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ok so there's one for movies but what about novels?
Its really hard to pin down 5 but here's a few of my favourites
Cows - Matthew Stokoe
Spiral - Koji Suzuki
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson
High Life - Matthew Stokoe
Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
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Surya
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I'm lame, I don't read books.
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dunno its a long time ago but i remember some writers:
Horowitz
stephen king
Tolkien (from lotr)
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some old time favs that i can think of atm:
Short Stories - Dino Bucatti (Twilight Zone - kind of, but more brutal)
Messiah's Handbook - Richard Bach
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglass Adams
and ofcourse
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24-01-2006 12:37 |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams |
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the Hyperion saga by Dan Simmons (link)
the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson (link)
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (link)
Neuromancer and its spinoffs from the Sprawl Trilogy by William Gibson (link)
as you can see I'm more of a sci-fi kind of guy 
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oh yeah to add:
Samurai - Saburo Sakai
not samurai stuff, but a book written by a WWII japanese air-fighter pilot, incredible how the story looks from the opposite angle
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cool, sounds like an interesting read.
Im reading 'choke' by chuck palanhuick (the guy who wrote fight club) its a kind of a odd story about sex addicts Im not v far into at yet but what I have read is pretty cool & quite amusing.
not really a very popular thread this is it? I take it there aren't many readers on the site 
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i read quite a bit. a lot of what i read is dead pretentious and i only read it so i can sound interesting at the dinner parties and reading circles i frequently attend.
Dostoyevsky - Brothers Karazamov, and all the rest of that russian drivel
PG Wodehouse - books about the crazy antics of Jeeves and his upper class chums. Golden.
Rudyard Kipling - Books and short stories generally about how Great the Great British Empire was. Very great indeed as it turns out.
Isaac Asimov good science fiction
Lord of the rings. Why not? Read em before the movies.
I dont read that much recent stuff, but I did really enjoy Hitchikers Guide, The Diceman and the Wasp Factory by Ian Banks. Its weird, but I tend re read quite a lto of the books I read as a kid these days, cos I have enough dry serious stuff thrown on me at uni.
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Wasp Factory by Ian Banks. |
Yeah, I read that a couple of years ago now I think, not quite as disturbing as its made out, but its a great story with a wicked twist & the whole 'wasp factory' thing is very metaphorical. I cant remember what it all means now though 
i thats definitely one to re-read in the near future.
I also read 'walking on glass' by iain banks, which was also pretty cool & amazing moments, funny, sad, beautiful & weird but i found the ending to be a little disappointing.... I'd like to read more of his works though, I think there was one called 'complicity' that looked quite good, but he's written so many that I can never remember which is which.
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cool, sounds like an interesting read.
Im reading 'choke' by chuck palanhuick (the guy who wrote fight club) its a kind of a odd story about sex addicts Im not v far into at yet but what I have read is pretty cool & quite amusing.
not really a very popular thread this is it? I take it there aren't many readers on the site
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I'm looking for Palahnuicks newest ' Haunted'. But cant find it so far 
Check out his site : http://www.chuckpalahniuk.net/ , very interesting
Anyways there's already a (very) old topic 'bout books:
bookz
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The shining - Stephen King
I shall spit on your graves (je vais cracher sur vos tombes) - Boris Vian
Bling - Erica Kennedy
Dutch literature: Thea Beckman's Thule trilogy
and actually Harry Potter too, it's not what one would call "intellectual", but once you start reading one, you cant stop doing so... 
dutch speaking people: Arnon Grunberg's De Asielzoeker is such a horrible book, it makes no fucking sense at all...
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I'm lame, I don't read books. |
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02-02-2006 20:29 |
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Originally posted by suvcycle
I'm looking for Palahnuicks newest ' Haunted'. But cant find it so far
Check out his site : http://www.chuckpalahniuk.net/ , very interesting
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wow, that does look like an interesting site!
thanks for the link! 
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02-02-2006 21:27 |
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A Scanner Darkly - Philip K Dick
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
The Long Walk (a short ish story by Stephen King underthe pen name Bachmann. Hate the guy, but one fucking cool story)
The Hobbit (Well hey, I have Tolkein to thank for my Real Life name)
*sighing inwardly but going to say it anyways* Winnie The Pooh, sorry guys, Disney can stick that shite up their arses, but the stories are classic.
Read mostly SF but been thru a lot of horror. On the Iain Banks front, I read the Wasps Nest, good book. But he wrote another one that was totally disturbing, I can't remember the name. The base of the story was a guy in a coma and telling how he got there. Very uncomfortable book to read but very good. Neuromancer has to rank up there and you can't forget classics like Catcher In The Rye, To Kill A Mockingbird and Lord of The Flies.
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03-02-2006 03:14 |
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i dont have a top 5...
but hunter s. thompson is an amazing writer. and stephen king is who i go to for the fiction. this is a nice thread...
i can't stand sci fi stuff at all, i feel like i'm reading an equipment manual half the time
or a medical dictionary.
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FIGHT CLUB
aftering seeing the movie about 50 times, the book tickled me. pink and bloody.
ENEMY AT THE GATES
so realistic and better than the movie.. done in letters from the soliders. big book and yet not so dry it was ever boring for a second.
CLOCKWERK ORANGE
nadsat written, and classical music styled, with a better ending than the movie,s, howing a much deeper layer to poor alec. real horrowshow.
THE ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE
how could ilive without
THERE IS NO DARKNESS
a coming of age tale for a 8 foot talk semi-human hulk, that wrestles sharks and fights on planet hell in a 1990 style weapons battle, and lives on a flying school. sounds lame, but it was a somber store, that had out worldy places, froma stone hearted gentle giant.
the DARK SWORD trilogy
like Dragonlance, just cooler, and more medival and fantastical, and the greatest sidekick, if you want to call him that, Simkin, the semi-god like being of omnipitent power, and all he wants to do is make jokes, and snyde remarks in the most sophisticated manner.
THE DARK TOWER SIEREIS BY STEVEN KING
take every story he's ever written, short stories and all. through in a gunslinger like clint eastwood, and just roll from chasing the man in black.
LORD OF THJE RINGS
SPERE by MICHAEL CRICHTON
hell ANY book by him, jarrasic park, or the odd man, or any of them. not only are they like sci-fi, but there mostly base don fiction.
HARRY POTTER
HITCHHIKERS GUIDE
and the first fan fictions before the internet, ANY STAR WARS BOOK.
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Tolkien (especially LOTR and Silmarillion) (he's AMAZING WRITER)
Herman Hesse - Sidartha (oh my god, I'm cumming on this book, so fucking amazing)
then,
Isaac Asimov (all of them),
Ursula Le Gwin (I don't know how it is the real name on English, never had original book, only translated)
all sci-fi I can find on this planet,
some of our native authors (let me mention Petre M. Andreevski and his book Pirej - this is one of the best BOOKS I have ever read and met)
A guide to Getting it On - Paul Yoanides (about sex)
David D.
Hitchhikers guide (though it's getting boring after the third book)
and of course, the king,
Frank Herbert and his DUNE series.. changed my life, my breathing, my sex...
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The five big books from Jean M. Auel -> in dutch De aardkinderen (een serie)
the last one is called The Shelters of Stone
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07-02-2006 12:52 |
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I read more than anyone has any business reading, and I have too many favourites to count. So here's what I've been reading lately:
Strangely Like War by Derrick Jensen-- if this book doesn't move you in a deep and unexpected way, then YOUR SOUL IS DEAD
A Delusion of Satan-- an in-depth account of the Salem Witch Trials
Revelation X: The "Bob" Apocryphon-- from the Church of the Subgenius
The Crawling Chaos-- an HP Lovecraft anthology
Doctors of Death: Inside the SS Medical Corps-- an in-depth look at the Nazi medical experiments
All You Need To Know About The Music Business by Donald Passman-- a look at the music biz from the perspective of a very anal-retentive lawyer
I highly recommend all of 'em.
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11-02-2006 05:08 |
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hard to find 5 books you like... well...
1. The Da Vinci code- dan brown
2. The Bernini-Mystery- dan brown
3. Evolution(or something)- Charles darwin
4. das prozess- Franz Kafka
5; The lord of the rings(not the movies)
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