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Off-Topic => Off-Topic Discussion => Topic started by: Enigm@ on March 07, 2014, 11:25:13 PM
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i cant be the only g who enjoys a good book.
favorites:
Ulysses (joyce)
Slaughter house five (vonnegut)
The idiot (doestoevsky)
Burr (gore vidal)
At the mountains of madness (lovecraft)
V. (pynchon)
Galapogos (vonnegut)
Paradise lost (milton)
the penal colony (kafka)
books that changed my life:
The brothers karamazov (doestoevsky)
The odyssey
Perpetual war for perpetual peace (vidal)
The holocaust industry (finkelstein)
Infinite jest (david foster wallace)
The prince (machiavelli)
The aeleph (borges)
Gravity's rainbow (pynchon)
East of eden (steinbeck)
pretty much anything nietzche ever wrote
reccomendations for those who want to in2 readings:
Lord of the flies
Brave new world
Of mice and men
The man in the high castle
The inferno (imo the best out of the divine comedy)
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has always been a personal favorite. Most Douglas Adams is p good. Night was also very well written. Went into reading it expecting to be all depressed which I was, but I ended up being in more suspense than depression.
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Lots of scifi and fantasy. Seconding Max on the whole H2G2 series.
Redwall is probably my favorite book series overall.
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if u kids lile scifi read dune
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dune is indeed awesome
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I played Emperor: Battle for Dune, awesome game, just not quite as good as Red Alert.
As for books, I read a wide variety, with my favourite being 1984 by George Orwell. I am currently in the process of reading "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde, and whilst at times it's over analytical, it's still a pretty compelling novel that I'd recommend. Much better than the overrated Great Gatsby.
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The Go-Between is pretty rad
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Kama Sutra
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Required reading 4 skoool don't count trias
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Does Hustler magazine count?
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Only book Ive read in the past 12 months is Battle Royale.
I always carry a pocket encyclopedia wherever I go though.
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Required reading 4 skoool don't count trias
1984 wasn't.
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Only book Ive read in the past 12 months is Battle Royale.
I always carry a pocket encyclopedia wherever I go though.
then read more u might learn something
on the subject of req'd reading i had to read the catcher in the rye in 11th grade and that was the thing ive ever read. Sersiously ive read fanfiction better then it.
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I don't always read books (some people don't believe that) but when I do, mining my dad's stash of Dean Koontz books is one of my most favorite things to do.
Of everything I read, he usually writes gore/horror, action-y adventure or something detective-y. Or a crazy awesome fusion of the three. The imagery he uses is vivid af and reading some of the stuff he writes sends chills down my back
some of the ones I've read so far:
What the Night Knows (Gorror)
The Darkest Evening in the Year (Action/adventure)
Odd Interlude (Action/Adventure)
One Door Away from Heaven (I'm really not sure.. Incredible read though)
I read the entire thing of Harry Potter, which was great (when I was 11)
Slaughterhouse 5, which I read part of, was amazing and I wish I had it so that I can read it again (Kurt Vonnegut is a hell of a writer)
I have a digital copy of the Palladium's Compedium of Weapons, Armour and Castles which is my new religion (Basically a roleplayer's guide, but full of amazing weapons, some that I've never heard of before, and the floorplans of castles and castle styles which is suh-weet)
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Only book Ive read in the past 12 months is Battle Royale.
I always carry a pocket encyclopedia wherever I go though.
then read more u might learn something
on the subject of req'd reading i had to read the catcher in the rye in 11th grade and that was the thing ive ever read. Sersiously ive read fanfiction better then it.
I had to read Steinbeck's The Pearl sophomore year... It was the most agonizingly descriptive book I ever read. Being descriptive is good but this was just too much. Like, he described things that weren't even relevant to the story. To me, it just distracted you from the actual story.
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Only book Ive read in the past 12 months is Battle Royale.
I always carry a pocket encyclopedia wherever I go though.
then read more u might learn something
on the subject of req'd reading i had to read the catcher in the rye in 11th grade and that was the thing ive ever read. Sersiously ive read fanfiction better then it.
I had to read Steinbeck's The Pearl sophomore year... It was the most agonizingly descriptive book I ever read. Being descriptive is good but this was just too much. Like, he described things that weren't even relevant to the story. To me, it just distracted you from the actual story.
lol I literally just finished reading that for my English class. It's true though, there were so many unneeded descriptions, and and analogies.
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I recently read the fault in our stars by john green and goddamn did thst suck. I know im probably not the target audience fpr it since i'm not a 15 year old girl but that was awful.
And i dont see why ppl wont shut up about it either because nothing happens in it and the prose and dialogue is so robotic and lifeless thst it throws suspension of disbelief right out the window.
oh well i dont young adult fiction anyways so whatever
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Just finished Farewell to Manzanar and The Jungle, both pretty interesting.
Chariot of the Gods for some sp00ky sh**
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Just finished Farewell to Manzanar and The Jungle, both pretty interesting.
Chariot of the Gods for some sp00ky sh**
yeah i read manzanar in soph english and i really liked it
When i read chariots of the gods i was like oh thats an interesting way of looking at that
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i never read fiction
the motorhead in the studio thingy is good. i have about 400 books. i also read manuals. except the parts that are in other languages. the sonic 3d (mega drive) manual has a rubbish layout.
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FAVORITES: (in rough order)
The Illiad, Odyssey - Homer (**** read homer, why haven't you read it yet ?)
Moby Dick - Herman Melville (hilariously awesome and very manly)
The Prince, Discourses on Livy - Niccolo Machiavelli (greatest political thinker, ever)
Dune series - Frank Herbert (VERY awesome, the last books are probably crap though)
Call of the Wild & Love of Life - Jack London
Beyond Good and Evil, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Twilight of the Idols - Friedrich Nietzsche (and the rest of Nietzsche)
The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling (read Kipling in general, it's awesome)
Animal Farm - George Orwell (read the rest of Orwell as well)
Sun Tzu - The Art of War
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
Anything and everything by Jules Verne, no really
The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells (As well as most of his other works, very nice author)
Martian Chronicles, Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury (also another very good author)
Conan the Barbarian - Robert E. Howard (didn't read more of his, but intend to)
Elric of Melnibone - Michael Moorcock
GOOD READS
Most things by Rabelais
Most things by Kafka
Most things by Isaac Asimov
Most things by Tolkien
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I find it hard to get into most books but here are my recommendations.
Of Mice and Men
The Hot Zone
Flowers for Algernon
Unwind
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I read mostly philosophical books, short stories and poems; which are densely structured in terms of telling more with less words. Also these books teach me how NOT to think.
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currently reading The Will to Power
pretty rad book
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Studying 1984 and Lord of The Flies, god-tier dystopias.
Been stuck halfway through Michael Grant's Gone series for about a year now, uuungh. Want to read it but need to get back in the loop again.
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What's a book?
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How to train your dragon and harry potter series mostly, but I like informative books as well. Trying to get into other books
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Universe by R.Freedman
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Anything by Anthony Horowtiz.