Anyone reading good books?

[godiva]

I'm crap at libraries too!

My Mum and a few of my friends read loads so we can pass stuff along. I buy a lot of books at charity shops (cuz they're cheap and the dosh goes to a good cause) or secondhand bookshops. This works out well as when we've all read them I can exchange them at the secondhand place for more!

Charity shops are a great place to offload books if you're moving house, they weigh a ton and are a pain in the arse to shift! I remember when I came back to UK from Germany - I had close on 800 books to move - the removal men were not happy bunnies!

[.ViciouS.]

haha damn, next time you move and don't feel like taking your books, just ship them to me and i'll pay for the shipping

I never even heard of charity shops for books around, otherwise I would buy all my books from them rather then giving my money to corporations. But trading in books for more books sure sounds like a sweet deal to me.

I just started reading Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore and so far so good. Damn I love this guy, he needs to write more books.

[Opivy]

Originally Posted by TheHempress

But right now I'm re-reading Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub. I love this book.

Really? I bought this book a while back and suddenly stopped reading fiction - (it's been about a year since i've read any of my usual authors: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, etc.)

I thought i made a mistake, but i guess i'll have to read it I havent read anything by two authors working together.

BTW. has anyone read the Frankenstein series from Koontz and the other guy?(i dont remember his name) I was going to read this after Odd Thomas but never got around to buying it.

[spitfire396]

Lots of tokers dont realize how beautiful books are, especially when stoned.

I recently read a couple of Chuck Palahniuk, he writes twisted stories...beautifully twisted I would say.

Stephen Kings Everything Eventual is AWESOME,as is Anthony Kiedis's autobiography, Scar Tisue.

Anyone else read these?

[runner's high]

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Great book. It has almost nothing to do with Zen or motorcycle maintenance; it's basically a crazy trip through the history of thought, all through the mind of an incredibly rational, intelligent biker during his trip across the country. Everyone I know who've read it have enjoyed it.

[Maitereya]

on the road - classic a must read
one flew over the cukoos nest - another classic
the electric kool aid acid test - history lesson on hippies and acid
the celestine prophecy - great and inspirational
walden - great for those trancedentialists out there
the rum diary - hunter s thompson need i say more?
the dharma bums - another by kerouac, more buddhist feeling but same idea
1984 - the future
brave new world/brave new world revisited - alot like 1984 and the island movie
lord of the rings series - its easier to watch the movies to tell the truth
the holographic universe - science, our brains are holograms
the alchemist - easy read, alot like celestine prophecy
turn on, tune in, drop out - the title makes more sence after reading it
the doors of perception - must read for any psychedelic enthusiast
the i ching - cool book to play around with not really reading material
the time machine - great short and ingenious
tao te ching - very poetic words about the infinite

[TheHempress]

Stephen Kings Everything Eventual is AWESOME

YES! It is.

Haha, kind of a related story, but I've been meaning to read Cell (Stephen King again, I'm a huge fan of his) but I haven't had the money to buy it recently. I had a dream this afternoon that I found it at a flea market for $2.25 I was so mad when I woke up and it wasn't there! Argh!

[stash_up]

reading The Lord of the Rings, it's amazing, i only wish i had some bud to go with it.

[mistertr1ck]

Check out these books. Written by Christopher Paloni. Deff. a good fictional book about a teenager who finds a dragon egg and goes through a pretty fucking awesome joureny.

deff. my fav. book ever. seriously, please check it out if you like fiction

[.ViciouS.]

I just got the books,
A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore
Foop! by Chris Genoa
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates by Tom Robbins
I already know these books are going to be good, can't wait to read them

And i'm reading The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde, so far pretty good, the author has a pretty good imagination and I like it.

[tyedyedeyes]

I've recently started to read "Oryx and Crake" by Margaret Atwood, but haven't gotten very far yet. I don't get to read much other than children's books these days..the minion sees to that (he's 3 1/2). I suppose "The Earth and I" by Frank Asche and "Pancakes! Pancakes!" by Eric Carle would be the ones I read the most now... LOL

~Kate

[Durchii]

I'm reading Crime and Punishment currently. Dostoevsky is amazing. I reccomend you start with 'Notes from Underground'.. then mov eonto C&P.. then, do what I'm going to do, read The Brothers Karamazov.

Great russian literature.

[Jonsi]

I just got done reading The I Chong: Meditations from the Joint.

It's Tommy Chong's book which he just came out last month, and why he's been on tour recently... I think it would be good for some people on here to read. But it wasn't quite what I was expecting, so I'm semi-disappointed, but he has some interesting stories.

I just picked up my new book to read, one I sadly havn't read before, Dracula by Bram Stoker... I've read the first half before, but never got to finish it, I love the writing style

I think tomorrow I'm gonna just read The Stranger again... it's a short enough book that I finish it in a few hours, but I think it's one of my favorite books of all time. So yall should pick it up

[godiva]

Originally Posted by Durchii

I'm reading Crime and Punishment currently. Dostoevsky is amazing. I reccomend you start with 'Notes from Underground'.. then mov eonto C&P.. then, do what I'm going to do, read The Brothers Karamazov.

Great russian literature.

For those who aren't familiar with Russian tomes another good one to try is The First Circle by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

[gchinky]

Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss

I read it a few times before.