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Old Mar 12, 04
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Books you should read
Requiem for a Dream - Hubert Selby Jr.
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
Rules of Attraction - Bret Easton Ellis
Less than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk
Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
The Pornographer's Poem - Michael Turner
Happiness - Will Ferguson
The Stand - Stephen King
Misery - Stephen King
The Shining - Stephen King
Republic - Plato
Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury



Anyone else have any good books that they think people should read?

PS. Yeah, Requiem for a Dream is the book they based the movie on...it was written in 1978 and the movie was made in 2000
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The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
It made me cry. Oprah's book club owns me.
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Old Mar 12, 04
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u know that m ost of those are movies as well ri ght?

- the third reich by michael berleigh
- anne frank diary if you havn't already read it though i am sure most of you have
- one flew over the cuckoo's nest *check out movie as well*
-cracked ice, a look at the NHL in turmoil. Great book, great.
-Stephen king - regulators, and desperation
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pfft i'll just rent the movie.

who wants to read anyways?
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rainbow 6 was pretty good
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William Gibson - Neuromancer Trilogy.

There's a whole thread in Habits devoted to books. Check it out.
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u know that m ost of those are movies as well ri ght?
Yeah, a lot of them are movies. That's how i got started on Chuck Palahniuk. I saw Fight Club (my favourite movie now) and saw that it was a book first so i went out and bought it. Now I have all of his books. Same with Bret Easton Ellis.

Desperation by Stephen King was my first SK book. That's the one that got me started on him.

And Crookedking..i'm sorry to say, but if you just watch the movies, you're going to be missing out on soooo much.

And yeah, The Lovely Bones changed how i thought about death. Same with Five people you meet in heaven. You should read that one too, if you liked 'bones'.

I also wanted to add:
Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
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PS. Yeah, Requiem for a Dream is the book they based the movie on...it was written in 1978 and the movie was made in 2000
Most of the books have movies made out of them.

Expand horizons whut?
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pfft i'll just rent the movie.

who wants to read anyways?
watching gives you a better idea of what you see, visually
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^^I definitly think reading the books of the movies expands horizons...not sure if that was sarcasm or not....but when you watch a movie that was made out of a book, i dunno about anyone else, but i always feel like there is so much more lying underneath that i'm missing out on if i haven't read the book either.
And one of the reasons the books are made into movies in the first place, is that they're good.
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watching gives you a better idea of what you see, visually
antenna boy agrees with me! in your face sidekick!
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haha...once again crookedking..i bow to you]

PS. and of course WATCHING gives you a better idea of what you SEE, VISUALLY....that would make sense wouldn't it?
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aldous huxley - brave new world
sheri s tepper - true game, beauty
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Stephen king - the stand

one of my favorites be sure to read the un cut version
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anything by bernard cornwell
lord of the rings
silmarillion
a song of ice and fire series
dune series
the gunslinger series
for some variety...rule by secrecy by jim marrs? (i think that's the author)
the go getter
parables of a pipeline.
the wheel of time series

there's more, but i don't feel like typing them all out.
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Stephen king - the stand

one of my favorites be sure to read the un cut version
the stand is where the devil takes over the world right?
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^^the flu kills most people in the world and yeah, the survivors split up into two groups 'good' and 'evil' and duke it out (basically)

Hey, that's cool you like the Gunslinger series...i'm right at the end of the third one now. They're really good.
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^^the flu kills most people in the world and yeah, the survivors split up into two groups 'good' and 'evil' and duke it out (basically)

Hey, that's cool you like the Gunslinger series...i'm right at the end of the third one now. They're really good.
heh i read the stand years ago and forgot about it till now.

i like almost everything by king...he's a pretty good writer. the fourth one is weird. not as weird as the first one, but still a little odd.
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Yeah, King is one of my all time favourite authors. Over the last like four years or so, I've managed to collect all of his books.
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my friends mom has so many of his older books in hardcover. i always find myself flipping through them when i'm at her house. i borrowed misery from them...great book.
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hey Crooked, I heard you like the Harry Potter series, is this true??? :smoke1:
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Yeah, King is one of my all time favourite authors. Over the last like four years or so, I've managed to collect all of his books.
if you haven't dug in to kings work as Richard Bachman i highly recommend it.

Insomnia is another one of my favorites.. it's all about the aora snipping bald docters.
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i hate harry potter. i have never read any of the books or watched any of the movies.

and i won't.
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The best book that I have read is BATMAN by Craig Shaw Gardiner. Lots of action, just like the movie...two thumbs up!!!

Joker: "Never rub another man's rhubarb! Get me?"
Joker: "Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?"
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