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cutuphalfdead
 Post subject: Somebody recommend me some literature.
PostPosted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 6:24 pm 
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I need a few new books to read. A couple novels, maybe a nonfiction or two. A collection of short stories wouldn't be bad.

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ever read moneyball? good book.

this is good, too:

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/bookse ... 828&itm=19

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wrong forum bucko

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bondcfh007 wrote:
wrong forum bucko

Yeah, but people read this one.

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cutuphalfdead wrote:
bondcfh007 wrote:
wrong forum bucko

Yeah, but people read this one.


Half the people that post in this forum still read Highlights.

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dirtyfrank0705 wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:
bondcfh007 wrote:
wrong forum bucko

Yeah, but people read this one.


Half the people that post in this forum still read Highlights.

Goofus and Gallant were the shit.

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Joyce's Dubliners if you want the bestest short stories ever written
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Chuck Palahniuk...

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Haruki Murakami - The Elephant Vanishes
Haruki Murakami - After the Quake
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Collected Stories
Orhan Pamuk's stuff is interesting
Anton Chekhov - The Stories of Anton Chekhov
the Better and Best of McSweeneys usually have good short stories
the Best American Short Stories of (year)

Paul Auster - the New York Trilogy is supposed to be good

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Chuck Palahniuk...

:thumbsdown:

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Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions
Tom Green - Hollywood Causes Cancer
Chuck Palahniuk - Survivor
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the book of mormon.
fiction.

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I just read "Water for Elephants". I forget who the author was, but it was very, very good.


I'm currently reading "Good Omens" by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Not bad so far.

And I'm about 75 pages into "Never have your dog stuffed" by Alan Alda, and that was already pretty hard to put down last night.

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bondcfh007 wrote:
noaheb wrote:
Chuck Palahniuk...

:thumbsdown:

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NaiveAndTrue wrote:
I just read "Water for Elephants". I forget who the author was, but it was very, very good.


I'm currently reading "Good Omens" by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Not bad so far.

And I'm about 75 pages into "Never have your dog stuffed" by Alan Alda, and that was already pretty hard to put down last night.


Neil Gaiman is a favourite of mine. My brother sent me "Neverwhere" last year and I read it in one 24 hour period. Really great book.

I personally love crime fiction. Dennis Lehane's 'Kenzie and Gennaro' novels are absolutely fantastic. He also wrote Mystic River which was made into a movie a few years ago.

The Kezie-Gennaro novels are all about two PI's, guy and girl. This is them.

* A Drink Before the War (1994)
* Darkness, Take My Hand (1996)
* Sacred (1997)
* Gone, Baby, Gone (1998)
* Prayers for Rain (1999)

I'm actually a bit concerned at present because Ben Afleck is currently directing his brother Casey as Kenzie in the screen adaption of 'Gone Baby Gone'. I hope they don't fuck it up too bad.

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sirav wrote:
NaiveAndTrue wrote:
I just read "Water for Elephants". I forget who the author was, but it was very, very good.


I'm currently reading "Good Omens" by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Not bad so far.

And I'm about 75 pages into "Never have your dog stuffed" by Alan Alda, and that was already pretty hard to put down last night.


Neil Gaiman is a favourite of mine. My brother sent me "Neverwhere" last year and I read it in one 24 hour period. Really great book.



Totally. I think I read Neverwhere in a day or two as well. For some reason, my copy fell apart while I was reading it, but I kept it anyway.

Have you ever seen/ read Mirrormask?

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Chuck Palahniuk...

holy shit yes!!

Also Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, read it chud and it will change your life

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The Ender Saga by Orson Scott Card, awesome
Philip K Dick, anything
1984, George Orwell

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1 nad short wrote:
noaheb wrote:
Chuck Palahniuk...

holy shit yes!!

Also Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, read it chud and it will change your life

I can't stand either of these authors.

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