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im dying to read a good book and cant think of what to get. i want a page turner- nothing to deep and meaningful. i like fantasy sci/fi [raymond e fiest etc], those schlocky murder/forensic/mystery books. argghh! i need to read! NOW!
Audio.
09-09-2005, 10:17 PM
poetry book?
Why not read a biography book? The Hitch Hikker's Guide To The Galaxy?
Western Thoughts Volume lV: The Modern World. <333
poetry book?
Why not read a biography book? The Hitch Hikker's Guide To The Galaxy?
Western Thoughts Volume lV: The Modern World. <333
not really into poetry - bad memories of samuel taylor coleridge in high school [i dont care about kubla kahn dammit!]
read hitchhikers i dont know how many times.
dont really like biographies
and that last one- sounds deep.
i need something trashy, but not badly written. after i finish all my homework, i can read something thats a bit more thought provoking. now i just need to zone out
QueenAdrock
09-09-2005, 10:21 PM
Well, I recommend the book "Middlesex". It's the story of a girl/boy's life, from his grandparents down to him. He's a hermaphrodite. It sounded kinda lame when someone suggested it to me, but it's been one of the only books I hadn't been able to put down. The author's use of description and detail is phenominal, and is a great book.
^ sounds interesting. i'll start a list!
BroomHead
09-09-2005, 10:47 PM
im dying to read a good book and cant think of what to get. i want a page turner- nothing to deep and meaningful. i like fantasy sci/fi [raymond e fiest etc], those schlocky murder/forensic/mystery books. argghh! i need to read! NOW!
If you like this kind of book, go to the drugstore and pick, with your eyes closed, a novel from that tall swivel bookshelf. No doubt you'll be satisfied.
ha ha! i suppose they only cost a couple of $ then.
zorra_chiflada
09-10-2005, 12:00 AM
Well, I recommend the book "Middlesex". It's the story of a girl/boy's life, from his grandparents down to him. He's a hermaphrodite. It sounded kinda lame when someone suggested it to me, but it's been one of the only books I hadn't been able to put down. The author's use of description and detail is phenominal, and is a great book.
OMG i always recommend that book to everyone, it's one of my favourites!
boys_beastie
09-10-2005, 03:08 AM
if you havnt read it which you should have - the grapes of wrath by john steinbeck. its really good.
icy manipulator
09-10-2005, 03:23 AM
raymond e fiest is the fucking shit. i love his stuff, i'm reading rage of a demon king atm. how many of his books have you read kezz?
b-grrrlie
09-10-2005, 04:10 AM
One of the best books ever:
Patrick Süskind - Perfume
Los Para Noias
09-10-2005, 07:46 AM
don delillo-white noise, about a contamination of chemicals and a miracle drug
jose saramago-blindness, about an epidemic of white blindness where the blind are forced into an abandoned mental asylum
jorge luis borges-any of his short stories, but especially the collection of the aleph, writes a lot about infinity, everything, world figures, and south america
thomas pynchon-gravity's rainbow, a convoluted story of ww2 europe, or the crying of lot 49, a paranoid post office so-cal scandal
william faulkner-as I lay dying, the sound and the fury, go down moses, a light in august, these books are just flat out amazing
Ferdinand_2
09-10-2005, 08:26 AM
Read some comics
ToucanSpam
09-10-2005, 08:33 AM
Thomas More- Utopia
Sophocles-The Oedipus Trilogy (Oedipus Tyrannus, Oedipus at Kolonus, Antigone)
Niccolo Machiavelli-The Prince
Jean-Jaques Rousseau-The Social Contract
I read 'em all, do it up. All great reads.
Rancid_Beasties
09-10-2005, 08:40 AM
I didnt like Oedipus Rex. It was way too hard to write on last year in English. Not enough content, or complexity.
I prefer post modern vietnam war texts, well actually that bullshit because i dont really read that much other than law reading, but my favourite book is a post modern vietnam war text, the things they carried by Tim O'Brien. I love the part where hes killed someone, then he says he hasn't then he says it doesnt matter whether he has or he hasnt because hes trying to create an image of vietnam and its just too hard without actually being there, you need to use extreme graphical imagery. The way he basically explains how the way he writes something can be complete falsity but still be more true than truth itself...well anyway, its a great book. Tim Winton's a good aussie author. Scission is my favourite by him.
ToucanSpam
09-10-2005, 08:46 AM
I didnt like Oedipus Rex. It was way too hard to write on last year in English. Not enough content, or complexity.
Are you kidding? I wrote 2 papers on it in Grade 11 and 12. Plenty to draw from, you just need to look, yo! One of my papers was about 'blindess' as a motif, the otherrrrr I don't remember because it wasn't the one I sent away for IB grading. It kinda sucked.:D
I prefer post modern vietnam war texts, well actually that bullshit because i dont really read that much other than law reading, but my favourite book is a post modern vietnam war text, the things they carried by Tim O'Brien. I love the part where hes killed someone, then he says he hasn't then he says it doesnt matter whether he has or he hasnt because hes trying to create an image of vietnam and its just too hard without actually being there, you need to use extreme graphical imagery. The way he basically explains how the way he writes something can be complete falsity but still be more true than truth itself...well anyway, its a great book. Tim Winton's a good aussie author. Scission is my favourite by him.
Sounds interesting, I'll bet my local liberries don't have anything by O'Brien or Winton. :(
HEIRESS
09-10-2005, 08:51 AM
if you havnt read it which you should have - the grapes of wrath by john steinbeck. its really good.
I own three different copies of this book
yes yes I do
reading this and its uhhhh rather non-fluffy (http://www.ffbooks.co.uk/images/x1/x8053.jpg)
ToucanSpam
09-10-2005, 08:53 AM
reading this and its uhhhh rather non-fluffy (http://www.ffbooks.co.uk/images/x1/x8053.jpg)
uhhhhhhhhh
what is this book all about yo?
I'm half 'fraid to know.
Rancid_Beasties
09-10-2005, 08:57 AM
Are you kidding? I wrote 2 papers on it in Grade 11 and 12. Plenty to draw from, you just need to look, yo! One of my papers was about 'blindess' as a motif, the otherrrrr I don't remember because it wasn't the one I sent away for IB grading. It kinda sucked.:D
Sounds interesting, I'll bet my local liberries don't have anything by O'Brien or Winton. :(
O'Brien is American. Hes pretty popular. You should be able to find him. Winton, well you can get scission (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140080600/qid=1126364008/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/102-0215602-5440922?v=glance&s=books) and a few others on amazon.
ToucanSpam
09-10-2005, 08:58 AM
O'Brien is American. Hes pretty popular. You should be able to find him. Winton, well you can get scission (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140080600/qid=1126364008/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/102-0215602-5440922?v=glance&s=books) and a few others on amazon.
I'm 'a find me some O'Brien a-hyuck!
I hate liberries though. Cute girls go there though, it's my hotspot for flirting. :cool:
Rancid_Beasties
09-10-2005, 09:01 AM
The things they carried is actually on of the highest rated books on amazon, 550 reviews @ 4.5 stars (y)
I love it because it got me a good mark on my exam, I wasnt so strong on language analysis or my other text, the Quiet American by Greene.
ToucanSpam
09-10-2005, 09:02 AM
The things they carried is actually on of the highest rated books on amazon, 550 reviews @ 4.5 stars (y)
I love it because it got me a good mark on my exam, I wasnt so strong on language analysis or my other text, the Quiet American by Greene.
Sweet. Now I wanna go to the library.... :cool:
Paul Kemp
09-10-2005, 09:35 AM
I'm reading The Serpent and the Rainbow by Wade Davis right now. It's about zombis! (y) Well, more than that really. It's an autobigraphical account of an anthro-botanist who is sent to Haiti to investigate a poison which 'turns people into zombis'.
boys_beastie
09-10-2005, 01:32 PM
I own three different copies of this book
yes yes I do
:D cool. i dont own any :( i rented it from the library. give me one of yours please :rolleyes:
Lemmy's Liver
09-10-2005, 01:43 PM
everyone and their mother should read The Third Policeman - hate to say this for the 154th time
it's got e v e r y t h i n g. I'm not even going to explain. read it. now.
you too, you teen-moustache loser who only read the backs of beer bottles up til now.
QueenAdrock
09-10-2005, 02:03 PM
Thomas More- Utopia
Sophocles-The Oedipus Trilogy (Oedipus Tyrannus, Oedipus at Kolonus, Antigone)
Niccolo Machiavelli-The Prince
Jean-Jaques Rousseau-The Social Contract
I read 'em all, do it up. All great reads.
i need something trashy, but not badly written. after i finish all my homework, i can read something thats a bit more thought provoking. now i just need to zone out
Don't read his books if you just want to 'zone out.' Wait until you want to use your noggin. For the love of God.
Lemmy's Liver
09-10-2005, 02:17 PM
art fag wannabe I'm-so-smart crap
QueenAdrock
09-10-2005, 02:19 PM
Hey, if they made Sweet Valley for grown-ups, I'd be on that so fast.
Err...I mean, um. I have to go. :o
ScarySquirrel
09-10-2005, 02:24 PM
if you havnt read it which you should have - the grapes of wrath by john steinbeck. its really good.
You're fucking kidding, right? That was the most boring book I've ever read in my entire life. The only reason I even felt compelled to finish reading the thing was because I kept thinking to myself, "Man, this is seriously going to get better. Steinbeck is one of the greats for a reason, right?".
Well, that's how I got myself through it almost up to the last 250 pages. The last 250 pages I read just because I had made it that far and it seemed completely idiotic to not finish it at that point.
Extra Cheese
09-10-2005, 02:26 PM
i read the book by the hornby fellow,, his new book about 4 people who decide to kill themselves but keep putting it off. It wasnt very good
Lemmy's Liver
09-10-2005, 03:02 PM
You're fucking kidding, right? That was the most boring book I've ever read in my entire life. The only reason I even felt compelled to finish reading the thing was because I kept thinking to myself, "Man, this is seriously going to get better. Steinbeck is one of the greats for a reason, right?".
Well, that's how I got myself through it almost up to the last 250 pages. The last 250 pages I read just because I had made it that far and it seemed completely idiotic to not finish it at that point.
(y)
"this is one of the greats" has got to be the WORST reason ever to read a book
it's usually a sure-fire way in finding out the fact "this book will make me sleep"
Steinbeck is a perfect example. don't make me list more.
Los Para Noias
09-10-2005, 06:34 PM
Thomas More- Utopia
Sophocles-The Oedipus Trilogy (Oedipus Tyrannus, Oedipus at Kolonus, Antigone)
Niccolo Machiavelli-The Prince
Jean-Jaques Rousseau-The Social Contract
I read 'em all, do it up. All great reads.
Utopia is pretty good, haven't read social contract yet. I think the prince is pretty overrated really, there isn't a whole lot to it to me, except historical significance. But the oedipus trilogy is fucking awesome, oedipus rex is by far one of my favorite books, and probably my favorite play.
Choke by Chuck Palahunik
Dry: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
Less Than Zero or American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
1984 by George Orwell
ericlee
09-11-2005, 06:22 AM
I just finished reading Messiah by Boris Starling. It really had me turning pages to see what the fuck is happening. It's real twisted and eerie.
venusvenus123
09-11-2005, 07:03 AM
im dying to read a good book and cant think of what to get. i want a page turner- nothing to deep and meaningful. i like fantasy sci/fi [raymond e fiest etc], those schlocky murder/forensic/mystery books. argghh! i need to read! NOW!
ok, i suggest you read Robin Hobb's stuff, starting with the farseer trilogy -- i guarantee you'll be hooked! (y)
p-branez
09-11-2005, 05:47 PM
life of pi by yann martel
this is the best suggestion so far.
Don't read his books if you just want to 'zone out.' Wait until you want to use your noggin. For the love of God.
reading is a form of stress relief for me. i can seriously sit down and not move for hours, except to get yet another cup of tea. i need these books to zone out cos my brain is hurting from trying to finish all this homework!
ok, i suggest you read Robin Hobb's stuff, starting with the farseer trilogy -- i guarantee you'll be hooked! (y)
i read the first book in the farsee trilogy twice, but my sister threw it out. i really liked it. might have to track it down again.
raymond e fiest is the fucking shit. i love his stuff, i'm reading rage of a demon king atm. how many of his books have you read kezz?
most of them. a couple of times over. faerie tale is one of my fav's
QueenAdrock
09-11-2005, 09:10 PM
reading is a form of stress relief for me. i can seriously sit down and not move for hours, except to get yet another cup of tea. i need these books to zone out cos my brain is hurting from trying to finish all this homework!
Yeah, I'm just sayin' if your brain is already hurting and overworked from doing homework, don't go with any of these books from Machiavelli, More, or the like.
My reading is usually something interesting and page-turning, yet not philosophical and challenging. That's what my homework is all about.
"Wanderlust" by Danielle Steel is interesting, the way she blended history and personal stories together, but she needs way more sexy scenes. Not trashy enough.
. Not trashy enough.
ha ha! sometimes you need a bit of that bodice-ripping stuff to laugh at. ive read a lot of the books people have suggested, like 1984, and chuck palanihuk etc... i finish up my stuides in 3 weeks or so. in the meantime ive resorted to re-reading something, which is ok, for now. i'll head into borders before i go to class tonight and try and find one of the other books that people have suggested
icy manipulator
09-11-2005, 09:31 PM
most of them. a couple of times over. faerie tale is one of my fav's
serious? besides rise of a merchant prince, faerie tale's prolly my least favourite. good old magician has to be the best (y)
pug is the shit (Y)
serious? besides rise of a merchant prince, faerie tale's prolly my least favourite. good old magician has to be the best (y)
pug is the shit (Y)
magician is the book im re-reading :o i just liked how he ventured out of the pure fantasy thing.
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