freakmachine
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12/10/2004 at 17:26 |
I tried to log in, it didn't work |
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LORDKAHUNA
Don't make me fuk your moustache  SSHOLEPosts: 1593 Registered: 8/5/2003 Offline
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12/10/2004 at 18:06 |
Stump: We have a wishlist at Barnes & Noble.com
*snicker*
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dragonstaff
Too old to Rock and Roll...too young to die  SSHOLEPosts: 739 Registered: 8/19/2004 Offline
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12/10/2004 at 23:30 |
How could I forget 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich' by Alexander Solzhenitsyn?
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dent
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12/11/2004 at 04:04 |
I was thinking about all the books I have read and what book "moved" me the most. Since I am truly into thriller/horror, I usually am not moved by this genre, just anxious and ready for the next chapter. Anyway, "Where the Red Fern Grows" was one of my favorite books back in school that made me think. Grapes of Wrath was also a great book.
Some True Crime that still sticks in my head:
Vampire Killer (the best true crime ever - made into a lousy movie)
Ted Bundy:Conversations With A Killer
Night Stalker (one of the best)
Green River Killer
A Fathers Rage
Jeffery Dahmer:An American Nightmare
No Safe Place
Dying For Dad (father mutilated all his kids - sick)
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tantrum
I'm a big boy now!  SSHOLEPosts: 470 Registered: 11/23/2003 Offline
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12/11/2004 at 17:58 |
NONFICTION:
Coercion: Why We Listen to What 'They' Say-
by Douglas Rushkoff
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith-
by Jon Krakauer
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers-
by Mary Roach
Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants-by Robert Sullivan
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ghostrider
liberal exit  SSHOLEPosts: 2382 Registered: 7/29/2004 Offline
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12/11/2004 at 18:25 |
I second Under The Banner Of Heaven. In fact, all of Krakauer's books are great. Into The Wild is my fave. I was in Alaska when the evnts took place, what a fukin cauldron of opinions that was.
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Mofo
dont give a shit  SSHOLEPosts: 422 Registered: 2/8/2004 Offline
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12/11/2004 at 18:53 |
Into Thin Air was good, I read part of Into The Wild and Eiger dreams but never finished them. What's his new book about? |
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ghostrider
liberal exit SSHOLEPosts: 2382 Registered: 7/29/2004 Offline
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12/11/2004 at 19:16 |
Mormons, a violent sub-sect
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freakmachine
Web Fucko Extraordinaire SSHOLEPosts: 586 Registered: 4/15/2004 Offline
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12/13/2004 at 02:22 |
I put some good books in the wish list. |
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LORDKAHUNA
Don't make me fuk your moustache SSHOLEPosts: 1593 Registered: 8/5/2003 Offline
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12/13/2004 at 03:17 |
LORDKAHUNA: Stump: We have a wishlist at Barnes & Noble.com
*snicker*
so did I
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Heather
DARTH MENSES  Posts: 591 Registered: 11/24/2004 Offline
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12/13/2004 at 19:29 |
Stiff was a pleasant surprise. I didn't expect a book about decomposition to be humorous, I didn't think it would have been possible.
I'm reading Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science, I'm enjoying it.
Sybil was a sad and frightening true story.
When Rabbits Howl is the only book that's ever made me cry. Dunno if that is an endorsement but I could not believe the depravities this woman rained down on her little baby girl. A biological mother so evil that she splintered her baby girl's personality into hundreds of pieces. |
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Sachsenpaule
SENATOR BABYHEAD  Posts: 165 Registered: 11/16/2003 Offline
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1/13/2005 at 14:34 |
government_death_robot: I like The Hitchhiker's Guide series by Douglas Adams.
(one of my favorite authors)
After i finished it i thought ill never read such a dynamic and humorful book again. Then i buyed discworld
by Terry Pratchett (one of my favorite authors)
. Ill hadnt finished the first book and ordered me the whole series immediately, 20 books at this time.
When im talking about dynamic and humorful books, ill have to mention Illuminatus
by Robert Anton Wilson.(one of my favorite authors)
Some of my all time favorites:
Ulysses by James Joyce.
really complex
Alice in wonderland (download) by Lewis Carroll
I liked it as a child. Its one of the few books that i would give to my children without qualms. Most children books are brutal and unethical (like the german "gebrüde grimm" fairy-tales, they are incredible dumb).
Which rises the question:
What children books are popular in the us?
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
(one of my favorite authors)
Treasure Island by Robert Lewis Stevenson
I own a redaction from 1920, you can download it for free somewhere in the internet.
[Edited on 13/1/2005 by Sachsenpaule]
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Sachsenpaule
SENATOR BABYHEAD Posts: 165 Registered: 11/16/2003 Offline
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1/13/2005 at 14:44 |
Im currently reading Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco.
Its somehow interesting, but its hard to read for my, nearly scientific, endless thoughts and too much logic for me. typically left brain hemisphere.
Ill currently own 89 books. One half are stories.
The other half are scientific, medical books, occult books and some other "hippie" stuff.
Reading this other half is really hard for me.
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dent
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1/13/2005 at 15:30 |
I recently finished Intensity, and am now reading Strangers. I need not name the author, because I am a fucking groupie. Anyhow, I did pick up the first novel in the Runelord series, thanks to Vas.
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straydog1980
DARTH MENSES  Posts: 531 Registered: 6/16/2004 Offline
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1/13/2005 at 15:40 |
ghostrideryyz: Mormons, a violent sub-sect
is that an actual book? If so I would love to own it. I work with about 85% mormons. I can think of nothing funnier than having that sitting on desk this summer, when all the mormons come down from Utah to sell accounts for me. BWA HA HA HA H
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Heather
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1/13/2005 at 16:25 |
A mormon pest control company?
There goes the neighborhood.
I've just restarted the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. Good stuff. |
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mundhra
dread pirate neckbeard  SSHOLEPosts: 1600 Registered: 3/25/2002 Offline
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1/13/2005 at 16:35 |
straydog1980: ghostrideryyz: Mormons, a violent sub-sect
is that an actual book? If so I would love to own it. I work with about 85% mormons. I can think of nothing funnier than having that sitting on desk this summer, when all the mormons come down from Utah to sell accounts for me. BWA HA HA HA H
Clicky click fagz!
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rudiecantfail
Tender vittles  Posts: 3 Registered: 2/6/2005 Offline
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2/6/2005 at 22:25  |
books everyone should read (in no order):
1. The Diceman - Luke Rheinhart
2. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
3. Caleb Williams - William Godwin
4. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
5. White Noise - Don DeLillo
6. The Fall - Albert Camus
7. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
8. The Rum Diary - Hunter S. Thompson
9. Bloods - Cant remember who its by but its an oral history of black vietnam war vets. not a novel but good all the same
10. The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
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vasudeva
Bad Taste in your Mouth  SSHOLEPosts: 4360 Registered: 3/8/2002 Offline
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2/6/2005 at 22:31 |
I just finished Clive Barker's Everville and am disappointed with his work for the first time ever.
Too much sappy human drama, not enough fucked-up monsters and flawed characters evolving into demonic anti-gods.
Rudie, I haven't read any of those but Pynchon is on my list. Tell me about Lot 49.
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middle_age_man
Mostly Harmless  SSHOLEPosts: 427 Registered: 1/11/2005 Offline
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2/6/2005 at 23:09 |
Louis de Bernieres ia a good read. His first three books are set in a fictional Central American country.Great social/political satire. The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts, Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord and The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman. |
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LOki
Refusenik  SSHOLEPosts: 480 Registered: 3/8/2002 Offline
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2/8/2005 at 14:06 |
Steven Brust.
The Phoenix Guards
To Reign in Hell
Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grill
Freedom and Necessity
The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars
Jhereg
Yendi
Teckla
Light reading, but thoroughly enchanting.
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mundhra
dread pirate neckbeard SSHOLEPosts: 1600 Registered: 3/25/2002 Offline
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2/8/2005 at 15:09 |
i'm about 3/4 done with snow crash since sunday.
i really like it when i read a book and it's written by a good author, rather than having been written by a good [insert genre] author.
two thumbs, way up. |
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vladtweano
DARTH MENSES  Posts: 515 Registered: 3/11/2002 Offline
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2/8/2005 at 15:23 |
Brust's Jhereg series now includes:
Jhereg
Yendi
Teckla
Taltos
Phoenix
Athyra
Orca
Dragon
Issola
These are quick reads but very very entertaining. It's fantasy-type stuff written in contemporary voice. The books are about an assassin named Vlad, so you can't go wrong.
The Phoenix Guards series now includes:
The Phoenix Guards
Five Hundred Years After
The Paths of the Dead
The Lord of Castle Black
Sethra Lavode
Warning: The Phoenix Guards series is written in a style emulating Alexander Dumas (3 Musketeers, Man in the Iron Mask etc) who was paid by the word. Sometimes he uses a whole page for a small exchange of dialogue. This is a joke, but it might only be funny to English majors. The books are still really good.
Other good Brust stuff that loki didn't mention:
Brokedown Palace
Agyar
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HellKat
SENATOR BABYHEAD  Posts: 176 Registered: 1/19/2005 Offline
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2/9/2005 at 13:27 |
Wow. I did not read everybody's commest (I have a doctors appt this am and have to rush). Although I agree with Koonts, King, Cussler & Grisham fans, I admit I have never read Clancy. I like sci-fi "light" and have have always enjoyed Harry Harrison right from "Stainless Steel Rat".
I also enjoy true crime, Ann Rule is my favorite and I think ths does a good job of looking at the crimes from all angles.
I've read all the weight loss books. They don't help. Eat less.
My opinion is worth every penny you paid.
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HellKat
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2/9/2005 at 13:32 |
Oh and we can't leave out Fredrick Pohl. Incidently, I thought Heinlein got a little too weird for my taste after "Stranger in a Strange Land" , so I stopped reading his stuiff.
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mundhra
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5/26/2005 at 15:36 |
a two thumbs up for philip k. dick short stories bump.
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mineralGod
SIR BABYHEAD  Posts: 87 Registered: 11/27/2003 Offline
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5/26/2005 at 15:42 |
Clive Barker
Charles Bukowski
Kurt Vonnegut
Miles Davis AutoBio
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dagwood
SENATOR BABYHEAD Posts: 352 Registered: 12/19/2004 Offline
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5/26/2005 at 16:33 |
Good thread to rejuvenate, I thought I was too new to
post to it when it was active before.
First of all, without encroaching on any guy's turf, I think
I'm in love with Heather and Hellkat, much the same tastes.
I couldn't believe anyone read remembered and appreciated
"The Great and Secret Show" like I did.
I started out with LOTR and read everything of KIngs for 15 yrs, kinda burnt out on him.
I picked up but still haven't finished Wizard and Glass, got lost with the Blaine, Pain, Train thang.
I like a good thriller, read Ken Follett for awhile, all of Michael Crichton, but I am still enamored
to a silly degree over Clive Cussler, always a rousing tale, love it. Grishams are good, but starting to look the same, ditto with Clancy.
This thread started with Dent wanting something to satisfy a voracious reading appetite,
I'd like to suggest a couple you may not be familiar with.
John D. MacDonald wrote at least 75 books, kinda dated since they're set in the 60's/70's, he died in '86,
but the Travis McGee series features an intrepid, likeable, mystery solving hero.
Same with Dick Francis who was previously a champion jockey who rode for the the Queen, most set around the tracks in England. He's got about 40 in the same vein. Both of 'em short , light, easy reads,usually clever, good if you're distracted or read fast.
My fave? The Stand got me interested in reading for life.
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Sachsenpaule
SENATOR BABYHEAD Posts: 165 Registered: 11/16/2003 Offline
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5/26/2005 at 19:14 |
I just finished Small Gods from Terry Pratchett.
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vasudeva
Bad Taste in your Mouth SSHOLEPosts: 4360 Registered: 3/8/2002 Offline
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5/26/2005 at 19:23 |
dagwood: I couldn't believe anyone read remembered and appreciated "The Great and Secret Show" like I did.
It was neat. Sadly, I picked up Everville, not realizing it was the sequel, and largely hated it. It just wasn't up to Clive's usual magic. I recommend a holding pattern.
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