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Old Dec 15, 07
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[non fiction]

The Four Agreements
Freakonomics
Blink
Tipping Point
The Power of Now
The Long Walk to Freedom (Nelson Mandela's autobiography)


[fiction]

The Alchemist
The Red Tent
East of Eden
Atlas Shrugged
The Poisonwood Bible
The Joy Luck Club
Valley of the Dolls
Sweetness in the Belly
The Kite Runner (hugely popular right now because the movie's coming out, but i read it a few years ago and loved it)
Roots
Outlander
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I can't believe you put 2 horrible pieces of trash in one sentence!
Are you fucking kidding me???

Herman Hesse is an amazing writer, maybe you can't agree with anything that he's written; the man has pieced together some amazing stories.

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Both books lick ass.

Waste of time.

Both of them.
Actually they don't, and neither is a waste of time.

This is merely another of your immediate discounts because it doesn't fit your agenda or prototype.

Both are amazing books and have a wealth to offer in story.

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Come ON! "Siddhartha"?!
yeah, did I fucking stutter?

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You can get more out of an instruction manual on how to tie shoelaces! Either that or afflict yourself w/ "The Celestine Prophecies"!
This is probably the only time I've ever seen you lump yourself in with the nouvelle cuisine hippies of yaletown and I'm rather disappointed.

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And the first person to list _anything_ by Robert Pirsig gets a full-on slap upside the head!
That's ok, the first person who mentions dub and basslines is headbutted by me.

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Frosty
(reads quite a lot)
Jim
(just because you're one of my best mates doesn't make you exempt)
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Old Dec 15, 07
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Jim
(just because you're one of my best mates doesn't make you exempt)
Apparently it makes them more succeptable. . . wow.
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bullshit is bullshit.

I call him on it quite frequently.

might as well do it publicly when he slags a book that means a lot to me.
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Fair enough.

I should also mention to people that I read obsessively. So don't hold back on the heavy titles. This is just to fill a long period of boredom where I won't have an opportunity to restock my material.

Actually, I won`t have a chance to pick any more up before I leave in 2 hours, but I come into town for a week every three, so next time I`ll pick them up.
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PS FROSTY - I still remember the Dean Koontz fodder you passed off to me.
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PS FROSTY - I still remember the Dean Koontz fodder you passed off to me.
FLYING ELBOW DROP FOR THE WIN!l
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take everything with a grain of salt.
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Dude, I keep a sack of it nearby at all times these days.
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As of right now I'm working my way through "Game of Shadows" which deals with the whole Bilco/Marion Jones Steroid scandal.
That's BALCO, as in the Bay Area Laboratory Collective, and while Marion Jones certainly features prominently, Barry Bonds is the real star of the show.

When are you gonna finally give that back, anyways?? :P
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Right now Zadie Smith rocks my world. Finished "On Beauty" a while ago, working my way through her acclaimed debut "White Teeth" at the moment. The latter is even more epic in its scope and the depth of its characterizations than the first.

Ian McEwan has long been a favorite of mine. He's so meticulous with his language, every page is a joy to dissect. Someone mentioned "Atonement", I'll add "Saturday" to any must read list, and "The Comfort of Strangers" for a shorter, more tightly wound read.
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i wasn't a big fan of the "hitch hicker's guide to the galaxy" "trilogy"
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I don't know you anymore.
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fuck lovecraft.

if you're able pick up some "necroscope". lumley (the creator of necroscope) takes after lovecraft but it's more modern.
My gf is all over that series. I'm not a huge horror fan, but I appreciate Lovecraft just for the old dialect he uses. Conrad the same. Early 20th Century authors have a level of dark eloquence that just chills me.
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I don't know you anymore.
the first two were hilarious but i couldn't get into the others.
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My gf is all over that series. I'm not a huge horror fan, but I appreciate Lovecraft just for the old dialect he uses. Conrad the same. Early 20th Century authors have a level of dark eloquence that just chills me.
that's just because you're really an old man in a young man's body.

edit-i've been meaning to pick up some conrad lately but i keep getting sidetracked.
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Conrad's intense. If you've ever enjoyed Apocalypse now you need to pick up Heart Of Darkness. It's about 80 pages long but the diction is dense. I'm a fast reader but it takes me forever to get through his sentences. Every single word is selected almost. It's a real experience to read. Basically Apocalypse now took the same story but set it in the Vietnam War instead of colonial Congo.
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the one that i really want to read is called "lord jim".
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A trilogy in five parts. I own a copy of them all in one, as well as them all individually. I also own one of the Dirk Gently books and Starship Titanic. Adams is one of the most brilliant minds to ever grace literature.

Glad to see more people spreading the love!
the long dark teatime of the soul was pretty funny, but i think the hhgtg is still the *best* of all his works. i have yet to listen to the radio plays, but i hear they are good as well
the movie was excellent, but only because i read the entire thing. as a representation of the books.. it sucked.

anne rices vampire series is excellent. dark and romantic with some great ideas and great storyline.
who doesnt want to live forever?
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the first two were hilarious but i couldn't get into the others.
If you think the first two are hilarious then you're probably a fan.

The last one (two?) felt tacked on, you're a fan of the primary works.
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well.. technically when he first wrote them, they didnt make sense. it was a series of short stories (i think the radio shows were the originals) (i think...haha)
he later pieced them together to make them into books.
so the entire thing feels a little bit loopy.. which i think adds to the GREATNESS!!! of it all
and half of it doesnt really make sense anyways..

more greatness!!!
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Anything by Douglas Coupland...
Qft. I need to get through JPod before the tv series based on the book starts in the new year.
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anne rices vampire series is excellent. dark and romantic with some great ideas and great storyline.
who doesnt want to live forever?
I don't read Anne Rice for the same reason I don't read Stephen King. She doesn't write so much as she types. I've never read the Vampire Chronicals, but I've also heard that the original series is worth your time but just about the rest of it is pretty pointless.

That's all hearsay and second-hand information, but honestly I really can't stand her lofty philosophy... she strikes me as a bit of a goth-poser...

Ever listen to her in interviews? It's like reading a livejournal...
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i read the first three anne rice books in the vampire chronicles but i thought that they sucked.

maybe i was spoiled by brian lumley?
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i read the first three anne rice books in the vampire chronicles but i thought that they sucked.

maybe i was spoiled by brian lumley?
How is that spoiled? Maybe your standards are just higher?
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How is that spoiled? Maybe your standards are just higher?
i was spoiled because they're so fucking good it ruined all other vampire books for me.
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