got any good reads?
 

Read any good books lately? lets all share. im in the middle of terry goodkind's "chainfire". how about you?

Right now I'm in the middle of The Taking by Dean Koontz...
makes a very interesting read, really good so far.

Anything by Stephen King, but especially "Misery" or "The stand"

I'm kinda' a lit snob. Right now I'm reading as I Lay dying by William Faulkner and The Life of Pi by Yann Martlel.

funny, i'm in the middle of as i lay dying, but i think i bit off more then i can chew, i bought it in english because i like to read my books the way they were written if i can, but his dialect gives me a headache....
if i may recommend, Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 100 years of solitude or love in the time of cholera....

GREAT BOOK!!!!!!!!!!

"Revolution On Canvas: Poetry From The Indie Music Scene"
"Sex Scene."
"The Perks of Being a Wallflower"
"F*CK"
"Fake Liar Cheat"

that it is....i would also say quite magical....this may be a bit blasphemic of me but i liked love in the time of cholera a tad better.....
a question for the english major, does Faulkner always write in the souther "hick" dialect or are his other works more readable?

As far as I know, Yes he does, but that's what's so intrigueing about his work. As I Lay Dying is definitely one of his most, if not the most, readable books. If you want confusion try to sit down and read Absolom Absolom by him

snobbybutts.

anyways, i recommend "The Odyssey" and "The Republic". the republic is hilarious. he makes everyone look like complete jackasses

damn...i wouldn't have a problem with it if i understood it, but half of the time i'm like what?! and are you telling me you understand everything?i actually bought a sort of compilation of his novels with as i lay dying, sanctuary, light in august and pylon...if what you say is true i doubt i'll finish reading it, it's frustrating reading something when you don't understand certain words or sentences... the reason i ordered the book in english is because i started reading light in august in croatian and the translation to croatian "hick" talk was just ridiculous....
i'm planning on reading the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy this summer ( and of course the latest harry potter....hehe...)

William Faulkner is far from light reading, even for people who's first language is English.

i think the most difficult novel i've read has to be Herzog....now that's a good read for philosophy majors....it would have been a really good read if he had just stuck with the midlife crisis and avoided the Jean-Paul Sartre interludes....a good, beautiful book doesn't have to be a difficult book...look at gabriel garcia marquez....easy read yet beautiful.....

THE BFG!!!! i love that book!

A Drink With Shane McGowan

It`s basically a series of interviews of him done by his (now ex) wife.

There`s some wonderful stories in there

i'm in the middle of:

notes from the underground-dostoevsky: exsistential and confusing
future eden-colin thompson: like the hitchiker's guide style but different and just as good!
hitchiker's guide...-adams

i highly recommend the Abarat series....great books and the drawings are amazing and add to the reading experience!!

I love Dostoevsky, especially Crime and Punishment.

i feel a bit stupid recommending this, because it's rather a cliché, but here it goes - j.d.salinger - catcher in the rye, and if you get a chance 9 stories, that's some of the best shit i've read, he's a master of short stories, my favorite would be "for esme with love and squalor" and "teddy"....

Right now, I am reading Sacajawea, by Anna Lee Waldo. Sort of a 'faction' of her life.

And, Transforming the Mind, by His Holiness The Dalai Lama.

Also, Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte. ( I like to read a classic every now and then)

Geez, anybody else do the 'reading too many books at once' thing?

no

all the time....

and i haven't read crime and punishment, the size puts me off! or other stuff.....

Im reading a book called Roll of Thunder: Hear my Cry by Mildred Taylor.

Only reason im reading it is because its part of my summer homework assignment....

i loved jane eyre. read wuthering heights by emily bronte.

speak by laurie halse anderson is my all time favorite book. im almost done reading you dont know me by david klass and that is an awesome book. i would recommend these to anybody.

If you are into 2tone Music Read - Sent From Coventry: The Chequered Past of Two Tone, by Richard Eddington
If you like horror Dean Koontz is great , Watchers, Bad Place, ....oh god loads!!
I was captivated by Catcher in the Rye - JD Sallinger (must read it again)

catcher is one of my all time favorites! dean koontz is also a pretty good author. read The Face.

One book I read that really made me think was Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Dafoe (Defoe? I forget now)

I went in thinking it was a typical story, you know? Stranded on an island, blah blah blah.

but I'll tell you, it was sooo much deeper. It was about a person who comes to term with his fate, his God, his spiritual self. It made me think for at least a year afterward. I highly recommend it.

Is the face by koontz? I can't remember the guys name in catcher but what a character so brilliantly written.
Spikespiegel have you read 1984, by Orwell. Possibly the most powerful book I have ever read. I was affected by it for weeks after finishing it.

yup. its an awesome read with some twisted dark humor. never read 1984 but its been on my to read list forever.

the reality and tv shows put me off it, so good to know, i'll keep it in mind

The main character's name is Holden Caulfield, and yes, it is a rich character. The whole book has a rhythm to it, a cadence, if you will.

Darn, that makes me want to read it again.

have you read his other works?

iain banks - feersum endjinn
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"All is not well in the mammoth, multitiered underground city-state of Serehfa, where the king and his clan are waging an inexplicable battle with the engineer clan. Meanwhile, the entire planet anxiously awaits the arrival of a dust cloud headed for the sun--a development called the encroachment that threatens to plunge Earth into a life-extinguishing ice age. Having abandoned long ago the means and expertise to flee into space, humanity's only hope for technological deliverance is the crypt, a ubiquitous computer mainframe that stores all recorded knowledge, including the downloaded minds of the dead, but which has been almost totally corrupted by viral chaos. Defying the king's bewildering lack of concern for the encroachment, a rebel scientist, a dead officer living on in the virtuality of the crypt, and a semiliterate youth try to penetrate the crypt's chaotic levels and retrieve the needed knowledge before it's too late. Banks' skill at high-tech speculation continues to grow. Every page of this, his most ingenious work yet, seems to offer more dazzling, intriguing ideas. Carl Hays"

noyce one right-track ( by the way, today i got the wasp factory and espedair street...sweet.....i love getting packages from amazon....:))

Books? Harry Potter, Shogun, Story teller- by Harold Robbins(sexy):)
Riders-Jill (something, dang i can't remember!)

em...be more concrete ey?

What does that mean? Do you think I have bad taste?

no, i like harry potter, but that's not really something that needs to be recommended, everyone's heard of it, and with the other books it wouldn't hurt if you said something about them, just go to amazon and copy paste....

adidasss...you must read 'The Wasp Factory' in one go if possible.

The Diceman - Luke Rheinhart.
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not my words (but very apt)...

And now this... thing, probably one of the more whacked-out books I've had the pleasure of tearing through in recent years. It's the most philosophical novel I've seen since A Clockwork Orange.

Like many other books I enjoy, The Dice Man works by taking one simple, incredibly basic concept and inflating it to the size of the world (or until it explodes and creates a horrid mess). The book is allegedly the first-person confession of a New York psychaitrist, who one day wakes up with his wife and children and realizes he's bored to death -- bored of Zen, bored of fashionable chitchat, bored of intellectualizing everything.

The good doctor stumbles across a way out of his psychic box. By entrusting all his actions to a set of dice, he can liberate himself from the need to actually have to be anyone or anything at a given time. Roll a single die:

1. Read the paper.
2. Go outside and engage someone on the street in conversation.
3. Drink all the vodka in the house.
4. See a movie that has been recommended by only one critic.
5. Sleep.
6. Rape the woman living downstairs.

Compulsive reading...

Has anyone read The Handmaids Tale, if so what did you think?

fight club is a great book. im currently reading "the colour of magic" which is good so far