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Re: books to read
« Reply #1140 on: December 04, 2011, 11:38:40 AM »
I love reading the Hunger Games series. Mainly because it not all cupcakes and happiness, it's one of the most depressing series i've yet, and it's entertaining as fuck. I also just finished this book, Peak it's only 246 pages, but it has some of the best writing I've ever seen. And then Black like me is a really good book, basically about a white man who dyes his skin black (which he can't wash out) and then he writes about his experiences about what it's like to be treated like a black person. That's a very good read, if you're black, you can't not read it.

I just finished the first one out of the Hunger Games. I was assigned to read it for a Youth and Adolescence Sociology class I am talking, but it's a damn good read.

I wanna check out "Black Like Me" - I Heard the author had to move to Mexico or something because he received a lot death threats from the KKK or something.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #1141 on: December 04, 2011, 12:16:56 PM »




oh man I'm reading this at the moment for class, it's pretty tough going, but cool as well... just very hard to get stuck into, which is a bit of a problem as I have to somehow come up with a decent 3000 word essay on it this week, eugh

I've been reading quite a lot of classics and older works for my course recently:







And then there's my pleasure reading list, which I hope to get round to starting on over christmas (and I this time I actually mean that, I swear it!....)







and I also think I need to read these over the holiday for uni as well:




didn't mean for this post to get so long, bit of a daunting task to be honest. I think the pleasure reading will have to continue over a very extended period of time...


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Re: books to read
« Reply #1142 on: December 04, 2011, 02:32:12 PM »


Classic trippy Dick fiction.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #1143 on: December 05, 2011, 01:04:45 AM »

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1144 on: December 05, 2011, 01:27:04 AM »
I'm thinking of adding The History of Bestiality (Moment of Freedom, Powderhouse, and The Silence) by Jens Bj?rneboe to my already long list of books I need to read/finish.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1145 on: December 05, 2011, 03:29:34 AM »
I'm thinking of adding The History of Bestiality (Moment of Freedom, Powderhouse, and The Silence) by Jens Bj?rneboe to my already long list of books I need to read/finish.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1146 on: December 05, 2011, 07:04:47 AM »
just finished Ready Player One (audio book version as it's narrated by Whhhhill Whhheaton) and it's well worth checking out if you're in anyway into tech & video games

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1147 on: December 05, 2011, 03:54:35 PM »


So good. It's size is intimidating, but it's worth the read.
Has anyone read Freedom? If it's anything like The Corrections, I'll be reading it soon enough. 

It's funny... they're almost identical but completely different. Both are incredible though and I get excited when someone I know finishes either one so I can talk about it again.

And I came in here to say I'm reading Strong Motion which I may have too high expectations for...
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Re: books to read
« Reply #1148 on: December 05, 2011, 08:06:58 PM »
Just finished City of Thieves by David Benioff. Dope as fuck, about 2 russians sent to get eggs with the nazi's have Leningrad surrounded
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Re: books to read
« Reply #1149 on: December 05, 2011, 08:57:47 PM »
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I'm thinking of adding The History of Bestiality (Moment of Freedom, Powderhouse, and The Silence) by Jens Bj?rneboe to my already long list of books I need to read/finish.
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Yeah? Cool. Like I said, it'll get added. I should probably make a literal list of books to read. It would help with everything.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1150 on: December 06, 2011, 08:41:19 AM »
Started my Bourne Trilogy, pretty excited.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1151 on: December 15, 2011, 07:59:58 AM »
into the first 100 pages of this and loving it.  "last exit to brooklyn" left me distraught for nearly a week, i feel this creeping into me in the same sort of way...


and finished this last week.  for everyone that says american literature is doomed, here's your book.  broad in scope and highly recommended.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1152 on: December 15, 2011, 08:02:51 AM »
Duma Key is pretty good

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1153 on: December 15, 2011, 11:55:16 AM »


fucked-up read. i'm still baffled by the prosecution.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1154 on: December 18, 2011, 11:30:11 AM »
I just started reading "My Infamous Life" by Prodigy of Mobb Deep. Its a memoir he wrote while he was in prison for three years. Really interesting. For the lyrics he writes, he really goes into depth of his involvement in what he raps about (crime, drugs etc) as well as things regarding the hip-hop industry, sex money and drugs. I picked it up and it is hard to put down. Good read.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #1155 on: December 18, 2011, 12:26:20 PM »
Just recieved The road to Mecca:



It's the story of a Austrian converting to Islam, travelling through the Middle East in the 1930/40/50's and eventually writing the consitution of Pakistan. After seeing a documentary on the writer I was really impressed and I can recommend it to anyone who wants to know more about the current situation between the 'West' and the Middle East.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1156 on: December 18, 2011, 12:41:08 PM »
into the first 100 pages of this and loving it.  "last exit to brooklyn" left me distraught for nearly a week, i feel this creeping into me in the same sort of way...



They made a book out of that movie? Weird.

I don't exactly recommend this but it's been a little while since I graduated an I felt like reading something ?ber academic again.  Don't think I understand a lot of it but get some nice epiphanies along the way.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #1157 on: January 11, 2012, 12:11:54 PM »
read this!

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1158 on: January 11, 2012, 12:18:41 PM »
anyone read Philip Roth's Nemesis? I already bought it but I'm curious about some opinions
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Re: books to read
« Reply #1159 on: January 11, 2012, 12:28:29 PM »
Anyone know if there's been any poetry (or prose) about skateboarding?

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« Reply #1160 on: January 11, 2012, 12:54:03 PM »
Thrasher should publish all the poems they used to print (maybe they still do?) in the Poet's Corner.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #1161 on: January 11, 2012, 02:26:07 PM »
I'm really interested in that Mecca book, putting it on my list.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1162 on: January 11, 2012, 03:16:03 PM »

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« Reply #1163 on: January 11, 2012, 06:34:02 PM »
Last book i read so good, so hyped that the a movie is coming out..



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Re: books to read
« Reply #1164 on: January 11, 2012, 07:07:01 PM »
No holds barred, til labias say "free us"
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Re: books to read
« Reply #1165 on: January 11, 2012, 09:52:40 PM »


I read this last month, along with For Whom The Bell Tolls.  Went on a little Spanish Revolution kick.  But seriously, Homage to Catalonia blew me the fuck away!!  I've considered 1984 my favorite book for about 6 years now, so I knew I'd like it.  But this is like 1984 except not fiction at all.  It's pretty wild to see how involved all the major European nations were in Spain's Revolution.  It's the lost first chapter of what turned into World War II very shortly after.

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« Reply #1166 on: January 12, 2012, 08:49:31 AM »
We all know you have two sexy anthropomorphic wolves who buttfuck each other on the bottom of your board.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #1167 on: January 12, 2012, 01:51:12 PM »
My brotherinlaw got me this for christmas, it is really good so far


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« Reply #1168 on: January 12, 2012, 03:39:24 PM »
Fully backing Harvey. Haven't read this but some of his other stuff is really interesting and on point.
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Re: books to read
« Reply #1169 on: January 12, 2012, 05:30:15 PM »

I just made it to Book 3 this morning. I don't hate it but it feels like a bit of chore to get through sometimes (and this is coming from a guy who owns all of the other Murakami books save for the two first novels)