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Old 06-24-2002, 11:09 PM   #1
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well, in the last couple years i've read 1984 twice, Brave New World, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, and Farrenheit 451. what should i read next? i'm looking for something along those lines.

currently i have from the library:

Chuck Palahniuk - Choke
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions
Bret Easton Ellis - Less Than Zero
Harlan Ellison - Deathbird Stories

 
Old 06-24-2002, 11:14 PM   #2
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Have you read any of Hubert Selby Jr's books? :\

Requiem for a Dream is much, MUCH better than the movie. Last Exit to Brooklyn and The Room are two of the most disturbing things I've ever read.

 
Old 06-24-2002, 11:16 PM   #3
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I just purchased Animal Farm, The Martian Chronicles, and The Hobbit.

Damn school reading lists.

 
Old 06-24-2002, 11:17 PM   #4
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i need to read a lot. seriously. i suck. considering my mom used to be an english teacher and i'm sitting here next to a stash of classic literature, i really don't have any excuses.

 
Old 06-24-2002, 11:18 PM   #5
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I just purchased Animal Farm, The Martian Chronicles, and The Hobbit.

Damn school reading lists.
Animal Farm is a great book.

 
Old 06-24-2002, 11:21 PM   #6
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Animal Farm is a great book.
I've read it before, and I did enjoy it. I got 1984 too...I'll probably read that first actually.

 
Old 06-24-2002, 11:23 PM   #7
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oooo yeah, ok. i've been meaning to ask-what are some good short story writers i should check up on? i've read different things, so just recommend something and i'll see if i've read it. i also like essays and philosophical works. is gore vidal any good?

 
Old 06-24-2002, 11:36 PM   #8
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clive barker is an author that i feel doesn't get as much praise as he should. he's quite skilled at creating fanastic imagery. maybe you should check out weaveworld or the great and secret show.

also if you have not read vonnegut's galapogos and mother night - what are you waiting for? http://www.netphoria.org/wwwboard/smile.gif




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Old 06-25-2002, 12:02 AM   #9
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clive barker
No don't read any Clive Barker. He is a bad gay man.

 
Old 06-25-2002, 12:07 AM   #10
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Chuck Palahniuk - Choke
fuck i cant find that anywhere

i read survivor and am in the middle of invisible monsters

chuck sure is one jaded sarcastic motherfucker

 
Old 06-25-2002, 12:20 AM   #11
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fuck i cant find that anywhere

i read survivor and am in the middle of invisible monsters

chuck sure is one jaded sarcastic motherfucker
it just came out in paperback. its all over the damn place. you must be blind. http://www.netphoria.org/wwwboard/smile.gif

 
Old 06-25-2002, 12:24 AM   #12
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i looked at barnes and noble on tuesday!

maybe hicktown sacramento is just behind a little

 
Old 06-25-2002, 12:27 AM   #13
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House of Leaves. Go read it now.

 
Old 06-25-2002, 12:52 AM   #14
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the wanting seed by anthony burgess.

it's along the same lines as brave new world and 1984. i just finished it, and i liked it pretty well. i recommend it.

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Old 06-25-2002, 01:16 AM   #15
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clive barker is an author that i feel doesn't get as much praise as he should. he's quite skilled at creating fanastic imagery. maybe you should check out weaveworld or the great and secret show.

also if you have not read vonnegut's galapogos and mother night - what are you waiting for? http://www.netphoria.org/wwwboard/smile.gif
i read a clive barker book. good enough story, but kind of lacking in dictation.

i've read galapagos. first vonnegut book i read. good one, too.

 
Old 06-25-2002, 01:17 AM   #16
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fuck i cant find that anywhere

i read survivor and am in the middle of invisible monsters

chuck sure is one jaded sarcastic motherfucker
i read half of choke before. i wasn't too impressed with it. it seemed all right.

i haven't read invisible monsters yet. but i'm rather convinced that survivor can't be topped.

 
Old 06-25-2002, 01:32 AM   #17
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I wanna read Choke(saw it at the store) and Farenhiet 451 firstly. i gotta go buy some books soon, cuz i owe too much money to the library

 
Old 06-25-2002, 01:38 AM   #18
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has anyone read fast food nation? I was thinking of picking it up.

 
Old 06-25-2002, 01:47 AM   #19
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You need to stop reading explicit morality imposed in the form of literature.

 
Old 06-25-2002, 02:55 AM   #20
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you've probably already read it, but i really liked j.d. salinger's catcher in the rye

 
Old 06-25-2002, 03:04 AM   #21
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this probably isn't along those lines, but I am obsessed to the point of self destruction with Herman Hesse's "Demian" and Kundera's "The Unbearable Lightness of Being." Ugh, beautiful fucking books. Beautiful.

 
Old 06-25-2002, 03:06 AM   #22
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Herman Hesse's "Demian"
It made me cry.

 
Old 06-25-2002, 03:07 AM   #23
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I recently read American Gods by Neil Gaiman, which I highly recommend.

 
Old 06-25-2002, 03:14 AM   #24
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It made me cry.
Me, too. Books never make me cry.

 
Old 06-25-2002, 03:14 AM   #25
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I recently read American Gods by Neil Gaiman, which I highly recommend.
what kind of book is it?

 
Old 06-25-2002, 04:56 AM   #26
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Old 06-25-2002, 11:19 AM   #27
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Seeing as you have books from the library, why don't you read them?

 
Old 06-25-2002, 11:29 AM   #28
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oooo yeah, ok. i've been meaning to ask-what are some good short story writers i should check up on?

angela carter - the bloody chamber (or burning your boats, which is all of her stories collected)


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Old 06-25-2002, 11:36 AM   #29
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I recently read American Gods by Neil Gaiman, which I highly recommend.
I bought that about a month ago but I haven't started reading it yet, I will once I catch up on my comic reading

 
Old 06-25-2002, 12:33 PM   #30
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I bought that about a month ago but I haven't started reading it yet, I will once I catch up on my comic reading
my god that was a lame statement. http://www.netphoria.org/wwwboard/smile.gif

 
 
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