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what are some of your favourite books? mine are:
Glenn Gould: The Ecstasy and Tragedy of Genius by Peter F. Ostwald
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner
President Nixon's Psychiatric Profile by Eli S. Chesen
Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau
Famous Last Words by Timothy Findley



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better call Ja Ja Binx....

Del



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can't say I really have a favourite book but I did recently read 'The Peep Diaries' by Hal Niedzviecki which was good.

[thepeepdiaries.com]

another recent read was 'Toyko Vice' by Jake Adelstein.

[www.japansubculture.com]

Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks -- It's Huck Finn meets Catcher in the Rye in the 80s. Fantastic book.

The Van by Roddy Doyle -- wet your pants funny.

Persepolis -- Marjane Sartrapi -- Graphic novel about growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution

The Dune series is phenominal.
Life of Pi
Berlin Noir
The Great Santini
The Stand
Salem's Lot
The Lord of the Rings
Most of the Travis McGee series particularly The Long Lavender Look and A Tan and Sandy Silence
Pillars of Earth
Lots of Elmore Leonard, Killshot, Out of Sight
Tourist Season, and pretty much anything by Hiaasin

The Picture of Dory Gray - Wilde
Anything by Wilde is good! The Ballad of Reading Gaol is heartbreaking

Arthur Rimbaud - French symbolist poet -A Season in Hell, The Drunken Boat -
Check out a Bio.

William Blake

Lord Bryon

Jack Kerouac - On the Road

John Steinbeck - ANY!

Shelly

Sylvia Plath

All the Presidents Men - Book about Watergate

Any JFK, LINCOLN, RFK Assassination Book

Political Books

History

War

"Well my heavy throbbers itchin' just to lay a solid rhythm down"

Everything with Buke and 'Papa'....

Bird Song - Sebastian Faulks

There are others, but I'm too hung-over to think about it.

Shantaram comes to my mind now - great read!

I enjoy some of Stephen King's better works: The Running Man, The Shining, The Green Mile, etc. When he's on form - which he hasn't been of late, apparently - he really is the master storyteller.

The Book Of Love

Yes Lorenz Shantaram is wonderful. I read that Johnny Depp bought the rights and wants to make the movie.

the Trilogy by Henryk Sienkiewicz has to be my all-time favorite, but there are many others - recently Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe have been a great joy for me, Nabokov as well x)

Blood Done Sign My Name, by Tim Tyson
Devil In The White City by Erik Larson
Linthead Stomp - the Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South by Patrick Huber
Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller
Tropic of Capricorn Henry Miller
Black Spring Henry Miller

anything by Isaac Bashevis Singer



and of course.. The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones by Stanley Booth

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Yes Lorenz Shantaram is wonderful. I read that Johnny Depp bought the rights and wants to make the movie.

I have been following this story a bit, but it seems not much is happening.
It seems there will be a 2nd book though!

-Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita (not for the SFTD-connection, but because it's a bloody brilliant book)
-Kerouac: On The Road
-Burgess: A Clockwork Orange
-King: Pet Sematary, The Shining, Misery, 'Salems Lot
-almost everything I've read by Elmore Leonard and Kinky Friedman
-Revolution In The Head

Lord of The Rings, Oliver Twist, The World According to Garp, Spud and Catch-22 are my big favourites.

You got the Sun, You got the Moon,
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2:The Sage and the Housewife, Shanta Kelker.
3:Asterix & Obelix.
4:Lucky Luke.

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2:The Sage and the Housewife, Shanta Kelker.
3:Asterix & Obelix.
4:Lucky Luke.

yes, the comix. I love Jim Woodring's (almost) wordless Frank-books, the latest, Weathercraft is amazing

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yes, the comix. I love Jim Woodring's (almost) wordless Frank-books, the latest, Weathercraft is amazing

Ok,what about this guy,Lovecraft..





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The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Waste Land - T.S. Eliot
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Death in the Afternoon - Ernest Hemingway
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Bible
A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
Obsession - Ted Dekker
Child 44 - Tom Rob Smith

As for poets, anything by the following is fine by me: Shakespeare, Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, Walt Whitman, Tennyson, and Browning.

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The Book Of Love

Who wrote that?

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The Book Of Love

Who wrote that?

Funny you should mention that duke as I have that information right at my fingertips - Warren Davis, George Malone and Charles Patrick.

Sung by The Montones but Sha Na Na did a fine version too.

How about some famous book songs.

Here's a few.

Before 2000, all of my fave books were solidly in 2 camps; fiction/sci-fi/fantasy (like many of the great titles posted above) or zen/taoist/philosophy (bankei, Hui-Neng, Chuang-tzu, Alan Watts). For the last 10 years, it's been all politics/investigative journalism, all the time, except for the welcoming distraction of occasional fiction during a holiday. Now all of my faves are stomach-churning eye-openers that help me get to the bottom of events/Media Propaganda and offer the hope that the more we know, the more chance our democracies will stay democracies. Every single title could easily start a flame war, so rather than annoy bv, if you want to go over something, just tell me in the thread that you've messaged me and I'll check it out.

The Shock Doctrine-Naomi Klein
Screwed; the undeclared war on the middle class-Thom Hartmann
Armed Madhouse-Greg Palast
Fooled Again (theft of 2004 US election)- Marc Crispin Miller
Loser Take All; election fraud and the subversion of democracy 2000-2008- edited by Marc Crispin Miller
The Man Who Sold the World; Reagan and the betrayal of main street america- William Kleinknecht
The 911 commission report; omissions/distortions- David Ray Griffin
The Coorporation-Joel Bakan

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Never knew there was a Holdsworth book. Does it hurt your fingers?

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Never knew there was a Holdsworth book. Does it hurt your fingers?

Not anymore...







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Bukowski: "Women" "Ham On Rye" "Factotum" "Post Office"



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