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I love reading. I do it all the time right after i've smoked a nice joint and then go to bed. I've read tons of books but so far my favorite was Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas. I'm reading the book for Blow, and it's actually pretty good. I'm open to suggestions for good reads...
the flesh eaters by L.A morse is the most intense book you'll ever read. i've looked in bookstores everywhere though and havnt found it. i have it but its really old from my dad.
books by h.p lovecraft are good.
man i've been dying to read fear and loathing!! i read the rum diary which is also by Hunter S. Thompson.. they are making a movie of it too starring johnny depp (again) :) i think it comes out in like 2008 though.
my faves are: go ask alice, catcher in the rye and love, janis
read some jack kerouac books, on the road was his first book, it kind of helps with some of his others if you read it first, but the book 'big sur' and 'the dharma bums' will rock your world!!!! highly recommend them!
DMT: the spirit molecule.
I used to be a bookworm... I miss reading. Haven't read a book in at least 6 months.
I'm into fantasy and sci-fi. Best book(s) ever = Empyrion. Really beautiful, thought provoking stuff.
And the Ender's Game series. They're making a movie of it.
Although i dont read a whole lot i we just finished reading lord of the flies in school. It is definetly one of the best books i have ever read. All quiet on the western front is also extremely good. Reading all quiet on the western front stoned is very intense. I actually felt like i was in some of the battles and stuff. Pretty cool.
THE GREAT SHARK HUNT BY HUNTER STOCKTON THOMPSON!!!!!!!!!!!
and i also enjoy me some chuck palahniuk
just finished ON THE ROAD today, dharma bums and big sur are sitting in my car and i'm leaving tomorrow for a trip up and down the west coast; absolutely agree!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by higher4hockey
If you liked "go ask alice" read: "Jay's Journal" by the same editor. Its a journal that records the evenets of a kid who gets deeply involved in the Ocult, it rocks!Quote:
Originally Posted by MyMARYJANE
My fav book would have to be Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, that book is incredible even if its only 208 pages long, and no its not based off the movie, the Movie is based of the book. I hate books that are based off of Movies they ussually stink...
I have many other fav books, but most of them are by one authour: R A Salvatore
castaneda is damn good...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass are my two favorite books, bar none.
After that, The Song of Ice and Fire series by George RR Martin are great, and then Lord of the Rings, Catcher in the Rye, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest, River God, and Lord of the Flies.
I only read books that have a nice, clean white paper and good print quality on the text. I am serious. My favorites are:
The Lord of the Rings
Jurassic Park
Dante's Inferno
Lord of the Flies
Darwin's Black Box (A must read for anybody interested in the Evolution vs. Intelligent Design debate)
Do Penguins Have Knees? (Yes they do, it's just a book full of random, useless facts that are interesting when you're blazed)
When do Fish Sleep? (more facts)
oooh i have more books....
the electric kool aid acid test- tom wolfe
air conditioned nightmare- henry miller
I like biographies. My all-time fave is Growing Up by Russell Baker. It won the Pulitzer in 1983. A simple, sweet, unpretentious story.
My favorite book would probably be Dune (Frank Herbert), The Stand (Stephen King), or The Mote in God's Eye (Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle). Hard to decide among those three.
I looooove reading. When I was 18 I made a list of all the books I had read, and it was over 5,000 even at that young age. I was a freaking voracious reader during my teens and 20s. One night I read two books then started the Chronicles of Amber and read ALL OF THOSE too, for a total of 7 books in one night (granted, they were kinda thin). I lived one block from a library, which helped, although they wouldn't give me an 'adult' library card until I turned 16, which was pretty funny seeing as I was reading adult stuff when I was quite young. One of my 5th grade teachers caught me reading the Exorcist one day, and I happened to be at the point where the girl is jamming the cross into her vagina and saying, 'Fuck me! Fuck me!' He told me that was not an appropriate book for my age and told me not to bring it to school anymore. So I put a Jacque Cousteau book cover (Mysteries of the Deep or something) over the Exorcist, so I could finish it in peace. Heh.
Anyone remember the Science Fiction Book Club? They had this deal where when you'd join, you got four free books, and whoever recommended you got two free books, then you had to buy two books over the next year. Well, I had four people (family) who let me use their names, plus my own, so I had this rotating system using all five names (four family plus my own). One name joined, got 4 free books. Then that name got the other four names to join, which got me 24 more free books. Then I had to buy ten books at $1.99 each (for hardbacks!), then I'd start the cycle over again. So for $20 plus shipping, I'd end up with a total of 38 books. I sucked them dry and filled a room with hardback science fiction books.
These days I don't read as much. We have computers and far more TV channels; there's just more options these days. I'm down to 8 books every two weeks now, and no more library a block away either.
I've read the entire Stephen King library pretty much. I love most of his books, particularly Hearts in Atlantis, The Stand, and the Dark Tower series.
Lately I've been trying to branch out a bit more. I read On A Pale Horse by Piers Anthony. A sweet fantasy/sci-fi book about a guy who kills death, then has to fill the position of death himself.
Jamstigator, I just started Dune. I'm only 30 pages in, and its pretty interesting so far. A lot of confusing planet names and titles and such, but I guess I'll get used to that.
Mr Nice by Howard Marks,a drug smugglers tale,excellent read and a true story.
i dont read
The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
don't hate on my religion please. :)
Any H.P Lovecraft story, I recommend it to anyone who wants themselves scared shitless (btw, you need an active imagination).
Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
http://www.shantaram.com/
I've never read a book that's made me laugh, cry and think so good damn much! An absolute cracking read, this books coming to the grave with me!
Peace
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Hmm...well.
My favorite book of all time is deffinatley 1984 by George Orwell. After that it goes something like this...
A Clockwork Orange-Anthony Burgess
Animal Farm-George Orwell
Fear And Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72-Thompson
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas-Thompson
On The Road-Keroauc
Choke-Palahniuk
Fight Club-Palahniuk
Jurassic Park-Crichton
In no order.
goodnight moon...it rocks
I don't read much at all, but from the books i have read, I'd say Stephen kings wizzard and glass (4th dark tower book I think?) gets me every time.
48 laws of power
5 people you meet in heaven
the art of seduction
confessions of a felon
Treasure Island...catcher in the rye...
yes these are old and yes they're err umm not very challenging in terms of a read BUT they're still classics
read the book haunted by palahniuk, its intense, especially when baked:thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by potsmokingnome
im reading the great shark hunt now, its awesomeQuote:
Originally Posted by baisez le monde.
robinson crusoe
The Restraint Of Beasts - Magnus Mills
Eyeless In Gaza - Aldous Huxley
..but my absolute favourite of all time is...
The Sound And The Fury - William Faulkner
1984 - George Orwell
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Nightbreed - Clive Barker
The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices - Brenda Love
I don't read by book, more like by authors or interest. I have read from Agatha Christie to Steven Kings.
I devour books, been doing so for many years. Among the few I re-read every few years or so are Robinson Crusoe, because it influenced me at an early age to be self suffient, Dune, just because I like it, and the current years McMaster-Carr catalog.
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1984
Catch-22
Everything is Illuminated
The Mysterious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
Catcher in the Rye
Of Mice and Men
On the Road
The Electric Kool-Aide Acid Test
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
the list goes on and on and on....
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Originally Posted by 4gan2ja0
if you havent previously read a palahniuk book, i dont recommend starting off with haunted. start off with survivor or fight club. either one will make you an avid palahniuk fan.
The Motorcycle Boy is a good book, and so is Tex
Cosmos by Carl Sagan. Fuck, anything by Carl Sagan!
Ok that is now on my next book to buy list :)Quote:
Originally Posted by 4gan2ja0
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