We all watch movies, TV, listen to the radio ,ect. But there is always that one book that you just can't put down.
If you have ever had a book like that, what was it?
Mine was,
"Wouldent it be nice"
By Brian Wilson.
After reading this I have a whole new opinion and outlook on the beach boys and brian. Iv read it twice. Im planning on reading it again later in the month.
How about you?
The Stinky Cheese Man
The Last of the Hitlers
The Zombie Survival Guide
Goodnight Moon
Turner Diaries
Airborne
kenneth oppel
Anything by David Gemmell so far.
My favourite book is Life of Pi by Yann Martel.
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton.
Crichton did with chaos theory in Jurassic Park what Chuck Palahniuk failed to with home made explosives in Fight Club; inform the reader about a subject and not have it sound like the author just threw it in because he knows so much about it.
A Peck of Salt by John T. Hough, Jr.
The Metamorphosis
Mein Kampf
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I've been meaning to read that. One of my friends did, and he suddenly developed an obsession with Kafka bigger than my obsession with Poe and Lovecraft.
"Exact Revenge"
By some NFL guy you don't know...
Tim Green :sombrero:
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Insomnia
by Stephen King
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Thats a good book. I read it a while back :)
This may make me a pretentious emo but 'The Catcher and the Rye'
captain underpants
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Holy shit, we just finished that book in english.
Holdon caufield, sally hays, ackley "kid" and stradlater.... God how I hate that book... lol.
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Holdon caufield, sally hays, ackley "kid" and stradlater.... God how I hate that book... lol.
I can Imagine hating it if you read it in English.
"Everybody Poops"
I loved the part when he pooped. :o
Right now, The Oddysey. It's awesome, but sometimes it's a bit hard to understand.
EDIT: Oh yeah, Catcher and the Rhye was a good one. Lots of repetition, for example "I thought she looked great, I really did.", so he kinda sounds like a kid. As well, The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole.
Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought
Life of Pi, by Yann Martel! 100 gripping chapters of survival and weirdness on the open Pacific!
I'm also quite engrossed in Myst: The Book of Atrus.
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I loved the part when he pooped. :o
This may be my second favorite book.
You guys should say why, too. Just name dropping won't give us any reason to want to check it out. Plus we have no idea WHY it affected you the way it did.
The Conquest of Happiness, by Bertrand Russell. A self-help book by a philosopher, which means its dense with ideas and information, instead of having just one main idea that can be explained in a couple pages that's padded out to two hundred pages. Written in 1930, and except for a couple historical refences (that were contemporary in his day) and referring to some ethnic groups and women in a somewhat backwards way compared to today, and a few circumstances being different thanks to the Internet giving people a way to converse with their peers more easily, no matter their location, it's still just as relevant and helpful today. Very thought provoking also, and a fairly quick read, since he doesn't dive into too much esoteric philoso-speak.
A buncha books by Phillip K. Dick. I inherited about 25 PKD books from my ex-roommate, and over the past year I've gotten through 20 of them. They're not so much about science fiction as about examining regular people who are put in a futiristic setting so PKD can use different products that fuck around with these people's realities and therefore you can also experience and consider the idea "What is reality?" They all tend to be quick reads (Several of them I've read in a single night), and most tend to fuck with your mind and make you wonder what's really going on in the story right up until the end. His stories are also responsible for the movies Blade Runner (blech, I hated the movie, but the book is really good), Total Recall, Minority Report, and Paycheck, amongst others.
Anthem by Ayn Rand. Really fast read (only like 90 pages long), but a pretty fun dystopian novella, which gives you a better understanding of why Ayn Rand hates the word "We" (in fact, these people can't even think of the word "I", they refer to everyone as We, and talk about other individuals as they, not he or she). While I'm Libertarian, I'm not Objectivist, and this book really shows me why. Objectivists seem to HATE other people (except your sex companion), HATE philanthropy (even given freely by individuals instead of coercively through the threat of force by the government), and think that the word "We" is a filthy word and nothing good can ever come from thinking about your fellow humans, which I can't get behind at all. However, the pro-freedom aspects of the novel I definitely can get behind, and I really enjoyed this novel when it didn't devolve into preaching. You can read this in under two hours, so I suggest you try it sometime. It covers the same material as Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, in about one tenth of the pages, plus the characters seem more human than in those other two books.
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Elric of Malenbone by michael moorcock, all his works are fantastic, but it is both the best book, and the only Elric book I've read.
The Illuminatus! Trilogy. Because it's awesome.
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I was just mentioning books I read recently, but this is my favorite book of all time.
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I loved the part when he pooped. :o
Seriously, that was truly epic.
Quote from: SageClockI was just mentioning books I read recently, but this is my favorite book of all time.
Right on.
If you have not heard of Max Barry, go out and buy/borrow his books. All three of them. Now.
He is an incredible Australian political author... but he gets his message across in a way that isn't pompous or distracting. And a lot of what he's said as satire of capitalism has since happened. In a scary way.
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Hey bud, let's high five with our books yeah!
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Yes.
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thanks for the thread bump captain
Since its bumped already
Red Dwarf was probably the best book i had ever read, But probably because im such an avid fan of the show and watched it way before even knowing of the book.
And pretty much anything By Terry Pratchett, The way he writes is fucking amazing, He makes you laugh and think at the same time, kinda monty python-esque with a touch of his own class.
Syrup by Max Barry
Jennifer Government by Max Barry
Company by Max Barry
Women by Charles Bukowski
Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut
Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman
The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell
Outliers by Malcom Gladwell
Rebel Without a Crew by Robert Rodriguez
That's enough for now.
Lately for me my faves have been the Hallows series by Kim Harrison, and the Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz.
I'm changing my answer to the notebook trilogy by agota kristoff btw.
jurassic park, lol. at least I can see my tastes are progressing adequately
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
Well hello 2006!
Now I guess it would be 'kiss the girls' or 'The heroin diaries'
hmmm i dunno the last couple books i've really eaten up were the stand by stephen king american gods by neil gaiman and american psycho by bret easton ellis, i'm currently tearing through less than zero by ellis as well.
I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell - Tucker Max
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That book was fucking AWESOME!
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Holdon caufield, sally hays, ackley "kid" and stradlater.... God how I hate that book... lol.
Dude you hate Catcher? So good.
Also Salinger's Franny and Zooey might be one of my fav.'s. Particularly Franny.
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey.
Takes place in my home state, and it's awesome.
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Takes place in my home state, and it's awesome.
Also Ken Kesey is just fucking awesome
"Fuck it friends howanka wonk"
Wheel of Time series (especially book 2), Robert Jordan
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Kaput!
Anyhow great books in this thread here.
Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. It'll blow your mind.
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The ex wife was really into wheel of time, I didnt like them too much though. :\
Quote from: Slurpee;1693512I'm changing my answer to the notebook trilogy by agota kristoff btw.
jurassic park, lol. at least I can see my tastes are progressing adequately
What's wrong with Jurassic Park?
nothing.
it's just... it's great fiction, but it's not even good literature.
:( I like dinosaurs.
I actually didn't read the book until High School but the movie is definitely one of those ones I can watch again and again and never get bored of it.
I hope to never stop liking dinosaurs
loll catcher in the rye i see i never read anything ever back then
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:this:
Dinosaurs are great. I will now make a dinosaur thread.
Jack Kerouac - On the Road
2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C.
Women by Charles Bukowski (recommended by Dwarf)
Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind. Probably my all-time favorite fantasy book. He does the characters better than almost anything I have ever read in the genre, the plot and direction of the story always keeps you on your toes and guessing, and his writing style is very rich and colorful without being too word-heavy.
Quote from: Slurpee;553425I've been meaning to read that. One of my friends did, and he suddenly developed an obsession with Kafka bigger than my obsession with Poe and Lovecraft.
I really didn't care for it that much to be honest.
I know Kafka was sooooooo revolutionary for his time and I'm not one of those sappy babies that hates a story just because it doesn't end on a good note but it seemed like the protagonist really got fucked and Kafka just kind of underscored the shittiness that resides within all of us. I guess all in all it just kind of put me in a downer mood for a while after I read it.Quote from: SnakeClock;553551Life of Pi, by Yann Martel! 100 gripping chapters of survival and weirdness on the open Pacific![/i].
Awesome book, glad some other people out there are reading it. And this was one of the books I remember sitting down and reading cover to cover nonstop, I just couldn't put the thing down! Not too many out there that have that effect on me.
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Nice to see other people reading some Beat stuff, I've kind of been getting into that whole genre/movement lately. I just read Junky by Burroughs and loved it, I really want to read Naked Lunch too as that's the one he's most known for.
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