what books do you read

[Enigm@]

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)

[MassimoV]

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.

[Badnik96]

Lots of scifi and fantasy. Seconding Max on the whole H2G2 series.

Redwall is probably my favorite book series overall.

[Enigm@]

if u kids lile scifi read dune

[Naryar]

dune is indeed awesome

[That Robot is a Spy!]

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.

[madman3]

The Go-Between is pretty rad

[Jonzu95]

Kama Sutra

[Scrap Daddy]

Required reading 4 skoool don't count trias

[HurricaneAndrew]

Does Hustler magazine count?

[RpJk]

Only book Ive read in the past 12 months is Battle Royale.

I always carry a pocket encyclopedia wherever I go though.

[That Robot is a Spy!]

Required reading 4 skoool don't count trias

1984 wasn't.

[Enigm@]

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.

[Kossokei]

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)

[HurricaneAndrew]

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.

[MassimoV]

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.

[Enigm@]

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

[Scrap Daddy]

Just finished Farewell to Manzanar and The Jungle, both pretty interesting.

Chariot of the Gods for some sp00ky sh**

[Enigm@]

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

[playzooki]

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.