Favorite novel?

[slowlickitysplit]

Just curious if anyone reads anymore for pleasure and if so what are your 3 favorites?

1) Atlas Shrugged By Ayan Rand. Changed my life!

2) Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance. Can't remember the author but one very very f**ked up book.

3) My side of the mountain. Author ? A childhood favorite.

- Slow -

[Maggz]

1984 by george orwell.

[higher4hockey]

where the red fern grows! that is without a doubt my all-time favorite book. i've read that book like twenty times.

maggz i just started reading that book yesterday.

[hello3pat]

My favorite is The Cheese Monkeys I don't remember who the author is but unlike the title sounds it should not even be glanced at by a child

[JaggedEdge]

Enders Game - Orson Scott Card.

[4gan2ja0]

haunted - chuck palahniuk
fear and loathing - hunter thompson
hells angels - hunter thompson

[blazed620]

where the red fern grows! that is without a doubt my all-time favorite book. i've read that book like twenty times.

maggz i just started reading that book yesterday.

Thats awesome....i can't believe you said that lol, tahts what i was gonna say:stoned:

[JaggedEdge]

Oh shit, 3 favorites...

1. Enders Game

2. 1984

3. Harry Potter
The Harry Potter series has been going down hill lately, but I have a lot of respect for J.K. Rowling.

It's really amazing she was able to write books that are attractive to many age groups.

[higher4hockey]

jagged, what do you mean the series has been going down hill? do you mean the writing or the movies and plastic lunch box shit ?

[Captin]

Death in the long grass by Peter H. Capstick
EDIT: ahh damn, i just missed my 420th post!! :stoned:

[EzRyder]

on the road-jack kerouac

[slowlickitysplit]

If you liked Fear and Loathing you should try For whom the bell tolls by Hemingway. Most of his stuff rocks.

- Slow -

[slowlickitysplit]

EzRyder,
On the road? I always ment to read that just to see what all the fuss was about. Was it a good read?

- Slow -

[napolitana869]

top favorites are shogun, enders game, dune, and 1984.

[higher4hockey]

EzRyder,
On the road? I always ment to read that just to see what all the fuss was about. Was it a good read?

- Slow -

defenitely worth the read. so are the dharma bums and big sur.

[JaggedEdge]

jagged, what do you mean the series has been going down hill? do you mean the writing or the movies and plastic lunch box shit ?

I still enjoy the books, but I am getting highly pissed off with all the crappy movies, I don't understand why they are making them before the series is even complete. The are total crap and are bringing the whole series of books down in the process. I also remember not enjoying on of the latest books very much.

I can't tell you which one, they have all become one big blur at this point. Not to mention I would rather the books to be a little shorter so we wouldn't have to wait 2 yrs between each release...

[BabyFacedAbortion]

- Speak softly, she can hear.

- She's come undone.

and about 3 million others lol

[action.420]

Enders Game - Orson Scott Card.

+ all the rest of the books in the series.

As well as the brain jacques (sp?) redwall series, haven't read one of them in a few years but used to love them in middle/highschool.

[hello3pat]

-The Giver

ooooo I'm suprised anyone said that, it's a very good book

[higher4hockey]

i remember when they first came out (the movies) the girl i was dating at the time wanted to go see the first one, so we went and saw it. i was pissed. i hate watching movies of books that i have read, totally ruins the book. i saw the first one and i havent seen any of them since.

i am a fan of the harry potter books though, but i think ol JK got a lot of her ideas from the Lord of the Rings. for instance, the dementors and the nazgul are pretty similar. the mirror that harrry looks in and sees his parents, there is something similar in the LOTR. i was talking about that with my sister, there are a few more examples that i cant remember at the moment.

[JaggedEdge]

i remember when they first came out (the movies) the girl i was dating at the time wanted to go see the first one, so we went and saw it. i was pissed. i hate watching movies of books that i have read, totally ruins the book. i saw the first one and i havent seen any of them since.

i am a fan of the harry potter books though, but i think ol JK got a lot of her ideas from the Lord of the Rings. for instance, the dementors and the nazgul are pretty similar. the mirror that harrry looks in and sees his parents, there is something similar in the LOTR. i was talking about that with my sister, there are a few more examples that i cant remember at the moment.

I may get flamed for saying this, but I think the LOTR's is the most over rated piece of crap. I threw the book against the wall the the asshole started describing a tree for 2 pages... (I'm be exaderating a bit.)

As for the movies, I watched them until the dude who played dumblidore died. I think that was after the second one.


As for Ender's Game series, I ejoyed all of those books except the second one... I can't remember the name of it. I'm very glad I didn't give up on the series after that one though. The rest were amazing. The Bean series was great as well.

OSC is f-ing amazing.

[higher4hockey]

wow man........im not gonna flame you or anything, but i loved the LOTR. those books though are either love em or hate em.


i read these books the other day the author is augusten burroughs. the two books were 'running with scissors' and 'dry'. two very interesting books.

[make it legal]

I love this book called Rule of the Bone.

Also pretty much any book by Harlan Coben

[slowburn420]

That Was Then, This is Now - S.E. Hinton. one of my favorites

[Maggz]

where the red fern grows! that is without a doubt my all-time favorite book. i've read that book like twenty times.

maggz i just started reading that book yesterday.

haha damn..now isn't that something. I feel more people should read it.. it should be mandatory in every school in America to read it, so every student can fight opression and fight tyranny the second they spot the attempts.. such as acts like "the patriot act" both 1 and 2..and read them to their entirity to SEE FOR THEMSELVES the BIG BROTHER of today.

[suhl]

-The Giver


i wasnt a big fan of it when i read it in like 4th grade but thinking back i really like the message. definitely not an alltime favorite but im a fan of the message

[rebgirl420]

I love anything Anne Rice, when i had cancer she wrote me a letter and sent me a book, and I LOVED 'The Stand' by Stephan King

[higher4hockey]

reb~ you ever read memnoch the devil ? by far my favorite anne rice book.

[rebgirl420]

Ive read em and owned them all, im not religious but I love how the devil isnt a really bad guy.

[slowlickitysplit]

Anyone else notice a theme here? Most of these books are about independent thinking. Man I love stoners!
We are the reveloution!

- Slow -

[napolitana869]

I think The Sneetches by dr Seuss is one of the best childrens books. It teaches how racism is pointless and that everyone is the same on the inside. I love Dr. Seuss.

I've said this before but I love these threads about books. I think it really shows that the stereotypical view of stoners is wrong. We're smart, and we think, and thats important for people to know. Also because there are so many young people here, threads like these might encourage them to read more.

[suhl]

i too love dr seuss and will till the day i die. sneetches is great too with that message and moreover so is the lorax where the big facotry comes in and kills all the things off and leaves the lorax feeling bad. same with yerdle the turtle. i think reading dr seuss to a kid is doing him a huge favor that you and he or she will all enjoy and benefit from. it is just coming to me for some reason how all his books had good messages im normally not into messages but seuss didnt make them all in your face and was able to get them across in good books with classic rhymes

[napolitana869]

the lorax is so sad:(

[Purple Banana]

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers...

[higher4hockey]

Today you are you, that is truer than true.
There is no one alive who is youer than you.
-Dr. Seuss

words to live by.

[suhl]

so true. i think i donated all my dr seuss books to the library some years ago, now i want them back. what a great man, i can say that and chronicles of narnia are the foundation for me really enjoying books

[mrdevious]

I just started reading the Wheel Of Time series and it's fast becoming my favorite book.

Other than that:

- Shogun
- The Two Towers

[higher4hockey]

suhl~ what sparked my love for reading , was when i was a small child, my mother read to me every night. ive noticed a trend that with people who had their parents read to them... they tend to read a lot as adults.
the book that did it for me was gary paulsen, the hatchet.

anyone else have their parents read to them?

[GHoSToKeR]

'1984' has gotta be my favourite novel so far. That and 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest'. :D

[TX Girl]

Higher- we need to check out each other's book cases, I bet they are very similar!
Where the Red Fern Grows was my fave book when I was young and I read it to my dau a couple yrs ago and re-loved it. And thanks to a friend who turned me onto him a few yrs ago I love Augusten Burroughs, too.

I really like Douglas Coupland and I read a lot of biographies.

A Painted House by John Grisham. Which is weird cause I don't like his other stuff.

My other fave book from when I was a kid- Island of the Blue Dolphins

[rebgirl420]

Higher- we need to check out each other's book cases, I bet they are very similar!
Where the Red Fern Grows was my fave book when I was young and I read it to my dau a couple yrs ago and re-loved it. And thanks to a friend who turned me onto him a few yrs ago I love Augusten Burroughs, too.

I really like Douglas Coupland and I read a lot of biographies.

A Painted House by John Grisham. Which is weird cause I don't like his other stuff.

My other fave book from when I was a kid- Island of the Blue Dolphins

Thats a great book

[TX Girl]

Hi RebGirl :)
Yeah, I love stories where the author just tells you about a life and you can get a real feel for what it must have been like to live in those circumstances, time and place.


I don't like Sci Fi (except for To Sail Beyond The Sunset by Heinlen I read that 20 yrs ago and still think of it occasionally)

I used to read a lot of Anne Rice but I got bored with her stuff after awhile. My fave of her stuff was The Witching Hour. I remember trying to draw up a timeline and family tree to put it all in order... it was impossible!

[rebgirl420]

I never liked the witch stuff she put out, im a big Vampire lestat fan

[suhl]

suhl~ what sparked my love for reading , was when i was a small child, my mother read to me every night. ive noticed a trend that with people who had their parents read to them... they tend to read a lot as adults.
the book that did it for me was gary paulsen, the hatchet.

anyone else have their parents read to them?

same here. i remember being read all the seuss books many times, also good night moon and of course the old standard "where the wild things are" read to your kids folks.

i dont know if anyone here has read contortionists handbook by craig clevenger, basically it is about this guy whose whole life is a lie and just him telling about it. anyhow i really enjoyed it and i just found out he wrote another book, here is the short description i read of it

"the diary of an amnesiac LSD chemist who becomes addicted to a drug which synthesizes the feeling of human touch."

i ordered it the other day, i am looking forward to it:)

[higher4hockey]

TX girl~ are you a kerouac fan ?

suhl~ my favorite child-era books were 'the ghost in dobbs diner' and 'the terrible toy breakers'

[TX Girl]

Higher4, I dunno, I haven't read anything by him. Should I? Ive heard of him of course.

[higher4hockey]

TX girl, this is from the dharma bums:

...a thin old little bum climbed into my gondola as we headed into a siding to give a train the right of way and looked surprised to see me there. He established himself at the other end of the gondola and lay down, facing me, with head on his own miserably small pack and said nothing. By and by they blew the highball whistle after the eastbound frieght had smashed through on the main line and we pulled out as the air got cooler and fog began to blow from the sea over the warm valleys of the coast. Both the little bum and I, after unsuccessful attempts to huddle on the cold steel in wraparounds, got up and paced back and forth and jumped and flapped arms at each our end of the gon. Pretty soon we headed into another siding at a small railroad town and I figured I needed a poor-boy of Tokay wine to complete the cold dusk run to Santa Barbara. "Will you watch my pack while I run over there and get a bottle of wine?"
"Sure thing."
I jumped over the side and ran across Highway 101 to the store, and bought, besides wine, a litte bread and candy. I ran back to my freight train which had another fifteen minutes to wait in the now warm and sunny scene. But it was late afternoon and bound to get cold soon. The little bum was sitting crosslegged at his end before a pitiful repast of one can of sardines. I took pity on him and went over and said, "How about a little wine to warm you up?" Maybe you'd like some bread and cheese with your sardines."
"Sure thing." He spoke from far away inside a little meek voice-box afraid or unwilling to assert himself. I'd bought the cheese three days ago in Mexico City before the long cheap bus trip across Zacatecas and Durango and Chihuahua two thousand long miles to the border at El Paso. He ate the cheese and bread and drank the wine with gusto and gratitude. I was pleased. I reminded myself of the line in the Diamond Sutra that says, "Practice charity without holding in mind any conceptions about charity, for charity after all is just a word."


i think you would like his books.

[Verde Es Dios]

If you have never read a Christopher Moore book I HIGHLY reccomend them. He is my favorite author ever, hes a bad ass. Lamb, Blood sucking fiends and His newest one are my favorite.

[halfassedjediknight]

I like Stephen Kings The Stand and The Dark Tower series. I like Choke by Chuck Pahlaniuk. The tarantula keepers guide. Panic Disorder in the medical setting. Black Dahlia avenger. The Hobbit, Lord of the rings, Hunter S. Thompsons Kingdom of Fear, Dharma Punx, I can go on and on.

To say the least, I read lots.

[Purple Banana]

Anyone remember The White Mountains?

It's about this society of people, of which one boy who is about to come of age, and these tall tripod things come, and try to do something to his brain, I can't remember exactly, but it was really weird stuff.

Anyone born in the 80s remembers Goosebumps :p

[higher4hockey]

rl stine ~~ of course. i was a fan im not gonna lie.


goosebumps and fear street.

[halfassedjediknight]

rl stine ~~ of course. i was a fan im not gonna lie.


goosebumps and fear street.

i read all the goosebumps novels in jr high.

my favorite was one where this kid turned to a bee.

my manager told me she went to see that movie about the ventriloquist lady because her favorite goosebumps novel was the one with the ventriloquist dummy.

[TX Girl]

Thanks for the snippet, H4H, you are right, I think I will like his work, too.
Awesome, I love going to the half price book store and searching for a read

[S.P.Q.R.]

Gates of Fire - Stephen Pressfield
Walden, or Life in the Woods - Henry David Thoreau
The Iliad - Homer

[suhl]

i read some goosebumps. in fact since stein cranked out a book a month i was there every month for the new one

[EE2000]

I dont have one particular favorite novel.

However I like Simon R Green's Nightside series. I can read one of those in a matter of hours.

[BizzleLuvin]

i only have one at the moment, i dont read a lot of fiction: thimble summer-elizabeth enright.

[GHoSToKeR]

Thats a great book

Yeah A Painted House is a great book.. Not a favourite of mine but definately one of Grisham's best... :)

[higher4hockey]

i'm not done with this thread yet.


i've read damn near all the grisham books , and i have to say i agree that a painted house is one of the best. the partner is probably my favorite.

[Samwhore]

Black House, Steven King

[slowlickitysplit]

S.P.Q.R. wrote;
Gates of Fire - Stephen Pressfield
Walden, or Life in the Woods - Henry David Thoreau
The Iliad - Homer


the Iliad was great but not in my top ten. Life in the woods is great also but not what I consider a good read in that I sort of sample it. I need time to digest it, a chapter, or even a page, at a time.

- Slow -

[LysergicBliss]

The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

[napolitana869]

did anyone read choose your own adventure books when you were young? those books were fun

[stinkyattic]

Anyone remember The White Mountains?
It's about this society of people, of which one boy who is about to come of age, and these tall tripod things come, and try to do something to his brain, I can't remember exactly, but it was really weird stuff.

Yeah, the Tripod Trilogy... White Mountains, Fields of Fire or something, totally fucking AMAZING books that were written for young adults but so good that everyone should read them. Same with the Susan Cooper series that includes Dark is Rising, Greenwich, Silver on the Tree, etc.

My list includes...

The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand- every time I read it I get something totally different out of it- the heroine is one of the best-developed and most complex female literary characters I've run across

One Hundred Years of Solitude- Gabirel Garcia Marquez- One of the coolest epics EVER- weird, funny, at times disturbing, very well done, I think he got a Nobel Prize for lit for it too. Love in the time of Cholera isn't half bad either!

The Poisonwood Bible - oh who the fuck wrote that? GRRRR my memory sucdks but what a great novel about a bunch of girls growing up as the children of missionaries in midcentury Africa and the places their lives eventually take them

The Prince of Tides- Another really amazing novel along the same lines- children of totally fucked up parents, in this case an impoverished, violent shrimp fishermen.

The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco- Very cool medieval mystery. If you liked the DaVinci Code, which I LOVED, you should also read this.

For Whom the Bell Tolls - Hemingway- Hard to pick my favorite Hemingway novel, but in terms of grit and the brutally honest depiction of wartime, it's a masterpiece. I also loved the Sun Also Rises (Fiesta).

And then of course for a good laugh, you HAVE to read the Hitchhikers trilogy- all 5 books of it lol- and Garrison Keillor's 'WLT: A Radio Romance' which I thought was a fucking RIOT but I guess you have to like his style of humor (A Prairie Home Companion- American radio show that airs on PRI on weekends- very nice!)

[napolitana869]

100 years of solitude is a good book. I had to write a paper on it but it was so complex I didnt even know where to start. I bet you could read that book 10 times keep finding new things in it

[stinkyattic]

100 years of solitude ... was so complex I didnt even know where to start. I bet you could read that book 10 times keep finding new things in it
You win the bet... I have read it close to 10 times... I'm about due for another :D

[TOOL9]

[quote=higher4hockey]rl stine ~~ of course. i was a fan im not gonna lie.

when i was in middle school rl stein actually came to my school and talked to us. It was actually pretty lame

As for my all time favorite novel it would either be

it by stephen king or
the dead zone by stephen king

[slowlickitysplit]

Stinkyattick wrote;
Yeah, the Tripod Trilogy... White Mountains, Fields of Fire or something, totally fucking AMAZING books that were written for young adults but so good that everyone should read them. Same with the Susan Cooper series that includes Dark is Rising, Greenwich, Silver on the Tree, etc.

My list includes...

The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand- every time I read it I get something totally different out of it- the heroine is one of the best-developed and most complex female literary characters I've run across

One Hundred Years of Solitude- Gabirel Garcia Marquez- One of the coolest epics EVER- weird, funny, at times disturbing, very well done, I think he got a Nobel Prize for lit for it too. Love in the time of Cholera isn't half bad either!

The Poisonwood Bible - oh who the fuck wrote that? GRRRR my memory sucdks but what a great novel about a bunch of girls growing up as the children of missionaries in midcentury Africa and the places their lives eventually take them

The Prince of Tides- Another really amazing novel along the same lines- children of totally fucked up parents, in this case an impoverished, violent shrimp fishermen.

The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco- Very cool medieval mystery. If you liked the DaVinci Code, which I LOVED, you should also read this.

For Whom the Bell Tolls - Hemingway- Hard to pick my favorite Hemingway novel, but in terms of grit and the brutally honest depiction of wartime, it's a masterpiece. I also loved the Sun Also Rises (Fiesta).

And then of course for a good laugh, you HAVE to read the Hitchhikers trilogy- all 5 books of it lol- and Garrison Keillor's 'WLT: A Radio Romance' which I thought was a fucking RIOT but I guess you have to like his style of humor (A Prairie Home Companion- American radio show that airs on PRI on weekends- very nice!)

Seriously stink, Tell yeag to keep a close eye on you. Betwen the fondue and our matching bookcases.....LOL

I had completely forgoten about hitchicker! And I love Garrison Keillor on the radio, didn't know he had a book. I'll have to search for it now.

As for Fountainhead....Have you read Atlas Shrugged by Rand? Talk about a strong heroine!

- Slow -

[higher4hockey]

any of you guys ever read the book "watership down" ?

i had a copy of that book that a girl stole from me and ive been trying to get it back for ages. i think i'm going to go get another copy of it. good book!~

[stinkyattic]

No wtf I seriously haven't yet and I am kicking myself to go find a copy of Atlas Shrugged.
Okay lets see, the Garrison Keillor books are Lake Wobegon Days, the News from Lake Wobegon, WLT: A Radio Romance, and I think there's more but the radio one is fucking hysterical. I brought it to th ehospital to keep my friend company when she was getting her MRI, she's wicked claustrophobic so I started reading it to her, but the technician kept yelling at her to stop giggling. It was priceless.
Hey, the overstuffed bookcase should make the Yeag even LESS worried... long distance girlfriend curled up with a book at night is better than long distance girlfriend curled up with another dude, right? hee hee!

[Diary of a Madman]

I could repeat a bunch that you guys have named....

Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins. Weird stuff. Very cool. My former Librarian super cool hippy x-girlfriend that was the exact fucking opposite of me introduced this to me. Philisophical, romantic, humorous, cocaine binges. It has everything. Gets all crazy talking about how the universe can be explained from the illustrations on a pack of camel cigarettes.

[cannabis=freedom]

The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, Rats Saw God...a lot

[Samwhore]

any of you guys ever read the book "watership down" ?

i had a copy of that book that a girl stole from me and ive been trying to get it back for ages. i think i'm going to go get another copy of it. good book!~

I read it in 6th grade, the one about the rabbit right?

[higher4hockey]

sam~ yes that would be the one.

[Samwhore]

I got bored with that book,

[higher4hockey]

maybe that was because you read it when you were in sixth grade?

ive read a few books that i defenitely wasn't ready to read when i was younger. i read for whom the bell tolls in seventh grade, and forced myself to read the whole thing, and i havent read any hemingway since. i dont think i was ready as a reader to read that book. i think i'll read it again...

[Samwhore]

Probally true, but any book sounds better than Mein Kampf right now, now theres a book im forcing myself to read

[higher4hockey]

i forced myself to read that too. and good god damn is it boring. i have a thing that any book i start to read, i finish. mein kampf is not a very interesting book.

[suhl]

forcing y ourself to read a book is pointless and excruciating and boring god i just stopped doing that if i c ant take it i just put it away

[TX Girl]

:upsidedow :bonghit: I don't know if it's pointless, but it sure is excruciating. I've forced myself to keep reading another chapter or two to see if I could eventually get into it. Usually I decide not to waste any more of my life and move on to a different book.
I'm trying to think of a book that took me a long time to get into that I luved....mmmm, I got nothin -but I know there've been a couple.

[thecreator]

EzRyder,
On the road? I always ment to read that just to see what all the fuss was about. Was it a good read?

- Slow -

Hey it was ok. I liked its pace but some ppl thought it was kinda off beat. I think you should read it.

[thcbongman]

Fahrenheit 451, The Pearl, The Hobbit & The Lord Of The Ring trilogy, Catch 22

[birdgirl73]

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
All The King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

But in the brief time right now that I have to read things other than school books, I'm leaning toward biographies. Love to read about people's lives.

[buddymyfriend]

A Million Little Pieces - James Frey

Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts

[RESiNATE]

I can strongly recommend the following:

Raymond E Fiest's Riftwar Saga - (Magician,Darkness At Sethanon,etc)
"State Of Fear" by cant remember lol

and loads more, but too stoned to think lmfaoooo

oh dear

[RESiNATE]

Oh yeah...
The Hitch-Hikers Guide...by Douglas Adams...anything by him is FAF

[stinkyattic]

Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins. Weird stuff. Very cool..
Weird stuff, very cool describes Tom Robbins percfectly. Haven't read that one, but of the ones that I have read (even cowgirls get the blues, jitterbug perfume, and skinny legs and all) I LOVED 'skinny legs and all'. He's a really fun author- VERY intelleigent and irreverent.

[savagepossum]

- lord of the flies
- the lord of the rings
- the god dellusion
- the amber spy glass
- frankinstein

[suhl]

:upsidedow :bonghit: I don't know if it's pointless, but it sure is excruciating. I've forced myself to keep reading another chapter or two to see if I could eventually get into it. Usually I decide not to waste any more of my life and move on to a different book.
I'm trying to think of a book that took me a long time to get into that I luved....mmmm, I got nothin -but I know there've been a couple.

well the beginning is always the slowest part

yeah i guess it isnt pointless but to me reading a book that i cant get into is best compared to forcing myself to watch cspan like i may learn something but god i hate it

[in.music.u.trust]

1. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald - best writer in my opinion. if you really read it and pay attention to his choice of words and how well he describes everything its amazing.

2. survivor - chuck palahnuik

3. choke - chuck palahnuik

[stinkyattic]

1. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald - best writer in my opinion. if you really read it and pay attention to his choice of words and how well he describes everything its amazing.

I also love Fitzgerald for that exact reason. While Gatsby is by far the better novel, This Side of Paradise has that beautiful writing style, I think even better, although the story is not as well-turned.

As an aside, have you ever read anything by A.S. Byatt? I tend to think of them as writers with something in common- but I can't quite put my finger on it- whether it is writing style or what- I though Posession was a LOT of fun, and one of the short stories in Angels and Insects (Morpho Eugenia) was particularly beautifully done, haunting and very disturbing.

[suhl]

i thought great gatsby was a pile of self indulgent shit. just offering a different opinion:jointsmile:

[stinkyattic]

i thought great gatsby was a pile of self indulgent shit. just offering a different opinion:jointsmile:
As I consider myself a bit of a hedonist, I can forgive Fitzgerald his indulgences :D

[BUZz UK]

the picture of dorian gray - oscar wilde

shit hot

[higher4hockey]

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
All The King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

But in the brief time right now that I have to read things other than school books, I'm leaning toward biographies. Love to read about people's lives.

i'm a big biography fan. im also a big fan of books about the military, i've read every biography i could get my hands on written about the war in Vietnam.

[GreenLadyOfDankDowns]

The Profits of Death
The Color Purple
Flowers For Algernon (It's a novella, but a really good read.)
Dracula
Candle Bay

[thecreator]

The Profits of Death
The Color Purple
Flowers For Algernon (It's a novella, but a really good read.)
Dracula
Candle Bay
Yea I love The Color Purple and Flowers for Algernon as well. Dracula was a damn good book but to me Frankenstein was far superior. Just like the misunderstood man who creeps through windows!