Guest Dusty Lipschitz Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 lets get the oprah book club going for naked... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunm Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 I'm re-reading the expanded version of the first book in Stephen king's Dark Tower series. he added over 9000 new words and it really fleshes the first bookm out which i thought was good if not spartan on my first time leafing through it. I want to read Tolkiens Simillarion because I'm a masochist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weapon X Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 4TH AND 26!!!!! THAT’S MY BUDDY’S MSN USERNAME! WAY TO RUB IT IN! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milton Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 I started inferno and lost it. Just get a translation that has notes. He puts people he knows in hell, now thats gangster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iloveboxcars Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 Reading Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris. I've already read Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day and Barrel Fever. All good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caL Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 im reading the pleasure of my company bye steve martin, its pretty funny. oh and i keep staring at position of the day book from nerve, i wanna try "the crafty chiropracter" but i have to wait till 3rd of june Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horse cock Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 DUDE WHERES MY COUNTRY by michael moore......if anybody is seriously entertaining the idea of voting for george w's monkey ass in 2004 you should read this book first.....fuck everybody should read this book....i havent been able to put it down since i got it about a week ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gfreshsushi Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 i just finished 'the unbearable lightness of being.' goddamn, is that book overrated. my girl handed it to me and just said "this is one of those books everybody has to read, but no one really likes it." word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iloveboxcars Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 Originally posted by gfreshsushi i just finished 'the unbearable lightness of being.' goddamn, is that book overrated. my girl handed it to me and just said "this is one of those books everybody has to read, but no one really likes it." word. HAHAHAHAH, I read that shit and I totally agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weapon X Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 Originally posted by Weapon X This may seem a bit low brow, but does anyone have any input regarding Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6 novels? I used to read him a lot in my early teenage years, and really liked his stuff. I hear that the Rainbow 6 books have good action, and I wanna get away from all this Russian stuff I’ve been reading lately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smart Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 Scent of Evil - Archer Mayor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Quickwood Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 <u>"The Maskado Lesson"</u> -Wiliam P. Kennedy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRAMPS Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 one of the best books i EVER read was Venus on the Half Shell by Kilgore Trout (aka kurt vonnegut) it is fucking crazy, its a deap and trippy as vonnegut gets. just find the book and read it, it suck you in and you dont stop till your done. makes you think too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OcToBeR Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 ZEN 24/7......BY PHILIP TOSHIO SUDO... LONG ASS NAME...BUT ITS A GOOD READ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imported_YEAHMANWORD Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 I'm already on the fourth book of christmas break from school. Hells Angels and Screwjack from H.S. Thompson were well written and entertaining. Choke by chuck palahniuk wasn't captivating but thats the first word that comes to mind. I couldn't put it down and finished it in a day and a half. Right now I'm onto The electric kool-aid acid test by tom wolfe .which i'm about a quarter finished with. Pretty decent but tends to ramble in spots and can get quite incoherent if you're not careful. I still have naked lunch from burroughs and on the road from kerouac to go until i purchase a fresh batch of literature. I realize the books are trendy/pop and quite talked about but i figure I'd bite the bullet and get them over with. When i went on Barnes and Noble to order Choke, I used the suggestions they offered and came across the others i mentioned. (i.e. People who buy this book also are interested in: yadayadayada). Pretty cool feature and I'm pleased I used it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CIPHER_one Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 The House of Sand and Fog. I'm rushing to finish it so I can go see the movie. Finished Diary by Palahniuk recently...real good. They're making On The Road into a movie... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abracadabra Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 haven't read a book in a while. short attention spa.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Former Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 Originally posted by horse cock DUDE WHERES MY COUNTRY by michael moore......if anybody is seriously entertaining the idea of voting for george w's monkey ass in 2004 you should read this book first.....fuck everybody should read this book....i havent been able to put it down since i got it about a week ago. I enjoyed his other two books but I just haven't gotten into this one yet. It seems like he points out the most obvious things and writes for idiots to read and rambles on just to be radical. I don't know, not very smart I guess. I enjoyed Al Franken's book MUCH more. It's very intelligent and funny. You should like this one Horse Cock. But I agree about George Bush. For the love of god, get him out of the whitehouse and watch out for his little brother Jeb. Fucking Dynasty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manifesto Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 i finally got Nov York, and finished it last night.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Former Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 Also, my favorite thing about George Bush came from Michael Moore's Stupid White Men. Someone asked him what his favorite childhood book was. W answered "The Hungrly Little Caterpillar." The book, it turns out wasn't even published until 1968 or around there, the same year W graduated from Yale. What an idiot huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bathoræ Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 Originally posted by Weapon X I gotta get on that sometime, too. I hear it’s really hard to understand, though. Lots of symbolism, to say the least. My well read buddy said that he needed an accompanying book to go with it must to understand things. It's not too difficult, but he does make some political statements in referencing people of his time. Those can be confusing if you don't know what was going on outside of his writing. Another book entirely might be too much, it'd probably be fine if you got something with a good introduction and some decent footnotes... and hopefully I will be reading The Wasp Factory, by Iain Banks before the end of the week... (damned postal system *shakes fist) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dojafx Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 hannibal - enemy of rome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrChupacabra Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 i just read a handful of books, some easy, some not as easy, all good: Requiem for a Dream, Catcher in the Rye, Invisible Man(not the invisible man about an invisible man, but the one about a black kid in NY), some short book that i'm blanking on right now by a local MN author. I'm currently deciding what books i want to start now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheoHuxtable Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 I'm currently reading: "A Brief History of Time : The Updated and Expanded Tenth Anniversary Edition" - Stephen Hawking Books I've recently read: "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" - Malcolm X, Alex Haley "Civilization and Its Discontents" - Sigmund Freud "The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life" - Armand M. Nicoli Jr. "Roots" - Alex Haley "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl - The Definitive Edition" - Anne Frank, Otto M. Frank "Origin of Species" - Charles Darwin "Night Shift" - Stephen King "The Stand" - Stephen King "The Shining" - Stephen King "The Art of War" - Sun Tzu "The Prince" - Nicollo Machiavelli "The Last Days of Socrates" - Plato "Show Me God: What the Message from Space Is Telling Us About God" - Fred Heeren, George Smoot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swiffer Jet Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 a childhood's end Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SPLINTER Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 The Handmaid's Tale - Atwood 1984 - Orwell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caL Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 the steve martin book im reading is funny as hell, its the pleasure of my company. its really really short though :( like 163 pages, i wouldve finished it this morning but i had shit to do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest BROWNer Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 lots of peripheral shit as usual, but as far as officialness: the best democracy money can buy(revised)-by greg palast..started this the other day..shit starts off fucking great.. peep the first sentence of the book: "You read the papers and you watch television, so you know the the kind of spider-brained, commercially poisoned piece-of-crap reporting you get in America." < hot shit :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_Tesseract Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 hahaha, sounds like a keeper brown...i swear to god we must have a thread with great opening sentences in books of any kind...i doubt i ever got to read a book that didnt hook me from line one nomatter how dope the critics were... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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