Whats your favourite book?

stanton · Post by **stanton** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 3:01 pm

book, your favourite. List here. Fiction or Nonfiction.

poax · Post by **poax** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 3:06 pm

erm , fiction.

misk · Post by **misk** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 3:10 pm

American Gods, The Giving Tree, A light in the Attic, The Sandman, Where the Wild Things are.

Thats all i can currently think of.

stanton · Post by **stanton** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 3:11 pm

poax wrote:erm , fiction.

If you search for Fiction in amazon this is the first book to come up...

Oooooooh kaaaay, whatever floats ye boat Mr Poax...

poax · Post by **poax** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 3:16 pm

it dont rock me boat .....

but it sure melts my butter..... ooooh yeah

FSTZ · Post by **FSTZ** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 3:17 pm

poax · Post by **poax** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 3:18 pm

allow me to give you a little background info on Nancy........

Once upon a time, a young woman stood at the edge of the library stacks, wondering where, oh where, she’d find her perfect story. Years went by, and she continued to seek the perfect story. One was too hot, one was too cold, very few were just right.

Still she kept reading, deciding that no one tome would fit her every mood. She settled on a mix of stories, figuring variety was the spice of fantasy. After all, there is a great difference between story and reality. One always ends just right, the other, well, you know how it is when you wake up to cat vomit. Or morning breath. They sometimes smell the same.

lloydnoise · Post by **lloydnoise** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 3:20 pm

Paul Auster - New York Trilogy (absolutly amazing book)
Jose Saramago - Blindness
J D Salinger - Catcher in the Rye
Lloyd Bradley - Bass Culture (non fiction - history of dub - very good)

pk- · Post by **pk-** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 3:47 pm

heart of darkness, definitely.

i can't get over conrad's use of the language. i actually feel stuffy and get a sweat on when he's describing the climate of the congo, and there's an almost underending number of ways you can interpret the book

i try to read it at least once every year, it's fucking marvelous

stanton · Post by **stanton** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 3:53 pm

pk- wrote:heart of darkness, definitely.

i can't get over conrad's use of the language. i actually feel stuffy and get a sweat on when he's describing the climate of the congo, and there's an almost underending number of ways you can interpret the book

i try to read it at least once every year, it's fucking marvelous

I think Nancy's use of language might make Poax 'get a sweat on' too

Heart of Darkness is amazing, it's short too so good for those with ADHD.

rickyricardo · Post by **rickyricardo** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 3:58 pm

Orwell is my favorite author, and this is probably my favorite book of his that I have read so far.

stanton · Post by **stanton** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 4:05 pm

Is mine I think, I've just dived into it again and it's still amazing. I'm not sure wha my favourite fiction is, it's been a while since I reasd anything I really liked. Any recommendations?

randomhed · Post by **randomhed** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 5:11 pm

Non fiction and very heavy.

dutty yuppie · Post by **dutty yuppie** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 5:30 pm

Sebastian Faulks - Birdsong
Steinbeck - Grapes of Wrath

djshiva · Post by **djshiva** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 5:46 pm

for starters... books and music are both my favorite ways to spend money and time

fiction
the poisonwood bible - barbara kingsolver
100 years of solitude - gabriel garcia marquez
1984 - george orwell
city of night - john rechy
stone butch blues - leslie feinberg

nonfiction
the culture of make believe - derrick jensen
off the map (can't remember the authors...pub. by crimethinc)
anarchism and other essays - emma goldman
backlash - susan faludi
the tao of physics - fritjof capra
Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension - michio kaku

poetry
roominghouse madrigals - charles bukowski
collected poems of audre lorde
the fact of a doorframe - adrienne rich
vita nova - louise gluck
the outlaw bible of american poetry (compilation of various writers)

ana · Post by **ana** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 5:53 pm

Misk wrote:The Giving Tree

Stranger in a Strange Land

Ask and it is Given

perkalerk215 · Post by **perkalerk215** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 5:57 pm

all time favorite:

4linehaiku · Post by **4linehaiku** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 6:00 pm

Really wish I could read it in the original Spanish, but that would require me to, you know, learn Spanish.

the wiggle baron · Post by **the wiggle baron** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 6:28 pm

Havent read anything in a while, but used to be too stoked on these bad boys. Also charlie and the great glass elevator, sequel business!!!

perkalerk215 · Post by **perkalerk215** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 6:44 pm

totally forgot about this one. even thinking about adding a tattoo of the little fella somewhere. i never went anywhere without this book when i was a kid..

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