5 Books Everybody Should Read
Here's the plan...
If you could recommend 5 books to everybody in the world, what would they be?
My choices, in no order, subject to change...
1) On The Road ~ Kerouac
2) Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas ~ HST
3) Choke ~ CP
4) Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genious ~ Eggers
5) Animal Farm ~ Orwell
There's no basis for this, other than the fact that you enjoy them...
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[QUOTE=Lazlosdead]Here's the plan...
If you could recommend 5 books to everybody in the world, what would they be?
My choices, in no order, subject to change...
1) On The Road ~ Kerouac
2) Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas ~ HST
3) Choke ~ CP
4) Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genious ~ Eggers
5) Animal Farm ~ Orwell
There's no basis for this, other than the fact that you enjoy them...[/QUOTE]
ive read them all except for the eggers
whats it like?
1. [i]High Fidelity[/i] - Nick Hornby
2. [i]The Great Gatsby[/i] - F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. [i]Microserfs[/i] - Douglas Coupland
4. [i]Atlas Shrugged[/i] - Ayn Rand
5. [i]Kiss Me, Judas[/i] - Will Christopher Baer
[QUOTE=karbunkle]5) Pryor Convictions - Richard Pyror[/QUOTE]
Is that the [I]funny[/I] Pryor?
Yep, the one and only
In no order (subject to change)
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn
Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality - Thomas Lynch
Choke - CP
No More Prisons - William Upski Wimsatt
Excluding the obvious (Fight Club, Choke, Diary, etc...)
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
The Crying of Lot 49
Sirens of Titan
Brave New World
Motherless Brooklyn
A Fairwell to Arms
In Dubious Battle
Animal Farm
Love (Toni Morrison)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
The Hamlet/The Town/The Mansion (Faulkner's Snopes Trilogy, also Sartoris, which sets the groundwork for it)
Light in August
Intruders in the Dust
The Unvanquished
Grapes of Wrath
Paradise
Stick
The Great Gatsby
A Tale of Two Cities
Mason & Dixon
The Books of Blood
A Christmas Carol
The Fortress of Solitude (Lethem, no disrespect to Superman)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (aka Bladrunner)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Old Man and the Sea
The Pearl
Imajica
Of Mice and Men
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Ubik
Stay Cool
The Stand
Cat's Cradle
Amnesia Moon
The Great and Secret Show
Stranger in a Strange Land
The Man in the High Castle
Lord of Light
Catch-22
The Shining
Valis
Cabal (aka Night Breed)
the Foundation trilogy (Asimov)
The Sun Also Rises
As I Lay Dying
I'm sure I'm missing a bunch!
When we call soccer 'football' the terrorists have won.
adding a couple more:
Howard Zinn - A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn - Terrorists and War
Russ Kick - 50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know
The U.S. Army Survival Manual and Practical Euthanasia For Beginners.
Actually, after you read both, you can pretty much toss one of them out.
I was here. Then I wasn't. Then I was again.
[QUOTE=Kit!]ive read them all except for the eggers
whats it like?[/QUOTE]
It's alternately heartbreaking and staggering, occasionaly punctuated by self-affirmated genius.
I was here. Then I wasn't. Then I was again.
perfect description, now go buy it.
[QUOTE=alex cassun]perfect description, now go buy it.[/QUOTE]
I did buy it, I even read it.
I was here. Then I wasn't. Then I was again.
[QUOTE=Kit!]ive read them all except for the eggers
whats it like?[/QUOTE]
This guy with one hellava sense of humor that tells his story. It involves cancer, humor, brilliance...but the whole Real World interview/tangent had me wanting to stop at 20 pages. And before the 70th-ish page, I had to put it down for a while. Damn, dude just would. Not. Stop. I guess that I am being a dick because the book deserves more credit than I am giving it here. I will go back and finish it. Soon. Just not today. It is on the bottom of a stack of 7. Next week, it will be, my Jedi friends.
kabol
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play hard, like it's work to be done.
[QUOTE=JKabol]This guy with one hellava sense of humor that tells his story. It involves cancer, humor, brilliance...but the whole Real World interview/tangent had me wanting to stop at 20 pages. And before the 70th-ish page, I had to put it down for a while. Damn, dude just would. Not. Stop. I guess that I am being a dick because the book deserves more credit than I am giving it here. I will go back and finish it. Soon. Just not today. It is on the bottom of a stack of 7. Next week, it will be, my Jedi friends.
kabol[/QUOTE]
The book did drag on during that part, but it is also one of the more critical parts of the books. The part about how he's only giving you what he wants too and you don't own him. That's good stuff. I liked the content but I found that the Q&A format tiring after awhile. You should finish it though, for sure.
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just thought i'd throw in at least one more must read:
johnny got his gun by dalton trumbo
the tenth chapter is an essay on war and a must read for everyone right now.
1. The Little Prince-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
2. Walden - Henry David Thoreau
3. Fahrenheit 451 -- Ray Bradbury
4. The Bell Jar-- Sylvia Plath
6. Good Omens- Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett
And of course Alice in Wonderland, I think everyone should read that at least once, hell, read it twice.
1) On The Road ~ Kerouac
2) Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas ~ HST
3) Choke ~ CP
4) Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genious ~ Eggers
5) Catch-22 ~ Heller
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[QUOTE=mrfantastic1010]Where can i find a copy of Kiss me Judas according to amazon its out of print[/QUOTE]
If you PM me your address, I think I have one or two Street Team arcs I didn't find homes for. No guarantee but I think I have three, two at minimum and I only need one for myself as a momento.
I thought MacAdam/Cage took the whole trilogy back to press when they bought 'HHA.' If you can't get it through regular sellers, have you looked for remainders? I've seen 'Penny Dreadful' in its Viking form at Foozle's in the past month.
When we call soccer 'football' the terrorists have won.
[QUOTE=mrfantastic1010]Where can i find a copy of Kiss me Judas according to amazon its out of print[/QUOTE]
The [URL=http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/159692151X/qid=1138341949/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-5025406-4404915?s=books&v=glance&n=283155]entire trilogy[/URL] was just released not too long ago as one book.
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i need to get just hells half acre by itself, i was at the bookstore today and that all they had was the omnibus
shit i dont need the whole truilogy !
oh well ill find it by itself sooner or later
[QUOTE=karbunkle]i need to get just hells half acre by itself, i was at the bookstore today and that all they had was the omnibus
shit i dont need the whole truilogy !
oh well ill find it by itself sooner or later[/QUOTE]
Try looking online at Alibris.com or Abebooks.com
I found all three books from those two sites.
[QUOTE=Vendetta]I figured that for a typo and thought I'd cut the guy some slack.
It won't happen again, promise![/QUOTE]
ok ok this was pretty funny
[QUOTE=UbikRex]Try looking online at Alibris.com or Abebooks.com
I found all three books from those two sites.[/QUOTE]
will do, i think abebooks was actually where i got penny dreadful and kiss me judas anyway
and also, whatever my top 5 were, i need to remove one of them and replace it with Henry Miller's "On Writing"
1. Candy by Luke Davies
2. The Stand by Stephen King
3. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
4. Choke by CHUCK
5. Battle Royale by Koshun Takhami
These are off the top of my head I would also have likes to include City Of God by Paulo lins and anything by HST
[QUOTE=WinstonSmith;857273]1.)1984
2.)CHE by John Lee Anderson
3.)The Magic Lantern-the documentary of the fall of communism in east central europe
4.)Survivor
5.)The Undiscovered Self by Carl G. Jung
Just a few that I really enjoyed reading[/QUOTE]
I'm slowly reading Che and I'll say it's probably an important book, but not necessarily something everyone should read.
In fact I'm only keeping two books from my original list.
1) Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors - Carl Sagan and Ayn Druyan
2) Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond
3) Brave New World / 1984
4) The Giver
5) Freakonomics
My original list was just books I very much enjoyed. Now I think people need to be challenged and need to see how the world really is. Which is why I'll also recommend that EVERYONE watch Bullshit!! from Penn and Teller.
Think for yourself. Question Authority.
the sun also rises- hemmingway
in patagonia- bruce chatwin
hitchhikers guide to the galaxy- douglas adams
songs of innocence/experience- william blake
catch 22- joseph heller
[QUOTE=wickedrebel;884694]hemmingway[/QUOTE]
You must really like this guy to learn to spell his name and everything.....not!
mmmmmmmmmmmy mmmmmmmmmm button has a tendency to stick
[COLOR=Blue]House[/COLOR] of Leaves
Trainspotting
The Contortionist's Handbook
The Great Gatsby
The Beach
[QUOTE=colin;885517]Dark Tower Series by Stephen King
Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan[/QUOTE]
Good thinking!
This guy has brains. I mean, think about the raging fire you'd get burning these bricks of paper. Especially that wheel of time one. I mean, by the time you've got one burned down, two more have been added. Good thinking colin. Good thinking.
[QUOTE=colin;885517]Top Five desert island books are in no paticular order:
Choke by Chucky P.
Cats Cradle Kurt Vonnegut
Booty Nomad by Scott Mebus
The Sun also Rises by [B]Hemmingway[/B]
Contortionists Handbook by Craig Clevenger
Top Five Guilty Pleasure Books/Series:
Dark Tower Series by Stephen King
Harry Potter Series
Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan
Me talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Zafron[/QUOTE]
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Also, look this word up in the dictionary: FIVE
You just gotta name five books you think everyone should read. It's nothing to do with desert islands or guilty pleasures or Hemmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmingway!
I guess you must [I]have[/I].
"Pretentious Hipster"? Don't be such a dork.
although it's true you ARE a pretentious hipster, vendetta 
[QUOTE=moe.ron;890113]although it's true you ARE a pretentious hipster, vendetta ;)[/QUOTE]
*shrug*
I dunno what one is! I remember once reading a thread about how hipsters are people who don't believe in evil.
My top 5 would have to be:
1) To kill a Mockingbird~Harper Lee
2) Sexus~Henry Miller
3) TAZ~Hakim Bey
4) Bury my heart at Wounded Knee~Dee Brown
5) Fear and Loating in Las Vegas~Dr. Hunter S.Thompson
House of Leaves -Danielewski
Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
Diary- Chuckles
Green Eggs and Ham - Seuss
A Clockwork Orange - Burgess
Honorable Mention: 1984- Orwell (sorry george but that dr. seuss has some crazy rhymes)
[QUOTE=Lazlosdead;332706]Here's the plan...
If you could recommend 5 books to everybody in the world, what would they be?
My choices, in no order, subject to change...
1) On The Road ~ Kerouac
2) Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas ~ HST
3) Choke ~ CP
4) Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genious ~ Eggers
5) Animal Farm ~ Orwell
There's no basis for this, other than the fact that you enjoy them...[/QUOTE]
sweet, liked them all
1. the stand by stephen king
2. the drifters by james michener
3. american psycho by bret easton ellis
4. watership down by richard adams
5. brave new world by aldous huxley
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Oh man I hated The Stand. Actually I didn't even finish it I got so bored. Thought Salem's Lot was so much better.
1. Haunted-Chuckles
2. In Cold Blood - Capote
3. Atlas Shrugged - Rand
4. Angela's Ashes - McCourt
5. The Historian - Kostova
"I thought I had mono once for an entire year. Turns out I was just really bored."
Wayne Campbell
[QUOTE=The Average Cultist;332892]1. [i]High Fidelity[/i] - Nick Hornby
2. [i]The Great Gatsby[/i] - F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. [i]Microserfs[/i] - Douglas Coupland
4. [i]Atlas Shrugged[/i] - Ayn Rand
5. [i]Kiss Me, Judas[/i] - Will Christopher Baer[/QUOTE]
I got [I]Kiss Me, Judas[/I] for a dollar at a book sale months ago, having never heard anything about it previously. I love it when random books turn out to be fabulous.
I'm going to go with:
1. Geek Love - Katherine Dunn
2. Franny and Zooey - J.D Salinger
3. Less than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
4. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
5. The Great Shark Hunt - Hunter S. Thompson
I think #5 takes precedent over the rest, and #2 might only be for the type of people who love Wes Anderson movies. #1 is definitely for the folks 'round these parts, though. I almost wanted to put JT LeRoy on this list, for the fun of it...
i dont know if i posted my list yet or not but anyways
5 books everybody should read that probably haven't been listed yet anywhere...
Don Martin Steps Further Out - Don Martin
The Gambler - Dostoevsky
The Descent - Jeff Long
Rules Of Secrecy - Jim Marrs
Hunger - Knut Hamsun
[QUOTE=nathaniel parker;903122]The Descent - Jeff Long[/QUOTE]
read that last year, and it was awesome, maybe the best of his work
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1. Lullaby by Chuck
2. 1984 by Orwell
3. Brave New World by Huxley
4. Howl by Ginsberg
5. American Pyscho by Ellis
1. [I]Dialogue between a Priest and a Dying Man[/I] (Marquis de Sade)
2. [I]Justine[/I] and/or [I]Eugenie de Franval [/I](same author)
3. [I]Narcissus and Goldmund[/I] (Herman Hesse)
4. [I]Lies My Teacher Told Me [/I](James Loewen - nonfiction - If you read it closely enough, it's almost a recipe for baking propaganda from nothing but nonfiction)
5. Franny and Zooey (one of J.D. Salinger's other books)
Diary - Chuck Palahniuk
Love and Other Near-Death Experiences - Mil Millington
Watchmen - Alan Moore
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1) Choke - CP
2) hey Nastrodamus - Coupland
3) Killing yourself to live - Chuck Kolsterman
4) On The Road - Kerouac
5) Girlfriend in A coma- Coupland
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1. Lullaby by Palahniuk
2. 1984 by Orwell
3. Brave New World by Huxley
4. Survivor by Palahniuk
5. That book I never wrote about my life. Procrastination, non-ability and laziness
1-4: Anything by Chuck
5.The Ruins by Scott Smith was pretty good
Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
Where the Wild things are by Maurice Sendak
I'll resist the urge to put anything, by our beloved Chuck as why would, you be here, if you hadn't read any of his books??
So heres my essential 5
Geek Love - Katherine Dunn
Flicker - Theodore Rozak
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
Mall - Eric Bogosian
The Wasp Factory - Ian Banks
I'll also recommend anything by Hunter S. Thompson, Edward Bunker, Hubert Selby Jr. or Bret Easton Ellis
In no particular order ...
1) Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk
2) Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
3) The Screwtape Letters - CS Lewis
4) Yeager - Chuck Yeager
5) Pryor Convictions - Richard Pyror