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04-19-2006, 12:12 AM
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Since fiction wasn't specified, despite this being a literary website with emphasis on fiction to one extent or another I am going to recommend Path Notes, by Glenn Morris. This is the kind of book that makes you think after reading it, allows you to just pop it open and read if you've only got time for a paragraph, and each time you come back to it you discover a new interpretation of the same block of text.
The subject the book deals with is enlightenment, defined as a physiological process with spiritual consequences. It is probably the most influential book I've read in my adult life.
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04-19-2006, 01:41 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
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For those also interested in the Holocaust I do reccomend The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank.
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04-20-2006, 12:57 PM
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I need some worthwhile mystery or horror fiction (I've already read through all the stories here) and maybe even some good books on philosophy.
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04-20-2006, 04:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Wise Child
I'd like to add The Magic Toyshop and Wise Children by Angela Carter
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Didn't she also write Gor-Saga? Either way, that's a really good book. Worth a read.
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04-20-2006, 04:18 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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04-20-2006, 04:34 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: On the planet Skyron in the Galaxy of Andromeda
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Lessee... I'm not really into much in the way of traditional gothic literature... but H.P Lovecraft wrote some pretty good stuff. Anything by Heinlein... and I do mean anything, even his early stuff, if you can afford complete suspension of disbelief. um... the Hammer's Slammers series by David Drake... the Honor Harrington series, by David Weber. Musashi by Eji Yoshikawa. John Ringo's a fairly good author, even if most of his storylines are cheese.
*edit* I tend to recommend authors more then books. oh yeah, um... anything from the Warhammer universe (either Fantasy or 40k)
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04-20-2006, 04:45 PM
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Oh, I do like your avatar, Crom. It makes me chuckle!
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04-20-2006, 06:24 PM
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why thank you... it made me laugh the first time I saw it
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04-20-2006, 10:27 PM
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Heh, I actually have something to recommend. It's called You've Got Nothing Coming. It's about a man in jail (I think he's innocent) and it's a real story about his time in jail. It's a very good book. Another good book (I can't remember the name) is about an eleven year old girl that has aneroxia. Quite disturbing but a good read. If I remember the title I'll put it here.
For good sword and sorcery fantasy Dragonlance or Forgotten Realms are good series. The Night's Dawn Trilogy is a good sci fi series with a supernatural twist (the dead come back from the beyond). Earth is a very good sci fi. Perhaps I shall recommend more later.
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04-20-2006, 10:29 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
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Originally Posted by Avarice
The "Wheel of Time" Series by Robert Jordan.
Damn its long, but damn its good.
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I read a couple of books from that series and in one book practically nothing happened. Apparently it's like that in the first book too. I can't stand that series.
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04-21-2006, 12:37 AM
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The entire Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy series. Shit genius.
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04-21-2006, 04:25 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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"Life? Don't talk to me about life...."
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04-21-2006, 12:30 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
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Originally Posted by spookypurple
"Life? Don't talk to me about life...."
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Yay Marvin! 
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04-21-2006, 02:36 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Hollywierd
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Charles de Lint
Start with his short story collections, all about a city called Newford. Read the Onion Girl after the short stories...It'll make more sense.
It's urban fantasy about fairies among other things. And I'm not talking about things with wings that sparkle and glow or any of that bubkis.
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04-21-2006, 05:26 PM
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Seattle
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I recommend-
Miguel De Cervantes-"Don Quixote"
Fyodor Dostoyevski-"Notes From Underground", "Brothers Kamarazov", "Demons","The Gambler"
Celine-"Journey To The End Of The Night", "Death On The Installment Plan", "Castle To Castle", "North", "Rigadoon","Casse-Pipe"
John Steinbeck-"In Dubious Battle", "Tortilla Flat", "Grapes Of Wrath", "Of Mice And Men"
Sinclair Lewis-"Babbitt", "Elmer Gantry", "Arrowhead"
Upton Sinclair-"The Jungle", "Oil!"
Albert Camus-"The Stranger" (Matthew Ward translation), "The Fall", "The First Man", "The Plague"
Henry Miller-"Tropic Of Cancer", "Tropic Of Capricorn", "Black Spring", "The Air-Conditioned Nightmare", "Time Of The Assassins"
Gabriel Garcia Marquez-"100 Years Of Solitude", "Love In The Time Of Cholera", "A Tale Of a Death Fortold", "Nobody Writes The Colonel Anymore"
Yukio Mishima-"Temple Of The Golden Pavilion", "Runaway Horses", "The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea", "Sound Of The Waves", "Confessions Of A Mask"
Kenzaburo Oe-"Nip The Buds, Shoot The Kids", "Teach Us To Outgrow Our Madness", "Seventeen", "J", "Hiroshima Notes"
Nick Joaquin-"The Woman With Two Navals", "Manila, My Manila", "Quartet Of The Tiger Moon", "Hers, This Grove"
Colson Whitehead-"The Intuitionist", "John Henry Days", "Apex Hides The Hurt"
James Baldwin-"Giovanni's Room", "The Fire Next Time", "Go Tell It To The Mountain", "Another Country", "Nobody Knows My Name"
Toni Morrison-"The Bluest Eyes", "Beloved"
Maya Angelou-"I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings", "Heart Of A Woman"
Alex Haley-"Roots", "The Autobiography Of Malcolm X"
I would also like to point out the two greatest poets ever-Arthur Rimbaud (and to whoever mentioned Jim Morrison-sorry, but I despise that man. Why? Because if you're gonna make a career out of ripping off Rimbaud, the first thing you should do is at least be as talented as him. Morrison is the worthless hack high-school kid still writing "life is nothing" over and over in his notebook in a closet with a black candle burning and Marylin Manson playing the background....Rimbaud is fucking godhead. Remember that) and Carl Sandburg.
And I'm sure I could come up with a more complete list, but I'm tired and I have to suffer the mall for my sons birthday. Will update the list soon. I swear.
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04-21-2006, 06:43 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
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Originally Posted by Draconysius
I need some worthwhile mystery or horror fiction (I've already read through all the stories here) and maybe even some good books on philosophy.
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Cell by Stephen King was really good...
A Great and Terrible Beauty and Rebel Angels both by Libba Bray.
Tithe and Valiant by Holly Black
I'm reading Wicked right now and am thoroughly enjoying it
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04-22-2006, 01:22 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
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Originally Posted by Loy
(and to whoever mentioned Jim Morrison-sorry, but I despise that man. Why? Because if you're gonna make a career out of ripping off Rimbaud, the first thing you should do is at least be as talented as him. Morrison is the worthless hack high-school kid still writing "life is nothing" over and over in his notebook in a closet with a black candle burning and Marylin Manson playing the background....Rimbaud is fucking godhead. Remember that)
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Sorry, I couldn't resist -- you wrote this as if Jim Morrison was influenced by Marilyn Manson, and with Morrison dying in 1971 and Marilyn Manson being born in 1969, that's unlikely.
Nice choice of books.
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04-22-2006, 02:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Loy
I recommend-
Miguel De Cervantes-"Don Quixote"
Albert Camus-"The Stranger", "The Fall", "The First Man", "The Plague"
Arthur Rimbaud
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I can back Loy up on these ones (but boy, I bow in admiration at the rest of the stuff he's read!)
I'd also add Verlaine and Baudelaire to the Dead French Poets Society. Hugo's not bad either.
Hope the mall went okay, Loy.
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04-24-2006, 05:39 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Down ze wabbit hole
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Did anyone recommend J.R.R Tolkien? The Hobbit was brilliant and I'm still (can you believe it) reading Lord of the Rings. One author not to be miised!
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Rouge Z. Hatter has FINALLY returned to Gnet!
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04-24-2006, 07:07 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
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oh yeah, just thought I'd throw in a philosophy title here...
"Time and Being" by Heidegger. read it. understand it? get weirded out by it.
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04-24-2006, 07:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Xnguela
I just can't see "Heidegger" without hearing that Monty Python song about Philosophers... Ack!
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yeah, I know what you mean... I also think about FF7...
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04-25-2006, 07:27 PM
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Any book by Dan Brown. I recommend Angels&Demons.
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05-02-2006, 01:51 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: North Jersey, USA
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I adored 'Princesses' by Flora Fraser. If you have any interest in historical books, this book is well-written, and not boring at all. It flows very well, and often feels like a novel rather than a historical account.
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05-03-2006, 06:30 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: London
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Originally Posted by Godslayer Jillian
I reccomend American Gods.
There's an interesting story involving a tiger's balls which makes the book worth buying just to read it
Although I encourage you to keep reading it. There are a lot of funny parts besides the amazingly entrancing story. |
I must be blind or I wasn't paying attention but I do not recall that bit in the story.
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05-03-2006, 06:37 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
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Originally Posted by Draconysius
I need some worthwhile mystery or horror fiction (I've already read through all the stories here) and maybe even some good books on philosophy.
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There's a book called Heretics by G.K Chesterton, which is a very interesting read, as well as Orthodoxy which is also pretty interesting. Those are good philosophical ones.
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"Like that old tale, the girl who wanted to become the best dancer in the world. "Yes," said the sorceress, "but each time you set your foot on earth will be like knives slashing." "If you can stand the pain, you will be granted your desire."
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