Your favorite book?
 

Or any good ones that you've read recently?? I'm looking for some lecture...

The Devil's Notebook - Lavey
Burroughs - Junky
Kerouac - On The Road

Recent 3rd and 5th re-reads.

'The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle' (by Haruki Murakami, don't worry it's in English)

READ THIS BOOK! :thumbsup


...I also like 'Invisible Monsters' by Chuck Palahniuk

I like almost anything by John Grisham

I'm going to be sad and childish here and say:

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 'trilogy'

I can read these books over and over and they still give me hours of enjoyment and the occasional laugh out loud.

Those are my faves, if you want recent reads of mine.

1 - 'The Fundamentals of Thought' - HUbbard
2 - 'The Machine in the garden' - Leo Marx
3 - 'The Sociological Imagination' - C Wright Mills

1 - http://www.newerapublications.com/bk...c/descsl1.html

2 - http://www.amst.umd.edu/Research/cul...ions/marx1.htm

3 - http://www.faculty.rsu.edu/~felwell/...tations/MILLS/

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The first one is a scientology book right??? Never read anything on scientology... you liked it?

Fact or Fiction? I dont read much in the sci-fi, mystery type genre's. The book I am reading now is Stolen Valor abou Vietnam Vets who claimed they were medal winners and they really were not etc. Pretty interesting.

Another book I found interesting was WILL the G. Gordon Liddy writing :)

Anyhow, just a couple I have read recently, they are not new books, but pretty good.

I read the fundamentals of thought at least once a year.

I am not a Scientologist by no means, But i have been reading their material for years, and definitely agree with lots of points.

I have all the scientology books.

I just happened to have re-read that one recently, so I mentioned it.

I read tons of weird shit, thats what I do instead of the tv. heheh

Awhile back someone was posting about Hubbard, made me pick it up and give it ayet another read, its not that long, and I underline things on every page of a book I read, so its nothing to skim and take in the positive things it offers.... It definitely works, as I haventy had an illness in years.

And the rweactive mind definitely controls most people today, once you rid yourself of it, many things change.

Multiple Streams of Income - Robert Allen
Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki

Funny and strange (recently):
Douglas Copeland, All families are psychotic (good family reading)
Irvine Welsh, Shit (seriously disturbed shit)

Just nice:
Milan Kundera, Unbearable lightness of being

Thought provoving, simplistic:
Lance Armstrong, It's not about the bike

Absolute must reads:
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Richard Bach, Seagull

Religous (must admit, only parts):
Bible
Lotus Sutra (as translated by Burton Watson)
Koran

Classics I've found enjoyable on re-read:
Anna Karenin
War & Peace
Idiot (Dostoevsky)

...

Reading beats XBox x 10 (whenever one has enough patience anyway...)

On the Road :thumbsup
Some how that book is always in the back of my mind.

Everville - by Clive Barker

One of the greatest books ever written. What do you think made me move 2100 miles from home at such a young age?

hehehe

'And I think of Dean Moriarity, I think of Him...'

I have read many books, and at one time was going through about one a day and I totally have to agree with you on that.


now most of my reading is done online

You mean you read books that were put online? or you read things that were written to be online...? Eighter way, any suggestions?

Fuck yeah man! Ever read the Dirk Gently stories? A friend of mine got it for me last Christmas. Also quite funny.

A few more:

Naked Lunch - Burroughs
A Gun For Sale, Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
Neuromancer - William Gibson (dated and clunky, but seminal)
Any thing by Ruth Rendell

The Hobbit - Tolkien (a nice afternoon's read)
Mission: Earth - L. Ron Hubbard (funny - though there's 10 of them)

Just started A Brief History of Time - Hawking

The Illuminatus Trilogy

one of my all time favorite books. had a huge influence on me as well. more than any other book i've ever read.

It's just that I am always working so it just happens that everything that I read is online....usually industry related.

What sort of suggestions are you looking for?

bah, too many good books to even bother...

Steven King - Drawing Of The Three

obscenity this obscenity that, read it in high school....great book :thumbsup

"A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" by Dave Eggers

True story about a guys life. Straight stream of conscience writing. Funniest damn thing you will EVER read.

Hehe I am actually starting to get into reading about American Politics. I find it kind of facinating.
DH

Betty & Veronica.. Digest size from the supermarket checkout lane

Haven't read that much from Stephen King but I read most of the Richard Bachman...(My favorite was The Regulators...really fucked up! with Desperation from Stephen King....) The running man was also awsome..(but the movie sucked...)

a good friend of mine, one of best friends actually. I call him every few days.

he gave me the book one day, and told me to read it, said it would change my life.

It did.

It really did, damn im drunk. damn i miss my boy. high school friend.

been a long time though.

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/unchained

Carlos Castenada --
The Teachings of Don Juan; A Yaqui Way of Knowledge.
or
A Separate Reality; Further Conversations With Don Juan.
or
Journey to Ixtlan
or
Tales of Power
or
The Art of Dreaming
or
The Power of Silence

also, try The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot
and
Chuck Pahlaniuk -- Fight Club. Don't know if Invisible Monsters is any good.

and last but not least: Ronbert Jordan -- Wheel of Time series. It blows Tolkien off the fuckin map.

Damn -- what a dangerous question. Stay away from knowledge, boys. It's one of four enemies you must conquer before the last - death. Can you handle it?

nick hornby - high fidelity !!! awesome!

still breathing.

/vision thing

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A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud

I just finnished "True at first light" by hemingway pretty good read if you like him.


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Pattern Recognition - William Gibson

Good, as works of fiction...

You are kidding? I gave up after about the 5th or 6th book... Just got boring. Have you ever read the Silmarillion?

Good book I'm reading right now: Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Hitchhiker's guide to galaxy five books trilogy(especially first three books) or Dune

the doors of perception by A.Huxley

James Michener's ..The Drifters

ANYTHING by Robert Ludlum. I am going through his entire collection right now and each book is fantastic.

I recommend the Bourne Identity, and then follow up with the two novels after because they really give you a great story. I haven't seen the movie so I can't say if it compares, but when I saw Matt Damon doing Kung Fu moves.... well I wasn't impressed.

Also good stuff, Andy McNab. He has fiction and non-fictional books, excellent writter actually. His fiction books are very interesting. He's an ex-SAS sergant so some of ths stuf you read is pretty freaky

a few recent books...

fruits
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Weird Japanese fashion book.

labyrinths by borges
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Short stories. This guy writes so well he makes me lose it.

turtles, termites, and traffic jams by resnick
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Read concurrently with creative evolutionary systems (bentley), swarm intelligence (kennedy), the selfish gene (dawkins), and chaos (gleick), it's a fun kick in the pants.

snowcrash by neal stephenson (and his others)
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i had to re-read this crazy shit. better than neuromancer by far.

programming perl by larry wall
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a programming book, but perfectly written.

I need a THICK and GOOD book that will make my brain ache.
...and I don't mean any children's book. I want some, maybe philosophical, or a book that'll make me think about things. I haven't found anything intresting sofar.

But you want a story?? Or a pyschology or sociology books etc..?

If you want a fucked up story, read The Regulators...(either Richard Bachman or Stephen king...Hard to say cause Bachman was supposed to be dead...but now he's back with another book...King is weird...)

If you want philosophical books they're a tons of good one...But I've read a lot at college in philosophical class...so I was looking more for entertaining books for the holidays ;)

Edit: a lot of typos..(I just woke up :Graucho )

I don't think stories will be enough. I do enjoy a good story, but my mind craves something to think.

Children of the Matrix -- David Icke

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