Favorite Books

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No, but I could definitely see how he could enjoy Harry Potter, or prefer Harry Potter to classic literature.  It's just one of those things.

I can see that as well...but nobody should qualify that opinion with the statement: "harry potter is a GREAT (originally in caps) book"

im going to bring the millions of HP fans over here to kick your Non HP fans asses,s  :rockit:

has anyone here read "The Godfather novels"?

I read HP...but there is no way in hell that it is a great novel. And I have not read the Godfather novels.

HP are not great novels, there great books, the plot of them, and the hole world and characters, its just great (thats my opinion) and i recommend you read the godfather novels, they dont have anything to do with the godfather movies, there more underground, of the thoughts of the characters in the godfather movies, there awesome

Does this make them better?   :dontknow:

[A10s]

No, but I could definitely see how he could enjoy Harry Potter, or prefer Harry Potter to classic literature.  It's just one of those things.

I can see that as well...but nobody should qualify that opinion with the statement: "harry potter is a GREAT (originally in caps) book"

im going to bring the millions of HP fans over here to kick your Non HP fans asses,s  :rockit:

has anyone here read "The Godfather novels"?

I read HP...but there is no way in hell that it is a great novel. And I have not read the Godfather novels.

HP are not great novels, there great books, the plot of them, and the hole world and characters, its just great (thats my opinion) and i recommend you read the godfather novels, they dont have anything to do with the godfather movies, there more underground, of the thoughts of the characters in the godfather movies, there awesome

Does this make them better?   :dontknow:

of cource, it lets you know what was going on in the mind of everyone involved in the godfather movies, and yet it never mentions anyones names, but you still know who they are, the way it was made is just mind blowing

[TheGodEmperor]

No, but I could definitely see how he could enjoy Harry Potter, or prefer Harry Potter to classic literature.  It's just one of those things.

I can see that as well...but nobody should qualify that opinion with the statement: "harry potter is a GREAT (originally in caps) book"

im going to bring the millions of HP fans over here to kick your Non HP fans asses,s  :rockit:

has anyone here read "The Godfather novels"?

I read HP...but there is no way in hell that it is a great novel. And I have not read the Godfather novels.

HP are not great novels, there great books, the plot of them, and the hole world and characters, its just great (thats my opinion) and i recommend you read the godfather novels, they dont have anything to do with the godfather movies, there more underground, of the thoughts of the characters in the godfather movies, there awesome

Does this make them better?   :dontknow:

of cource, it lets you know what was going on in the mind of everyone involved in the godfather movies, and yet it never mentions anyones names, but you still know who they are, the way it was made is just mind blowing

a10s your credibility (or what was left of it) is going down the drain  :lol: 'underground' has nothing to do with that

[sputnik]

whoever said the sillmarillion, i think sebas, was right on the money. amazing book. i liked it better than the lord of the rings trilogy.

life of pi was a good book to read, as was to kill a mockingbird.

good teen stuff was Noughts and Crosses trilogy, anddddd not H.P.Otter

[TheGodEmperor]

anybody read Chronicles by Bob Dylan? It was surprisingly good.

[A10s]

Best Book EVER!  :biggrin:

[Epix]

lolage..books are worthless..unless they have pics of nude women..prefer magazines like Nuts and Zoo  :biggrin:

[SeBaS]

lolage..books are worthless..unless they have pics of nude women..prefer magazines like Nuts and Zoo  :biggrin:

are you serious??

[sputnik]

i think so :thumbsup:

[TheGodEmperor]

what an ignorant fuck...
books are the containers of our past, and the most beautiful culmination of human thought.

[TJ Hooker]

Why the fuck is this thread so far down?
After business deals and the stress of taxes and all that BS, I unwind with great books.

My favorites as of right now:

The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
The Automatic Homeowner Millionaire by David Bach
All about commodities by Russel R.Wasendorf
The power of Alpha-thinking by Jess Stern
The Great Gatsby by (scotts fitzgerald?)
Gangster by Lorenzo Carcaterra (do not be fooled by the title, very meaningful book).

[TheGodEmperor]

I've been reading recently:
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (beautiful prose, great story)
On The Road by Jack Kerouac (need I say more?)
Ulysses by James Joyce (a mindfuck, but one that's well worth it)
Stardust by Frank Bidart (really good poet, the book was runner up for the pulitzer, should have won)
Said the Shotgun to the Head by Saul Williams (the man is fucking insane...bothy meanings apply)
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (I'm only halfway through at this point, but it's really excellent)
The Gates of the Elect Kingdom by John Wood (excellent, erudite poetry...winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize)
Illustrations of Being: Drawing Upon Heidegger and Upon Metaphysics by Graeme Nicholson (this has one idea per page that will blow your mind, whether it's a new reading of Descartes, or just unpacking the intellectual jargon-fest that is Martin Heidegger)
As always, I'm reading tons of Geoffrey Hill, who is my favorite poet, and William Butler Yeats
I read his Per Amica Silentia Lunae again, and it's amazing. And his poetry, of course, is some of the best ever written.

anyone else?