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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: paige on November 06, 2003, 11:36:00 pm
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I like spin-off threads all too much....here I go.
Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day by Judith Viorst
and,
Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
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My Antonia by Willa Cather
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as a kid:
the little house by virginia lee burton
the anne of green gables series by l.m. montgomery
as an adult:
waiting to exhale by terry mcmillian (if you're a guy you wouldn't understand)
i know there are others, but i can't quite think of them. maybe some of the russian stuff i read?
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UBIK, Philip K. Dick
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Noam Chomsky's What Uncle Sam Really Wants.
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First book that I ever took out of the Adult section of the library. Had no idea at the time that it wasn't your average adult section book. :D
Last Exit To Brooklyn (http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0802131379/ref=sib_dp_pt/102-7109094-8832915#reader-link)
When you get to the page, click on the book and you can read the first several pages. Flawd, you have to wait another year. ;) (j/k - I was even younger when I read it.)
My second book was One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0451163966/ref=sib_dp_pt/102-7109094-8832915#reader-page). Read both many years before the movies.
Believe me, after that, my life was changed for good! Turned into a major bookworm and never turned back.
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Chemistry Problem Solver
that was the end of my career in science.
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Didn't so much change my life as much as really help me understand that it could still be cool to read books; "On The Road" Jack Kerouac
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on book in 6t hgrade got me into fantasy....cant remember...by susan cooper?
jurasic park
simple simon(the movie mercury rising w/ bruce wilis....)
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Watership Down. The first big book I read as a kid with no pictures and over 300 pages long. For years I would reread the book annually. Haven't in a while, but should.
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The Fermata by Nicholson Baker (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679759336/qid=1068215666/sr=1-6/ref=sr_1_6/002-2251788-8485653?v=glance&s=books)
The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1573440280/qid=1068215583/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/002-2251788-8485653?v=glance&n=507846)
many more...
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the name of the rose by umberto eco
elmer gantry by sinclair lewis
the digging-est dog by al perkins
history of the american people by paul johnson
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the Holy Bible, assorted authors
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"On The Road" - Jack Kerouac
"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" - Robert Pirsig
"The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" - Tom Wolfe
"You're either on the bus, or you're off the bus."
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Richard Dawkins: The selfish gene
Oh and the joy of sex......
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Didn't change my life; but Good Vibrations Guide to Sex at least made me realize their were others who thought like me.
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The Bible....my religous knowledge teacher threw it at me for talking in class and he got me right on the ear with the corner of the book. NEVER spoke in religous knowledge class again.
Enid Blyton series, loved em!
"Stig of the dump" A great kids book about a boy who befriended another boy that lived in a trash heap. I can't find the damn thing anywhere, tried to find it for Kathleen and will try again for Rory.
"Epaminondas" Another great kids book about a little boy who lived with his grandmother and was always getting into trouble. Can't find that one either but it was probably taken out of print because in todays world is not pc.
Grown up books are just too damn serious. I read biographies/memoirs/non-fiction only. Just finished one about Hitler and now reading David Beckham's autobiography then Roy Keane's next.
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Pussy, King of the Pirates by Kathy Acker
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animal farm & 1984 by orwell
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Originally posted by mankie:
"Stig of the dump"
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140301968/026-7712996-4436423 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140301968/026-7712996-4436423)
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I remember Stig as a childrens TV show......
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"Epaminondas" Another great kids book about a little boy who lived with his grandmother and was always getting into trouble. Can't find that one either but it was probably taken out of print because in todays world is not pc.
is this it?
<img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/089966556X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" alt=" - " />
amazon (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/089966556X/ref=ase_stetim/102-9855648-1516168?v=glance&s=books)
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Grade School: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Junior High: To Kill a Mocking Bird
High School: Lord of the Fly's
College: The Marx-Engels Reader
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Thanks for the links.....to be honest part of the fun was looking in bookstores for them, but I give up...amazon it is! Rory's stocking just started getting filled. :D
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harold and the purle crayon, noddy and tintin when i was little........
room with a view in my teens
iain banks........the crow road i just love this book
hmmmm i wonder if jadetree will ever read it and return it.............hint,hint
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Originally posted by poorlulu:
hmmmm i wonder if jadetree will ever read it and return it.............hint,hint
maybe... maybe not
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Originally posted by poorlulu:
hmmmm i wonder if jadetree will ever read it and return it.............hint,hint
Actually, I think I have it......
**sinks head in shame**
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we have two copies, thanks to a fortuitous ebay purchase of a job lot of banks books.
Its a great book too, read it.
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no vansmack i had 2 copies..............
i gave you one to keep (so raise up yer chain little buddy)
and the other i generously loaned to pollard............not that that means he will ever read it..........f@cker
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Originally posted by poorlulu:
no vansmack i had 2 copies..............
i gave you one to keep (so raise up yer chain little buddy)
and the other i generously loaned to pollard............not that that means he will ever read it..........f@cker
sorry i had just read the other Banks book, I only read 1 book by a scottish author every 6 months, that way I dont go through all 4 of them in a short time and have nothing to look forward to
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Originally posted by poorlulu:
no vansmack i had 2 copies..............
i gave you one to keep (so raise up yer chain little buddy)
and the other i generously loaned to pollard............not that that means he will ever read it..........f@cker
Yippee!!!
I'm only half way through it and the thought of rushing through it before I return it next week scared me.
Thank you very much.
It takes me forever to read it because I have to read it out loud and it's embarrassing to read out loud in coffee shops and on public transportation. But I really like it!
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I dunno I guess I will say the Bronte poems, nice to see other people are just as dark and twisted as I am
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Originally posted by pollard:
[]sorry i had just read the other Banks book, I only read 1 book by a scottish author every 6 months, that way I dont go through all 4 of them in a short time and have nothing to look forward to
hahaha so very funny pollard...............
i thought you actively enjoyed having nothing to look forward to.....................
oh woe is you
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_there's no such thing as a dragon_ by jack kent. every child should read it.
it made a mark on me:
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Fifth Business by Robertson Davies.
Sonick would understand...it's a canadian thang.
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Didn't change my life but I like:
As a kid: "Little Women" (chuckle all ya want;))
Adult: "Notes from the Underground" Dostoyevsky
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These books didn't really make me change my lifestyle, but they did affect me the most: anything by Chuck Palahniuk, Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis, Malcolm X's autobiography, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, something by Amy Hempnel.
:)