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Re: books to read
« Reply #2040 on: June 08, 2014, 04:36:59 PM »


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Re: books to read
« Reply #2041 on: June 09, 2014, 07:37:22 AM »
The Importance of Being Earnest is hilarious.

Finished, you were right! It would be really sick to see it in a theatre I think.
Kafka was gnarly, some parts were mindblowing, still sketched me the fuck out because I can link to some of his ways to see things.
video tape yourself saving monks. dont just do it. make sure its caught on film.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #2042 on: June 09, 2014, 03:25:18 PM »
I want to start getting into King. What's a good one to start with? I ask because I know that he has a lot of interweaving characters and story lines throughout his novels.

 You and the D00D have turned this thread into a horrible head-on-collision between a short bus full of regular kids and a van full of paraplegics.



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« Reply #2043 on: June 12, 2014, 06:49:42 AM »




I recommend this book to everyone who skates, it's only 100 pages and has the possibility to improve and change your perspective on skateboarding as a whole. 

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« Reply #2044 on: June 12, 2014, 12:31:20 PM »
^^ Don't start shooting people.

I found this at Goodwill for $1.  Looks brand new.

Awesome find. Have 6 or 7 of his compilations. Not that one though. I've always hated how Watterson never cashed in on merchandizing because he felt that it would disparage people's relationship to his characters. But then most people probably think of those stupid pissing on  "insert brand" stickers when they think of calvin.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #2045 on: June 21, 2014, 12:59:15 PM »
J.D. Salinger's Nine Stories, i recommend reading the last short story, Teddy. It's fantastic

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« Reply #2046 on: June 23, 2014, 10:03:21 PM »
My mom, grandma, and uncle are going to the Netherlands next month (mom grandma is first generation American and she has never been) and since I can't go with them, I'm reading this as a proxy for it.



I'm not the biggest reader of history books but this is super interesting.  Shorto does a great job balancing academic sections, following notable citizens or historical figures as emblematic or metaphors for their era, and illustrating how the developments in Amsterdam had huge repercussions all around the world and decades or centuries down the road.

Plus, there are all sorts of cool little stories.  Like the king of Spain was hiding his plan to attack the Netherlands from Willem of Orange (the founder of the Netherlands) but the king of France told him all about the plan because he went hunting with Willem of Orange and thought he was a cool guy.

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« Reply #2047 on: June 24, 2014, 11:55:10 PM »
Has anyone mentioned the stranger by Camus?? If so I apologize.  :o

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Re: books to read
« Reply #2048 on: June 25, 2014, 05:49:09 AM »
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« Reply #2049 on: June 25, 2014, 06:31:07 AM »
Has anyone mentioned the stranger by Camus?? If so I apologize.  :o
i think i did. that book is pretty dopeshow and sartre's fiction too. right now i'm reading 50 shades of grey cause i found it in a recycling bin. it's pretty horrible but i'm reading it so i don't know what that tells ya.

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« Reply #2050 on: June 25, 2014, 09:33:17 AM »
50 pages in... hilarious, it's hard not to burst out laughing when riding on the train
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Re: books to read
« Reply #2051 on: June 27, 2014, 02:10:29 PM »

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Re: books to read
« Reply #2052 on: July 24, 2014, 06:59:45 PM »
Been a while since this thread has come up.


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Re: books to read
« Reply #2053 on: July 26, 2014, 01:24:53 AM »
Recently finished The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by PKD and it was ok. Went to the book store to purchase Knockemstiff by Pollock but they didn't have it so I bought The Devil All the Time instead. It's my first time reading this author but the description looked like my kinda shit. Anyone here read it or familiar with Donald Ray Pollock.
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« Reply #2054 on: July 26, 2014, 05:06:18 AM »
while mortals sleep by kurt vonnegut

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« Reply #2055 on: July 26, 2014, 09:46:30 AM »


A must read for any Hemingway enthusiast; his short stories are so killer.


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« Reply #2056 on: July 26, 2014, 10:01:22 AM »
i forget what the fuck it's called but there was a book of short stories by skaters i borrowed once. some were sorta well known people and others were tangentially related to the industry i guess? i don't know but the story about this one kid who got promoted to 'ovenman' his first day and would write post it notes to himself while blacked out so he could piece together his nights. 'there was drinking. there was violence. the last thing i recall is shouting 'i'm a skateboarder, i'm an ovenman!'
if you can find the book w/ that short story, it's awesome.

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Re: books to read
« Reply #2057 on: July 29, 2014, 09:00:57 AM »



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Re: books to read
« Reply #2058 on: July 29, 2014, 09:31:45 AM »
^^I love Neal Stephenson. Snow Crash is an all-time favorite.

I know I'm way behind the curve, but I'm on book 3 of Game of Thrones. Shit is getting crazy.

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« Reply #2059 on: July 29, 2014, 09:56:10 AM »
I'm a massive Neal Stephenson fan, Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle books are some of the greatest books I've ever read.

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« Reply #2060 on: July 29, 2014, 10:49:56 AM »
skating is all about choosing your outfit very deliberately, going out in public. looking super sick. and then riding your board a little bit

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Re: books to read
« Reply #2061 on: July 29, 2014, 12:35:49 PM »
I've been wanting to read Flash Boys. Liar's Poker and The Big Short were both great. Super complicated stuff made palpable, definitely a sign of a great writer.

Reading this right now. My favorite novel I've read in a while. I love Great Depression era fiction



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« Reply #2062 on: July 29, 2014, 01:44:15 PM »
I've been wanting to read Flash Boys. Liar's Poker and The Big Short were both great. Super complicated stuff made palpable, definitely a sign of a great writer.

Reading this right now. My favorite novel I've read in a while. I love Great Depression era fiction




looks interesting! thanks for bringing this to my attention



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Re: books to read
« Reply #2063 on: July 29, 2014, 02:17:00 PM »
No holds barred, til labias say "free us"
then its straight to your kids' school, wine coolers in the Prius

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Re: books to read
« Reply #2064 on: July 30, 2014, 03:44:51 AM »

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« Reply #2065 on: July 30, 2014, 06:26:21 AM »
Just ordered the first two volumes of the English translation.  Stoked to get a chance to read them.

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« Reply #2066 on: July 30, 2014, 06:36:51 AM »
Just ordered the first two volumes of the English translation.  Stoked to get a chance to read them.

They're amazing.

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« Reply #2067 on: July 30, 2014, 08:32:37 PM »
has anybody read any really, really good non-fiction lately?  i'm almost finished with my current book and have none on the horizon.

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« Reply #2068 on: July 30, 2014, 08:35:56 PM »
has anybody read any really, really good non-fiction lately?  i'm almost finished with my current book and have none on the horizon.
not lately so much but 'black mass' was about all that whitey bulger shit in southie. if you're not familiar, basically what that movie 'the departed' was based on. i've read a few books on the subject but the other names escape me. one was by kevin [2] weeks and not about that so much but about growing up poor, white in southie and trying to be a good person, 'all saints'.

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« Reply #2069 on: July 30, 2014, 10:55:56 PM »
finished Notes from the Underground a while ago, now working on this. So far it's great


That caught me for a second, I thought it was Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Spoiler alert, it's not about motorcycle maintenance.