Top Ten Favourite Books

Cocaine_Nosejob
Cocaine_Nosejob Posts: 1,744
edited November 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
1. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
2. Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates - Tom Robbins
3. Down To This - Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall
4. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
5. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
6. Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
7. Fortune's Bastard - Robert Chalmers
8. Lamb: The Gospel According To Bif, Christ's Childhood Pal - Christopher Moore
9. The Stand - Stephen King
10. Interview With The Vampire - Anne Rice
"The customer...is always...an ASSHOLE"

"The world fascinates me."

"Doesn't mean that much to me, to mean that much to you"

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  • Black Diamond
    Black Diamond Posts: 25,109
    This can change at a moments notice but...

    1. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
    2. The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
    3. The Yiddish Policeman's Union - Michael Chabon
    4. On Beauty - Zadie Smith
    5. The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester
    6. Indignation - Philip Roth
    7. Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Latham
    8. 1984 - George Orwell
    9. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
    10. Foundation - Isaac Asimov
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  • pearljammin41
    pearljammin41 Posts: 465
    the crichton books (RIP)

    count of monte cristo

    the great gatsby
  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    To Kill A Mockingbird- Harper Lee
    1984- George Orwell
    Into the Wild- Jon Krakauer
    The Secret Life of Bees- Sue Monk Kidd
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    1 through 10:


    Under the Banner of Heaven
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • Cocaine_Nosejob
    Cocaine_Nosejob Posts: 1,744
    AmentsChick wrote:
    1 through 10:


    Under the Banner of Heaven

    I already had strong feelings about the Mormon faith before reading this, and when I finished my thoughts were cemented.
    Krakauer really knows how to paint a picture with words.
    Awesome book.
    "The customer...is always...an ASSHOLE"

    "The world fascinates me."

    "Doesn't mean that much to me, to mean that much to you"

  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    Cocaine_Nosejob wrote:
    I already had strong feelings about the Mormon faith before reading this, and when I finished my thoughts were cemented.
    Krakauer really knows how to paint a picture with words.
    Awesome book.

    OMG YESSSSSSSS! I'm the same way!!! I have always had strong opinions of the LDS church (my roommate in college was LDS...she eventually wised up and left). This book, though, is my all-time favorite book!!!!!! It was the second book I read by Krakauer (the first being Into Thin Air) and I'm fricken fascinated by LDS and the FLDS. I think I've read EVERY book out there about polygamy and the effed up mormon church. I don't think most people realize what ACTUALLY goes on behind the scenes in that faith.
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • Cocaine_Nosejob
    Cocaine_Nosejob Posts: 1,744
    AmentsChick wrote:
    OMG YESSSSSSSS! I'm the same way!!! I have always had strong opinions of the LDS church (my roommate in college was LDS...she eventually wised up and left). This book, though, is my all-time favorite book!!!!!! It was the second book I read by Krakauer (the first being Into Thin Air) and I'm fricken fascinated by LDS and the FLDS. I think I've read EVERY book out there about polygammy and the effed up mormon church. I don't think most people realize what ACTUALLY goes on behind the scenes in that faith.

    Scarier than Scientology IMO....
    I haven't read Into Thin Air yet, but it is in the pile of books on my desk that I've bought but haven't read yet :)
    "The customer...is always...an ASSHOLE"

    "The world fascinates me."

    "Doesn't mean that much to me, to mean that much to you"

  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    Cocaine_Nosejob wrote:
    Scarier than Scientology IMO....
    I haven't read Into Thin Air yet, but it is in the pile of books on my desk that I've bought but haven't read yet :)

    Into Thin Air is amazing. I've never really been interested in mountain climbing but his writing style MAKES you want to learn about it. I'm not sure if you're familiar with it but he went to Everest to do a story for Outside Magazine (the same mag he wrote the article that led to Into the Wild) and it turned into the greatest disaster in Everest's history. I think 8 people died that day.
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • Cocaine_Nosejob
    Cocaine_Nosejob Posts: 1,744
    AmentsChick wrote:
    Into Thin Air is amazing. I've never really been interested in mountain climbing but his writing style MAKES you want to learn about it. I'm not sure if you're familiar with it but he went to Everest to do a story for Outside Magazine (the same mag he wrote the article that led to Into the Wild) and it turned into the greatest disaster in Everest's history. I think 8 people died that day.

    Holy shit... I knew it was about his Everest climb, but I didn't know there was something so substantial to it. *moves it to the top of the pile*
    "The customer...is always...an ASSHOLE"

    "The world fascinates me."

    "Doesn't mean that much to me, to mean that much to you"

  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    Cocaine_Nosejob wrote:
    Holy shit... I knew it was about his Everest climb, but I didn't know there was something so substantial to it. *moves it to the top of the pile*

    If you're like me, you'll finish it in a day.
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
    The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
    Swann's Way (Volume I of À la recherche du temps perdu) by Marcel Proust
    Dubliners by James Joyce
    Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
    Paradise Lost by John Milton
    Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire
    Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
    The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • Cocaine_Nosejob
    Cocaine_Nosejob Posts: 1,744
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
    The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
    Swann's Way (Volume I of À la recherche du temps perdu) by Marcel Proust
    Dubliners by James Joyce
    Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
    Paradise Lost by John Milton
    Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire
    Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
    The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

    Gotta love Shakespeare...people usually make fun of me for liking Shakespeare so it makes me unendingly happy to see him here!! :D
    "The customer...is always...an ASSHOLE"

    "The world fascinates me."

    "Doesn't mean that much to me, to mean that much to you"

  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    Cocaine_Nosejob wrote:
    Gotta love Shakespeare...people usually make fun of me for liking Shakespeare so it makes me unendingly happy to see him here!! :D

    Seriously??!!! I went to a performing arts high school and we were trained in Shakespeare and had to memorize lines and translate sonnets. I LOVED the sonnets...oh and Hamlet.
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Cocaine_Nosejob wrote:
    Gotta love Shakespeare...people usually make fun of me for liking Shakespeare so it makes me unendingly happy to see him here!! :D
    It's just a colossal error on the part of anybody if they profess to enjoy literature and then disregard Shakespeare. I meet a lot of people who know bugger all about literature and like to read Dan Brown etc and they tell me "Shakespeare is boring". Opinions are fine, and I wouldn't say Shakespeare is the greatest writer in English but his value is a matter of objective FACT. I love it when people say "he stole all his ideas form other people". Who gives a toss? His reworkings were masterful. The language is simply incredible.

    "Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special
    providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,
    'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be
    now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the
    readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he
    leaves, what is't to leave betimes?"
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    AmentsChick wrote:
    Seriously??!!! I went to a performing arts high school and we were trained in Shakespeare and had to memorize lines and translate sonnets. I LOVED the sonnets...oh and Hamlet.
    Translate the sonnets?! Aren't you American? :)
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    Translate the sonnets?! Aren't you American? :)

    wuhl...yeah. I meant translate into our own words. This was always my favorite:

    Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
    Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
    Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
    And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
    Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
    And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
    And every fair from fair sometime declines,
    By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:
    But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
    Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
    Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
    When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
    So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
    So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • Cocaine_Nosejob
    Cocaine_Nosejob Posts: 1,744
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    It's just a colossal error on the part of anybody if they profess to enjoy literature and then disregard Shakespeare. I meet a lot of people who know bugger all about literature and like to read Dan Brown etc and they tell me "Shakespeare is boring". Opinions are fine, and I wouldn't say Shakespeare is the greatest writer in English but his value is a matter of objective FACT. I love it when people say "he stole all his ideas form other people". Who gives a toss? His reworkings were masterful. The language is simply incredible.

    "Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special
    providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,
    'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be
    now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the
    readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he
    leaves, what is't to leave betimes?"

    In high school we had to take some kind of personality test for sociology class and one of the questions asked who had a greater mind, Einstein or Shakespeare, and I was the only one to choose Shakespeare...unfortunately.

    "Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
    As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
    Are melted into air, into thin air:
    And like the baseless fabric of this vision,
    The cloud-capp'd tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces,
    The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
    Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
    And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
    Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
    As dreams are made on; and our little life
    Is rounded with a sleep."

    Boring? I think not.
    "The customer...is always...an ASSHOLE"

    "The world fascinates me."

    "Doesn't mean that much to me, to mean that much to you"

  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    It's just a colossal error on the part of anybody if they profess to enjoy literature and then disregard Shakespeare. I meet a lot of people who know bugger all about literature and like to read Dan Brown etc and they tell me "Shakespeare is boring". Opinions are fine, and I wouldn't say Shakespeare is the greatest writer in English but his value is a matter of objective FACT. I love it when people say "he stole all his ideas form other people". Who gives a toss? His reworkings were masterful. The language is simply incredible.

    "Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special
    providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,
    'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be
    now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the
    readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he
    leaves, what is't to leave betimes?"
    OMG. One of my biggest pet peeves is when people say the last book they read was "DaVinci Code" or that Dan Brown is their favorite author.
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    Cocaine_Nosejob wrote:
    In high school we had to take some kind of personality test for sociology class and one of the questions asked who had a greater mind, Einstein or Shakespeare, and I was the only one to choose Shakespeare...unfortunately.

    "Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
    As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
    Are melted into air, into thin air:
    And like the baseless fabric of this vision,
    The cloud-capp'd tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces,
    The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
    Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
    And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
    Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
    As dreams are made on; and our little life
    Is rounded with a sleep."

    Boring? I think not.

    My sonnet kicks your sonnet's arse.
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    AmentsChick wrote:
    My sonnet kicks your sonnet's arse.
    That's because Cocaine_Nosejob's wasn't a sonnet :)
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"

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