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| trancechaos |
chinua achebe - things fall apart
micheal ende - the never ending story |
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| mot10n |
well, i just got back from chapters.
i let myself get suckered into buying "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown. prequel to "The Da Vinci Code"
but it looks like a lot of good recommendations! nice! time to become a bookworm again :D |
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| Fir3start3r |
| quote: | Originally posted by mot10n
well, i just got back from chapters.
i let myself get suckered into buying "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown. prequel to "The Da Vinci Code"
but it looks like a lot of good recommendations! nice! time to become a bookworm again :D |
I saw that one too...
I haven't read the Da Vinci Code one, wonder if I'll need to? (even though this is a prequel...) :confused: |
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| DeE420 |
i'm SO happy this thread exists. I was gonna start a new one to tell everyone about this book, but since this thread is here, i dont have to:
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF- ECSTACY CLUB.
I reccommend this book to EVERYONE who posts on this site. READ it, you'll be kissing my feet and thanking me for telling you about it later. It's all about the philosophy behind the rave culture. and conspiracy. its BRILLIANT!! READ IT EVERYONE!!! |
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| drgoodvibe |
Utopia - Thomas Moore
Turning the mind into an Ally - Sakyong Mipham
Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
Dracula - Bram Stroker
The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
Gilgamesh
Nietzche - Beyond good and Evil
The Social Contract - Jeans Jaques Rouusseau
The Wars - Timothy Findley
Pirates and Emperors, Old and New - Noam Chomsky
The Tao of Inner Peace - Diane Dreher
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Stupid White Men - Michael Moore
The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway
Band of Brothers - Stephen E. Ambrose
The Illustrated: A Brief History of time - Stephan Hawking
The Illustrated: The Universe in a Nutshell - Stephan Hawking
Bruce Lee - Artist of Life
A History of God - Karen Armstrong
NLP at Work: New Linguistic Programming - Sue Knight
The Complete Stories - Franz Kafka
The Basic Works of Aristotle - Edited by Richard McKeon
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - John Locke
No Logo - Naomi Klein
Lonely Planet: Europe on A Shoe String
A Discourse on method: Meditations and Princeiples - Rene Descartes
Lolita - Nabokov
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jack London Stories
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Don Quixote - Cervantes
The Hobbit - J.R.R Tolkien
Lord of Rings Collection - J.R.R Tolkien
Art of Happiness - His Holiness the Dalai Lama |
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| Sly_Guy |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ_Elyot
Stephen Hawking - A Brief History of Time
Best book ever... |
Haha! yeah let's read something from the master of quantum physics and unsuccessful creator of the unified field theory as a nice summer read! Haha, actually Hawking is good, anytime I'm stuck on a quantum physics topic, I try and search out anything he's wrote about it, he's good at explaining stuff like that in ways I'll understand it.
Actually I just finished reading the bourne supremacy and I was very entertained by the story. It's quite different from the movie and would highly recommend the book to anyone. |
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| mot10n |
i've read the heart of darkness before. very good novel. apocalypse now is an adaptation of it, fyi.
actually, another book that i've recently remembered is "the sound and the fury" by william faulkner. the book isn't so much about the plot as it is how he writes it. such an innovative way to tell a story. took me a while to get everything straight on it. :p |
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| Mark F |
| if you like short stories get anything by fyodor dostoevsky, i am currently reading his best short stories book and almost done. He discusses and examines in detail the state of humanity. Some stories show that there is some hope out there but a lot are very depressing. |
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| che |
| quote: | Originally posted by drgoodvibe
Nietzche - Beyond good and Evil
The Complete Stories - Franz Kafka
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - John Locke
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
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| Speed |
1. Memoires of a Geisha
2. 1984
3. Mein Kampf
4. Portrait of Dorian Grey |
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| Elmo-On-XTC |
may I recommend The Great Shark Hunt by Hunter S Thompson? great read from the man, Hunter Thompson (fear and loathing in las vegas...played by Johnny Depp)...I think you'd really like this one Ken.
I read Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk(author of Fight Club) a little while ago. Excellent book, starts off slow but picks up halfway through. It's basically about the lone survivor of a suicide religious cult who is exploited by his agent and media and is turned into the next TV Christ. "The only difference between a suicide and martyrdom is how much publicity you get." |
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| malek |
1. 1984 - George Orwell
the rest:
Fahreneit 451
Brave New World
Animal Farm (after reading 1984)
American Psycho by Ellis (wow)
Avicenne ou la route d'Ispahan by Gilbert Sinoue (journal of Avicenne, founder of modern medical science)
Software Engineering, Theory and practice (just joking hehe)
currently reading: 99 francs by Frederic Beigbeder (insightful and funny) |
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