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PostPosted: Thu May 29, 2003 6:50 am 
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1.The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski. An autobiography of the authors years as a young orphan in WWII Europe.

2. No Logo, few books paint a more precise picture of the desperation of our modern society.

3. Days of War, Nights Of Love by CrimethInc Collective. The hows and whys of anarchy.

4. Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Not necesarily his best book, but a barometer. If you like it, read everything you can get your hands on by him. Also, one of the greatest anti-wr parrabels ever written.

thats all for now from me.

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Nobody Nowhere
Somebody Somewhere

- both the autobiographies of an autistic woman named Donna...someone...crap I forget.
I find them very informative and enjoyable to read, and even as a nonautistic I could relate to a lot of it.

The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

- By Alan Watts, philosophical like, a bit hard to read but great book

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American Gods by Neil Gaiman

the His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman
(the golden compass, the subtle knife and the amber spyglass, very interesting theological parts)

all are great stories, american gods helps to really put into persepctive different parts of the culture, and his dark materials is just a kickass story. I mean, how much cooler can you get than giant talking polar bears in armor?


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America & Americans (an essay actually) John Steinbeck

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the His Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman

and also The ruby in the smoke,The Shadow in the North and the Tiger in the Well by Phillip Pullman.a really good Victorian London series. :Evil fuckin grin:

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Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

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George Orwell - 1984
Michael Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita
Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged
William Shakespeare - King Lear
Anne Rice - The Vampire Lestat
Fedor Dostoevsky - Idiot

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Ahhhhh. theres too many to ist so i'll just list one
Exsquisite Corpse-Poppy Z Brite.

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BatsandCats wrote:
Exsquisite Corpse-Poppy Z Brite.


It's not bad. Actually, even better then "not bad"

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hmmm Currently I'm reading American Gods - Neil Gaiman .. I just finished Satrdust by the same author ...

Another author i've grown quite fond of is Laurell K Hamilton ... Her anita blake series and merry gentry one as well

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I definitely agree with 1984 and The Vampire Lestat..

1. The Inferno- Dante Aligheri. It just gives you a really detailed description of the "9 rings of hell" and the sinners suffering within them. There's some terrific quotes. I'm lucky enough to have a copy that has both the Italian and English texts.

2. The Scarlet Letter- Nathaniel Hawthorne. I fell in love with this book when I read it, it's all about public shame and hidden secrets. Also more great quotes.

3. Everything's Eventual- Stephen King. A recent collection of short stories, all of which I find fabulous. Just makes you hunger for more.. as all of Stephen King's writing does to me.

4. The Sandman series- Neil Gaiman. I became infatuated with everything Sandman when one of my dad's wrestlers slipped me "Preludes and Nocturnes" during a show. I haven't stopped reading and re-reading every single book in the series since. (I even wrote a poem incorporating the name of every book.. the whole poem is basically the names of the books.)

5. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon- Stephen King. I was completely enthralled and engrossed in this short book, I could NOT put it down. Some of the most descriptive, gripping detail I've ever read. I absolutely loved it.

6. The Witching Hour- Anne Rice. Byfar one of the greatest books I've read. I must have re-read it about ten or twelve times now, and it's no short read. The sequels, Lasher and Taltos, fall short..

That's enough, or I'll start digging through my entire book collection.

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"The Longest Journey" by E.M. Forster - a startlingly true account of a semi-intelligent but ineffectual young man "selling out" and gradually diminishing.

"Solipsist" by Henry Rollins - brutal, disjointed and terrifying. Hank Rollins is a modern sage, and possibly the last Renaissance Man.

"If Not Now, When?" by Primo Levi - 'nuff said.

"Hell's Angels" by Hunter S. Thompson (had to get him in somewhere) - The guy spent a year with the Angels. He rode with them, ate with them, drank with them, got the crap kicked out of him by them. This is a remarkable piece of work.

"Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte - one of my all-time favourites. I fell in love with Jane Eyre aged nine, and kind of stayed that way.

"Candy" by Terry Southern & Mason Hoffenberg - a wonderfully wry p*ss-take of those awful cod-porn novels of the late sixties.

I'm going to shut up now or I'll bang on all night.


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1. Housekeeping (read thread in this forum)
2. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
3. The Chosen by Chain Potok
4. The Shipping New by Annie Proulx
5. Geek Love (damn her name escapes me at the moment, but this is a fabulous book)
6. As You Like It by Shakespeare
7. Catcher in the Rye
8. One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
9. Kiss Of the Spider Woman
10. The White Elephant by Hemmingway
11. The Subterraneans by Burroughs

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spydr wrote:
5. Geek Love (damn her name escapes me at the moment, but this is a fabulous book)


Could you find out? The title alone sounds intruiging ...


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Geek Love was by Katherine Dunn, I am pretty certain. It sure aint for everyone but WOW it is a ripper. I second a lot of the 'classics' already mentioned too.

Others I think folks should read.

Good Omens- Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman -comedy/fantasy
Carpe Jugulum- Terry Pratchett -comedy/fantasy
Small Gods - Terry Pratchett- comedy/fantasy

(ok ANYTHING by Terry Pratchett- he's REALLY funny, knows his magick and is has an exquisite cynical take on people).

The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy- Tim Burton- short weird poems

The Boy Who Kicked Pigs- Tom Baker (yes Dr.Who!)- short, twisted story

Any books by Ian Banks/Ian M Banks though especially

Walking on Glass
The Bridge
Fearsome Engine
Wasp Factory
Use of Weapons

He is a TWISTED guy who weaves feindish plots and is just brilliant, read EVERYTHING you can lay your hands on.

Stark- Ben Elton - political stire/comedy
Blast From the Bast- ditto

Stranger in a Strange Land -Robert Heinlin- sci-fi/fantasy
Job- Robert Heinlin- fantasy

A Clockwork Orange- Anthony Burgess - better than the movie (and that's hard!)

Nightfall- the short story NOT the novella- Asimov

The neverending Story- Michael Ende- fantasy- the second half never was made into a film and gets a lot more interesting- the book is a lot darker than the movie.

Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy- Douglas Adams (only the first four, we'll all pretend the fifth never happened ok). Sci/fi comedy

Turtles All the Way Down- Grinder- An NLP non-fic book.

obviously I could go on and on......


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