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Favorite Books

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ReedSkis~
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Not sure if this is a new idea, but just list your favorite books.

mine are Dune, Catcher in the rye, Into thin air and To Kill A Mockingbird
Nov 30 2008 12:03AM
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with_stupid
Posts: 316 - Karma: 10

huslter. maxim. penthouse. playboy...playgirl?

Nov 30 2008 12:05AM
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vzdz
Posts: 782 - Karma: 87

franny & zooey, nine stories, enders game, old man and the sea... anything written by jd sal or stories involving conquering impossible odds at sea

Nov 30 2008 12:05AM
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BigJew
Posts: 6974 - Karma: 79
Fear and Loathing in Searchbarvaria
Nov 30 2008 12:06AM
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ROOS.
Posts: 1992 - Karma: 39
Yellow River by I.P. Daily

and

100 Yards To The Out House by Willie Makit


those are my favorite books
Nov 30 2008 12:06AM
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Craigskis
Posts: 6650 - Karma: 1,645
Too many too list

Iread on FB is a good app though

I'm a big fan of Irvine Welsh & HST
Nov 30 2008 12:27AM
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ECGove
Posts: 1947 - Karma: 75
the shining, the kite runner, slaughterhouse five, cats cradle, the hobbit, the list goes on.....
Nov 30 2008 12:28AM
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skeedle
Posts: 6156 - Karma: 628
ugggggghhhhhh
i hated Into Thin Air. it was awful

mine are: good omens, catch 22, hey! nostradamus
Nov 30 2008 12:48AM
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pho[tog]rapher
Posts: 2618 - Karma: 494
catcher in the rye

but right now i'm reading one flew over the cukoo's nest for a class, and i'm really liking it.
Nov 30 2008 12:55AM
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skier_boy26
Posts: 11295 - Karma: 502
although not a book by heart, i'll have to go with the Odyssey. perhaps it's because i've read it too many fuckin times
Nov 30 2008 1:02AM
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no_steeze
Posts: 23992 - Karma: 4,272
3 musketeers, great gatsby, power of one
Nov 30 2008 1:16AM
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king.tubby
Posts: 2865 - Karma: 122
some of my all time favorites
big sur
lord of the flies
infinite jest
the little prince
for whom the bell tolls
watership down
desert solitaire
1984
the naked mountain
a passage to india
where the wild things are
catcher in the rye
archie and mehitabel
Nov 30 2008 1:23AM
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nickman
Posts: 804 - Karma: 10

A clockwork Orange

The Old man and the sea.

Nov 30 2008 11:07AM
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neon1peace
Posts: 998 - Karma: -1
I know I have other favorites but i forget:

Catch-22
Dune
A Walk in the Woods
Nov 30 2008 1:16PM
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summersover
Posts: 5777 - Karma: 233
the perks of being a wallflower
like catcher in the rye but i found easier too relate to...its amazing
Nov 30 2008 1:20PM
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macvid
Posts: 425 - Karma: 11
brave new world
great gatsby
the giver
stones
Nov 30 2008 2:17PM
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nealpgards
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perks of being a wallflower
catcher in the rye
into the wild
stuff white people like book (not really a "book")
Nov 30 2008 2:28PM
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Steeze3s
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"I hope they serve beer in hell" is the funniest book i have ever read. for a sample of the stuff in the book go to tuckermax.com
Nov 30 2008 2:36PM
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sick-as-aids
Posts: 3453 - Karma: 1,007
the edge of never

duh
Nov 30 2008 2:37PM
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Dosh
Posts: 1818 - Karma: 14
a la recherche du temps perdu
Nov 30 2008 2:40PM
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Rainbow*Stylin
Posts: 1042 - Karma: 24
chronicles of narnia, lotr, my side of the mountain, on the road, electric kool-aid acid test, the tipping point, lies my teacher told me, rogue nation........
Nov 30 2008 2:51PM
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Octopus
Posts: 1175 - Karma: 55
Nov 30 2008 3:01PM
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alaskakid
Posts: 5540 - Karma: 430
anything by chuck palahniuk
Nov 30 2008 3:06PM
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k-rob
Posts: 14217 - Karma: 2,891
The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Bancroft Strategy by Robert Ludlum
Another Way by Don. M. McKay

i don't know why all my words are underlined and it won't let me turn it off so please ignore.

Nov 30 2008 3:40PM
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soulskier
Posts: 17806 - Karma: 3,841
freakonomics
Nov 30 2008 7:39PM
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Kontuckie.
Posts: 151 - Karma: 10

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Nov 30 2008 7:40PM
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WillStart
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life of pi by yann martel
just about anything by stephen king
Nov 30 2008 9:27PM
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uh_lis_uh
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(not in order)
Ender's Game- Orson Scott Card
Cat's Cradle- Kurt Voneogut
Brave New World - Alduos Huxley
The Hobbit - J.R.R Tolkien


Nov 30 2008 9:45PM
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ClownPrince
Posts: 500 - Karma: 10
Come on, who reads books?

but seriously...Catch-22, On the Road, Candide, Sometimes A Great Notion, anything by Faulkner, probably some others I'm forgetting
Nov 30 2008 9:49PM
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east_toast
Posts: 479 - Karma: 16
The Metropolitan Cow
Nov 30 2008 9:52PM
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ClownPrince
Posts: 500 - Karma: 10
Sorry for the double post, but listen to this guy. I don't know if it's real reading, but Tucker Max can keep me entertained for weeks on end
Nov 30 2008 9:52PM
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-NY-STeeZE-
Posts: 2114 - Karma: 23
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Nov 30 2008 9:52PM
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KarmaSkiier
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freestyle skiing for dummies
Nov 30 2008 9:56PM
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Peter.
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The Da Vinci Code
Nov 30 2008 10:01PM
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tBatt
Posts: 9632 - Karma: 580
youre like the 5th skier i know who likes this book.
i think im gunna ditch the one im reading now to read it, because mines borringggg.

i hardly read at all, but since i have the SAT's coming up i figured it would be a good thing to start.

anyways what i have read (english class)

ellen foster
water for elephants
lord of the flies

Nov 30 2008 10:17PM
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Lt-Aldo-Raine
Posts: 2309 - Karma: 120

Guinness book of world records

the outsiders

Nov 30 2008 10:19PM
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Mr.O
Posts: 1582 - Karma: 23
Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter
Nov 30 2008 10:19PM
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uh_lis_uh
Posts: 609 - Karma: 16
Ender's Game is SOOOOO GOOOOD. its kinda sci-fi and i usually don't go for that kind of thing but i make a HUGE exception for this book
Nov 30 2008 10:29PM
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Mr_Papageorgio
Posts: 1271 - Karma: 117
my side of the mountain
bringing down the house (21)
marley and me
the harry potter series
tuesdays with morrie

Nov 30 2008 10:29PM
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jayo.
Posts: 5015 - Karma: 34

same.

and anything by kurt vonnegut (specifically sirens of titan, slaughterhouse five, and cat's cradle.)

walden. for whom the bell tolls. what they carried. farwell to arms. great gatsby.as i lay dying.             i could go on forever

Nov 30 2008 10:33PM
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Dylan_
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haha ted i fucking hate that book.



but i like the book "crank"
Nov 30 2008 10:34PM
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Dainsey
Posts: 2263 - Karma: 378
street pharm
snitch

i forget the authors name but it's such a killer book
about gangs and drugs son
Nov 30 2008 10:35PM
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beckywhe2
Posts: 416 - Karma: 71
Animal Farm, Beautiful Boy, Three Cups of Tea, Che Guevara's Biography
Nov 30 2008 10:42PM
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brokebutitsworthit
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Just throwing this out there, but I thought Catch-22 was fucking terrible, like i forced myself to finish it bad. 

I go through stages of what books hold me, i do read a hell of a lot though.  Hmmm probably right now I would say the best book I have read recently was Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane, but did enjoy Three Day Road to.  Don't judge my grammar right now as it's 3 am and I am semi drunk but I am an English major so I can never escape, nor would want to escape reading. 
Dec 1 2008 3:07AM
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whattheshit
Posts: 6562 - Karma: 107
a long way gone:memoirs of a boy soldier
the upside of down
in the hot zone:one man, one year, 20 wars
outside the wire:the war in afghanistan in the words of its participants

non fiction only for me.
Dec 1 2008 4:41AM
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Aerozol
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Yeah, but the sequels kinda die after the third one or so. Really ruined it for me. I read Enders game like 5 times though, I don't know why, it's just so good.

And the guy who said Great Expectations, that book depressed the fuck out of me. It's good literature, but I wouldn't recommend it. But maybe I'm just too emo for that shit  D:


Anyone read Heart of Darkness?
The book that Apocalypse Now is based off- AMAZING
Dec 1 2008 5:27AM
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Skiingslikewhoa
Posts: 426 - Karma: 12
I Am America and So Can You- Stephen Colbert

The only book you ever need to read.
Dec 1 2008 2:20PM
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beckywhe2
Posts: 416 - Karma: 71
Loved that book. I met the guy who wrote it. He was amazing.
Dec 1 2008 10:38PM
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skiminnesota
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Into the wild.

Into thin air.

Under the banner of heaven. (all by Jon Krankou) butchered the name ;)

all the books by Joel Rosenburg, The last Jihad, ect.

all of the Vince Flynn books. Extreme measures, ect.

haha call me weird but from my younger days i have all the Hardy Boys books. my grandparents collected them for me so they are all the "old ones" printed in the 50s.
Dec 1 2008 11:35PM
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ClownPrince
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Haha, I'll admit I used to have those too. But now all I can think about is the South Park where they're like completely, overtly gay...makes for a different spin on the books when you've seen it...
Dec 1 2008 11:42PM
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woolymammoth
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As far as sequels, Ender's shadow is absolutely incredible, speaker for the dead is worth the read, and master of puppets can suck my nut sack, that one forced me to quit the series
Dec 2 2008 1:17AM
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