10 Books Everyone Should Read

bob. · 09-23-2016, 10:11 AM

i just started House of Leaves

....loving it so far

1q84 - Haruki Murakami
Death on the Installment Plan - Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Stardust - Neil Gaiman
The Decline of the West - Oswald Spengler
The Stranger - Albert Camus
Story of the Eye - Georges Bataille
The World as Will and Representation - Arthur Schopenhauer
The Complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Les Chants de Maldoror - Comte de Lautréamont
Apocalypse Culture I and II- edited by Adam Parfrey

grindy · 09-23-2016, 12:15 PM

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Originally Posted by bob.

i just started House of Leaves

....loving it so far

1q84 - Haruki Murakami
Death on the Installment Plan - Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Stardust - Neil Gaiman
The Decline of the West - Oswald Spengler
The Stranger - Albert Camus
Story of the Eye - Georges Bataille
The World as Will and Representation - Arthur Schopenhauer
The Complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Les Chants de Maldoror - Comte de Lautréamont
Apocalypse Culture I and II- edited by Adam Parfrey

Glad to see Lautreamont among those.
That book is the ****.
Frown, if you haven't read it yet - do it.

bob. · 09-23-2016, 12:48 PM

Its essential for anyone even remotely interested in Dada and surrealism

**Exo** · 09-25-2016, 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

I like their idea of zombies in the movie (especially the part with the wall), but it failed everywhere else so I didn't really ever think to check out the book.

I'm not joking when I say this...

The movie is NOTHING like the book. The only connection is the name.

The book the most realistic approach to zombies I've ever read. Its starts at the beginning of the outbreak and tells the story like a timeline. Each "chapter" is about a different person/organization/government/family in different parts of the world who are dealing with it. You have blind Japanese dudes with a samurai. You have the story of bomb delivering dogs. You have full on accounts of military gaffs and successes. It's written in first person from the perspective of a reporter who is travelling the world collecting these stories. It's just an incredible read.

ribbons · 10-12-2016, 03:36 PM

Too difficult to narrow down, so I'll list off the top of my head.

God Talks With Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita – Paramahansa Yogananda
The Gnostic Gospels – Elaine Pagels
Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays of Michel de Montaigne
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind – Julian Jaynes
Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
Walden – Henry David Thoreau
Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz – Geoff Dyer
My Book House (series) – Olive Beaupré Miller
The Street of Crocodiles, and Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass - Bruno Schulz
Night– Elie Weisel
The Tin Drum – Günter Grass
The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway
Blue Highways – William Least Heat Moon

Tristan_Geoff · 10-12-2016, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Exo

I'm not joking when I say this...

The movie is NOTHING like the book. The only connection is the name.

The book the most realistic approach to zombies I've ever read. Its starts at the beginning of the outbreak and tells the story like a timeline. Each "chapter" is about a different person/organization/government/family in different parts of the world who are dealing with it. You have blind Japanese dudes with a samurai. You have the story of bomb delivering dogs. You have full on accounts of military gaffs and successes. It's written in first person from the perspective of a reporter who is travelling the world collecting these stories. It's just an incredible read.

I read the sister novel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Zombie_Survival_Guide) and I can assure that he's a pretty powerful/convincing writer.

**Exo** · 10-12-2016, 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Tristan Geoff

I read the sister novel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Zombie_Survival_Guide) and I can assure that he's a pretty powerful/convincing writer.

That was more of a gimmick though. A How too. Informative? Yes. Literature? No.

Tristan_Geoff · 10-12-2016, 06:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Exo

That was more of a gimmick though. A How too. Informative? Yes. Literature? No.

I found it well written. Hmph.

**Frownland** · 10-12-2016, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Exo

That was more of a gimmick though. A How too. Informative? Yes. Literature? No.

*disappointment*

Chula Vista · 10-12-2016, 06:21 PM

Off the top of my head:

The Foundation Trilogy - Isaac Asimov
Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion - Dan Simmons
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Ghost Story - Peter Straub
On The Beach - Nevil Shute
Blindness - Jose Saramago
I Am Legend - Richard Matheson
Wool - Hugh Howey
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Iron Coffins - Herbert Werner

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bob. Still sends his reguards. Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Trying to get out of the cat town.... Posts: 5,039	i just started House of Leaves ....loving it so far 1q84 - Haruki Murakami Death on the Installment Plan - Louis-Ferdinand Céline Stardust - Neil Gaiman The Decline of the West - Oswald Spengler The Stranger - Albert Camus Story of the Eye - Georges Bataille The World as Will and Representation - Arthur Schopenhauer The Complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Les Chants de Maldoror - Comte de Lautréamont Apocalypse Culture I and II- edited by Adam Parfrey __________________ A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.

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bob. Still sends his reguards. Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Trying to get out of the cat town.... Posts: 5,039	Its essential for anyone even remotely interested in Dada and surrealism __________________ A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.

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ribbons Music Addict Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 1,265	Too difficult to narrow down, so I'll list off the top of my head. God Talks With Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita – Paramahansa Yogananda The Gnostic Gospels – Elaine Pagels Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays of Michel de Montaigne The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind – Julian Jaynes Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman Walden – Henry David Thoreau Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz – Geoff Dyer My Book House (series) – Olive Beaupré Miller The Street of Crocodiles, and Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass - Bruno Schulz Night– Elie Weisel The Tin Drum – Günter Grass The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov The Letters of Vincent van Gogh A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway Blue Highways – William Least Heat Moon Last edited by ribbons; 10-12-2016 at 03:42 PM.

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Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Off the top of my head: The Foundation Trilogy - Isaac Asimov Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion - Dan Simmons American Gods - Neil Gaiman Ghost Story - Peter Straub On The Beach - Nevil Shute Blindness - Jose Saramago I Am Legend - Richard Matheson Wool - Hugh Howey The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Iron Coffins - Herbert Werner __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”