What are some of your favorite books?[views:13567][posts:63]________________________________ [Feb 25,2013 5:12pm - Spence ""] I'm in dire need of new reading material, so what are some of your favorite books? Short plot previews would also be appreciated. |
| ______________________________ [Feb 25,2013 5:18pm - Yeti ""] [img] |
| ________________________________ [Feb 25,2013 5:18pm - KEVORD ""] If you haven't read Stephen Kings Under The Dome yet do so before the mini series hits tv in a few months. I read the book a few years ago and loved it. |
| ______________________________ [Feb 25,2013 5:20pm - Yeti ""] my wife just read that, she said it was really good. I'm a huge King fan but haven't checked it out yet. |
| ______________________________ [Feb 25,2013 5:21pm - Yeti ""] I love band biographies. even if you don't like the artist they are still worth reading. the Violent J from ICP and Marilyn Manson ones are great. |
| ________________________________ [Feb 25,2013 5:24pm - Mark_R ""] I enjoyed the Greg Graffin (Bad Religion) one, Anarchy Evolution. It's on my mind because I just read it last month. |
| ____________________________________ [Feb 25,2013 5:25pm - the truth ""] -spence reads at a 10th grade level, hes ahead of his class! |
| ____________________________________ [Feb 25,2013 5:25pm - the truth ""] -mark r is asian and probably read a book in the time it took me to type this post |
| _______________________________ [Feb 25,2013 5:49pm - Hoser ""] Spence said:I'm in dire need of new reading material, so what are some of your favorite books? Short plot previews would also be appreciated. Spence....read anything by Bernard Cornwell. My favorite is the viking series. Jake |
| ____________________________________ [Feb 25,2013 6:06pm - RichHorror ""] Truly shocked no hilarious funboy said Mein Kampf yet. |
| __________________________________________ [Feb 25,2013 6:09pm - largefreakatzero ""] Molly Fyde series by Hugh Howey if you like sci-fi. I'm about to start book 4. |
| _________________________________________ [Feb 25,2013 6:41pm - YearoftheDragon ""] First Blood, David Morrell Dracula, Bram Stoker Bad Seed, Ian Johnston (Nick Cave biography, 1995) |
| __________________________________ [Feb 25,2013 7:45pm - fernando ""] If you dig shorts, I'd recommend Raymond Carver. 'Cathedral' is a great collection and the titular story is amazing. He writes gritty/dirty realism. |
| ______________________________________ [Feb 25,2013 8:42pm - the_reverend ""] Snow Crash. |
| ________________________________ [Feb 25,2013 8:49pm - Burnsy ""] YearoftheDragon said: Dracula, Bram Stoker This. Also, yes, I'm a huge King fan, but why fuck around? Go straight for the Dark Tower series. One of the best things that's ever happened in all of existence. |
| ________________________________ [Feb 25,2013 9:39pm - Mark_R ""] the_reverend said:Snow Crash. Big +1. I've been meaning to re-read this one and The Diamond Age, which I liked even more than SC. |
| _________________________________ [Feb 25,2013 10:23pm - Spence ""] Books mentioned that I have read: Dark Tower series (well, read the first four books anyway.) Dracula (spent probably an entire month on it in my senior literature class) Cathedral (read in my Creative Writing class) The M. Manson autobiography, Long Road Out of Hell (I may hate him and his music, but it was a good book and a friend got it for me back when I was in middle school) Everything else here I will definitely check out. Thanks for all the recommendations! |
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| ________________________________________________ [Feb 26,2013 12:30am - Wrensylvanian Hunger ""] I take it Booktal Archives is down for Spence? |
| ________________________________ [Feb 26,2013 7:18am - Burnsy ""] Spence said:Dark Tower series (well, read the first four books anyway.) So, you didn't read the series................................................................................................................... |
| __________________________________ [Feb 26,2013 9:10am - posbleak ""] I agree with Spence, Dark Tower got ridiculous after the first four books. By that point I was too invested to give up, even though I should've. fernando said:If you dig shorts, I'd recommend Raymond Carver. 'Cathedral' is a great collection and the titular story is amazing. He writes gritty/dirty realism. :point: Also: [img] [img] [img] [img] [img] |
| __________________________________________ [Feb 26,2013 9:14am - percius mercius ""] Hail traveler! If I may, I would suggest "The Lusty Argonian Maid". |
| ________________________________ [Feb 26,2013 9:26am - Mark_R ""] OK, I also am on the "first four books" Dark Tower train. I have read them twice and I greatly enjoyed them, especially Wizard and Glass. I have actually decided that I will never read 6 and 7. I'm taking the "journey is better than the destination" stance on this one. It will forever be a good story whose ending is shrouded in mystery to me. Never knowing seems fitting, somehow, for this series. |
| ____________________________________ [Feb 26,2013 9:31am - arilliusbm ""] I can't read books anymore. Too boring. |
| ___________________________________ [Feb 26,2013 10:08am - robotpie ""] lol @ Dark Tower when Stephen King writes about Roland finding Stephen King writing about the Dark Tower. Still loved the series though. For a recent series, The Passage was great, though The Twelve (sequel) that came out a few months ago was pretty good. |
| _____________________________________ [Feb 26,2013 10:28am - MotleyGrue ""] Clive Barker Books of Blood mentioned a few posts above is a good read, William Burroughs Naked Lunch, and almost all Hunter S Thompson books. |
| ______________________________________ [Feb 26,2013 10:40am - Longdeadgod ""] hitchhikers guide to the galaxy psalms of isaak by ken scholes anything by neil gaiman, american gods is especially good |
| _______________________________ [Feb 26,2013 10:48am - Yeti ""] Bram Stoker's Dracula is one of the most overrated books ever. It's written poorly and very boring. |
| ________________________________________ [Feb 26,2013 10:54am - boblovesmusic ""] Wrensylvanian%20Hunger said:I take it Booktal Archives is down for Spence? Brilliant idea! |
| _________________________________ [Feb 26,2013 11:40am - Burnsy ""] Wizard and Glass was definitely my favorite, but I can't understand not finishing the series if you're that far into it. Maybe I'm too much of a faggy King fan boy to think the last three books were awesome as well. |
| ___________________________________________ [Feb 26,2013 12:19pm - dickhead666 nli ""] if you dig non-fiction stuff around travel, geopolitical shizzz, history, or music shit check out some of these that blew my mind: Black Earth - a journey through Russia after the fall (totally bleak and captivating) Miles Davis' autobiography is great, he's the biggest asshole in the universe The Real Frank Zappa book is awesome, tons of great opinions Guns, Germs, & Steel is heavy reading but is worth it (it's a dense history of how different civilizations adapted to their surrounding environments and resources, enabling different speeds of development, ending up in heavy technological imbalances) Travels of Marco Polo (the actual book he wrote like 700 years ago) is mindblowing, he just passes through and describes all the old cultures he encounters, endless amount of obscure groups of people and practices... Behind the Urals - an American communist traveled to the USSR in the 1920's to support the cause, worked as a welder at a steel plant in the harshest conditions imaginable, stuck around until Stalin's purges, and documented the whole thing. The Hunter, the Hammer, Heaven - this journalist documents his visits to three totally fucked up places... Sierra Leone, Chechnya, and Bougainville, wicked harsh and heavy reading but awesome.... God is Not Great - great reading for people who are opposed to religion, god, etc... Christopher Hitchens was the man. |
| ___________________________________ [Feb 26,2013 12:55pm - fernando ""] 'Asterios Polyp' is outstanding. It's a graphic novel, though. |
| ________________________________ [Feb 26,2013 1:05pm - xmikex ""] Favorite books ever? Off the top of my head... Ham on Rye - Charles Bukowski The Confession of Nat Turner - William Styron Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (not kvlt, but whatever it rules) Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor House of Leaves - Mark Danielwski Where the Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls Hide & Seek With Grover - Grover |
| ________________________________ [Feb 26,2013 1:07pm - xmikex ""] The downside of turning a 60+ minute work commute into a 15 minute bike commute is that you don't get to read or listen to music as much anymore. Will be raiding thread for book suggestions. |
| ______________________________________ [Feb 27,2013 4:55am - thirdknuckle ""] Fantastic Four #45-50 Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks Vol 27 |
| _______________________________ [Feb 27,2013 10:48am - ÆRK ""] shutup fagget and read these: Dune series - Frank Herbert's ecological thesis turned into imaginary vistas beyond your comprehension. I second the Hitchens' God is Not Great. Find the audio book. Skip Bukowski and read Céline. |
| _______________________________ [Feb 27,2013 1:16pm - iteY ""] ÆRK said:I second the Hitchens' God is Not Great. Find the audio book. a bunch of those books like God is Not Great, Letters to A Christian Nation, The God Delusion, are better in audio form than book. they are interesting to read but i feel like i was agreeing too much, they are made more for people who share opposing viewpoints. The audio for interviews, speeches, audio books, etc. is far more entertaining |
| ________________________________ [Feb 27,2013 1:41pm - Burnsy ""] Yeah I bought the audiobook and am listening now. Support. |
| ___________________________________ [Feb 27,2013 2:32pm - goatrider ""] Good thread. One thing I like about seeing book lists from different people is how the more frequently mentioned books fit in with a lot of varying themes and concepts based on the reader. It's interesting to me. That being said: E.R. Eddison - The Worm Ouroboros (Easily my favorite fantasy novel) Aldous Huxley - Brave New World Brett Easton Ellis - American Psycho J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit Ken Kesey - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Homer - The Iliad / Odyssey Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra Neil Gaiman - American Gods The Eddas (Havamal, if I had to pick a favorite) Jack Donovan - Androphilia Julius Evola - Metaphysics Of War, Men Among The Ruins Pentti Linkola - Can Life Prevail? Sun Tzu - The Art Of War Ted Kaczynski - Unabomber Manifesto Robert Svoboda - Aghori (trilogy) The Bhagavad Gita Dave Brockie - Wargoul Johnny Cash - Autobiography Additionally, pretty much anything by Lovecraft or Robert E. Howard. |
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| ______________________________ [Feb 27,2013 3:00pm - ÆRK ""] Wolf and Iron by Gordon R. Dickson - A post-apocalypse American travel story based on actual wilderness survival and animal behavioral science, and not zombies or radiation. Good read, Dickson has written other scifi stuff which I haven't checked out. |
| ______________________________ [Feb 27,2013 3:29pm - BSV ""] I suck at reading Fiction, it takes me forever. I've been reading my girlfriends copy of the Giver for like 2 years and I still can't finish it. However, my favorite writer is Bukowski and I just picked up 'Pulp'. I like non fiction stuff bout music and sports. I've rolled tons of joints on my Oil Can Boyd biography but still havn't dug in yet. THAT'S ALL I GOT FOR YAH KID. |
| ______________________________ [Feb 27,2013 3:34pm - ÆRK ""] Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics |
| __________________________________ [Feb 27,2013 3:35pm - posbleak ""] ÆRK said:Wolf and Iron by Gordon R. Dickson - A post-apocalypse American travel story based on actual wilderness survival and animal behavioral science, and not zombies or radiation. Good read, Dickson has written other scifi stuff which I haven't checked out. Dorsai/The Childe Cycle is entirely amazing military science fiction if you're into that. |
| ________________________________ [Feb 27,2013 4:45pm - joebo ""] lol reading |
| __________________________________ [Feb 27,2013 4:59pm - ShadowSD ""] Growing up, I was the exception who always greatly preferred Lloyd Alexander to J.R.R. Tolkien. It may be a bit simpler, but to this day I would enjoy Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain series as among my all-time favorites: The Book of Three The Black Cauldron The Castle of Llyr Taran Wanderer The High King Must be read in order, and great storytelling for helping even those who aren't always the best at visualizing while reading a book (like me) to see the story and the characters vividly. For a non-fiction bio, I would also recommend, regardless of someone's politics: Dreams From My Father Honestly the best book I have read as an adult. |
| __________________________________________ [Feb 27,2013 8:28pm - Metal Bystander ""] dickhead666%20nli said: Guns, Germs, & Steel is heavy reading but is worth it (it's a dense history of how different civilizations adapted to their surrounding environments and resources, enabling different speeds of development, ending up in heavy technological imbalances) Pseudo-scientific horse shit. |
| __________________________________________ [Feb 27,2013 9:31pm - dickhead666 nli ""] LOL - it ain't conclusive, but horseshit? wouldn't go that far... i read some of the criticisms after finishing the book, even if his theory is off it's packed w/ tons of fascinating anthropological and historical tidbits, highly enjoyable if you ask me. the dude admits himself it's a borderline impossible thing to prove. |
| _________________________________________ [Feb 28,2013 8:34am - ouchdrummernli ""] the_reverend said:Snow Crash. I just read Crytonomicon, and am currently reading REAMDE. (both of which are also by Neil Stephenson (i think i spelled his name wrong, but I'm too lazy to even open a new tab and check.) His shit's awesome, big big fan. Here's a list of what I've read in the last couple months, it's ALL fantasy, so if you don't like that, then go away. Joe Abercrombie - The First Law Trilogy (the blade itself, until they are hanged, last argument of kings) Are all fantastic. -Also by him is "Best served cold" which i was TOLD was a standalone book.. but is basically just book 4 of the First law books. Sure, it doesn't follow the same main characters, but MOST of the characters in the first trilogy are in this book. Brandon Sanderson - Mistborn Trilogy. (This shit's really good in the beginning, and the end, but a lil' slow in the middle. -The way of Kings (first book in the stormlight archive, very very good. But alas, it's the only one in the series out yet, so it'll just frustrate you if you read it now. Steven Erikson -Malazan book of the fallen series (which i believe clocks in at nine books.. holy dark, dark, awesome stuff.) Glenn Cook -The black company series (or really the first three books "the books of the north") are fucking badass, and a fast read... actually, these are the only fast or quick read of any of the things I've mentioned. Robert Jordan READ THE WHEEL OF TIME SERIES - the last book in the series came out in january, and was awesome, so you have 14 books to go. George R. R. Martin The song of ice and fire series (because if you haven't heard about this/read it yet, then you either don't read fantasy ever, or you have really bad taste.) |
| ______________________________ [Feb 28,2013 9:24am - ÆRK ""] dickhead666%20nli said:LOL - it ain't conclusive, but horseshit? wouldn't go that far... i read some of the criticisms after finishing the book, even if his theory is off it's packed w/ tons of fascinating anthropological and historical tidbits, highly enjoyable if you ask me. the dude admits himself it's a borderline impossible thing to prove. it's OK, Metal Bystander is a eugenicist. |