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Sosseres:
Stranger in a Strange Land is a best-selling 1961 Hugo Award-winning science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein. I recommend the uncut version.
It is good because it keeps a good and entertaining story throughout while tackling several interesting issues in a unique and interesting way. It is probably the book that has influenced me the most, which is shown in that I post about it a year after reading it.
dvuongz:
Okay this is all classical literature, but its a lot better than you may think:
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo ~ Long book. 1200+ (depending on editions) pages detailing several intertwining stories of 1800's french. Here is a synopsis as given by the book jacket: In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjean - a man unujjustly improsned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective Javert - Hugo achieves the sort of rare imagnative resonance that allows a work of art to transcend its genre.
Its a pretty epic drama, encompassing real historical events like the June Rebellion. There are several "sub-plots", if you will, in the story involving romance, war, and thievery with several other characters. Quite an interesting read.
The Devils by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ~ Synopsis from book: In The Devils, Dostoyevsky created a chilling a prohetic story of revolutionaries and nihilists plotting the overthrow of the Russian government and the downfall of the Russian church. It focuses on the complex and tormented charcter of Stavrogin, a desperate man whose loss of faith makes him dangerous. Believing he is beyond guilt and remorse, he commits terrible crimes, infects others with ideas he does not believe and accepts love he does not deserve. yet Stavrogin is only one of a small band of rebels whose hunger for a more democratic, Western system threatens the fabric of Russian society, and The Devils as a brilliant psychological analysis of a group of people possessed by a destructive passion for a revolution.
Crime and Punishment also by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ~ Synopsis from book: Crime and Punishment is the sotry of a murder and its consequinces = an unparalleled tale of suspense set in the midst of nineteenth-century Russia's troubled transition into the modern age. In the slums of czarist St. Peterspurg, Raskolnikov, a sensitive intellectual, is driven by poverty to believe that he is exempt from moral law. But when he pus this belief to the test, he suffers unbearably.
I've read all three of these books and although the language is complex and sometimes difficult to understand, it is definitely worth the effort.
KoC:
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read a damn site more than u laddy .how old r u 22.why dont u just grow up and stop bein a dick
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Christ allmighty, we got a live one. Why don't you stop being a dick and get your panties off that twist that's getting you all wired.
Books.
Just the books currently in reading: Some random Elric compilation by Michael Moorcock. Definitely recommend to read Moorcock for fantasy if you prefer to have something else from the classical elfs & dorfs lol. And how can you resist a guy named Moorcock. I mean seriously, good stuff.
Chuck Palahniuk's Haunted. A collection of short stories with an outer story to bind them together. Good shit from the author of Fight Club. re-reading this for third time. Recommend anything from the guy. Particularly Haunted, Rant, Survivor, invisible monsters and Diary. Dems the good shits.
John Milton's collected vol. 1. Currently reading Paradise lost. Old but good. Recommended if you can read ye olde english.
Some anthology by Lovecraft. Anything by Lovecraft, you fuckers. Read it. The man made up Cthulhu.
Aristotle's metaphysics. I don't expect you to read it nor do I recommend it just for the sake of it. If you read it, good. If you don't... your loss.
Erlend Loe's Doppler. Norwegian author. Good writer and definetly recommend his Supernaive and Doppler.
And yes... I am reading 6 books at the same time. It's summer, fuckers.
forevr:
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read a damn site more than u laddy .how old r u 22.why dont u just grow up and stop bein a dick
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Funny how some people can know everything about someone they've never met.
Anyway I just finished "For Crying Out Loud - The World According to Clarkson vol 3" by the living god of British television Jeremy Clarkson.
The third collection of his columns in The Sunday Times where you can read about him ranting about various things. Brilliant and funny.
"Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you."
Edit: Wrong Clarkson title. Fixed.
Nanonanol:
Physics of the Impossible - Michio Kaku
Title suggests what the book is about. The author talks about seemingly impossible technologies, and ideas (time travel, light sabers, force fields, parallel universes, etc.)
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