Anyone know any good books?

charles eugene · 12.03.2006, 12:52 PM

i need some very good book ideas. go

Danny Himself · 12.03.2006, 01:01 PM

'Drugs Are Nice' by Lisa Crystal Carver.

Glice · 12.03.2006, 01:21 PM

I'm reading Miracles and Idolatry by Voltaire, that's pretty good. I'd recommend reading the Bible or Joyce's Ulysses.

PAULYBEE2656 · 12.03.2006, 01:52 PM

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gmku · 12.03.2006, 02:11 PM

I'm reading some of Peter Bragge's Hate Collection comix.

static-harmony · 12.03.2006, 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Glice

I'm reading Miracles and Idolatry by Voltaire, that's pretty good. I'd recommend reading the Bible or Joyce's Ulysses.

Ulysses is my next book to read, after that is A Clockwork orange, and then SlaughterHouse-Five

Sonic Youth 37 · 12.03.2006, 02:22 PM

Funny choices static-harmony, as Ulysses is the next book I'm reading, and SlaugheterHouse-Five sometime after that. You'll like Clockwork, that is if you can get past the Nadsat.

Books:
1. 1984-Orwell
2. Animal Farm-Orwell
3. East of Eden-Steinbeck (currently reading)
4. The Portriat of Dorian Grey-Wilde

charles eugene · 12.03.2006, 02:27 PM

ive read 1984 and Animal Farm, they are very good. and i love Steinbeck.
I think i want to read a non-fiction, like a biography or something

Glice · 12.03.2006, 02:28 PM

I loved Clockwork Orange when I was a teenager, but I found it a bit juvenile when I went back to it last year.

Ulysses is among the most important books in modernity, and my joint favourite book (with Finnegans Wake). I cannot recommend Ulysses enough, but I will say it's not the easiest read ever. The closing, grammarless, vertigenous reverie puts the beats and Miller to shame. His portamentoinvention is only paralleled by Shakespeare, and infinitely less useful.

static-harmony · 12.03.2006, 02:29 PM

Then Go for Confusion is Next: The Sonic Youth Stoy- By Alec Foege it is a good read.

static-harmony · 12.03.2006, 02:31 PM

I want to read Swann's Way after reading all of those books.

Glice · 12.03.2006, 02:39 PM

Personally, I preferred the I dreamed of noise biography to confusion is next, although I dreamed of noise only goes up to EJST&NS-era.

charles eugene · 12.03.2006, 02:52 PM

o yea, i forgot about that one! whats that book (i dont know if its out yet) with the authors writing poems i think about sonic youth songs or something? i thought there was something like that i heard about

h8kurdt · 12.03.2006, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by static-harmony

Ulysses is my next book to read,

Good luck. I can guarantee you wont understand all of it. Unless you're multi-lingual that is.

Glice · 12.03.2006, 02:57 PM

The Empty Page, coming out late 2007, according to this page.

Alex's Trip · 12.03.2006, 03:16 PM

In Cold Blood-Truman Capote

LifeDistortion · 12.03.2006, 03:51 PM

I'm currently reading "Jude the Obscure", pretty good read. Haven't read anything modern lately, but I always like to turn people onto T.C. Boyle if you haven't read anything by him, great short story writer, his novels are great too, but he really shines with his short stories.

jon boy · 12.03.2006, 04:02 PM

i re read american psycho again recently and it made me laugh a bit too much. the film was rubbish compared.

Pookie · 12.03.2006, 04:12 PM

Some of my favourite books:

Susan Hill - I'm The King Of The Castle
Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains Of The Day
John Fante - Ask The Dust

And if you're going to read a book by Anthony Burgess, ignore A Clockwork Orange (by far his worst) and try Earthly Powers instead.

jon boy · 12.03.2006, 04:14 PM

i need to read more fante stuff. any recs pookie?

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Sonic Youth 37 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: if there is a bright spot in the universe, the farthest point from it Posts: 9,443	Funny choices static-harmony, as Ulysses is the next book I'm reading, and SlaugheterHouse-Five sometime after that. You'll like Clockwork, that is if you can get past the Nadsat. Books: 1. 1984-Orwell 2. Animal Farm-Orwell 3. East of Eden-Steinbeck (currently reading) 4. The Portriat of Dorian Grey-Wilde __________________ "One: Where's the fife? and Two: Gimme the fife."
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charles eugene bad moon rising Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Baltimore Posts: 154	ive read 1984 and Animal Farm, they are very good. and i love Steinbeck. I think i want to read a non-fiction, like a biography or something
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charles eugene bad moon rising Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Baltimore Posts: 154	o yea, i forgot about that one! whats that book (i dont know if its out yet) with the authors writing poems i think about sonic youth songs or something? i thought there was something like that i heard about
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LifeDistortion expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: CA Posts: 2,457	I'm currently reading "Jude the Obscure", pretty good read. Haven't read anything modern lately, but I always like to turn people onto T.C. Boyle if you haven't read anything by him, great short story writer, his novels are great too, but he really shines with his short stories.
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Pookie invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 9,877	Some of my favourite books: Susan Hill - I'm The King Of The Castle Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains Of The Day John Fante - Ask The Dust And if you're going to read a book by Anthony Burgess, ignore A Clockwork Orange (by far his worst) and try Earthly Powers instead.
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jon boy invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: psycho battery Posts: 12,161	i need to read more fante stuff. any recs pookie? __________________ Sarcasm[A] is stating the opposite of an intended meaning especially in order to sneeringly, slyly, jest or mock a person, situation or thing \|@ <------- Euphoric brain cell just moments before expiration V _ \ / _ PING <-------- moments later / \ http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljhxq...isruo1_500.gif
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