment. I'm struggling through Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon. I love most of his works but I really find that I'm starting to lack the patience for his longer works. I hope the internet hasn't destroyed my attention span.
If you want to get into Pynchon start with the Crying of Lot 49 If you find that you're into it, go for Gravity's Rainbow. It really helps if you're a bit of a geek. Many of his references are from engineering, which has given him an undeserved reputation of being hard to understand or unreadable among the literature crowd.
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Re: Good Books You've Read/Are Reading [Re: Patisotagami]
#9264509 - 11/18/08 04:21 AM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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I just finished reading Jack Kerouac's "Dharma Bums" for the second time. It's one of my all time favorites. I love Kerouac
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Re: Good Books You've Read/Are Reading [Re: RipVanWinkle]
#9264520 - 11/18/08 04:29 AM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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anything by Bukowski
and the "kool-aid" book got annoying fast. maybe it was just me, but Wolfe can't write for shit. he was like that annoying square kid at the end of the bus that wanted to be cool like all the other guys but failed and wrote about it in retrospect.
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Re: Good Books You've Read/Are Reading [Re: Bridgeburner]
#9264545 - 11/18/08 04:52 AM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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b0red5tiff said: and the "kool-aid" book got annoying fast. maybe it was just me, but Wolfe can't write for shit. he was like that annoying square kid at the end of the bus that wanted to be cool like all the other guys but failed and wrote about it in retrospect.
That's how I felt about On the Road.
And yeah, I forgot about Bukowski somehow. Love his shit.
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Re: Good Books You've Read/Are Reading [Re: Bridgeburner]
#9264597 - 11/18/08 05:33 AM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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b0red5tiff said: Wolfe can't write for shit. he was like that annoying square kid at the end of the bus that wanted to be cool like all the other guys but failed and wrote about it in retrospect.
Your assessment of Wolfe is spot on. He ended up becoming a neopuritan freak, like many half-hearted hippie wannabes. They got one brief glimpse at their own dark side and ran away screaming into the arms of the church and conservatism resulting in the fierce rightwing backlash that was the Reagan/Thatcher era.
I won't say he can't write for shit though. I thought Bonfire of the Vanities was a decent novel even though I disagree with some of the ideas he put forward. In Kool-aid he tried to imitate Hunter Thompson and fell short. I still like the book as journalism. Reading about what became of Neal Cassady (Dean Moriarty in On the Road) made it worth reading for me.
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Re: Good Books You've Read/Are Reading [Re: koppie]
#9264630 - 11/18/08 06:13 AM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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Just finished reading a short non-fiction about a child soldier in Sierra Leone. Its basically a summarized version of his life in the early 90's during their Civil War between various factions of rebels and the governments corrupt leaders, and how thousands of children were taken into combat.
Its called "A Long Way Gone" by Ishmael Beah. Was a pretty satisfying and informative read for fairly short book.
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Re: Good Books You've Read/Are Reading [Re: Patisotagami]
#9264655 - 11/18/08 06:26 AM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: Good Books You've Read/Are Reading [Re: KaptKid]
#9264673 - 11/18/08 06:40 AM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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KaptKid hows your postcount doing?
Just got done reading "The Innocent Man" by John Grisham. It's hella depressing really. Basicly about a semi-retarded dude named Ron Williamson, who gets falsley accused of murder, gets put on death row, then gets off. He's a wierd fucker too. Sad part is this is a true story. I give it 6.5/10 for being so depressing, yet its nonfiction sorta a biography i guess. There is some coolness in it, but its only because it actually happened and you read some stuff and go wtf? Anyone want some tea and crumpets?
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Re: Good Books You've Read/Are Reading [Re: nolongerinuse]
#9264712 - 11/18/08 07:11 AM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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I'll add a vote for Story of B... I've always loved that line "these days are still those days." I didn't like Ishmael or My Ishmael anywhere near as much.
Also Ender's Game and Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card... They're easy reads, and prolly because of that he's been one of my favorite authors since I was little.
hmmm...
Jitterbug Perfume.
Shit, it's been so long since I've read a book I can't remember my old favorites... I should start reading again.
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Finished reading the "A Song of Fire and Ice" series by George R. R. Martin and am waiting for the next installment feverishisly. The books can get kind of cheesy but are awesome anyway.
Right now I'm burning through David Sedaris's collection and have read Naked, Holidays on Ice, and When you are Engulfed in flames. Holidays on Ice is NOT worth buying seeing as the first chapter about Macy's is the only worthwhile one. Otherwise he's pretty damn funny.
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Re: Good Books You've Read/Are Reading [Re: Patisotagami]
#9266070 - 11/18/08 01:53 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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no there are a few threads about books, just look at the bottom of the page to related threads compilation, anyway here is a list of books once again
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Rum Diaries by Hunter S. Thompson One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
I read "Catfish and Mandala" in Viet Nam and found it fantastic. The writter was bicycling in the same places I was traveling and it was very funny.
The Sacred Willow is a wonderful history of Vietnam, in novel form. It is extremely well researched, I was both engrossed and educated.
"The Girl in the Picture" is very sad, but good war history.
"Vietnam in the Absence of War" by Thomas Rampton is a good account of two bicycling trips through Vietnam. It is not about the war, but biking down Highway 1.
"Laos" by Judy Rantala is a wonderful account by the wife of an American industrial arts teacher in Laos--prior to the communist take over.
'Mai Pen Rai" is the story of a State Department wife living in Bangkok, I belive in the early 1970's--very entertaining.
I am sorry that I don't have the names of most of the writters because I pass most books on after I read them, but I think I bought all of them at Amazon.
As for "Off the Rails in Phnom Penh," that one I bought in the Bangkok Airport and as a female reader I found it absolutely sickeningly repulsive and sad, I have no idea if the ending redeems the rest of the book because even though I tried several times I could never get more than half way through th
'private dancer' is impossible to put down till the twist-in-the-tail conclusion, its the story of a bar girl and her customer/boyfriend, told in the first person, from both perspectives - should be mandatory reading for all single males arriving in TH
The Scribe by David Young.
is The Lotus Kingdom by Alastair Shearer
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller Fear and Loathing by Hunter S. Thompson Slaughter House by Kurt Vonnegut Junkie by William S. Burroughs Michowel Sacred Vine of Spirits: Ayahuasca edited by Ralph Metzner Cant Find My Way Home: America In the Great Stoned Age You Must Set Forth At Dawn by Wole Soyinka Ketamine: Dreams and Realities Blackfoot physics: a journey into the native american universe by f. david peat The Road - Cormac McCarthy Breaking Open the Head. Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake Wizard of the Upper Amazon: The Story of Manuel Cordova-Rios Back From the Void by Zoe 7.
A Star called Henry by Roddy Doyle. fierce invalids home from hot climates" by tom robbins
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe Siddartha by Hermann Hesse A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 1968 Strangely B. Stranger: Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (My license plate reads "Dr Nut"!)
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac The Road Less Travelled by M. Scott Peck Leah: Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg - Carolyn Cassady The Plays of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov (Paul Schmidt trans.) Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
Under the Volcano, Malcom Lowry The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco Leaving Las Vegas, John O'Brien
The Razor's Edge, Somerset Maughham Cosmos, Carl Sagan A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway
Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac Scratching the Beat Surface by Michael McClure
Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs The Informers by Bret Easton-Ellis Books Of Blood vol. 1-3 by Clive Barker A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut (tie)
Little, Big by John Crowley The best American magic-realist novel ever Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
Deceptive simplicity Texasville by Larry McMurtry Pure pleasure; the most fun I've ever had reading a book All We Need of Hell by Harry Crews
Last Resort by Scott Sommer A 25 year old loser goes home to his family's decaying seaside house; fun and true Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac Strange Wine by Harlan Ellison Would be perfect book with the addition of The Deathbird and a few other Ellison classics Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Richard: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac Apocalypse by D.H. Lawrence Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Ask the Dust by John Fante Road to Los Angeles by John Fante Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski Sense of Beauty by George Santayana Ulysses by James Joyce Christina C:
Ahhhh Ti Jean...in my eyes you're best Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins Zany and great The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
The First Third by Neal Cassady Oh the man behind the curtain....how interesting Kerouac: A Biography by Ann Charters Off the Road by Carolyn Cassady SMUT (aka Trashy Romances) by certain authors Always have to have a no brainer here and there The Hungry Ocean by Linda Greenlaw Living in Downeast Maine...Fishing is a part of life Little: Complete Fiction by Bruno Schulz
Cages by Dave McKean The safety of illusions, the golden cage of lost hopes. McKean is the Stanley Kubrick of his medium. Dr.Sax by Jack Kerouac Kerouac´s highest high. Beneath the Wheel by Hermann Hesse
Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard ) The Nature of Time by G.J. Whitrow
El Aleph by Jorge Louis Borges "I can´t see Borges anywhere!" (Donald Cammell) Dreams and Dead Ends by Jack Shadoian The American Gangster/Crime genre from Shadoian´s POV: Poetic, essential, passionate. London Fields by Martin Amis
Panegyric by Guy Debord The society of the spectacle couldn't make it here! Hammond Guthrie: The I-Ching (original translation) The Tibetan Book of the Dead (original translation) Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Scripture of the Golden Eternity by Jack Kerouac Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by Buckminster Fuller The Rosy Crucifixion = Sexus, Plexus and Nexus by Henry Miller Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey Ulysses/Finnegans Wake (as a 2 Vol. entry) by James Joyce The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot The Elements of Style by Richard Strunk Jean-Marie S.: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Vanity of Duluoz by Jack Kerouac Ask the Dust by John Fante Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll
Ninety-two in the Shade by Thomas Mc Guane Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis Michael: The Arabian Nightmare by Robert Irwin Film As A Subversive Art by Amos Vogel Franz Kafka by Max Brod The Air Conditioned Nighmare by Henry Miller Demian by Herman Hesse Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley by Lawrence Sutin
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller Catcher In the Rye by J.D. Salinger One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
All My Friends Are Going To be Strangers by Larry McMurtry
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingwaay Ask The Dust by John Fante Sixty-Seven Poems for Downtrodden Saints The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac White Trash Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs It Catches My Heart In Its Hands by Charles Bukowski
Tristessa by Jack Kerouac Junky by William S. Burroughs More Junk...Junk Sick..Junk.... Factotum by Charles Bukowski & yes, by the sweat of your brow.... Down & Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Really the Blues by Mezz Mezzrow take a rapid ride on the jazz train to.....
Be a writer...The Gamble for a Lifetime... -10. (Let's Break The Rules) (Books by some new ones....) Rope Burns by F.X. Toole...Get this book. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America by Barbara Ehrenreich...Get this book. Doghouse Flowers by Steve Earle
A Scanner Darkly by Phillip K Dick. Using his own drug experience in the 60s. Dick builds a sci-fi novel that will capture you from the begining. London Fields by Martin Amis. Amis goes deeper than what Wolfe and Ellis went in Bonfire of the Vanities and American Psycho. The Psychedelic Prayers by Tim Leary.
Burning Chrome by William Gibson.
Bobok by Dostoevsky. Dark tale about a drunk and the voice that he hears in the cemetery. Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami.
Jim Camp: The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien Tropic Of Cancer by Henry Miller
Tropic Of Capricorn by Henry Miller The Thief's Journal by Jean Genet
Journey To The End Of The Night by Celine Death On The Installment Plan by Celine Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac Last Exit To Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell Journey to the End of the Night by Celine
The Razor's Edge by Somerset Maugham
Allison M.: The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Big Sur by Jack Kerouac Maggie Cassady by Jack Kerouac Demian by Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus The Beach by Alex Garland
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Re: Good Books You've Read/Are Reading [Re: jewunit]
#9267018 - 11/18/08 04:29 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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jewunit said:
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b0red5tiff said: and the "kool-aid" book got annoying fast. maybe it was just me, but Wolfe can't write for shit. he was like that annoying square kid at the end of the bus that wanted to be cool like all the other guys but failed and wrote about it in retrospect.
That's how I felt about On the Road.
And yeah, I forgot about Bukowski somehow. Love his shit.
Going off a suggestion from one of my english major friends whom I consider a literary genius, I read On The Road. But I too thought it got old fast. A few guys traveling around the US, experiencing the thrill of the moment and being free spirits. I just had the feeling that I had been there before, I had seen it all in my head just from the title. I didn't even need to read the book; the front and back covers were enough.
It was an alright book; that being said, I wouldn't recommend it.
From all these posts, I have a LOT of reading to do!
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Re: Good Books You've Read/Are Reading [Re: Patisotagami]
#9267146 - 11/18/08 04:47 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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Currently reading:
The Screwtape letters by C.S. Lewis
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Re: Good Books You've Read/Are Reading [Re: Patisotagami]
#9267461 - 11/18/08 05:27 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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I am currently reading The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.
My favourite books:
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick From Here to Eternity by James Jones Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson The Great Shark Hunt by Hunter S. Thompson Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl R. Popper The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Books I dislike most:
Evelina by Francis Burney The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley On the Road by Jack Kerouac For Whom the Bells Tolls by Ernest Hemingway Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
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Re: Good Books You've Read/Are Reading [Re: Plasmid]
#9268033 - 11/18/08 06:42 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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I LOVED the book Kite Runner by Khaled Hossieni. It's about an Afghani boy and his life through the 70's through to 2003. it was EXCELLENT, one of the better books I've read in a long time. It was very touching and just.. addicting almost. the movie does no justice so skip it. seriously, pick it up somewhere and read.
Another book i just picked up was Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, heard the book is just as good as the movie(which i enjoyed very much) and also Porno, the sequel set 10 years into the future, which i head was pretty good also.
Other books I enjoyed: The Trial-Franz Kafka Brave New World-Aldous Huxley Catcher in the Rye-J.D Salinger Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There-Lewis Carrol Invisible Monsters- Chuck Palahniuk Anything by H.S.T except his political books such as Fear and Loathing On the Campaign Trail 1972
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