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I read this book about once a month. It's probably my favourite novel ever.
It takes place in the far future, and it's very good. However, I can't provide a summary without spoiling, and I recommend you all try to read it.[/QUOTE]
I'll look for it at my library.
My favorite books are Ender's Game (Whole series included), Mutiny On The Bounty and Lord Of The Rings.
I haven't read for enjoyment in awhile though.
Phillis Wheatley's poetry is fucking amazing.
On Being Brought From Africa To America
'Twas mercy brought me from my pagan land,
Taught my beknighted soul to understand
That there's a God, that there's a Savior too:
Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.
Some view our sable race with scornful eye,
"Their color is a diabolic dye."
Remember Christians; Negroes, black as Cain,
May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train.
Poe's "The Raven" is pretty sweet, too.
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;28534129]Do we really need a billion book threads one after the other? Can we get a literature section please?[/QUOTE]
There was a literature section and it was always dead.
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I googled it and then I died
The twilight series is pretty good but I lose interest and feel a little suicidal after the first page of book 1.
The protagonist dies.
[QUOTE=Doomish;28534539]Shakespeare's works count as books, right? They're generally in play format.
If so, then fuck "A Midsummer Night's Dream". It is about nothing. When I read it I was bored out of my skull, and I usually enjoy Shakespeare. Comedy really isn't his thing. Don't read it, kids, it's a filler novel and I did not enjoy it.[/QUOTE]
Really? Twelfth Night was pretty good.
Also, I advocate John Wyndham, he wrote some fantastic books.
George R.R. Martin is amazing. A song of Fire and Ice is the bext series I have ever read. Fuck tolkien, fuck paolini, fuck all dat shit, none of them kills main characters in a nonchalant talk between some other 2 chaarcters.
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what a fantastic book.
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Also a very good book. Made me cry a little bit in parts.
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Right now I'm about 260 pages through Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. Other than The Broom of the System and the Pale King which is unfinished because the author was too busy hanging himself to finish it, this is the only Novel he's every done. But my, what a novel. It's over a thousand pages long, and the last 100 or so is all footnotes. The guy loved footnotes. It doesn't really have one straight forward plot. It focuses on a lot of different stories. It takes place in the future, well it actually takes place around now but it was the future when it was written, where numbers are no longer used for year names, and the names are up for sponsorship. For example most of the novel takes place in The Year of the Depends Adult Undergarment. The novel mostly takes place at The Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House (redundancy sic), and the Enfield Tennis Academy, which are both in Boston, and revolves around a mysterious film cartridge that is so entertaining that whoever watches it will lose interest in everything else and they'll forget to eat and eventually die. There's also a group of wheelchair bound Quebecois terrorists who want to find a master copy of the film. This is probably the most insane story I've ever heard of, and it certainly is a very awesome book. It's gonna take me a while to finish it though.
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:h: you Steinbeck!
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Basically what NATO could've been
Currently reading this:
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I'm really not too far into it at the moment. Basically a hunter finds an elf floating in a river while wandering the woods with his Roc. The elf has had his eye and tongue cut out but is not dead. The hunter finds two (seemingly) important objects that the elf bore: A bracelet with a meaningful crest on it and a map to some unknown location in an unknown language. After giving the elf to a healer Hunter (Predd) takes the two objects found on the elf to the elven king, Allardon. Not much more I can say without revealing too many details. Pretty good at the moment; the book definitely has a quick start.
Pies are nice
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Recently read Fahrenheit 451 and Animal Farm, reading Brave New World now. Overall they are all fantastic.
Maybe this thread could help me out. I need to choose a book for my English class but I'm completely lost. The only requirements are that is needs to be fiction and 200-300 pages long. Does Facepunch recommend anything good?
[QUOTE=debmaster;28536196]Maybe this thread could help me out. I need to choose a book for my English class but I'm completely lost. The only requirements are that is needs to be fiction and 200-300 pages long. Does Facepunch recommend anything good?[/QUOTE]
Well do you have any certain types of books you like?
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Basically what NATO could've been[/QUOTE]
Tom Clancy really writes wonderful books.
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Anything that's interesting and not girly.
[QUOTE=debmaster;28536434]Anything that's interesting and not girly.[/QUOTE]
"Not Girly" is kind of a broad term.
How about Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest? I actually like the book more than the movie. McMurphy is one of the most bad-ass characters ever.
Or Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. McCarthy's stuff is very far from girly I tell you what.
Or how about William Burrough's Naked Lunch. That shit ain't girly. Although I think it would be pretty difficult writing a school assignment for it.
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I'm reading this book right now, it's really great as of now. Two stories following a detective story like thing, and a fantasy-ish adventure. I need to look into the rest of this author's works.
I just finished All Quiet On The Western Front
fantastic book.
started reading East Of Eden.
also Rainbow Six is a good book, i got a 1/4th through, but had to stop because of other books I had to read for school.
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Lovecraft is the most lovable lovely writer of all time. I love Lovecraft. Lovely lovable love puns aside, he's the most verbose and deep writer I've ever read, even more than Stephen King. It feels like what he writes about could be real, there's just so much detail and immersion in every single story he wrote. Perhaps they are real, and humanity just hasn't ventured out of its isle of ignorance yet. V:v:V
I'm currently reading the third book in The Dark Tower series. God damn these books are awesome.
Today I bought a politics textbook. It was £30 so afterwards I had a little cry to myself.
That said, my favourite book in the whole world is Tao Te Ching. I get it out at least once or twice a week to read a few passages. If you're at all interested in chinese philosophy I can't recommend it enough. The J H McDonald translation seems to be the most poetic, genuine feeling iteration.
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I can't overstate how much a profound effect it had on my thought (I'm doing a philosophy degree so it's influenced even my studies quite a lot).
I don't remember what the last fiction book I read was - nowadays all I ever read is philosophical/political works. Just studied On Liberty (JS Mill) and its probably one of the best political texts I've understood. Now I'm on to the Communist Manifesto :smug:
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Lovecraft is the most lovable lovely writer of all time. I love Lovecraft. Lovely lovable love puns aside, he's the most verbose and deep writer I've ever read, even more than Stephen King. It feels like what he writes about could be real, there's just so much detail and immersion in every single story he wrote. Perhaps they are real, and humanity just hasn't ventured out of its isle of ignorance yet. V:v:V[/QUOTE]
I have that exact book! One of these days I'll get around to reading it.
I like all types of books, but most books tend to bored me anywhere between 50 and 200 pages. Any book I read completely though stays buried in my memory.
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Just read this, I highly recommend it, it can change your life. It's changed mine.
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That said, my favourite book in the whole world is Tao Te Ching. I get it out at least once or twice a week to read a few passages. If you're at all interested in chinese philosophy I can't recommend it enough. The J H McDonald translation seems to be the most poetic, genuine feeling iteration.
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Looks like someone already beat me to Taoism.
Just some advice, if you're interested in Taoism but know nothing about it, read Tao of pooh. It's a much easier read. However Tao Te Ching is a bunch of interesting poetry and stories and is fascinating on it's own.
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At first glance, the authors name looks like 'Brain Overload'
Good book for learning C++ though.
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Just read this, I highly recommend it, it can change your life. It's changed mine.[/QUOTE]
Put it on my list of what to check out.
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