Posted: 8/19/2003, 7:50 pm
*tag team props*
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Posted: 8/19/2003, 7:50 pm
I thought it was by Heywood Jablowme
Posted: 8/19/2003, 7:53 pm
No, that's my book titled "Got Wang?"
Posted: 8/19/2003, 11:55 pm
teelow wrote:Dabekk wrote:'flowers for algernon' excellent book and an easy read about a mentally retarded man who through science becomes a genius. make sure you get the novel though and not the short story.
I read that too! It wasn't bad, wasn't super amazing though.
How big is the actual novel? (just in case I read the SS)
as I recall it was about 150-200 pages, plus it was written so that it was like the guy's journal wereas the I'm pretty sure the short story has a third person narrator.
Posted: 8/20/2003, 6:27 am
Chuck Palahnick - Fight Club
Paul Quarrington - Whale Music, Civilization
Douglas Coupland - Mircroserfs, Life After God, All Families are Psychotic.
Paul Quarrington - Whale Music, Civilization
Douglas Coupland - Mircroserfs, Life After God, All Families are Psychotic.
Posted: 8/20/2003, 6:37 am
others - James Herbert
red dragon, silence of the lambs, hannibal - Thomas Harris
red dragon, silence of the lambs, hannibal - Thomas Harris
Posted: 8/20/2003, 6:38 am
Harris' Hannibal books are all great. Red Dragon is probably the best.
If you're a Harris fan, check out Black Sunday (I think that's what it's called. It's his only other book, anyways). It was pretty good, too.
If you're a Harris fan, check out Black Sunday (I think that's what it's called. It's his only other book, anyways). It was pretty good, too.
Posted: 8/20/2003, 12:01 pm
Damn my rinky dink library! I shoulda known they woudln't have half the books you guys would suggest.
Posted: 8/20/2003, 12:12 pm
One book not to read: Robertson Davies' Fifth Business.
It's not even a bad book, it has some interesting characters and some deep theo-philosophical content, but once you think about it, the entire book is about a fucking snowball. It's the story of how a guy wastes his life by a scarring childhood memory, and when you finish the book you realize you've wasted 600+ pages of reading and hours of your life over some stupid immature prick and a snowball.
It's not even a bad book, it has some interesting characters and some deep theo-philosophical content, but once you think about it, the entire book is about a fucking snowball. It's the story of how a guy wastes his life by a scarring childhood memory, and when you finish the book you realize you've wasted 600+ pages of reading and hours of your life over some stupid immature prick and a snowball.
Posted: 8/20/2003, 12:13 pm
Dude, read L. Ron Hubbard's <i>Fear</i>. That book will SERIOUSLY fuck you up. In a... good way.
I think.
I think.
Posted: 8/20/2003, 12:26 pm
Oh I am so pissed off! I called every fucking library in NORTHERN UTAH looking for that damn wallflower book and none of them have it.
Sigh, I guess I'll have to spend some money.
Sigh, I guess I'll have to spend some money.
Posted: 8/20/2003, 3:01 pm
su7an wrote:Chuck Palahnick - Fight Club
Paul Quarrington - Whale Music, Civilization
Douglas Coupland - Mircroserfs, Life After God, All Families are Psychotic.
I read Chuck Palahnick's Choke about a year ago and it sure is pretty fucked up. I'd like to read Fight Club once I get the time.
Posted: 8/20/2003, 3:26 pm
fight club the book was ok...the movie is VERY similar to it, but its one of the few instances were i actually did prefer the movie
Posted: 8/20/2003, 3:53 pm
wanan wrote:su7an wrote:Chuck Palahnick - Fight Club
Paul Quarrington - Whale Music, Civilization
Douglas Coupland - Mircroserfs, Life After God, All Families are Psychotic.
I read Chuck Palahnick's Choke about a year ago and it sure is pretty fucked up. I'd like to read Fight Club once I get the time.
Most people would call him "subversive". His writing can mess with you. Fight Club is a pretty light read. I read it in less than a day.
Posted: 8/20/2003, 4:05 pm
Badass Cass wrote:Oh I am so pissed off! I called every fucking library in NORTHERN UTAH looking for that damn wallflower book and none of them have it.
Sigh, I guess I'll have to spend some money.
It's a cheap paperback book. It will be worth whatever you spend on it.
Posted: 8/20/2003, 6:03 pm
Im not sure if someone has mentioned it but since my nam is Ender I am going to have to recommend Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card.
Posted: 8/20/2003, 6:26 pm
Ender's Shadow is pretty crappy in comparison to Speaker For the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind.
IMO.
IMO.
Posted: 8/20/2003, 7:01 pm
Really? i thought the three sequels to Ender's Game were pretty boring, but hey different strokes for different folks.
Now, the two sequels(and a third future sequel) to Ender's Shadow were great. One-eye, I highly recommend them to you if you havent read them yet. They are called Shadow of the Hegemon and Shadow Puppets.
Now, the two sequels(and a third future sequel) to Ender's Shadow were great. One-eye, I highly recommend them to you if you havent read them yet. They are called Shadow of the Hegemon and Shadow Puppets.
Posted: 8/20/2003, 9:17 pm
I read Shadow of the Hegemon, which was pretty political and not really my thing. Have Shadow Puppets collecting dust on my bookshelf; will read it someday. 
Oh, and call me Aerin.
Oh, and call me Aerin.
Posted: 8/20/2003, 10:22 pm
Ender's Game 