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Chesire Cat:
--- Quote from: Freelance_Physicist ---House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danialewski
total mindfuck
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That's been recommended to me but I can never find it anywhere.
Freelance_Physicist:
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--- Quote from: Freelance_Physicist ---House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danialewski
total mindfuck
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That's been recommended to me but I can never find it anywhere.
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It's available at Amazon. Any large bookstore should have it as well (Borders, Barnes and Noble, etc.).
ASturge:
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Haruki Murakami - Noruwei No Mori
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ooooooooh yeeeeaahh.
*thumbs up*
mberan42:
Late to the thread, as usual.
--- Quote from: elcapitan ---Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon. The first book I've read that made me feel like a child again, being held above a parents head to see the crowd in its entirety. Amazing.
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I got to part 3, then had to put it down. I'm just not smart enough to understand wtf is going on in that book. It became a chore to read. I never put books down without finishing them. (Except when I was in school.) I just didn't understand it.
--- Quote from: Bunnyman ---Brin - The Postman. Fuck the movie. A grimy, rain-soaked quest through a nuclear-scarred Pacific Northwest. Packed with creative twists and fascinating characters. Thoroughly uplifting in the least saccharine way possible.
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Hmm, I'm going to have to try this one again. I'm in the hyper-minority in that I actually liked the movie. Oh, I know, it's an awful fucking pile of shit for a movie, but I still liked it. I read the first two pages of the book and was like "Ugh, no thanks." I'll have to try it again.
--- Quote from: Catfish Man ---I tend to reread a lot... it's an odd trait of mine.
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I re-read damn near everything. H2G2 series I've read at least 5 times. Some of David Eddings' work I've read 2 to 4 times. Jordan's Wheel of Time I've read 3 times. (Although only read #10 once, and am half-way through my first read of #11. He's got a LOT of shit to tie together in the next half of this book and #12. Provided he doesn't die first.)
--- Quote from: Freelance Physicist ---House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danialewski -- total mindfuck
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I love this book. It's on my Desert Island Top Five list. Fucking love this book.
Otherwise, a book series that changed my life was the Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander.
I gotta run, I'll update this more tomorrow.
Cheers.
Sanitycult:
The book that altered my life the most, made me embrase creativity was a book my second grade teacher read the class. I don't remember the title and everytime i'm in a bookstore or library I look for it. It's illustrated, thick and about a kid who gets trapped in a surreal mansion where he interacts with ghosts and there is some kinda time distortion in the begining. Other than that, Lots of Vonnegut books, Slaughterhouse Five and Cats Cradle are probably my favorites although I like Bluebeard and Breakfast of Champions. Some Toni Morison books, Love, the bluest eye. But when the topic is what altered my life the most... Probably books about and by Carl G. Jung.
By the way--I decided to read the fountainhead by Ann Raynd so I could write about it and get a scholarship. I read the first four chapters and seriously considered never going to colledge, or ever reading again. It's like eating spoiled eggs and ruining your pallete for months.
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