books to read

[Mr. DNA]

The Book of Negroes(in the US it was released as Someone Knows My Name).  It's really, really good.

I believe it's called the book of John Ballard now

[Mr. DNA]

currently reading this... awesomeness!!!

I've been wanting to read this for a long ass time. They never have it at the library

[jack burton]

^ if you can get your hands on it i definitely recommend it. a friend let me borrow it a long time ago and ive been looking for it again since.

[kilgore.]

best book i've read in quite some time:

[robasheep]

^probably my fav. book ever.

[eastern]

that's the best book that i've had to read for school

[max power]

currently reading this... awesomeness!!!

'from bauhaus to our house' is next on my recreational reading list

[Brewseph]

Read this book yesterday front to back in one sitting, its that interesting.

[HBeezy561]

[russ]

An interesting read up until the Doors actually start making music. Never knew Jim was such a young scholar.

[jack burton]

saw this in a book store awhile back and everything was 50% off so i picked this up. hadnt ever heard anything about it but saw that nick cave wrote it. gonna start it some time today.

[everypennyfedcar]

'from bauhaus to our house' is next on my recreational reading list

Bauhaus is one of my favourite movements, that should be a pretty excellent read.

[VictoriousOG]

Started this book on Tuesday and it's damn good.

[carlwinslow]

slaughterhouse five

[HBeezy561]

slaughterhouse five

just finnished this, on to the next one

kinda interested to see where this leads me

[jack burton]

^ a friend of mine is reading eating animals right now and really likes it a lot.shes gonna give it to me after shes done and also let me borrow this...

[slickrick]

Any book written by Mark "Chopper" Read .An Australiain criminal/hitman/tourture artist/comedian . This man is not right in the head and is a complete phsicopath but is funny as fuck , all his books are stories from his life . Hes also had a movie mad about him called "Chopper" . Had someone cut his ears off in jail so he could be transfered to another jail .

[yeahisaidit]

best book i've read in quite some time:

that's a really good one.

i'm on this.

[Mackattack]

They need to make one of those^ on how to make your girl come with 11 minutes of frantic thrusting.

[oyolar]

Who wrote that?

[Blue Fescue]

i thought I would recommend what are pretty much my favourite books to read ever. 

Basically, the Adrian Mole Chronicles.  They are the fictional diaries of a young man growing up in the midlands in the UK
starting in the early 80's when he is 13 3/4 and ending (so far around 40) with prostate cancer.  Funniest best books ever, depending
on how you buy them there are about 10 but they have been combined in various forms.  here is a chart from wikipedia

[Alan]

Fuck yes! The first two are the definitive books of my late pre-teen years. Almost every diary entry is a gem, and so many unforgettable characters.

I've only read True Confessions* and watched the Cappucino Years but those first two books were seriously special and captured the 80's for me along with being some of the funniest I've ever read.


*The Margaret Thatcher childhood diary excerpts are hilarious as well...

[Blue Fescue]

Fuck yes! The first two are the definitive books of my late pre-teen years. Almost every diary entry is a gem, and so many unforgettable characters.

I've only read True Confessions* and watched the Cappucino Years but those first two books were seriously special and captured the 80's for me along with being some of the funniest I've ever read.


*The Margaret Thatcher childhood diary excerpts are hilarious as well...

The last two, Weapons of Mass Destruction and The Prostate Years are really good too.  I don't know how she writes that character
so well.  I have reread all of them multiple times.  Ah, Nigel, Pandora and Barry Kent

[HBeezy561]

^ a friend of mine is reading eating animals right now and really likes it a lot.shes gonna give it to me after shes done and also let me borrow this...

i actually like everything is illuminated a bit more, but all his work is super good!!!

[jack burton]

it seems like all i ever do anymore is read so ill get around to reading everything is illuminated eventually.

[verbal ham]

maybe im not sophisticated or maybe i gave up too early on, but as i read into everything is illuminated i found it so hard to follow and so uninteresting i just put it away...
anyway currently hocus pocus

[sven thorkel]

loved hocus pocus. i read this last:

i wouldn't suggest reading it. it's too much of a timely novel and there are better books that deal with an assault on materialism

[HBeezy561]

maybe im not sophisticated or maybe i gave up too early on, but as i read into everything is illuminated i found it so hard to follow and so uninteresting i just put it away...
anyway currently hocus pocus

it is kinda hard to read, definitely a book you have to read a few times to grasp whats going on. I really like Foer's work tho. on a side note as im reading "eating animals" i get a call from the local grocery store about the steak taquitos i just ate have been recalled because they may contain e coli... fucking great!!!

[HBeezy561]

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a good read

Jonathan Sanfran Foer amazing


here a youtube link for anybody that hasnt seen the movie
http://www.youtube.com/user/Juliassnowflake#p/u/12/onNrD1SNQEs

[close]

[odp]

finished catch 22 last night, what a great fucking book. wasn't too stoked on the first 50-100 pages, feeling that it was getting redundant, but once i got past the hump... damn, it was good. that book tells the story of all humanity.

immediately following the conclusion of 22, i tore through WS Burroughs Queer, which wasn't really a great read, but i was through in less than 2 hours.

Post Office by Bukowski is a good read.

I also finally finished the Lord of the Rings books last week and i was kind of sad to see them go, i enjoyed company from middle earth quite a bit...