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Cocaine_NosejobCocaine_Nosejob Posts: 1,744
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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 DiamondBlack Diamond Posts: 25,107
    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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  • pearljammin41pearljammin41 Posts: 465
    the crichton books (RIP)

    count of monte cristo

    the great gatsby
  • AnonAnon 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
  • AmentsChickAmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    1 through 10:


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

  • Cocaine_NosejobCocaine_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"

  • AmentsChickAmentsChick 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_NosejobCocaine_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"

  • AmentsChickAmentsChick 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_NosejobCocaine_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"

  • AmentsChickAmentsChick 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

  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 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_NosejobCocaine_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"

  • AmentsChickAmentsChick 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

  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 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"
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 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"
  • AmentsChickAmentsChick 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_NosejobCocaine_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"

  • AmentsChickAmentsChick 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

  • AmentsChickAmentsChick 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

  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 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"
  • AmentsChickAmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    That's because Cocaine_Nosejob's wasn't a sonnet :)
    way to kick MY arse. <shrinking away> :o

    You Londoners are wicked smart.
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • Cocaine_NosejobCocaine_Nosejob Posts: 1,744
    AmentsChick wrote:
    way to kick MY arse. <shrinking away> :o

    You Londoners are wicked smart.

    Haha...is it sad that I totally heard Casey Affleck in my head when you said that?
    When you wrote that?
    Uhhh...when I read that? Yeah...that one. That's the one that made sense.
    "The customer...is always...an ASSHOLE"

    "The world fascinates me."

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

  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    AmentsChick wrote:
    way to kick MY arse. <shrinking away> :o

    You Londoners are wicked smart.
    Nahhh, if I was that smart I'd have read Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene in preparation for my Renaissance Lit class tomorrow, and I most certainly have not :p I also probably wouldn't be on here at 3:20am :o

    But the trick, by the way, is knowing that a sonnet has 14 lines usually and, in English sonnets, ends with a rhyming couplet. If I recall correctly, the passage Cocaine posted is from The Tempest.
    "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"
  • AmentsChickAmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    Cocaine_Nosejob wrote:
    Haha...is it sad that I totally heard Casey Affleck in my head when you said that?
    When you wrote that?
    Uhhh...when I read that? Yeah...that one. That's the one that made sense.

    That was the point. Those Bostoners have some wicked accents.
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • Cocaine_NosejobCocaine_Nosejob Posts: 1,744
    I'll sonnet you *shakes fist*

    As a decrepit father takes delight
    To see his active child do deeds of youth,
    So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite,
    Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.
    For whether beauty, birth, or wealth, or wit,
    Or any of these all, or all, or more,
    Entitled in thy parts do crowned sit,
    I make my love engrafted to this store:
    So then I am not lame, poor, nor despised,
    Whilst that this shadow doth such substance give
    That I in thy abundance am sufficed
    And by a part of all thy glory live.
    Look, what is best, that best I wish in thee:
    This wish I have; then ten times happy me!
    "The customer...is always...an ASSHOLE"

    "The world fascinates me."

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

  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Well allow me to retort.

    There is no joy like this, dear heart,
    for kingdoms a trade would not be fair.
    Ne'er did one feel the lover's dart
    so deeply, nor with heart so bare
    as mine, in youth a sad sung tale
    and sorely shamed, but for a kiss
    This ungenuous fool will wear no veil
    for never was such love as this,
    And if she grants but one request,
    I ask my subject, true and fine
    (For if she loves and vows to this
    To her, by hand, my heart I sign):
    "Would your song and splendid beauty pray
    take me from the dead loathsomeness of these ways?"

    :cool:
    :o
    :eek:

    I can barely believe I posted that here. How bold.

    Oh yeah, this is getting way off subject. Good call on One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ms Nosejob.
    "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_NosejobCocaine_Nosejob Posts: 1,744
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    Well allow me to retort.

    There is no joy like this, dear heart,
    for kingdoms a trade would not be fair.
    Ne'er did one feel the lover's dart
    so deeply, nor with heart so bare
    as mine, in youth a sad sung tale
    and sorely shamed, but for a kiss
    This ungenuous fool will wear no veil
    for never was such love as this,
    And if she grants but one request,
    I ask my subject, true and fine
    (For if she loves and vows to this
    To her, by hand, my heart I sign):
    "Would your song and splendid beauty pray
    take me from the dead loathsomeness of these ways?"

    :cool:
    :o
    :eek:

    I can barely believe I posted that here. How bold.

    Oh yeah, this is getting way off subject.

    It's official. I am faaaar too immersed in pop culture, cuz I heard Samuel L. Jackson in my head that time. *sigh*
    "The customer...is always...an ASSHOLE"

    "The world fascinates me."

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

  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Cocaine_Nosejob wrote:
    It's official. I am faaaar too immersed in pop culture, cuz I heard Samuel L. Jackson in my head that time. *sigh*
    For a minute there I thought you meant when you read the poem and I was like :eek: not the intended reaction. But then I got what you meant :p and you were supposed to :D I was quoting him.
    "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"
  • AmentsChickAmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czb4jn5y94g

    I totally thought you were talking about this :o My second stupid misunderstanding of the day.
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    AmentsChick wrote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czb4jn5y94g

    I totally thought you were talking about this :o My second stupid misunderstanding of the day.
    We WERE talking about that :) When I said "Well allow me to retort", I was referencing that scene.
    "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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