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Thats a great bookQuote:
Originally Posted by 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!
I never liked the witch stuff she put out, im a big Vampire lestat fan
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by higher4hockey
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:)
TX girl~ are you a kerouac fan ?
suhl~ my favorite child-era books were 'the ghost in dobbs diner' and 'the terrible toy breakers'
Higher4, I dunno, I haven't read anything by him. Should I? Ive heard of him of course.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by higher4hockey
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.
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
Gates of Fire - Stephen Pressfield
Walden, or Life in the Woods - Henry David Thoreau
The Iliad - Homer
i read some goosebumps. in fact since stein cranked out a book a month i was there every month for the new one
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.
i only have one at the moment, i dont read a lot of fiction: thimble summer-elizabeth enright.
Yeah A Painted House is a great book.. Not a favourite of mine but definately one of Grisham's best... :)Quote:
Originally Posted by rebgirl420
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.
Black House, Steven King
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 -
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
did anyone read choose your own adventure books when you were young? those books were fun
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Purple Banana
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!)
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
You win the bet... I have read it close to 10 times... I'm about due for another :DQuote:
Originally Posted by napolitana869
[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
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 -
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!~
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!
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.
The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, Rats Saw God...a lot
I read it in 6th grade, the one about the rabbit right?Quote:
Originally Posted by higher4hockey
sam~ yes that would be the one.
I got bored with that book,
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...
Probally true, but any book sounds better than Mein Kampf right now, now theres a book im forcing myself to read
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.
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
: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.