School: Cat's Cradle
For Me: Brave New World

Cat's Cradle is a school book? damn. It was one of the books my dad read it to me when I was little before I went to bed; I reread it like 2 years ago or something and found it pretty awesome.

But yea, but Tom its a really good book, read it now, I can lend it to you if you want. I actually think you might enjoy some absurdist fiction, its really an interesting genre once you get used to the weird plot structure. If your not afraid of it, I can lend you/give you the names of a few stellar books in that genre, but you might shy away like many of the people I tried to convince to read it.

Then again you already of a hell of a lot of books to read.

Are you referring to Cat's Cradle? If so, I'd much appreciate it if you could lend it to me.

And most of the absurdist stuff I'm reading right now are plays, so some good novel recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

just finished brave new world by aldous huxley.
cool book.

gonna start something else soon but i dont know which book ill pick.

Brave New World is so fucking sick. I love love it. It's like 1984 without the massive element of suck. Next I'll probably start reading some political theory for my political science class next year. Maybe some Locke.

hey i enjoyed 1984. the books have similarities but different styles.
as far as reading locke, if im not mistaken that is the material that inspired either jeffereson or hamilton, of which i cant remember. i think hamilton..

I much prefered 1984.

I couldn't put it down once I picked it up...the most beautifully written book I've ever read...It was like liquid poetry...even more astonishing when you remember that it was written by a Russian.

Grant Morrison's "Arkham Asylum: A Serious House On Serious Earth".

Every panel is a blend of painting, collage, and ink drawings and Morrison's exploration of various mystic ideas, including the symbiosis between Batman and the criminals he captured and recaptured. Unlike a lot of graphic novels, Morrison uses symbolism that includes the works of Lewis Carroll, the Christian Mystery Plays, the psychology of Carl Jung and the works of Joseph Campbell.

Normally I hate graphic novels, but this thing is just amazing.

EDIT: And David Wondrich's Stomp and Swerve.

for my own self im reading insomnia by stephen king
its just now starting to get semi interesting, im a bit disappointed since i LOVE stephen king
im assuming the book & the movie have nothing to do with each other either
& for school im reading of mice & men by john steinbeck
well, not really reading it so much as skimming through it & answering the questions
:-P

Yea, I was referring to Cat's Cradle, apparently I can't respond to two posts at once and be clear. But yea, i'll get the book to you somehow, Jessica is around school a lot still, and you're much more likely to see her than me, so I might just give it to her. I dunno, you're spoused to be the smart one.

Book list ( I * 3 of the books were recommended to me last summer by a friend and I haven't gotten around to reading them yet)

1.Dreamy Flithy Suicide**
2.The Haunted Vagina-(the characterization is really amazing in this book)
3.Last Week's Apocalypse-Alan DeNiro (one of my favorite books ever)
4.The Kafka Effekt**
5.Pseudo-city**
6.Stranger on the Loose (Like through the looking glass on crack)
7.Shall We Gather at the Garden (solid and funny)
8.Ocean of Lard (Choose Your Own Mind**** Fest #17)- (Do you remember those books that you could chose you path and if you chose the wrong path you pretended that you had left your finger on the previous page, therefore your demise was invalid? But yea, this its like that except it would traumatize a child for the rest of its life if it read this version.)
9. Razor Wire Pubic Hair (I feel a little guilty recommending this to you, its extremely sexually explicit and makes you squirm a bit)

I just realized a fair amount of the books are by Mellink, sorry, I guess I just think their better for some reason.

Actually, I recommend this list to anybody on this site who wants something new and different. Not for the simple minded or conservative though.

thanx for refreshing reccomendations on new material. ^

Razor Wire Public Hair is sexually explicit but The Haunted Vagina isn't? Sounds good, I'll save these somewhere and get to them eventually.

It just is man. Here's a fun little excerpt-

What controls a man? I ask.

The woman begins to rub her faded nipples into erection. “His penis, of course,” grabbing one of my solid members. “They lived, they loved, for sex. Slave to ****s. That’s why they run extinct. Only women and flesh-creations such as yourself can live in today’s society.”

When I was in the testing period, I enjoyed drawing, I say. It is what made my artistic rating so high. If I were not a manufactured product for women, I would have lived for art rather than sex.

“As long as you have a penis and testicles attached to your body, you will live for sex.”

No, sex is not that important to me. Sex is just a game to play. A game adults can have fun with.

what is he like a multi-penis sexbot or something?

im reading the "smartest guys in the room" for school.

So far its boring, i want it to get to the juicy scandals already >.<

yea, except "he's" really intelligent and emotional, and since there are no men in that world "he" the only way for the ****ed up, dominatrix, vagina covered women to reproduce.

Sorcery Rising by Jude Fisher, just finished. I really liked it!

Brave New World...it's pretty cool.

in reading the comple serises of the dark tower :)

Classic Stories 1; From The Golden Apples Of The Sun and R Is For Rocket,

by Ray Bradbury.



Best short stories
A Sound Of Thunder
Frost and Fire
I See You Never
The Murderer
The Flying Machine
The Golden Apples Of The Sun
En La Noche

light reading:

TERRY BROOKS-THE ELF QUEEN OF SHANNARA

Reference:

MICHAEL WOODS-IN SEARCH OF THE DARK AGES

Great book. ^

His one about Alexander The Great is...great too.

I'm taking an experiential fiction course at Duke this summer, my teacher just sent me this list of books/movies/tv shows that I have to read before class starts in 3 weeks (i'm not sure if it is possible):


Books:
The Sandman- E.T.A. Hoffmann
Frankenstein- Mary Shelley
The Island of Dr. Moreau- H.G. Wells
Tender Buttons- Gertrude Stein
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?- Philip K. ****
The Lathe of Heaven- Ursula K. LeGuin
Geek Love- Katherine Dunn
Blood Music- Greg Bear

Movies:
The Fly (1986/2006)
Jurassic Park (1993)
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)

TV Shows:
The Post-Modern Prometheus (X Files season 5, episode 5, 1997)

Mmmm X-Files...

I'm currently reading The Atrocity Exhibition which is mondo ****ed up but great.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Beyond Good & Evil by Nietzsche

The Stand by Stephen King (just finished)

And I want to read I, Robot soon by Isaac Asimov

american psycho by bret easton ellis, real good.

Tony Benn - Arguments for Socialism.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

After seeing the movie I wanted to read the book really bad, but my library doesn't have it. Probably because its supposed to be controversial, and I live in a very conservative area. So instead I got The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner. It was really good. Now I'm reading On the Road by Jack Kerouac, which is also good.

Dharma Bums.

Chuck Palahniuk

Finished "Choke" by Chuck Palahniuk, reading "Jarhead" by Anthony Swofford.

Hebdomeros by Giorgio de Chirico.

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the history of god. basically a book that explains from the beginning what religions people have lived by and their basic interpretations

babel-17 by samuel delaney and problems of philosophy by my main man bertrand russel

Just finished FREDDIE an autobiography of an infamous British gangster, which was readable, but not especially well written. I have now started on THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD TO ISTANBUL, which is a crime saga revolving around Liverpool F.C's five european cup finals. The language and writing style are fairly basic, but it is proving to be engrossing and gritty;as only British sagas can.

for AP human geo class, im reading the end of nature by bill mckibben.

A Calculus textbook,

its sex.