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| couch-potato |
I don't have as much time for reading as I used to, but every now and then I manage to advance a chapter or two in Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
I'm very much into philosophy - particularly Ancient Eastern thought. Taoism and books like Sun Tzu's The Art of War used to be my favorites until Nietzsche came along.
As for regular stuff I thought Dracula and Frankenstein were pretty badass. Trance music is actually good stuff to help me focus on reading, so long as there are no vocals.
Any TAs like a good book? |
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| Akridrot |
I like fiction that's really out there. Philip K. Dick, David Foster Wallace, Douglas Adams, Thomas Pynchon, Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller for instance.
When I read a book, I have to get the impression that author is a brilliant person who is slightly or very crazy. I like crazy. Also, I enjoy reading books about Computer Science, Mathematics, and Science. I'm interested in books about Psychedelia and Chemistry too. Knuth, Godel, Sagan, Hawking, Dawkins, Shulgin, etc. I could list so much more, but there are sites for that like librarything, I guess.
Sometimes, I enjoy reading extremely sickening transgressive fiction, but not always. I won't name names in that because it will give an extremely bad impression. Just know I enjoy some material in that genre. Stuff that makes Stephen King (who sooooooo many non-readers and posers have as a favorite author) or Chuck Pahlahniuk look extremely lukewarm. Like I said, I am attracted to things that speak to me, and severe mental illness, sickness and utter depravity is very attractive to me.
So, for fiction, I like unconventional, crazy, bizarre, original and highly creative. A bit of morbidity and humor is appreciated at times. For non-fiction, I like intelligent or technical. I have to learn something from it. I hate wasting my time reading bull that I already know about, off.
I will read anything as long as it's: intelligent, creative, or has something to teach me really. What I listed here doesn't even begin.. to begin scratching the surface. I have too many ing interests. |
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| denys envy |
| But What Of Earth? (Anthony), Asimov's Guide to the Bible: The Old and New Testaments (Asimov), Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey (Brewster/Broughton), The Da Vinci Code (Brown), The Rule of Four (Caldwell/Thomason), Barrier World (Carbonneau), The Andromeda Strain/Congo (Crichton), Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?/A Scanner Darkly (Dick), Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky), The Natural History of Intellect (Emerson), How Soccer Explains the World (Foer), Dead's Head (Gunn), The Night's Dawn Trilogy (Hamilton), Brave New World (Huxley), The Last Temptation of Christ (Kazantzakis), Flowers for Algernon (Keyes), The Giver (Lowry), The Watch Tetralogy (Lukyanenko), A Canticle for Leibowitz (Miller), Lolita (Nabokov), Logan's Run (Nolan/Johnson), 1984 (Orwell), Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Sagan), Catcher in the Rye (Salinger), Elantris/Mistborn Trilogy (Sanderson), One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Solzhenitsyn), Future Shock (Toffler), War and Peace (Tolstoy), Slaughterhouse-Five (Vonnegut), Night (Weisel), Xanth series (Anthony), Oz series (Baum), Ender's Game series (Card), Sword of Truth series (Goodkind), Dragonlance series (most: Weis/Hickman), and anything by Haruki Murakami. |
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| Akridrot |
| quote: | Originally posted by denys envy
Lolita (Nabokov) |
:rolleyes:
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| Paradox Lost |
| Reading's for stupids. |
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| Lebezniatnikov |
| Wish I had more time for it, really. I barely get through a book a month that isn't related to school anymore. :( |
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| denys envy |
| quote: | Originally posted by Akridrot
:rolleyes:
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| Fibonacci |
| wish i knew how to read... i dont even know what i am writing here |
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| Lira |
| I read quite a lot... but most of the stuff I read is related to school, so I don't think it's relevant to this thread :( |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by couch-potato
Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra |
I like Nietzsche's ideas, but I just hate his style. I only managed to "read" that book because I made myself a favour and downloaded an audio book :p |
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| Lebezniatnikov |
I've said it once and I'll say it again:
The book in my status is the best book written this decade. |
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