readers out there???

[joey1320]

so what kind of book do you read? and if there was to be one book you think everyone should read, what is it?

i myself am an avid reader. from the harry potter series to don quixote.
if there was one book i would have people read it would be "100 years of solitude" by garcia marquez. he is a great writer, i have a small collection of his work.

so what do you read and why? also do you write anything? i have about 4 stories runing through my head i just can't seem to sit down and put them on paper.

maybe soon i'll have the time to dedicate to my writing.:redface:

[brickhardmeat]

I am not joking.

The Satanic Bible:thumbsup:

[churp]

Rod and Custom??

[joey1320]

I am not joking.

The Satanic Bible:thumbsup:

humm how come?
i'm not a religious person at all(for many different reasons), but how did you get involve with such a book? what is in it that make you want to read it?

[brickhardmeat]

http://www.churchofsatan.com/

Hustler makes for interesting toilet reading.

[blacksan]

LEGIONNAIRE, Five Years in the French Foreign Legion

[joey1320]

i'm not the biggest fan of "satanic" followings. my mothers has been a witness of demonic possesions(thats one of the stories i want to write about) and that kind of pushes me away from any kind of evil oriented "religion".

but if it makes sense to you then go for it. as long as you don't hurt anybody by following some of its principles or "laws".

i'll add that link to my favs and sit one of this days to read through it. we will see if it makes as much sense as christianity...

[Typer73]

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley; 1984 by George Orwell; Alas Babylon by Pat Frank. See a pattern erupting here?

[ChinoCharles]

I have a weird literary taste. I like medical thrillers. Something about rhesus monkeys and Ebola really peaks my interest. Oh, and anything about marketing. I think marketing is one of the most interesting subjects. I'm a cook, so books about life in the kitchen are also cool. Also For Dummies books and other self help books, and last but not least computer tutorials, mostly LAMP programming... and anything by Brian Jacques. :biggrin: A couple suggestions...

Sellevision
Rocking the Ages
Smack
If You Can Stand the Heat
Poor Things
Hot Zone

CURRENT READ: The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama

[joey1320]

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley; 1984 by George Orwell; Alas Babylon by Pat Frank. See a pattern erupting here?

brave new world is on my nightstand, i have tried to read it in the past but never had the time to dedicate to it. so i finally got it out of the shelf and i'm getting into it again.

also "the giver"(sorry forgot the author) great book. kind of follows your suggestions.

[brickhardmeat]

The first books I read because I wanted to were...

Aldous Huxley The Doors of Perception and Brave New World:clap:

I really enjoyed Manson in His Own Words, Squeaky The Life and Times of Lynette Fromme, Fassbinder, Desperate Visions, Patty Hearst:Her Own Story, Disco Bloodbath

Lately my reading has been limited to i-D and Paper magazines and these goddamn forums

[blacksan]

Lately these goddamn forums

Me too Bra! This shit suits my minuscule brain, and short attention span!:biggrin:

[YamilR]

The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino

[blacksan]

The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino

Sam Walton???

[YamilR]

Sam Walton???

I think that todays riches don't even compare to the people described in the book

[blacksan]

I think that todays riches don't even compare to the people described in the book

Ahhh, the steel, coal, rail road barons!

[YamilR]

Ahhh, the steel, coal, rail road barons!

Nah maybe 1000 yrs before, when your fortune was determined by the number of wifes and camels that you posses

[blacksan]

Nah maybe 1000 yrs before, when your fortune was determined by the number of wifes and camels that you posses

Pheckin ah! I would have enjoyed the being the Mullah of my tribe.:biggrin: I was in that area once (long ago) and found the culture very interesting to say the least. But of course I didn't have any time to take in the sites.:cool:

[eTiMaGo]

I don't read anywhere as much as I used to... But I just finished The Salmon of Doubt, basically a collection of odds and ends and a few chapters of a new book that Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) was writing before he died... He was a very most interesting person!

Or else, I usually read a variety of stuff, but favorite authors are Dean Koontz, Michael Chrichton, Clive Cussler. Tom Clancy too, very thick, long-winded books, best value for money :biggrin:

Or else, bathroom reading are magazines like Import Tuner, Sport Compact Car, etc...

[death is my gift]

I really enjoyed Manson in His Own Words, Squeaky The Life and Times of Lynette Fromme, Fassbinder, Desperate Visions, Patty Hearst:Her Own Story, Disco Bloodbath

Disco Bloodbath is one of my favorite books.

[brickhardmeat]

Disco Bloodbath is one of my favorite books.


I was a part of that scene back in the 90's.:laugh: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

I met many of those people including James St. James. I was with him in the VIP room at a party here in Dallas and he over dosed on K and had to be carried out of the place. Ah, those were the days.:laughabove:

[ChinoCharles]

Ewww, the K hole. :barf:

[death is my gift]

I was a part of that scene back in the 90's.:laugh: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

I met many of those people including James St. James. I was with him in the VIP room at a party here in Dallas and he over dosed on K and had to be carried out of the place. Ah, those were the days.:laughabove:that wave hit new orleans and i was all over those parties.

i write to michael in jail

[brickhardmeat]

that wave hit new orleans and i was all over those parties.

i write to michael in jail

ha, I have a letter from Micheal from '99 but I did not keep up, I see Brooke H around town sometimes but she has always been such a cunt, Richie Rich has been to town a few times in recent years but that whole scene is such a joke to me now:laugh:

I caught the coat tails of the whole thing ....'94 '95 '96 FIN

[kurokoma-kun]

I ended up with an English degree, so for a long time it was hard to even read for read for fun :biggrin:

I like science fiction, just finished Kim Stanley Robinson's Red, Blue, Green Mars trilogy about future colonization of red planet. Spend a lot of time reading comic books--I MEAN graphic novels--too, most recently Neil Gaiman's Sandman series (again). Also like cooking and gardening and art and history and mythology and cartography (maps) books. Too much fiction to list, but I still like stories about the US South and 19th/20th-century American culture best I guess.

Not the biggest political expert but would like to read Obama's book.

[Slummy]

I've usually got my nose in a book. Right now I'm reading a compilation of short scifi stories from 1924-1962. Its pretty wild reading stuff from that time period, you might even say "daffy".:rolleyes:

I read a lot from Stephen King, James Rollins, Lee Child and Dean Koontz.

[fu_im_from_texas]

...Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...

pot-heads bible...ha

check out "A Confederacy of Dunces" by Toole

A Confederacy of Dunces is a novel written by John Kennedy Toole, published in 1980, 11 years after the author's suicide. The book was published through the efforts of the writer Walker Percy (who also contributed a revealing foreword) and Toole's mother, quickly becoming a cult classic. Toole posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the book in 1981. It is an important part of the 'modern canon' of Southern literature.

[Black Yaris]

brave new world is on my nightstand, i have tried to read it in the past but never had the time to dedicate to it. so i finally got it out of the shelf and i'm getting into it again.

also "the giver"(sorry forgot the author) great book. kind of follows your suggestions.

The Giver is by Lois Lowry, my wife has it in our mini Library
She is a big Dean Koontz fan and has 99% of his books if you like thrillers, here are a few she suggest

The Odd Thomas trillogy (Odd Thomas, Forever Odd & Brother Odd)
False Memory
Twilight Eyes

[eTiMaGo]

The Giver is by Lois Lowry, my wife has it in our mini Library
She is a big Dean Koontz fan and has 99% of his books if you like thrillers, here are a few she suggest

The Odd Thomas trillogy (Odd Thomas, Forever Odd & Brother Odd)
False Memory
Twilight Eyes

Brother Odd? Is that a recent one? Never seen it before, off to the bookstore I must go!

[tk-421]

check out "A Confederacy of Dunces" by Toole

This is awesome. I was just about to put this book up here as well!
Excellent literary taste, I must say! :thumbsup:

[kurokoma-kun]

This is awesome. I was just about to put this book up here as well!
Excellent literary taste, I must say! :thumbsup:

Agreed! :smile:

[joey1320]

The Giver is by Lois Lowry, my wife has it in our mini Library
She is a big Dean Koontz fan and has 99% of his books if you like thrillers, here are a few she suggest

The Odd Thomas trillogy (Odd Thomas, Forever Odd & Brother Odd)
False Memory
Twilight Eyes

actually i'm a big fan of Dean Koontz. i have about 10 of his books.

Velocity
The door to December
Intensity
Midnight
and some other titles.

The one thing about Dean Koontz is that one you have read more than 5-6 of his books they all tend to merge into one. you can't tell the difference from one to the other. That's why i'm not reading his work as much.

but nonetheless a great writer.:smile:

[joey1320]

also Lorenzo Carcateras' Sleepers- great book.
the movie was ok but the book is awesome!!!

[Yaris Revenge]

"Sword of Truth" series by Terry Goodkind. Yeah, it starts off like "Lord of the Rings" and "The Wheel of Time", but it becomes it's own story very quickly, and is probably my favorite of all time. The final book comes out this summer! Goodkind catches some flak for mixing his strong political views into a fantasy world, but that's actually what I like about it... makes it more real. Some pretty adult subject matters, too.

Greg Keyes' "Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone" series is pretty cool as well. The atmosphere is very Lovecraft. Creepy! :eek:

And of course, Harry Potter and Eragon.

For those of you who have read Eragon, did you notice it's basically a re-hashing of the Star Wars (episode 3) plot? I was a bit disappointed when I realized that, but what can you expect from a 16 year-old? :biggrin:

BTW, for any avid Sci-Fi/fantasy readers out there who don't already know about this, go to www.sfbc.com. The Science Fiction Book Club is an awesome deal... hard back books for half price, and dirt-cheap shipping. I've been a member for a long time now, and zero complaints.

~YR

[Black Yaris]

I do not read books I am dislexic as all hell.... I can not get more than a page or 2 in before I get too frustated.... pointless for me to read for entertainment

[kurokoma-kun]

I do not read books I am dislexic as all hell.... I can not get more than a page or 2 in before I get too frustated.... pointless for me to read for entertainment

This is same reason I do not do math for fun... :rolleyes:

[stuffy]

i like to read too, from all genres,

some of my favourite authors of fiction are paul auster, martin amis, kurt vonegut, and mordecai richler.

i also like to read biographies and auto-biographies, books on history, books about the best sport on the planet (hockey in case you didn't know).

[brickhardmeat]

This is same reason I do not do math for fun... :rolleyes:


math fucking sucks donkey dick, I HATE math:barf: