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Have you read any books that really pulled you in? In a nutshell, what's it about?
My current fav is Steven King's The Gunslinger: Dark Tower saga. It's fu****g crazzzzzy; so trippy.
Here's the cover of Book 1.
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c2...gunslinger.jpg
Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
The Incredible Reversing Peppermints
My fav is YURUGU: An African Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behaviour
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0865...61#reader-link
I didn't realise it was soo expensive these days but I completely understand the desire to keep it out of common reach, not that keeping it out of reach is a good thing.
Rebels In Blue
Story of Keith and Malinda Blaylock
By Peter Stevens
That book was incredible. I'm on the second one now and already bought the third one.Quote:
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Wait until you go through that door on the beach in "The Drawing of the Three." Stephen King isn't just about horror...he's a genius who works on your mind.
it has to be The Catcher in The Rye by J.D Salinger........ legendary book! or ulysses by James jOyce!
calvin and hobbes compilation books.
huckleberry finn
"The Jungle" Upton Sinclair
"To Kill a Mockingbird" Harper Lee
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Very awesome series of books, I enjoyed reading those, especially that first one. My favorite part is when he pops that mescaline.
My favorite book is probably Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, sooooo fucking violent. Its a dark western about a band of men that get paid to kill indians and bring back their scalps, but eventually they just start killing everyone that comes across their path and scalping them regardless. The author is very talented at presenting you with a believeable setting and characters, which most authors lack in their writings.
EDIT: Where in WA are you from?
Dune by Frank Herbert...
Everyone is addicted to the spice!
i love the harry potter series
da vinci code
door to december
Atlas Shrugged
Da vinci code!!
anyone read THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST by Tom Wolfe?
I think it's next on my list of must-reads.
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King
William Blake, period
The Handbook to Higher Conciousness...forgot by whom, possibly Scott Peck?
Amen to that, what a great series.Quote:
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[QUOTE= EDIT: Where in WA are you from?[/QUOTE]
I'm from the Tri-Cities area, pretty hot this time of year.
I'll have to give some of these books a look, I haven't heard of a lot I've seen so far.
dark tower series
regulators
desperation - all stephen king
anything from anne rice
and anything from hunter s. thompson
dragonlance, harry potter, death gate cycle,
i enjoyed 1984, but i loved fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.
I read 1984 not too long ago. I found it quite depressing. Still a great read though. People keep saying BIG BROTHER this and BIG BROTHER that.. and 1984 is closer than you think. IT WAS 22 YEARS AGO! ok.. well there are some things coming true like being tracked everywhere you go. Not long before we get our chip implants! Am I being paranoid? Damn this weed is good.Quote:
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the dharma bums
on the road
the rum diary
fear and loathing in las vegas
many books by chuck palahniuk
less than zero
(and others by bret easton ellis)
the harry potter series
the torn skirt
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Tihkal, Sex, Drugs & Magick, Transfigurations, The Archaic Revival, Pihkal, Plants of the Gods,.. I don't remember much more
There are too many masterpieces to choose from. It's a pity most people don't bother to read books these days. Perhaps the problem is that they don't know how to sift through the crap to find the relatively few gems that are out there.
I love To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, too.
But my all-time favorite book is Growing Up by Russell Baker, which won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1983. It's a charming book.
Has no one said ERAGON holy shit that book is epic I TOTALLY FUCKING RECOMMEND IT TO ANY YOUNG PPL. There are 2 books in the series and one on the way. I read them both this year and holy shit I had the best dreams and I saw shit in this book while high. They are currently making a movie on it so I encourage you to go out and read it before it is ruined by the movie. Its tight imagining everything in your head. It may sound a little wierd but at some parts in the book I was laughing out loud and like cheering. man its epic.
I'm a teenager and I know kids at school who think its the best book theyve read too, but idk for some of you adults on here. If your in highschool and need to read books then get this book, you will enjoy and look foreward to reading.