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Fan Life => The Endzone Dive => Topic started by: asava on July 05, 2007, 03:49:14 PM
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does anybody on hear read... like actual books... like good books... some authors for example:
Mishima
kundera
Hrabal
Kafka
Hurakami
Bukowski
Nabokov
Celine
Camus
H.S. Thompson
Hemingway
Maugham
Ol' Dusty
or poetry
Dylan Thomas
Lorca
Neruda
Bukowski
i am kind of in the mood for some new literature.
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You honestly should go to the ape room.
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Hemingway: :thumbsup:
You should try Ayn Rand. Or, for a more modern read, try Ken Follett.
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You honestly should go to the ape room.
que?
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phog.net's ape room. Ask them.
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Becker, Russell, Nietzsche
Palahniuk, Koushun Takami (Battle Royale anyone?)
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J.K. Rowling
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phog.net's ape room. Ask them.
Are we not intellectual enough for you, Rusty?
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Machiavelli :love:
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phog.net's ape room. Ask them.
Are we not intellectual enough for you, Rusty?
I'm not intellectual enough for asava, and the more suggestions, the better for stuff like this.
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I felt smart for recognizing one of the authors on his list.
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Not unless I get free pizza in return.
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I felt smart for recognizing one of the authors on his list.
I recognized three, so maybe you're right.
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The only thing i've read in the past 5 years is the Harry Potter books, and whatever i'm reading on the crapter - be it game manuals, Stan Webers book, or shampoo bottles.
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Not unless I get free pizza in return.
a free pizza? what is this... a brothel?
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Not unless I get free pizza in return.
a free pizza? what is this... a brothel?
(http://www.mrspohlmeyerskinderpage.com/bookItLogo.gif)
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The "Book it" program was started by the Japanese in an effort to make all Americans fat and nerdy by encouraging reading and rewarding the nerdy behavior with fatty foods.
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kstaters don't read.
fwiw.
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im reading this
(http://www.wellfed.net/media/KC.jpg)
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kstaters only read research and ways to improve the lifestyles of all American's and everyone around the globe.
Reading is just not possible when you have this much responsibility to quality of life.
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I find Hemmingway extremely boring. For Whom the Bell Tolls was the biggest let down in a long time.
Rand is really good, though. Maybe I'm just bias because of the Fountainhead...
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Tom Clancy
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(http://www.swapmeetdave.com/Humor/Cats/Cat-Hat-Book.jpg)
the last book I read
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in all seriousness this is a hell of a book. I couldn't put it down once I started reading it.
(http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/12070000/12076828.jpg)
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I'm no Ron Prince, so I don't have a book-a-week quota that I force myself to meet, but I do take down about one per month. Some of the books I've enjoyed over the last year or so:
1. "Three Nights In August" by Buzz Bissinger.
2. "Who's your caddy?" by Rick Reilly.
3. Anything by John Feinstein ("Next Man Up," "Season On The Brink," "The Majors").
Sort of pathetic, but I've been flipping through Bill Clinton's "My Life" book since I've been on break. There's more to it than just Monica Lewinsky and politics. It's one of those books you'll never read all the way through, but it's easy to skip around. Kind of like the Bible.
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did you just say that Bill Clintons book is the Bible?
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Irvine Welsh....brilliant.
Second the Palahniuk.
Vonnegut, of course. Everything the man wrote.
Kerouac
Dostoyevsky
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One note on "Next Man Up," just in case anybody ever decides to buy it: it will probably insult your intelligence, and if you aren't a Ravens fan, you might not enjoy it.
For the access Feinstein allegedly had for the book, you'd certainly expect more. There were a lot of omissions on day-to-day NFL stuff that flat didn't make it into the book. But hey, you'll come away knowing details of every player that dressed for Brian Billick.
BTW, I'm a big John Feinstein apologist.
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Irvine Welsh....brilliant.
Second the Palahniuk.
Vonnegut, of course. Everything the man wrote.
Kerouac
Dostoyevsky
Vonnegut! i have been wanting to read some more of his stuff. danke.
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Last two books I read:
(http://www.worthingtonlibraries.org/teen/blog/Image/friday_night_lights.jpg)
(http://www.libs.uga.edu/blogetc/graphics/fightclub2.gif)
Also two of my favorite movies. Read both of those probably 2 years ago.
So no, I don't read.
kstaters don't read.
fwiw.
qft
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Last book i read:
(http://battellemedia.com/images/book_open-1.jpg)
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Irvine Welsh....brilliant.
Second the Palahniuk.
Vonnegut, of course. Everything the man wrote.
Kerouac
Dostoyevsky
Vonnegut! i have been wanting to read some more of his stuff. danke.
His best:
Slaughterhouse Five
The Sirens of Titan
Cat's Cradle
Mother Night
My favorites:
The Sirens of Titan
God Bless You, Mr Rosewater
A Man Without a Country
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Last two books I read:
(http://www.worthingtonlibraries.org/teen/blog/Image/friday_night_lights.jpg)
(http://www.libs.uga.edu/blogetc/graphics/fightclub2.gif)
Also two of my favorite movies. Read both of those probably 2 years ago.
So no, I don't read.
kstaters don't read.
fwiw.
qft
Friday Night Lights was a terrible movie.
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I neglected to mention Jonathan Franzen.
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Last two books I read:
(http://www.worthingtonlibraries.org/teen/blog/Image/friday_night_lights.jpg)
(http://www.libs.uga.edu/blogetc/graphics/fightclub2.gif)
Also two of my favorite movies. Read both of those probably 2 years ago.
So no, I don't read.
kstaters don't read.
fwiw.
qft
Friday Night Lights was a terrible movie.
I disagree.
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Last two books I read:
(http://www.worthingtonlibraries.org/teen/blog/Image/friday_night_lights.jpg)
(http://www.libs.uga.edu/blogetc/graphics/fightclub2.gif)
Also two of my favorite movies. Read both of those probably 2 years ago.
So no, I don't read.
kstaters don't read.
fwiw.
qft
Friday Night Lights was a terrible movie.
I disagree.
Terrible taste then, fwiw.
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Last two books I read:
(http://www.worthingtonlibraries.org/teen/blog/Image/friday_night_lights.jpg)
(http://www.libs.uga.edu/blogetc/graphics/fightclub2.gif)
Also two of my favorite movies. Read both of those probably 2 years ago.
So no, I don't read.
kstaters don't read.
fwiw.
qft
Friday Night Lights was a terrible movie.
I disagree.
Terrible taste then, fwiw.
Why don't you like it?
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Hemingway: :thumbsup:
You should try Ayn Rand. Or, for a more modern read, try Ken Follett.
You depress me.
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If anyone could recommend a good specific book to start with from authors people have mentioned, that would be cool. Lots of info here, want to narrow it down a bit.
TIA
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try this? (http://www.tenderbar.com/)
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If anyone could recommend a good specific book to start with from authors people have mentioned, that would be cool. Lots of info here, want to narrow it down a bit.
TIA
Hemingway: Old Man and the Sea
Chuck Palcjsfksuckfkfji - Fight Club
Steinbeck- Red Pony or Grapes of Wrath (its huge, but it reads fast and it is one of my top 10 easily)
H.S. Thompson- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the craziest and most on-the-edge-of-your-seat, The Rum Diaries the most straightforward more traditional
Vonnegut- Slaughter House Five
Non-Fiction must reads:
Fast Food Nation- not really what you'd expect, not at all like 30 days McDonald's dude
Death as a way of Life- about the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
I saw Ramallah- Palestinian author Barghouti
One Percent Doctrine- about Cheney/Bush post-9/11 doctrine
ANYTHING by Abbie Hoffman (try the collections they have out, his auto-biography, Woodstock Nation, Steal this Book etc.)
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If anyone could recommend a good specific book to start with from authors people have mentioned, that would be cool. Lots of info here, want to narrow it down a bit.
TIA
Hemingway: Old Man and the Sea
Chuck Palcjsfksuckfkfji - Fight Club
Steinbeck- Red Pony or Grapes of Wrath (its huge, but it reads fast and it is one of my top 10 easily)
H.S. Thompson- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the craziest and most on-the-edge-of-your-seat, The Rum Diaries the most straightforward more traditional
Vonnegut- Slaughter House Five
Non-Fiction must reads:
Fast Food Nation- not really what you'd expect, not at all like 30 days McDonald's dude
Death as a way of Life- about the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
I saw Ramallah- Palestinian author Barghouti
One Percent Doctrine- about Cheney/Bush post-9/11 doctrine
ANYTHING by Abbie Hoffman (try the collections they have out, his auto-biography, Woodstock Nation, Steal this Book etc.)
i freshly read slaughter house 5. :love: :love:
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If anyone could recommend a good specific book to start with from authors people have mentioned, that would be cool. Lots of info here, want to narrow it down a bit.
TIA
Hemingway: Old Man and the Sea
Chuck Palcjsfksuckfkfji - Fight Club
Steinbeck- Red Pony or Grapes of Wrath (its huge, but it reads fast and it is one of my top 10 easily)
H.S. Thompson- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the craziest and most on-the-edge-of-your-seat, The Rum Diaries the most straightforward more traditional
Vonnegut- Slaughter House Five
Non-Fiction must reads:
Fast Food Nation- not really what you'd expect, not at all like 30 days McDonald's dude
Death as a way of Life- about the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
I saw Ramallah- Palestinian author Barghouti
One Percent Doctrine- about Cheney/Bush post-9/11 doctrine
ANYTHING by Abbie Hoffman (try the collections they have out, his auto-biography, Woodstock Nation, Steal this Book etc.)
THANKS.
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Rusty, ever the artisan with his coffee house music threads and bookworm lecture circuit loafers on.
:flush:
LOL @ bookworm lecture circuit loafers
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F*CK YOU.
^said in an artsy style
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With a goutee, a beret on, and stained coffee breath. You also probably spit a little on my face when you said it.
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(http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r235/RioMo/Confessions.jpg)
Great book, he'll make you feel like a little bitch if you've ever complained about having to run a couple of miles.
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If anyone could recommend a good specific book to start with from authors people have mentioned, that would be cool. Lots of info here, want to narrow it down a bit.
TIA
Much better than most of the crap listed so far:
Smith - The Wealth of Nations
Aristotle - Rhetoric
Plato - Republic
Rand - Atlas Shrugged
Alighieri - The Divine Comedy
Plutarch - Lives
Machiavelli - The Art of War
Homer - The Iliad
Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales
Poe & Shakespeare - Any / All
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If anyone could recommend a good specific book to start with from authors people have mentioned, that would be cool. Lots of info here, want to narrow it down a bit.
TIA
Hemingway: Old Man and the Sea
Chuck Palcjsfksuckfkfji - Fight Club Choke
Steinbeck- Red Pony or Grapes of Wrath (its huge, but it reads fast and it is one of my top 10 easily)
H.S. Thompson- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the craziest and most on-the-edge-of-your-seat, The Rum Diaries the most straightforward more traditional Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
Vonnegut- Slaughter House Five 8)
Non-Fiction must reads:
Fast Food Nation :thumbsup:- not really what you'd expect, not at all like 30 days McDonald's dude
Death as a way of Life- about the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
I saw Ramallah- Palestinian author Barghouti
One Percent Doctrine- about Cheney/Bush post-9/11 doctrine
ANYTHING by Abbie Hoffman (try the collections they have out, his auto-biography, Woodstock Nation, Steal this Book etc.)
Agreement for the most part.
Don DeLillo's White Noise is also terrific.
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Does Tolkien and R.A. Salvatore not count as real books?
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:-[ :'( :crybaby:
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Does Tolkien and R.A. Salvatore not count as real books?
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:-[ :'( :crybaby:
An uneasy peace between the dwarves of Mithral Hall and the orcs of the newly established Kingdom of Many-Arrows can’t last long.
The orc tribes united under Obould begin to fight each other, and Bruenor is determined to finish the war that nearly killed him and almost destroyed everything he's worked to build.
But it will take more than swords and axes to bring a lasting peace to the Spine of the World.
Powerful individuals on both sides may have to change the way they see each other. They may have to start to talk. But it won’t be easy.
The NY Times best seller list ain't what it used to be. :banghead:
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KT- I totally agree about Campaign Trail. That is my personal fave. However, it is probably the least accessible book for someone who hasn't read any other Thompson. It is really wonky and he spends a great deal of time talking about Big Ed Muskie. I love it, you love it, would Rusty love it?
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True.
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Does Tolkien and R.A. Salvatore not count as real books?
:(
:-[ :'( :crybaby:
An uneasy peace between the dwarves of Mithral Hall and the orcs of the newly established Kingdom of Many-Arrows can’t last long.
The orc tribes united under Obould begin to fight each other, and Bruenor is determined to finish the war that nearly killed him and almost destroyed everything he's worked to build.
But it will take more than swords and axes to bring a lasting peace to the Spine of the World.
Powerful individuals on both sides may have to change the way they see each other. They may have to start to talk. But it won’t be easy.
The NY Times best seller list ain't what it used to be. :banghead:
Word.
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Stephen Ambrose
Dave Ramsey
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http://www.slate.com/?id=2060618 (http://www.slate.com/?id=2060618)
That said, I really did enjoy his D-Day book.
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Yeah, I'm aware of all of Ambrose's issues. Regardless, he wasn't an idiot on the subject of WWII. He just didn't know how to put it in writing as well as others did. :)
I read Band of Brothers and The Victors. Both were outstanding reads.
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Yeah, I'm aware of all of Ambrose's issues. Regardless, he wasn't an idiot on the subject of WWII. He just didn't know how to put it in writing as well as others did. :)
I read Band of Brothers and The Victors. Both were outstanding reads.
Indeed.
I'll check out The Victors as I've read the others.
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had to read this in middle school
(http://hs-staffserver.stjames.k12.mn.us/~schbre/2005-2006%20Book%20pages/Abe%20F/images/0689808828.l.gif)
not bad.