what are the last 5 books you guys have read... I'll start
[B]No one here gets out alive[/B] - Danny Sugerman & damn I can't remember his name, checking on amazon now... amazon is taking a while... net is verrry slow... shit its taking too long, I'll find out later.
[B]Riders on the storm[/B] - John Densmore
[B]Celestine Prophecy[/B] - fuck what's his name... ahah! James Redfield.
[B]Hard Driving[/B] - William Haddad (about the John Z Delorean, he made the back to the future car)
[B]Diary[/B] - Chuck (its about a chick who is fat, ugly and old hehe)
Currently reading [B]Leviathan[/B] by John Birmingham
I've got stardust home but I didn't finish it.
Any good?
its pretty good
I never read that fantasy fairyland type of stuff
only bought it because of Gaiman
that man can flat out tell a good story in any format and genre
have you read Wonderland Avenue - Danny Sugerman
Its not about fantasy but its one of the best books I've read.
cant say i have
if i recommend any book to anyone, its wonderland avenue.
Hobbit
Choke
Fight Club
Floating Dragon
Harry Potter 4
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Led Zeppelin, Gentle Giant, Pink Floyd, Van Der Graaf Genterator, Jethro Tull, ELP, Yes, No Doubt, Porcupine Tree, Radiohead, Opeth, Beatles, Something Corporate, Genesis, The Who, Dream Theater, Spock's Beard, Super Furry Animals, Mahavishnu Orchestra, King's X
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currently: gravity's rainbow by thomas pynchon
white noise by don dellilo
crying of lot 49 by thomas pynchon
even cowgirls get the blues by tom robbins
fear and loathing in las vegas by hunter s thompson
place of dead roads by william s burroughs
100 years of solitude by gabriel garcia marquez
currently: V. by pynchon
House of leaves - MZD
civilization and its discontents- Freud
ficciones- Borges
The Informers- Bret Easton Ellis (second time)
Diary -Chuck
PS-good books kl0pper, Lot 49 is one of my favs. You should read House of Leaves- it reminds me a lot of pynchon.
-K
im reading ficciones right now as well
ive been told to check out house of leaves enough that i think i might just do that...
Einstein's Dreams- Alan Lightman
Band Of Brothers- Stephen Ambrose
You Shall Know Our Velocity- Dave Eggers
Great Shark Hunt- Hunter S Thompson
Portrait of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
Currently Reading- Contortionist's Handbook - Craig Clevenger
Next Up- Rum Diary- Hunter S Thompsom
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I think I can remember.
Project X - can't remember author
Belly Laughs - Jenny McCarthy - not pregnant, but it was funny.
Kings of Infinite Space - Michael (? I think that's his first name) Hynes
can't remember any more! ack. It hasn't been that long ago either.
Edit: Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
Now I just have to remember the fifth one.. 
Death Cults: Murder Mayhem and Mind Control (True Crime Series) by~Jack Sargeant
Leather Ladies & Chains by~Vi Hardesty
Gasoline and the Vestal Lady on Brattle by ~Gregory Corso
Broken Summers by~ Henry Rollins
The Burning Pen. Sex writers on Sex Writing~ Edited by M. Christian.
I think that's it.
[QUOTE=WeeBeasty]Death Cults: Murder Mayhem and Mind Control (True Crime Series) by~Jack Sargeant
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read this a few months ago
cool book
2 bucks at HFP makes it even cooler !
Isn't it a beautiful thing? I got it for round that price at a thrift store. Good reading.
currently ahwosg by eggers and naked by sedaris.
"me talk pretty one day" david sedaris
"sarah" JT Leroy
"happy Baby" Stephen elliott
"kiss me judas" W. C. Baer
"locklear letters" Michael Kun
[QUOTE=mnchch]currently ahwosg by eggers and naked by sedaris.
"me talk pretty one day" david sedaris
"sarah" JT Leroy
"happy Baby" Stephen elliott
"kiss me judas" W. C. Baer
"locklear letters" Michael Kun[/QUOTE]
how was me talk? i rad naked, and got sick of his voice by the end
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Edit: Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
Now I just have to remember the fifth one.. =P[/QUOTE]
How did you like BoC? Probably my second or third fav KV. Was this a reread or a first time?
[QUOTE=Arcana13]How did you like BoC? Probably my second or third fav KV. Was this a reread or a first time?[/QUOTE]
First time, and I loved it. Just got into Kurt Vonnegut a couple years ago, so I'm still working on reading all his books, but I'm wanting it to last, so I'm reading one every few months.
[B]Mephistopholes: the Devil in the Modern World, [/B] by J.B. Russel
[B]The Satanic Bible, [/B] Anton LaVey
[B]The Dialogues of Plato.[/B]
[B]Thus Spoke Zarathustra,[/B] Nietzsche
[B]Grendal [/B] by John Gardner
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Mmm... the sweet taste of Nietzsche.
^ tastes like...
boulshite
Requiem For a Dream (Hubert Selby)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three other Short Stories (Truman Capote)
Kiss the Girls (James Patterson)
The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Girl With a Pearl Earring (Tracy Chevalier)
house of leaves (I'm with JKabol- a phenomenal book)
sissyphus and other essays
et tu, babe
this book will change your life
what you should know about carpet ( I'm a sucker for thrift store table top self-help books)
Now I'm reading Hagakure: the book of the samurai
I'm currently reading Fight Club, as I've never read that book. I figured now that I can get a version without the cheesy movie cover, might as well pick up a copy.
1) A Storm of Swords - George R. R. Martin
2) The Painted Bird - Jerzy Kosinski
3) The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
4) All Families Are Psychotic - Douglas Coupland
5) I Am Legend - Richard Matheson
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What is the House of Leaves about? I haven't heard of it, and it seems like nearly everyone here has read it. Makes me curious.
It's the creepiest book I've ever read. About a house that's bigger on the inside than on the outside. It's a little more complicated than that though. It's one of the only "experimental novels I've ever seen. I'd explain more but I'm already an hour late for work.
I'm so irresponsible. what am I doing here?
[QUOTE=Manderley]What is the House of Leaves about? I haven't heard of it, and it seems like nearly everyone here has read it. Makes me curious.[/QUOTE]
From Amazon:
Had The Blair Witch Project been a book instead of a film, and had it been written by, say, Nabokov at his most playful, revised by Stephen King at his most cerebral, and typeset by the futurist editors of Blast at their most avant-garde, the result might have been something like House of Leaves. Mark Z. Danielewski's first novel has a lot going on: notably the discovery of a pseudoacademic monograph called The Navidson Record, written by a blind man named Zampanò, about a nonexistent documentary film--which itself is about a photojournalist who finds a house that has supernatural, surreal qualities. (The inner dimensions, for example, are measurably larger than the outer ones.) In addition to this Russian-doll layering of narrators, Danielewski packs in poems, scientific lists, collages, Polaroids, appendices of fake correspondence and "various quotes," single lines of prose placed any which way on the page, crossed-out passages, and so on.
Now that we've reached the post-postmodern era, presumably there's nobody left who needs liberating from the strictures of conventional fiction. So apart from its narrative high jinks, what does House of Leaves have to offer? According to Johnny Truant, the tattoo-shop apprentice who discovers Zampanò's work, once you read The Navidson Record,
For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you. Worse, you'll realize it's always been shifting, like a shimmer of sorts, a vast shimmer, only dark like a room. But you won't understand why or how.
We'll have to take his word for it, however. As it's presented here, the description of the spooky film isn't continuous enough to have much scare power. Instead, we're pulled back into Johnny Truant's world through his footnotes, which he uses to discharge everything in his head, including the discovery of the manuscript, his encounters with people who knew Zampanò, and his own battles with drugs, sex, ennui, and a vague evil force. If The Navidson Record is a mad professor lecturing on the supernatural with rational-seeming conviction, Truant's footnotes are the manic student in the back of the auditorium, wigged out and furiously scribbling whoa-dude notes about life.
Despite his flaws, Truant is an appealingly earnest amateur editor--finding translators, tracking down sources, pointing out incongruities. Danielewski takes an academic's--or ex-academic's--glee in footnotes (the similarity to David Foster Wallace is almost too obvious to mention), as well as other bogus ivory-tower trappings such as interviews with celebrity scholars like Camille Paglia and Harold Bloom. And he stuffs highbrow and pop-culture references (and parodies) into the novel with the enthusiasm of an anarchist filling a pipe bomb with bits of junk metal. House of Leaves may not be the prettiest or most coherent collection, but if you're trying to blow stuff up, who cares? --John Ponyicsanyi
Wow, that book sounds insane. I'll definately make a point to check it out.
Can you buy it in paperback? Because I really hate buying books in hard cover... waste of money in my eyes.
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Fortress of Solitude
Mason & Dixon
Survivor
The Pleasure of My Company
When we call soccer 'football' the terrorists have won.
[QUOTE=Sycron]Can you buy it in paperback? Because I really hate buying books in hard cover... waste of money in my eyes.[/QUOTE]
Yes
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[QUOTE=sevenblu][B]The Satanic Bible, [/B]Anton LaVey[/QUOTE]
You have gotta be kiddin', homie. LaVey wrote like a punk bitch; he couldn't write for shit. I read that "bible" about 7 years ago 'cause I had a roommate that was into him and respected 'em. I remember thinking What could he possibly be writing about? and What could he say about the Lord his God, because he obviously believed in him?
What I read was a book written by a man that was not out to free himself from the convention of God, and his servitude of God; what he wrote seemed to be an attempt at getting attention from people, to make people listen to him. He targeted humans for respect, like he was using us to make himself feel better about himself. I mean, did you even read that retarded book? I mean, it wields more hypocrisy than the Holy Bible. And that's sayin’ a lot.
Anyway, just some thoughts. May LaVey rest in piss and I am glad that he is gone. And fuck ‘em for his pallid attempts at literature. I hope that the next person that decides to take on the task of writing a “Satanic Bible” is an author that will focus on a Satan protagonist and not on the follies of human nature.
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play hard, like it's work to be done.
[U]diary[/U] - chuck palahniuk (wanna read it again soon just cuz i didnt get that much out of it the first time)
[U]syrup[/U] - max barry (so good i read it in like 4 hours one night)
[U]tick tock[/U] - dean koontz ( i would recommend it to anybody who enjoys this guy, it was one of the best books i've ever read, very uplifting, about a guy, tommy phan, who gets a doll on his doorstep one night and its really fuckin creepy and uplifting and perfectly written)
[U]fight club[/U] - chuck palahniuk (i wish i didn't see the movie before cuz it was very hard to not think of it while reading)
currently reading:
[U]the damnation game[/U] - clive barker (almost done, and it's probably one of the best books written ever)
so here i go...
i'm haLf the way to home...
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from most recent to last ...
Americana - Don DeLillo
Island of Dr Moreau - HG Wells
Kiss, Me Judas - Will Cristopher Baer
Jenifer Government - Max Barry
Stardust - Neil Gaiman