Author Topic: books to read (Read 508017 times)

Alan · « **Reply #1110 on:** November 20, 2011, 11:34:48 AM »

This page kills it, a lot of interesting stuff that I've added to my to-read list. Cheers, dooods.
Right now I'm halfway through Confederacy of Dunces and just started reading this

sven thorkel · « **Reply #1111 on:** November 25, 2011, 11:48:36 AM »

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.

buttpirate · « **Reply #1112 on:** December 04, 2011, 03:54:57 AM »

was reading this one night when my phone rang, and i almost shart myself. awesome.

planman · « **Reply #1113 on:** December 04, 2011, 06:37:12 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.

fulfillthedream · « **Reply #1114 on:** December 04, 2011, 11:38:40 AM »

Quote from: planman on December 04, 2011, 06:37:12 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.

cringe. · « **Reply #1115 on:** December 04, 2011, 12:16:56 PM »

Quote from: David on October 25, 2011, 06:32:50 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...

sven thorkel · « **Reply #1116 on:** December 04, 2011, 02:32:12 PM »

Classic trippy Dick fiction.

sametelt · « **Reply #1117 on:** December 05, 2011, 01:04:45 AM »

oyolar · « **Reply #1118 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.

sametelt · « **Reply #1119 on:** December 05, 2011, 03:29:34 AM »

Quote from: oyolar 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.

Do it. It's amazing.

noileum · « **Reply #1120 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

Yushin Okami · « **Reply #1121 on:** December 05, 2011, 03:54:35 PM »

Quote from: sven thorkel on November 25, 2011, 11:48:36 AM

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...

Useful Idiot · « **Reply #1122 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

oyolar · « **Reply #1123 on:** December 05, 2011, 08:57:47 PM »

Quote from: sametelt on December 05, 2011, 03:29:34 AM

Quote from: oyolar on December 05, 2011, 01:27:04 AM
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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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Do it. It's amazing.

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.

VictoriousOG · « **Reply #1124 on:** December 06, 2011, 08:41:19 AM »

Started my Bourne Trilogy, pretty excited.

Brandon · « **Reply #1125 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.

Rumpleforeskin · « **Reply #1126 on:** December 15, 2011, 08:02:51 AM »

Duma Key is pretty good

KoRnholio8 · « **Reply #1127 on:** December 15, 2011, 11:55:16 AM »

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

fulfillthedream · « **Reply #1128 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.

Derk the Jerk · « **Reply #1129 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.

Nosferatu · « **Reply #1130 on:** December 18, 2011, 12:41:08 PM »

Quote from: Brandon 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...

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.

Brandon · « **Reply #1131 on:** January 11, 2012, 12:11:54 PM »

read this!

dolphinstyle. · « **Reply #1132 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

cringe. · « **Reply #1133 on:** January 11, 2012, 12:28:29 PM »

Anyone know if there's been any poetry (or prose) about skateboarding?

Alan · « **Reply #1134 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.

frig deuce · « **Reply #1135 on:** January 11, 2012, 02:26:07 PM »

I'm really interested in that Mecca book, putting it on my list.

just read:
The Alchemist. It's possibly my favorite book ever. I could have read it in a sitting hadn't I stopped myself.

The Quiet American. T'was a good story. Really well written. Peculiar storyline, to say the least. Very intriguing. Takes place in the 1950's in French occupied Vietnam.

sametelt · « **Reply #1136 on:** January 11, 2012, 03:16:03 PM »

MINDFIELD · « **Reply #1137 on:** January 11, 2012, 06:34:02 PM »

Last book i read so good, so hyped that the a movie is coming out..

about to staret this i have only heard good things

kilgore. · « **Reply #1138 on:** January 11, 2012, 07:07:01 PM »

jeremyrandall · « **Reply #1139 on:** January 11, 2012, 09:52:40 PM »

Quote from: kilgore. on January 11, 2012, 07:07:01 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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