[ms] · Est. May 2002
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I didn't like "haunted". It is what I call a gimmick book. It had a gimmick ( a premise, i guess), but the actual plot i thought sucked.
"Kite runner" was a truly fantastic book. An amazing & unforgettable story.
Currently reading, "empire rising". A terrific, hard to put down story about an iron worker helping to build the empire state building that falls in love with a mobster's girlfriend. Good book, & highly recommended...
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I finished reading The Da Vinci code about a month ago. Very good read!
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[quote=pdowney]I have been looking for a new author to admire for a long time, and have finally found him. If you like science fiction, try Robert Charles Wilson. I just discovered him this year and he is great. The Chronoliths, Spin, Bios and Blind Lake have all amazed me.[/quote]
Darwinia was also very good by him: [url]http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0812566629/qid=1126414135/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-6180789-5618264?v=glance&s=books&n=507846[/url]
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The last book I just finished up reading is Chris Moneymakers. Bio called Moneymaker, about him in the 2003 WSOP. Awesome read. It's like you were there.
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Just read these books: [b]Last Call:[/b][url]http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345461916/103-2346110-8127826?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance[/url] [b]Powersat:[/b][url]http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0765309238/103-2346110-8127826?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance[/url] [b]The Memory of Running:[/b][url]http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0670033634/103-2346110-8127826?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance[/url] [b]Broken Angels by Richard K Morgan:[/b] [url]http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0739442201/103-2346110-8127826?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance[/url] [b]Ringworld by Larry Niven:[/b][url]http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345333926/qid=1126555450/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-2346110-8127826?v=glance&s=books&n=507846[/url]
Have a good read mates!
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brian greene's - the elegant universe once you understand how small and irrelevant you are and that everything you are made of is dead and possibly a million times older than the universe itself. you gain a greater appreciation of life and what you want from life . it isn't a a phylosophy book it's a physics book but it opens ure mind to unimaginable enormity and unimaginably minute . just to think we are made of cells and cells are made of atoms so we can see and touch each other and metal is solid ect.ect is not grasping the idea of how we came to be . . we have all heard of how everything in the universe came from the big bang and that the big bang was just a ball of pure matter possibly as small as a pea ( some think even smaller ) well all the matter in the universe stuck together is no larger than a pea . so imagine the earth goes into the sun approxinmately 1,000,000 times there are around 100 billion stars per galaxy and appoximatley 1000 billion galaxies . and also we are just discovering 2/3rds of the mass of the universe is dark matter we can't see .. and all that squeazes down to the size of a pea or less .. so now try to imagine just how much of urself is solid matter .. ... this isn't an extract from the book just a portion of what has sunk into my tiny brain . i like things that make me think ,this book i read 3 years ago and i'm still thinking about it
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[quote=thezzapper]I didn't like "haunted". It is what I call a gimmick book. It had a gimmick ( a premise, i guess), but the actual plot i thought sucked.
"Kite runner" was a truly fantastic book. An amazing & unforgettable story.
Currently reading, "empire rising". A terrific, hard to put down story about an iron worker helping to build the empire state building that falls in love with a mobster's girlfriend. Good book, & highly recommended...[/quote]
im enjoying haunted so far, empire rising sounds good, who is it by? (dont make me google it :P )
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Gates of Fire - Steven Pressfield
By far the best book I have ever read. They tell you the ending in the first chapter, but you hope the book never ends. Its about the Spartans of long ago and how 300 of them held off over hundreds of thousdand of advancing Persians at the battle of Thermopylae. The book is fiction, but follows truth as much as possible.
Loaded: A Misadventure from the Marijuana Trail - Robert Sabbag
Awesome non fiction. A drug runner recounts all the harrowing adventures he had smuggling ganja into the states from South America.
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chung quo-david wingrove about china waking up and realising it's potential ,it's a set of nine books following on from each other all in different styles spy/sci fi/ political /gangster ect.ec.t the romantic book lets the series down a lil but i don't think iv'e read 5000 pages quicker in my life . best fiction iv'e read
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Kite Runner is a great book! Read it.
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[quote=peloquin][quote=thezzapper]I didn't like "haunted". It is what I call a gimmick book. It had a gimmick ( a premise, i guess), but the actual plot i thought sucked.
"Kite runner" was a truly fantastic book. An amazing & unforgettable story.
Currently reading, "empire rising". A terrific, hard to put down story about an iron worker helping to build the empire state building that falls in love with a mobster's girlfriend. Good book, & highly recommended...[/quote]
im enjoying haunted so far, empire rising sounds good, who is it by? (dont make me google it :P )[/quote]
the author is thomas kelly. just finished reading it. excellent read.
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i just finished "The Contortionist's Handbook" by Craig Clevenger... pretty good book, i'd say its definately worth reading. currently reading "Crash" by J.G. Ballard - its about people who have a sexual fascination with car crashes - very weird
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[QUOTE=peloquin]currently reading "Crash" by J.G. Ballard - its about people who have a sexual fascination with car crashes - very weird[/QUOTE] That was made into a movie about 10 years ago starring James Spader. I remember there being a great controversy over its release.
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[QUOTE=skahound]That was made into a movie about 10 years ago starring James Spader. I remember there being a great controversy over its release.[/QUOTE]
yeah, david cronenberg makes a lot of f'ed up movies. the book was written in '73, Ballard also wrote Empire of the Sun and a lot of others...
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I just finished Catcher in the Rye and started Power vs Force by Dr.David R. Hawkins. Both of which I recommend. Catcher is something I've been meaning to read for awhile I think its one of those books you just have to read. Power vs Force is all about consciousness and spirituality. It's interesting, but at times he kind of strays off into the deep end. Worth checking out though.
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I'll have to check that ballard fellow out... sounds interesting.
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[QUOTE=palmer]I just finished Catcher in the Rye[/QUOTE] Hopefully you paid cash or used someone else's library card!
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I stole it.
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Catcher in the Rye is my all-time favorite book. read it at least 5 times.
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Even better.
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any hemingway fans? i just read "a farewell to arms" last week, and enjoyed it, was wondering waht else of his to read next :P
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Yeah it was very good. Lots of underlying themes worthy of multiple reads.
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[QUOTE=peloquin]any hemingway fans?[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.mercuryserver.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18721[/url]
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hah forgot about that thread...
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I just read [I]Heart of Darkness[/I] by Joseph Conrad again.
An all time favorite for me. Conrad's writing style sticks out and hits you in the chest like heavy bass. I love it.
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i'm gonna be on planes for 83 hours for business travel over the next 3 weeks...i will definitely be taking some of these suggestions with me.
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and if anyone wants to add any newer suggestions, that'd be appreciated. this is the only thread of book recommendations i could find, and its a bit dated...
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[quote=day_for_night;519706]and if anyone wants to add any newer suggestions, that'd be appreciated. this is the only thread of book recommendations i could find, and its a bit dated...[/quote] [url]http://www.mercuryserver.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31170&highlight=hesse[/url]
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I started reading 'Jitterbug Perfume' by Tom Robbins today. It's from the 80s so not exactly new, but I'm going off a strong recommendation and I can already tell I'm going to be hooked on this one.
Anyone else read it?
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I am struggling through:
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[quote=Katkich;519723][URL]http://www.mercuryserver.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31170&highlight=hesse[/URL][/quote]
danka :p
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[QUOTE=SyntaxTerror;519737]I started reading 'Jitterbug Perfume' by Tom Robbins today. It's from the 80s so not exactly new, but I'm going off a strong recommendation and I can already tell I'm going to be hooked on this one.
Anyone else read it?[/QUOTE]
actually this is one of the only ones i havent read of Tom Robbins. he's probably my favorite writer though... so funny and has such a way of coming up with analogies like nobody else. my fave of his is Skinny Legs & All and Half Asleep In Frog Pajamas is also great.
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my favorite author by far is Bret Easton Ellis, most notably known for [U]American Psycho[/U], [U]Rules of Attraction[/U], and [U]Less Than Zero[/U], all of which were made into movies. his writing style can be a bit much for those who can't handle really detailed and descriptive passages about violence, murder, fucked up sex acts, drug usage, etc... but he has this dark, witty, smart-ass sense of humor that i just find highly entertaining. he also has a lot of character overlap in his books, which is really cool if you read all of them because characters from one book will turn up in another one, and you'll feel like you already know them. another cool thing - he makes a lot of pop culture references in his storylines, mostly music and designers and trends from the 80's, which is really cool if you grew up during that time.
[U]American Psycho[/U], [U]Glamorama[/U], and [U]Rules of Attraction[/U] are my favorite books of his. i'd definitely recommend any of those, especially if you're into more fucked up authors like Chuck Palahniuk. i've read and enjoyed some Palahniuk books, but they didn't stick with me like Ellis' books do.