Kite Runner is a very good recent book i read

i'm reading Angela's Ashes right now which i'm pretty impressed with as well

6/17/2006 1:44:42 AM

I loved Angela's Ashes. Frank McCourt is a genius. Do read 'Tis as well as his new book, Teacher Man

However, the movie (for Ashes) was horrible. I mean it was ok. But not worth watching.

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6/17/2006 4:56:55 PM

^^^Lol... Death and Life of Superman sounds deep as fuck.... but im sorry... Half the battle is reading.... so i'll give you props...

Wish i had read the mtv book so i could comment... but Catcher in the Rye is a pretty good book in my opinion....

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6/17/2006 5:16:10 PM

Thanks for this thread, im heading to South Nags Head next sunday and i needed some books to pick up. I can't believe I've never read Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhousefive but theyll be the first ones i read.

6/17/2006 8:07:26 PM

Cat's Cradle was the first Vonnegut book I read. It lead to my reading about ten more of his books in the next few months. I think I mainly read it when I was supposed to be learning AP Chemistry. I remember this becaus I asked my teacher about the possibility of ice-9 (or whatever it's called, I can't remember) existing.

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6/17/2006 8:12:48 PM

i always try to read the books chronologically when im doing one author so cats cradle will be first. i was thinking of going to gravity's rainbow but that book will take some time to digest.

6/17/2006 8:20:44 PM

I'm pretty sure Player Piano and then The Sirens of Titan come first with Vonnegut.

I'm not a fan of Piano, but The Sirens of Titan is one of my favorite books, and the inspiration for one of my favorite songs, "Styrofoam Boots".

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6/17/2006 8:22:32 PM

oh yea, im just gonna start with cats cradle and SH5 first (since those are his popular books). If i enjoy them then go through his entire catalog.

never knew that song was inspired by that book?

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6/17/2006 8:25:48 PM

Ah. Gotcha. I would definitely recommend Titan, Bluebeard, and Slapstick. Those three are by far my favorites.

There's a church in the book whose motto is, if I remember correctly, "Take care of the people and God Almighty can take care of himself."

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6/17/2006 8:27:15 PM

Quote :

"i was thinking of going to gravity's rainbow but that book will take some time to digest."

Seriously- it took me all of last summer to finally get through it, despite that I'm normally a quick reader. It was worth it, though.

If you do Pynchon by chronology, V. was his first novel.

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6/17/2006 10:46:19 PM

I hear that's FroshKiller's favorite.

6/17/2006 10:58:22 PM

FOR HIM TO POOP ON!

6/17/2006 11:07:49 PM

To Kill a Mockingbird

6/17/2006 11:20:28 PM

If they ever come out with a novelization of the film adaptation of The DaVinci Code...

Man.

I can't even think about how great it would be.

6/17/2006 11:20:31 PM

LOL.

6/17/2006 11:22:58 PM

Im trying to find this book or short story i started a long time ago

the story goes like this, germany and japan won wwII and they've devided up american and its present day.
anyone know this book?

6/18/2006 12:15:07 AM

Not particularly... sounds like a Harry TurtleDove book.... He rights alternate history books (and some lamer fantasy)... I would recommend his Book Guns of the South. Its a what if scenario where the south won the civil war and then is continued with later series That go up through WW1, WW2

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6/18/2006 11:21:26 AM

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"He rights alternate history books"

Wow, I've never seen anyone make that mistake before. I thought it was just a myth.

6/18/2006 1:35:01 PM

Maybe it was an ever-so-clever reference to a Turtledove alternate reality in which that is a common mistake.

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6/18/2006 1:40:01 PM

if everyone could just look over here

at me

and at how smart i am

6/18/2006 1:50:00 PM

lol give me a break i had just gotten up.... fucking spelling nazis...

6/18/2006 3:50:37 PM

it's not an issue of spelling; it's an issue of using the correct word

6/18/2006 5:27:49 PM

write, i understand

6/18/2006 6:29:23 PM

if everyone could just look over here

at me

and at how big my epenis is

6/18/2006 8:10:57 PM

ok she-man

6/18/2006 8:11:24 PM

I just finished Cat's Cradle, and I really liked it.

6/18/2006 8:21:51 PM

^^ ok asshole

6/18/2006 8:45:35 PM

Eye of the Needle by Ken Follet
The Stand by Stephen King
The Day After Tomorrow by Alan Folsom (NOT the same as the Day After Tomorrow, the movie)
Shogun by James Clavell

in no particular order

my favorites will probably change soon because i have a lot of free time to read from now until school starts and i have a lot of classics that have been sitting on my shelves waiting to be read and i'm starting to get into reading non-fiction as well.



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6/19/2006 5:57:32 PM

Anyone by chance read The Clash of Civilizations ~and the ~ Remaking of Worl Order by: Samuel P. Huntington... I picked it up recently and should be starting it after Ben Bova's Titan. which i picked up at the same time...?

6/19/2006 9:28:29 PM

I've just read notes from the underground, and apparently russians can become emo.

One of Fyo's better works.

8/5/2006 11:28:49 AM

Forgot if I replied to this thread or not, but whatever.

A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
A Wizard of Earthsea

Which reminds me, I need to read the third Earthsea novel.

8/5/2006 11:37:00 AM

whats some good non fiction

out of all the non fiction, i think the stuff i'd like most is stuff about the government, the economy, global politics, and maybe some conspiracy theory type shit

8/6/2006 3:37:28 AM

The Remains of the Day

or maybe



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8/6/2006 8:31:31 AM

The Gulag Archipelago.

Maybe.


Oh, and I know I've mentioned it before (either here or in another thread), but Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell seriously kicks ass. It started out in New Zealand in the 18th century or so. I'm about halfway through and it's now in some sort of post-apocalyptic Hawaii that I would place at least in the year 2500 or greater, having made stopovers in 1930's France, 1970's America, modern times-ish London, and who-the-fuck-knows-when but probably around 2300-ish Asia. It's a really interesting study of history, I guess, and the way events can build to do unexpected things. Something you do could, 1000 years down the road, create a religion. Or end the world. It's neat.

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8/6/2006 8:34:24 AM

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell is probably in my top five after reading it.

9/13/2006 12:01:29 PM

hmmm, there's a few, of course.... Catch-22? Dune? The Dark Tower (specifically Wizard and Glass)?

Quote :

"I'm sorry, but comparing one Buildungsroman to another is wholly applicable."

Hey, I've heard that word before!! (pretty impressive feat for an engineer, IMO.) Had quite a good paper in HS about Damien and bildungsroman stuff. But Herman Hesse is a fucking loon.

9/13/2006 12:53:58 PM

too many, can't really narrow it down....

if i had to go with one and only one


snowcrash

9/14/2006 12:54:23 PM

snow crash is great.

9/14/2006 1:22:39 PM

Toss up between Perdido Street Station and Hyperion.

9/14/2006 4:53:59 PM

^^Snowcrash is really good, so is Cryptonomicon. Its hard to choose between all of the Vonnegut and Neil Gaiman books, so I'm going to have to go with "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac.

9/14/2006 7:45:24 PM

I know it's cliche but i really truely enjoyed To Kill a Mockingbird by Haper Lee A LOT. Oh and Matilda by Rauld Dahl (can't spell!!!)... I really enjoyed a lot of books when i was young.

But as for more adult themed books:
The Witching Hour series by Anne Rice, The Vampire Chronicles (first 3) by Anne Rice again, The entire Hitchhiker's Guide Series by Douglas Adams, Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein, Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite

9/15/2006 2:51:33 AM

i'm also a big fan of the catcher in the rye, so i guess that makes me 13.

neuromancer by william gibson has been my #1 favorite book for a long time, though.

9/15/2006 2:56:50 AM

All Quiet on the Western Front or Dune, can't pick, they are my two favorite books of all time. Remarque has some other great books i've really enjoyed i.e. (Three Comrades...however nothing surpasses the Dune Series in its level of detail and involvement, fucking awesome.

[Edited on September 15, 2006 at 3:03 AM. Reason : (ftw...my ex-g/f gave me a 1st Edition of Dune signed by Frank Herbert formyb-day,bestpresentever]

9/15/2006 3:01:58 AM

^^I read Catcher in the Rye but I didnt enjoy it as much as everyone else. I may've been too young to understand, or maybe I'm just not the type of person to understand....I just...I didnt sympathise with him let's just say

9/15/2006 3:09:27 AM

"everyone poops"

by some random ass children educational book company

9/15/2006 3:26:32 AM

Ender's Game, Battle Royale, or Band of Brothers. Depends on the day.

9/15/2006 1:00:37 PM

as cliche as it is, my favorite book ever is "A Farewell to Arms"

early 20th century lit is teh winz

9/15/2006 1:16:31 PM

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"neuromancer by william gibson has been my #1 favorite book for a long time, though."

I love that book. I read that and "snow crash" back to back, and all it did was make me sad that I'll never read another cyberpunk book that can top either of them. I've read some of Stephenson's and Gibson's other books, but nothing comes close to those two. Anybody have recommendations?

9/15/2006 3:34:05 PM

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"early late 20th century lit is teh winz"

9/15/2006 4:02:29 PM

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"early late early 20th21st century lit is teh winz"

9/15/2006 4:21:23 PM