OT: Books!
I've done this thread before, but that was a couple years ago and there are new people and an abundance of books out there. So without further ado, share your favorite books with me!
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"Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah" -- Richard Bach
"Satan: His Psychotherapy and Cure by the Unfortunate Dr. Kassler, J.S.P.S. ('Just Some Poor Schmuck')" -- Jeremy Leven
"Women" -- Charles Bukowski
"Hollywood" -- Charles Bukowski
"The Day of the Locust" -- Nathanael West
"The Eternal Validity of the Soul" and/or "The Nature of Personal Reality" -- Jane Roberts/Seth
"Psycho-Cybernetics" -- Maxwell Maltz
"The First and Last Freedom" -- Krishnamurti
"The Kybalion"
Lovecraft, Poe, Steinbeck, Bradbury, Nabokov, Camus
"Ho Tactics: How to *beep* a Man into Spending, Spoiling, and Sponsoring"
I actually read Satan when you recommended it the first time I did this. I quite enjoyed it and will definitely look into the others on your list.
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I can't believe you did that! I feel like I've recommended it to everyone I've ever met and you must be the only one who ever followed through. <3
...I think the unraveling of Kassler's personal/professional life was one of the most genuinely devastating tales I've ever experienced throughout ANY artistic medium. I WEPT, SOBBED as his life fell to pieces.
'Course! I figured, more than likely, coming from you it would be a good read and it certainly was. I'm glad I listened.
Kassler is definitely the most tragic character I have encountered and I really enjoyed the commentary on religion and psychology in such a clever manner.
divergent by veronica roth
clockwork princess by cassandra clare
the infinite sea by rick yancey
city of glass by cassandra clare
any of the harry potter books (the philosopher's stone, the goblet of fire, the order of the phoenix, the half-blood prince or the deathly hallows) by j.k. rowling
lady midnight by cassandra clare
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Wow you say crap like Divergent but not an actual amazing YA novel like The Hunger Games or The Giver or something???
sharehaven't read the giver yet and it's been too long since i read the hunger games and that was before i knew what a good book is and what a bad book is. i have to re-read them tbh
also yeah i loved the crap divergent. i have two copies in fact
I like many of the classics...
To Kill A Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, The Bell Jar, A Scarlet Letter, Little Women, On the Road, The Dharma Bums, The Town and the City, Junkie, Queer, Naked Lunch, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, The Plague, The Shining
The Godfather, The Outsiders, The Stranger, Catcher in the Rye, Of Mice and Men, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Count of Monte Cristo, Psycho, Helter Skelter
A lot of classic plays and poetry
All Sherlock Holmes Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Anything by Chuck Palahniuk, Jim Carroll, Fannie Flagg, Harold Schechter or Anne Rice.
Any many other greats that have slipped my mind at the moment. So I'll probably be back to edit when they pop in my head.
Dark looks like she has a few good suggestions though. :)
Killing Can Be a Righteous Act.
Chuck Palahniuk
I read Damned, Doomed, Pygmy and Haunted. They were all fantastic in their own special ways. Gotta read more of his stuff.
Horns and NOS4A2 Joe Hill. I haven't finished NOS4A2 yet...Heart-Shaped Box is also supposed to be really good but I can't seem to get into it.
If you're into GoT, A World of Ice and Fire.
Frankenstein Mary Shelley
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You have great taste, Wolfie!
I agree with all recommendations you made, but I cannot force myself to read Naked Lunch! I respect Burroughs and enjoy hearing his old talking gigs, but that book..
I can't read it.
Have you read Alice Walker's "The Color Purple"?
I think you'd like it if you haven't yet.
As usual, it's a thousand times better than the movie.
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You have great taste, Wolfie!
Thank you hun. :)
Have you read Alice Walker's "The Color Purple"?
I think you'd like it if you haven't yet.
Yea, I read it when I was a teenager, and I had no prior info on what it was about when I bought it. So when I first started reading it, I remember thinking "Did a kid write this?" And then I caught on and was able to just sit back and enjoy it. Wonderful book. I knew I would forget some favourites. Including of all things, The Godfather. The family would kill me. Christ, I should hide my head in shame. One of the Best! I must edit it in or it will bother me. Funny story about my mother and that book.
And I am so happy to see a few others here like Chuck. I love his work. It speaks to me well. I'd love for Damned to be made into a film. But it has to be done well, like Fight Club. Love the movie! Choke was also made into a movie with Sam Rockwell. But I never watched it all the way through. So I can't give a real opinion.
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You've excellent taste, Wolfie. The Picture of Dorian Gray is one of my favorites ever.
Have you read Rice's most recent Vampire Chronicles novel?
You've excellent taste, Wolfie. Have you read Rice's most recent Vampire Chronicles novel?
You mean Prince Lestat? I haven't read that yet. I wasn't even aware it was released. I gotta get shopping! Sometimes I go into Barnes and Noble just to hang out and browse. I love being surrounded by all those books. Most the time I'm so involved that I'll eventually look up and out through the glass doors and see darkness. Then I look at my phone and am shocked (every time) by the time gone by. I could lose hours, and if they'd let me, days in that store. It's like a casino for me. No windows and I'm surrounded by my addiction. They got the coffee, so if they'd just let me smoke in there with a bottle of wine, I'd move in. 👍
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You mean Prince Lestat
'At's the one! I liked it, though perhaps not as much as the original three. I know precisely what you mean about spending an eternity in Barnes and Noble, 'tis a magical place. share
Memnoch the Devil -Anne Rice (The Vampire Chronicles)
It's a standalone read in the series, and my favorite thing she ever wrote.
It covers the history of man, and the angels, the reason the Morningstar was cast out, and a lot of other details in a fictionalized way comparable to a new telling of Paradise Lost/The Inferno. It's at worst, an interesting read, at best, it will give you a new perspective on some old theories.
The Exorcist -William Peter Blatty
Read it alone, in the night.
The Amityville Horror -Jay Anson
If you still haven't been cured of reading alone, in the night, after the Exorcist, read this as well.
The Beast House Series (3 books)- Richard Laymon
This is what Stephen King and Dean Koontz like to read when they want to be really scared.
Damned- Chuck Palahniuk
It's like "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.."
Except with Satan.
I'm going to include just about anything from Jodi Picault as a recommendation because they always seem to end dark.
If you enjoy crippling depression, you'll love Jodi Picault!
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Jodi Picault
You like dead children? I got dead children...
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Memnoch the Devil has been on my list for a while now, I love Rice and that kind of mythology.
I actually read Damned, per your recommendation last time, and I must say I was thoroughly entertained.
I'll most certainly be looking into these others as well!
I actually read Damned, per your recommendation last time, and I must say I was thoroughly entertained.
Oh Good! I'm glad you liked it!
That's the funniest book about Hell I think I've ever read!
When I die, I hope I'm wearing jungle issue combat boots.
Those seem to be my best bet for comfort and durability in those conditions.
October is the best month to read The Exorcist and Amityville.
They are so much more terrifying than the films.
Both were very fast reads for me.
There's a 40th anniversary edition of Exorcist on Amazon I got really cheap for Kindle a few months ago. It's got x-ray and all the other cool options for the book.
I recommend picking it up if you have a Kindle.
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I know you're going to give me a virtual one-two kick for saying this, but when I read that book, I envisioned Emma Roberts as Babette.
I read it around the beginning of Freak Show, so she was on my mind. And that character is basically Palahniuk's Madison Montgomery.
Actually, I think that would be a solid casting decision if they made a movie out of it.
White shoes girl is who you're referring to, right?
I've heard a few rumors that they were playing around with the idea of making it into a movie, but no concrete proof of it yet. Hopefully it'll turn out as well as the adaptation of Fight Club (if it ever happens).
He was envisioning a Breakfast Club scenario when he wrote it, from what he's said.
I think it has a considerable amount of potential for mass appeal if it's adapted the right way.
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I agree. The whole time I was reading it, I was wondering when it would be turned into a film. It's one of his more easily adaptable books.
Did you read the sequel? It wasn't as good, but it sets up the third by putting a few more balls in the air. It definitely has a very different feel to it, one I don't think would be as marketable cinematically.
Yeah, I started reading it, but I don't think I actually finished it.
I've developed a nasty habit of not finishing books that I've started.
My attention span may be getting shorter because I use the internet too much.
That's my theory on it, at least.
It was alright, but I agree, it wasn't as good as the original (as far as I recall).
Damned would really go far with the right producer running it.
My only fear is they would butcher it to get a PG-13 rating, since the characters have the teen marketability.
That would mean they'd have to cut a lot of the humor, like the Serbian Demon clit, and probably the swamp of partial birth abortions and the ocean of wasted sperm.
Even if it had to have an NC-17 rating, I'd cheerfully fork over my cash to see it in a theater.
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That's what I did with The Girl on the Train. It's still on my nightstand, but I haven't picked it up in like a month. It's a good book, but I just get so easily distracted now. And my OCD doesn't make reading very fun, so the nasty habit of shrugging off a book for Netflix can become all too easy to slip into.
I can see Damned either doing really well, or bombing catastrophically. It seems easy enough to adapt, but it's a thin line these days, and there are so many hacks out there that would butcher it. Ryan Murphy, for instance, I fear would turn it into something like Scream Queens. It would take a real fan of the source material.
Casting Madison would be tricky too, and the age thing would be even trickier. I don't think you can stick a 12 year old girl under a giant clitoral hood and still appeal to a wide audience.
I don't think you can stick a 12 year old girl under a giant clitoral hood and still appeal to a wide audience.
Didn't she end up shoving her friend's severed head under there?
Yeah, still wouldn't make for a good film to take the kids to..
It would probably take a David Fincher type to make it come across well.
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Archer was truly the best character in that book. I dug his whole Sid Vicious pastiche.
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Seriously though, ideal shoes. I found the call center bit to be rather hilarious.
You are so right about this being the time of year to read those books. I've been meaning to read The Exorcist as well, so I think I will indeed get on that! I do have a Kindle, albeit an older model.
My family has a stupid amount of Kindles.
My mother currently has 3 she uses.
If you want to get an upgrade, wait until the weekend for Black Friday.
They go on sale for about $35 for the fire 7" (at least, that's what they went for on Prime day, and they always follow a pattern in their sales).
I bought 3 of them last sale to give out for Christmas or birthdays, or in case I need a spare.
No matter how old yours is, it should work well on the Exorcist. The games and the books with pictures or videos are the only ones I've found trouble running on our older versions.
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I will probably look into upgrading this year. I love the feel and smell of an actual book, but the Kindle is great for travel and the fact that the classics are often free or super cheap.
shareI love reading real books so much more!
But you know what I hate?
Moving books, and dusting books, and having people borrow my books and realizing I never got them back.
Those are my big reasons for embracing a Kindle.
I like having all of my books handy for reference too.
There's nothing that can replace the feel of a real paperback you carry to bed, and into the tub, and have on hand to read without worry of a battery losing power, or too much glare to read it. I don't care what they do to make it more readable in sunlight, it's not the same.
They need to make waterproof Kindle Fire, so I can just float it in the tub and read during a nice, hot soak.
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Oh god, the glare. I cant stand it. Hubby reads one in bed and I swear, I'm going to smash it against a wall one night.
shareYeah, there's a setting that gives you a blue/candlelight glow instead of blinding bright white light, but it's still gotta be pretty bright to read in the dark.
We haven't been sleeping in bed a lot lately because it's been bothering my back, and it's starting to bug his too. I need to look into splurging on a better mattress. We've been crashing on the couches a lot this summer, not only because of the bed, but the upstairs doesn't stay cool enough in the really bad heat waves we were having until very recently, so nether of us have been bothered by the others kindle. A blessing in disguise.
However I am now spoiled by having my own blankets/sheets. Co sleeping is fun sometimes, but in summer it's not fun if you've been having sex with each other for years and are over the constant touchy feely phase of the relationship.
Maybe I should look into a king size bed..?
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King size is great. You can cosy up in winter and spread out in summer (but b warned if you let the dog in for a treat - he'll stretch out and you'll both be back on the couch), and I recommend a decent mattress with a pillow top. It's a worthy investment.
shareDuma Key, Stephen King.
The only book I've read more than once except the good book.
My God you're a freak!
I've never heard of The Good Book. Who's the author? Maybe I'll pick it up as a future read.
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You again?
Get a life, it's sad that you reply to every single post on this forum:(
My God you're a freak!
That's rude.
Two thoughts for ya Cünty McCünterson...
1. None of your fücking business how much I post here.
2. The Bible is all mythology, like every other civilization has ever had. We're no better than the Greeks and Romans except for shyte disposal.
Fück you very much and have a shïtty life.
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How are the critters, Broke?
Fuzzy ass holes...
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Nawww you love them.
Pretty funny that poster has read the biggest fairy story ever told several times but acts very unchristian like to posters on the board.
Of course I love em! Ty's snoring by the front door, chillas...who knows and Katie Kat is sleeping somewheres or pretending to kill bugs.
Most Christians are the biggest hypocrites. May they all be reincarnated as dung beetles.
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I love those lil critters, especially when they roll their ball of dung up a sand dune and just as they get near the top they lose it. Ahhh yes, schadenfreude.
shareNow you go and hurt my feelings with your intellect!
No fair.
My God you're a freak!
Watch this. Fascinating. I wonder i you vcan get dung beetles for dog poop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMlOKY734TM
Can't go wrong with some Stephen King.
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