Reccomend Me some books?
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Topic: Reccomend Me some books?
Posted By: Da Hui
Subject: Reccomend Me some books?
Date Posted: 18 March 2008 at 3:31pm
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I have recently been in my own renaissance so to speak. I was hoping to get some good books recommended to Me. I don't like sci fi or anything about magic or anything along those lines. Maybe something political or classic? Thanks Also In before "tom clancy lulz" ------------- 
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Posted By: Cedric
Date Posted: 18 March 2008 at 3:33pm
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Fear and Loathing
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Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 18 March 2008 at 3:42pm
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Hunter S. Thompson - Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five Jack Kerouac - On the Road Kurt Vonnegut is my favorite author. Slaughterhouse-Five is pretty easy to read too. -------------  irc.esper.net #paintball |
Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 18 March 2008 at 4:01pm
| Anything from H.P. Lovecraft, there are a lot of books filled with his short stories if you are into horror. |
Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 18 March 2008 at 4:07pm
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Ceesman762 wrote:Posted By: Skillet42565
Date Posted: 18 March 2008 at 4:08pm
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If its written by John Stewart, get it. |
Posted By: .357 Magnum
Date Posted: 18 March 2008 at 4:12pm
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Harry Potter. I joke, I can't stand the harry potter series. ------------- 
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 18 March 2008 at 4:21pm
http://beta.booklamp.org/ - Like Pandora for books *edit* And my recommendations are: Scar Tissue iWoz All Families Are Psychotic jPod Microserfs |
Posted By: White o Light
Date Posted: 18 March 2008 at 4:42pm
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Everything Is Illuminated by Foer Dharma Bums or On The Road by Kerouac ( a lot of his catalogue is pretty bad really) Old Man and The Sea by Hemingway ( all of his short stories are amazing too) Faulkner man... anything by Faulkner ------------- 
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Posted By: Evil Elvis
Date Posted: 18 March 2008 at 4:54pm
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I am reading "Soon I will be Invinsible" wich I really like.
World War Z by Mark Brooks, writter of the Zombie Survival Guide. Monster Island, Monster Nation and Monster Planet another Mega Zombie Outbreak novels. ------------- 
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Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 18 March 2008 at 4:58pm
| http://www.amazon.com/Hegemony-Survival-Americas-Dominance-American/dp/0805074007 - Hegemony or Survival - Noam Chomsky |
Posted By: jmac3
Date Posted: 18 March 2008 at 5:35pm
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It's Max Brooks elvis.
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Posted By: -ProDigY-
Date Posted: 18 March 2008 at 6:29pm
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Kundera. It's amazing thus far. ------------- 
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Posted By: tippmannfreak
Date Posted: 18 March 2008 at 9:29pm
| anything by Vonnegut, but for classical, i really like Hemmingway |
Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 18 March 2008 at 9:43pm
"For Whom The Bell Tolls" was great. Animal Farm or 1984... Farenheit 451... If you're really up for some slogging, War and Peace is great. Dune was a fun read. Michael Chrichton has a new one out recently, 'Next'. That was a good one too. Actually, anything by Michael Crichton. I've got rather a lot of books, but I'm mostly into non fiction recently. ------------- "Abortion is not "choice" in America. It is forced and the democrats are behind it, with the goal of eugenics at its foundation." -FreeEnterprise, 21 April 2011. Yup, he actually said that. |
Posted By: obnoxious
Date Posted: 18 March 2008 at 9:45pm
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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Kurt Vonnegut - anything..Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champsions,etc...I've read them all and they're all impressive. Bhagavad Gita has probably changed my life the most. Anything by Hermann Hesse, specifically Siddhartha. Steppenwolf is also very good, albeit weird. ------------- 
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Posted By: AfricanAmerican
Date Posted: 18 March 2008 at 9:47pm
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Harry Potter
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Posted By: Boss_DJ
Date Posted: 18 March 2008 at 11:46pm
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Posted By: sporx
Date Posted: 19 March 2008 at 12:14am
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The Hungery Caterpillar by Eric Carle ------------- 
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Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 19 March 2008 at 12:30am
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I Am Legend by Richard Matheson.
Completely different than the movie. The movie was great but it botched the ending and the ending didn't stay true to the book at all. Fantastic book, just pretty short. They throw in some extra short horror stories to double the length of the book but I was still disappointed with the length. Fantastic read, definately worth the $10 I spent. |
Posted By: ¤ Råp¡Ð F¡rè ¤
Date Posted: 19 March 2008 at 12:51am
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Goosebumps Magical Treehouse Animorphes ------------- 
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Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 19 March 2008 at 1:09am
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Like Chewp, I really like Scar Tissue, and Microserfs.
The last book I read was a really good read, called "Hooked" by Matt Richtel. |
Posted By: Tical2.0
Date Posted: 19 March 2008 at 6:09am
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Posted By: Commander_Cool
Date Posted: 19 March 2008 at 6:34am
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"The Brothers Karamazov" - Fyodor Dostoevsky ------------- 2005 Freestyle Naughty Dawg Freestyle Angel LCD SP-8 Tippmann 98 Custom |
Posted By: reifidom
Date Posted: 19 March 2008 at 10:49am
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I'm currently breezing through Frankenstein again. Nice, quick read.
Another great classic is The Count of Monte Cristo. It's a long book, but it's very good. ------------- 
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Posted By: PaiNTbALLfReNzY
Date Posted: 19 March 2008 at 11:09am
| I enjoyed Angels and Demons by Dan Brown. I really haven't had the chance/motivation to read any books lately. Maybe I'll take some of the recommendations here. |
Posted By: Linus
Date Posted: 19 March 2008 at 11:30am
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Pride Runs Deep by R. Cameron Cooke. ------------- 
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Posted By: Hysteria
Date Posted: 19 March 2008 at 12:13pm
| I'm currently enjoying Troy: Fall of Kings. From what a friend told me, it is quite inaccurate, but it is a good read all the same. |
Posted By: Skillet42565
Date Posted: 19 March 2008 at 12:17pm
| Don Quixote. |
Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 19 March 2008 at 12:18pm
| I have a suggestion if you ever get into a scifi series, Dan Abnett's Gaunt's Ghosts series. |
Posted By: Susan Storm
Date Posted: 19 March 2008 at 12:25pm
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Agreed - and the Three Musketeers books as well. Great fun. ------------- "No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable." |
Posted By: reifidom
Date Posted: 19 March 2008 at 12:43pm
I thought Monte Cristo was going to be a more difficult read but it was very accessible and one hell of a revenge tale. As far as the Musketeers go I haven't read them but would give them a shot. Plural you say? How many books are there? -------------
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Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 19 March 2008 at 1:07pm
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I just bought Homer's Odyssey. I have a feeling that's gonna be a long read. I'm part way into The Kite Runner right now, plus a book called 'One day the soldiers came' about child refugees, and another book about Canadian government bureaucracy. I tend to multitask.  ------------- "Abortion is not "choice" in America. It is forced and the democrats are behind it, with the goal of eugenics at its foundation." -FreeEnterprise, 21 April 2011. Yup, he actually said that. |
Posted By: Susan Storm
Date Posted: 19 March 2008 at 1:27pm
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Not quite as easy to read as Monte Christo, mostly because of greater plot complexity. But more interesting historically, IMO. Also describes a different era, which is very fascinating. How many depends on how you count. Originally 3, sometimes 4 or 5. Wikipedia explains it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Artagnan_Romances - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Artagnan_Romances Very much worth the read. ------------- "No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable." |
Posted By: Schlockmerc
Date Posted: 19 March 2008 at 1:43pm
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Leroy and the Old Man bt W.E. Butterworth The Dark Tower series by Stephen King Animal Farm anything by Jonathan Safran-Foeur (Slaughterhouse Five is great when read in conjunction with Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close, both deal greatly with the bombing of Dresdin) Lightning by Dean R. Koontz When the Wind Blows by James Patterson The Client or A Time To Kill by John Grisham ------------- George Zimmer is a sexy mother |
Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 19 March 2008 at 3:16pm
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Guns Germs and Steel, as well as Collapse by Jared Diamond. Seldom have I gotten that much knowledge learned per page in an enjoyable couple of books.
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Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 19 March 2008 at 4:50pm
| The River Why - David James Duncan |