Registered: Oct 2001
Location: Toronto (Mississauga)
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
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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.
Jan-24-2002 18:53
cosmix
.art is everywhere
Registered: Aug 2001
Location: Tallinn, Estonia
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..
Jan-24-2002 20:13
Slapskin
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Dec 2001
Location: unknown
i like books about paranormal shit like ufos, alien abductions etc...
Jan-25-2002 01:46
ForgottenLegacy
Senior tranceaddict
Registered: Sep 2001
Location: Not here, over there.
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
Jan-25-2002 02:36
ForgottenLegacy
Senior tranceaddict
Registered: Sep 2001
Location: Not here, over there.
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.
Jan-25-2002 02:39
Dj O'Callaghan
The UKTA Triggerman
Registered: Apr 2001
Location: Northampton UK
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
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Jan-25-2002 03:53
SmellsExcellent
fuckedupandconfused
Registered: Dec 2001
Location: Shangri-La
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
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.
Jan-25-2002 04:10
djlenny
tranceaddict
Registered: Dec 2001
Location: Sydney, Australia
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
What Kind of Books do you read?
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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.
