Favorite Book

[jason_t]

Blindness - Jose Saramago
If on a winter's night a traveler - Italo Calvino
Godel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hofstadter
The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins

[wacki]

I don't read for pleasure, that being said:

Every 2+2 book
Roy Cook, play of the hands
Rob Green: 48 laws of power, and Art of Seduction
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
Never be Lied to Again
The art of deception
On Rope
Just about anything by O'reilly (the books with animals on the front)

[tdarko]

what about Breakfast of Champions or Cat's Cradle, those are my two fav Vonnegut's

[Soul Daddy]

Native Son - Richard Wright

I'm torn between Sirens and Cat's Cradle when it comes to Vonnegut.

[tdarko]

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Palahniuk is way overhyped. Survivor was pretty decent, but Choke just sucked.


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this statement is wrong unless you are talking about stranger than fiction, other than that any credit he has recieved was deserving...plus the cacophony society is good times.

[thatpfunk]

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I don't read for pleasure

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This might be one of my least fav Vonnegut's.

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First one I ever read, always has a sentimental place in my heart. Honestly I've only read maybe 3 or 4 of his books. I like them a lot but they are all extremely similar, you know? I feel the same way about Tom Robbins. They both have this sort of anesthetized existential glow about them and leave a pleasant taste, but I think people read them too religiously.

Anyway, to the person who asked about Bukowski, I have to say his poetry > his prose. I have enjoyed a lot of his later stuff, including the posthumous works. He softened up a bit, which would not be a compliment for most poets but it is for him.

Recently I read Principia Discordia again and enjoyed it immensely... again.

I should probably have thrown in some Hemingway, maybe 'The Sun Also Rises.' Fvck, that book depresses me though.

Also, "100 Years of Solitude" and "The Sound and the Fury" for that epic family-in-decline feel.

NT

[Zeno]

Too many to choose from so a break into some catergories is a must.

American Fiction:

Sometimes a Great Notion
Lonesome Dove
Catch-22
Tough Trip Through Paradise
Huckleberry Finn


World Classics:

The Analects of Confucius
Tao Te Ching

Reference Books:

The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce

Enough for now.

-Zeno

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Science Fiction:

Many of Asimov's books, Robot series and The Foundation Trilogy.

Cat's Cradle

Use to read Ray Bradbary and Robert Heinlen but that was long long ago. I do remember Stranger in a Strange Land and some others.

[thatpfunk]

Cat's Cradle is very, very good. Probably my 2nd favorite.

I went on a Vonnegut kick a couple years ago and read a ton of his stuff so Breakfast of Champs is muddled in there with some others...

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World Classics:

The Analects of Confucius
Tao Te Ching

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Lao Tzu > Chuang Tse > Confucius.

IMHO. All three make for interesting reading.