books

JawnDiablo - 6-28-2006 at 08:08 PM

any of ya read any good ones latley?

tireironsaint - 6-28-2006 at 09:23 PM

I finished Paddy Whacked and loved every bit of it. Got started on and am just a few pages away from finishing this collection of short stories by Edogawa Rampo, this Japanese guy who named himself after the Japanese pronunciation of Edgar Allen Poe (say his name a few times and it'll become clear) and he basically started the modern mystery/horror literature craze in Japan back in the early part of the twentieth century. The book is called Japanese Tales Of Mystery & Imagination and it's pretty fuckin' good. All these creepy short stories that are roughly the Japanese equivalent of Poe without being an imitation. I need to find another book to read since, as I said, this one is almost done.

GOLD GRILL - 6-29-2006 at 01:52 AM

I just finished reading a Douglas Adams book called Dirk Gentry's Hollisitic Detective Agency. It was a pretty good read; if you liked the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy you'd like it. I'm now reading an autobiography called Cass. I like it alot; about a black dude who grew up as a soccer hooligan for West Ham. He also talks about the skinheads and other kinds of shit. It's reminding me alot of that dude Lenny McLean's book The Guv'nor.

gavin - 6-29-2006 at 02:04 AM

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Originally posted by GOLD GRILL
I just finished reading a Douglas Adams book called Dirk Gentry's Hollisitic Detective Agency. It was a pretty good read; if you liked the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy you'd like it. I'm now reading an autobiography called Cass. I like it alot; about a black dude who grew up as a soccer hooligan for West Ham. He also talks about the skinheads and other kinds of shit. It's reminding me alot of that dude Lenny McLean's book The Guv'nor.

cass rules
he has a few books out

check out on called "hoolifan" if ya dig the whole hooligan thing

Kid Ugly - 6-29-2006 at 02:21 AM

I'm in the middle of Johnny Cash's autobiography. Damned if I've had time to get to it in the last few weeks, though.

clevohardcore - 6-29-2006 at 06:07 AM

Toni Morrison - Beloved. This book is tough.

Frederick Douglass- book of poems. He was a champ at these.

Voodoobillyman - 6-29-2006 at 08:09 AM

White Line Fever Lemmy's Autobiography. Pretty good so far but I have put it down for a bit.

barc0debaby - 6-29-2006 at 10:44 AM

William Burroughs - Junky
Dennis Brailsford - Bareknuckles: A Social History Of Prizefighting
I got another book that I haven't had a chance to start that is about the history and practices of Ninjas. Need to buy a few more next paycheck.

upyerbum - 6-29-2006 at 12:35 PM

Everything you need to know about Ninja's:

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XHonusWagnerX - 6-29-2006 at 05:17 PM

I always recomend the same books when this topic comes up...

The Turner Diaries - amazingly written and very interesting

Go Ask Alice - a total classic & my favorite book of all time

Have a Nice Day - autobiography of Mick Foley the wrestler

one that I want to get soon...

If Chins Could Kill - autobiography of Bruce Campbell

moron - 6-29-2006 at 06:03 PM

Finally finished "A Bright Shining Lie". Thing was a beast of a book at over 800 pages. Very good if you're looking for a history of American involvement in Vietnam.

Also re-read "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien. EXCELLENT piece of literature! I think I read most of it in high school, but I didnt really remember any of it as I reread it. This guy really knows how to tell a story. It's mainly memoirs from his time in Vietnam, but told in a very interesting way. I highly recommend it.

crazyfists28 - 6-29-2006 at 06:10 PM

i can't believe how much all of you read!! impressive

moforn - 6-29-2006 at 07:25 PM

I'd recommend anything by Richard Dawkins, biology/evolutionary theory but not nearly as dry as you'd think, (and he's more anti-clerical than slayer). Pretty much anything by steinbeck, particularly East of Eden, The Grapes Of Wrath, Cannery row and Of Mice and Men. I just finished Kurt Vonnegut's Galapagos which I enjoyed, I've never been disappointed by any of his books. I finally got around to reading Crime and Punishment a while back which I'd also recommend. For political stuff it's hard to beat Chomsky's insight.

XHonusWagnerX - 6-29-2006 at 08:00 PM

ALL the 'classics' are good...

Of Mice and men
Rumblefish
The Outsiders

tireironsaint - 6-29-2006 at 08:48 PM

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Originally posted by XHonusWagnerX
one that I want to get soon...

If Chins Could Kill - autobiography of Bruce Campbell

That's a great book, I loved it. The other book he wrote, something like Make Love The Bruce Campbell Way, isn't nearly as good. If you're a Campbell fanatic pick it up, but it's his attempt at using the persona he has created for himself and writing a novel around it and it's not really all that great.

CR83 - 6-30-2006 at 09:43 AM

Jawbreaker- Writtne by the CIA Field Leader that lead the first wave of attacks in Afghanistan in Otober of 01. Awesome read.