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since we have cortexes music suggestion, i'd like to start a thread about books that are a must-read. i'll update this whenever i feel like it. but for this week i pick a solid classic for the whole family to enjoy: nikolai gogol - the dead souls a great russian master, but don't even think about calling him boring. |
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Dostoyevsky - The Idiot |
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Thomas Pynchon - The Crying of Lot 49 |
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Tom Wolfe - The Bonfire Of The Vanities |
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to inverted whale: we await silent trystero's empire! anything by J.G Ballard. |
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101 Elephant Jokes by: Robert Blake Its a really great old book from the 60's but if you can find it get it. Its the most random, bizzare, hilarious book I own, and I LOVE it! |
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genious -David Eggers (sp?) absolutely wonderful work |
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Mr Ribena - by I.A.M. Ribena |
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I absolutely can not choose between these 2: The Prophet- Kahlil Gibran The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy- Douglas Adams |
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David Toop - Ocean of Sound Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds |
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*sigh* ANOTHER topic about neetta and this time is from neetta herself! :D 'tis the silly season indeed. :-p |
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Vladimir Nabokov (Guy famous for Lolita)- Ada or Ardor: A family Chronicle Edwin A. Abbott - Flatland: A romance of many dimensions. Chris Ware - Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth All amazing books. Highly recommended. |
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Oh yes, and Henry Miller - Tropic of Capricorn and Tropic of Cancer... |
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ANY Irvine Welsh novel.... I am 2 chapters away from finishing PORNO... Lovely work.... |
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Frank Herbert - Dune H G Wells - The Time Machine Philip K Dick - A Scanner Darkly I've been meaning to read The Idiot for a while now. arrgghhh to much studying no time to read :( |
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Melange by Paul Valleri. My weekend was enlightened by it. |
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Agatha Christie - Curtain: Poirot's Last Case |
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Any\all Chuck Palahniuk books George Orwell books Aldous Huxley books JD Salinger The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster Lord of the Flies - William Golding Rule of the Bone - Russell Banks A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess |
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Harry Crews - |
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jack kerouac, on the road raght now ive been introduced to ian flemings bond books :] dr. no has been a real pleasure |
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Jean Paul Sartre - La Nausée |
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shelley jackson - the melancholy of anatomy i actually just started it.. but so far its been really good... really strange |
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chuck palahniuk - survivor |
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have you read ballard's super-canes? |
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Stephen King - "The Gunslinger" followed by "The Drawing Of The Three" f/b " The Wastelands" fb "Wizzard and glass" Stephen King - "Insomnia" Brett Easton Ellis - American psyco and all of the Harry Potter books |
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Steven kings the Stand is pretty fucking awesome...along with the Gunslinger.pogo( thats a system of a down song) I just finished reading "white teeth" by Zadie Smith But if you really want to stick your nose in a good book read all three of Lord of the Rings--you dont need anyone telling you that neetta |
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hehe There's a TV series called white teeth, I think it's based on that book actually =oD And I got pOgO from that SOAD song BOUNCE pogopogopogopogopogopogo ! |
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That sucks..now people arent going to read it, they'll just watch the movie and say it sucks then I look like a moron for reading it.. OHHHH I thought it was a cool conicidence |
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Have you heard the new System album?? my friend played some for me sounds pretty badass, but I never got the first one so I'm not gonna get this one either. |
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i've been brought up with lotr so no need to even mention it :) but, i suggest john irving - hotel new hampshire |
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princo, this is a devious plan to get the popularity of threads with my name to be associated with good literature! |
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Your a true master of the kraft neettz :) |
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i know, i know. but where is my award? |
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A thread full of tasty book selections! :D |
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KRHM now that we have the movie thing here again, i ask you to read stanislaw lems solaris _before_ you see the film. also eden and cyberias are worth reading. |
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H.P.Lovecraft - The Case Of Dexter Ward |
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ah so we have another lovecraftian here again. so far it's at leat me, ceri, marlowe, jarworski.... like his novels more than codw |
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+CHARLES |
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Anyone of you read ebooks? Theyre pretty convenient. |
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the thing about books is they are not e in any way |
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kip thorne - charles bukowski - |
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The gunslinger series by Stephen King is really good, the Ender series by Orson Scott Card is awesome too. I think those are my favorite series of books This topic is really great, some good books in here |
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i know tell me more of how great i am |
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moby dick is really really good. |
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i'm contiunuing this east european literature theme slavomir mrozek: the elephant soviet absurd politial satire |
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s³awomir mro¿ek is a Pole actually :) |
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Books I've read over last few months that I highly recommend: Irvine Welsh - Porno Tariq Ali - the Clash of Fundamentalisms Alex Callinicos - Against the Third Way John Pilger - the New Rulers of the World Hubert Selby Jnr - Last Exit to Brooklyn |
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i thought so too. but he wrote when poland was part of the soviet union? or was it? anyway he is great |
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shit- i am searching for hubert selby jr stuff since i ve seen "requiem.." and i cant find a thing :( |
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hehehehe poland was never a part of soviet union- and mro¿ek was on emigration in mexico- but now he lives in poland, in cracow where i study :) |
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