What is everyone's favorite book??? [Archive]

Supervixen

03-25-2001, 07:44 PM

mine is "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde... GREAT GREAT AMAZING BOOK

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03-25-2001, 09:02 PM

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

sarah521

03-26-2001, 08:49 AM

DAN!!! I just finished Breakfast of Champions for the first time and I loved it. THe flow of the book was amazing. Plus On the Road, wow, such a good book. IT made me move out West. Just the urge to go. . . .

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The Blowhard

03-26-2001, 09:09 AM

Another great book: "Women" by Charles Bukowski.

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03-26-2001, 10:08 AM

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skullcrush

03-26-2001, 01:06 PM

anything with fabio on the cover.

NYHCmikeX

03-26-2001, 01:59 PM

The Simpsons by Matt Greoning....Wait a second...b-b-book? whats a book?

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angrymissy

03-27-2001, 05:57 AM

I've always been impartial to Farenheight 451 and Brave New World.

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03-27-2001, 03:16 PM

I loved On The Road by Kerouac and am a big fan of Allen Ginsberg...I also read High Fidelity by Nick Hornby and it wasn't half bad...Catcher in the Rye is an obvious favorite, but there's this one song by a sort of unknown author (Asher Brauner) called "Love Songs of the Tone Deaf" that is pretty damn good. Those are mine...

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sarah521

03-27-2001, 03:27 PM

Sunny, more weird connection! I love Ginsburg too. Howl, so amazing and Sunflower Sutra is hanging on my wall. He is my inspiration as a poet,and certianly one of the greatest American poets. OH AMB i also LOVED Brave New World. Not as good at 1984 but still mind expanding.

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sunndoggy8

03-28-2001, 12:01 AM

I know Sarah! Between rooting for Dumpy and the books we like, the similarities are spooky like a scooby doo mystery!!! But it's good to know other people know of Ginsberg too, among other things.

If you're talking about poetry, one of my favorites is Pablo Neruda. Check out this poem if you can by him "Tonight I can write the Saddest Lines" or something like that...it's really amazing stuff. A girl I was dating dug Emily Dickenson (as did i till we broke up), but I have always liked Robert Frost and Dylan Thomas more.

Brave New World is the next on my bookshelf though, waiting to be read. Hopefully it's as good as you all say it is. :)

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The Blowhard

06-19-2001, 09:28 PM

This is a great thread from a while back, so hey, post!

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06-20-2001, 02:23 AM

anatomy and phisiolgy

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TomPoo

06-20-2001, 03:55 AM

Anything by John Grisham ar Tom Clancy.

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Pootertoot

06-20-2001, 08:22 AM

Sunny, you've never read Brave New World? Huxley's a genius.

Sarah, Missy, Sunny, Go read "The Doors of Perception", also by Huxley. Good shit.

Anna, have you read anything else by Wilde? There's a very funny short story about a ghost haunting an American family whose name escapes me at the moment...I do know that Barnes and Noble put out a Wilde collection that contains quite a few of his better works (none of the plays, though), worth picking up.

I don't have a favorite book, but go pick up "Invisible Monsters" by Chuck Palahniuk.

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06-20-2001, 05:10 PM

Illuminatus- Robert Anton Wilson

Infopsychology- Dr Timothy Leary

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KateTheWitch

06-20-2001, 10:38 PM

anything with fabio on the cover.

Would you like to borrow something from my library, skullcrush? ;)

Very interesting choices, Hassan... rather on the edge, but solid choices, nonetheless.

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Drock

06-21-2001, 12:24 PM

I like to read the labels on beer bottles right before i rip them off. I read alot i think i have a problem

TomPoo

06-22-2001, 04:00 AM

Drock:

"Reading" doesn't make you a bad person.

In fact I have "read" so much that I have actually woken up the next morning sick to my stomache, smelling like shit, and really not knowing where I was or who I was sleeping next to.

"Reading" has a funny effect on me I guess.

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blakjeezis

06-16-2004, 05:39 PM

They're not books, but all of Shakespeares plays, particularly MacBeth, Othello, and Romeo and Juliet.

Animal Farm - George Orwell
Inside the Third Reich - Albert Speer
All the Harry Potter books
Last but not least, my all-time favorite book, Lord of the Flies.

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06-16-2004, 05:55 PM

Catch-22

Hey, how is Dan not only banned, but practically non-existent with no posts?

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Yerdaddy

06-16-2004, 06:04 PM

Freaky Deaky - Elmore Leonard
Farewell My Lovely - Raymond Chandler
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemmingway

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keithy_19

06-16-2004, 06:34 PM

High Fidelity by Nick Hornby.

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06-16-2004, 06:51 PM

"Where The Wild Things Are"

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El Mudo

06-16-2004, 07:04 PM

Geez there are so many...I can name some...

"Citizen Soldiers" - Stephen Ambrose

"Somme"- Lyn MacDonald

"Fields of Fire"- Gary Lee Webb

"The 13th Valley"- John DelVecchio

"A Bridge too Far" -Cornelius Ryan

"We were soldiers once...And Young"- Hal Moore

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Crippler

06-16-2004, 07:07 PM

The Merchant of Venice
The Painted Bird -Jerzy Kosinski
Tietam Brown -Mick Foley
Andromeda Strain -Michael Crichton

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06-16-2004, 07:16 PM

The Hot Zone - Richard Preston
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William L. Shirer
The Culture of Fear - Barry Glasner
A Case of Need - Michael Crichton
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc - Mark Twain
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels ;p

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TheMojoPin

06-16-2004, 08:16 PM

Absolute favorite book of all time?

All Quiet On The Western Front.

By a mile.

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mikeyboy

06-16-2004, 08:56 PM

Absolute favorite book of all time?

Mojo's secret diary

By a mile.

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06-16-2004, 09:02 PM

It's called a "JOURNAL" and I HATE YOU.

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blakjeezis

06-16-2004, 09:09 PM

HEY! Here's an idea. Maybe we could do an RF.Net Book of the Month Club. We pick a book each month, and discuss it in a thread. Is that gay? Have I gone too far again?
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monsterone

06-16-2004, 09:15 PM

anything by bukowski or sartre.

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blakjeezis

06-16-2004, 09:18 PM

The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

On that subject, ever read Mein Kampf? Ugh, God it's awful. Not the subject matter, that's, well, it is what it is. You know that going in. More than that though is the way it's written. It's almost impossible to read. I guess because it was dictated, and poor Hess was afraid to do any editing. But man, it really is mein kampf; my struggle to fucking finish it. It's written exactly like he orated. It just goes on and on, page after page, brow-beating and berating you with this maniacal tirade. It's tough, man.

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HBox

06-16-2004, 09:19 PM

monsterone

06-16-2004, 09:21 PM

Maybe we could do an RF.Net Book of the Month Club. We pick a book each month, and discuss it in a thread. Is that gay?

And then we can all get together in our jammies and watch our taped collection of "Sisters" episode, and share recipes, and watch the Lifetime movie of the week!

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HBox

06-16-2004, 09:24 PM

On that subject, ever read Mein Kampf? Ugh, God it's awful. Not the subject matter, that's, well, it is what it is. You know that going in. More than that though is the way it's written. It's almost impossible to read. I guess because it was dictated, and poor Hess was afraid to do any editing. But man, it really is mein kampf; my struggle to fucking finish it. It's written exactly like he orated. It just goes on and on, page after page, brow-beating and berating you with this maniacal tirade. It's tough, man.

Oh god yes. I did a paper on the rise of Hitler, which is why I read the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. (all 1000+ pages) I read Kampf from cover to cover, and I felt as if my spirit had been soiled. It's so fucking out there, I can understand why no one thought he could actually do what he wrote. The way its written makes me even more in awe of his speaking talent. Because what he was saying was rambling gruesomeness.

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blakjeezis

06-16-2004, 09:33 PM

See, that wasn't so tough was it? HBox and I just had our own little book club right here. Fun, right? Jealous? I know you are. So next month we'll be discussing errrrrrrrr, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Since I'm planning on reading it again anyway, it won't be much trouble for you.

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Freakshow

06-16-2004, 09:34 PM

Count me in for the Ronfez.net book discussion group.

I just bought Survivor by Chuck Palahnuik and The Sound and
the Fury by William Faulkner and have not started to read
either, if either of those would interest the group?

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HBox

06-16-2004, 09:40 PM

Since I'm planning on reading it again anyway, it won't be much trouble for you.

DRAT! I haven't read one Harry potter book. I won't be able to participate! Well, you'll just have to wait another month for recipe for Raisin Roundies!!!

EDIT:[/asshole mode]Actually, I think the book club idea would be a good idea. I'm in if anyone else is interested.[asshole mode]

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JohnnyCash

06-16-2004, 10:02 PM

Smile, You're Traveling - Henry Rollins
Get In The Van - Henry Rollins
About A Boy - Nick Hornby
Measure Twice, Cut Once - Norm Abram
Last Gang In Town - Marcus Gray

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BigKilla

06-17-2004, 01:24 AM

Dracula and Frankenstein are probably 2 of my favorite books ever. The Stand and Dark Tower Series by Steven King are favs.
As far as classics, I love Poe. Shakespere's tragedies (Hamlet, MacBeth) rock, the comedies I could live w/o.

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06-17-2004, 02:50 AM

curtoid

06-17-2004, 04:59 AM

Too many...

"Tom Sawyer"

"World According to Garp"

"Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

"Underpants of the Dead"

"Siddhartha"

"The Painted Bird"

"Auntie Mame"

"Different Seasons"

"Inner Revolution"

Favorite childrens books:

Anything by Robert Dahl

The 4th Harry Potter book is a lot of fun, and

The "Great Brain" series of books by John Fitzgerald.

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06-17-2004, 05:05 AM

The Hot Zone - Richard Preston
Have A Nice Day - Mick Foley

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Hoojibs

06-17-2004, 05:21 AM

anything by bukowski or sartre.

I'm currently in the middle of Betting on the Muse and I'm going to pick up the Women after that.

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jeffdwright2001

06-17-2004, 05:23 AM

I haven't read one Harry potter book.

Wonderful; then we can discuss real literature!

And before the flames start, wait fifty years and see how they hold up against Steinbeck and Mitchell and Vonnegut and Wolfe and Poe and the others named here. My guess? Harry Who?

I certainly don't see an issue with having a discussion group that includes various levels of literature. There will always be a point of contention in any area that a subjective view on quality is the determining factor on worth. Faulkner is considered great, however, there are times when the stream of consciousness style borders on the tired.

Literature is similar to music in that while there may be generally accepted "great artists" in both fields, it shouldn't preclude the enjoyment of contemporary practitioners of their respective fields.

To deride another person's choice in reading or listening pleasure is to devalue their thoughts and opinions as being less worthy than our own.

In the past I was a member of a book club that covered Sophacles and Stephen King. We found points of discussion for both and had mixed opinions on both as well.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is more than viable as a discussion book, particularly as it would be interesting to discuss how Rowling has treated the struggles that the protaganists have with adolescence and compare it with how another female author (Judy Blume) dealt with it.

All this to say, count me in if a thread is started on book discussion. Great idea Blackjeezis.

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Gwen

06-17-2004, 05:38 AM

I also really like the idea of the book club, it sounds very cool.

I have a few favorites that I've read so many times from cover to cover that most no longer even have their covers:

"Rule of the Bone" - Russell Banks
"The Odyssey" & "The Iliad" - Homer
"The Divine Comedy" - Dante
"The Hot Zone" - Richard Preston
"Yvain" - Chretien de Troyes
"The Decameron" - Bocaccio
(I'm a Medieval Lit. geek, I can't help it)

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Freakshow

06-17-2004, 05:49 AM

The Hot Zone - Richard Preston

The Hot Zone - Richard Preston

You all are just enticing me to tell my Nancy Jaxx story again, aren't you? It may have been burried in the thread that I posted it in originally.

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TheMojoPin

06-17-2004, 07:40 AM

I refuse to read any of those damn Potter books.

What, we can't vote on the books this "club" reads?

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jeffdwright2001

06-17-2004, 07:44 AM

Never said we couldn't vote Mojo. Only said that it seemed a shame to limit the books to only ones that are written by "masters".

If anything, I thought I was making a case for making the discussion group broader in scope rather than narrow in terms of books considered for selection.

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TheMojoPin

06-17-2004, 08:06 AM

Nah, I just can't miss a chance to knock around Potter.

If we do start a "book club," people can just sit out whichever titles they don't like and come back for the ones they want to read.

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Freakshow

06-17-2004, 08:09 AM

I will be sitting out any Potter books as well.

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06-17-2004, 08:16 AM

I chose my own adventure but ended up being crushed by falling rock.

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HBox

06-17-2004, 08:35 AM

Well, if people are serious about this book club discussion thing, I'll suggest a book: The Sparrow by Maria Doria Russell. I've heard good things about it and I've been meaning to read it for awhile.

Here's a link for it at Amazon so you can read about it. (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0449912558/qid=1087490082/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/002-0861383-5889640)

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chgojim

06-17-2004, 09:24 AM

Ben Hamper's "RIVETHEAD"

Ben's take on working in a GM assembly plant, pure funny and genius.

Charles Bukowski's "POST OFFICE"

For those who have indulged in one too many and who go to work day after day knowing only that another cold one waits at the end of the shift.

Hubert Selby's "Last Exit to Brooklyn"

O.K. I only read half, but the movie was pretty F***up.

"Fun with Dick and Jane"
My first and still one of my favorites.

blakjeezis

06-17-2004, 10:36 AM

see how they hold up against Steinbeck and Mitchell and Vonnegut and Wolfe and Poe and the others named here. My guess? Harry Who?

I think you're wrong, Mike. These books have created an entire generation of kids who are excited about literature. Children that would have never picked up a book, are enthused about reading. 50 years from now, they're going to be the ones making the lists and remembering J.K. Rowling.

Besides that, which doesn't necessarily vouch for the quality of the books, they are great books. The style in which the books are written is what makes them standout. If they were just stories about a boy wizard, they would be nowhere near the phenomenon they are. I've never read childrens' books, and this is why I like the HP series so much, that deal with such dark and mature themes so realistically. Death, isolation, prejudice, the meaning of family, violence, hatred, self-loathing, jealousy, guilt and the like, are all handled so adeptly and in such a straight forward manner by Rowling that the outcome is brilliant.

Are they Poe, Wolfe, Vonnegut etc? No. Are they great in their own right? Yes. Superfudge and The Hardy Boys don't have university courses dedicated to them. There's a reason HP does.

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Jennitalia

06-17-2004, 10:39 AM

To Kill a Mockingbird is mine

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06-17-2004, 10:59 AM

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Gwen

06-17-2004, 11:22 AM

To Kill a Mockingbird is mine

Great call, Jenn. I forgot how amazing this book is. Think I'll stop by the library on my way home from work today and pick it up again.

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Freakshow

06-17-2004, 12:15 PM

Superfudge and The Hardy Boys don't have university courses dedicated to them. There's a reason HP does.

Are you sure there aren't courses dedicated to those books? What about Island of the Blue Dophin?

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TheMojoPin

06-17-2004, 12:24 PM

I've never read childrens' books, and this is why I like the HP series so much, that deal with such dark and mature themes so realistically. Death, isolation, prejudice, the meaning of family, violence, hatred, self-loathing, jealousy, guilt and the like, are all handled so adeptly and in such a straight forward manner by Rowling that the outcome is brilliant.

Hinton made a literary career doing just what you described, and didn't have to resort to magic.

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06-17-2004, 12:29 PM

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06-17-2004, 12:40 PM

My favorite children's books are the Little House Series, and anything by Judy Blume.

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DarkHippie

06-17-2004, 01:02 PM

"Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov

by far the greatest book I've ever read.

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Justice4all

06-17-2004, 01:43 PM

On that subject, ever read Mein Kampf? Ugh, God it's awful. Not the subject matter, that's, well, it is what it is. You know that going in. More than that though is the way it's written. It's almost impossible to read. I guess because it was dictated, and poor Hess was afraid to do any editing. But man, it really is mein kampf; my struggle to fucking finish it. It's written exactly like he orated. It just goes on and on, page after page, brow-beating and berating you with this maniacal tirade. It's tough, man.

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My favorite book?
The Stand-Stephen King.
I am very into the Harry Potter Books right now, I am on book #3.

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Freakshow

06-17-2004, 02:12 PM

CBSTG: Look at my shirt
Lisa: C: Dos
C: Dos run
run dos run
Only one person in a million would find that funny.

CBSTG: Yes, we call that the Dennis Miller ratio.

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Lumber

06-17-2004, 05:42 PM

In The Name of God.

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Lumber

06-17-2004, 05:42 PM

In The Name of God.
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courtney_love

06-17-2004, 11:17 PM

My favorite book of all time is "John Barleycorn" by Jack London. It is the autobiography of Jack London's life and is fascinating. Anybody who loves pirating and the high seas and tipping their elbow will love this memoir. Ahoy, maties!

Se7en

06-18-2004, 04:14 AM

What, we can't vote on the books this "club" reads?

Because if we did, you damn long-hairs would recommend nothing but Kesey or Vonnegut.

My recommendation: "Invisible Monsters" by Chuck Palahniuk

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Hottub

06-18-2004, 04:22 AM

After all of these years, I still love "The Stand".

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BrownTown

06-18-2004, 04:31 AM

I just bought Survivor by Chuck Palahnuik and The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Sound & The Fury is a tough read because of the narration style, but it's fucking brilliant. If you don't lose your interest (as most people I know that tried to read it did), you're in for a treat. If you get into Faulkner, I highly recommend As I Lay Dying.

BTW - My Nomination for Book Of the Month Club is If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino. It's a book about reading a book. Despite how that sounds, it's awesome.

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Dizz

06-18-2004, 04:34 AM

I'm new to the site but----"The Dharma Bums" by Kerouac, "Heaven and Hell" by Huxley,and this book I just discovered "A Confederacy of Dunces"-it's dark and hallarious

Dizz

06-18-2004, 04:36 AM

hilarious--my bad

Freakshow

06-18-2004, 04:55 AM

Trying to increase your post count already, Dizz?
(just kidding with ya).

BrownTown--I read As I Lay Dying for a class while still in college. I thoroughly enjoyed it (I think I may have been the only one in class that did) and was looking to read more Faulkner.

I've read Invisible Monsters, and that book is really good.

I'm still voting for Mizzle's book, but it might be a hard read because my Engrish isn't what it should be.

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TheMojoPin

06-18-2004, 05:31 AM

What, we can't vote on the books this "club" reads?

Because if we did, you damn long-hairs would recommend nothing but Kesey or Vonnegut.

My recommendation: "Invisible Monsters" by Chuck Palahniuk

Uhhhmmmmm...

I KNEW I saw Se7en at a couple of the WTO protests!

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AppleBoy

06-19-2004, 08:41 AM

'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' by Victor Hugo
'Robinson Crusoe' by Daniel Defoe
'Candide' by Voltaire
'The Canterbury Tales' by Geoffrey Chaucer

Mike Teacher

06-19-2004, 11:53 AM

I think you're wrong, Mike. These books have created an entire generation of kids who are excited about literature.

If the second part of the sentence is correct; I pray that I am indeed dead wrong. Nothing, nothing will set off learning more then a love of reading and literature.

Cool to see so many mentions of Preston's the Hot Zone, sadly 'Outbreak' came out and was a Shark Sandwich. Completely un-related, but I think it kills a Hot Zone movie....

... and for those who mentioned The Stand by King, coolness too.

As to Superfudge, et al; Judy Blume has had a few dozen university courses about her work. JK Rowling may have her in sales, but Blume? I've got to put her head and shoulder above just about every 'childrens/kids/adolescent' out there. The discussions in, 'Are you there God, its me Margaret' and others have caused Judy Blume to receive floods of both praise and hate mail for decades.

as for new stuff, I recommend Michael Shermer's 'The Science of Good and Evil: Why people, lie, cheat, steal; and follow the Golden Rule.'

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Mike Teacher

06-19-2004, 11:59 AM

Oh yeah, whoever likened music to reading: perfect!

Youre right, it's all about what you like; my 'now we can discuss Real Literature' was flippant and dripping with sarcasm. Sadly: i can find the Sarcasm Point. I use this: [eyeroll].

Which brings me too: I have read some books awell over 20 times. People ask me ahy, and there's my answer: Youbuy and listen to a great album only once?

I have the biggest hard-on about reading. PS2, Movies, Porn, Internet? All great. Love em. But for me? The books have it all over all of them.

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