any of you bastards read?

[asava]

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.

[michigancat]

You honestly should go to the ape room.

[kougar24]

Hemingway: 

You should try Ayn Rand. Or, for a more modern read, try Ken Follett.

[asava]

You honestly should go to the ape room.

que?

[michigancat]

phog.net's ape room.  Ask them.

[atybimf]

Becker, Russell, Nietzsche

Palahniuk, Koushun Takami (Battle Royale anyone?)

[Saulbadguy]

J.K. Rowling

[Saulbadguy]

phog.net's ape room.  Ask them.

Are we not intellectual enough for you, Rusty?

[kougar24]

Machiavelli 

[michigancat]

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.

[Saulbadguy]

I felt smart for recognizing one of the authors on his list.

[ChiefCatchacold]

Not unless I get free pizza in return.

[michigancat]

I felt smart for recognizing one of the authors on his list.

I recognized three, so maybe you're right.

[Saulbadguy]

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.

[asava]

Not unless I get free pizza in return.

a free pizza? what is this... a brothel?

[Saulbadguy]

Not unless I get free pizza in return.

a free pizza? what is this... a brothel?

[Saulgoodguy]

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.

[fatty fat fat]

kstaters don't read.

fwiw.

[pissclams]

im reading this

[mjrod]

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.

[ew2x4]

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...

[The Whale]

Tom Clancy

[WorldWideBalla21]

the last book I read

[WorldWideBalla21]

in all seriousness this is a hell of a book. I couldn't put it down once I started reading it.

[J Rake]

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.



 

[asava]

did you just say that Bill Clintons book is the Bible?

[greasd up deaf guy]

Irvine Welsh....brilliant.
Second the Palahniuk.
Vonnegut, of course. Everything the man wrote.
Kerouac
Dostoyevsky

[J Rake]

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.

[asava]

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.

[ksuno1stunner]

Last two books I read:





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