The Book Thread

[james420]

I never see anyone talking about books...maybe my eyes arent open wide enough (too high?...)
I just got through reading the Lovely Bones by Alice Seebold and The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin. I preferred Pleasure of My Company. It had a sense of humor lacking from pretty much anything he's done in the last 10 years.
I dunno...does anyone else enjoy a good book? Any recomondations?

[Hempamasta]

Yeah, Lovely Bones was pretty good, I read it for my senior year, had to do a few papers on it. I enjoyed it. I would recommend The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy, it's beautifully written and funny as hell. Probably one of my favorite books of all time. Let's see.. The Doors of Perception was really good too, don't remember who it was by, but it was pretty interesting.. it was just an anthology about drug use over the years, it was entertaining. Hope that helps!

[homestar]

I dunno, I'm reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle maintenance. Good read so far, pretty simple philosophical discussions but if you haven't been exposed to it it's a good start. Toke up and crack the pages, it's fun

[Az.]

I dunno, I'm reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle maintenance. Good read so far, pretty simple philosophical discussions but if you haven't been exposed to it it's a good start. Toke up and crack the pages, it's fun

I have heard that book is very good!!
A bit crazy though...

Im just about to start reading a book called Coma...I havent looked at it properly yet but I was recommened it so thought id give it a shot....I also picked up "The Stranger" by Albert Camus...which I was also recomended..

Will let you know how they go

[Gothen]

The last book I got done reading was Marihuana Reconsidered by Lester Grinspoon. It was for my research paper in Advanced Comp. It was a really good read, but nonfiction so I don't know if you guys'll get into that.

I'm trying to remember the last time I read a fiction book...actually, I think it was Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo, about 4 months ago. I don't read much fiction anymore, I can't get into them. I do read nonfiction, though. Mostly just about things of my interest.

[kingjustin]

I love to read when I'm high, actually. Very good imagery and all, ya know?
Recommendations:
1. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy ( and ensuing series) Douglas Adams
2. American Gods or Anansi Boys- Neil Gaiman
3. The Three Musketeers- Alexandre Dumas
4. Good Omens- Neil Gaiman and Terry Prattchart
5.Watership Down- Richard Adams

[WeedFaerie420]

I read Lovely Bones a year or so ago. It was a good story, not a classic though. I need to find a good book to read this summer and I don't want to waste my time with a crap read.
Someone in my class this past semester was telling us about a book he was reading about how the quest to alter our consciousness through the use of drugs should be considered a 6th sense and is a fundamental a part of our human nature. I don't remember what he said the title and/or author was, anyone heard of a book like that?

I would recommend the author Wally Lamb for fiction.

[hahaitsdoogle]

I was wondering if you can download e books for freee :)

[tokinggreg]

Ah, summer is always my catch-up-on-past-bestsellers time. So far I've read the DaVinci Code, Kite Runner, and I'm working on The Life of Pi, The Canterbury Tales, and Misquoting Jesus.

[baisez le monde.]

dharma bums
fall on your knees
survivor
haunted
american psycho
on the road
the bell jar
the stranger
fear and loathing in las vegas
revolt of the cockroach people
suicide blonde
choke
fahrenheit 451
less than zero

[james420]

dharma bums
fall on your knees
survivor
haunted
american psycho
on the road
the bell jar
the stranger
fear and loathing in las vegas
revolt of the cockroach people
suicide blonde
choke
fahrenheit 451
less than zero

chuck palihuinuick(?) is great. how was american psycho?

[insanity]

East of Eden, Catcher in the Rye, Les Miserbales, and Slaughter-House 5 are my top three favorite books, but most of the ones already mentioned are either books I've loved or books I'm waiting to read.

[hahaitsdoogle]

East of Eden, Catcher in the Rye, Les Miserbales, and Slaughter-House 5 are my top three favorite books, but most of the ones already mentioned are either books I've loved or books I'm waiting to read.

I believe there are 4 books mentioned above..

fuckin stoner ..

heh

[Blowboy]

"Doors of Perception" is by Aldous Huxley, one of my favs, he was really into drugs and married a girl that lived a block away from me:)
I'm now reading "The Shining". I always wanted to see the movie but I got the eBook first:). After that I'm going to begin in Poe's "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket", sounds wicked too...
Anyway, hahaitsdoogle, if you want free ebooks, check project gutenberg.

[9bob]

I read Lovely Bones a year or so ago. It was a good story, not a classic though. I need to find a good book to read this summer and I don't want to waste my time with a crap read.

I read "The Lovely Bones" a couple years ago too. Pretty sad, and at points hard-going, but a good read. I liked the idea of her heaven smelling of skunk. That was cool.


1. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy ( and ensuing series) Douglas Adams
2. American Gods or Anansi Boys- Neil Gaiman
3. The Three Musketeers- Alexandre Dumas
4. Good Omens- Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
5. Watership Down- Richard Adams

This list is so cool. It says "I love a bit of darkish, comic fantasy, and adventure. And I also like fluffy rabbits." I bet you love the film Labyrinth.

I'd recommend all the above; KingJustin's list is a lot like mine would have been a few years ago. Good Omens would probably be higher though, like #1 or something.

How about these:
"The Third Policeman" - Flann O'Brien (this book is SO VERY VERY VERY COOL)
"Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" - Haruki Murakami
"Albert Angelo" & "Christie Malry's Own Double Entry" - B. S. Johnson
"Layer Cake" - J. J. Connolly
"His Dark Materials" trilogy - Philip Pullman
"The Trial" - Franz Kafka
?