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Anyone read any good books lately?

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Sufferboy
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I just got done with some book called twilight, i rly didnt want to read it but my friends sis made me a bet i couldnt read it in 5 days. so i just got done with it(today is day 3) and it wasnt half bad
Jun 25 2008 1:58AM
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Shadows
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what are these "books" you speak of?
har har har j/k
last book i read was into the wild. cliche as hell at the time but it was pretty descent.
Jun 25 2008 2:26AM
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miroz
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I don't read all through the school year, and now that its summer I read a lot, especially in the mornings. 

Atlantis Found
The Messenger
Killer Instinct

All of them are thriller/adventure-type books.  I like them because reading them is like watching a movie in my head.  I've read the last two and the first half of Atlantis Found in the first week or so of summer...not too bad, haha
Jun 25 2008 9:12AM
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KapitolPhoto
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I finally finished "On the Road."

It took me four years. I started reading it as a sophomore in college and put it down after Sal and Dean had crossed the country twice. I picked it back up again this year. I'm amazed at how ones perspective of a book can change over time. When I was in college and had the "go get 'em" attitude, I wanted to cross the country like Moriarty or McCandless. Now I've got a real job and thought Dean was just shirking his responsiblities by leaving his children with his two wives and driving to Mexico.

I think I need to get back to that "go get 'em" attitude.

Jun 25 2008 10:45AM
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Shorton
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currently reading 1984, really good book if you ever get the chance to read it
Jun 25 2008 10:55AM
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king.tubby
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^^ i actually read 1984 myself recently. so good. the ending is kind of depressing, but you kind of know that's where its going.
i recently finished "catch a fire" a bob marley biography, which was amazing. tells bob's whole story, but also gives you alot of background on jamaican history, rastafarianism, and the progression from ska to rocksteady to straight up reggae.
i tried to read "Eragon" but just couldn't do it.
to the person who read "on the road," if you enjoyed that, i would highly reccomend "big sur" "dharma bums" and/ 0r "desolation angels," all really kick ass kerouac books
Jun 25 2008 11:24AM
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elk.
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not to be gay or anything but i Read "running with scisscors" and i must say it was one of the most insane story lines e verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Jun 25 2008 11:35AM
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charmander
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i really liked the monkey wrench gang, was gonnaread it again but my mom loaned it out
Jun 25 2008 12:58PM
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KarmaInitiative
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third twin by ken follet

way sick, you can put it down
Jun 25 2008 3:57PM
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aaron.ebner
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Fear and loathing in Las Vegas....

love it

Jun 25 2008 8:42PM
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SirFryanator
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Such, such, SUCH a good book.
Jun 25 2008 11:06PM
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aaron.ebner
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anyone who's ever been interested in rhcp or anything that has to do with drug abuse/addicion habits should read Scar Tissue
Jun 26 2008 2:07AM
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coffinparty
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just started "another roadside attraction" by tom robbins.
gotta love the 60's acid trips!
Jun 26 2008 3:05AM
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rj.
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just finished that too, liked the movie better because i felt it portrayed him the best. nonetheless a great story i thought
Jun 26 2008 6:41PM
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i.ski.troll.
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i dont read books

Jun 26 2008 7:57PM
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Sufferboy
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Jun 26 2008 7:59PM
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SirFryanator
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oh, and "atlas shrugged" by Ayn Rand
Jun 27 2008 1:06AM
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ski8990
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I am reading the new David Sedaris book right now and Its hilarious just like all his others. I recommend it for sure.
Jun 27 2008 4:56PM
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zylstra
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word.....ayn rand is one crazy woman but i like her already
Jun 27 2008 6:36PM
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[~_~]
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I absolutely hated that book. I got the message pretty early on in the book and the ending didn't suprise me; it just wasn't my style.

I just picked up Lewis Carrol: The Complete Illustrated Works.

It's sooo rad. It has all his stories, with the original illustrations that were picked by Carrol himself.
Jun 27 2008 6:43PM
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ThaLorax
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I'm almost finished with A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick. Crazy ass book.
Jun 27 2008 7:16PM
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wdbo.
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their eyes were watching god - zora neale hurston

Jun 28 2008 12:57AM
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Sufferboy
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i hate that book with a passion of christ
Jun 28 2008 1:02AM
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wdbo.
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i myself can't imagine why but i'd love to hear why you feel so
Jun 28 2008 1:09AM
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Sufferboy
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i guess the talking in it was way confusing, and i couldnt stand how janie acted. i guess it kinda pissed me off
Jun 28 2008 1:10AM
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wdbo.
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ok, thats understandable
those seem like petty reasons to hate an outstanding piece of literature but i will leave that to you
Jun 28 2008 1:18AM
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Pippin
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a clockwork orange
nineteen-eighty four

both exceptional novels, and well worth the read, enjoy.
Jun 28 2008 1:26AM
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Sufferboy
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its cool,

i rly like catcher and the rye

and 1984

and atleast i tried to like it

i read the whole thing
Jun 28 2008 1:27AM
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FellowJibber
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i only read during school what im forced to in english. idk. i kind of like to kill a mockingbird
Jun 28 2008 1:37PM
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deathcookie
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Im probably the only person who really didnt like 1984.  It just seemed like another one of those dystopian novels that all end the same.  Some books I have jsut read that I really enjoyed are The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut and Hammer of the Gods.  Hammer of the Gods is the biography of Led Zeppelin and it was great.
Jun 28 2008 5:27PM
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Atypical
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American Gods - Niel Giaman
Fight Club - Book > movie, total mind fuck

Jun 29 2008 10:31PM
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Faggghkxd
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THE ALCHEMIST

such a good book and it isnt too long. in a sense its about achieving your dreams. such a good book just finished it i really recomend it. and to convince you furthermore it is tanner halls favorite book !!!!!!!
Jun 29 2008 10:37PM
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SirFryanator
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oh yea the alchemist is so good

I just finished The Green Mile by Stephen King yesterday, I highly suggest you read it.
Jun 29 2008 10:46PM
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Campeador
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Killing Pablo
Jun 30 2008 12:38AM
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cofreeskier
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David Sedaris is hilarious. I've read two of his books, I'll have to read the new one though.
Jun 30 2008 12:57AM
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richards
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no
Jun 30 2008 1:58PM
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blackstarr
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For Whom the Bell Tolls- Ernest Hemingway...amazing

Terribly Loud and Incredibly Close- Jonathan Safran Foer...Very good
Jun 30 2008 4:56PM
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ThaLorax
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isn't that a crazy ass book?
Jul 2 2008 6:15AM
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king.tubby
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does this include "sylvie and bruno?" that  book is amazing, and so unknown
Jul 2 2008 11:13AM
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potato_man
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the Bible



I AM AMERICA(AND SO CAN YOU)! - stephen colbert

good humor book, or anything by dave barry
Jul 4 2008 1:52AM
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Balto
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the firm by John Grishem was good
Jul 4 2008 1:56AM
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Leo.
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ive been reading the fountainhead for a while.  suchhhhh a slow read for me but quite enjoyable nonetheless
Jul 4 2008 3:47AM
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East.
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slaughterhouse five. quality read. read it a couple years back tho.

Anyone read In Cold Blood by Capote? definitely worth the read.
Jul 5 2008 4:46PM
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wdbo.
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illuminations by arthur rimbaud was ok
Jul 5 2008 6:32PM
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Me.
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Fans of his should read Apocalypse in Retrospect, it came out a while ago. It's an anthology of his short war stories. And A Man Without A Country is like a memoir and also really good.

Reading Big Sur by Kerouac now.
Jul 5 2008 7:19PM
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ummmmm53
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If anyone is into the environment and how humans have and will effect it i highly suggest The World Without Us by Alan Weisman. I also just finished Sedaris's newest book and I would highly recommend it.
Jul 6 2008 1:01AM
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BigJew
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I was in Costa Rica and got horribly sick for a couple days in a hotel. In the hotels give a book take a book bin I randomly picked up one of the few English books there and started reading it.... and didn't stop until it was finished. It was called The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls and it was seriously one of the best books I've ever read. It's only a couple hundred pages but I would definitely check it out.
Jul 6 2008 1:50AM
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Jmanski
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i have banksys book and its sick theres not much to read though,
Jul 7 2008 11:36AM
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joelle+cowbell
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i read East of Eden by Steinbeck and loved it. it's a longer book but absolutely compelling from start to finish. i also read Gates of Fire. this book is sooooo good. if you want a really good fictional story of thermopolae (the battle that 300 was based on) go and check it out right NOW.
Jul 7 2008 12:47PM
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sneaky_pete
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Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer- awesome book about climbing Everest

Jul 7 2008 8:36PM
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king.tubby
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that book is sick. "the climb" by anatoli bookreev (sp) kind of tells the other side of the story
Jul 8 2008 11:08AM
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