Members Turd Furgison Posted January 4, 2007 Members Share Posted January 4, 2007 So got some fake cash for a couple o' book stores, so recommend me some good reads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sense_of_henry Posted January 4, 2007 Members Share Posted January 4, 2007 What are you interested in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mike.sartori Posted January 4, 2007 Members Share Posted January 4, 2007 Last week I read Sophie's World, a novel which teaches the history of philosophy. It's very good, in fact, it was my second time reading the book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wacopacco Posted January 4, 2007 Members Share Posted January 4, 2007 just finished this a week ago. Great read. Much better than Da Vinci Code imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mueller Posted January 4, 2007 Members Share Posted January 4, 2007 catch 22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Astatine Posted January 4, 2007 Members Share Posted January 4, 2007 Originally posted by mike.sartori Last week I read Sophie's World, a novel which teaches the history of philosophy. It's very good, in fact, it was my second time reading the book. Yeh, good book, a nice introduction to philosophy. I think you should get Dubliners - James Joyce The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera Two absolutely beautiful books Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hangwire Posted January 4, 2007 Members Share Posted January 4, 2007 Eqqus [i am not sure if that is spelled right]Catcher In The Rye Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hangwire Posted January 4, 2007 Members Share Posted January 4, 2007 something by Roberta Sparrow? The Science of Time Travel maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Turd Furgison Posted January 4, 2007 Author Members Share Posted January 4, 2007 Originally posted by hangwire something by Roberta Sparrow? The Science of Time Travel maybe? Thanks donnie As for interests, i like some heady stuff, and stuff that relates to architecture theory is even better - two faves are (for reference) Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino Constructions - John Rajchman Also crazy philosophy stuff is great too, so keep em coming. And... A&D Catch 22 Catcher in the Rye Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hangwire Posted January 4, 2007 Members Share Posted January 4, 2007 Originally posted by Turd Furgison Thanks donnie As for interests, i like some heady stuff, and stuff that relates to architecture theory is even better - two faves are (for reference) Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino Constructions - John Rajchman Also crazy philosophy stuff is great too, so keep em coming. And... A&D Catch 22 Catcher in the Rye I would recommend http://www.amazon.com/Peloponnesian-War-Donald-Kagan/dp/0142004375/sr=8-1/qid=1167954584/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-3447337-6784625?ie=UTF8&s=books very dense but very cool to look at then and now in terms of war's reasons... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TeamoDave Posted January 4, 2007 Members Share Posted January 4, 2007 This was a fun read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cabrasguitar Posted January 5, 2007 Members Share Posted January 5, 2007 wonderland Avenue - Danny Sugerman - Great book, biography of the late Danny Sugerman manager of The Doors(Kinda) and Iggy pop. It only goes up to when was 21 but it tells a story most people couldn;t muster in a lifetime, funny as hell and full of rock debauchery. I have a signed copy:D Anything by Brett Easton Ellis - A great writer most known for American Psycho and rules of Attraction but Glamorama is my favourite of his, well told celebrity satire and gruesomness, awesome. I can; be arsed writing any more reviews so here is a list of some great books. Sebastian Faulks - Bird SongLouis De Bernieres - Birds without Wings or Captain Correlies MandolinIain Banks/Iain M Banks - Anything by this great scottish novelistHaruki Murakami - Kafka on the ShoreGabriel Garc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wednesdaysworse Posted January 5, 2007 Members Share Posted January 5, 2007 "The Execution of Private Slovik" by William Bradford Huie.Last USA soldier executed (firing squad) for desertion/treason during WWII.Short. Gets your attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members FDZ Posted January 5, 2007 Members Share Posted January 5, 2007 Originally posted by Turd Furgison As for interests, i like some heady stuff, and stuff that relates to architecture theory is even betterUmberto Eco - The Name of The Rose /end Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GRINGO_LOCO Posted January 5, 2007 Members Share Posted January 5, 2007 Anything by Tom Robbins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members johnrambo Posted January 5, 2007 Members Share Posted January 5, 2007 anything by Chuck Palahniuk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ostracized Posted January 5, 2007 Members Share Posted January 5, 2007 Read the Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. It's about an architect, and it's a great book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sjaltenb Posted January 5, 2007 Members Share Posted January 5, 2007 Originally posted by hangwire something by Roberta Sparrow? The Science of Time Travel maybe? BEST. MOVIE. EVER! i just read Inside Out by Nick Mason (pink floyd). it was fairly interesting. I think nick's "everythings cool" and shy attitude contributed to the lack of depth about the bands feud and how extraordinarily successful they were. not a bad read tho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dvd Playa Posted January 5, 2007 Members Share Posted January 5, 2007 House of leaves by Mark Z Danielewski The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami the two best books i have ever read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members squareking Posted January 5, 2007 Members Share Posted January 5, 2007 Originally posted by Ostracized Read the Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. It's about an architect, and it's a great book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ChitownTerror Posted January 5, 2007 Members Share Posted January 5, 2007 Originally posted by Turd Furgison Thanks donnie Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino Constructions - John Rajchman Invisible Cities is one of my favorite books of all time. Awesome. And props to whoever posted the windup bird chronicle. I'm currently working on some nonfiction: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Gibbon The White Album - Didion Serendipities - Umberto Eco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MadCapLaughs Posted January 5, 2007 Members Share Posted January 5, 2007 My all-time favorite: Notes from Underground - Dostoyevsky Close seconds: For Whom the Bell Tolls - Hemmingway Pan - Hamsun Jude the Obscure - Hardy don't know anything about architects, sorry . . . but Jude is a mason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BigFurryWhale Posted January 5, 2007 Members Share Posted January 5, 2007 Originally posted by Ostracized Read the Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. It's about an architect, and it's a great book. I'm reading Atlas Shrugged right now. I'm enjoying more than I thought I would. Ayn Rand is a good choice if you're into philosophy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GuyaGuy Posted January 5, 2007 Members Share Posted January 5, 2007 Originally posted by FDZ Umberto Eco - The Name of The Rose /end the end of the end?! for architectural theory, there's S,M,L,XL by Rem Koolhaas. that was all the rage when i was still in art school. for philosophy, i'd recommend Simulacra and Simulation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nomoretablejeef Posted January 5, 2007 Members Share Posted January 5, 2007 Gravity's Rainbow- Thomas Pynchon Anything by Phillip K. Dick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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