well one of my favorite books ive ever read was john fowell's the magus
absolutly amazing

catch22 is also really good

i'm also a big fan of the play waiting for godot by samuel beckett

read stupid white men during my vacation.. it was pretty funny and interesting...

most booring book: karolinerna - verner von heidenstam

although i havent read that one, i would have to say the most boring book i have ever read was the magic mountain...

My all time classics would be mainly Tom Clancy stuff.

Red Storm Rising
The Sum of All Fears
Rainbow Six

or Robert Ludlum

The Bourne Identity

or Steven King

The Gunslinger Series. (Wizards & Glass is my currentl favorite)

I just got back into reading Michael Crichton and picked up Timeline. I remember we had a huge discussion about time travel on the board, and Michael Crichton makes some great assumptions.

I also saw that they are making a movie of this, should be pretty back, but I'll see it anyways. Great Book!

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it's not really similar to mulholland dr, but its nice and crazy: fear and loathing in las vegas, by hunter s. thompson

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Originally posted by montie catch22 is also really good

understatement of the year! "god knows" is a beautiful book, it's by joseph heller, as is catch-22. both are very funny and offbeat and just when you think they're completely irreverent you catch a serious, slightly sad note. highly highly recommended.

also, "the god of small things," by arundhati roy, "the slaughterhouse five" and "breakfast of champions," both by kurt vonnegut. as sash already said, "fear and loathing in las vegas" is very good.

so these aren't exactly what you asked for, but they're all completely amazing books!

back in grade 6-7...
i was into the goosbumps series

lol goosebumps!!
yeah those were like the last books i read... welcome to dead house, piano lessons can be murder, return of the monster goo....

i used to love reading those hehe

Right now-
Robert Ludlum- The Bourne Identity (MUCH better and different than the overhyped movie.)
It has two sequels
1 The Bourne Supremacy (not done yet)
2. The Bourne Ultimatum

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~There's something about the look in your eyes,
Something I noticed when the light was just right.
It reminded me twice that I was alive.
And it reminded me that you're so worth the fight...~

american emporer by richard condon

it makes fun of all that is and was the 'blessed U-niiited States of AAmerrrica..'

what more could you ask for??

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Originally posted by QuickStep I just got back into reading Michael Crichton and picked up Timeline. I remember we had a huge discussion about time travel on the board, and Michael Crichton makes some great assumptions.

it's not time travel, it's quantum foam piercing in order to jump to an identical parallel universe where time is different


yeah, i just finished reading it. it's really interesting but i didn't like the hollywood style of plot construction... like we have 4 supercharacters who stay mainly unharmed and escape from danger in the last second while everybody else around them dies. i liked the ending though!

another michael chrichton's book that i read was The Terminal Man and that one has one of the most obscure endings ever. it's old, like 40 years old, but it's interesting nonetheless, some good stuff he's talking about.


if you were russian, i'd tell you to read anything by the Strugatsky brothers (there are translations, but i think reading the original is always better), especially Picnic by the Roadside, which is probably my favorite book ever. also Kir Bulichev has some EXTREMELY interesting sci-fi writings, a lot for children but also a lot for adults and his new series "The Theater of Shadows" is so fascinating, that reading book #2 made me crawl the internet to find books #1 and 3 (#3 being rare since it only came out last year, and yeah, russian people scan books and put them online for free, there are huge online libraries ) and after that i spent 2 days destroying my eyes reading and let me tell you, they are long books - 1.2 MB of text in two files, that's like a thousand pages or something.



and, of course, i'd advise you to read Chuck Palahniuk, although his writing isn't for everybody, both in terms of graphic language and ideas, but everytime you read his book you have no fucking clue what's gonna happen and you never see it coming until it - BAM - hits you on the head. fight club was amazing, as well as the movie; so was survivor and invisible monsters. lullaby is the one i'm about to start reading.

sorry for the long post

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