any of you bastards read?

[ds43fan]

Last book i read:

[greasd up deaf guy]

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

[waks]

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

Friday Night Lights was a terrible movie.

[greasd up deaf guy]

I neglected to mention Jonathan Franzen.

[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

Friday Night Lights was a terrible movie.

I disagree.

[waks]

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

Friday Night Lights was a terrible movie.

I disagree.

Terrible taste then, fwiw.

[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

Friday Night Lights was a terrible movie.

I disagree.

Terrible taste then, fwiw.

Why don't you like it?

[Kat Kid]

Hemingway: 

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

You depress me.

[michigancat]

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

[ECN]

try this?

[Kat Kid]

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.)

[ECN]

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.   

[michigancat]

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.

[pissclams]

Rusty, ever the artisan with his coffee house music threads and bookworm lecture circuit loafers on.

 

LOL @ bookworm lecture circuit loafers

[michigancat]

F*CK YOU.

^said in an artsy style

[pissclams]

With a goutee, a beret on, and stained coffee breath.  You also probably spit a little on my face when you said it.

[Racquetball_Ninja]

Great book, he'll make you feel like a little bitch if you've ever complained about having to run a couple of miles. 

[AzCat]

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

[greasd up deaf guy]

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  - 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.

[dr00d]

Does Tolkien and R.A. Salvatore not count as real books?

:(

 

[AzCat]

Does Tolkien and R.A. Salvatore not count as real books?

:(

 

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.   

[Kat Kid]

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?

[greasd up deaf guy]

True.

[Kat Kid]

Does Tolkien and R.A. Salvatore not count as real books?

:(

 

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.   

Word.

[jeffy]

Stephen Ambrose
Dave Ramsey

[greasd up deaf guy]

http://www.slate.com/?id=2060618

That said, I really did enjoy his D-Day book.

[jeffy]

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.

[greasd up deaf guy]

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.

[fatty fat fat]

had to read this in middle school



not bad.