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I strongly recommend ANything by Haruki Murakami... my favourite work by him so far has been The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Fantastic author.

TRUMP - How to Think Like a Billionaire

Glamorama, by Bret Easton Ellis

it's definitely, um... different.

Re: I was looking for a book....

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Originally posted by ierxium Fiction is better but anything else is also welcomed.

Go for some western classics like The Iliad or the The Oddesy or some chinese, persian, or others (I'm not sure which ones.) These are not only great, but enduring.

real good book

hacking: the art of exploitation

or steal this computer book vol 3

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Originally posted by Zenchowdah I second that one.

wow i didnt even have to post it...

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Originally posted by ::TranceVanDyk:: TRUMP - How to Think Like a Billionaire

Why would I want to think like a billionaire if I ain't one?

Thanks all for the suggestions. I think I have enough.

into the wild (a true story about a man who had everything...and dropped it all to live in the bush... ) really awesome book..inspiring because its a true story.


"Mercy" forget the author but its a thriller... a lot like 8mm (the movie) but way better.

"street lawyer" by john grisham

all the harry potters hehehe

ender's game by orson scott card
and ender's shadow...by the same author
actually apparently the whole ender's sega is good but i havent read the last three.

hope that helps

Fiction Book eh? Try the Bible

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Originally posted by Sunsnail Fiction Book eh? Try the Bible

lol!

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Originally posted by l�cid Glamorama, by Bret Easton Ellis it's definitely, um... different.

is it anything like rules of attraction or american psycho?
cause those were pretty 'different' as well.

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Originally posted by Dj Tomer is it anything like rules of attraction or american psycho? cause those were pretty 'different' as well.

i'd say it's more similar to American Psycho, yet the main character in Glamorama is Victor from Rules of Attraction. the book starts off kind of slow, but sort of mindfucks you halfway through and then it gets real interesting. i've read it twice and it's always slow for me to get started but then after a while i seriously can't put it down.

oh, and there were passages in Glamorama that gave me horrible nightmares.

still... it's gotta be one of my favorite books ever.

I never post, but I was searching for good books to read and no one has mentioned this utterly awesome book:

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe...


Awesome, just awesome

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Originally posted by ierxium Okay, I'll try looking for that book.

There is also the Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield and Principia by Sir Isaac Newton
Both very interesting Although Principia is a little DEEP

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Originally posted by ierxium and it was out of stock! What a disappointment. So I ask the smart readers in COR, which is basically everybody, to recommend a good book, popular or not, that will hopefully be in stock when I go to the store. Please indicate what type of book it is. Fiction is better but anything else is also welcomed.

Fedor M. Dostoievski - Crime and punishment , best book ever, stunning, astounding, fantastic! It's fiction, very very well known, a classic, it's about consciousness troubles after a crime, I don't tell you more but really believe me it's incredible!

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Originally posted by DarkAngel You can try my vampire vs. slayer series. www.tornminds.com/vsf All fiction, all written by me, a continuing series. Click on the right links where it says "SEASONS."

god ur series sucks. No wonder ur a lowlife scumbag mother****** who probably still lives with his parents or that retarded kid?

Bah...most of contemporrary literature is garbage

For true masterpieces browse the classics; there you will find the english langage displayed at its finest (w/out the cancerous distortions of the language we see today). I just finished reading several books by Somerset Maugham

In particular I recommend his collection of short stories. Several stories are about his time working for British Intelligence. There are some rather interesting stories that take place in the far east/Pacific Islands...I'm a sucker for late 19th century tales of adventure set in the tropics

Depends on what you mean by classic, I mean when did the classical period stop and the modern begin. Also literature is part of the mechanism via which language evolves and changes... the english language is not a static animal, otherwise we'd stille bee talkinge like Chaucer.
Many novels written as late as the 60's (eg Catch 22, A Clockwork Orange) are now readily accepted as classics by the literary establishment. Relegating modern literature to the scrap heap is likely to leave one with a somewhat narrow-minded outlook. While old books, with the allure of archaic english can be seductive and certainly serve a purpose, they are also shrouded in the conservativism and bias of their times. They also arose out of particular academic and philosophical environments... and the great majority of these classics can't possibly serve as a true reflection of a postmodern society which has experienced as much as the world has over the last half a century.

If you want to pick bones classical literature is strictly Latin and Greek literature. When people refer to books that are classics they don't mean from the classical period they mean that its a piece of great literature.

'the ecstasy club' by douglas rushkoff
'journey to ixtlan' by carlos castaneda

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Originally posted by ierxium I'm looking for something new to read. Since I have the time I was considering reading about different authors to the ones I mostly read. Those authors are for the most part from Spain: Unamuno, Baroja, Machado, Galdos, Valle-Incl�n, Azor�n, etc. So to be clear, I'm looking for any thing, excluding porn related material of course and books about cooking. I apologize if I'm vague. But thanks to everyone for the suggestions.

Do you read in spanish??

My recommendations:
-Mario Vargas Llosa
-Alfredo Bryce Echenique
Great peruvian writers, although Mario Vargas Llosa is a little overrated IMO.

So here's the list of what I'll be reading this year:

• Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
  
• Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
  
• A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
  
• Disclosure by Michael Crichton
  
• A Wild Sheep Chase By Haruki Murakami
  
• Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis
  
• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
  
• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
  
• Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
  
• The Ecstacy Club by Douglas Rushkoff
  
• Conversaci�n en la catedral by Mario Vargas Llosa
  
• Un mundo para Julius by Alfredo Bryce Echenique
  

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Originally posted by Laughingfennec Fedor M. Dostoievski - Crime and punishment , best book ever, stunning, astounding, fantastic! It's fiction, very very well known, a classic, it's about consciousness troubles after a crime, I don't tell you more but really believe me it's incredible!

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Originally posted by Sunsnail Fiction Book eh? Try the Bible

not worth it
all the build up and there's no fucking resoluion
how does it end?!

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Originally posted by ierxium I read the first season. It was a good read. But I should also mention that at times I felt the lack of detail. Maybe that was just me. Also, that falls under the category of constructive criticism. Also, you killed the person who for a moment I thought was the main character. Not cool but original I guess. Anyway, I'll try reading the rest of the seasons soon, I want to see what Amanda Klein has in store for me. Thanks for the recommendation. You're a good writer and your imagination also helps. Thank you all for the recommendations. I will try to read each one by the end of the year(I have other obligations that will keep me from reading them all sooner). I have already started reading some books you guys recommended. Again, thank you.

Hey thanks!

Yeah it DOES lack detail because I'm trying to keep these as SHORT stories. Too much detail and these shits will explode into full-size novels.

Also keep in mind I'm not always writing, so

I try my best.

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Originally posted by ierxium I read the first pages of The Firm. The first remark about the firm not having an African-American threw me off. I might read it but it is not certain.

what do you mean? why did it throw you off?



sorry to hi-jack, but i was wondering, whats rules of attraction about?

i read american physcho and it was certainly different, so wouldnt mind reading some of his other work.

and since the main character from Glamorama was in rules of attraction would i need to read ROA first?

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