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Posted by Sarcoman on Jan-24-2002 01:09:

What Kind of Books do you read?

I was just curious, What type of books to other TrancEaddicts read? Hence the thread.

I like SciFi/Fantasy books, and books that are dystopian in nature. Some of the books I have read recently are:

George Orwell - 1984
Yevgeny Zamyatin - We
Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
Josef Conrad - Heart of Darkness
JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings
Orson Scott Card - Enders Game Saga

Posted by Tony Morello on Jan-24-2002 01:35:

Maxim
Ministry of Sound
Mixmag
Playboy (for the articles!! )

umm... i don't have time for real books... maybe once i'm done college
i love a good read

Posted by cosmix on Jan-24-2002 16:17:

how `bout Irvine Welsh ???

Posted by Spad on Jan-24-2002 18:53:

quote:
Originally posted by cosmix
how `bout Irvine Welsh ???

I read Filth and it fucked me up big time Was very good tho. Other than that I read lots of Stephen King (but I've been lazy and havn't read his newer stuff yet). The Stand, IT, The Body and Rita Hayworth & The Shawshank Redemption are some of my favorites of his.

Also somebody on TA recommended Jeff Noon ages ago so I ended up buying Pixel Juice and loved it. I really need to get some more of his work, is brilliant stuff.

Posted by cosmix on Jan-24-2002 20:13:

quote:
Originally posted by Spad

I read Filth and it fucked me up big time Was very good tho.

I read XTC and this one fucked me up too i liked it..

Posted by Slapskin on Jan-25-2002 01:46:

i like books about paranormal shit like ufos, alien abductions etc...

Posted by ForgottenLegacy on Jan-25-2002 02:36:

well.......

All within the Last 3 months.

Timothy Findley - The Wars (very gay main character)
Bernard Shaw - Heartbreak House
Edward Albee - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Lord of the Rings - 3rd time reading it.

Next book to read, Othello.....I hope you know who it is by.....

Most of these books suck (so who cares if the main character is fighting his homosexual desires, or if a war is going on......or if their love life sucks) so don't bother reading them. I usually just read a R.A. Salvatore book a week on the summer holidays

Posted by ForgottenLegacy on Jan-25-2002 02:39:

Forgot to add that I read newspaper daily.....doh! And you know what's ironic ....I can't spell for sh!t....I only get mid 80's in english.

Posted by Dj O'Callaghan on Jan-25-2002 03:53:

I read these magazines

Minstry
Mixmag
Dj

And I read crime autobiographies and books like that these are the ones I've read lately their all about Irish gangsters

Black Mass
Westies - Hells Kitchen Irish Mob
To Kill an Irishman The story of Danny Greene

Posted by SmellsExcellent on Jan-25-2002 04:04:

In Progress:
J.G. Ballard - Super-Cannes

Recently:
Jostein Gaarder - Sophie's World
Jonathan Lethem - Motherless Brooklyn
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
Aldous Huxley - Doors of Perception
Aldous Huxley - Island
James Michener - The Drifters
Joh Hodge - The Beach
Chuck Palahniuk - Fight CLub
Michael Crichton - Timeline
Chuck Palahniuk - Figt Club
Mark Mathabane - Kaffir Boy
Mitch Albom - Tuesdays With Morrie
Eugene Burdick & William J. Lederer - The Ugly American
Johnathan Kozol - Savage Inequalities (SUCKED, but enlightening)
Robert Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

I love:
George Orwell - 1984
George Orwell - Animal Farm
Ray Bradbury - Farenheit 451
plus a few from above.. well, i like all of em, i have to like a book to finish it.. but I could keep readin those over and over..

cheers
-Marc

**edit
Forgot a few of the really old classics, which are all AMAZING, go read them if you can stand the homeric-style writing... (codas and stanzas and shit.. theyre really long poems, but not in the sense we know, a more elegant way of writing IMO.)

Homer - The Illiad
Homer - The Odyssey
Vergil - The Aeneid
Dante Algheri - Divine Comedy

Posted by torontotrance on Jan-25-2002 04:10:

Let me think

Mixmag
Stuff
Maxim and many other mags

In terms of books

John Walsh's Public Enemies (Brillant imo)
John Grisham's Painted House (One of the best novels imo ever)
Mortal Remains by Gregory Hall (nice suspense novel)

These are the book i've read in the last week! I read lots of books in my spare time.

Posted by djlenny on Jan-25-2002 04:16:

Robin Hobb 'Assasins or Farseer Trilogy"
Robin Hobb 'liveship trilogy'
Raymond Feist ' Magician and al other books following this'
L.O.T.R trilogy
Dr. Who

Basically i am a Sci Fi nerd

Posted by JM on Jan-25-2002 04:53:

who reads books we listen to trance!!!!!

joking, i read my school textbooks, saturating my brain with useful knwoledge

>JM<

Posted by Virus on Jan-25-2002 08:13:

Re: What Kind of Books do you read?

quote:
Originally posted by Sarcoman

George Orwell - 1984

This is the best book I�ve ever read. It�s so dark and frightening. Very well written..

I don�t have time to read a lot while I study (gotta read my 60 pages a day) , so I mostly read at summer break and such...

Posted by Fraggle on Jan-25-2002 16:30:

hmm, last book i read was the beach

imo, far far better than the movie

currently reading the tad williams otherland series

and will try to start the lotr books after i guess, but struggling thru the current book

...really struggling heheeh!!!

Posted by SYNthSRI on Jan-25-2002 16:44:

got like 300 books on my book shelf of various genres...

for FUN -- most def. works of Robert Jordan (Wheel of Time series)

the last book I read was 'Unquiet Minds' by Hugh Miller (a f'en SICK book on various psychosis and case studies ON THOSE -- couldn't read half the book cuz I was just disturbed by it)
the book before that was 'Man's Search for Meaning' by Dr. Victor Frankl <<< a MUST READ for ANYONE -- a book on logotherapy, which is a field in Psychology.

Hmm..personally like books on Ancient History as well (the last one I read from that subject was 'The Message of the Sphinx' by Graham Hancock
and most def. books on war -- the last book of THAT I read was 'Black Hawk Down' by Mark Bowden (read this about 6 months ago..waaay before the movie came out).

Posted by Cosmo on Jan-25-2002 20:44:

Currently reading Antuan de Saint-Exupery "Little prince".
Great book!

Posted by Sarcoman on Jan-25-2002 23:15:

Re: Re: What Kind of Books do you read?

quote:
Originally posted by King of Clubs

This is the best book I�ve ever read. It�s so dark and frightening. Very well written..

I don�t have time to read a lot while I study (gotta read my 60 pages a day) , so I mostly read at summer break and such...

If you liked 1984, you will also like "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin. It was the book mentioned in the Forward of 1984 as the book that inspired Orwell to write 1984 in the first place.

For those of you who liked Lord of the Rings, you may also like 'The Fionavar Tapestry - by Guy Gavriel Kay'. A Canadian author too.

Posted by Bick on Jan-26-2002 06:18:

Science Fiction/Fantasy

A whole bunch of others as well, but I can't think right now, hehe

Posted by Bayou Boy on Jan-26-2002 07:43:

Irvine welsh is fuckin awesome....read all of his stuff....filth and marabou stark nightmares were my fav's.....i love how he rights in the dialect.....he had me talkin like a drunken irishmen for a while!!!!!!! on the real though.....doe's everybody really talk that dirty over there....or is just irvine?

Posted by Tranex02 on Jan-26-2002 08:41:

gosh....i feel stupid...
i was never a big reader....
but i like SCI-F.....or non-fiction scientific stuff....
Maybe i should get into the habbit of reading??

Posted by bluE_Neon on Jan-26-2002 19:25:

i usually like to read books about HISTORY
recently just read Stones From The River by Ursula Hegi (book about German Nazi Life)
Orwell's 1984 gotta admit a really GOOD book
now im gonna start reading a polish book

Posted by bluE_Neon on Jan-26-2002 19:26:

i usually like to read books about HISTORY
recently just read Stones From The River by Ursula Hegi (book about German Nazi Life)
Orwell's 1984 gotta admit a really GOOD book Medallions is another great book..very terrifying and descriptive elements of how people lived in concentration camps
now im gonna start reading a polish book