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I know people here read.
What are your favorite books or what do you like to read?
Mine is...anything by Jon Stewart. I like books with alot of political satire.
And anything like drama-ficition.
my favorite books are: Panic, Smack, Crank, Evasion, and even though I'm no where NEAR religous or attempt to believe in god I still find the Left BEhind series interesting.
I love the wheel of time series. wonderful incredible books.
back when i did read books, anything by james patterson or dean koontz
i love dean koontz
I really liked the Kite Runner by..err..i forget..it was a great book though.
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The Great Shark Hunt : Hunter Thompson
Electric Kool Aid Acid Test : Tom Wolfe
On the Road : Jack Kerouac
Dharma Bums : Jack Kerouac
The Stranger : Albert Camus
Air Conditioned Nightmare : Henry Miller
The Bell Jar : Sylvia Plath
Less Than Zero : Bret Easton Ellis
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas : Hunter Thompson
Survivor : Chuck Palahniuk
Choke : Chuck Palahniuk
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest : Ken Kesey
Can't Find My Way Home - America in the Great Stoned Age : Martin Torgoff
House of Leaves : Mark Danielewski
Smack : Melvin Burgess
The Painted Word : Tom Wolfe
Colossus of Maroussi : Henry Miller
Kingdom of Fear : Hunter Thompson
Any book by Steinbeck
reading makes my eyes hurt :(
enders game and enders shadow
perhaps you need glasses...Quote:
Originally Posted by Professor Dan K.
ive actually read that book ^^ enders game, it wasnt bad actually
to slipknot, yea i think i do actually, i have to squint to see things in focus sometimes, its not bad or anything, but im gonna get it checked out.
I love James Herbert and Bill Bryson. 'The Fog' by Herbert is more intense than any movie i've ever seen. Insane school kids molest their gym teacher? You know it's good! :D
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
Jack Kerouac - On The Road
Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe
anything by chuck palahnuk
Mark Danielewski - House of Leaves
Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and loathing in los vegas
those are some of my favorites.
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I totally forgot A Clockwork Orange.
We should be reading buddies! We have the same favorite books!! But I hope you've read other Hunter books besides Fear and Loathing..
I've grown to love most of J.D. Salinger's work, for one reason or another. His whole life is just so interesting, how can I not be intrigued.
Another author, Tim O'Brien, writes fiction based on his experiences in Vietnam. All of his books are either very funny or very passionate and romantic, and sometimes both.
Other than that, I'm pretty open to authors. I just picked up "The Lizard King" - a newer book about Jim Morrison and the mysterious events around his death. Supposedly it gives new evidence which should end all the rumors, but we'll see. It does have like 30-something pages of original interviews, which is why I originally got it.
As long as a book teaches me something, or gives me a new appreciation for something, I'll probably read it. ~
actually i just started getting into hunter so i haven't read many of his books. I just started The Great Shark Hunt a few days ago though.Quote:
Originally Posted by baisez le monde.
I finished reading Fear and Loathing about a week ago. Before that I was reading the Essential Calvin and Hobbes. Now I'm reading another Calvin and Hobbes. Maybe I'll pick up another Hunter book next.
I'm not a big reader, just recently though I've been reading calvin and hobbes in class and decided to get Fear and Loathing.
If you want another Hunter book, The Great Shark Hunt is excellent.
wow thats a wonderful list you got there. did you enjoy smack? that book changed me foorreevveerrQuote:
Originally Posted by baisez le monde.
What are these Hunter books about? Like the great shark hunt and fear and loathing in las vegas?
Haha , thank you. I read way too much. Smack is a GREAT book. Definitely top 10. Melvin Burgess is an extremely talented writer.
and Hunter Thompson, he was a journalist. But a hilarious amazing journalist. Very satirical.
Yeah, even if it has nothing to do with drugs, I'm sure it will be a good read. I love his thought process on certain things.
When he was talking about how most speeders will "panic and immediately pull over" and that was "wrong" was hilarious.
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Wait you haven't seen Fear and Loathing the movie?
Is it wrong to say I haven't?Quote:
Originally Posted by baisez le monde.
Wrong to an insane degree, yes.
the elegant universe by brian greene
on the road by jack kerouac
the dancefloor by j.m. mcqeen
thimble summer by elizabeth enright
the edible woman by margaret atwood
steps by jerzy kosinski
understanding the universe by rachel snyder-stohlm
just to name a few
I could never get into reading myself. I've always had a short attention span, but that's not saying I've never read a book before. :)
I read a book about the story of Nirvana, titled "Come As You Are." It was a good read.
The last book I read was about a fellow named James Frey called "A Million Little Pices." It was just a journal or a memoir of his stint in rehab. He was an alcoholic and c***k addict and it was just a writing of his memories in there. It was mostly full of cursing, incoherant ramblings, but it gives you a good insight on why you should never get into those things. Worth the read, although he was in some controversy not too long ago where some of his past criminal charges had been over-exaggerated, but that's not the point of the book of how much trouble he's been in with the law, it's about why hard drugs and alcohol can become bad, killer addictions, but it makes you think what else he made up in the book.
I remeber one part where he was in rehab and he had to go to the dentist for a root canal. If you're in rehab for drug addiction, sedatives or potent painfillers of any kind are not allowed to be given, under no circumstances. He went through a root canal with no painkillers at all during the procedure. I couldn't imagine the pian.
Anyways, that's all about I've read. In college last year I had to read a book called Medicine River for an english course and that was really, really...really boring. :p
I read a story about Iggy Pop as well. I can't remeber the name if it, but it was a good 300 pages, and one night I came home after doing b*** one night, heavily, smoked some weed and read the entire thing. :p The only part I can remeber is when he was in the Stooges and he whipped his dick out, set it on a guitar amp, and just let it bounce around. :p I don't why I remeber that part, but it's still damn funny.
Just about anything written interests me except for science fiction. That's never been my thing. Unless it's medical science fiction, and then I'll tolerate it.
For the last five years, I've been going through a biography phase. I love to read about other people. One of the only bad things about being back in school--besides the commute--is the fact that nowadays when I spend time reading, it usually needs to be related to school instead of just for pleasure. I used to read two books at week at a minimum. Now I probably read more than that in volume. But it's assigned reading and not escape/pleasure reading.
Redemption (About stan tookie williams)
elegant universe is awesome man, i love string theory.Quote:
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on the road is another great book!
48 laws of power is a must read
Philosophy for dummies was great, tuesdays with morrie was great, a million little pieces was great, so was the 5 people you meet in heavon which i finished reading today. Oh yeah, Charles Barkleys book 'who's afraid of a large black man' was really good too. I dunno what book i'm going to read now.