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Post by compacho »

OF MICE AND MEN. Thats the best book. For those unfortunate enough to have not read it, then lemme say this. Every cartoon, movie, and show that has a big dumb guy and a small smart guy personality characteristics are based off this book. Its worth the reading.
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Post by revengeofLaEternal »

Most anything by Oscar Wilde I'll read once. The Picture of Dorian Gray is, at the moment, my favorite book by him.

1984 by George Orwell (i think) is a really good book too.

Currently I'm reading Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (partly for pleasure, partly for school).
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compacho wrote:OF MICE AND MEN. Thats the best book. For those unfortunate enough to have not read it, then lemme say this. Every cartoon, movie, and show that has a big dumb guy and a small smart guy personality characteristics are based off this book. Its worth the reading.
Yeah I had to read that book over the summer for English III, good read. It's small, though; I read it in one day.

I really need to finish reading the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series (I kinda stopped reading for no reason during The Restaurant at the End of the Universe) but I think I'm going to pick up the Salmon of Doubt first.
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The lord of the rings, The halo books and the book I'm reading right now is 'Salems Lot by Stephen King
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Post by 404NotFound »

Of Mice and Men
Animal Farm
Slaughterhouse-Five
Heart of Darkness (i love this book!)
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1984
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404NotFound wrote:Slaughterhouse-Five
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Song of Ice and Fire Series - George R. R. Martin
Dark Tower Series - Stephen King
Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card (The rest of the series sucked)
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Hamlet - Shakespeare
Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevski
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Dune (All)

Bill O'reilly(All)

Al Franken (All)...(Yes I like opposing views!!):)

And ummmm....... all sex books!!!! :twisted:
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Post by scottymac »

The Varayan memoirs - Rick Shelley (Great trilogy, named my son after the son of the king/hero of Varay)

The Psychomech trilogy - Brian Lumley freaky scary stuff.

Just noticed I am a fan of Trilogys :D (This last one is a mis-named trilogy though -It's 4 and a half books)

The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy - Douglas Adams My absolute fave, amazing funny stuff.

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On The Road- Jack Kerouac
Angry White Pajamas- Robert Twigger
Power Of One- Bryce Courtenay
Tandia- Bryce Courtenay
The Sun Also Rises- Hemingway
Don Quijote De La Mancha- Cervantes
Three Musketeers- Dumas
Dharma Bums- Kerouac
The Temple Of Dawn- Yukio Mishima
Las Mil y Una Noche- Various Arab Writers
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404NotFound wrote:Of Mice and Men
Animal Farm
Slaughterhouse-Five
Heart of Darkness (i love this book!)
Wow, nice pics... I'm surprised you've read Heart of Darkness, I agree it's an excellent book... here's a few more pics from me...

Metamorphoses- Ovid
ShakespeareHamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer's Night Dream, Twelth Night, etc.
L'?tranger-Camus (in French, but very, very good)
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Just finished Blade Runner, and like Minority Report, it's nothing like the movie.
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toastman wrote:Just finished Blade Runner, and like Minority Report, it's nothing like the movie.
Read the next 3 books, well mainly the next 2 for a continuation of it all tying in elemnts from the film and going into a bit more depth, they are good reading.
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I read "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep" I wan't aware there was an actual book called Blade Runner if so I will have to read it.
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Sickliquid86 wrote:I read "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep" I wan't aware there was an actual book called Blade Runner if so I will have to read it.
You already did 'Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep' is Bladerunner, though the following books in the series are labeled as Bladerunner
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Hawq wrote:
Sickliquid86 wrote:I read "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep" I wan't aware there was an actual book called Blade Runner if so I will have to read it.
You already did 'Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep' is Bladerunner, though the following books in the series are labeled as Bladerunner
Yeah, I figured more people would recognize the movie title. The book's actually been retitled to "Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep)".
But what are the titles to the next two books? And from what I've gathered the book contained most of what the movie had plus some stuff. Like the movie didn't even go into WWT too much, the dust, the whole animal craze, or Mercerism.
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toastman wrote:
Hawq wrote:
Sickliquid86 wrote:I read "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep" I wan't aware there was an actual book called Blade Runner if so I will have to read it.
You already did 'Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep' is Bladerunner, though the following books in the series are labeled as Bladerunner
Yeah, I figured more people would recognize the movie title. The book's actually been retitled to "Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep)".
But what are the titles to the next two books? And from what I've gathered the book contained most of what the movie had plus some stuff. Like the movie didn't even go into WWT too much, the dust, the whole animal craze, or Mercerism.
The next 2 are:
- The Edge of Human
- Replicant Night
Both by K W Jeter who also did Bladerunner: Eye and Talon & accordin to one site I looked at Beyond Orion as well, havent seen that one anywhere though so not sure about it
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