Members Player99 Posted October 4, 2012 Members Share Posted October 4, 2012 Reading is not as much fun as watching a good Dolf Lundgren movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MadMax808 Posted October 4, 2012 Members Share Posted October 4, 2012 Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs - Chuck KlostermanFear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 - Hunter S ThompsonAnarchy Evolution - Greg GraffinZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence - Robert Pirsig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members evets618 Posted October 4, 2012 Members Share Posted October 4, 2012 "The Book" by Alan Watts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ArcherArcher Posted October 4, 2012 Members Share Posted October 4, 2012 2666. Should be an easy read. Yes, dude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ArcherArcher Posted October 4, 2012 Members Share Posted October 4, 2012 Infinite Jest is crazy long but not really a hard read. Maybe conceptually if you're a {censored}ing simpleton. Gravity's Rainbow has to be my fav though. Not an easy read, literally or conceptually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MrChrisos Posted October 4, 2012 Members Share Posted October 4, 2012 Get a book of Kafka short stories. The Judgement is about ten pages, and the best short story I've ever read (and I've read a lot). Here's some stuff off the top of my brain - Personal loves:Catch 22(Heller), A Tale of Two Cities(Dickens), Spring Snow(Mishima), The Old Man and The Sea(Hemmingway). Classics:Crime & Punishment(Dostoevsky), Oedipus Rex(Sophocles), The Outsider(Camus). Non-Fiction:'Godel, Escher and Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid' (Hofstadter), Anything by Michel Foucault. Glutton for punishment/Genius:The Waves(Woolf), Ulysses(Joyce), Pale Fire(Nobokov). Unsung hero:The Third Policeman(O'Brien) - It's fun, joyous, surreal, creative and intelligent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MrChrisos Posted October 4, 2012 Members Share Posted October 4, 2012 Gravity's Rainbow has to be my fav though. Not an easy read, literally or conceptually. This has been on my list for a while - I'd better get a move on with my backlog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members iblamesummers Posted October 4, 2012 Members Share Posted October 4, 2012 why is everyone on here a smarmy {censored}? I am politely asking for some decent book suggestions. I'm sure if I made a post about me just getting a ps3 everyone would be jizzing suggestions at me. its funny but i have slowly learning that a) i am not good at book recommendations via the INTERNET b) i share common book interests w/ only a few people c) i am not good at being a smarmy {censored}. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members t-rey Posted October 4, 2012 Members Share Posted October 4, 2012 I'd recommend all of Chuck Palahniuk's early stuff; with Choke probably being my favorite of his. I would read some of his books in a day. Kurt Vonnegut is all sorts of fantastic as well. His books are fun and sarcastic, but give you a lot to think about by the end. I'm going through a phase of reading memoirs right now - recently read Kevin Smith's most recent book, and I'm currently reading I am Ozzy (which is {censored}ing hilarious and fantastic). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members anibawl Posted October 4, 2012 Members Share Posted October 4, 2012 +1 on Chuck Palahniuks stuff. My favorite is Rant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Turd Furgison Posted October 4, 2012 Members Share Posted October 4, 2012 that dark tower series was pretty decent and it will keep you occupied for a while. the foundation series was pretty good if you are into scifi stuff. if you want to read some depressing real world stuff read the algiers motel incident. i personally like to read murakami before going to bed, he moves things along at a slow pace but keeps them interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dpizappi Posted October 4, 2012 Members Share Posted October 4, 2012 Get a book of Kafka short stories. The Judgement is about ten pages, and the best short story I've ever read (and I've read a lot). Here's some stuff off the top of my brain - Personal loves: Catch 22(Heller), A Tale of Two Cities(Dickens), Spring Snow(Mishima), The Old Man and The Sea(Hemmingway). Classics: Crime & Punishment(Dostoevsky), Oedipus Rex(Sophocles), The Outsider(Camus). Non-Fiction: 'Godel, Escher and Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid' (Hofstadter), Anything by Michel Foucault. Glutton for punishment/Genius: The Waves(Woolf), Ulysses(Joyce), Pale Fire(Nobokov). Unsung hero: The Third Policeman(O'Brien) - It's fun, joyous, surreal, creative and intelligent. Vastly under-appreciated novel. I have this mostly baseless theory that O'Brien was inspired by the line in The Snows of Kilimanjaro when Hemingway, talking about the possible forms death might take, wrote something alone the lines of "[Death] could be two bicycle policeman." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MrChrisos Posted October 4, 2012 Members Share Posted October 4, 2012 could be two bicycle policeman." Interesting! I'm going to have to check that out. Didn't get published until after his death too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members amarr1 Posted October 4, 2012 Members Share Posted October 4, 2012 Murakami, DFW, Salinger, Kafka, McCarthy, Pynchon, DeLillo, Philip Roth, Adam Levin, Richard Brautigan, Sherman Alexie, John Barth, Manuel Puig, Toni Morrison, Mark Z Danielewski, Jonathan Safran Foer, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members iblamesummers Posted October 5, 2012 Members Share Posted October 5, 2012 DFW, Salinger, Kafka, Pynchon, DeLillo, Philip Roth, Richard Brautigan, Sherman Alexie, John Barth, Toni Morrison, fix'd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members CicadaSilence Posted October 5, 2012 Members Share Posted October 5, 2012 Now that I'm out of school and am no longer required to read things, I'm into it. Beware people who say this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Elessar [Sly] Posted October 5, 2012 Members Share Posted October 5, 2012 My father has just read 50 shades of swiftly approaching menopause Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MrChrisos Posted October 5, 2012 Members Share Posted October 5, 2012 My father has just read 50 shades of swiftly approaching menopause I read a page and a half of someone's copy. In all honesty, I haven't laughed so hard in at least five years. Aside from sentences that started without capital letters, buckets of awfully patronising cliches, it was just plain hilarious. Lines something like 'My subconscious was standing with its arms folded and shaking its head disapprovingly' (I am Jack's unstifled laughter). I'm told her subconscious expresses itself quite regularly. Aside from the advanced literary techniques, there's more. I'll never forget the line - 'I magic a smile on my face'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members boytbpc Posted October 5, 2012 Members Share Posted October 5, 2012 Download a copy of "The Harvard Classics", or if you can find a set, buy a hardcopy set. They have all the reading you'll need for at least a couple of years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members boytbpc Posted October 5, 2012 Members Share Posted October 5, 2012 the Bible You don't want to make him lose his faith do you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members frankthomson Posted October 5, 2012 Members Share Posted October 5, 2012 You don't want to make him lose his faith do you?ha. u guys. crack. me. up.how about the pearl by john steinbeckor maybe start small....>>>the cat in the hat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members boytbpc Posted October 5, 2012 Members Share Posted October 5, 2012 The Pearl and The Old Man and the Sea are two of my favorite novellas. ha. u guys. crack. me. up. how about the pearl by john steinbeck or maybe start small....>>>the cat in the hat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lefort_1 Posted October 5, 2012 Members Share Posted October 5, 2012 The Agony and the Ecstacy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MrChrisos Posted October 5, 2012 Members Share Posted October 5, 2012 The Old Man and the Sea Not many novellas clinch you the nobel prize So well written. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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