Any of you stoners like to read?

a mongo frog

a mongo frog

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Hate reading other then RIU or the growers Medical bible. But last book I read was A Time To Kill by Grisham or some shit. Think I was in juvenile hall.
 
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minnesmoker

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War and Peace, and Crime and Punishment are two of my favorites. Dante's Divine Comedy is also good. Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. for lighter reading, I like physics, astronomy, biology, math and foreign language books. I'm a bit of a geek, so a favorite old read is the BSD kernel (original Sys IV split, not subsequent toaster O/Ses.) One of my favorite early exposure to computer programming was the book C Programming Language (1st edition, Kernighan and Ritchie.) I still re-read it, just like a novel, every few years. If you're the adventurous type, anything by the Marquis de Sade (maybe start with something light, like 120 days of sodom
 
lolikun

lolikun

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Old school erotica novels are hilarious. Like The Adventures of Fanny Hill or whatever it was called......other than that, I liked reading the Kalevala by Elias Lonnrot and Lolita by Vladamir Nabokov. And the books they made me read in high school weren't too bad....I read sometimes...
 
socaljoe

socaljoe

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CHZBURGERWALRUS said:
Cause I fuckin love reading. List up some of your favorites here :joint:

Anyone read the Kingkiller Chronicle? Any Ed Abbey fans? Tolkien, somebody has got to love them some tales of Arda
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Love Tolkein. I'm going to check out the others you mentioned.

As far as fantasy, I'm a big R.A. Salvatore fan, Wheel of Time, Brandon Sanderson, Stephen R. Donaldson.

Other authors I enjoy: Stephen King, Jack Ketchum, Dean Koontz, Cormac McCarthy, John Grisham, Michael Crichton, Peter Straub, Chuck Palahniuk (sp?), Robert Ludlum. Well, that's a few...
 
Derple

Derple

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I love reading fantasy, Robert Jordan (The Wheel of Time), Garth Nix (Keys to the Kingdom - more of a kids book, but good nonetheless), Tolkein, George RR Martin (Game of Thrones).
 
CHZBURGERWALRUS

CHZBURGERWALRUS

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The Kalevala is pretty fuckin good, love those sort of legendary tales. The Norse sagas in general, Anglo-Saxon and Briton too. Some of the Roman chroniclers were pretty excellent. Taliesin, Snorri Sturlason, Amianus, all kinds of good shit

Derple said:
I love reading fantasy, Robert Jordan (The Wheel of Time), Garth Nix (Keys to the Kingdom - more of a kids book, but good nonetheless), Tolkein, George RR Martin (Game of Thrones).
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you gotta get hold of some Patrick Rothfuss, it's the only thing I've ever read that can be legitimately compared to Tolkien
 
GOD HERE

GOD HERE

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I've been trying to get through Kurt Vonnegut's books for about a year, pretty hit or miss. I read more non fiction than not.
 
BeefSupreme

BeefSupreme

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Anyone read those Redwall books? I never actually finished one, but they were good reads from what I remember.
 
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joe macclennan

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I used to read Alot! Probably have close to a thousand books in my library. Only read one author anymore. R.A. Salvatore. Specifically his dark elf related series'. In fact I just crushed his new book the other day in less than 24 hrs:)



 
Siren.

Siren.

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Hello CHZBURGERWALRUS :-D
I lovvvve to read. I just started Brain on Fire and it's pretty good. "A gripping memoir and medical suspense story about a young New York Post reporter’s struggle with a rare and terrifying disease, opening a new window into the fascinating world of brain science."
I also like Stephen King and true crime books.
Snow Blind is a good (fiction) book about a cocaine smuggler.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy is really good. Highly recommend.
 
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dwight smokum

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i'm an avid reader of local history,biographies,etc...have only read one book of fiction and that was in school. white fang by jack london. mark twain,steinbeck, kerouac,few of my favorites . have always been more interested in the writers actual life than what he wrote. like to see where all that came from..one of these days i'm gonna read a good novel. dickens,a tale of two cities maybe.
 
2paranoid

2paranoid

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I'm reading kurt vonnegut 'armageddon in retrospect'. I like reading short stories, I like Raymond Carver a lot as well.
 
wascaptain

wascaptain

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i only read if i had to, never for pleasure really. i do have 2 books i read most , nightmare memyous , and the forgotten solider .
 
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ultraviolet pirate

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reading is awesome..i feel bad for folks who cant get into it...I love science fiction and horror. heinlen, asimov, Bradbury, and hp lovecraft are good.
 
kinetic

kinetic

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Sadhana: The Realization of Life by Rabindranath Tagore is a book that changed my life. I found an original 1911 copy at my grandmothers when I was 18 and read it.
The Four Noble Truths by Lobsang Gyatso is something I continue to pick up after reading it. When I was younger I read and enjoyed the Dragon Lance Chronicles.

Also Kill the Indian Save the Man The Genocidal Impact of Residential Schools by Ward Churchill and Basic Call to Consciousness published by Akwesasnee Notes.
 
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