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Do any of you meat heads read?
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Assuming you aren't illiterate , do you read and if so what's the last book you read? I like some of those dark adult comics. Some are just flat out stupid but funny none the less. For you self proclaimed intellectuals out there, I suggest anything by Robert Greene. The 48 Laws of power. 33 strategies of war. The art of seduction maybe for you slimy fucks who want to prey on wounded animals and hijack the poonany!
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Survivor by Chuck pahlaniuk and Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins. A little on the obscure side of things but both great recent reads for me.
Survivor is a great book. Also Haunted, Lullaby and Choke are great reads. Chuck P. is one of my favs. After all, who doesn't love Fight Club?
Choke was fantastic. But the movie, wtf was that shit? I hate it when they mess the movies up. Just watched Shawshank again the other night, now that's how it's supposed to be done right there.
One of my all time favorites is Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky. I picked it up thinking it was going to be hard to get through and I'd get bored, but I simply could not put it down. Stayed up all night reading it.
What a fascinating read brother! A masterful immersion into the human psyche!
Couldn't have said it better myself. The way the protagonist wrestles with guilt is so real you feel like you're the one who committed the crime. Lol
I'm sending you a FR because great minds think alike! :))
Absolutely. FR accepted
I am reading A Clockwork Orange, by A Burgess.
Velocity by Dean koontz. I love his series of books. Velocity was my favorite.
ray3801I agree, love Koontz. I also enjoy a lot of Stephen King early stuff. The Dark tower series being my all time favorite. I started reading that series when I was like 13 and didn't get to finish it until I was like 25 because he took so lone to write it. Ending kind of passed me off though.
I recently read Moby Dick. That was a very hard read and took me a while to get through it. I used to be a very big Stephen King fan but here of late I find myself wanting to read more of the classics.
StevebOne of the first books I actually wanted to read was Arnold Schwarzenegger Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding. One of the last few books I read were the Holocaust Industry.
i read books just on holidays. My last one was "odd thomas" from dean koontz.
The new Black Science Comics are pretty cool! From Image, if you are into comics.
I'm a big John Grisham fan, especially the firm. I can read that one a hundred times and still enjoy it. Also, Dennis Lehane and Cormac Mccarthy consistantly put out good works
The last book on read was a jessey Ventura conspiracies book. Interesting but I don't know how much of it is fact.
The most profound book I ever read was the varieties of scientific experience by Carl Sagan. Changed my perspective on life and our place in this vast universe
AnonLast book I read was
Midnight in Sicily
However...... I'm always reading a book of The Cat in the Hat on a regular basis... Some pretty good stuff, my son got me started on that.
My favorite is One Fish Two Fish
AnonLol
I've got so many I'm not sure which is my favorite
So after I thought about this all day I went home knowing I had a book I started and havent finished.
Tell My Sons
Lt. Col Mark M. Weber
All I can say is...
"High aspirations and low expectations"
Last book was The Stand, by King. Currently Siddartha by Hermann Hesse. Any of the classics or Eastern philosophy.
the last Steven King book I read was TommyKnockers .. and before that .. Thinner. I was done after the short stories.. lol. Interestingly a few nights ago I was reading about Siddartha .. I did not finish the book yet though
I tell you what, whoever as responsible for the tommy knockers movie should have been shot. That was a great book wrecked as a movie
The Stand is such an awesome story, I was a teenager when I read it, once I started I ran through it in 7 days. I couldn't put it down. You may have noticed Randall Flag makes an appearance in most of them books. If you haven't read the Dark Tower series they were a lot of fun but I think my personal favorite is the book he co-wrote with Peter Straub, The Talisman. The story of Traveling Jack is one I look forward to going back and reading again someday.
The Talisman was one of my favorites too. Such a totally different feel than most of his other books. Plus that wolf guy was pretty bad ass.
I've read all 7 of the Dark Tower series, some of them more than once.
I only made it through the first four before life caught up with me.
I have read many of King's books but The Stand is probably my favorite. I have not read much of his newer stuff. I really want to read the prequel to The Shinning.
The sequel is called Dr Sleep. I read it last year. Great book, stands alone from The Shining.
Ya that's what I was talking about thanks
Book on numbers
the death of Ivan Illitch .. Tolstoy
Insightful book and full of depth GRRL! Chilling is his question on his deathbed! God, I've asked myself the same question countless nights! Enjoy the masterpiece!
I love the classics! At the moment I'm re-reading Goethe's "Faust". Always a hidden gem to be found in the classics upon revisiting! The next book on tap is Edgar Allan Poe's "Tales of mystery and imagination". Haven't read that in decades, got to love a little macabre madness!
I never got into Poe but I always wanted to. I should start. Recommendations?
Some great recommendations below Nitti! I would also add "The Pit and the Pendulum" and "The Fall of the House of Usher". It's been so many years since I read his works, I'm so looking forward to it! Enjoy brother!
As a big Poe fan(I have read everything he wrote, though it has been quit some time) I would say it is best to start with him chronologically. His alcoholism and death of his brother and married his preteen cousin really change his writing style over time until he is obsessed about death. But if you just want one I would say go with "Murders in the Rue Morgue." It was the first ever detective story, but you must be ready for some complex language which can get tiring if you are not up for it.
Side note:
Last book was 'Let the Right One In' by John Lindqvist
Reading 'Station Eleven' by Emily St. John Mandel
The cask of amontillado was one of my favorite reads.
that was a great one !!
The perfect tale of revenge. It gave me shivers when I was a kid.
I haven't read Poe in so long that .. well I'd be embarrassed to say how many years but if I can remember after all these years how good it was then he damn sure is a great writer.
I made it to the Museum of Modern Arts when they had their Poe exhibit. It was a crazy experience.
I was at the unveiling of his statue near Boston Common, Poe was and still is one of my favorites. I did a thesis on him in college.
The Tell-Tale Heart. Short and sweet, the narrator is quickly going insane while describing a murder he committed. Cool fact about Poe was that he died at the age of 40 from alcoholism, completely broke.
Not proven, when they found him he was half dead and mumbling to himself. Some say he was poisoned by his arch rival editor who was stealing his work. Most of his work was stolen from him or sold for pennies on the dollar as he was labeled insane after his wife died.
I wrote my freshman English research paper comparing the lives and styles of Poe and Frost. They have more in common than you'd think. As for Poe's alcoholism and death, yes, nothing was proved, but I've read enough to draw my own conclusion. Lol
Definitely a combination of both possibly.
Goosebumps! Damn I loved those books growing up.
Undaunted Courage, by Stephen Ambrose, about the Lewis and Clark expedition. Fascinating read.