Great books you have read.

BigRich

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Ive just finished reading a book called 'Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance'. What a book, its is absoulutly amazing suck an insight into out exsistance and our perception of reality. I thouroughly recomend that everyone should read this book. It will change how you think. Anyone else read this book? Or has anyone here read a book that they thought was truly awesome?

Any thoughts of other recomendations would be cool

Rich

 
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy books, On the Road, anything by Carl Hiassen, On the Road by Kerouac, and a lot more. Right now i'm reading The Electric Kool-aid acid Test by Tom Wolfe. its good

Fritz

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dude, lord of the rings

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'...all fled before his face. All save one. There waiting, silent and still in the space before the gate, sat Gandalf upon Shadowfax.'

How many snowboarders does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

10, 1 to do it, and 9 to say 'I can do that.'

'Dude, we're sick. He's pretty sick, but his muscles aren't as big as mine, so you know.'-CR Johnson
 
One of my favorite books is 'Dancing Naked in the Mindfield' by Dr. Kerry Mullis........he is brilliant ,most deffinately thinks outside the box. He won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in '93 (he invented DNA fingerprinting- the patent for that process sold for $300,000,000.00.) He surfs every day, he's a womanizer,he used to make his own acid(LSD),he was also the DNA expert in the OJ trial.His views on AIDS and scientific testing + statistics are extremely informative and eye opening. So if you can wrap your head around it ..... it's an awesome book. For an entertaining read ,sex ,drugs , rock'n'roll , check out 'Wonderland Ave.' it's written by Danny Sugarman - at 16 yrs. old he was befriended by Jim Morrision ,started touring w/ them (doors) and became their road manager. Pure excess and debauchery.{if you liked The Doors movie - based on the book 'No One Here Gets Out Alive' ,Wonderland Ave is a way better story}

Seriously,it's a great book and a super quick read.(go to Amazon and read peoples comments about the book- there's a ton+ lots say it's the best book they have ever read.

 
I recently read ''The Blue Nowhere'' and couldn't put it down. It's amazing. Its written by the author of ''The Bone Collector'' and is a murder chase about hackers and the net.

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Catch-22 is an awesome book. so is the mind game. right now i'm reading this book about philosphy and religion in The Matrix and how it relates to the world. it's some cool stuff.

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^ hey im reading catch 22 right now, im only a few chapters in and its quite a hard read cos the style of wrting makes it quite hard to follow. But im told its excellent. Ive also read touching the void which i thought was an amazing battle against the elements and the odds for survival. Good to see people reading excellent books. Has no one read zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance though??

 
'The Da Vinci Code' and 'Angels and Demons' by Dan Brown.

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the da vinci code was a really interesting read. i would suggest anything by albert camus. that is, if you're up for some purely existential reading.

 
has anyone here read the celestine prophecy by james redfeild?? it changed the way i live my life... informative, and entertaining... but it was great.

life of pi, and anything by hunter s. thompson is good as well

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Life of Pi- Yann Martel

Incredible book about this kid from india who is stuck on a liferaft with a bengal tiger, an orangutan, a hyena and a zebra with a broken leg. The author was a philosophy major in university and has some amazing ideas.

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yea^^ like i was saying... fantastic, 'storytelling' great twists and turns

cant put it down

b

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Da Vinci code: This book has a decent, fictional plot-line. The real point of the book is to promote certain theories on the catholic religion and the holy grail (get ready for a surprise) that may be true, but that are yet unproven.

Empire Falls: It won a Pulitzer for crying out loud.

All the King's men: smart people only.

 
The Stand by Stephen King (uncut edition). Very very good, his others are good too, but this is the best of his that I have read.

 
ANYTHING by Orwell, or Poe. My 2 time fav writers. Fear and loathing las vegas was pretty good, and timeline was just ill.

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lord of the rings

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Dan Maguire

Yankees Suck

'...all fled before his face. All save one. There waiting, silent and still in the space before the gate, sat Gandalf upon Shadowfax.'

How many snowboarders does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

10, 1 to do it, and 9 to say 'I can do that.'

'Dude, we're sick. He's pretty sick, but his muscles aren't as big as mine, so you know.'-CR Johnson
 
Anything by Chuck Palahniuk. He wrote Fight Club, the book actually was better than the movie, as cliche as it sounds. He also wrote Choke, Survivor, Invisible Monsters, and Lullaby. They are all really good books with good stories. I also read a lot of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Cat's Cradle is my favorite book by him, but I am reading The Sirens of Titan right now, and it's looking pretty good.

 
to the dude who said fear and loathing... what did you get from that book? i have my own thoughts i just want to see what you got out of it..

b

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lord of the rings

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Dan Maguire

Yankees Suck

'...all fled before his face. All save one. There waiting, silent and still in the space before the gate, sat Gandalf upon Shadowfax.'

How many snowboarders does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

10, 1 to do it, and 9 to say 'I can do that.'

'Dude, we're sick. He's pretty sick, but his muscles aren't as big as mine, so you know.'-CR Johnson
 
lord of the rings

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Dan Maguire

Yankees Suck

'...all fled before his face. All save one. There waiting, silent and still in the space before the gate, sat Gandalf upon Shadowfax.'

How many snowboarders does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

10, 1 to do it, and 9 to say 'I can do that.'

'Dude, we're sick. He's pretty sick, but his muscles aren't as big as mine, so you know.'-CR Johnson
 
isnt the lord of the rings 6 books?

'We can dance if we want to, we can leave your friends behind, cause they dont dance, and if they dont dance they aint no friends of mine.
 
I TOLD YOU SO

'We can dance if we want to, we can leave your friends behind, cause they dont dance, and if they dont dance they aint no friends of mine.
 
its six books but one story, greatest story ever told and with that ill say:

lord of the rings

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Dan Maguire

Yankees Suck

'...all fled before his face. All save one. There waiting, silent and still in the space before the gate, sat Gandalf upon Shadowfax.'

How many snowboarders does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

10, 1 to do it, and 9 to say 'I can do that.'

'Dude, we're sick. He's pretty sick, but his muscles aren't as big as mine, so you know.'-CR Johnson
 
1984, siddhartha, catcher in the rye, hitchhikers guide books, and of course LOTR

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Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo. very good book.

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Flowers for Algernon

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lord of the rings

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Dan Maguire

Yankees Suck

'...all fled before his face. All save one. There waiting, silent and still in the space before the gate, sat Gandalf upon Shadowfax.'

How many snowboarders does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

10, 1 to do it, and 9 to say 'I can do that.'

'Dude, we're sick. He's pretty sick, but his muscles aren't as big as mine, so you know.'-CR Johnson
 
the little prince is a very interestingly deep book by antoines st. duxpry (sp?). dont just glance over it, give it a chance. and a brave new world by aldous huxley. like 1984 but more entertaining. or howabout the old man and the sea? or even, in a pinch if all the old newspapers are in the trash, i guess you could read the lord of the rings. only if you absolutely have to though.

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hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by douglas adams is absolutely hilarious and another really good read is Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Album and also i am reading for a class right now is a play called W;t very good

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i enjoyed fear and loathing because i thought it thoroughly described what drugs do to you, and how people depend on them for mental stability and creativity, and how much it fucks up ure life, and u not even knowing it.

'We can dance if we want to, we can leave your friends behind, cause they dont dance, and if they dont dance they aint no friends of mine.'

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Great Expectations

1984

animal farm

shogun

life and death in shanghai

Wild swans

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whoever said The Stand, i think that was an awesome book too. the crazy characters, the way humanity just fell apart, it had a lot of good stuff in it. my other favorite by Stephen King is Bag of Bones. its great.

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None but ourselves can free our minds.'

-Bob Marley
 
a great read I think is See Spot, in it he runs and does other normal things a dog does. such a work of art that book is. I would have to say you all should read it some time I more then positive you will be moved some way by its meaning.

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Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy.....

that's awesome if you like the military/tactical ops stuff.... and big guns.

Desperation by Stephen King is good too.....

and the New York State Driver's Manual; very informative.

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^I agree

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'Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery,

None but ourselves can free our minds.'

-Bob Marley
 
no book excepted.

all books suck, no matter how good they are, they still suck.

i dont really feel that way but i dont choose to read for pleasure. but war books are ok. but books suck.

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animal farm was a mad crazy book... i had to read it for summer reading.. and Inherit the wind was pretty good too i also liked the Red Badge of Courage

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^ i hated red badge of courage.

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Pillars of the Earth by ken fowlett

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*Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky

*1984 - Orwell

Animal Farm - Orwell

*Atlas Shrugged (rated the most influential book recently) - Rand

*The Fountainhead - Rand

*Catch 22 - Heller

*The Catcher in the Rye - Salinger

A Clockwork Orange - Burgess

Dr. Zhivago - Pasternak

- Alighieri

A Farewell to Arms - Hemingway

Fahrenheit 451 - Bradbury

*The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck

*The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald

Heart of Darkness - Conrad

In Cold Blood - Capote

Lord of the Flies - Golding

Moby Dick - Melville

*The Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway

On the Road (overrated) - Kerouac

The Outsiders - Hinton

*Paradise Lost - Milton

Pride and Prejudice - Austen

Ragtime - Doctorow

*The Red Badge of Courage - Crane

*A Separate Peace - Knowles

The Trial - Kafka

Utopia - More

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lord of the rings

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Dan Maguire

Yankees Suck

'...all fled before his face. All save one. There waiting, silent and still in the space before the gate, sat Gandalf upon Shadowfax.'

How many snowboarders does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

10, 1 to do it, and 9 to say 'I can do that.'

'Dude, we're sick. He's pretty sick, but his muscles aren't as big as mine, so you know.'-CR Johnson
 
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