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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 4:10 pm
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just curious as to what some of your favorite books are

i really like angels and demons by dan brown... its before the da vinci code, but also a much better book in my opinion, it draws you in and you cant stop reading.... i dont see why they didnt hype this book up more, i suppose sine there was no extreme religious contraversy in it

another book you should definitely check out it "an inconvenient book" by glenn beck.... its by the host of the CNN show, and if you've ever watched the show, you can most likely guess the tone of this book.. its rather sarcastic, but reveals some of the most interesting facts that you will never hear on the news or anywhere else


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those who really know me know that I do not like books!!!! I do what I can to stay away from them!! lol although, I really like sci-fi stuff. So LOTR is pretty cool, and one of my absolute fav's would be Eragon!!! And of course there's the rest of that series...

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yeah, i'm not really a fan of many books either, those are the only two i can say i really enjoyed, although i haven't read much outside of the forced crap english teachers make you read


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haha yeah, i'm with ya!! I find that books on tape/cd work really well!! lol I mean, you get the story without having to actually read the thing, and u can do other stuff while u listen!! :)

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To Kill a Mockingbird
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Crime and Punishment
The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night Time
Northern Lights Trilogy
Complicity
Crow Road
(A Book) Designed to Help
Neubau Welt
Graphic Design in the 21st Century
Illusive
40 Architects at 40


All I can think of right now.


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^ thanks for reminding me

i forgot to kill a mockingbird, while not my favorite, it is still quite a good book which you can actually get a good meaning from.... that and animal farm (:lol:) by orwell are two good classic books which are pretty easy to read


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I tend to favor the older Sci-fi from Arthur C Clark or Asimov, and almost always have a western from L'amour on hand...


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citizenerased wrote:
...animal house by orwell...

Think you mean Animal Farm?

For more Dystopia books, check out Huxley's Brave New World, it is intense. Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, or The Giver by Lowry are decent as well.


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haha i really said animal house, i suppose it doesnt help that i'm actually watching that now


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You might want to be careful on repeating things Glenn Beck says as "facts:" the most probable explanation for not seeing them printed elsewhere is not a conspiracy of silence, but rather that he simply made them up.

Current favorite books:

A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
Any of the Discworld novels
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (2nd time though, now I get it)
I Am America and So Can You! by Stephen Colbert
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde

I really liked Angels and Demons, too.


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I love everything by Chuck Palahniuk. Except his last book, Rant, I was pretty dissapointed with it. But if anyone doesn't know who he is, he wrote Fight Club.

Oh, I also loved The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.


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A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon


Good book, read that on holiday last year, but I prefer The Curious Incident.


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check out Huxley's Brave New World


That's next on my list to read :)


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ally, I loved The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, but I was listing my current faves, and I just read A Spot of Bother a few months ago. Also, as a middle-aged guy with an annoying chronic disease, I found it less an amazing literary stunt and more a story I could carry with me.


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Anything Charles Bukowski or William S Burroughs for me. Also Irivine Welsh's Trainspotting, and of course, Fender's books or any book about Telecasters.

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I am currently reading "I rode with J.E.B. Stuart" by Maj. Henry B. McClellan. That and "The Tibetan Book of The Dead".
I love anything about history....esp. the American Civil War or Eastern Philosophy and Mysticism.

A favorite book though, since someone mentioned George Orwell, is 1984. Amazing how some of what he predicted in 1948 when he wrote the book has in a sense occurred. For example, people don't think for themselves but tend to let media do it for them. A good example is Global Warming. In the 1970s the same scientists that tout G.W. today, were trying to convince everyone that we were headed for a new Ice Age. According to TIME magazine in 1977, by 2002, 2/3 of North America and most of Europe was supposed to be under glaciers. All civilization was supposed to cease and all life would freeze and die.

(Incidentally, J.E.B. stood for James Ewell Brown.....not Jebediah as so many have supposed.)

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