read anything good lately

[stoner spirit]

I'm reading The Art of War by Sun Tsu, in braille though.

[XTC]

Looking for a scary book on society?
Bret Easton Ellis-- "American Psycho"
Also
Dan Brown-- "The Da Vinci Code"
Bill Maher-- "When you Ride Alone, You Ride with Bin Laden"
George Carlin "When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops"
Hunter S. Thompson--"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
Mark Nykanen-- "The Bone Parade"

[likemclever]

I'm reading The Art of War by Sun Tsu.

I heard that was an awesome book.

[paulcky411]

I read the Jose Canseco book, "Juiced". It was actually pretty good... I don't read a lot of books but when I do I get through em quite quickly... took me 3 days, also made the plane ride I was on feel a lot shorter.

[stoner spirit]

I heard that was an awesome book.

Yes, its a vary good book. If possible, you should check out The Book of Five Rings by a warrior named, Musashi. It's a weard name, but just type in The Book of Five Rings in a search engine and you'll get quite a few results. I forgot the websight, but I even came across the Manafesto of Communisum in a pdf format, vary trippy, hahahaha.

[4252]

Read American Psycho about a month ago, now re-reading Pebble in the Sky by Isaac Asimov. Also enjoyed Rape of the A*P*E* recently.

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[GHoSToKeR]

'The Curious Incident of The Dog In The Night-time' is one of the best books i've read lately. It's written in the style of an autistic child (I think he was autistic..), and because of his illness he barely had any emotions. He couldnt understand happiness, sadness, excitement, boredom, love, hate, fear or any other emotion - but he would react as if he could feel these emotions because that is what he thinks is the right thing to do. He has fits and extremely bad behavioural problems. He is also insanely intelligent.. at one point in the book (remember, he's only maybe 10-12) he calculates the population growth of a small 'community' of frogs.. he does this in his head. He understands algebra, physics, etc, and is emmensly logical..

Then somebody murders a dog that lives in the same street as him, stabs it with a fork. The boy discovers the dog and goes to it, holding it in his arms.. He doesn't feel remorse for this dog, he doesn't feel sadness or anything, even though he has somewhat of a 'companionship' with it - he just knows that the dog is making strange noises and is bleeding, so it is probably dying. He is fascinated by it so he stays to watch the dog die (remember, he doesnt have any emotion), at which point the owner of the dog, an old lady, arrives and shouts at the boy, thinking it was him who murdered the dog. The boy flees and from then on he vows to find out who murdered the dog so as to free his name. The hunt takes him all over England, where you meet his seperated parents and different members of his family and community.. It's an amazing insight in to the mind of somebody without emotion, somebody who cannot comprehend why or how people can do the things they do because of foreign concepts such as love or hate.. it's also an interesting look at how trivial most of our actions are.. things we consider to be important are usually just blown out of proportion by our out of control emotions. I think one of the most moving factors is the love the boys dad has for him, and yet his son is unable to love him back, which eventually drives the dad away... I would definately recommend this book to everybody.

[likemclever]

'The Curious Incident of The Dog In The Night-time' is one of the best books i've read lately. It's written in the style of an autistic child (I think he was autistic..), and because of his illness he barely had any emotions. He couldnt understand happiness, sadness, excitement, boredom, love, hate, fear or any other emotion - but he would react as if he could feel these emotions because that is what he thinks is the right thing to do. He has fits and extremely bad behavioural problems. He is also insanely intelligent.. at one point in the book (remember, he's only maybe 10-12) he calculates the population growth of a small 'community' of frogs.. he does this in his head. He understands algebra, physics, etc, and is emmensly logical..

Then somebody murders a dog that lives in the same street as him, stabs it with a fork. The boy discovers the dog and goes to it, holding it in his arms.. He doesn't feel remorse for this dog, he doesn't feel sadness or anything, even though he has somewhat of a 'companionship' with it - he just knows that the dog is making strange noises and is bleeding, so it is probably dying. He is fascinated by it so he stays to watch the dog die (remember, he doesnt have any emotion), at which point the owner of the dog, an old lady, arrives and shouts at the boy, thinking it was him who murdered the dog. The boy flees and from then on he vows to find out who murdered the dog so as to free his name. The hunt takes him all over England, where you meet his seperated parents and different members of his family and community.. It's an amazing insight in to the mind of somebody without emotion, somebody who cannot comprehend why or how people can do the things they do because of foreign concepts such as love or hate.. it's also an interesting look at how trivial most of our actions are.. things we consider to be important are usually just blown out of proportion by our out of control emotions. I think one of the most moving factors is the love the boys dad has for him, and yet his son is unable to love him back, which eventually drives the dad away... I would definately recommend this book to everybody.

That sounds like a very interesting read.....I'll add it to my list.

[Darkneon420]

I dun read much...only cuz i've already read all the books i have and never get to be able to go to the book store. But i like reading the harry potter series, i get intot he whole scene and i cant pu tthe books down. I like jude bloom books cuz sex is yummy. Im reading the book Smack again cuz its fuckin awesome. And i read manga cuz anime is sex.

[EverydayJunglist]

Last book i read was Smoke Screen,by Robert Sabbag.It is about selling bud,and is a little hard to keep up with because the number of characters.Currently reading P.O.W,it is about a kid's party years,in the end he gets caught with acid and he fights the sytem.There is a pot leaf with barbed wire on the cover......Neither books are intellectually challenging,and maybe that is what makes them a nice casual read.