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TrojanMayhem (Minja)
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@Dave-O LMAO I ghost wrote that book so I'm a bit partial to it yes

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Posted 7 months ago #
nicole_wtf
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the bible

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Posted 7 months ago #
crazyrob
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1984
Brave New World

Both are amazing books

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Posted 7 months ago #
noname
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feed by M.T. Anderson

"This brilliantly ironic satire is set in a future world where television and computers are connected directly into people's brains when they are babies. The result is a chillingly recognizable consumer society where empty-headed kids are driven by fashion and shopping and the avid pursuit of silly entertainment--even on trips to Mars and the moon--and by constant customized murmurs in their brains of encouragement to buy, buy, buy."

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Posted 7 months ago #
TrojanMayhem (Minja)
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@nicole I'm not a big fiction fan

Posted 7 months ago #
nicole_wtf
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i was kidding

Posted 7 months ago #
TrojanMayhem (Minja)
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Me too I love fiction

Posted 7 months ago #
magoo
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Books you'll need to read and/or have on hand BEFORE the robot/zombie/Palin apocalypse happens:

Lyman Reloading Handbook (whatever the most recent edition happens to be when you are looking for it, pick it up).

Ballistics: Theory and Design of Guns and Ammunition by by Donald E. Carlucci andDonald E. Carlucci

A Rifleman Went to War by Herbert W. McBride

Tactical Pistol: Advanced Gunfighting Concepts And Techniques by by Gabriel Suarez

"Just walk away. I will give you safe passage in the Wasteland. Just walk away and there will be an end to the horror. I await your answer.
You have one full day to decide." Lord Humongous

Posted 7 months ago #
Lyle T.
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anything R.A.Salvatore

Posted 7 months ago #
BillCosby
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The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.

Posted 7 months ago #
tOaSt
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@Nicole.......BLASPHEMY!!! jk, thats a long ace book

Harry Potter......bring it

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Posted 7 months ago #
Gerrad
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I just read a book called Asterios Polyp by David Mazzuchelli, it's technically a comic but its unlike anything else I have read in years. It deals with some dense issues of self change and world views, plus its like a couple hundred pages, literally one of the best books I have read the past few years, comic or not,

Hugs and Kisses to All of Your Pink Parts.
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Posted 7 months ago #
PhoebeLamour
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I strongly recommend any works by Alex Garland (writer of the screenplay for "Sunshine", "28 Days Later"). He also wrote 'The Beach', which is a fantastic book.

Posted 6 months ago #
Mach5
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Super Casino by Pete Earley, tells a pretty good story of how modern super casino Las Vegas came to be and the things that occur behind the scenes.

Posted 6 months ago #
uɐʎɹ
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I don't read much, unless I'm doing it for a class. I really need to read more. However, pretty much anytime Chuck Palahniuk or Mitch Albom has a new book out, I get that book ASAP and read it pretty much immediately. They never disappoint.

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Posted 6 months ago #
seth_david_andrew
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I was thinking to myself "I hope someone gives props to William Gibson" Then I remembered there's a cat named Burning Chrome. So...

Anyways there's a manga called BLAME! and it's the most hardcore cyberpunk i've ever read. It's strange and amazing.

American God's by Neil Gaiman is to date the only book that's ever made me cry.

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson is still my favorite book of all time (and also made me become a pizza delivery boy. Not a joke, but if you read it, this might make you smile). Neal Stephenson is one of the only authors who could get away with naming the main character Hiro Protagonist.

And of course PH, PH2, DMG, and MM.

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Posted 6 months ago #
briscojr
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American God's by Neil Gaiman is to date the only book that's ever made me cry.

Well, be sure you have a box of tissues standing by when you read "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret"... for both reasons.

I am obsolete. This must be what old people feel like. And Blockbuster.
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Posted 5 months ago #
seth_david_andrew
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Haha, a kleenex in each hand.

Ew.

Posted 5 months ago #
Gerrad
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Somewhere in there is a cry when you masterbate joke... but I don't think I really need to make it right?

Posted 5 months ago #
Waylonakolipse
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American Gods by Neil Gaiman....If Chins Could Kill by Bruce Campbell...Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay....Confessions of a Yakuza by Junichi Saga are my current favorites. They'll blow your ass off.

Reality is wrong dreams are for real.

Posted 5 months ago #
seth_david_andrew
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But I like my ass...

Posted 5 months ago #
Waylonakolipse
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It'll grow back.

Posted 5 months ago #
seth_david_andrew
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Did not know.
Learn something new everyday.

Posted 5 months ago #
sweetpotatoes
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I just bought Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I think I am going to start reading that next.

I'm just finishing a book about Jane Goodall. I do not recommend it, it was super boring.

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Posted 5 months ago #
TracyL
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Wizard's First Rule...and all the books that followed.

Posted 5 months ago #
Btab
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@TracyL. I read that one and loved it! I could never get around to reading the other ones and now, I feel that if I try to go back and get into it, it won't be as good as I remember it in my head. But I love that one book, and thus, love the series. I live out my fantasies by just watching Legend of the Seeker, though.

Ohh, good for you.
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Posted 5 months ago #
stevierayninja
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Peace Like a River- Leif Enger
Native Son- Richard Wright
The Partly Cloudy Patriot- Sarah Vowell

All of them for very different reasons.

Posted 5 months ago #
david martinez
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nice. i saw some, looked up, now i wanna check them out. thanks to all.

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Posted 5 months ago #
PhoebeLamour
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@sweetpotatoes I'm really disappointed to hear that, you'd think a book about a woman crazy enough to go live with some friggin apes would have some pretty epic/hilarious stuff in it. Nick Swardson's Jane Goodall joke comes to mind...

Posted 4 months ago #