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Mr. Horse

Mr. Horse

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Just thought I would start a thread for the readers out there.
I just finished reading the lord of the rings trilogy which was absolutely amazing. Tolkien knows how to write a story!!
Now i'm about 40 pages in to Hermenn Hesse's "The Glass Bead Game" woah! pretty amazing but it requires so much concentration. Not exactly a book for the train with all the distractions that are there. With that said, i'm expecting this to be the most profound book I will have read.
So what have the rest of you got bookmarks stuck into?
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I'm into the lord of the rings as well, for the second time. I want to get through it before the movie forever ruins my ability to imagine the scenes without seeing movie characters.
 
fair enough tarsy, and yes, I do remember those threads, however I thought I would start a new one. A current reader list, because those threads were from last year, with a bulk of the posters not on the board anymore. If you feel its innapropriate for me to start a new one, close this and bump the one you feel would be appropriate. Then suck my dick
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ok, in regards to tolkien, I really suggest everyone reads the book before you see the movie, because as plague said, the movie will force the images of the characters on the book, so read the book, use your imagination to conjure up the images that you feel would best fit frodo, samwise, gandalf and the like. Plus its an amazing book. As said on the cover "the world is divided into two people: Those who have read lord of the rings, and those who are yet to read lord of the rings" (or something like that)
I guess this thread is inspired by my recent yearning to read.
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cannot recommend this one strongly enough:
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
this is a monster of a book about absolutely everything (and more on drugs than can fit in 5 normal books), it will make you laugh out loud and miss sleep, at page 400, i was already sorry there were only 800 more left to go.
Infinite Jest and Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow IMNSHO are the strongest late-20th century books written in English.
 
Read the Thomas Covenant Series by Stephen Donaldson.. Also his into the gap (sci fi though but also deep reading) books are just great. Too many authors to mention really.
Eric Lustbader
Tolkien
Jennings
Roald Dahl
tom clancy
and moreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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He who laughs last thinks slowest."
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All warfare is based on deception. - Sun Tzu
 
Currently reading '15 Kinds of Desire' Sounds nice but it sucks.
Book shopping: POLYESTER! your one stop shop for alternatve strange books. www.polyester.com.au
I like reading biographies, but I'm not very into fantasties and science fiction...we live in a real world after all.
 
Yes, we live in a real world, thats why we like to escape it at times with good fictional books and sometimes even *gasp* drugs..
Nothing wrong with a good non-fiction book, but on the same note, nothing wrong with a good fiction book.
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He who laughs last thinks slowest."
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All warfare is based on deception. - Sun Tzu
 
Everyone seems to be getting into Tolkein again, hmmm i wonder why?
Aldous Huxley's Island, it is his utopian vision as opposed to his apocolyptic vision in Brave New World.
Among the Believers by V.S Naipaul, a book written about islam by an indian hindi from trinidad, quite relevant in todays political climate.
DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Rick Strassman
And next im going to read Carl Jansens book on k
 
Interferon - yes!!!
My two favourite authors
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I've read Infinite Jest about 5 times...Pynchon is great too (tho I haven't been able to track down a copy of Gravity's Rainbow yet, I've read all the rest - Crying of Lot 49 probably my favourite). If you like those two, try Philip K Dick (A Scanner Darkly, or Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said) or Don De Lillo (Underworld, Libra).
Uh, back to the original question....
Just read Umberto Eco's the Name of the Rose (murder mystery/medieval history/theological debate...not bad, loadsa monks get killed, which as a lapsed Catholic I kinda liked)...
Reading Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land...not bad, good writer but a bit of a fascist...
 
I recently re-read "Animal Farm" by George Orwell...
Even though I studied it in Year 11, reading it again 4 years later and with a much more solid understanding of the Russian Revolution, it's even more of an amazing book than I first thought!
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Also read "Doors of Perception" and "Heaven and Hell" not too long ago either... two must reads for anyone into drugs, and more specifically psychedelics.
 
I'm almost finished "Temple" by Mathew Rielly.
A little while ago I read Ice Station by Mathew Rielly, an awesome book I must say! If you like military and science fiction that is.
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if you haven't yet read "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess... read it... it is one of the best books i have read in quite a while. the movie is crap compared to the book. definitely recommended. at teh moment, i am about to start "Fugitive Prince" by Janny Wurts, she is the author that co-wrote the Empire series with Raymond E Feist, all her books are top quality fantasy and are also recommended.
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watch for the silent 3, it will corrupt you...
 
Mirage if you like Mathew Reilly, he just released a new one called Area 7 which has all the cast of Ice Station in it. My brother has them all, and they are pretty good to kill a morning when you are supposed to be studying... Yeah, I'll admit it, Sometimes I'm just in the mood for some guns n ammo writing...
If somebody wants a really good read, go no further than Lois De Beneires. Check his stuff out here.
Unfortunately, his most popular book has been predictably made into a Hollywood movie (motherFUCKERS) which I implore you not to go and waste money on. His other stuff was better anyway. Damn funny, philisophical writing with plenty of cocaine cartels and whores thrown in...
 
Simon, you da man!
one question remains, how does he follow up a book like Infinite Jest?
get Gravity's Rainbow, i've read all of Pynchon's others and its by far the strongest, although it takes alot out of you.
P.K.Dick - the Godfather of LSD crazed sci-fi. Heinlein - between age 14 and 16 i've read his entire output (hella lotsa books). Stranger in a Strangeland is still an all-time classic. as far as sci-fi, i like the new guys, William Gibson's early stuff was great, The Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson was also a darn good yarn (ah, ok, so was the Cryptonomycon).
now, i'll take exception to DeLillo - thought him, well, too dangling and verbose for what the final pleasures of the book held(Underworld). frankly i dont see why the reviewers always lump him in together with Pynchon.
Eco - Focault's Pendulum. Period.
for all the kids reading Tolkien, might i suggest Gene Wolfe? The Long and Short Sun series will prove to be the "Rings" for the new generation, and his language and power of evocation are superlative.
btw, who else here thinks Tom Robbins couldn't write his way out of an open bag filled with A4 paper and typewriters?
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interferon and Simon:
that's exactly what I needed
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I've been wanting to read Infinite Jest for ages, you don't know how many times I've picked it up at Borders (pretty much the only place to always have it on the shelf), felt its heft... heh. That's it, I'm buying it! I'm up for the challenge.
If you like Stephenson, I read Snow Crash a while ago and it's a really cool cyberpunk/cy-fi book. Stephenson is incredibly hip.
 
well as of late (after my trip to NZ and having some time to think about life and where i am/and heading) ive started to read all the classsics in literature...
atm im reading Great Expectations by Charles Dickens...I plan to go thru all the classics until i finish them all..just figure that by my age i should have read em all
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I'm generally a sci fi/fantasy reader myself
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