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blankfile:
*The Stranger - Albert Camus
I found myself relating way more than i would have expected to this book. But i do not desire to spoil it. So no teaser!
*A brief history of time: From big bang to black holes - Stephen Hawking
Really awesome book, wrote by a pure genius. But yeah, this is not your usual kind of novel. Quoting from wikipedia:
--- Quote ---A Brief History of Time attempts to explain a range of subjects in cosmology, including the Big Bang, black holes, light cones and superstring theory, to the nonspecialist reader. Its main goal is to give an overview of the subject but, unusual for a popular science book, it also attempts to explain some complex mathematics.
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*The Silver Key- Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Yeah, i'm a Lovecraft fan. But this one in particular is just awesome. Words, however, cannot describe it.
elcapitan:
--- Quote from: Surgoshan on 28 Jul 2008, 21:29 ---
--- Quote from: Ishotdanieljohnston on 28 Jul 2008, 19:05 ---I love Gaiman but I couldn't get through American Gods... just didn't do it for me.
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I think I can see that.
I love Gaiman and think American Gods is nothing short of archetypal for him.
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From context, I think you're using "archetypal" incorrectly. I love American Gods, but I far prefer The Sandman, which is up there with my favourite works of literature (yes, literature) of all time.
--- Quote from: blankfile on 30 Jul 2008, 22:02 ---*A brief history of time: From big bang to black holes - Stephen Hawking
Really awesome book, wrote by a pure genius. But yeah, this is not your usual kind of novel.
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It's not a novel, you twit. Also, it should be "written by a pure genius". Maybe stick to Dan Brown and other lowest-common-denominator stuff.
Also, they say that A Brief History Of Time is one of the most bought-but-unread books in publishing history. Are you sure you read it? Or are you just dropping names to sound smart?
--- Quote from: blankfile ---*The Silver Key- Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Yeah, i'm a Lovecraft fan. But this one in particular is just awesome. Words, however, cannot describe it.
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Try these: not nearly as good as The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, At The Mountains Of Madness, or a solid third of Lovecraft's later work. It is short, though! Maybe that's why you found it appealing.
I'm currently re-reading Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon, which is basically my all-time favourite book. (Some bunch of talentless musicians released a song recently by the same name, that has no connection to the book whatsoever.) Reading it is like removing your brain, turning it inside-out, rubbing it vigorously with a soft leather whip, and reinserting it through your nose (but in a good way). It's difficult in the extreme to get started, but once you get through the first fifty-odd pages, it suddenly becomes simple and natural - I think maybe it takes that long to forget the concepts of a cohesive narrative and plot and simply enjoy the ride.
bbqrocks:
The silmarillion- It's just so fun, like reading an elvish bible near the start. The stories in it are pretty damn epic.
A fire upon the deep by Vernor Vinge- I haven't read much Sci-fi, but the whole concept of the 'zones of thought' was really interesting. Also the dog creatures were awesome.
I can't think of many, but I've enjoyed all of the Discworld series. More specifically, I enjoyed everything from equal rites to the fifth elephant more than the ones outside of this time period (but I still enjoyed the rest a great deal). When I was younger, I loved the edge chronicles and the harry potter books.
jessco:
--- Quote from: Surgoshan on 30 Jul 2008, 18:35 ---
--- Quote ---Life of Pi ~ Yann Martel
-Jesus, Mary, Mohammed and Vishnu!
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Second to the nth. That book is simply wonderful. You want to believe the story he tells.
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When I was going to Chapel Hill, the summer book reading program was getting hell for making everyone read the Koran two years prior. Because of that, the communications program came up with an idea of how they might figure out a book that wouldn't piss too many people off for the next year.
Their idea- take the Freshman minions in Comm 9 and make them pick a book to give a presentation on for their Final Exam.
Our group chose this book, and it actually was 2nd on the list for consideration the next year.
We lost to a book about Iraqi soldiers.
Guess that was the safest thing they could come up with at the time. But damned if we didn't try.
jimbunny:
--- Quote from: elcapitan ---It's not a novel, you twit. Also, it should be "written by a pure genius". Maybe stick to Dan Brown and other lowest-common-denominator stuff.
Also, they say that A Brief History Of Time is one of the most bought-but-unread books in publishing history. Are you sure you read it? Or are you just dropping names to sound smart?
--- Quote from: blankfile ---*The Silver Key- Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Yeah, i'm a Lovecraft fan. But this one in particular is just awesome. Words, however, cannot describe it.
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Try these: not nearly as good as The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, At The Mountains Of Madness, or a solid third of Lovecraft's later work. It is short, though! Maybe that's why you found it appealing.
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I...I'm having a bit of a moment, here. This must be the most unqualified, unwarranted, most flagrant piece of assholery I have yet seen on this forum. It has the name-calling, the grammar nazism (especially baffling in an environment in which many speakers may be using a second language), the asshole statistic-throwing (the "asshole" statistic so called because it is used almost exclusively as a means by which assholes aspire to become more accomplished-looking assholes), the demeaning and unfounded implication of false intent - all this with a tone just reeking of elitism. It hits just about all the required bases; really, it's so perfect that I would suspect some sort of tomfoolery if it did not ring quite so pathetically sincere. Egad, it's good to have an example every now and then of what exactly I'm missing by only hanging about such normally well-mannered boards.
OK, now I can go to bed, with that out of my system.
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