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Frattracide's ghost	Sunday Nov 30 2008, 02:26 PM Post #1
Baby Giraffe Posts: 616 Group: Members Member #8 Joined: Jul 24, 2008	I finally finished my "Big-list-of-books-to-read-before-I-die" list and I'm looking for a new book to read. Can anyone recommend me a good book? None of the fantasy stuff.



famicommander	Sunday Nov 30 2008, 02:44 PM Post #2
Wipe that face off your head, bitch. Posts: 19,557 Group: Admins Member #1 Joined: Jul 24, 2008	"Point of Impact" by Stephen Hunter is one of my favorites. The movie Shooter is based on it, but it does the book no justice. That was a shitty movie. My other favorites include Animal Farm, The Catcher in the Rye, and the Hitchhiker's Guide series. But I'm sure you've already read classics like those.
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Frattracide's ghost	Sunday Nov 30 2008, 03:30 PM Post #3
Baby Giraffe Posts: 616 Group: Members Member #8 Joined: Jul 24, 2008	I have read animal farm. Honestly, I'm not that big of a Blair fan. Never read Catcher in the rye, maybe I'll check it. What's it about?



famicommander	Sunday Nov 30 2008, 05:14 PM Post #4
Wipe that face off your head, bitch. Posts: 19,557 Group: Admins Member #1 Joined: Jul 24, 2008	Blair? Orwell wrote Animal Farm and Adams wrote Hitchhiker's Guide. The Catcher in the Rye is about a kid who goes a little crazy about a year after his younger brother drowns. He hates society and how no one seems genuine. He leaves his boarding school and ends up in a mental institution. I've read it probably six or seven times. Great book. And definitely look into Point of Impact. The main character, Bob Lee Swagger, is one of the all-time badasses.
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Frattracide's ghost	Sunday Nov 30 2008, 06:17 PM Post #5
Baby Giraffe Posts: 616 Group: Members Member #8 Joined: Jul 24, 2008	Orwell was Blair's pen name. Eric Blair or something like that.



Deadlypixels	Sunday Nov 30 2008, 06:42 PM Post #6
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FOXHOUND	Sunday Nov 30 2008, 09:57 PM Post #7
SG is BRO Posts: 6,225 Group: Moderators Member #11 Joined: Jul 24, 2008	"House of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski. I will recommend this book until the day I die. Whether you enjoy it or not, you have to go through to the end just to appreciate what he did with fiction and giving it a big bitch slap. Unlike the rest of so-called "Orwell fans" out there, I recommend "Burmese Days" and "Coming Up For Air." Both are incredible Orwellian works that I've never seen mentioned outside of lists of Orwell publications. Not to mention, if the two I have left to read ("Keep the Aspidistra Flying" and "The Clergyman's Daughter") are as good as the other two, I'll definitely have to name Orwell as my favourite author. I personally like "Burmese Days" more than "Nineteen Eighty Four." "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess. A fantastic novelette. The film by Stanley Kubrick is a decent interpretation of the novel but it misses a lot of the emphasis Burgess made about morality... which is probably due to Kubrick not having read the last chapter since the American editors thought it didn't "fit" with the other part of the book. Yet, it is essential to the closing of the story and showing how Alex learned from his experiences. "Fight Club" by Chuck Palahnuik. I hadn't read the book or watched the film up until about a month ago and regret not doing so earlier. Fantastic piece of fiction.



whoozwah	Sunday Nov 30 2008, 10:19 PM Post #8
Is it live, or is it Dave-orex? Posts: 7,981 Group: Admins Member #10 Joined: Jul 24, 2008	I would recommend a book but I mostly read fantasy books. Although, the Thomas Covenant series by Stephen R. Donaldson is far from your average fantasy literature. It's about a dude who has leprosy and he gets knocked out and wakes up in a world where he doesn't have leprosy. he spends the course of the first 3 books deciding if he should or should not believe in what's happening around him or if he should even care. It's so much less about traditional fantasy and so much more about the interactions between the characters. The villain is also very top notch. More psychological than anything.
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Septicaemia	Monday Dec 1 2008, 07:41 PM Post #9
LAWLFACE Posts: 231 Group: Admins Member #3 Joined: Jul 24, 2008	Under and Alone by William Queen is a good one. Edited by Septicaemia, Monday Dec 1 2008, 07:43 PM.



lilburtonboy7489	Tuesday Dec 2 2008, 11:34 PM Post #10
Basic Member Posts: 520 Group: Members Member #69 Joined: Dec 2, 2008	Economics in One Lesson is one of the best books I have ever read. 1984 is really good. Anarchy, State, and Utopia is amazing. And Case Against the FED is sweet if you are into political books.



lostprodigy3141	Tuesday Dec 9 2008, 09:16 PM Post #11
Basic Member Posts: 255 Group: Members Member #38 Joined: Sep 26, 2008	I actually have not read 1984. I had to read Animal Farm in high school and loved it. I'm gonna read it over winter break, though, hopefully.



lostprodigy3141	Wednesday Dec 10 2008, 12:11 AM Post #12
Basic Member Posts: 255 Group: Members Member #38 Joined: Sep 26, 2008	Foxhound_Fox Sunday Nov 30 2008, 09:57 PM "House of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski. I will recommend this book until the day I die. Whether you enjoy it or not, you have to go through to the end just to appreciate what he did with fiction and giving it a big bitch slap. Unlike the rest of so-called "Orwell fans" out there, I recommend "Burmese Days" and "Coming Up For Air." Both are incredible Orwellian works that I've never seen mentioned outside of lists of Orwell publications. Not to mention, if the two I have left to read ("Keep the Aspidistra Flying" and "The Clergyman's Daughter") are as good as the other two, I'll definitely have to name Orwell as my favourite author. I personally like "Burmese Days" more than "Nineteen Eighty Four." "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess. A fantastic novelette. The film by Stanley Kubrick is a decent interpretation of the novel but it misses a lot of the emphasis Burgess made about morality... which is probably due to Kubrick not having read the last chapter since the American editors thought it didn't "fit" with the other part of the book. Yet, it is essential to the closing of the story and showing how Alex learned from his experiences. "Fight Club" by Chuck Palahnuik. I hadn't read the book or watched the film up until about a month ago and regret not doing so earlier. Fantastic piece of fiction. House of Leaves is a definite work of art.



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