books to read

[Claude Tanner]

Just read these for a science fiction class I'm in


This one was alright, a little too long with some unnecessary characters and the ending was pretty bogus.


I loved this one, Stephenson does a great job at creating a pretty believable future post-state world. Definitely recommend this one.

Slowly reading this between school stuff

[jack burton]

Barnes and Noble had a buy two get one free sale and I ended up getting this for free. Started it this afternoon on the toilet.

[RipGrip]

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Good luck. Took me like 2-3 years to finish.

Seriously. I think you need a field guide to get through this one.

[Acrid Avid Jam Shred]

What's the deal with italo calvino? Good? My friends used to be real into his stuff and i never got around to it.

[Huckleberry Hart]

The Slap demographic seems to be violent tinfoil wearers, it's true.

Grow a beard, wear some half-cabs, drink whiskey and moan about how the government is keeping you down. Man.

Meself, I just finished reading this:



And starting on this:



Anyone recommend me some Cormac McCarthy? I read Blood Merridian a whiles back and loved it. Not too familiar with his other work.

the road.

[VictoriousOG]

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The Slap demographic seems to be violent tinfoil wearers, it's true.

Grow a beard, wear some half-cabs, drink whiskey and moan about how the government is keeping you down. Man.

Meself, I just finished reading this:



And starting on this:



Anyone recommend me some Cormac McCarthy? I read Blood Merridian a whiles back and loved it. Not too familiar with his other work.

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the road.

All The Pretty Horses.

[brycickle]

Currently reading this:

[macgruber]

just read some flash fiction from Richard Brautigan and now I'm trying to get a copy of Revenge of the Lawn and some other stuff to read of his.

Just finished 100 Years of Solitude by Marquez. long, but pretty good.

[sven thorkel]

I loved this one, Stephenson does a great job at creating a pretty believable future post-state world. Definitely recommend this one.

i second this recommendation. i'm not much of a sci-fi guy, but this book is both ridiculous and believable at the same time. it's something different, that's for sure

[anblue]

rum punch

[Fongstarr.]

[kilgore.]

The Slap demographic seems to be violent tinfoil wearers, it's true.

Grow a beard, wear some half-cabs, drink whiskey and moan about how the government is keeping you down. Man.

Meself, I just finished reading this:



And starting on this:



Anyone recommend me some Cormac McCarthy? I read Blood Merridian a whiles back and loved it. Not too familiar with his other work.

this motherfucker just tried to call out some slap demographic shit and then posted a buk book about barfly?
HA.

[datsnare]

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The Slap demographic seems to be violent tinfoil wearers, it's true.

Grow a beard, wear some half-cabs, drink whiskey and moan about how the government is keeping you down. Man.

Meself, I just finished reading this:



And starting on this:



Anyone recommend me some Cormac McCarthy? I read Blood Merridian a whiles back and loved it. Not too familiar with his other work.

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this motherfucker just tried to call out some slap demographic shit and then posted a buk book about barfly?
HA.

yeah i was thinking the same...i just finished reading democracy by joan didion for class, and to the dude reading gravity's rainbow, good luck.

[Nosferatu]

Gravity's Rainbow takes alot of concentration.  I got about 200 pages in one summer, I enjoyed it but more than that I was just kind of amazed by it.

100 Years of Solitude is alright.  I was pretty over it after they stopped talking about the oldest guy though.  The inventions/gypsies/tied to tree was rad.

This one is rad.  About a real little kid who lives in the slums of Paris with a former prostitute and has something funny to do/say in every situation.

[Inanimate Object]

Just finished:


Just starting:

[Mackattack]

I too fall into the SLAP violent/tinfoil wearer category.?  Ah well.

Just finished rereading Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer.?  Not sure what is next, possibly a book on Swedish Death Metal or something with short stories.?  Humor wouldn't be bad either, I've been reading some dark ass shit lately.

What do you think of Tropic of Cancer? I think i have it on my bookshelf but I've never gotten around to it.

[Nosferatu]

You would love it based on that one excerpt of yours someone posted.

[Mackattack]

I do love me some fuckin'.

[Mackattack]

That's actually the first Bukowski novel I ever read, and my favorite of his work. Top 5 books all time.

[HBeezy561]

[Inbred Jed]

[FrenchFriedClownFingers]

I just got all of his works. I also down loaded william s burroughs lectures with alan ginsberg.

[4LOM]

Turns out plants remember who's a jerk to them.

[MrDreamPop]

suddenly thermodynamics makes a little more sense, but i still don't understand how fucking magnets work.

[crunk juice]

supposedly one of the greatest books ever written.  it had no plot and was insanely hard to get through.  i guess it was good, though.  some of the stuff on human nature was pretty genius.


this book fucking rules.  it should be required reading for every kid in this country.  if you're fat, read this.  everything we eat is corn.  it's so fucked.


a friend lent me this.  had no interest in reading it, but it was pretty decent.  the dude's fairly douchie, but some of his stories are funny.

[sven thorkel]

poor old santiago

[strangefires]

really captivating and tragic story.

[Nosferatu]

 Books are weird man.  Such a long personal experience.  It's really difficult to talk to people about what you liked about a book.  I find that even when I am talking to someone who has read the same one as me the conversation is usually just "Yeah, that's a good one."  Only time it really works is when you and the other person are reading it at the same time.

[kilgore.]

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Keeping with the Hemingway theme:



Seriously amazing.