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Favorite book you've read...
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| _Griphin_ User Info... | OK, there seems to be quite a few readers that login here, so I thought I would start a list regarding what is the favorite book you've read (in recent memory), here goes... Book read (before the assault): "I, Shithead" by Joe Keithley, chronicles 20 years of DOA, this book rocks (I still remember bits and pieces of it, such as when DOA went to go return an amp they rented to Long and McQuades. Apparently it got torched the night before, people at L&M didn't say anything. I think it was a Marshall stack. Book read (after the assault): My short term memory is coming back, I was thinking about tackling Heroes series (Dragonlance). Apparently "New Spring" by Robert Jordan isn't as good as a pre-quill (sp?). Or I might tackle books on my drive. - Sun, 24 Jul 2005 5:59pm | ||
| Nat User Info... | heavier then heaven-cobain memoir life and legacy (i think thats what its called)-jim morrison memoir memoirs of a geisha-by arthur golden anna karina-tolstoy - Mon, 25 Jul 2005 5:35am | ||
| samhain User Info... | some all time favorites of mine... The Wars by Timothy Findley King Rat (oh, and Tai-pan) by James Clavell American Psycho (anyone else read this?) by Brett Easton Ellis Anything by Salinger or Steinbeck - Mon, 25 Jul 2005 9:40am | ||
| SickFuk User Info... | Probably my fave book for Sci Fi would have to be Battlefield Earth by L Ron Hubbard... Other than that, the Belgariad series from David Edding comes to mind... A few more altime faves would have to be.... The Story of O by Pauline Reage Spring Moon by Bette Bau Lord Children of the Shroud by Garfield Reeves-Stevenson Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson 1984 by George Orwell There's many more... but those are the ones that come to mind right now 'ere - Mon, 25 Jul 2005 10:13am | ||
| dumpstermesh User Info... | Well where do I start? "The world according to Garp" by John Irving "Imajica" by Clive Barker "The grapes of wrath" by John Steinbeck "Charlottes Web" by E.B. White "A prayer of Owen Meany" by John Irving "The odyssey" by Homer "One hundred years of solitude" by G.G. Marquez "James and the giant peach" by Roald Dalh "The hobbit" by Tolkien "The memoirs of Cleopatra" by Margaret George "Memoirs of a geisha" by Arthur Golden Quite a few people on a previous book related thread mentioned how much they loved "Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond. I went out and got it and would like to thank everyone for the tip. Great book. - Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:22am | ||
| sam User Info... | Dumpstermesh, if you liked Imajica you should check out Weaveworld and The Great and Secret Show by Barker. I loved A Prayer for Owen Meany too (and Charlotte's Web) - Mon, 25 Jul 2005 12:32pm | ||
| duncan User Info... | battlefield earth! that was written by the same person who created scientology.. never read it. i like: haroun and the sea of stories :salman rushdie fight club :chuck palahniuk fear and loathing in las vegas :hunter s thompson choke :chuck palahniuk - Mon, 25 Jul 2005 1:31pm | ||
| Tambo User Info... | I just finished the Belgariad by David Eddings, I thought it was really good also. Have A Nice Day written by Mick Foley was good, even if you don't like wrestling. Tuesdays with Maury was very well done as well, a tear jerker. Next on my list of books to read is Battle Royale... - Mon, 25 Jul 2005 2:29pm | ||
| _Griphin_ User Info... | I didn't know SickFuk was a L. Ron Hubbard fan, and yes, that was the same dude that drugged and drank himself to death and started Scientology, which says bad things about doing those things the founder did. Go figure. - Mon, 25 Jul 2005 6:02pm | ||
| Suffuckation User Info... | Stranger Beside ME. Written by an old friend and co-worker of Theadore Robert Bundy; Anne Rule. It's a kick ass read. I laughed when all the bitches got killed. - Mon, 25 Jul 2005 6:39pm | ||
| changingweather User Info... | hands down, 20,000 leagues under the sea. - Mon, 25 Jul 2005 9:06pm | ||
| _Griphin_ User Info... | BTW: Heavier Then Heaven is an awesome book about Cobain. - Mon, 25 Jul 2005 9:17pm | ||
| dumpstermesh User Info... | Hey Sam - ya I've already read those:) I just didn't want to go on too much. I love Clive Barker though. Crazy imagination!!! Great minds eh?... - Mon, 25 Jul 2005 9:48pm | ||
| Neil User Info... | For non-fiction I like 'The Blind Watchmaker' by Richard Dawkins. For fiction I'd say 'Harvest of Stars' by Poul Anderson. - Tue, 26 Jul 2005 3:34am | ||
| Nat User Info... | Yeah it is. I've fread a few cobain bio's and this one is great. oh and stranger beside is awesome, most of her books are pretty great. - Tue, 26 Jul 2005 5:44am | ||
| Mutilashawn User Info... | "Lord of Chaos" - that American guy and that Norwegian guy "Revolutionary Suicide" and "The Huey P. Newton Reader" - Huey P. Newton "Autobiography of Malcolm X" - Malcolm X and Alex Haley "Bolivian Diary" - Ernesto Che Guevara "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria" - Beverly Daniel Tatum anything by Hunter S. Thompson "Soul on Ice" - Eldrige Cleaver "Black Panthers Speak" - various authors just a few books that have changed my life in one way or another. - Tue, 26 Jul 2005 7:04am | ||
| alain User Info... | "L'Arrache Coeur" and "L'Ecume des Jours" - Boris Vian. It's French, but you can find English versions, and you should, they're amazing books (a bit strange...). L'Etranger (Stranger or Outsider) - Albert Camus. For you old-school punkers, Killing an Arrab was based on this book. Again, the English versions are easy to find. Not Wanted on the Voyage - Timothy Findley. Great Noah's Arc 'parody'. Pure loveliness. Very fun and pretty easy to read. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger. Read it in school, most of you probably have. I could imagine a Kurt Cobain Biography would read something like this. Read one of those books... - Tue, 26 Jul 2005 7:59am | ||
| Mister Luke User Info... | I finally read Catch-22 a month ago, and it kicked my ass. Nobody here has mentioned Dune yet, which is one of my all-time favourites and absolutely a million times better than the movie and the miniseries smashed together and blown into a million pieces. The 2nd one is good, too, and the 3rd is ok, but they just start getting weird as hell after that. Heart of Darkness is a tough read, but worth it, too. Apart from that, I'm with you guys on 20,000 leagues, L'Étranger (with accent aigu - checkitoutman), Fear and Loathing, Fight Club, The Wars, the James Clavell stuff, the David Eddings stuff (though I hate to admit it), the Tolkien stuff, also the old Conan stories from the 1930s pulp magazines if you're into fantasy (hooray for crimson sprays and crimson mists and crimson pulps and ... I'll move on). I'm sure I'll think of more later. - Tue, 26 Jul 2005 1:37pm | ||
| sam User Info... | I've tried Catch-22 a couple times and got annoyed by all the major major major major stuff - I'll have to give it another shot since it looks like we have similar taste. - Tue, 26 Jul 2005 1:49pm | ||
| Chris Logan User Info... | I think one's probably better off avoiding fiction written after 1960 unless it's by someone named Amis, Carver, or McCarthy. - Tue, 26 Jul 2005 3:10pm | ||
| Chris Logan User Info... | Ooops - or Ellroy. - Tue, 26 Jul 2005 3:20pm | ||
| Chris Logan User Info... | Damn! Or Murakami. Guess I spoke too soon. - Tue, 26 Jul 2005 3:24pm | ||
| ammut User Info... | Hellbound heart, and the books of blood-Clive Barker Lullaby-Chuck Palahniuk American Gods and Neverwhere-Neil Gaiman Alice in wonderland-Lewis Carrol Rasputin the saint who sinned (can't remember the authors name off the top of my head) Life of pi - Tue, 26 Jul 2005 6:05pm | ||
| Ty Stranglehold User Info... | Lobotomy - Dee Dee Ramone Jackrabbit Parole - Stephen Reid East Van - Chris Walter American Hardcore - Stephen Blush Post Office - Bukowski Armed To The Teeth With Lipstick - Blag Dahlia Damnation Game, Great and Secret Show - Clive Barker Monster - Cody Scott Disposable - Sean Cliver - Tue, 26 Jul 2005 9:03pm | ||
| lonemonk User Info... | -All the Hitchhiker's Guide books - Douglas Adams -Siddhartha & Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse -(Like MutilaS)- Anything by H.S.T -All Non-fiction books on Printing, Aviation and Audio technology (Past and present) -The Valis Triology - Philip K Dick - Wed, 27 Jul 2005 5:35am | ||
| Aych Are Pee User Info... | Crusoe of Lonesome Lake by ??? Some guy goes into the woods with one axe and sleeps outside in the snow with no blankets. He cuts down 7 foot wide trees and pulls the stumps by hand to make a farm. Then he builds a plane. True story. - Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:47am | ||
| PrincessP User Info... | I just got back into reading in the last couple of months and my first book was Wicked. the life and times of the wicked witch of the west. It was soooo good. not at all what I was expecting. It had munchkin sex in it. I'm now half way through she's come undone and I'm really liking that one too. - Thu, 28 Jul 2005 1:45pm | ||
| Cheeky User Info... | harry potter i'm joking... - Thu, 28 Jul 2005 2:30pm | ||
| Adrenaline Animal User Info... | I'm reading Farley Mowat's "people of the deer" right now and I'm really enjoying it. - Thu, 28 Jul 2005 3:14pm | ||
| DOOMHAMMER User Info... | If you are looking for fantasy the two best series ive read in the last 10 years are A song of fire and ice by George R. R. Martin (widely regarded as the best series currently going) Tales of the Malazan Empire by Stephen Erickson Some other great books Black like Me - John Howard Griffen (A real story of a white man in 1960s america who goes through some medical shit to get his skin turned black so he can find out how different he would be treated because of skin color alone) The Autobiography of Malcolm X (one of the best books I have ever read) 1984 by George Orwell Slaughterhouse five by Kurt Vonnegut Roots by Alex Haley Oh, and I saw that Battlefield earth was mentioned. I personally disagree with L. Ron Hubbard, but battlefield earth was indeed a good book. American Psycho was also a great book. - Thu, 28 Jul 2005 3:21pm | ||
| dumpstermesh User Info... | Hey Adrenaline Animal I read People of the deer. It's great!!! I'm currently reading "And no birds sang" by Farley Mowat. It's his memoir of WW2. I love his writing style. - Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:54pm | ||
| lonemonk User Info... | Farley Mowat is awesome. My grandpa served with him in sicily, roughly the period covered in that book. Hastings-Prince Edward county Regiment. It's not a typical farley mowat book per se, but my absolute favourite is 'My Discover of America'. A small tale about how he got turned back at the US border for being a suspected commie. Little did the USA know Mowat is much more dangerous than a simple canadian pinko. Fuck, as if that's all they had to worry about! - Fri, 29 Jul 2005 6:14am | ||
| The Professor User Info... | Pretty much anything i've read by Kurt Vonegut, especially breakfast of champions, cat's cradle and god bless you mr rosewater. The Art Of War - Sun Tzu, I've read the Denma Translation, it's really good, I'm sure other translations are good too. I just read "Freakonomics" too, can't remember the author. That's pretty interesting. - Fri, 29 Jul 2005 9:06am | ||
| Masturbating The War God User Info... | American Psyco (Just finished a few weeks back) American Gods - Neil Gaimen Neverwhere - Neil Gaimen The Hobbit Brave New World Alice in Wonderland/Alice Through the Looking Glass Preacher (Graffic Novels - THEY COUNT AS BOOKS!) America, The Book - John Stewart and the Daily Show To name the ones that come to mind right now. - Fri, 29 Jul 2005 7:13pm | ||
| dumpstermesh User Info... | Lonemonk...No way your Grandpa served with him!!! What's his name? Is he mentioned in the book do you know? He does name names. I'm actually at the part where they landed in Sicily. That's so awesome... I LOVE Farley Mowat. LOVE HIM. - Sat, 30 Jul 2005 12:43am | ||
| rickylong User Info... | Ahhh i like the mindless man fiction! Mack Bolan the Executioner series by Don Pendleton = just a killing up them drug dealers, arms dealers, mafia, nazis, terrorists, and all the rest of the evil dooers. The crack of a rifle is heard in the distance and the doper standing beside you's head bursts open in a spray of blood. Deathlands series by James Axler. If you where a kid of the eighties... you had to have seen Road Warrior... the best film ever! Well James Axler's Deathlands is very similar only there is alot of rad mutations. Survival of thee fittist. any Elmour Leonard book always gets me! This guy just knows how to write a character. adult western novels.. Longarm and Renegade.. the Wilderness series, and alway nothing wrong with a good ole Louis Lamour! One day i'll find time to read good books but i have to complete Evillin Woodheads speed reading course. -rickylong - Sat, 30 Jul 2005 9:05pm | ||
| Gabri~hell User Info... | Mood dependant, obviously: Fear and Loathing...Hunter S. Thompson --adds a new dimension of hilarity to the movie. Germs by Wayne Biddle --ewww, gross factor high. The Alphabet of Modern Annoyances by Neil Steinberg --anyone with a keen-on for pet peeves should check this out. The Way We Are by Margaret Visser --a look deep into the peculiarities of us...in 1000 words or less. Uncle John's Bathroom Readers --there is no wrong here. The Sixteen Pleasures by Robert Hellenga --a book that distracts AND has a groovy shape. And some random erotica....always curious. The seeking online I am doing to complete the author/title relationship is failing me, so that's all you get right now. - Mon, 1 Aug 2005 12:00am | ||
| lonemonk User Info... | Naw he's not mentioned, but Craddock was his name. He knew the dad, Angus, more closely. 'Squib' is what angus was known as, but I think that may also have become a pseudonym for Farley as well. Farley lives in Owen Sound, Ont. Nice area, lotsa lake and trees. Be sure to read My Discovery of America. Its even more applicable in recent times... In 1960-somethin he admits to have fired a .22 rifle at a B52 (almost certainly nuclear-pregnant) flying overhead. There was absolutely no chance of damage to the gear, but this too may have been the source of his future USA issues. Crazy. He is easily the Can-Equivalent of Hunter Thompson. . - Mon, 1 Aug 2005 5:13am | ||
| dumpstermesh User Info... | No wonder I think he's hot. Ya, he was called "Squib" too. - Tue, 2 Aug 2005 3:55am | ||
| evilkleg User Info... | The best one I've read lately is "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer about the doomed 1996 Mt. Everest expedition. And here's another vote for Battlefield Earth (which, by the way, has next to nothing to do with Scientology). - Tue, 2 Aug 2005 2:47pm | ||
| Kris User Info... | i like zen and the art of motorcycle maintanence. right now i'm trying to read the first and last freedom by krishnamurti. krishnamurti was an interesting thinker. - Wed, 3 Aug 2005 2:00am | ||
| dumpstermesh User Info... | Have you checked out the krishnamuti center in metchosin? I've had some very thought provoking discussions there. Before anyone gets the chance it is NOT related to hari krishna, and is NOT a religon. - Wed, 3 Aug 2005 2:05am | ||
| Jesspsycho User Info... | Anyone know where to get Chris Walter books in Victoria? - Wed, 3 Aug 2005 8:34pm | ||
| Tyler User Info... | I'm glad this post exists. I'm always looking to read books I haven't heard of, that have stuck with people. This is mainly because most books are mediocre. when I read, I want it to matter. "Neverwhere-Neil Gaiman" - I loved that book 1984 and Brave New World were great. So was Dracula. But the one book that changed me the most was The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand Many people dispel Ayn Rand for being an egotistic capitalist. But I love how humanity is kind of examined throughout the book. It's the kind of book I want to buy for all my friends just so they read it. - Wed, 3 Aug 2005 10:07pm | ||
| zac User Info... | Swan Song - Robert R McGammon A Million Little Pieces - Fuck i forget the authors name and im lending the book out at the moment. Cheers, -Zac - Thu, 4 Aug 2005 10:18am | ||
| Mandroid User Info... | The Tao of Physics - Fritjof Capra Sort of connects modern physics with old eastern mysticism. These days you can't walk outside without running into some kind of self proclaimed mystic telling you all about quantum physics and buddhism and blah blah bullshit. That's sort of what this book is about. Still, makes a very interesting read, if you can keep it from going to your head and thinking that reading it makes you something special. Point Counter Point - Aldous Huxley Just about people and how they interact. It's Huxley so you know it has to be good. Island - Aldous Huxley His utopian novel, as opposed to the dystopia of Brave New World. Not as well known as BNW, but I thought it was better. 1984 - George Orwell Well, fuckin' duh. Hell's Angels - Hunter S. Really entertaining and enlightening book, and his writing style makes it all the more so. Zorba the Greek - Nikos Kazantzakis This is a classic, and I'd definately recommend it to everyone. Apart from that, I really like Michael Crichton's books (the amount of research and real science he puts into the books is great), though the associations people draw with the shitty movies is too bad as the books are infinitely better. The Wheel of Time books were good up to about book 6 or 7 when they just became meticulous descriptions of women bitching and flipping their hair. Too bad. - Thu, 4 Aug 2005 11:45am | ||
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