shokknterror
Televator
I want ATDI to get back together
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Post by shokknterror on Apr 6, 2003 16:46:58 GMT -5
Palahniuk is amazing... Fight Club, Choke, Invisible Monsters
The Giver
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Perks of Being A Wallflower
1984
fuck authors I cant remember half the time.
And btw I hate Catcher in the Rye why anybody likes this book is sooo beyond me. Dont tell me its cuz i missed the symbolism cuz i got it all and then some. its just not entertaining and just cuz he captured a real 16 year old in the book does not make it good. But hey to each their own.
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Post by Spiderman: Resident Ninja on Apr 6, 2003 16:58:13 GMT -5
And btw I hate Catcher in the Rye why anybody likes this book is sooo beyond me. Dont tell me its cuz i missed the symbolism cuz i got it all and then some. its just not entertaining and just cuz he captured a real 16 year old in the book does not make it good. But hey to each their own. I dont know why.. the first time i read it i hated it.. but then i read it again... and.. i guess it was alot better.. it reminded me of myself alot.. and sometimes.. i'll think about alot of the stuff he said later on... i'm sure if i went to new york.. i'd be thinking about doing the stuff he did.. but thas just me... - spidey |
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Post by chazza on Apr 6, 2003 17:04:35 GMT -5
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Post by johnny new on Apr 7, 2003 7:22:51 GMT -5
1st:
a clockwork orange
the dream of a queer fellow - dostoevsky
the stranger - camus
2nd:
steppenwolf - hesse
catcher in the rye [yes, the biggest cliche of all]
trainspotting/american psycho/fight club
+ heaps more. i love reading. o'm reading a margerat atwood book now - my friend is making me because i dismissed her as lesbian crap. it's good, damnit. and she's married to a man happily. i lose. feminist doesn't = lesbian.
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Post by jimbob on Apr 7, 2003 7:25:46 GMT -5
it surprises me that someone who lists perks of being a wallflower as one of their favourite books can hate catcher in the rye. chbosky borrowed a lot from catcher in the rye to write that book.
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breadcrumbsyeah
Neoinfidel
it's not funny, it's not clever. so fuck off.
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Post by breadcrumbsyeah on Apr 7, 2003 9:35:53 GMT -5
does anyone find, especially when you get older, that it seems to be a social obligation to read books, sometimes for the sake of it?
now i've got nothing against reading, in fact i really enjoy it if the material grabs me, but to be perfectly honest i get much more out of listening to music, yet it's considered less intellectually valid for some reason by the tall men with the monacles.
is it because it's more difficult to articulate why you enjoy a peice of music without getting into laboured technicalities, or that politics or poetry in music is seen as secondary? who knows?
whatever the case may be, nothing sends a shiver down my spine more than curling up in a cold room at night and listening to "how to dissapear completely" by radiohead.
"i float down the liffey..."
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Post by LimitsAreLies on Apr 7, 2003 9:52:14 GMT -5
white teeth - zadie smith
bhagavad gita - basically any translator's version
the age of spiritual machines - ray kurzweil
stupid white men... - michael moore
soul music - terry pratchett
basically any stephen hawking, carl sagan, or any book written about theories of existence, physics, religion, and the correlations between them.
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Post by PatternAgainstLoser on Apr 7, 2003 12:11:34 GMT -5
Brave New World- Aldous Huxley
A Patch of Blue- Elizabeth Kata
Martin Eden- Jack London
Grapes of Wrath- John Steinbeck
Hitler- Joachim C. Fest
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Post by Spiderman: Resident Ninja on Apr 7, 2003 13:41:13 GMT -5
does anyone find, especially when you get older, that it seems to be a social obligation to read books, sometimes for the sake of it? now i've got nothing against reading, in fact i really enjoy it if the material grabs me, but to be perfectly honest i get much more out of listening to music, yet it's considered less intellectually valid for some reason by the tall men with the monacles. is it because it's more difficult to articulate why you enjoy a peice of music without getting into laboured technicalities, or that politics or poetry in music is seen as secondary? who knows? whatever the case may be, nothing sends a shiver down my spine more than curling up in a cold room at night and listening to "how to dissapear completely" by radiohead. "i float down the liffey..." yknow.. i understand where your coming from.. thats how come i dont have any books listed.. i used to read books alot growing up, but not any more... partially because.. i havent found anything interesting enough.. and partially because i dont like getting into conversations about a book that would be way over someone elses head.. which is very starbucks and very adult.. and i'm not that person - spidey |
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Post by Andy Dunn on Apr 7, 2003 14:25:19 GMT -5
Dune - Frank Herbert  |
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Post by KILLED IN THE RATINGS on Apr 7, 2003 21:20:21 GMT -5
The Divine Comedy. Period.
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Post by johnny new on Apr 7, 2003 21:31:08 GMT -5
does anyone find, especially when you get older, that it seems to be a social obligation to read books, sometimes for the sake of it? now i've got nothing against reading, in fact i really enjoy it if the material grabs me, but to be perfectly honest i get much more out of listening to music, yet it's considered less intellectually valid for some reason by the tall men with the monacles. is it because it's more difficult to articulate why you enjoy a peice of music without getting into laboured technicalities, or that politics or poetry in music is seen as secondary? who knows? whatever the case may be, nothing sends a shiver down my spine more than curling up in a cold room at night and listening to "how to dissapear completely" by radiohead. "i float down the liffey..." how incredibly well put. the song does unexplainable things for me aswell. |
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Post by johnny new on Apr 7, 2003 21:36:05 GMT -5
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Post by PatternAgainstLoser on Apr 7, 2003 21:41:23 GMT -5
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Post by KILLED IN THE RATINGS on Apr 7, 2003 21:41:55 GMT -5
The Divine Comedy. Period. It really kicks ass, guys. |
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