hmm maybe a bit to kidish but i read a series called pendragon by D. J. MacHale and i also read this book about some kid who has asthma and needs to collect some keys to save the alternate universe that runs earth, it was really interesting but i can't for the life of me remember damnit.
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hmm maybe a bit to kidish but i read a series called pendragon by D. J. MacHale and i also read this book about some kid who has asthma and needs to collect some keys to save the alternate universe that runs earth, it was really interesting but i can't for the life of me remember damnit.
MapleWhat do you mean you "don't like stuff like Tale of Two Cities"? What about Tale of Two Cities turned you off? If it was the language, I'd highly suggest you try suffering through it until you acquire the taste for it. You're losing out on hundreds of years of popular knowledge and novels that have been regarded as somehow "eternal" for centuries due to personal taste. I understand it can be difficult, but reading Western Canon is highly rewarding.
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What do you mean you "don't like stuff like Tale of Two Cities"? What about Tale of Two Cities turned you off? If it was the language, I'd highly suggest you try suffering through it until you acquire the taste for it. You're losing out on hundreds of years of popular knowledge and novels that have been regarded as somehow "eternal" for centuries due to personal taste. I understand it can be difficult, but reading Western Canon is highly rewarding.[/quote]
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What do you mean you "don't like stuff like Tale of Two Cities"? What about Tale of Two Cities turned you off? If it was the language, I'd highly suggest you try suffering through it until you acquire the taste for it. You're losing out on hundreds of years of popular knowledge and novels that have been regarded as somehow "eternal" for centuries due to personal taste. I understand it can be difficult, but reading Western Canon is highly rewarding.[/quote]
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Foundation series by asimov
I robot, asimov
you know what just any asimov book would be great.
the king killer series by patrick ruthfuss is a decent fantasy series.
the dark tower series is pretty great
A child hoods end
2001: a space odyssey
Foundation series by asimov
I robot, asimov
you know what just any asimov book would be great.
the king killer series by patrick ruthfuss is a decent fantasy series.
the dark tower series is pretty great
A child hoods end
2001: a space odyssey
I robot, asimov
you know what just any asimov book would be great.
the king killer series by patrick ruthfuss is a decent fantasy series.
the dark tower series is pretty great
A child hoods end
2001: a space odyssey
GaryA child hoods end
there are a lot of great books to recommend in this thread (Catch-22 for instance), but Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clark is possibly the least well known, and it's utterly fantastic, really embodies the true spirit of science fiction
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A child hoods end
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there are a lot of great books to recommend in this thread (Catch-22 for instance), but Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clark is possibly the least well known, and it's utterly fantastic, really embodies the true spirit of science fiction
A child hoods end
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there are a lot of great books to recommend in this thread (Catch-22 for instance), but Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clark is possibly the least well known, and it's utterly fantastic, really embodies the true spirit of science fiction
My favourite book has to be "The Dice Man" by Luke Rhinehart
My favourite book has to be "The Dice Man" by Luke Rhinehart
SaberCATCH-22 MOTHERFUCKER
read ittttttttttttttttttttttttttt So good, I'd say it's probably one of my favorite books of all time.
that was such a shit book I don't know where to begin. It explored some extremely interesting concepts, but as a book I'd read for fun...
[quote=Saber]CATCH-22 MOTHERFUCKER
read ittttttttttttttttttttttttttt So good, I'd say it's probably one of my favorite books of all time.[/quote]
that was such a shit book I don't know where to begin. It explored some extremely interesting concepts, but as a book I'd read for fun...
read ittttttttttttttttttttttttttt So good, I'd say it's probably one of my favorite books of all time.[/quote]
that was such a shit book I don't know where to begin. It explored some extremely interesting concepts, but as a book I'd read for fun...
I just finished a book a few months ago called Ready Player One. Its based in the near future where everyone is hooked into VR machines to get away from the desolation of the world. A billionaire that founded the company left easter eggs in the virtual world and whoever found them won the company.
It's FULL of gaming references, 80's trivia, etc. It was an incredibly fast read and the characters were all pretty great.
http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline/dp/030788743X?tag=teamfortresst-20
I just finished a book a few months ago called [b]Ready Player One[/b]. Its based in the near future where everyone is hooked into VR machines to get away from the desolation of the world. A billionaire that founded the company left easter eggs in the virtual world and whoever found them won the company.
It's FULL of gaming references, 80's trivia, etc. It was an incredibly fast read and the characters were all pretty great.
[url]http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline/dp/030788743X?tag=teamfortresst-20[/url]
It's FULL of gaming references, 80's trivia, etc. It was an incredibly fast read and the characters were all pretty great.
[url]http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline/dp/030788743X?tag=teamfortresst-20[/url]
Grendel, White Noise, The Pale King, Infinite Jest
Last three are heavier reading and require a time commitment, Grendel on the other hand, is rather short and still an excellent read.
Grendel, White Noise, The Pale King, Infinite Jest
Last three are heavier reading and require a time commitment, Grendel on the other hand, is rather short and still an excellent read.
Last three are heavier reading and require a time commitment, Grendel on the other hand, is rather short and still an excellent read.
heinI just finished a book a few months ago called Ready Player One. Its based in the near future where everyone is hooked into VR machines to get away from the desolation of the world. A billionaire that founded the company left easter eggs in the virtual world and whoever found them won the company.
It's FULL of gaming references, 80's trivia, etc. It was an incredibly fast read and the characters were all pretty great.
http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline/dp/030788743X?tag=teamfortresst-20
I really liked that book, just I felt the ending was pretty much rushed. Like you find out his best friend is actually a lesbian girl, but then they basically don't talk for the rest of the book...
[quote=hein]I just finished a book a few months ago called [b]Ready Player One[/b]. Its based in the near future where everyone is hooked into VR machines to get away from the desolation of the world. A billionaire that founded the company left easter eggs in the virtual world and whoever found them won the company.
It's FULL of gaming references, 80's trivia, etc. It was an incredibly fast read and the characters were all pretty great.
[url]http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline/dp/030788743X?tag=teamfortresst-20[/url][/quote]
I really liked that book, just I felt the ending was pretty much rushed. Like you find out his best friend is actually a lesbian girl, but then they basically don't talk for the rest of the book...
It's FULL of gaming references, 80's trivia, etc. It was an incredibly fast read and the characters were all pretty great.
[url]http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline/dp/030788743X?tag=teamfortresst-20[/url][/quote]
I really liked that book, just I felt the ending was pretty much rushed. Like you find out his best friend is actually a lesbian girl, but then they basically don't talk for the rest of the book...
Moby-Dick
please, no one else will read it and talk to me about it :[
Also, if you have a smart phone you can stream it for free from here: http://librivox.org/moby-dick-by-herman-melville/
in fact you can stream any work of literature in the public domain from there. It's done by volunteers, but sometimes you can find a reader who knows how to present well, Moby-Dick being one of those. Heart of Darkness being another.
Moby-Dick
please, no one else will read it and talk to me about it :[
Also, if you have a smart phone you can stream it for free from here: http://librivox.org/moby-dick-by-herman-melville/
in fact you can stream any work of literature in the public domain from there. It's done by volunteers, but sometimes you can find a reader who knows how to present well, Moby-Dick being one of those. Heart of Darkness being another.
please, no one else will read it and talk to me about it :[
Also, if you have a smart phone you can stream it for free from here: http://librivox.org/moby-dick-by-herman-melville/
in fact you can stream any work of literature in the public domain from there. It's done by volunteers, but sometimes you can find a reader who knows how to present well, Moby-Dick being one of those. Heart of Darkness being another.
A couple of my favorites, one fiction and one non-fiction:
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
This book is dark, visceral, and violent, following "the Kid" and his time with the Glanton Gang, a group of mid-1800s scalp hunters. The antagonist, Judge Holden, is a deeply disturbing character. McCarthy's prose is tight and blunt, and you'll probably have to reach for a dictionary from time to time to get some of the archaic terms, but his style is biblical and grand and he is one of America's best living writers.
Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman
In this collection of essays presented as tracks on a mix-tape, Klosterman writes interesting, funny essays on the vast spectrum of pop-culture, digging for the "real meaning" behind everything from the Real World and Saved by the Bell to celebrity sex tapes and internet porn to the Lakers/Celtics rivalry. He's the type of writer who's incredibly readable even when his ideas are off-the-wall bizarre.
A couple of my favorites, one fiction and one non-fiction:
[b]Blood Meridian[/b] by Cormac McCarthy
This book is dark, visceral, and violent, following "the Kid" and his time with the Glanton Gang, a group of mid-1800s scalp hunters. The antagonist, Judge Holden, is a deeply disturbing character. McCarthy's prose is tight and blunt, and you'll probably have to reach for a dictionary from time to time to get some of the archaic terms, but his style is biblical and grand and he is one of America's best living writers.
[b]Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto[/b] by Chuck Klosterman
In this collection of essays presented as tracks on a mix-tape, Klosterman writes interesting, funny essays on the vast spectrum of pop-culture, digging for the "real meaning" behind everything from the Real World and Saved by the Bell to celebrity sex tapes and internet porn to the Lakers/Celtics rivalry. He's the type of writer who's incredibly readable even when his ideas are off-the-wall bizarre.
[b]Blood Meridian[/b] by Cormac McCarthy
This book is dark, visceral, and violent, following "the Kid" and his time with the Glanton Gang, a group of mid-1800s scalp hunters. The antagonist, Judge Holden, is a deeply disturbing character. McCarthy's prose is tight and blunt, and you'll probably have to reach for a dictionary from time to time to get some of the archaic terms, but his style is biblical and grand and he is one of America's best living writers.
[b]Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto[/b] by Chuck Klosterman
In this collection of essays presented as tracks on a mix-tape, Klosterman writes interesting, funny essays on the vast spectrum of pop-culture, digging for the "real meaning" behind everything from the Real World and Saved by the Bell to celebrity sex tapes and internet porn to the Lakers/Celtics rivalry. He's the type of writer who's incredibly readable even when his ideas are off-the-wall bizarre.
klosterman is a douchebag but an immensely entertaining writer
klosterman is a douchebag but an immensely entertaining writer
I like Dan Simmons and Robert Heinlein right now. Also, Dune is definitely a solid book, one of my all time favs.
I like Dan Simmons and Robert Heinlein right now. Also, Dune is definitely a solid book, one of my all time favs.
hyperion is my dad's favorite sci-fi book, I've been meaning to read it for a while
hyperion is my dad's favorite sci-fi book, I've been meaning to read it for a while
A list of Authors to read
Richard Dawkins
Carl Sagan
Stephen Hawking
Neil Tyson
Bertrand Russell
Robert A. Heinlein
Orson Scott Card
Robert jordan
Orwell
Noam Chomsky
Kant
Forest Church
Hobbes
John Locke
Friedrich Nietzsche
If you need more let me know
Books to stay away from;
Teen and Pre-teen series like Twilight, Hunger Games, Harry Potter series
50 shades of grey was horrid
A list of Authors to read
Richard Dawkins
Carl Sagan
Stephen Hawking
Neil Tyson
Bertrand Russell
Robert A. Heinlein
Orson Scott Card
Robert jordan
Orwell
Noam Chomsky
Kant
Forest Church
Hobbes
John Locke
Friedrich Nietzsche
If you need more let me know
Books to stay away from;
Teen and Pre-teen series like Twilight, Hunger Games, Harry Potter series
50 shades of grey was horrid
Richard Dawkins
Carl Sagan
Stephen Hawking
Neil Tyson
Bertrand Russell
Robert A. Heinlein
Orson Scott Card
Robert jordan
Orwell
Noam Chomsky
Kant
Forest Church
Hobbes
John Locke
Friedrich Nietzsche
If you need more let me know
Books to stay away from;
Teen and Pre-teen series like Twilight, Hunger Games, Harry Potter series
50 shades of grey was horrid
FzeroBooks to stay away from;
Harry Potter series
DONT HATE
have you ever read John Rawls? he's one of my favorite political philosophers
[quote=Fzero]
Books to stay away from;
Harry Potter series
[/quote]
DONT HATE
have you ever read John Rawls? he's one of my favorite political philosophers
Books to stay away from;
Harry Potter series
[/quote]
DONT HATE
have you ever read John Rawls? he's one of my favorite political philosophers
mustardoverlordFzeroBooks to stay away from;
Harry Potter series
DONT HATE
have you ever read John Rawls? he's one of my favorite political philosophers
Not since a required reading when I was an undergrad, so it's been awhile.
[quote=mustardoverlord][quote=Fzero]
Books to stay away from;
Harry Potter series
[/quote]
DONT HATE
have you ever read John Rawls? he's one of my favorite political philosophers[/quote]
Not since a required reading when I was an undergrad, so it's been awhile.
Books to stay away from;
Harry Potter series
[/quote]
DONT HATE
have you ever read John Rawls? he's one of my favorite political philosophers[/quote]
Not since a required reading when I was an undergrad, so it's been awhile.
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