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4skizzle
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Has anyone read any good books lately?

I've read a few.

NON FICTION
End of Oil:
A look at the worlds energy economy, hol long it will last and what technology is next.

Stiff:
The secret life of dead bodies (donated to science) and their affect on our every day life.

Into the wild:
Crazy, Crazy, Crazy, look at one young man who had it all but gave up everything to live the life he wanted to.

FICTION
A few books by Dan Brown. Who hasn't read 'The DaVinci Code', He's also got 'Angels and Deamons', 'Deception point', and 'Digital Fortress'.

Just a few ideas if you're looking to pick up a good book.

Does anyone have any recomendations? What are some books you've read lately?

I've heard good things about the following:

'The truth: with jokes'

'Eiger Dreams : Ventures Among Men and Mountains'

'Under the Banner of Heaven : A Story of Violent Faith'
Dec 22 2005 11:13AM
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brizz
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Just finished the Ginger Man one of the most despicable characters i've ever read about but i get along with womanizing drunks
Dec 22 2005 11:21AM
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bigdaddytmac
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Into the Wild is my favorite book.
Dec 22 2005 11:24AM
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sacchettiadam
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Fight Club was one of the favourites i have read.
Dec 22 2005 11:41AM
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beefbud
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The Glass Castle...its a memior, good easy read
Dec 22 2005 11:44AM
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MissD
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Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married
Secrets of a Shopaholic
Dec 22 2005 11:50AM
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4skizzle
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i'm not talking about trashy chick books.
Dec 22 2005 11:54AM
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MissD
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^ um excuse me 4skizzle not all chick lit is trashy!
Dec 22 2005 11:56AM
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4skizzle
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the crap you read is.
Dec 22 2005 12:07PM
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KEVTRON
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the last mission

its a good WW2 book i like
Dec 22 2005 12:08PM
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4skizzle
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care to give a quick review/description?
Dec 22 2005 12:26PM
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ninjea
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"gai-jin", by James Clavell and "the teachings of Buddha" by someone are preety interesting, if your into easter culture
Dec 22 2005 12:30PM
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shrEddie
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i disagree
Dec 22 2005 12:32PM
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harlemcracka
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here are a few of the best books i have read in a while.

Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace-collected essays-all of them really intelligent and funny. Especially the one about the Adult Home Video awards and convention in Las Vegas.
Thats right, an intelligent piece written about porn.
or Infinite Jest(way longer and fiction) by DFW as well.

A million little pieces by James Frey. I think Oprah's fat ass may have put this in her book club recently, which is crazy because this book is about one of the most fucked up guys ever who huffs gasoline betweeen hits off his crack pipe It follows everything up to and including his stint in rehab which is interesting as well because he maintains a "FUck Rehab" attitude the whole time he is there.

Shantaram by Gregory David Robets-Guy escapes from jail in australia and flees to bombay and start dealing drugs weapons and passports-True story, good book.

And possibly the best non-fiction book ever written as far as I am concerned.

Mr. Nice- by Howard Marks. Read it.
Dec 22 2005 2:18PM
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Raek
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the razor's edge Somerset Maugham, Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac, The Dan Brown Books, A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle, Angelas Ashes and 'Tis by Frank McCourt.
Dec 22 2005 2:22PM
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ErikT
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Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test? ya, it's a classic
Dec 22 2005 2:31PM
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beefbud
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good reads right thurrr
Dec 22 2005 2:41PM
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Raek
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an amazing writer and teacher as well.
Dec 22 2005 3:00PM
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4skizzle
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is 'Dharma Bumbs' a god first Kerouac book to read?
Dec 22 2005 3:45PM
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freestyleskiin
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all the Tom Clancy books
Dec 22 2005 3:46PM
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Raek
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A million little pieces. I just finished reading this book

amazing. everyone should read this and see what shit can do to you
Dec 22 2005 3:55PM
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harlemcracka
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0h, and for the definitive Pablo Escobar story read

Killing Pablo by Mark Bowden.

This has some crazy stories in it, including the one about how he allowed the Columbian Gov. to arrest him on terms that he could be held as the only prisoner in his own jail and the jail staff and guards were appointed by and paid for by Escobar. He also imported his own women into the jail as well as jacuzzi's and TV's and stereo systems.
I think that officially qualifies as gangsta.
Dec 22 2005 6:19PM
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jimmychung
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Robin Cook is my favorite author. He writes medical thriller stuff, which I love since I'm interested in going into the medical field. I recommend "Coma", "Mortal Fear", "Mutation", and "Seizure". My other favorite author is Stephen King. I'm currently finishing "The Dead Zone", which I'm loving, and I've also read his classics "Christine" and "The Shining", which are great as well. And of course, you've got to read "The Da Vinci Code" if you already haven't!
Dec 22 2005 6:30PM
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Timmy_G
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Well I only really read books while in school. I mean I liked to read when we had to, but I dont over due my reading. I like magazines and whatnot.... weed world, hightimes. I like to read shit on the internet. Like do my "googling" on somethin. hahaha google on the net. google. google. google. google. google. google.....

I'm going to recommend to you High Times: 30 Years of pot Anniversary edition.
Dec 22 2005 6:36PM
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harlemcracka
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i wrote an article for High Times Grow America once.
Dec 22 2005 6:41PM
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tBatt
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my favorite books are the ones on tape
Dec 22 2005 7:04PM
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eastcoastcavvy
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sex, drugs and cocoa puffs

into thin air

shadow divers

the perfect storm

band of brothers

just some books that i enjoy
Dec 22 2005 7:08PM
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Aenigma
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I like anything by Ray Bradbury, but I enjoy weird books so that may not be your thing.
Dec 22 2005 7:10PM
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wilkesyachtingco
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good call on maugham.
Dec 22 2005 7:10PM
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SchweitzerSki
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i agree with angela's ashes. also from my personal collection of favorites:
As I Lay dying AND Sanctuary by william faulker( i love the style)
Catch 22
candide by voltaire
and i like Tolstoy books and yeah i get ripped on it a lot by people who don't even read but i like leo tolstoys writing.
any american classics authors:mark twain, walt whitman, JFC(last of the mohicansssss!!!), ralphie emerson.
i'm more into classics and non-fiction than things like harry potter and such. i never could get a grasp on the fantasy genre.
Dec 22 2005 7:19PM
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Chubby.Chaser
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In the last year or so...

a bunch of Dan Brown books, but who hasn't

All Quiet on the Western Front, super good WWI novel, also wrote a sweet essay about it (by Erich Maria Remarque)

a whole lot of Dean Koontz books, cause i have like 50 of them in paperbacks in my library, just get one of his bestsellers, because there are so many of his books to pick from

some Lee Child books, i suggest you get some their pretty gnar, mostly about this MP/ex-MP in some of them, super bad-ass dude, i recommend. there aren't too many to pick from here, maybe 10 in all (still coming out though)

and a while ago that i read them but still good, get some michael connelly books, again not too many to pick from

to read...
i have like a million robert b. parker books, they are mostly short, but have yet to read a book by him
Dec 22 2005 8:14PM
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Chubby.Chaser
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wow i'm too lazy to write a real description or actually recommend a specific book
Dec 22 2005 8:16PM
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Ruski
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The Davinci Code-coming out on film!
Pride and Prejudice- I love Jane Austen

Two Men in a Boat (not counting a dog)- english satire

The Master and Margarita- funny funny dark dark satire staged in russia

When Elephants Weep- science non-fiction

The Golden Calf/The Twelve Chairs- 2 amazing books about schemes and crimes, funny stuff

The Devil Wears Prada- for the girls who like chit lit this is good
Dec 22 2005 8:26PM
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sherpasrock
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"dracula" by bram stoker (my favorite)
"the wheel of time" series by robert jordan
"man in the iron mask" by dumas
"hunt for the red october" by tom clancy
"the silmarillion/lord of the rings" by tolkien
"band of brothers" by ambrose
Dec 22 2005 8:37PM
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Ruski
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you read that! augh awful, i remember trying the read that when i was younger and stopping at the first page
Dec 22 2005 8:39PM
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sherpasrock
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meh. i loved it.
Dec 22 2005 8:45PM
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marsland
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i like books by vince flynn. its liek about a spy and how he deals with problems facing america. some good ones are memorial day, seperation of power, and the third option. executive power is another good one.

is the da vinci code really that good, my parents have read it but i havent read it yet
Dec 22 2005 9:05PM
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sherpasrock
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my friend is reading that. he says its super good, im gonna pick it up after dracula.
Dec 22 2005 10:04PM
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ERIEcoastSKIER
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farenheit 451 is awesome...one of my favorite books and some of his other books ive read are good too.

Poe's short stories are my favorite reading material though
Dec 22 2005 10:14PM
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buffalo
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Into Thin Air is pretty good

it's about a 1996 expedation to mt. everest. there was a bad storm as many of the teams were summiting causing the deaths of some people.
Dec 22 2005 11:06PM
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Torbord
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Going non-fiction; 'A short history of progress', awsome book about how civilization is doomed to fail. Also 'Heavier then Heaven' is awsome if your a Nirvana fan.
Looking at fiction; 'Five people you meet in Heaven' is a classic everybody should read. 'Motherless Brooklyn' was an awsome mystery book about a guy with turets(sp?) syndrome. 'A Heartbreaking work of Staggering Genius' is a true work of genuis. In fact most books of his are. 'The hobbit' and anything else by Tolkien, including 'The Simirillian'.
Dec 22 2005 11:51PM
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Torbord
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I forgot to put authors in, if anybody is curious who wrote what message me.
Dec 22 2005 11:52PM
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brogilvie
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I liked Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. A good lengthy read, it took me a little over a month. Oh well, It should have taken way less, but, it didn't.

Sidhartha by Herman Hesse - really interesting book.

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck as well.

The Kite Runner by Khalad Hosseini.

Those are my top five for sure. But really, there are only 4 books there thats how my math skills are.
Dec 22 2005 11:59PM
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dbag37
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if you really want to know what its like in iraq right now read The "Last True Story Ill Ever Tell" by John Crawford. the author just got back from the war and writes about all of the shit he went through, its pretty intense
Dec 22 2005 11:59PM
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WONTON
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ahh i hated that book....just personal opinion tho
Dec 23 2005 12:23AM
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jonnydub
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Where's Waldo?
Dec 23 2005 12:26AM
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brizz
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my friends and I made it into high times for bong of the month. It was a hookah made out of a fish tank with fake plants and all and when the smoke came up through one of these treasure chests the lid opened.
Dec 23 2005 12:50PM
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Snubluck
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Personal Favorite books:
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe- Basically the ultimate bible to all things LSD and Acid, amazing philosphies.

Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter Thompson- Movie based on, drug haze of searching for the American Dream.

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk- short stories mixed in with a full story, very disturbing and very good.

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller- A classic WWII book, hilarious and insightful

Choke by Chuck Palahniuk- Strange book, very good
Survivor by Palahniuk again- Very different yet still very good.

That's my favorite list as of now, it changes very frequently because I read a lot.
Dec 23 2005 1:16PM
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GhostfaceKillah
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black hawk down by mark bowden is prety sweet too. killing pablo is on my list of books to read in the near future
Dec 23 2005 1:27PM
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hucker22
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fear nad loathing in las vegas

slaughterhouse 5

a farewell to arms
Dec 23 2005 2:17PM
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Stryken
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Any Kurt Vonnegut...I like Breakfast of Champions, Slaughterhouse Five, and his newest addition, Man without a Country. Great sarcastic, political and social satire.
Dec 23 2005 4:26PM
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