Books

[cS bIsHoP]

It's a rainy day, here, in New York. A perfect day for reading. I know it's been done before but everybody recommended like 20 books per person. So recommend one book only, one you are passionate about, it should be the first one that comes to mind.



Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction- JD Salinger. (It's one book, despite the and)

 

[Flipmo]

Cold Skin by Albert Sanchez Pinol is a good read. Almost like a movie.

It's also only about 250 pages, so you can finish it in a day, which you prob will cause its hard to let go of it.

 

[cS bIsHoP]

Cold Skin by Albert Sanchez Pinol is a good read. Almost like a movie.

It's also only about 250 pages, so you can finish it in a day, which you prob will cause its hard to let go of it.

Which translation? Book fishing is a tricky thing. Usually, I go with the one that's least Americanized, I'm so tired of running into translations, that translators try putting their own creative spin on.

 

[Da_Funk]

A game of thrones - George RR Martin <--- The best fantasy you will ever read. Period.


The Dirt - Motley Crue's story. This is good entertainment.


The Heroin Diaries - This is about Nikki Sixx's battle with heroin. Also great entertainment.

 

[Euphanasia]

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. Honestly, every person alive should read it.

 

[Freedom Froggy]

zane sex chronicles kept me beat off while i .....


sorry

 

[ArtsyGirl]

Malcolm X Autobiography by Malcolm X...

 

[_streethop101]

One Last Shot

The Michael Jordan book. It's kind of old and doesn't make much sense to read it now, since he is already retired and you know how it ends, but it had tidbits of information you would never know without reading the book.

Happy Hour is for Amateurs - It's actually very entertaining, kinda bland at times, but enthralling at other times. As the guy worded it..."it's like sitting down a bottle of Maker's Mark on the table and saying 'tell me about the last ten years of your life.'"
And it's not all about drinking and fucking, like I halfway expected, it was very well written and had a lot to do with careers.

 

[cS bIsHoP]

Malcolm X Autobiography by Malcolm X...

I second that book.

"Only the mistakes have been mine."

 

[goymz]

The Trial by Franz Kafka

 

[Duke]

Beowulf, especially if your native language is Germanic, the split version with modern and Old English is recommended. Great fun for the linguistic of mind.

 

[THEV1LL4N]

the jungle book. i just love the monkeys.

 

[cS bIsHoP]

The Trial by Franz Kafka

Which translation? I've always wanted to learn German, solely for this man. He was a real victim to the perils of translation, which I mentioned above.

 

[goymz]

Which translation? I've always wanted to learn German, solely for this man. He was a real victim to the perils of translation, which I mentioned above.

The Edwin and Willa Muir translation of The Trial (and his other works) is by far the best.

Apart from his three longer works, I'd also recommend a compilation of his work called The Complete Short Stories which puts all his other fiction together in one book. It's well worth picking up.

 

[arthurrrr]

get enders game series
like 20 books

since somebody here recommended malcom get Lenin books

 

[Bender]

have read catcher in the rye by JD Salinger, it is one book i would like to read again


the John C H Wu translation of tao teh ching by lao tzu, only the holy bible has more translations available than this book has

 

[THEV1LL4N]

the jungle book. i just love the monkeys.

no seriously, im more of an autobiography or factual/educational/informational type of book person.

 

[Bender]

^ you quote and comment your own posts?

 

[THEV1LL4N]

^ you quote and comment your own posts?

i was just referring back to what i said earlier in order to make a more useful comment.

dont make me neg rep you again.

 

[ChrisZimbo]

The Catcher In The Rye
Brave New World
Catch 22

all amazing books