mackfatsoe Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 Originally posted by dELiSs+Jun 13 2005, 03:18 AM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (dELiSs - Jun 13 2005, 03:18 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'> 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.. Quoted post [/b] Try again. I think it's worth it. <!--QuoteBegin-Seldoon@Jun 13 2005, 11:10 AM Now read Atlas Shrugged. (Which i'm going through again) Quoted post Yeah, I really liked Ayn Rand's fiction. Atlas Thugged. ha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dumy Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 peep it, you'll never look at twain the same.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fondles Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 Originally posted by theGOON@Jun 13 2005, 07:17 PM 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 Quoted post Fantastic story, but you've got a while to go before any gaps are closed, as it's a 12 book series, numbers 11+12 which have yet to be released. I think I have read and re-read this series about 4 times as new books are released in a maddeningly slow fashion. Now I want to read it again. Fuck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GamblersGrin Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 queers. im rereading james joyce's "ulysses." get your read on that fools. check out some cormac mccarthy too or eric anderson. good summer reading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fr8lover Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 fun reading: -finished "crying of lot 49" by thomas pynchon reading : -"the fall" by albert camus -"vineland" by pynchon school reading: -17th century american colonial writing -candide by voltaire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GamblersGrin Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 thomas pynchon. now thats a man to read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wAndEreR Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 best book ever hands down..the ending will surprise u :shook: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+++*HEKTOFARI*+++ Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 ^^^i used to sweat that book! last book i read was "a confederacy of dunces" it was pretty funny i forgot who wrote it they were gonna make a movie of it with mos def and will farrel but it got cancelled. before that i read "last exit to brooklyn" by the guy who wrote "requim for a dream" it was hella fucked up about different people in brooklyn and theyre depressing shenanigans in the 1950's or 60's, this book was banned in england for quite some time. its full of drug use and sex, a bit too much of the homo sex for my taste but a good realistic book none the less, its crazy i wanted to punch almost every charater in the face from this book if i could thats how assholish they were. before that i read "breakfast of champions" by kurt vonnegut jr (yay i remembered one!) this book was ridiculously entertaining and it talks almost completely of nonsense its difficult to explain, i reccomend picking it up its not a real small book but it was a fast read and its full of retarded illustration by the author and before that i got down on "lord of the flies" by also dont remember but hes famous well its a look into the wretchedness of man in his most savage form and worst of all its point is illustrated by children, english children at that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
master bait Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 Brian Callison - The Flock of Ships. Just found this book from a bunch of useless junk. it's really short and nothing very special but it caught my attention. Fictional navy warfare from WW2. It's basically a log by an english officer from a "commercial" ship with a royal navy escort, shipping some secret shit to south africa. I liked the black sense of humor in this book and also the realistic descriptions of naval phenomenon and death etc... But if anyone can suggest any other books of ocean warfare, or any good war books in general, I'd like to hear them. That "Sorrow of war" is next on my list of books worth to check out... an example of really bad war books would be this vietnam farce "LBJ company" or something. a war book for girls and hippies. They just run around jungle shooting without a reason. You've got about dozen movies about the same subject. A book for the youth at that time... If it was written in 1940s it would've been pro-stalin & eisenhower. I like my war books from the human experience-point of view, leave the politics and fashion out of it! [/rant] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_b0b Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 A monument to sloth, rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern - this is Ignatius J. Reilly of New Orleans, noble crusader against a world of dunces. In magnificent revolt against the twentieth century, Ignatius propels his monstrous bulk among the flesh-pots of a fallen city, documenting life on his Big Chief tablets as he goes, until his maroon-haired mother decrees that Ignatius must work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+++*HEKTOFARI*+++ Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 ^^^^^oh yeah, thats the sauce right there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weapon X Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 My friend lent me this. I am in between books right now, so I've been catching up on my NatGeos lately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
methadone program Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN. WILLIAM TRUMBO. ALL TIME FAVORITE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villain Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 Originally posted by master bait@Jun 14 2005, 07:52 AM Brian Callison - The Flock of Ships. Just found this book from a bunch of useless junk. it's really short and nothing very special but it caught my attention. Fictional navy warfare from WW2. It's basically a log by an english officer from a "commercial" ship with a royal navy escort, shipping some secret shit to south africa. I liked the black sense of humor in this book and also the realistic descriptions of naval phenomenon and death etc... But if anyone can suggest any other books of ocean warfare, or any good war books in general, I'd like to hear them. That "Sorrow of war" is next on my list of books worth to check out... an example of really bad war books would be this vietnam farce "LBJ company" or something. a war book for girls and hippies. They just run around jungle shooting without a reason. You've got about dozen movies about the same subject. A book for the youth at that time... If it was written in 1940s it would've been pro-stalin & eisenhower. I like my war books from the human experience-point of view, leave the politics and fashion out of it! [/rant] Quoted post Was someone looking for "different" kinds of war stories in this thread? I was trying to think of this one book I read about this guy who was in Vietnam.... It read like "If Jack Kerouac was in Vietnam, this is what he would write..." Really great, gritty, insightful, beautiful prose. Wish I could remember the name. I always recommend Dick Marcinko... He was a navy seal for some 30 some years... and despite being a knuckle dragging neanderthal as he likes to describe himself, he really has his head in the game politics wise and connecting the dots. You get the best of both worlds... human experience and the grand geopolitical chess games. I just picked up "Fortunate Soldier" by Pat Moffet. Just getting into this one... Shows the comical absurdity of the military.... very humorous. I also have Full Spectrum Disorder: The Military in the New American Century by Stan Goff and Hideous Dream by Stan Goff and War Is a Racket: The Anti-War Classic by America's Most Decorated General, Two Other Anti=Interventionist Tracts, and Photographs from the Horror of It by Smedley D. Butler, Adam Parfrey and Maverick Marine: General Smedley D. Butler and the Contradictions of American Military History by Hans Schmidt waiting on the shelf... I heard Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney talking about Smedley Butler on C-Span the other day... I particularly enjoy watching the congressional black caucus in action. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sleepyceas2- Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 i started readin this book called song of solomon by toni morrison. . .its in the oprah book club they got these dudes named monday, tuesday etc. when somthin goes down dependin on the day of the week the send that dude to kill someone i also read this book called parlay, it was pretty ill, bout some las vegas ghetto shit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dumy Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 this is one of the illest books i've ever picked up.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skag Henry Posted August 2, 2005 Share Posted August 2, 2005 less than zero, twelve, rules of attraction are good clean american fiction, when I was twelve or thirteen I was really into reading all that american trust fund kids fucked all the time with no emotion kind of stories, but now im 19 that shit doesnt seem so glamorous now. Irvine welsh is a good author too, he writes about people who are just as self destructive, but theyre poor and live in council houses in edinburgh, which is somethin i can relate to more than beverly hills types. but recently ive read two sick graphic novels the first is the dark night returns by frank miller, which has an introduction by alan moore, who lives in my town! (big up northampton england!.) and who wrote the league of extraordinary gentlemen and "from hell". dope graphic novel, for those who loved batman as a child (and still do secretly) because its batman when hes old and all fucked up. also I read the first sin city, and plan to get the next one this weekend, (i want to read them all before watching the film). has anyone read nov york? i want that book! i got autograf instead and that was fucking shite, good photos though. shouldve racked it really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
destroya Posted August 2, 2005 Share Posted August 2, 2005 i started eading kurt vonnegut's breakfast of champions, but i stopped because at the moment, i'm not digging the way it's put together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
synaps Posted August 2, 2005 Share Posted August 2, 2005 i finished up reading Peter Watt's four part Rifter series recently. -Starfish -Maelstrom -Behemoth: B-Max -Behemoth: Seppuku not going to babble on about how good they are, but i will say that i'm on my 3rd round of the series and that most people wouldb e fools to pass this by. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CIPHER_one Posted August 2, 2005 Share Posted August 2, 2005 Generation X- It was pretty decent...some great stories in it. Nothing amazing. The Sun Also Rises (Hemmingway) - Great. I'm reading The Bell Jar now...it's neat htus far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caffeine Posted August 2, 2005 Share Posted August 2, 2005 About halfway through.. So far a great read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PalestineForEver Posted August 2, 2005 Share Posted August 2, 2005 so this thread is where the nerds and losers and geeks and virgins are at. except me of course, im just in here based on the title and didnt read a single letter from a single post. fucking virgins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TACOTOTE Posted August 2, 2005 Share Posted August 2, 2005 BEHOLD A PALE HORSE BY WILLIAM COOPER Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bahleediddy Posted August 2, 2005 Share Posted August 2, 2005 last books read include: absalom absalom by william faulkner child of god and blood meridian by cormac mcarthy the biggest game in town by a. alvarez Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H. Lecter Posted August 2, 2005 Author Share Posted August 2, 2005 Palestine, are you a fag or a fag..? Get your head out of our pants and read something, you filthy narrow-minded muslims need all the information you can get... If you have nothing good to say, then don't say anything at all... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIZZLE315 Posted August 2, 2005 Share Posted August 2, 2005 Anything from Ralph Waldo Emerson or Henry David Thoureau. "Walden", By Thoureau, is one of my all time favorite essays. "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rental Posted August 3, 2005 Share Posted August 3, 2005 i read harry potter 6. it was the best book so far. i seriously think that someone "co wrote it". either that or someone told jk rowling something that scared her into writing pretty well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanity Posted August 3, 2005 Share Posted August 3, 2005 heh, i was talking w/ this cat at work about henry IV and henry V and this bitch interupts w/ "oh.. i just got the new harry potter.. but i haven't read it yet." Anywho, i just finished reading the Gen 13 miniseries and the first couple issues of the regular series... dope art... but man was image comics overrated. rainmaker oiled up freefall's ass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H. Lecter Posted August 3, 2005 Author Share Posted August 3, 2005 Originally posted by SIZZLE315@Aug 2 2005, 06:45 PM "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse Quoted post SERIOUS right here~ - Rendition of the life saga of the Awoken One, The Buddha; the jesus story of the east~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iloveboxcars Posted August 3, 2005 Share Posted August 3, 2005 Originally posted by H. Lecter+Aug 2 2005, 04:39 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (H. Lecter - Aug 2 2005, 04:39 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-SIZZLE315@Aug 2 2005, 06:45 PM "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse Quoted post SERIOUS right here~ - Rendition of the life saga of the Awoken One, The Buddha; the jesus story of the east~ Quoted post [/b] yeah def a great book. currently - johnny got his gun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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