Favorite Book

**Janszoon** · 06-28-2009, 01:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Bulldog

I really wanted to like that book and I did enjoy it at first but by the end I felt like it just didn't add up to very much and I wound up pretty disappointed by it.

LoathsomePete · 06-28-2009, 01:09 PM

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Originally Posted by 6underground

I like to laugh, and this is hilarious every time.

Believe it or not but people in Vancouver really act like that, and not just a small minority too but at least a good 40% of the population.

6underground · 06-28-2009, 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete

Believe it or not but people in Vancouver really act like that, and not just a small minority too but at least a good 40% of the population.

Impressive.
I wish my friends were half that entertaining. Maybe Vancouver is in my future...

right-track · 06-28-2009, 02:45 PM

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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete

Easily the best war book ever written. It strongly influenced a short story I wrote that I'm eventually going to get drawn out into a sort of graphic novel. I had never cried at the end of a book before, but I can honestly say I cried at the end of this one.

My favourite war book too...or at least one of them. Like the blurb says...the greatest war novel of all time.
If that book doesn't leave the reader with any sense of wars utter inhumanity, nothing will.

Which reminds me of another favourite book of mine. Primo Levi's, 'If This Is a Man'.
Levi was an anti fascist resistance fighter who was captured and deported to Auschwitz.
The entire book is like a prose poem. If it wasn't for the horrendous subject matter, it would be a work of beauty. Primo Levi bares his soul.

333 · 06-28-2009, 03:32 PM

This was not the first Vonnegut I picked up, but is still high on my list of Vonnegut novels. It's been a few years since I've picked it up, so maybe a reread is on the way.

This might possibly be my favorite right now. This was the beginning, if not, what initiated a crucial transition in my life. He isn't my favorite author, but his way with words moves me like I haven't been moved in a long time. He has developed some of my favorite characters. I've only read another by him entitled The Farewell Party, but ten pages before I finished, my usual fear of ending a novel kicked in and I've yet to finish it ..

anticipation · 06-28-2009, 04:39 PM

This is one of the best books I've ever read, and easily my favorite. An absolute masterpiece.

A lot of people talk about how awful a philosopher and writer Ayn Rand was, but I really don't give a shit. This is one of the best plots ever concieved, and it's way more than just a love story. If you don't like this book, you might not have a frontal lobe.

Aside from Night by Elie Wiesel, this was probably the first mature book I'd ever read. I read both when I was in 7th grade, and this one played a big part in shaping my tastes in literature

People always talk about how they see parts of themselves in "Catcher In The Rye", but fuck that. This book will tell you more about yourself and entertain you more than that adolescent semi-controversial bullshit.

SATCHMO · 06-29-2009, 11:49 PM

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Originally Posted by 333

This was not the first Vonnegut I picked up, but is still high on my list of Vonnegut novels. It's been a few years since I've picked it up, so maybe a reread is on the way.

This might possibly be my favorite right now. This was the beginning, if not, what initiated a crucial transition in my life. He isn't my favorite author, but his way with words moves me like I haven't been moved in a long time. He has developed some of my favorite characters. I've only read another by him entitled The Farewell Party, but ten pages before I finished, my usual fear of ending a novel kicked in and I've yet to finish it ..

Two of my favorite as well.
Did you know you can buy signed lithograph's of the " *******" in Breakfast of Champions for about $2,000.

savannah · 06-30-2009, 12:03 AM

in no order:

the river why by david james duncan
texasville/lonesome dove by larry mcmurtry
the road by cormac mccarthy
love signs by linda goodman
fear and loathing on the campaign trail by hunter thompson

SATCHMO · 06-30-2009, 12:09 AM

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Originally Posted by savannah

in no order:

the river why by david james duncan
texasville/lonesome dove by larry mcmurtry
the road by cormac mccarthy
love signs by linda goodman
fear and loathing on the campaign trail by hunter thompson

I've been on the lookout for it. It's been 17 years since I last read it.

savannah · 06-30-2009, 12:10 AM

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Originally Posted by SATCHMO

I've been on the lookout for it. It's been 17 years since I last read it.

the brothers k is also another great book by duncan

06-30-2009, 12:03 AM	#88 (permalink)
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06-28-2009, 03:32 PM	#85 (permalink)
333 Music Addict Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 965	This was not the first Vonnegut I picked up, but is still high on my list of Vonnegut novels. It's been a few years since I've picked it up, so maybe a reread is on the way. This might possibly be my favorite right now. This was the beginning, if not, what initiated a crucial transition in my life. He isn't my favorite author, but his way with words moves me like I haven't been moved in a long time. He has developed some of my favorite characters. I've only read another by him entitled The Farewell Party, but ten pages before I finished, my usual fear of ending a novel kicked in and I've yet to finish it ..

06-28-2009, 04:39 PM	#86 (permalink)
anticipation Music Addict Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 3,565	This is one of the best books I've ever read, and easily my favorite. An absolute masterpiece. A lot of people talk about how awful a philosopher and writer Ayn Rand was, but I really don't give a shit. This is one of the best plots ever concieved, and it's way more than just a love story. If you don't like this book, you might not have a frontal lobe. Aside from Night by Elie Wiesel, this was probably the first mature book I'd ever read. I read both when I was in 7th grade, and this one played a big part in shaping my tastes in literature People always talk about how they see parts of themselves in "Catcher In The Rye", but fuck that. This book will tell you more about yourself and entertain you more than that adolescent semi-controversial bullshit.