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Books Thread!

Post by JillJillJill » Fri Dec 11, 2009 3:33 pm

Really need to read something good, so suggest books please!

I just read Jurassic Park and while it is certainly not a classic, I loved it.

Favorite Book/Author?? I really love Augusten Burroughs & Richard Brautigan. I also think The Picture of Dorian Gray is pretty amazing.

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Post by joseph » Fri Dec 11, 2009 3:51 pm

Zane Grey

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Post by inx515xhell » Fri Dec 11, 2009 3:52 pm

i hope they serve beer in hell - tucker max

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Post by ilikehorses » Fri Dec 11, 2009 4:20 pm

i have a lot of books for you to borrow, just come over. and return the books you've already borrowed.
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Post by Thom » Fri Dec 11, 2009 4:58 pm

No one here reads. Asshole.

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Post by jessep » Fri Dec 11, 2009 5:00 pm

Thom wrote:No one here reads. Asshole.
Reading is for suckers

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Post by Thom » Fri Dec 11, 2009 5:07 pm

I used all my books to roll joints. AMIRITE???

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Post by jessep » Fri Dec 11, 2009 5:37 pm

Thom wrote:I used all my books to roll joints. AMIRITE???
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Post by Big Fat Retard » Fri Dec 11, 2009 6:47 pm

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck. White Fang and Call of The Wild by Jack London. Anything by Jack London, Steinbeck or Mark Twain is good.

And don't forget Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
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Post by jessep » Fri Dec 11, 2009 7:02 pm

Big Fat Retard wrote: White Fang and Call of The Wild by Jack London. Anything by Jack London,
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Post by moltar » Fri Dec 11, 2009 7:49 pm

I'll third those.

You can try Bradbury, Lovecraft, Hinton, Gaiman. Randomly picking something off from Hugo awards hasn't been too bad to me either.
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Post by robdigi » Fri Dec 11, 2009 7:53 pm

Henry Miller is my favorite. Re-reading Air Conditioned Nightmare right now.

Tropic of Cancer is basically required reading, if you haven't yet had the pleasure.
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Post by creepykid » Fri Dec 11, 2009 7:54 pm

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Dark Elf Trilogy - R.A. Salvatore

Animal Man - Grant Morrison

Preacher - Garth Ennis

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Post by joseph » Fri Dec 11, 2009 8:16 pm

robdigi wrote:Henry Miller is my favorite. Re-reading Air Conditioned Nightmare right now.

Tropic of Cancer is basically required reading, if you haven't yet had the pleasure.
agree, but id throw up rosy crucifixion

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Post by Bullet Tooth » Fri Dec 11, 2009 8:44 pm

i buy shit off the dollar rack at half price book store.

no classics but i did read the whole DOOM novel series.
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Post by JillJillJill » Fri Dec 11, 2009 10:03 pm

i hope they serve beer in hell - tucker max

ugh, fuck this.

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Post by @nonymous » Fri Dec 11, 2009 11:31 pm

Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson

Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars -- so fucking good.
robdigi wrote:Henry Miller is my favorite. Re-reading Air Conditioned Nightmare right now.


My favorite author. That is also my favorite book of his. I'm re-reading Stand Still Like a Hummingbird again. So great.

on the graphic novel end:

Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan

Fables by Bill Willingham
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Post by Crumpty Williams » Sat Dec 12, 2009 1:52 am

Good for a little (of a lot!) if mind-blowing:
Aldous Huxley
Robert Anton Wilson
Daniel Quinn
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Post by robdigi » Sat Dec 12, 2009 2:14 am

oh snap, someone said graphic novels


Read everything by Charles Burns, but if you have to pick and choose, Black Hole is his opus. Skin Deep is a great collection of his one-off comics. My avatar is a character from one of the Skin Deep stories.


I'm a fan of Jason, mainly because of his mastery of visual narrative... the stories aren't that deep or complicated, but they are told with a minimum of dialogue and he accomplishes a lot with very simple images. I'm also a fan of old-timey looking cartoon animals, which most of his characters resemble.


I've heard a lot of good things about Asterios Polyp... I plan on picking that up next time I raid the comics store.
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Post by servo » Sat Dec 12, 2009 11:02 am

Bullet Tooth wrote:i buy shit off the dollar rack at half price book store.

no classics but i did read the whole DOOM novel series.
i was way into the sex scenes in those books when i was in the fourth grade
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Re: Books Thread!

Post by Darrin » Sat Dec 12, 2009 1:28 pm

science fiction i've recently enjoyed: the left hand of darkness by ursula leguin, the gods themselves by isaac asimov, stranger in a strange land by robert heinlein, ringworld by larry niven, the mote in god's eye by larry niven

reading dhalgren by samuel delaney right now and it rules so far.

and i'll back moltar's hugo awards suggestion and add the nebula award. just wiki the past winners and they've all been great books in my experience.

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Post by Shane » Sat Dec 12, 2009 3:12 pm

I just finished Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger. Currently reading The First Five by Henry Rollins because I am punk/alternative and everyone should know it.
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Post by inx515xhell » Sat Dec 12, 2009 4:36 pm

a lot of his shit is really really really whack. makes sense, cuz the dude loved jim morrison.

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Post by El Rhino » Sat Dec 12, 2009 6:00 pm

Some authors I like...


H.G. Wells. Pretty much everything this guy did was bad-ass.


Jack London. Call of the Wild and White Fang are highly recommended but I would also highly suggest picking up Jack London's science fiction short stories anthology at the downtown library.


Albert Camus. French. Very French. "The Stranger" has always been one of my favorites. The colonial North African settings are pretty sweet.


Jose Luis Borges. A product of Buenos Aires' early bohemian circuit and widely regarded as the second best Spanish language author ever (behind Cervantes, Don Quixote also gets recommended from me). The closest comparison I could make would be an Argentine Kerouac with Bukowski's grit.
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Re: Books Thread!

Post by Beaver » Sat Dec 12, 2009 7:49 pm

@nonymous wrote:
Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan

Fables by Bill Willingham
I just started reading fables. So good. I loved Y. The Walking Dead is still my old glory.

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Post by joseph » Mon Dec 14, 2009 11:20 am

El Rhino wrote:Some authors I like...


H.G. Wells. Pretty much everything this guy did was bad-ass.


Albert Camus. French. Very French. "The Stranger" has always been one of my favorites. The colonial North African settings are pretty sweet.
agree.
camus "the rebel" is sweet as well.

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Re: Books Thread!

Post by buck rotten » Mon Dec 14, 2009 5:55 pm

My favorite author is Faulkner.

Also, "Women" by Charles Bukowski is one of the funniest books ever.
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Post by vegan ss » Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:09 pm

"Against His-story, Against Leviathan" Fredy Perlman

"The Revolution of Everyday Life" Raoul Vanigem

"The Social Contract and Discourses" Jean Jacques Rousseau

"Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Biography" James Bieri

"Eternal Treblinka" Charles Patterson
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Post by buck rotten » Fri Dec 18, 2009 6:03 pm

I have Craig Ferguson's new book "American on Purpose" on hold at the library. I've never read an autobiography by a stand up comedian/talk show host before, so I guess he's as good a place to start as any.
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