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My Top 10 Greatest books ever!
http://hero-envy.blogspot.com/2015/03/my-top-10-greatest-books-of-all-time.html
What are yours?
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I just forwarded your top10 to the FBI. We might be onto something.
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1 Lenny Mclean The Guvor
2 Essex Boys
3 Roy Shaw Pretty Boy
4 The Taxman Brian Cockerill
5 Hard Life Lee Duffy
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the bible
the koran
the torah
last month's Juggs magazine.
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"Michel Strogoff", Jules Vernes
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Steppenwolf by Hesse
Fear no Evil by Eva Pierrakos
Art of War
The Last Days of Socrates by Plato
Dracula by Bram Stocker
Jim Morrison
Wired: the short life and fast times of Jonh Belushi
Animal farm by Orwell
All sorts of books about music and musicians
and many more
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Alas Babylon
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I finally read the dictionary. At first i thought it was Poetry about everything!
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1. Tbombz: the gospel and the lake of fire; life after anal blasphemy
2. Cooking with Goodrum and Vissy: 101 delicious cock recipes
3. Basile's epitome of hypertrophy
4. 67 methods to get lean ribs for summer by dj181
5. The book of electricty by J.Falcon
6. Wiggs : the Black Tora and Jesus in hanukkah
7. Islam not only for muslims by Muscleman
8. Transexual transcendence; Uncle Joon
9. Lee priest: relashionship's and turds by Booty
10. 10 Names : Howard's edition ; the mayor of bodybuilding
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1 Lenny Mclean The Guvor
2 Essex Boys
3 Roy Shaw Pretty Boy
4 The Taxman Brian Cockerill
5 Hard Life Lee Duffy
Outed
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1. Tbombz: the gospel and the lake of fire; life after anal blasphemy
2. Cooking with Goodrum and Vissy: 101 delicious cock recipes
3. Basile's epitome of hypertrophy
4. 67 methods to get lean ribs for summer by dj181
5. The book of electricty by J.Falcon
6. Wiggs : the Black Tora and Jesus in hanukkah
7. Islam not only for muslims by Muscleman
8. Transexual transcendence; Uncle Joon
9. Lee priest: relashionship's and turds by Booty
10. 10 Names : Howard's edition ; the mayor of bodybuilding
:D LOL@3 +8!
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Flex Magazine 1993 October How to Add 3 Inches to Your Arms in 3 Weeks!
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david gemmel - the white wolf
conn igulden - the genghis khan trilogy
mark lawrence - the broken empire trilogy
anthony roberts - blood song
add in anything by david baldacci
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Flex Magazine 1993 October How to Add 3 Inches to Your Arms in 3 Weeks!
Hahahaha!
I forgot: Mad Magazine Rocky IV.
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Outed
Excellent detective work, he'll never recover.
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Gene Simmons. Good one.
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Seriously this is a good read -
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It's a book on story construction, but you can apply a lot of the anecdotes to various other aspects of life.
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Seriously this is a good read -
(http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1302228093l/10171060.jpg).
It's a book on story construction, but you can apply a lot of the anecdotes to various other aspects of life.
Good book to help writers, I'll read it.
1/ Crime and Punishement - Dostoievski
2/ The brave new world - Huxley
3/ The stranger - Camus
4/ The trial - Kafka
5/ Dirty Hands - Sartre
6/ Civilization and Its Discontents - Freud
7/ Father and sons- Tourgueniev
8/ Dead souls - Gogol
9/ 1983 - Orwell
10/ Naked lunch- Burroughs
Definitely could add Bukowski to the list. I had alot of fun reading him and it's the easiest writer to read. You'd have a great laugh, guy was a getbigger.
Would like to add Karl Marx and Engels up there.
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Vince Goodrum - How to build a business empire and be the meanest hebrew in the trailer park
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Gene Simmons. Good one.
We'd need at least week to narrow it down ;D
.....funny but I just realized I don't have Treasure Island in my collection and I just ordered it.
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1/ Crime and Punishement - Dostoievski
Here's Crime and Punishment for anyone who feels like reading it today.
http://www.planetpdf.com/planetpdf/pdfs/free_ebooks/Crime_and_Punishment_T.pdf
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Here's Crime and Punishment for anyone who feels like reading it today.
http://www.planetpdf.com/planetpdf/pdfs/free_ebooks/Crime_and_Punishment_T.pdf
;D
It takes a month of regular reading. It's something to start at october. Now the spring is coming you guys need to surround yourself by optimistic writings and short stories.
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The Dice Man by Luke Rinehart.
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Here's Crime and Punishment for anyone who feels like reading it today.
http://www.planetpdf.com/planetpdf/pdfs/free_ebooks/Crime_and_Punishment_T.pdf
read 2/3 of house of the dead. The first part was great and then it just sucked.
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please dont ruin this thread by posting a list of actual books you've read you boring bookworms
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david gemmel - the white wolf
I liked that one.
Farseer series by robin hobb
Elric of melnibone series by Michael moorcock
Wheel of time when it was written by Robert jordan
Used to read a ton but not really at all anymore.
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We'd need at least week to narrow it down ;D
.....funny but I just realized I don't have Treasure Island in my collection and I just ordered it.
Great book. I actually have my Da's copy that he had as a kid. I remember that his introduction says something like 'this is a great adventure story and if your not into that then what is your problem?' ;D
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Tillman was KIA a couple of weeks after I was wounded. my mother bought me this book when it came out and I read it one day and night and I don't really read much. In a weird way it made me feel better about everything that happened I never met Tillman but I wish I had
Geronimo
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The Carpetbaggers (Great read when it was first published)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Should be a classic)
Dancing Wu Li Masters (Should be read by all)
Nicholas and Alexandra (Best historical novel I've ever read)
Battle Cry (You'll want to sign up)
Exodus (Interesting historical read)
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The Bible.
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The Bible.
Outsell by Adolf Hitler 'Mein Kampf' , 8)
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Outsell by Adolf Hitler 'Mein Kampf' , 8)
Bullshit, ye spawn of Satan. The Bible has easily outsold all other books.
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June 1996 issue of Flex. Changed my life.
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Zinn?
F that list.
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U S H by Dan Duchaine. A short poetic read.
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Sometimes I tell people that I like poems and they think it's about roses
Either peace or happiness,
let it enfold you
when I was a young man
I felt these things were
dumb, unsophisticated.
I had bad blood, a twisted
mind, a precarious
upbringing.
I was hard as granite, I
leered at the
sun.
I trusted no man and
especially no
woman.
I was living a hell in
small rooms, I broke
things, smashed things,
walked through glass,
cursed.
I challenged everything,
was continually being
evicted, jailed, in and
out of fights, in and out
of my mind.
women were something
to screw and rail
at, I had no male
friends,
I changed jobs and
cities, I hated holidays,
babies, history,
newspapers, museums,
grandmothers,
marriage, movies,
spiders, garbagemen,
english accents,spain,
france,italy,walnuts and
the color
orange.
algebra angred me,
opera sickened me,
charlie chaplin was a
fake
and flowers were for
pansies.
peace and happiness to me
were signs of
inferiority,
tenants of the weak
and
addled
mind.
but as I went on with
my alley fights,
my suicidal years,
my passage through
any number of
women-it gradually
began to occur to
me
that I wasn't different
from the
others, I was the same,
they were all fulsome
with hatred,
glossed over with petty
grievances,
the men I fought in
alleys had hearts of stone.
everybody was nudging,
inching, cheating for
some insignificant
advantage,
the lie was the
weapon and the
plot was
empty,
darkness was the
dictator.
cautiously, I allowed
myself to feel good
at times.
I found moments of
peace in cheap
rooms
just staring at the
knobs of some
dresser
or listening to the
rain in the
dark.
the less I needed
the better I
felt.
maybe the other life had worn me
down.
I no longer found
glamour
in topping somebody
in conversation.
or in mounting the
body of some poor
drunken female
whose life had
slipped away into
sorrow.
I could never accept
life as it was,
i could never gobble
down all its
poisons
but there were parts,
tenuous magic parts
open for the
asking.
I re formulated
I don't know when,
date, time, all
that
but the change
occurred.
something in me
relaxed, smoothed
out.
i no longer had to
prove that I was a
man,
I didn't have to prove
anything.
I began to see things:
coffee cups lined up
behind a counter in a
cafe.
or a dog walking along
a sidewalk.
or the way the mouse
on my dresser top
stopped there
with its body,
its ears,
its nose,
it was fixed,
a bit of life
caught within itself
and its eyes looked
at me
and they were
beautiful.
then- it was
gone.
I began to feel good,
I began to feel good
in the worst situations
and there were plenty
of those.
like say, the boss
behind his desk,
he is going to have
to fire me.
I've missed too many
days.
he is dressed in a
suit, necktie, glasses,
he says, 'I am going
to have to let you go'
'it's all right' I tell
him.
He must do what he
must do, he has a
wife, a house, children,
expenses, most probably
a girlfriend.
I am sorry for him
he is caught.
I walk onto the blazing
sunshine.
the whole day is
mine
temporarily,
anyhow.
(the whole world is at the
throat of the world,
everybody feels angry,
short-changed, cheated,
everybody is despondent,
disillusioned)
I welcomed shots of
peace, tattered shards of
happiness.
I embraced that stuff
like the hottest number,
like high heels, breasts,
singing,the
works.
(don't get me wrong,
there is such a thing as cockeyed optimism
that overlooks all
basic problems just for
the sake of
itself-
this is a shield and a
sickness.)
The knife got near my
throat again,
I almost turned on the
gas
again
but when the good
moments arrived
again
I didn't fight them off
like an alley
adversary.
I let them take me,
I luxuriated in them,
I made them welcome
home.
I even looked into
the mirror
once having thought
myself to be
ugly,
I now liked what
I saw, almost
handsome, yes,
a bit ripped and
ragged,
scares, lumps,
odd turns,
but all in all,
not too bad,
almost handsome,
better at least than
some of those movie
star faces
like the cheeks of
a baby's
butt.
and finally I discovered
real feelings of
others,
unheralded,
like lately,
like this morning,
as I was leaving,
for the track,
i saw my wife in bed,
just the
shape of
her head there
(not forgetting
centuries of the living
and the dead and
the dying,
the pyramids,
Mozart dead
but his music still
there in the
room, weeds growing,
the earth turning,
the tote board waiting for
me)
I saw the shape of my
wife's head,
she so still,
I ached for her life,
just being there
under the
covers.
I kissed her in the
forehead,
got down the stairway,
got outside,
got into my marvelous
car,
fixed the seatbelt,
backed out the
drive.
feeling warm to
the fingertips,
down to my
foot on the gas
pedal,
I entered the world
once
more,
drove down the
hill
past the houses
full and empty
of
people,
I saw the mailman,
honked,
he waved
back
at me.
Charles Bukowski
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Bullshit, ye spawn of Satan. The Bible has easily outsold all other books.
Super MEGA BS, ask Amazon.com ;D ;D ;D
Mighty Adolf is #.1 selling author of all times ;D
369 "greetings" :D
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I think Bukowski's one of those that's cool to like, so everyone does, but no one really does.
Like Eraserhead and the Ramones.
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I think Bukowski's one of those that's cool to like, so everyone does, but no one really does.
Like the Ramones.
Plenty of kids like him in the last 3 years. Many facebook pages and so. All they know about him is a few quotes to sound a bit good and encourage their stupidity. They even take some of these quotes out of their context. I'm not like this, I've read every poem I found in the internet and most novels and I find him a bright writer, especially in never failing to surprise the reader. Some subjects are shallow, like childhood, but when he wrote about them he knew how to do it.
He is nothing major in literature but still enjoyable to read.
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Kiss the Girls by James Patterson
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Animal farm
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Sometimes I tell people that I like poems and they think it's about roses
Either peace or happiness,
let it enfold you
when I was a young man
I felt these things were
dumb, unsophisticated.
I had bad blood, a twisted
mind, a precarious
upbringing.
I was hard as granite, I
leered at the
sun.
I trusted no man and
especially no
woman.
I was living a hell in
small rooms, I broke
things, smashed things,
walked through glass,
cursed.
I challenged everything,
was continually being
evicted, jailed, in and
out of fights, in and out
of my mind.
women were something
to screw and rail
at, I had no male
friends,
I changed jobs and
cities, I hated holidays,
babies, history,
newspapers, museums,
grandmothers,
marriage, movies,
spiders, garbagemen,
english accents,spain,
france,italy,walnuts and
the color
orange.
algebra angred me,
opera sickened me,
charlie chaplin was a
fake
and flowers were for
pansies.
peace and happiness to me
were signs of
inferiority,
tenants of the weak
and
addled
mind.
but as I went on with
my alley fights,
my suicidal years,
my passage through
any number of
women-it gradually
began to occur to
me
that I wasn't different
from the
others, I was the same,
they were all fulsome
with hatred,
glossed over with petty
grievances,
the men I fought in
alleys had hearts of stone.
everybody was nudging,
inching, cheating for
some insignificant
advantage,
the lie was the
weapon and the
plot was
empty,
darkness was the
dictator.
cautiously, I allowed
myself to feel good
at times.
I found moments of
peace in cheap
rooms
just staring at the
knobs of some
dresser
or listening to the
rain in the
dark.
the less I needed
the better I
felt.
maybe the other life had worn me
down.
I no longer found
glamour
in topping somebody
in conversation.
or in mounting the
body of some poor
drunken female
whose life had
slipped away into
sorrow.
I could never accept
life as it was,
i could never gobble
down all its
poisons
but there were parts,
tenuous magic parts
open for the
asking.
I re formulated
I don't know when,
date, time, all
that
but the change
occurred.
something in me
relaxed, smoothed
out.
i no longer had to
prove that I was a
man,
I didn't have to prove
anything.
I began to see things:
coffee cups lined up
behind a counter in a
cafe.
or a dog walking along
a sidewalk.
or the way the mouse
on my dresser top
stopped there
with its body,
its ears,
its nose,
it was fixed,
a bit of life
caught within itself
and its eyes looked
at me
and they were
beautiful.
then- it was
gone.
I began to feel good,
I began to feel good
in the worst situations
and there were plenty
of those.
like say, the boss
behind his desk,
he is going to have
to fire me.
I've missed too many
days.
he is dressed in a
suit, necktie, glasses,
he says, 'I am going
to have to let you go'
'it's all right' I tell
him.
He must do what he
must do, he has a
wife, a house, children,
expenses, most probably
a girlfriend.
I am sorry for him
he is caught.
I walk onto the blazing
sunshine.
the whole day is
mine
temporarily,
anyhow.
(the whole world is at the
throat of the world,
everybody feels angry,
short-changed, cheated,
everybody is despondent,
disillusioned)
I welcomed shots of
peace, tattered shards of
happiness.
I embraced that stuff
like the hottest number,
like high heels, breasts,
singing,the
works.
(don't get me wrong,
there is such a thing as cockeyed optimism
that overlooks all
basic problems just for
the sake of
itself-
this is a shield and a
sickness.)
The knife got near my
throat again,
I almost turned on the
gas
again
but when the good
moments arrived
again
I didn't fight them off
like an alley
adversary.
I let them take me,
I luxuriated in them,
I made them welcome
home.
I even looked into
the mirror
once having thought
myself to be
ugly,
I now liked what
I saw, almost
handsome, yes,
a bit ripped and
ragged,
scares, lumps,
odd turns,
but all in all,
not too bad,
almost handsome,
better at least than
some of those movie
star faces
like the cheeks of
a baby's
butt.
and finally I discovered
real feelings of
others,
unheralded,
like lately,
like this morning,
as I was leaving,
for the track,
i saw my wife in bed,
just the
shape of
her head there
(not forgetting
centuries of the living
and the dead and
the dying,
the pyramids,
Mozart dead
but his music still
there in the
room, weeds growing,
the earth turning,
the tote board waiting for
me)
I saw the shape of my
wife's head,
she so still,
I ached for her life,
just being there
under the
covers.
I kissed her in the
forehead,
got down the stairway,
got outside,
got into my marvelous
car,
fixed the seatbelt,
backed out the
drive.
feeling warm to
the fingertips,
down to my
foot on the gas
pedal,
I entered the world
once
more,
drove down the
hill
past the houses
full and empty
of
people,
I saw the mailman,
honked,
he waved
back
at me.
Charles Bukowski
Goddamn I love Bukowski
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I've read too many great books to pick one in my lifetime. One book that really got me going was Terry Southern's Candy. It is such a hoot!
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Just finished a damn good one this afternoon: Cormac McCarthy's Suttree
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1.thru
10. 10 Names : Howard's edition ; the mayor of bodybuilding
fixed- only book title that matters ;)
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Zinn?
F that list.
You nuts??
You ever read the book?
Greatest ever. period!
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Just finished a damn good one this afternoon: Cormac McCarthy's Suttree
That one didn't pull me in, but I'll try again, eventually. Have you read Blood Meridian?
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You nuts??
You ever read the book?
Greatest ever. period!
Deluded f'n socialist with his America-hating, bullshit revisionism. This prick and Chomsky would blame the U.S. for dinosaur extinction if they could piece together a theory.
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Liberty and Tierney - Mark Levin
First Patriots - Rush Limbaugh
Killing Jesus - Bill O'Rielly
Guerilla Marketing - Jay Conrad Levinson
Pyramid of Success - John Wooden
Winning by Jack Welch
Win Forever - Pete Carroll
Anatomy Trains
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How to MC a pro bikini contest and pretend you like chicks---by Lonnie Teper
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Deluded f'n socialist with his America-hating, bullshit revisionism. This prick and Chomsky would blame the U.S. for dinosaur extinction if they could piece together a theory.
Wow.
Just wow.
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these 8) 8) 8) 8)
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That one didn't pull me in, but I'll try again, eventually. Have you read Blood Meridian?
Sure pulled me in. But Blood Meridian is even stronger medicine I agree.
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I think Bukowski's one of those that's cool to like, so everyone does, but no one really does.
Like Eraserhead and the Ramones.
I actually kind of like him. When I'm in LA, I always pick up one of his books. Kind of captures the old days. But he sure is infatuated with his own pussy magnet aura, for being such an ugly son of a bitch. Gets a little old after a while.
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I actually kind of like him. When I'm in LA, I always pick up one of his books. Kind of captures the old days. But he sure is infatuated with his own pussy magnet aura, for being such an ugly son of a bitch. Gets a little old after a while.
Interesting guy for sure. I own one of his anthologies, read plenty of his stuff. Not really sure how it qualifies as poetry is all. Then again, I'm not too goofy over poetry, anyway.
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Sure pulled me in. But Blood Meridian is even stronger medicine I agree.
Might have just been lazy at the time, I'll try again.
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Bob Paris, Beyond Built.
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Interesting guy for sure. I own one of his anthologies, read plenty of his stuff. Not really sure how it qualifies as poetry is all. Then again, I'm not too goofy over poetry, anyway.
I like his novels best, e.g., Ham on Rye - plenty of poetry inside the novels
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Heard about the greatness of Kurt's Slaughter House Five but never read it. What's it about?
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I once read the dictioanary, good read!
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^^Agree. Drags a bit when you reach L, tho. Author should have been more concise.
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I actually kind of like him. When I'm in LA, I always pick up one of his books. Kind of captures the old days. But he sure is infatuated with his own pussy magnet aura, for being such an ugly son of a bitch. Gets a little old after a while.
What do you mean pussy magnet? He pretty much only fucked disgusting, mentally ill alcoholics, pill poppers and prostitutes. He always emphasized his ugliness and his long stretches of not getting any pussy at all. He always talked about his sadness over not getting love or losing love. There is always pain involved when he talked about women.
Bukowski was a master with the word. But it wasn't overpolished flowery prose or poetry and that's part of why he was so great imo.
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Good book to help writers, I'll read it.
1/ Crime and Punishement - Dostoievski
2/ The brave new world - Huxley
3/ The stranger - Camus
4/ The trial - Kafka
5/ Dirty Hands - Sartre
6/ Civilization and Its Discontents - Freud
7/ Father and sons- Tourgueniev
8/ Dead souls - Gogol
9/ 1983 - Orwell
10/ Naked lunch- Burroughs
Definitely could add Bukowski to the list. I had alot of fun reading him and it's the easiest writer to read. You'd have a great laugh, guy was a getbigger.
Would like to add Karl Marx and Engels up there.
I think you meant 1984
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the gay science
twilight of the idols
beyond good and evil
the ego and its own
south of the border, west of the sun
100 years of solitude
alice's adventures in wonderland and through the looking glass
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What do you mean pussy magnet? He pretty much only fucked disgusting, mentally ill alcoholics, pill poppers and prostitutes. He always emphasized his ugliness and his long stretches of not getting any pussy at all. He always talked about his sadness over not getting love or losing love. There is always pain involved when he talked about women.
Bukowski was a master with the word. But it wasn't overpolished flowery prose or poetry and that's part of why he was so great imo.
Did you ever read Fante? Bukowski mention him quite often in his book but I never had the chance to read him.
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Did you ever read Fante? Bukowski mention him quite often in his book but I never had the chance to read him.
I tried reading Bukowski once. I didn't like his style.
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Very generic, nothing as fancy as the billionaires here reading Plato or Freud.
1. David Gemmell's Troy series. Even as a skeptical and jaded 30 something guy, that books made me want to be a hero, grab a sword and roar into battle. The fucking guy rewrote The Iliad! Nobody can ever write Odysseus like Gemmell. Ever. That is THE benchmark of that specific story and era. Even when I watch Troy (the Brad Pitt movie) can I find those characters believable as Gemmell rendered them so masterfully.
2. Conn Iggulden's Emperor series. Think it's 5 books but I done them all in 2 weeks.
3. Imperium and Lustrum by Robert Harris. Part of the same 'Cicero' books. A series based on the life of Marcus Tullius Cicero, the great Roman speaker. The last book in the series 'Dictator' comes out this year.
4. Millennium series by Stieg Larsson. It is pretty good, but haven't read it since nor do I want to.
5. Long walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela
6. A Short History Of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
7. Shantaram - Greg Roberts. Very generic but gave me hope for my own life :p
8. The Hunderd Year Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window And Disappeared. Truly LOL stuff
9. All John Grisham's books.
10. The Road Home - Rose Tremain. The imagery in that book. The way she describes London in these times. Every paragraph is just perfect. The words are just a guide to rendering the own story in your head. It gently nudges you to create your own images.
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please dont ruin this thread by posting a list of actual books you've read you boring bookworms
These threads always turns out like this. Pretentious unemployed drug addicts running to Amazon to post the most obscure book they can find :-\
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Cocaine Came First. Then the Whores’: Kevin Sessums
Best read in a while
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Did you ever read Fante? Bukowski mention him quite often in his book but I never had the chance to read him.
Yeah I read all of his books. Very good stuff.
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What do you mean pussy magnet? He pretty much only fucked disgusting, mentally ill alcoholics, pill poppers and prostitutes. He always emphasized his ugliness and his long stretches of not getting any pussy at all. He always talked about his sadness over not getting love or losing love. There is always pain involved when he talked about women.
Bukowski was a master with the word. But it wasn't overpolished flowery prose or poetry and that's part of why he was so great imo.
Not entirely true. Yes, there were stretches of no pussy but then he'd get hot chicks who were infatuated with him as a celebrity/cool poet type. The sex goes on and on and on, but I agree with you that it totally involves a sense of pain, and is ultimately empty. That's what makes the work powerful. On another poster's comment, no I never read Fante but now I want to do so.
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Not entirely true. Yes, there were stretches of no pussy but then he'd get hot chicks who were infatuated with him as a celebrity/cool poet type. The sex goes on and on and on, but I agree with you that it totally involves a sense of pain, and is ultimately empty. That's what makes the work powerful. On another poster's comment, no I never read Fante but now I want to do so.
Bukowski reads a "dirty" poem and gets all soft :D
Here's a poem about lifting weights:
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=542502.0;attach=571217;image)
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the gay science
twilight of the idols
beyond good and evil
the ego and its own
south of the border, west of the sun
100 years of solitude
alice's adventures in wonderland and through the looking glass
Beyond Good and Evil is great.
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Heard about the greatness of Kurt's Slaughter House Five but never read it. What's it about?
It's fantastic. Semi-autobiographical narrative about the horrors of WWII Dresden with a sci-twist. POWs, time travel, and an alien zoo, can't go wrong.
Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions is probably even better. Cynical take on pop-culture, consumerism, and politics, far as I can recall, with the most unique narrator/protagonist wtf scene I've ever read.
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david gemmel - the white wolf
conn igulden - the genghis khan trilogy
mark lawrence - the broken empire trilogy
anthony roberts - blood song
add in anything by david baldacci
excellent choices. have you read gemmel's troy trilogy? if not then i highly recommend.
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excellent choices. have you read gemmel's troy trilogy? if not then i highly recommend.
Agreed
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Good book to help writers, I'll read it.
1/ Crime and Punishement - Dostoievski
2/ The brave new world - Huxley
3/ The stranger - Camus
4/ The trial - Kafka
5/ Dirty Hands - Sartre
6/ Civilization and Its Discontents - Freud
7/ Father and sons- Tourgueniev
8/ Dead souls - Gogol
9/ 1983 - Orwell
10/ Naked lunch- Burroughs
Definitely could add Bukowski to the list. I had alot of fun reading him and it's the easiest writer to read. You'd have a great laugh, guy was a getbigger.
Would like to add Karl Marx and Engels up there.
i think if you are going to try and pretend you are some kind of intellect
at least get the title of the books right
unless 1983 is the lesser known prequel to 1984
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excellent choices. have you read gemmel's troy trilogy? if not then i highly recommend.
i have read all his books at least 5 times
best writer ever
his heros are awesome
check out his wife valerie gemmels book
think its called the city its reall very good
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Mein Kampf
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Vince Gironda, The Wild Physique
Arnold Schwarzenegger, The Education of a Bodybuilder
Mike Mentzer, Heavy Duty Arms
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read? :o
you mean like audio books? ???
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Vince Gironda, The Wild Physique
Arnold Schwarzenegger, The Education of a Bodybuilder
Mike Mentzer, Heavy Duty Arms
I had Arnold's book (only BB book I've ever owned) and I must've read it a thousand times.
Jeez, what printing is that on today?
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Vince Goodrum - How to exploit a gay lover to make him buy food for you
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read? :o
you mean like audio books? ???
Love Audio books. Used to drive 45 minutes each way to work and it helped kill time. I listened to the Hunger Games and the Author refered to one of the characters as Peeta and I thought she just had a Boston accent and couldn't say Peter but then realized that the character was actually named Peeta.
I listed to the millenium trilogy as well. That was awesome.
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i think if you are going to try and pretend you are some kind of intellect
at least get the title of the books right
unless 1983 is the lesser known prequel to 1984
What's the fucking difference? I mistaked 3 with 4. I'm not going to pretend to be an intellect. It's among the books I've read and liked and that's it. If you want to play the smart ass do it with someone else you joon bitch.
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Love Audio books. Used to drive 45 minutes each way to work and it helped kill time. I listened to the Hunger Games and the Author refered to one of the characters as Peeta and I thought she just had a Boston accent and couldn't say Peter but then realized that the character was actually named Peeta.
I listed to the millenium trilogy as well. That was awesome.
My thing with audio books is sometimes the book was edited down and pieces were missing from the story.
That always drove me nuts.
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1 - light in August - William Faulkner
2 - atlas shrugged - Ayn Rand
3 - crime and punishment - dostoievski
4- my father's glory - marcel Pagnol (the film is also awesome )
5- various book from raymond Aron and Philippe muray.
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i have read all his books at least 5 times
best writer ever
his heros are awesome
check out his wife valerie gemmels book
think its called the city its reall very good
You'd like Marine Sniper by Carlos Hathcock......it's great read and a true story
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You'd like Marine Sniper by Carlos Hathcock......it's great read and a true story
thanks i will look it up
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1 - light in August - William Faulkner
2 - atlas shrugged - Ayn Rand
3 - crime and punishment - dostoievski
4- my father's glory - marcel Pagnol (the film is also awesome )
5- various book from raymond Aron and Philippe muray.
Light in August - my favorite of Faulkner. Remember when American Airlines used to have the Faux Faulkner and Faux Hemingway contests in the American Airlines Magazine? Bygone day.
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thanks i will look it up
Have you read any of Andy McNab"s books?
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i have read all his books at least 5 times
best writer ever
his heros are awesome
check out his wife valerie gemmels book
think its called the city its reall very good
I'm going to try the white wolf even though i have no idea of what it's about.
If you like this type of hero genre, try Abercrombie's First Law trilogy....I've read that and the three follow on books and enjoyed them immensely.
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Light in August - my favorite of Faulkner. Remember when American Airlines used to have the Faux Faulkner and Faux Hemingway contests in the American Airlines Magazine? Bygone day.
I'm french, so no !
Light in august is my favorite, the second from faulkner is "as i lay dying".
"The sound and the fury" is generally the favorite of Faulkner who have never read Faulkner, and never read "the sound and fury".
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wish I could read books.... I cant keep my mind focused enough as it drifts off to something else no matter how interesting I find the book and end up forgetting everything I just read...
sucks... >:(
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Area 51 by Annie Jacobson
Incredible , well research book on the factual events and history of the infamous Area 51.
Spoiler alert- aliens were/are used as the cover story for the real classified projects.
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Useful book for a getbigger:
http://www.amazon.com/Gay-Anal-Sex-Bottom-Without-ebook/dp/B005TL7HG0 (http://www.amazon.com/Gay-Anal-Sex-Bottom-Without-ebook/dp/B005TL7HG0)
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Have you read any of Andy McNab"s books?
i read bravo two zero
which was good as it was the truth
i find his thriller stuff a little simplistic
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i have read all his books at least 5 times
best writer ever
his heros are awesome
check out his wife valerie gemmels book
think its called the city its reall very good
I agree. His characters are excellent and he can turn a well loved and routine story like the trojan war into something incredible. The attention to detail is phenomenal and the little twists he throws in are refreshing. Im finishing up valerio manfredi's alexander trilogy currently and a reread of the troy series is next. Highly recommend the alexander trilogy too if you havent read it though I suspect you have if you've read gemmels stuff.
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Useful book for a getbigger:
http://www.amazon.com/Gay-Anal-Sex-Bottom-Without-ebook/dp/B005TL7HG0 (http://www.amazon.com/Gay-Anal-Sex-Bottom-Without-ebook/dp/B005TL7HG0)
Basiles favourite text :D
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Mein Kampf
;)
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Vince Gironda, The Wild Physique
Arnold Schwarzenegger, The Education of a Bodybuilder
Mike Mentzer, Heavy Duty Arms
No Vincenzo Basile book in existence :'( :'( :'(
:D
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I agree. His characters are excellent and he can turn a well loved and routine story like the trojan war into something incredible. The attention to detail is phenomenal and the little twists he throws in are refreshing. Im finishing up valerio manfredi's alexander trilogy currently and a reread of the troy series is next. Highly recommend the alexander trilogy too if you havent read it though I suspect you have if you've read gemmels stuff.
no i havent just ordered it on amazon thanks
did you read lion of macedon and the follow up dark prince
gemmels take on alexander
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vince flynn...
bench
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no i havent just ordered it on amazon thanks
did you read lion of macedon and the follow up dark prince
gemmels take on alexander
I haven't but now that I read that the first is about Parmenion.. I have to read this one next haha
thanks!
edit- one thing i love about gemmell is how he doesnt focus on what are supposed to be primary characters in a story he prefers instead to flesh out the supporting characters and i havent found this in anyone elses style of storytelling.
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I haven't but now that I read that the first is about Parmenion.. I have to read this one next haha
thanks!
edit- one thing i love about gemmell is how he doesnt focus on what are supposed to be primary characters in a story he prefers instead to flesh out the supporting characters and i havent found this in anyone elses style of storytelling.
especially minor characters who may be only in the book for a coucple of pages
you still find yourself forming an opinion on them
and even rooting for them
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no i havent just ordered it on amazon thanks
did you read lion of macedon and the follow up dark prince
gemmels take on alexander
I haven't read Lion of Macedon or dark Prince yet either.
I looked into them, they seem interesting.
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I haven't read Lion of Macedon or dark Prince yet either.
I looked into them, they seem interesting.
it incorporates the story in to greek myth
with minotaurs etc
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vince flynn...
bench
Good reads, shame Vince died so young but someone else is suppose to be taking up the Mitch Rapp story.
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I'm french, so no !
Light in august is my favorite, the second from faulkner is "as i lay dying".
"The sound and the fury" is generally the favorite of Faulkner who have never read Faulkner, and never read "the sound and fury".
As I Lie Dying: I'm sure it's considered one of his greats, but I found the complexity of the chronology hard to deal with. Phillipe Murray: now that's esoteric. I looked him up and found he's not even translated into English yet. Do you love any modern French novelists? The French always wrote the best novels (along with Brits, Americans, and Russians) but I haven't found too much French fiction that I like after say 1960.
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No Vincenzo Basile book in existence :'( :'( :'(
:D
^^
I couldn't find ANYTHING written by him on Hypertrophy, but I DO have his Musclemag ANNUAL from back in the day with his 1980 Mr. Olympia article!!!! Seriously!
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Read "With the Old Breed" by Eugene Sledge for a WWII book that will knock your socks off.
Fucking amazing.
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Read "With the Old Breed" by Eugene Sledge for a WWII book that will knock your socks off.
Fucking amazing.
Just finished it, best war book I've ever read. Watching The Pacific now, based on much of Sledge's book.
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Another book that is in my top 20 is War Is A Racket By Major General Smedley Butler.
I think this should be mandatory reading in every high school across the country.
I recommend this book to everyone.
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Gates Of Fire and also The Gunslinger by Stephen King
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Gates Of Fire and also The Gunslinger by Stephen King
yeah the gunslinger is great
bit annoying having to wait so long for the books
but the imagination needed to create all that is astonishing
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yeah the gunslinger is great
bit annoying having to wait so long for the books
but the imagination needed to create all that is astonishing
I wish he would do a prequel on the rise of Arthur Eld and Gilead , it would be epic. The most recent DT book was pretty good to, Wind Through The Key Hole, I really enjoyed it.
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Outliers
The Intelligent Investor
Security Analysis
The Quants
More Money Than God
Market Wizards
The Alchemy of Finance
The Millionaire Next Door
The Millionaire Mind
Beating The Street
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I'm more of a menu reader
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Anyone?
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Anyone?
Yup. Solid book. Guy got out a whole bunch of markers to sign my copy. Classy.
/'not for you.'
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Yup. Solid book. Guy got out a whole bunch of markers to sign my copy. Classy.
/'not for you.'
Most creative, haunting thing I've read.
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Most creative, haunting thing I've read.
Yup. The whole inside/outside space freaked me out. Never even thought of such a thing.
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Yup. The whole inside/outside space freaked me out. Never even thought of such a thing.
Indeed, the five and a half minute hallway.
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Sounds interesting. What's this book about?
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Sounds interesting. What's this book about?
Blair Witch Project on paper, yet SO much more. It has a found footage-type plot, which evolves into the deepest rabbit hole ever put in print. A horror story in that regard, but again, SO much more. The narrator slowly unravels as he investigates the tapes, which is brilliantly depicted by the author.
The most effectively experimental novel you will ever read, guaranteed. Dude redefined what's possible with the medium. Once it starts to unfold, you'll totally understand what I mean. You'll either get sucked right in, like me and the cultish following it created; or you'll get completely frustrated and throw it in the trash.
Like my stupid girlfriend.
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"Faster than the Speed of Love" by Brian Griffin...
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Off topic, but just saw this new film called World War Z. So much more than I'd expected, but still, better when it was called 28 Days Later.
Had it come out first, though ...