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I got no books...
But I did get a pocket ref. Good reading, that. |
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White Noise by Don DeLillo
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| Sharp wrote: | I got no books...
But I did get a pocket ref. Good reading, that. |
Why is reading so uncool all of a sudden? Not an attack, Sharp, but I hear stuff like that a lot.
The Phoenix series by Tezuka Osamu. No debating over whether a manga can be a book. Tezuka is phenomenal.
Also Feed by M. T. Anderson. It's about a future in which everyone has a computer in their brain. It's disturbingly realistic.
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bump
i need some book recommendations
let me get some
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also, is the great gatsby really as good as people say
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| robert goulet wrote: | | also, is the great gatsby really as good as people say |
it's decent.
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The Tesseract by Alex Garland.
I probably recommended this book before in this thread, but since Robert asked... this one is specifically for him.
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If you don't mind reading translated fiction, Hard-boiled Wonderland and The End of the World by Haruki Murakami is awesome.
I really can't recommend against most of the classics... and I would say The Great Gatsby is way better than decent.
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| robert goulet wrote: | | also, is the great gatsby really as good as people say |
Yes, it is. I assume this was a "joke" question, but if you've somehow managed to avoid reading it, well. . . if you only read one modern American novel this week, make it this one.
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Go with Don DeLillo's White Noise next.
All the good ones are coming back to me...
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On the topic of Yoko Ono:
She is a performance artist.
Performance artists are D-BAGS.
Oh, also...
You should probably read Dracula if you haven't already. Far too many people haven't.
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| Empy wrote: | | You should probably read Dracula if you haven't already. Far too many people haven't. |
Probably because a "classic" is "something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read." 
Hackneyed aphorisms for the win?
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| Empy wrote: | | You should probably read Dracula if you haven't already. Far too many people haven't. |
We had to read Dracula for level 3 English. My teacher admitted that we were doing it because it was the only way to get the goth kids to do their homework.
I didn't like that book.
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