Recommend me a book

[avian chaos]

Originally posted by Nimrod's Son
I was just surprised because I happen to have Anthem in my hand right now. I think they're good books too, it was just the coinkidink that got me.

Oh! I understand now. I thought that you were dissin' on the books and stuff... I know a lot of people don't like her books at all.

I have a copy of Anthem sitting no more than 3 feet away in my bookshelf

[Travis Meekz]

you niggaz all be crazy. I don't know many of these authors but I will look into each suggestion and then the million dollar winner will be annouced soon. thanks for the ideas

tin******

[Travis Meekz]

I want to fuck in a library

I had a friend who did, lucky prick

[avian chaos]

Originally posted by Ttravis Mmeekz
you niggaz all be crazy. I don't know many of these authors but I will look into each suggestion and then the million dollar winner will be annouced soon. thanks for the ideas

tin******

What's the tin****** business? It makes me lol without fail.

If you ever decide to read any Shakespeare I highly recommend books like Othello, The Merchant of Venice, King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, etc. Those are all plays awesome enough for me to have read them more than once.

[Travis Meekz]

Originally posted by avian chaos


What's the tin****** business? It makes me lol without fail.

If you ever decide to read any Shakespeare I highly recommend books like Othello, The Merchant of Venice, King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, etc. Those are all plays awesome enough for me to have read them more than once.

shakespeare is too hardcore for me right now but I'll keep it in mind. Maybe I will go ask the strippers for a good book to read.

[avian chaos]

I bought this line of Shakespeare books called "No Fear Shakespeare." They're the type of books that "dumb down" the text for you, except they don't really do any dumbing down, which I like. On the left hand page is the original text as Shakespeare wrote it, and on the right hand page is the direct translation into modern day English.

I like it because it enables you to still be able to enjoy the poetry that Shakespeare wrote while actually being able to understand what's going on in with the dialogue. They also have nice little notes about common slang and stuff that comes in really handy for getting the obscene jokes he cracks.

Give it a shot sometime; even my mom who once swore she'd never read Shakespeare found herself borrowing my collection of books. http://forums.netphoria.org/wwwboard/icons/icon14.gif

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen.

[avian chaos]

Originally posted by Mr. Rhinoceros
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen.

What's it about?

I would trust a book recommendation from you.

Originally posted by avian chaos


What's it about?

I would trust a book recommendation from you.

It's about a family growing old really. The kids are all adults and doing their own thing and the father is going senile and the mother is starting to feel free for once in her life...It's about a lot of stuff about growing old, death, the fleeting nature of youth and the role of parents in families in the society. Etc.

It's really a magnificent book, Franzen has a wonderful discriptive writer and the characters he creates are so real. And it's funny, too. There's a part where Enid, the mother, unknowingly takes ecstasy on a cruise.

It won a ton of book awards.

[avian chaos]

It sounds awesome. I'm gonna see if I can find it somewhere in town. Thanks Brendan!

[The Light]

Originally posted by El Scorcho
How does recommending On the Road make somebody look smart?

Who recommends books that will apparently make them look smart?

I would recommend any book I liked, regardless.

I hate this sort of pretentious bullshit. Jack Kerouac has written a lot of good books; On The Road is the first one I read and is a good introduction to his work.

[Dead Frequency]

Originally posted by avian chaos
If you ever decide to read any Shakespeare I highly recommend books like Othello, The Merchant of Venice, King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, etc. Those are all plays awesome enough for me to have read them more than once.

I'm a huge fan of Shakespeare. But that's not terribly surprising. I saw Much Ado About Nothing last year and one other I can't remember because my memory is like ice in the desert. But I've read through a lot of the plays and have seen many of them in movie form, and in play form in movie form. My favorite has got to be Twelfth Night, or what you will.

Also, I just finished reading The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, and it's a really good book. Much respect for the Ayn Rand.


Boobies.

For my book suggestion, I suggest:

The Conquest of Happiness, by Bertrand Russel.

Originally posted by The Light
Who recommends books that will apparently make them look smart?

Only people who are insecure about how well read they are make accusations like that.

[severin]

Originally posted by Mr. Rhinoceros



Only people who are insecure about how well read they are make accusations like that.

hey, you were right about delillo and palahniuk...they are similar in disposition, but delillos style is way more mature than palahniuks...i mean, i still like palahniuk, but after reading about 2 thirds of white noise i can already say that i love delillo...

Originally posted by severin
hey, you were right about delillo and palahniuk...they are similar in disposition, but delillos style is way more mature than palahniuks...i mean, i still like palahniuk, but after reading about 2 thirds of white noise i can already say that i love delillo...

I have two Palahiniuk books, but they are pop lit. I try to break him down a lot because I think a lot of people act like he's someone to be idolized, a writer for a new movement. He's really not.

DeLillo, though, really is another level. He is the definitive post-modern novelist.