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 Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 11:30 am Post subject: Your top 5 books: go |
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Man up to flavor and rank your top 5 books:
1. Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil
2. Dune
3. The Time Machine
4. The Lord of the Rings
5. The Dispossessed
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| Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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So it's time for the "Goddamn, I'm really bored at home" threads?
Also, I really don't think I can rank my favorite book. It would probably be something like this:
1. Blade of Tyshalle
2. Heroes Die
3. Heroes Die
4. Postmodern Magic
5. Heroes Die
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jaster is back in black
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| Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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| lugo wrote: | | So it's time for the "Goddamn, I'm really bored at home" threads? |
...maybe
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| Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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| jaster wrote: | | lugo wrote: | | So it's time for the "Goddamn, I'm really bored at home" threads? |
...maybe |
Actually he's writing a paper on DOOMPreferences.
But mine are:
1. The Lord of the Rings
2. Brave New World
3. The Book of the New Sun
4. 1984
5. The Awakening
Although I really do like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, A Song of Ice and Fire, and the Iliad. |
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jaster is back in black
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| Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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Bah! 1984!
1984 should have come in after Dune on my list, bumping The Time Machine and The Lord of the Rings down, and knocking The Dispossessed off the list.
I can't believe that I forgot that bitch.
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That's why I can't make a serious list. God knows I will forget something I really liked.
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mchicken is dejected.
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| Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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| lugo wrote: | | That's why I can't make a serious list. God knows I will forget something I really liked. |
Heroes Die x5? How hard is that.
I can't pick 5, and I can't rank them, and I am giving some credit for a body of work, but here's a few I love:
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (R.I.P.)
The Wooden Sea by Jonathon Carroll
Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland
Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
The Book of Flying by Keith Miller
Of course, Dune, Lord of the Rings, and (a man for whom I have an undying love) Matthew Woodring Stover would be on the list. And I mean just the man himself, along with all his novels. |
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| Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 3:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Incidentally, I'm reading my first Philip K. Dick novel. I love his style. It makes me want to do drugs. |
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jaster is back in black
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| Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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| kallie wrote: | | It makes me want to do drugs. |
As well it should... mercer box, imo.
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mchicken is dejected.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Just do it then. Or you could drink. |
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| Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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| mchicken wrote: | | Just do it then. |
I have to keep my body pure for my childbearing years. Maybe when I'm... 50.
| mchicken wrote: | | Or you could drink. |
The reason I want to do drugs is to have crazy creative trips like that guy must have... He has such interesting framing devices. |
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| Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:57 pm Post subject: |
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| It's funny because I'm basically reading a Christmas story, as told by Philip K. Dick. How appropriate. |
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