Favorite Book

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Haha, Yes I know this is a scary idea for most of you, (yes a book is that thing with a group of 200 or so pieces of paper with a hard material on the outside). But what is your favorite book you've ever read?

I'd say mine is definately The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Catcher in the Rye isn't too bad either. Followed up by the biographies of The Grateful Dead and Bob Marley.

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'Jeez, he gets more excited over that than playboy'

-My dad talking to my mom after the new Freeze came

'Now I understand why you like skiing so much'

-My dad talking to me a few days later after 'reading' the new freeskier
 
i dont know if i can pick one, so heres a few

Letters from the Earth: Mark Twain=this is pretty obscure, but a great read for anyone who questions relegion at all.

Closing Time: Joseph Heller=the sequel to Catch-22, makes you think about yourself in the positions the characters are in a whole lot.

its not a book, but a narrative poem;The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:Samuel Taylor Coleridge=everyone should read this at least once

there are plenty more, and i may add some later

'He got fired? What did he do?'

'He jumped off of the roof again'
 
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is good stuff.

My list goes a little something like this:

The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand

Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand

Anthem, Ayn Rand

Ishmael, Daniel Quinn

Mila 18, Leon Uris

Dune, Frank Herbert

Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein

The Lord of the Rings trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien

 
I really loved Catch 22. Catcher in teh Re is a good read. Snow Wolf was a good one too. (Suggested by a fellow NS'er) And what I've read of A Clockwork Orange, as hard as it may be to read, it seems good.

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Im oging to have to say its close between the trilogy of the lord of th rings (which I read and loved way before the movie came out) by JRR Tolkein, and Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card = great insight into the mind of a genious without pointless or rediculously elaborate descriptions

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ummmm... i could be mean and say that only psycho killers like Catcher in the Rye but that includes myself. i dunno, i kinda like some classics. i have no clue why nobody liked Great Gatsby when my class read it two years ago but i really enjoyed it. Of Mice and Men is good as well. and for some reason, i really like A Prayer for Owen Meany, its a good book that kinda takes awhile to get going but you get immersed in the story while you're going through the first parts.

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catcher in the rye is good.

pillars of the earth, ken follet

the last day, by...can't remember

maybe i'm a dullard but i like spy novels. some tom clancy, robert ludlum and the like.

'i hope nothing like that ever calls my name'

ya had to be there!
 
Fallen Angels- It's a Vietnam war book. very graphic, quite a powerful book. do not read this book if you have heart problems, are on medications, or are pregnant. not for the light-hearted. But it's a really good read.

~Jameson~

'So you don't wanna fish sandwich?'

-Leon Phelps
 
hehehe, I read Fallen Angels, still remember the part about the dude 'shitting water'.

Henry David Thoreau

Farenheit 451

Chronicles of Narnia

Lord of the Flies

Catcher in the Rye

Banner in the Sky

Commander of the Silent Army

Viva La Resistance!
 
yeah, I actually enjoyed Great Gatsby as well. We are reading One Flew Over the Coocoo's Nest in a little bit, I am looking forward to that.

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'Jeez, he gets more excited over that than playboy'

-My dad talking to my mom after the new Freeze came

'Now I understand why you like skiing so much'

-My dad talking to me a few days later after 'reading' the new freeskier
 
kami named many of the titles i was going to say - atlas shrugged, ishmael.. but i think my all time fave has to be slaughter house five by vonnegut. right now i'm going through a brief history of time again, it's so amazing what i learn every time i pick up that book. steven hawking in my opinion is the one of the smartest living humans.

 
I just bought the newest Terry Goodkind book, O absolutely can't say enough about these books, if you liked LOTR, then you will LOVE these.:

Pillars of Creation

Faith of the Fallen

Soul of the Fire

Blood of the Fold

Temple Of the WInds

Wizard's First Rule

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down the highway: the life of bob dylan

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'you ski? oh wow no one skis anymore.'- my cousin's friend
 
Unfortunately I have the attention span of a goldfish and don't read much, but I'm surprised that nobody said 1984. I saw the movie (please don't hurt me), and it provoked me to think in ways unparallel to my norm.

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Has anyone else ever read The Perks of Being a Wallflower? I read it last year and since then I've read it a few more times, its really a great book. Sorta similar to Catcher in the Rye but different. I really suggest you read it if you haven't already, its a quick but really fun and enjoyable read. It is by far my favorite book I've ever read.

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'Jeez, he gets more excited over that than playboy'

-My dad talking to my mom after the new Freeze came

'Now I understand why you like skiing so much'

-My dad talking to me a few days later after 'reading' the new freeskier
 
'The Power of One' by Bryce Courtenay

its about a south african boxer and his life growing up,

also if anyone can get their hands on a book of short stories, try and get one with

'An Occurence At the Owl Creek Bridge' by Ambrose Bierce

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Being Irish, I guess I should resent the Notre Dame nickname 'The Fighting Irish.' After all, how long do you think nicknames like 'The Bargaining Jews' or 'The Murdering Italians' would last? Only the Ironic Irish could be so naively honset. I get the feeling that Notre Dame came real close to naming itself 'The Fuckin Drunken, Thick-Skulled, Brawling, Short-Dicked Irish'
 
Skodeo, you will enjoy one flew over the Cuckoos Nest, i read it last year for school. My few of my favories are the Lord of the Ring Trilogy (December 18 w00t), Catcher in the Rye was good also. I read Catch 22 over the summer and enjoyed that. A clockwork orange was interesting, but not one of my favorites. What do you guys think of the controversial last chapter?

 
If you liked 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' you should DEFINITELY read 'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test' by Tom Wolfe, it's an awesome and fun volume of information about Kesey, the Merry Pranksters, and US acid culture in general.

And I can't believe I forgot Ender's Game... quite possibly my favorite book of all time.

 
Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Dandelion Wine (also by Ray Bradbury, he's my favorite author.) I didn't like Catcher in the Rye or Ender's Game, but Dune is really good, Letters From The Earth someone mentioned, it really is amazing and subversive, it was banned from schools for quite a while, and it is also pretty funny. Hyman Kaplan is a really funny and good book too. It's hard to pick favorite books, I like so many, and it's hard to remember them all. It's encouraging to know that some other people on the site actually read too.

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all of Chuck Palahniuk's stuff is good. He wrote fight club.

some of his other stuff is way better, and way more messed up, like

CHOKE,

INVISIBLE MONSTERS. as well as

FIGHT CLUB.

they all are pretty fucked up. Also that Bible thing has a lot of crazy stories.

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as corny as it sounds, i really enjoyed To Kill A Mockingbird. i was forced to read it freshman year, but i liked it a lot. also, i have to admit that the harry potter books are well written. good plots, good characters, and the language is easy to read. i'm opening a can of worms, but i'm mentioning it because (surprisingly) no one else has.

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To Kill a Mockingbird is a great piece of work. Anyone a fan of the down right dirty ol Bukowski? What a champ!

Commander of the Silent Army

Viva La Resistance!

'my head has been battered with a concrete beer mit'- no other than the infamous Bawb
 
'Flowers for Algernon' , 'Black Boy' or 'The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven'

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''...ride away clean and smiling, and taunt the rail by waving around your middle finger at it. (Note: if you have mittens on then it's important to take them off before preforming this procedure.'' -Boyd Easley (on rail sliding)
 
Heart of Darkness, by Josef Conrad, partly because it one of the few books ever made in to a movie which is better and longer (220 min for the Redux) than the book.

George Orwell's Keep the Aspidra Flying, even though I'm still turning into the main character

Ummmmmmm.... what else...

The Portriat of Dorian Grey!!! Yeah, by Oscar Wilde, man Lord Henry is my God!

Animal Farm of 'course

Green Eggs and Ham is pound for pound the most brilliant thing ever written! I should totally start a Dr.Suezz religion!

And a super good short story is The Immortal(s?) by Iforgetwho.

Never mind this, I'm just post-whoring.
 
my favorites are: Into the Wild by Jon Kraukaer

The 16th Round by Rubin Hurricane Carter

Live From Death Row by Mumia Abu Jamal.

those are the tops....definetly reccomend those.

theres a natural mystic flowing through the air if you listen carefully now you will hear. its the first trumpet calling. might as well be the last. many more will have to suffer many more will have to die dont ask me why. things are not the way they used to be.
 
Lord of the Flies is great

Lord of the Rinds is also amazing

Day of the Triffids was really good

As for Apocalypse now being better than Heart of Darkness, no way. The movie isn't nearly as deep as the book is. Although, the visual symbolism in the movie is nice, I found the book much much better.

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'I'm obviously not sober enough to drive trees!'

 
I really liked white fang and sea wolf by jack london.

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'Perks of Being a Wallflower' for sure. 'Who Moved my Cheese' is great. That book can really help some people on this site and everyone else.

 
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