books to read

[brycickle]

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.

[A Not At All Naughty Chemist]

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. 

[vancanman]

^^ 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.

[captainfalcon69]

J.D. Salinger's Nine Stories, i recommend reading the last short story, Teddy. It's fantastic

[oyolar]

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.

[Bambi]

Has anyone mentioned the stranger by Camus?? If so I apologize. 

[Mark Renton]

[shark tits]

Has anyone mentioned the stranger by Camus?? If so I apologize. 

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.

[dolphinstyle.]

50 pages in... hilarious, it's hard not to burst out laughing when riding on the train

[EAT PUSSY!]

[oyolar]

Been a while since this thread has come up.

[Mr. Lono]

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.

[Rumpleforeskin]

while mortals sleep by kurt vonnegut

[EricF]

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

[shark tits]

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.

[Smell Good]

[Baron Samedi]

^^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.

[Smell Good]

I'm a massive Neal Stephenson fan, Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle books are some of the greatest books I've ever read.

[thepman]

[ChronicBluntSlider]

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

[castillo's curls]

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

[kilgore.]

[sametelt]

[oyolar]

Just ordered the first two volumes of the English translation.  Stoked to get a chance to read them.

[sametelt]

Just ordered the first two volumes of the English translation.  Stoked to get a chance to read them.

They're amazing.

[Glue Reed]

has anybody read any really, really good non-fiction lately?  i'm almost finished with my current book and have none on the horizon.

[shark tits]

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'.

[Steve]

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.

[shark tits]

read 'zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance' in jail in florida cause i remembered seeing it in my parent's shelf as a kid. fuckin come to find out my dad never read it and damned if that wasn't one of the worst books i ever suffered through.

[A Not At All Naughty Chemist]

This is great