The Book Thread

[Xbroke_kidX]

So I have found some extra time on my hands and decided to pick up some books. Im about to get "The Art of War." Not really sure what else to pick up. Maybe "Homers Odyssey"?

Anyone else read books in there spare time?

[punxva]

"The Cobra Event"
"The Hot Zone"
"The Demon in the Freezer"

all of them by Richard Preston

[Brian]

I read "Skunk Works" recently. Enjoyed it. I plan to pick up 30 Second Over Tokyo (I think that's what it's called) soon.

[tricky_ab]

Right now I'm reading Open: An Autobiogrphy (Andre Agassi). This dude did some CRAZY things during his career, it's such a good read!

[ronmcdon]

Before you go out spending $$$,
a lot of books are available LEGALLY online as is.
I got Sun Tzu FREE on some app on my smartphone.

I try to read some stuff occasionally.
Personally I find reading on a smart-phone a lot easier than actual books.

Currently going through Ivan Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons"
(enjoyed "The Virgin Spring" A LOT a few years ago).
I enjoy the style of Russian writers from the 19th century like Dostoyevsky & Tolstoy.
Was reading a lot of science fiction earlier this year & enjoyed Dan Simmon's "Hyperion" & "Illium".

If you're just starting to read,
I'd recommend going through more contemporary writers first & preferably short stories.
Authors Chuck Palahniuk & Haruki Murakami are good place to start imo.
get into the habit of reading while on the shitter and/or before bed.
If it takes you forever to finish a book, put it on the shelf & start something new.

[dert420sx]

some of my favorites:

Fiction:
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz. read that one a while ago, pretty crazy book.
Deception Point, Digital Fortess, The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
(angels & demons and da vinci code were okay too but LS was the better Robert Langdon story imo)

Non-Fiction:
Slash: The Autobiography (with ghost writer Anthony Bozza)

Inspirational/Motivational:
Who Moved My Cheese? - Spencer Johnson

[lflkajfj12123]

i don't read too much literature

mostly just philosophy on spare time

currently reading some of immanuel kants works

[dert420sx]

...Chuck Palahniuk ....

+1 his short story Guts immediately comes to mind. lol great author!
most people know of him as the author of Fight Club

[Xbroke_kidX]

I guess you could say this is really my first time in a while just picking up books to read for enjoyment. But I am a very good reader and reading complicated books shouldnt be a problem. I though about downloading some but wasnt sure where to look.

Surprised this many people on here read after school ends. I would think most people would be to busy playing Forza or hardparking lol

[orion::S14]

"The Art of Racing in the Rain" - Garth Stein

It's a fictional story, told by the guy's dog. Guys a racecar driver.

Good book, fast read.

- Brian

[orion::S14]

--double--

[duffman1278]

The Birth of Pleasure - Carol Gilligan

The ONLY book I've ever read and finished, mostly because it was for a class assignment/project and it was actually really good.

[M11's]

i sell books half off through barnes and noble and shipped to your door where ever with free shipping

[SleepR 240sx]

Everything by Alistair Reynolds is amazing, that is if your into hard sci-fi.

Other than that I don't really read a ton anymore. I have a Star Wars library of about 100 books from when I was a kid.

[I LUV MY S13]

dont read the odyssey...good god is that book horrible...its boring as shit..well im more into educational books or non-fiction rather than fiction tale stories

The Theory of Relativity-Albert Einstein
The Wolrd As I See it-Albert Einstein
Night-Elie Weisel
The Kite Runner(STRONGLY RECOMMENDED)-Khaled Hosseini
The Essential Gandhi-Louis Fischer

[ManoNegra]

Used to be an avid reader, now I pick up a book on occasion now and then

light fare
just finished Let The Right One In - pretty deep for a vampire story
The Sookie Stackhouse (True Blood) books are very entertaining
Read the Chronicles or Narnia and The Lord of the Rings if you haven't yet

more personal favorite authors:
Anything by Gabriel Garcia Marques - 100 Years of Solitude, Love In The Time of Cholera, No One Writes To The Coronel, The Leafstorm, Chrinicles of Death Foretold, etc, etc

Milan Kundera - Laughable Loves, Immortality, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Miguel Angel Asturias - Men of Maize, the best thing ever written about the Guatemalan experience, Noble Prize author

many many others I can't think of right now

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ronmcdon - loved the Hyperion series years ago, didn't read the last one though

oh, do yourself a favor and read Neuromancer, it's practically the prototype for the cyberpunk story/novel/movie
Blade Runner is a rip off of this book

[Csomme]

Any and all books by Lee Child. I love vigilante type books.

[VROOOM]

i just got done reading this

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k79/nismothecat/hellsangelsthompson_small.jpg

[cesar_240]

The Grapes of Wrath
was a good read for me hahaha
I loved the book back in high school

[cesar_240]

The Grapes of Wrath
was a good read for me hahaha
I loved the book back in high school

[ManoNegra]

so good you read it twice?
agree, Steinbeck was a great writer
read most of his work - Of Mice And Men and Cannery Row being my favorite

oh, anything by John Irving is a good read

War And Peace
To Kill A Mocking Bird
Catcher In The Rye
Wuthering Heights
Crime And Punishment

[BustedS13]

books on my Zilvia?
without reading the thread (LOL IT'S LIKE RAIN ON YOUR WEDDING DAY), i assume Chuck Palahniuk and Jeff Lindsay have already been mentioned. Choke, Survivor, and Fight Club would be my CP recommendations.
last book I sat down and read was American Psycho. pretty solid.
go ahead and get yourself a library card, i stopped buying books about two years ago and it's saved me a ton of money, although i do miss adding to the shelf a little.

[ESmorz]

Steinbeck was a commie.

If you are looking for something to feed your inner bad ass book wise pick up "Contest" by Matthew Reilly. Non-stop action and a quick read, that will make you want to go to New York and fight aliens.

[exitspeed]

http://i560.photobucket.com/albums/ss47/IMDonger/twilight-books.jpg

lol.

But serious.

[derux]

I read the fight club book and it was a little different then the movie. I liked it a lot. I have read all the book in the ENDER series by Orson Scott Card. Enders game was the best. I also read his book Empire. The book I am into now is Charles Darwin: On the Origin or Species.

[exitspeed]

I read the fight club book and it was a little different then the movie. I liked it a lot. I have read all the book in the ENDER series by Orson Scott Card. Enders game was the best. I also read his book Empire. The book I am into now is Charles Darwin: On the Origin or Species.

Those are the books that Shadow Complex was based on right? How are those? I wouldn't mind reading them actually now that you mention it.

[renegade_ewok]

House of Leaves if you like unorthodox writing styles...
The Game by Neil Strauss; its a very entertaining book.
Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions and Hocus Pocus. I started reading him and found his humor awesome...
If your a politics junkie, Better Than Sex, Hunter S. Thompson.
If you want some classics, Hemingway is good but a bit dry sometimes.

[babyjesus]

ive read fight club too, it was pretty good.....
even though you may have read it in a class, Wicked is actually pretty interesting...ive read homes iliad and that ones good, don't know about the odyssey, but one of my teachres said it was good.....everyone says Dante's Inferno is good, i might pick that one up next

[keiglo]

Ender's Game is really good. (already mentioned)

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Good story of what technology and how society will be different/controlled in the future. Crazy thing, is that it was written in 1932! reading it now, you would think it was written recently. But very good story. (fiction)

Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix. good book, very good ending that makes you want to read the rest in the series.

Black. Red. White. Green. By Ted Dekker (all of those are separate books in the series). Very interesting story about reality and such. He's a christian writer, but its actually a very good book. He just throws in some of those references. Im not religious at all, but i really like his books. His writing style really involves you in the story and makes you want to keep reading. also read Blink

my personal favorite: The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran. Very good read. Short, but very nice. Good one for philosophy/self reflection

[ronmcdon]

Used to be an avid reader, now I pick up a book on occasion now and then

light fare
just finished Let The Right One In - pretty deep for a vampire story
The Sookie Stackhouse (True Blood) books are very entertaining
Read the Chronicles or Narnia and The Lord of the Rings if you haven't yet

more personal favorite authors:
Anything by Gabriel Garcia Marques - 100 Years of Solitude, Love In The Time of Cholera, No One Writes To The Coronel, The Leafstorm, Chrinicles of Death Foretold, etc, etc

Milan Kundera - Laughable Loves, Immortality, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Miguel Angel Asturias - Men of Maize, the best thing ever written about the Guatemalan experience, Noble Prize author

many many others I can't think of right now

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ronmcdon - loved the Hyperion series years ago, didn't read the last one though

oh, do yourself a favor and read Neuromancer, it's practically the prototype for the cyberpunk story/novel/movie
Blade Runner is a rip off of this book

I'll certainly take a look at Neuromancer as well!
I've actually already purchased the whole 4-part Hyperion series already & look forward to it.
If you enjoyed that, you might appreciate Dan Simmon's "Illium"

"Let The Right One In", "Love in The Time of Cholera", "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" were awesome films.
I need to look into the books sometime.

Thanks very much for the recommendations!

[derux]

Those are the books that Shadow Complex was based on right? How are those? I wouldn't mind reading them actually now that you mention it.

The empire book was connected to the game but the Ender series was not.

[WanganRunner]

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[iwannaslyde]

im really into sci-fi fantasy stuff so ive been going thru the R.A. Salvatore series about the dark elf Drizzt in chronological order...it gets philosophical believe it or not lol...right now im reading "The Two Swords"

[Xbroke_kidX]

Damn alot of good advice. Especially getting a library card hahaha.
I was look for more intelectual books that make you think lol

[Teddy]

A great adventure and very easy read is the Pendragon series. I know it's supposed to be a teen's type of book, but the story line is pretty fucking awesome. I'm surprised they haven't come out with a movie for it yet.

[Bubbles]

If you buy used books and then sell them after you read them it ends up costing almost nothing.

[Touge Noob S13]

Recently read The Old Man and the Sea. Nice quick read, may check out Hemingways other books.

[dert420sx]

If you buy used books and then sell them after you read them it ends up costing almost nothing.

so true. also, some public libraries sell used books for as low as $0.25 ea. which is also a great way to grow your personal collection.

another book i've loved reading is The Quartet of the Tiger Moon by Quijano de Manila which chronicles the Philippine people's revolt against dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his imposed martial law on the country. great read if you want to learn some recent history of the Philippines.

[ManoNegra]

'teen' books worth reading = The Chocolate Wars, Flight of the Bumblebee

oh shit, just remember I love Terry Pratchett, the Discworld series is one of the all time favorites. Fantasy satire = awesome reads

and no one has mentioned them, but the Harry Potter series is pretty good aswell

went through a Stephen King phase at one point - The Stand, Pet Semetary, Misery, The Tommyknockers, Cujo, IT... the Dark Tower series... most of his stuff up to the early 90s

Memoirs of a Geisha was pretty good

Running With Scissors was good in a WTF kinda way

do graphic novels count too? 'cause I've ready quite a few of those aswell...

[bones321]

the kite runner, and a thousand splendid suns, were some of my favorite books.

ps. allan when you going to make your "allan's computer picture thread"

[PNgo12]

tuesdays with morrie, incredible book very touching :)