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FETCHER. 09-08-2009 12:28 PM
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Originally Posted by VeggieLover (Post 731603)
no, crime and punishment is not on the required list for this year, just the recommended one. I figure i've got to get some brain points for trying.

I actually really enjoyed 1984. I guess I'm a big fan of the whole "humans staying human" concept...and doublethink just blew my mind. A lot of my classmates totally skimmed the whole "the book" sections (supposedly written by the goldstein guy) but honestly, those were some of my favorite parts. I also enjoyed the psycology of the torture towards the end. I've never endured any kind of intense physical (or emotional really) pain, so it is just a totally foriegn idea to me.

And, a big tsk tsk on my sophmore english teacher, I've never read lord of the flies even though its required reading. It was checked out when i tryed to read it on my own time. Whats so bad about it?
i read of mice & men at school last year, it was at school i read lord of the flies. i liked both. both are very twisted.

sidewinder 09-08-2009 12:32 PM
I started reading Fight Club a few days ago. I have seen the movie a few times but it's been long enough that it's not ruining my enjoyment of the book. I'm liking it, and can't wait to watch the movie again afterwards. I'm also planning to read some of Chuck Palahniuk's other novels later on.

upbeat4life 09-08-2009 04:15 PM
I just read a great book called Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Originally written in Spanish, translated into English. A little winded in the beginning, especially when the author is writing about books, but it is definitely worth getting into the story.

FETCHER. 09-08-2009 06:28 PM
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Originally Posted by sidewinder (Post 732061)
I started reading Fight Club a few days ago. I have seen the movie a few times but it's been long enough that it's not ruining my enjoyment of the book. I'm liking it, and can't wait to watch the movie again afterwards. I'm also planning to read some of Chuck Palahniuk's other novels later on.
i really wanted to see that at the pictures, but noone would go with me :(
i should have just went myself :(

jacklovezhimself 09-08-2009 06:55 PM
^^^

you haven't seen fight club?!?!?!?!?!?!

anabundanceoftubes 09-08-2009 07:47 PM
I have an annoying habit of starting like eight books at the same time. It takes me a month to finish all of them and it's completely inconvenient but I can't help it. So at the moment I'm reading
David Copperfield by Charles ****ens
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist by Mark Leyner
More Than it Hurts You by Darren Straus
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Crowd Sounds Happy by Nicolas Dawidoff

I recommend all of them so far but if you're looking for something entertaining that's also not much of a commitment then go with My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist. It's just a random collection of thoughts so you can read it periodically and come back to it. It's really hilarious and pretty short.

TheBig3 09-08-2009 07:49 PM
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Originally Posted by anabundanceoftubes (Post 732341)
I have an annoying habit of starting like eight books at the same time. It takes me a month to finish all of them and it's completely inconvenient but I can't help it. So at the moment I'm reading
David Copperfield by Charles ****ens
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist by Mark Leyner
More Than it Hurts You by Darren Straus
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Crowd Sounds Happy by Nicolas Dawidoff

I recommend all of them so far but if you're looking for something entertaining that's also not much of a commitment then go with My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist. It's just a random collection of thoughts so you can read it periodically and come back to it. It's really hilarious and pretty short.
same boat my friend, although I don't think I've ever been 8 in. I have bus books and bed books.

I save ****ty books for the bus where I have no other option. Like Knockemstiff. I can't wait to finish it so I can badmouth the hell out of it.

Kevorkian Logic 09-08-2009 08:09 PM
I have a question in general. Why does everyone seem to read the same non-mainstream books? I check this thread on a regular basis and it's rare I see a book that numerous people have posted about before. :/

Where are all the surprises?

Astronomer 09-08-2009 08:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Kevorkian Logic (Post 732362)
I have a question in general. Why does everyone seem to read the same non-mainstream books? I check this thread on a regular basis and it's rare I see a book that numerous people have posted about before. :/

Where are all the surprises?
In my view people like to read stuff like Chuck Palahniuk, and other 'non-mainstream' authors because they're seen to be hip. Or they might delve into classics like Yeats or Nabokov because that's what they might perceive as educated and intelligent people to read. I guess the same authors that keep popping up are non-mainstream books that everybody knows... thus they're not really non-mainstream anymore. I'm generalising of course. It could just be that everyone has the same taste and that these books are just really good.

FETCHER. 09-08-2009 08:26 PM
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Originally Posted by jacklovezhimself (Post 732322)
^^^

you haven't seen fight club?!?!?!?!?!?!
nope :( i know its bad.


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