Balki, I want to personally thank you for getting me back into the read mode, I forgot how awsome books really are. They are treasures onto them selves.....
Originally posted by Clark Griswold Balki, I want to personally thank you for getting me back into the read mode, I forgot how awsome books really are. They are treasures onto them selves.....
Love,
Clark
or a treasure onto them shelves!
Some people have to have the sultry evenings Cocktails in the blue, red and grey But I like every minute of the day.
INTER-FUCKING-MISSION!!!
Newcastle-Riverside 02/22/92!!!
E.rutherford New Jersey 01/06/06
Athens -Greece.survived !barely-
Wembley 18/06/07- no words- just smiles!
i love dostoyevsky (tho i can never spell the name). i havent gotten through brothers karamazov yet, but i did read crime and punishment and it's fantastic.
everyone should read catch-22, imho the greatest book ever written. it's so crazy you know it's real but so realistic it has to be insane.
i dig vonnegut too, tho slaughterhouse-5 is one of my least favorites. i liked breakfast of champions and player piano a lot.
ummm, for the fantasy people, philip pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy is some of the best I've ever read. very intelligent and philosophical. im re-reading the silmarillion now for my thesis as well, no lotr, but good nonetheless.
"on the road" jack keruoac
anything by Michael Chabon.
God, I'm such a dorky English major bookworm, haha
Originally posted by sevensins HEAVIER THAN HEAVEN a biography of Kurt Cobain!!!!
Not only the best Kurt bio. but one of the best bios ever written. All factual info he interviewed just about everyone Kurt ever knew. If you have even a mild intrest in Nirvana ( i think most do ) READ THIS BOOK!!
Originally posted by FancyFacade Screwtape Letters- C.S. Lewis. its basically the devil writing letters to another demon telling him how to trick humans. i found it pretty interesting
that sounds really really cool
"Don't Be Ridiculous"
~Balki Bartokamous
"Some people have taken pure bullshit, and turned it into gold."
~Neil
"Call out the instigators, because there's something in the air..."
and I love adbusters so that book sounds quite intriguing as well.
I am long over due in getting on this thread, I daresay. I now have like 10 new books I have to get and read. Thanks guys! I can't wait. LOVE new books.
My contributions:
Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451. Censorship and where it may lead and why the human spirit triumphs even when death is the last resort. This book is absolutely required reading. Period. Also, Martian Chronicles, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and The Illustrated Man. He is a foundry of heart and humanity in all his futuristic ways. Also, anybody who didn't graduate high school yet is called upon to create and design Epcot Center is cool.
Kafka has been mentioned. Check out Amerika and The Penal Colony. I loved his dire opinion of the common man, which he then would turn on those in charge of the common man. Kafka, in my opinion, invented the modern anti-hero.
Stephen King- what the hell is he doing on here? I can hear some of you saying. Read The Stand, and you'll know why. It is proof that very few modern masters of fiction or any form of social prose, know PEOPLE as well as King, and even less can write them as convincingly. This book shook me for months. It is 1100 pages, and I have read it well on to 30 times now. Please, give it a shot. Also, his collection of short stories called The Bachman Books, 4 tales originally written under a now highly publicized pseudonym. Rage and The Long Walk in particular, are especially poignant today.
JD Salinger - yes Catcher is a great book but Nine Stories (it is what it says it is), is even better.
Calvin and Hobbes. The great philosopher's comic strip. I miss Bill Watterson, and I miss Calvin and Hobbes a great deal.
Bloom County/Outland- Berke Breathed and his whacked out political and social commentary in animated form. Another gem of a strip now gone.
Neil Gaiman - this man is going to be the rejuvenation of the modern fairy tale, if he hasn't already done so. Neverwhere, American Gods, Sandman: The Dream Hunters (the artwork for this piece hung in the NY Metropolitan Museum of Art), Good Omens (with Terry Pratchet of Red Dwarf fame, kind of the Hitchikers Guide to the Apocalypse). Anything you read by this man will touch you in some way.
last but not least:
C.S. Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia. Amazing so-called children's literature. I read all 7 of them 4 times a year. I never cease to enjoy them to no end. PLUS they just scored themselves a movie contract for 5 movies, and WETA has accepted the production and effects, which means that at least the LOOK will be as good as the Lord of the Rings stuff. Which has promise. I love these books.
there. I ran my mouth as usual. But I hope that you guys wiil be inspired as I have by you. thanks!
I'm stepping in front of the gushing hydrant in a hurricane. I'd like to see the traction I keep.
reading...
Communion-Whitely Striber; Alien encounters.
(Read the books your father read.)
The Mists of Avalon- Marion Zimmer Bradly- King Arthurs Life
from a womans point of view.
Jesus a life in Crisis- Jack ? Some of the reason and explanations
to questions pondered.
I am not Ester- ? A girl has to live with strict religous relatives to please her mother wishes; wacky and witty survival story.
Wuthering Hieghts-Emily Bonte, Want an unforgettable love
story? Read this classic.
Pearl- Tabitha King. I never laughed so much through a supurb
read.
The Monkey Wrench Gang- Edward (ahhh I'm having a block!)
This book was hystericaly funny.
Right now, I'm still reading Mary called Magadalene.
Margaret George So good:) It's a very long book about the
adventures of Jesus and his diciples as Mary is one of them.
Female Rage by Mary Valentis and Anne Devane a little
constructive energy in need of redirection.
The Bible though is my soul inspiration.
Oh, If you like J.D. Salinger read his daughters biography.
Great humor.
Try and find "The fountain at the centre of the earth" by a guy called Rob Newman. He was a big comedian in the ninties but the book is really thought provoking, you might find it on the web some where. His second book Manners was great too but really dark. It's about a copper who goes barmy!
God loves you my son, the rest of us think your an arsehole.
I love book threads...it's interesting how so many of us have similar likes. Daniel Quinn's "The Holy" is wonderful. So is Hella Haas's "In a Dark Wood Wandering"; it's about 15th century France, but written in a very readable historical novel style. As mentioned before, "The Lorax"! Also "Gertrude McFuzz"! Dr. Seuss (originally pronounced "Zoice": his mother's maiden name)was so ahead of his time. Let's all be Loraxes and recycle our bottles and cans after concerts rather than leaving them in the lot or "throwing them away". Peace and happy reading.
I just read my first Milan Kundera this summer.
Guess which one? Oooo the oh so yummy
UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING.;)
Loved it. This was something I've wanted to read or
see since 1988 but just kept putting it off. I suppose
it was worth it to understand it as an adult should.
Then just for dessert I rented the movie by Philip
Kauffman with my 2 favorite actors Daniel Day Lewis
and Juliet Binoche. Yeah, Hot stuff.
If you liked his stuff you might like Anais Ninn.
Philip Kauffman also directed a movie based
on her work called 'Henry and June.' Absolutely
brillant movie about the love affair between the
writers Henry Miller and Anais Ninn and June, Henry's
wife. Amazing true story I adore and the
cinematography is heavenly.:)
HI! How can you get through a Clive Barker book?
I started Imajica in '93 liked it somewhat in the beginning
but the more I read the more scared I got! Me scared? as
an adult?! It scared me that much man! I tried for days to con-
tinue but I'd just put it back down. Ha ha, scary willies
chilly scary. And it's ashame, how can the man be a best
seller if noone can't get though to finish it to find our what
happens? Perhaps you can update me, what did happen
in that house on those stairs? Nawwww I still don't want to
know! Thats what makes you men isn't it? It's one of those
things to be able to get through and read a Clive Barker~
makes you a man ha ha! Going shirtless and reading Clive
makes you superman. Anyway...:)
Comments
Love,
Clark
or a treasure onto them shelves!
INTER-FUCKING-MISSION!!!
Newcastle-Riverside 02/22/92!!!
E.rutherford New Jersey 01/06/06
Athens -Greece.survived !barely-
Wembley 18/06/07- no words- just smiles!
goodnight gekko?
everyone should read catch-22, imho the greatest book ever written. it's so crazy you know it's real but so realistic it has to be insane.
i dig vonnegut too, tho slaughterhouse-5 is one of my least favorites. i liked breakfast of champions and player piano a lot.
ummm, for the fantasy people, philip pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy is some of the best I've ever read. very intelligent and philosophical. im re-reading the silmarillion now for my thesis as well, no lotr, but good nonetheless.
"on the road" jack keruoac
anything by Michael Chabon.
God, I'm such a dorky English major bookworm, haha
Conor
that sounds really really cool
~Balki Bartokamous
"Some people have taken pure bullshit, and turned it into gold."
~Neil
"Call out the instigators, because there's something in the air..."
I love sirens of titan as well.
Oh and anything by Daniel Quinn (Ishmael, Story of B, My Ishmael)
~Balki Bartokamous
"Some people have taken pure bullshit, and turned it into gold."
~Neil
"Call out the instigators, because there's something in the air..."
Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer..it's a biography
And yes..anything by Daniel Quinn
2004
I am long over due in getting on this thread, I daresay. I now have like 10 new books I have to get and read. Thanks guys! I can't wait.
My contributions:
Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451. Censorship and where it may lead and why the human spirit triumphs even when death is the last resort. This book is absolutely required reading. Period. Also, Martian Chronicles, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and The Illustrated Man. He is a foundry of heart and humanity in all his futuristic ways. Also, anybody who didn't graduate high school yet is called upon to create and design Epcot Center is cool.
Kafka has been mentioned. Check out Amerika and The Penal Colony. I loved his dire opinion of the common man, which he then would turn on those in charge of the common man. Kafka, in my opinion, invented the modern anti-hero.
Stephen King- what the hell is he doing on here? I can hear some of you saying. Read The Stand, and you'll know why. It is proof that very few modern masters of fiction or any form of social prose, know PEOPLE as well as King, and even less can write them as convincingly. This book shook me for months. It is 1100 pages, and I have read it well on to 30 times now. Please, give it a shot. Also, his collection of short stories called The Bachman Books, 4 tales originally written under a now highly publicized pseudonym. Rage and The Long Walk in particular, are especially poignant today.
JD Salinger - yes Catcher is a great book but Nine Stories (it is what it says it is), is even better.
Calvin and Hobbes. The great philosopher's comic strip. I miss Bill Watterson, and I miss Calvin and Hobbes a great deal.
Bloom County/Outland- Berke Breathed and his whacked out political and social commentary in animated form. Another gem of a strip now gone.
Neil Gaiman - this man is going to be the rejuvenation of the modern fairy tale, if he hasn't already done so. Neverwhere, American Gods, Sandman: The Dream Hunters (the artwork for this piece hung in the NY Metropolitan Museum of Art), Good Omens (with Terry Pratchet of Red Dwarf fame, kind of the Hitchikers Guide to the Apocalypse). Anything you read by this man will touch you in some way.
last but not least:
C.S. Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia. Amazing so-called children's literature. I read all 7 of them 4 times a year. I never cease to enjoy them to no end. PLUS they just scored themselves a movie contract for 5 movies, and WETA has accepted the production and effects, which means that at least the LOOK will be as good as the Lord of the Rings stuff. Which has promise. I love these books.
there. I ran my mouth as usual. But I hope that you guys wiil be inspired as I have by you.
Communion-Whitely Striber; Alien encounters.
(Read the books your father read.)
The Mists of Avalon- Marion Zimmer Bradly- King Arthurs Life
from a womans point of view.
Jesus a life in Crisis- Jack ? Some of the reason and explanations
to questions pondered.
I am not Ester- ? A girl has to live with strict religous relatives to please her mother wishes; wacky and witty survival story.
Wuthering Hieghts-Emily Bonte, Want an unforgettable love
story? Read this classic.
Pearl- Tabitha King. I never laughed so much through a supurb
read.
The Monkey Wrench Gang- Edward (ahhh I'm having a block!)
This book was hystericaly funny.
Right now, I'm still reading Mary called Magadalene.
Margaret George So good:) It's a very long book about the
adventures of Jesus and his diciples as Mary is one of them.
Female Rage by Mary Valentis and Anne Devane a little
constructive energy in need of redirection.
The Bible though is my soul inspiration.
Oh, If you like J.D. Salinger read his daughters biography.
Great humor.
Quick opperator get me the number for 911.
www.sallysbeadworks.com
Cabal, Imajica (I & II), The Great & Secret Show, The books of Blood, Everville & Weaveworld. All strangely and perversely beautiful books.
Guess which one? Oooo the oh so yummy
UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING.;)
Loved it. This was something I've wanted to read or
see since 1988 but just kept putting it off. I suppose
it was worth it to understand it as an adult should.
Then just for dessert I rented the movie by Philip
Kauffman with my 2 favorite actors Daniel Day Lewis
and Juliet Binoche. Yeah, Hot stuff.
If you liked his stuff you might like Anais Ninn.
Philip Kauffman also directed a movie based
on her work called 'Henry and June.' Absolutely
brillant movie about the love affair between the
writers Henry Miller and Anais Ninn and June, Henry's
wife. Amazing true story I adore and the
cinematography is heavenly.:)
Clive Barker is THE MAN
The Books of Blood series are the most amazing and grotesque tales I've ever read.
I started Imajica in '93 liked it somewhat in the beginning
but the more I read the more scared I got! Me scared? as
an adult?! It scared me that much man! I tried for days to con-
tinue but I'd just put it back down. Ha ha, scary willies
chilly scary. And it's ashame, how can the man be a best
seller if noone can't get though to finish it to find our what
happens? Perhaps you can update me, what did happen
in that house on those stairs? Nawwww I still don't want to
know! Thats what makes you men isn't it? It's one of those
things to be able to get through and read a Clive Barker~
makes you a man ha ha! Going shirtless and reading Clive
makes you superman. Anyway...:)
a comedy about the apocolypse.
has trusting people dissappointed you?
yeap, the unbearable lightness of being is great
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