newschooler7
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I looking for some books to read. Favorite books include Scar Tissue and Requiem for a Dream. What are some other books like those?
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user098123
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never read those, but Oryx and Crake is really good as is 1984, i think everyone should read that at some point in time.
bangarangmules
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what was requiem for a dream about? and i read Night-Ellie Wiesel, its about the concentration camps. its really good. and if your a runner. then "Once a Runner"
punkrock32
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read Ishmael
TheQuailman
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fight club
anything by chuck palhuniuk
anything by chuck palhuniuk
Astomp
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these are the last two books i read. so sick. totally suggest reading em. ed viesturs in my opinion is an american hero. then the other book...memoirs of a boy soldier is just an intense good read.
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Ishmael Beah was 13 years old the first time he touched an AK-47. He was frightened, but the gun had been thrust at him by a soldier, and in Sierra Leone during the west African country’s brutal civil war you obeyed the authority standing before you if you wanted to survive.
No Short Cuts to the Top
This gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time.
For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. But No Shortcuts to the Top is as much about the man who would become the first American to achieve that goal as it is about his stunning quest. As Viesturs recounts the stories of his most harrowing climbs, he reveals a man torn between the flat, safe world he and his loved ones share and the majestic and deadly places where only he can go.
A preternaturally cautious climber who once turned back 300 feet from the top of Everest but who would not shrink from a peak (Annapurna) known to claim the life of one climber for every two who reached its summit, Viesturs lives by an unyielding motto, “Reaching the summit is optional. Getting down is mandatory.” It is with this philosophy that he vividly describes fatal errors in judgment made by his fellow climbers as well as a few of his own close calls and gallant rescues. And, for the first time, he details his own pivotal and heroic role in the 1996 Everest disaster made famous in Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air.
In addition to the raw excitement of Viesturs’s odyssey, No Shortcuts to the Top is leavened with many funny moments revealing the camaraderie between climbers. It is more than the first full account of one of the staggering accomplishments of our time; it is a portrait of a brave and devoted family man and his beliefs that shaped this most perilous and magnificent pursuit.
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Ishmael Beah was 13 years old the first time he touched an AK-47. He was frightened, but the gun had been thrust at him by a soldier, and in Sierra Leone during the west African country’s brutal civil war you obeyed the authority standing before you if you wanted to survive.
No Short Cuts to the Top
This gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time.
For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. But No Shortcuts to the Top is as much about the man who would become the first American to achieve that goal as it is about his stunning quest. As Viesturs recounts the stories of his most harrowing climbs, he reveals a man torn between the flat, safe world he and his loved ones share and the majestic and deadly places where only he can go.
A preternaturally cautious climber who once turned back 300 feet from the top of Everest but who would not shrink from a peak (Annapurna) known to claim the life of one climber for every two who reached its summit, Viesturs lives by an unyielding motto, “Reaching the summit is optional. Getting down is mandatory.” It is with this philosophy that he vividly describes fatal errors in judgment made by his fellow climbers as well as a few of his own close calls and gallant rescues. And, for the first time, he details his own pivotal and heroic role in the 1996 Everest disaster made famous in Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air.
In addition to the raw excitement of Viesturs’s odyssey, No Shortcuts to the Top is leavened with many funny moments revealing the camaraderie between climbers. It is more than the first full account of one of the staggering accomplishments of our time; it is a portrait of a brave and devoted family man and his beliefs that shaped this most perilous and magnificent pursuit.
user098123
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i have every one ever written hahaha soooo childish but damn they are a good story
"the great deluge" by douglas brinkley. it doesnt matter too much what you like out of a book this is an important work that you should read. its about what happened in katrina and how that whole area is still fucked up. he came to my school a few days ago and talked and was a pretty interesting and cool guy...definately not your stereotypical old guy sort of scholar.
"the song of solomon" was a pretty good book too. i forget the authors name but she's written a bunch of good books that are worthwhile to read.
"the song of solomon" was a pretty good book too. i forget the authors name but she's written a bunch of good books that are worthwhile to read.
