H. Lecter Posted June 12, 2005 Share Posted June 12, 2005 Thread idea and name courtesy of BZAR URN TCK... Favourite books or books which you feel should be acknowledged... noteable excerpts welcome.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fermentor666 Posted June 12, 2005 Share Posted June 12, 2005 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublebase Posted June 12, 2005 Share Posted June 12, 2005 lord of the rings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackfatsoe Posted June 12, 2005 Share Posted June 12, 2005 Just read Lullaby by Palanuik (sp) and now im reading Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger. Lullaby was pretty good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteOx Posted June 12, 2005 Share Posted June 12, 2005 the last book I read. written by an NVA soldier who survived the vietnam war he was one of less than 10 from 600 in his battalian who survived tens years of fighting. some of his friends were killed on V-DAY (the day the North vietnamese won). In the book they smoke some sort of halucengenic root and see headless ghosts of black american soldiers, holding lanterns walking through the jungle. the book is really depressing but good. the next book I plan to read is neville shute's "on the beach" after really liking the mini series Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bunyip Posted June 12, 2005 Share Posted June 12, 2005 Jose Saramago - Blindness Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
effyoo Posted June 12, 2005 Share Posted June 12, 2005 "Roots" By Alex Haley needs to be acknowledged. Always will make me know that things can get a lot worse. First read it when I was 12. Curently reading: "Salt: A World History" by Mark Kurlansky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest perve Posted June 12, 2005 Share Posted June 12, 2005 just read a book called colors insulting to nature "cintra wilson" pretty good. im currently reading naked lunch by william burroughs............. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CamAlmighty Posted June 12, 2005 Share Posted June 12, 2005 Originally posted by fermentor666@Jun 12 2005, 05:17 AM Quoted post A timeless classic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CamAlmighty Posted June 12, 2005 Share Posted June 12, 2005 A Catcher In The Rye isn't bad either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theo Huxtable Posted June 12, 2005 Share Posted June 12, 2005 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theo Huxtable Posted June 12, 2005 Share Posted June 12, 2005 Originally posted by WhiteOx@Jun 12 2005, 12:33 AM the last book I read. written by an NVA soldier who survived the vietnam war he was one of less than 10 from 600 in his battalian who survived tens years of fighting. some of his friends were killed on V-DAY (the day the North vietnamese won). In the book they smoke some sort of halucengenic root and see headless ghosts of black american soldiers, holding lanterns walking through the jungle. the book is really depressing but good. the next book I plan to read is neville shute's "on the beach" after really liking the mini series Quoted post sounds interesting. i'll look in to it. i've read a whole bunch of books about vietnam written by soldiers, generals, journalists, etc. from the american side but i've wanted to read one from an NVA or VC experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubsface Posted June 12, 2005 Share Posted June 12, 2005 Just fineshed: Diary of an Emotional Idiot by M. Estep Great read, heres an excerpt: "White people dancing can be embarassing. Like heavy petting with someone you've known for many years and never thought of in sexual terms. Suddenly, your hand is down his pants. You fit your paw around his appendage, you look into his face and see that it is the face of your friend Buddy, for whom you never had sexual feelings. And now, for some unfathomable reason, your hand is down his pants and you are profoundly embarassed. " Now reading: The Subterreneans by Kerouac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pilau Hands Posted June 12, 2005 Share Posted June 12, 2005 The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down Anne Fadiman Just finished this...non-fiction. It's about a little Hmong girl who had epilepsy in Merced, California. Mostly though...it involves the disaster that took place when the Hmong culture met Western medicine, and how the two were just an awful match. The medical language is a little off-putting sometimes, but Fadiman writes really wonderfully and that kept me interested. It was worth the read just to learn a little about the Hmong culture which sounds beautiful in its intricacies. "The Hmong have a phrase, bais cuaj txub kaum txub, which means "to speak of all kinds of things." It is often used at the beginning of an oral narrative as a way of reminding the listeners that the world is full of things that may not seem to be connected but actually are; that no event occurs in isolation; that you can miss a lot by sticking to the point; and that the storyteller is likely to be rather long-winded. I once heard Nao Kao Lee begin a description of his village in Laos by saying, "It was where I was born and where my father was born and died and was buried and where my father's father died and was buried, but my father's father was born in China and to tell you about that would take all night." If a Hmong tells a fable, for example, about Why Animals Cannot Talk or Why Doodble Bugs Roll Balls of Dung, he is likely to begin with the beginning of the world." -- Gonna start Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arc7hyp-1 Posted June 12, 2005 Share Posted June 12, 2005 just finished american psycho and it was awesome, so much better then the movie which was good im about to finish big brother is watching by elaine landau and its pretty boring i must say after that im gonna read weaverworld by clive barker yupp a friend of mine is getting b o o k w o r m tattoed on his knuckles sometime soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wAndEreR Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 -THE PRINCE- NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI - /\ /\ :yuck: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dumy Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 Catch 22 is always a favorite Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oh so modern Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 abbie hoffman's revolution for the hell of it and steal this book. imagine upski in the sixties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OriginalSin Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 best story ever told. last of seven books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rental Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 just finished ayn rand's fountainhead. awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H. Lecter Posted June 13, 2005 Author Share Posted June 13, 2005 Damn I'm going book shopping~ some serious recommendations I need to check out~~ especial bump for "The Prince" Let me(us) know how that Kerouac book is~ ----- "However many holy words you read, However many you speak, if you don't act upon, you are a shepard counting another mans sheep" "When a man does evil work, he forgets he is building a fire, in which he one day must burn" "Those who make channels control the waters, Those who make crops control the land, Those who make truth, control their soul" "For he whose mind is well trained in the ways that lead to light, Who surrenders the bondage of attachemnts and finds joy in his freedom, Who free from darkness of passions shines pure in a radiance of light, even in this mortal life he experiences the immortal Nirvana." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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dELiSs Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 Originally posted by mackfatsoe@Jun 11 2005, 10:06 PM Just read Lullaby by Palanuik (sp) and now im reading Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger. Lullaby was pretty good. Quoted post I've had this book for way too lonng and its very hard for me to get into it. Choke was good but I just cant do this one.. I think I may read catcher in the rye again . .. read a book of quotations today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docs Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 the fuck up: arthur nercessian cant find a flick, but damn good book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deterrent Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 Bardo Thodol The Tibetan Book of the Dead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fondles Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 Originally posted by rental@Jun 13 2005, 02:08 AM just finished ayn rand's fountainhead. awesome. Quoted post YES. Now read Atlas Shrugged. (Which i'm going through again) Then read all of her non-fiction. Then read Nathaniel Brandon's ('s? Always get that confused), her not-so-secret lovers (while they were both married, yes yes shameful) works on Objectivism to complete the integration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fondles Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 Originally posted by uncle-boy@Jun 13 2005, 04:18 AM Quoted post Worst. Fiction. Ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveAustin Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 Originally posted by rental@Jun 13 2005, 12:08 AM just finished ayn rand's fountainhead. awesome. Quoted post I just recommended that book to someone the other day. I've been thinking about picking it up and reading it again...but I figure I should read Atlas Shrugged...just because. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rental Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 i read anthemin highschool. id like to read atlas shrugged too. maybe in a few years while i let this one soak in. the fountainhead was so perfectly and meticulously done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theGOON Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 just finished--"the magic of recluce"--LE Modessit Jr. amusing, slightly elementary fantasy. i would recommend it, but not highly. currently reading--"The Great Hunt," by Robert Jordan book 2 in the wheel of time. i was disappointed by the ending of book 1, "Eye of the World," but book 2 is closing up the gaps i felt were there and i have been promised (by my little brother) a much more gratifying battle at the end of this... we shall see also, "the complete short stories of Hemingway," i genuinely love this guy's work. if you haven't read his stuff, or much of it, you should. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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