what are your favorite books

AH! how could i forgot that one? or the entire quartet, really.

 

you, sir, are a fracking moron. you've already mentioned your bible in this thread, fair enough. drop it. no one is interested. this is the thread about BOOKS, not religion. LET. IT. GO.

 

I think this is the first time I have ever seen Wayne give up trying to convert someone. Props Metard!

 

how about ray bradbury & arthur c. clark?

"farenheit 451" is a great book, used to have my freshmen read it in class. always led to some interesting discussions.

 

Wow. You never cease to amaze me. Aren't you supposed to be at the beach "fishing for people and trying to catch young men".

Once, again, you chime in with your self righteousness, insulting people around you, some of which share your beliefs, but they choose not to rant about it like a maniac or a guy on a lifetime prison term. I mean, that's what you sound like, a convicted murderer ranting about his BOOK and his beliefs all while not recognized his own shortcomings.

BTW, I have like 7 copies of "YOUR BOOK". I steal one from every hotel I ever stay in. Usually I sell them for a "prophet" though...

Furthermore, any of us with children are definitely not going to share our addresses with you sir. None of us want to see the white van with no windows rolling up to our local beaches. Keep that in Crazy-town, population YOU.

 

I can't sit still for more than 10 minutes, so I am not a huge reader, but a couple times a year I will tackle a few books... If you are a Stephen King fan, 11/22/63 was a really interesting read. I enjoyed it from cover to cover. My brother put me on to it, as he has read everything on earth, probably twice and he said there is an alternate ending floating around.

 

I always loved his collection of short stories, "The Illustrated Man." It had a fantastic cover, and a story which I have never forgotten to this day, about astronauts stranded after a meteor storm strikes their rocket: 'Kaleidoscope'

NJ42, If your looking for books for young freshman, perhaps you should assign something with more dense prose; I'm thinking Nabokov's 'Lolita,' perhaps?

 

zagaff I have alot of overlap with your sci fi (about 80%), and good call on the stephenson books, you read diamond age? it is set 50-60 years after snow crash, I liked it the best of the 3 (crypto, SC, Diamond age)

also, people if you like any of the books you see here odds are you can find free epubs or pdfs on that swedish site pirate bay

 

b/c THAT would go over so well w/ the parents! LMFAO! i can only imagine the outcry...there'd prob. be riots that would end w/ my head on a stake.

 

Cannery Row -Steinbeck
Catch 22 -Heller
A Moveable Feast- Hemingway
Dharma Bums -Kerouac
Borstal Boy -Behan
The Master and Margarita -Bulgakov

Nonfiction:
Ghost Soldiers -Hampton Sides
Belfast Diary -John Conroy
Endurance -Alfred Lansing
Blue Highways - William Least Heat Moon
Travels with Charley -John Steinbeck (again)
A Walk Across America - Peter Jenkins

and tons more obviously that I can't even think of off the top of my head!... I also have been crushing a ton of page turners over the years by great authors of various genres. Some of my favorites lately have been: Stieg Larsson's trilogy of books about Lisbeth Salander.. Dennis Lehane's Kenzie and Gennaro series.. Alan Monaghan's trilogoly about WWI/Ireland/the Irish Revolution &Civil War.. Ian Rankin's Rebus novels.. Robert Crais' Elvis Cole/Joe Pike series.. Stephen King's take your pick.. Kem Nunn's surf noir themed books!.. John Connolly's Charlie Parker detective series. He's kind of three quarters Dennis Lehane with a mix dollop of Stephen King thrown in. Stir, boil and read.. John Burdett's crazy wild graffic/macabre/ buddhist themed books about Royal Thai Detective Sonchai Jitlecheep's struggle to maintain his positive karmic balance while solving murders in Bangkok.. Elmore Leonard has a lot of quality reads.. and finally Adrian McKinty has and interesting detective series set in Belfast in the 80's

 

Adding book burning to your pathetic little existence, eh Goebbels?

Or did you merely discover that you had more 'success' with the kiddies by offering up candy & empty promises of free surfboards than offering them one of the signs of intelligent life on the planet aka a book.

 

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Skip "Kook" by Peter Heller. Bought it at the airport as I need a book for the plane and it was about surfing. It has a very weak story line and
vague environmental references about a guy from CO mastering surfing in 6 months with a team of coaches.

A book about Teddy Roosevelt in the Amazon was next to it and I wish I'd grabbed it instead.

 

Yeah I read that too and was a bit disappointed as well even though I wasn't exactly expecting it blow me away in the first place.

 

+1 on Blood Meridian. That book is amazing.

and this..

Man, when the pro coach flew in to help the guy out I knew I didn't care much for this book