MESTHREE Posted November 2, 2001 Share Posted November 2, 2001 Just thought Id bring this one up again. Anyone have any books they've read recently that they want to recomend? heres a few Ive read: the sound and the fury - william faulkner hard read....hard to get used to some of the reginal language and time shifts but really nice desciptive stuff in it. Memoirs of a dutiful daughter - Simone de Beauvoire - really really good. Kinda girly for some of you guys perhaps but if you like philosophy this book is awesome. Im going to read everything shes ever written. Animal Farm - George Orwell I never read this in highschool and its short so I just thought Id read it.....really good. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth - again kinda girly maybe. its about india set in the 50's I believe. I learned alot from reading this one. And right now Im reading on the road - jack Kerouac Its so damn awesome. I want to quit school and travel so badly. anyone else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metallix Posted November 2, 2001 Share Posted November 2, 2001 1984 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest beardo Posted November 2, 2001 Share Posted November 2, 2001 The Cosmic Serpent DNA and the Origins of Knowledge Molecular biologist works with ayahuasca shamans and concludes they were given the knowledge of the DNA double-helix. Combines personal adventure, study of Amazon ethnobotany, and investigation into sources of knowledge, intelligence, and consciousness. Extensive notes, bibliography, and index. Jeremy Narby 1998; Tarcher (Putnam) 0-87477-911-1, hb #CSP 22.95 271 pg; also 0-87477-964-2, pb #CSPF 12.95 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeking Posted November 2, 2001 Share Posted November 2, 2001 dude, beardo, if you just wanna learn how to grow hydro, there are books tailored specificly for that. you dont have to read the rest of the mumbo jumbo. unless your trying to validate your muchroom intake as as being 'religious' then i guess, go ahead... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest bumdigger Posted November 2, 2001 Share Posted November 2, 2001 the plot irvine wallace the red dragon thomas harris(pre silence of the lambs) the stand the last don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadawhat Posted November 2, 2001 Share Posted November 2, 2001 A Peoples History of the United States Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobobi11 Posted November 2, 2001 Share Posted November 2, 2001 I have so many books, from every genre, that it is hard to recommend ones. Currently about 800-1000 books in my library. On the philosophical bent list you have started... Ken Kesey - Sailor's Song, Sometimes a Great Notion. Most people read Cuckoo's Nest and stop, his other work is great as well. Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale. Really interesting book about what would happen if enviromental pollution rendered the majority of the population sterile. Eddy Clearwater - Reservation Blues. Great book about modern life on a reservation. Charles Frazier - Cold Mountain Diary. This is about a soldiers walk home after the Civil War. Very moving. For those more into bestseller type books.... Michael Crichton - Timeline. If you have not read this book it is a must read. Totally different from his other stuff, it involves archaeology and time travel to medeviel (Law?) times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest THE LAW Posted November 2, 2001 Share Posted November 2, 2001 lizard music by daniel pinkwater hell, anything by daniel pinkwater...in the children's section. THE LAST GURU SLAVES OF SPIEGEL SNARKOUT BOYS AND THE AVACADO OF DEATH SNARKOUT BOYS AND THE BACONBURG HORROR ALAN MENDELSOHN THE BOY FROM MARS WORMS OF KUKUMLIMA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest --zeSto-- Posted November 2, 2001 Share Posted November 2, 2001 The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho The Little Prince - Antoine de St. Euxbeury these are the most profound books I've ever read. They're like the Te Tao Ching... you can read it in a day, over over a lifetime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_Tesseract Posted November 2, 2001 Share Posted November 2, 2001 The last book i read was: Sensitive Chaos : The Creation of Flowing Forms in Water and Air by Theodor Schwenk. I highly recomend it.The foreword is written by Zack Custo (the oceanologist) and the whole book is about how water moves and behaves as an element and how everything in this world moves with the same way...Great images and diagrams also.Beardo will like it for sure. *The heart of darkness by Conrad *"Keeper in the rye" by J.D.Sallinger($$) and two books by the same author i've mentioned in the past: "The Beach" and "Tesseract" (!) by Alex Garland, penguin books The beach is the book that the movie was based on but if you hated the movie(i did) you will love the book.Seeking will like this. Oh, i forgot "High Fidelity" by nick hornby penguin books again If you liked the movie you'll love the book and "Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture" by Apostolos Doxiadis. A novel on mathematics,like the movie "pi" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KASTsystem Posted November 2, 2001 Share Posted November 2, 2001 The Fountainhead - by Ayn Rand The Society of the Spectacle - by Guy DeBord T.A.Z. Temporary Autonomous Zone - by Hakim Bey (you can read it free online: Temporary Autonomous Zone by Hakim Bey ) The Masterpiece - by Emile Zola Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anyone Posted November 2, 2001 Share Posted November 2, 2001 American Pharoh Good book about Chicago's old corrupt ass mayor Richard M. Daley. I always wondered why Chicago was so fucked up, racialy and finacially. This book answered a lot of my questions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shameless self promotion Posted November 2, 2001 Share Posted November 2, 2001 nomad...awesome book, much props..heres some of mine... ..I am the cheese...i think this is the title.. At dawn we slept.. Killer Angels.. Anything by Chompsky... Deffinatly animal farm, good choice mes! Jurassic Park..loved this years ago.. These are just a few i have sittin near me that i love...still not finished with at dawn we slept...its great... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.T Boy Posted November 2, 2001 Share Posted November 2, 2001 The apprenticeship of duddy kravitz- Mordecai Richler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hipnos Posted November 2, 2001 Share Posted November 2, 2001 neuromancer- william gibson straight man- richard russo the teachings of don juan: a yaqui way of knowledge- carlos castaneda (really good...anthropology student studies with a yaqui shaman, lots of hallucinogenics used..incredible descriptions... very interesting) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Remy Martin Posted November 2, 2001 Share Posted November 2, 2001 SnowCrash- william gibson Trainspotting..by that one fool Way Past Cool- some dude from oakland Junkee- by that cat that had somthing to with that lunch movie about junkies, oh naked lunch i think i dont know...i read hella magazines and newspapers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KASTsystem Posted November 2, 2001 Share Posted November 2, 2001 Originally posted by Remy Martin Junkee- by that cat that had somthing to with that lunch movie about junkies, oh naked lunch i think yes...good book. it's by William S. Burroughs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lush Posted November 2, 2001 Share Posted November 2, 2001 shame on you for not knowing it's William S. Burroughs :) hehe yeah naked lunch and all that jazz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fr8oholic Posted November 3, 2001 Share Posted November 3, 2001 biddump. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seven.13 Posted November 3, 2001 Share Posted November 3, 2001 Originally posted by MESTHREE And right now Im reading on the road - jack Kerouac Its so damn awesome. I want to quit school and travel so badly. anyone else? aigh...Kerouac be careful.. you might end up running away numerous times I'd like to blame my summer escapad'e on him ( 'cos it aint freddys fault') heh... check out the Dharma Bums by him too Mexico City Blues i think its called, a collection of his poetry Lonesome Traveller The Subterraneans if you want something mind bending- Naked Lunch Ginsberg's poetry New York Graphic- i read this a while ago strage tale of an odd photographer...a priest decapitated by a flying sewer lid...a porn star who is HIV positive.. It was interesting to say the least. Soul on Ice, E. Cleaver Darkness Visible, Golding - this made absolutley no sense to me for the first bit..but it was damn good...I'm glad I continued reading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B_As_In_Bot Posted November 3, 2001 Share Posted November 3, 2001 on another note the suckiest book ever produced at a 5th grade reading level is "A wrinkle in Time" by madeline d'engle or some shit. the point is, this book is totally fucked. books by richard preston are good, I swear. The Cobra event, and The Hotzone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
23578 Posted November 3, 2001 Share Posted November 3, 2001 Cook Wise- a cookbook for people who want to know that you have to cook out the alpha amylase in the egg yolk at 140 degrees to make your custard set at room temperature, and not too high because your custard will curdle, also just about everything else you've ever wondered about, by Shirley Corriher, 25 bucks i think. The Gonzo Papers: Volume I- The Great Shark Hunt, Hunter S. Thompson-all the stuff that didn't make it into Fear and Loathing in Vegas, or F &L on the Campaign Trail, or did it (i've never read them). the John Grady trilogy, whatever they're called, Cormac McCarthy. good ole boys in the dying west, or cowboys done gone bad. TPH of the US, i'll third that once again, two years and i almost want to read it again, but big books scare me, there's just so much more to forget! also, really want to read the sequel to the Talisman, by King & Straub, as i just re read the original. lots of books i've never read on this list, good to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CATS Posted November 3, 2001 Share Posted November 3, 2001 Bomb The Suburbs-Upski Where the sidewalk ends-Shel Silerstein Anything Dr. Suess-artistic value of drugs Anythng Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanity Posted November 3, 2001 Share Posted November 3, 2001 the last few books i've read have been pretty wack. stick to short stories for awhile. hermann melville (might have to read twice). nathanial hawthorne the last full book i enjoyed was one flew over the cuckoo's nest. i just read silent partner, by... umm... some chick. mary stuart phelps, i think. zzzzzzzzzzzzzz now i'm about to start up a book of short stories by mary wilkins freeman.. i'll let ya know how it goes. and if you're interested in the development of cities: a new england town, kenneth lockridge autobiography of benjamin franklin.... but dont worry about the last 80 pages or so, unless you have an interest in government Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wakassOATH Posted November 3, 2001 Share Posted November 3, 2001 damn has anyone read the new GOOSE BUMPS i cant stop picking it up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garcia_vega Posted November 3, 2001 Share Posted November 3, 2001 ishmael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Dubyah Bush Posted November 3, 2001 Share Posted November 3, 2001 HOLOGRAPHIC UNIVERSE HAS anybody read the "Holographic Universe" by Michael Talbot? I ordered that today, and was wondering if any body can give me some feed back. peace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intercity Posted November 3, 2001 Share Posted November 3, 2001 books ... just read Clockwork Orange... again. better every time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serum Posted November 3, 2001 Share Posted November 3, 2001 heres some books i recently finished. FIVE WOMEN WHO LOVED LOVE by Ihara Saikaku. 5 great stories about love. written in osaka during the tokugawa era where adultery and sex with lower classes equalled death. JAPANESE TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION by Edogawa Rampo. Great stories that capture Edgar Alan Poe's style with and added Japanese style to it. FREEDOM FROM FEAR by Aung San Suu Kyi. some history about Burma, and other various writings about her struggle for human rights. DANGEROUS PLEASURES: Prostitution and modernity in the twentieth-century shanghai by Gail Hershatter. a great sociological study about flower girls struggling for female empowerment in China. KHUBILAI KHAN by Morris Rossabi. an interesting biography about Khubilai Khan and his life. Talks about mongolia and its wars in asia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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