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Coincidentally, I just started The Colour of Magic. Pretty good so far.

That's one of my favourites. The characters aren't that well developed in this one, and the world is still pretty souless, but it's got a good story, Twoflower owns, the luggage owns, and it's one of only a few really fantastical books (as in, it has it's roots firmly in fantasy games/action books) in the series.

 

I recommend Reaper Man, Light Fantastic, or Moving Pictures after that.

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The Satanic Verses :Nothings better then getting a Fatwa put on your head.

Animal Farm :**** you Jmac

Anthem :**** you Jmac

The Fountainhead :**** you Jmac

Atlas Shrugged :**** you Jmac

Brave New World :Something we can agree on, as uneducated as your position is.

The Black Echo :The only thing here without Philosophical or religious overtones.

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good book?

 

naked lunch.

 

it's a perverse book about narcotics addicts who have lots and lots of graphic sex.

 

=D

Holy ****. That book is like the book equivilent of "Donnie Darko," "Thirteen," or "Requiem for a Dream." Lots of emo kids at my school have read it and always beg for permission to write one of their book reports on it. Hell, I'd bet money Cheez's wannabe gay emo lover THAT HE CAN'T SHUT THE **** UP ABOUT likes that book.

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naked lunch.=D

Never heard of it, if Jmac's right I'm not reading it.

 

Picked up island today, and Brave New World just so I could own a copy. Didn't run into any goddamned pseudo-intellectuals, though there were plenty wappanese fags there, how much ****ing Manga do you need?

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^^The story of how he wrote it is almost as amusing as the book itself.

 

Works worth checking out are good ones by his beat writer buddies: Allan Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Laurence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso, Brion Gysin or even Ken Kesey, though he came along a little later.

 

For sci-fi, everything by William Gibson and Iain M. Banks are essential reading.

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Allan Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Laurence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso, Brion Gysin or even Ken Kesey, though he came along a little later.

Meh, Meh, Meh, Meh, Meh, Yeh (<3 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest).

 

I picked up a copy of In Cold Blood by Truman Capote today from my school's library. I've read a good chunk of it, and I command people to go read it.

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Didn't run into any goddamned pseudo-intellectuals, though there were plenty wappanese fags there, how much ****ing Manga do you need?

 

Yeah, the Manga section being right next to the graphic novels is pretty uncool at Barnes & Noble. I like a buncha Frank Miller stuff (Sin City and 300), but Alan Moore is probably my favorite comic writer ever. I highly recommend reading Watchmen, it pretty much made the medium respectable.

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