Books... What are you reading? And what do you recommend?

Carne Seca

Carne Seca

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Urca said:
I read it when i was 14 and cried for an hour. It was good. I love to read. I have so many books, and i like reading the classics too, i was a huge fan of the secret garden when i was a little kid, and also I learned all of the greek myths, read sophocles (when i was a freshman. I read Ajax, Oedipus Rex, and Antigone) I love reading shakespeare too. love macbeth, one of the best stories ever told, and I liked Taming of the Shrew. I read lots of celtic, norse, and egyptian myths.
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My favorite Shakespeare play is Twelfth Night. :)

In my opinion that was his greatest work.
 
RyanTheRhino

RyanTheRhino

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Winter Woman said:
Sounds like a good book for the Library (the restroom). Sometimes I spend so much time in there my legs go numb, I get a little too engrossed and can't stop. Reading I mean. ;-)
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I hope you have a calculator in there its not to simple of a book. Still very interesting
 
Urca

Urca

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Not very much, i just know that Journey to west is important in the chinese canon so i want to read it

if i can plug my way through old man and the sea, i got this. I hate the russian authors btw. off topic but its true
 
Urca

Urca

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to kill a mockingbird sucks ass. just saying

and im reading it now carne... lol you may be right
 
Winter Woman

Winter Woman

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Nah, never did read Shakespeare, well, only what I had to and then I quickly forgot it. Kinda like chemistry. Well, until I needed chemistry for college.

Years ago I read Nakoa's Woman that book made the rounds. I was surprised when I found out my friends men were reading it. It got to the point it fell apart. It leaves you hanging and we all had a different ending. Good, good book. It is has the Blackfoot Indians culture as it's backdrop.

Urca said:
I read it when i was 14 and cried for an hour. It was good. I love to read. I have so many books, and i like reading the classics too, i was a huge fan of the secret garden when i was a little kid, and also I learned all of the greek myths, read sophocles (when i was a freshman. I read Ajax, Oedipus Rex, and Antigone) I love reading shakespeare too. love macbeth, one of the best stories ever told, and I liked Taming of the Shrew. I read lots of celtic, norse, and egyptian myths.
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Urca

Urca

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lol if you can find me a pdf of the canterbury tales or macbeth i will love you forever
 
MrStickyScissors

MrStickyScissors

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I read alot of books in prison. my favorite author is greg isles. blood memory, 24 hours, turning angel where a couple gud ones. also bag of bones is a great book.
 
RyanTheRhino

RyanTheRhino

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MrStickyScissors said:
I read alot of books in prison. my favorite author is greg isles. blood memory, 24 hours, turning angel where a couple gud ones. also bag of bones is a great book.
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haha my buddy was telling me people would get into fights over books because there where only a few in the library. you had to give them back each night and it was first come first serve in the morning, but sometimes the guy who started reading it the day before would get cut off.
 
Steve French

Steve French

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Had to think for a while about what to reccommend. I decided to go with what is possibly my favourite book, the Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas. It actually flows at a good pace compared to most of the classics, and it seems like it contains everything I enjoy in a good novel. Action, adventure, romance, political intrigue, people chopping each other up with swords. Couldn't put that fucker down.

I second the Great Gatsby.

Currently reading the short stories of Ernest Hemingway myself. The last book I finished was The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini for an english class. Was surprisingly pretty damn good, got through all of it in one sitting. Before that, With the Old Breed by Eugene Sledge, an autobiography of a mortarman in the marines during World War II who fought at Peleliu and Okinawa. It was used as one of the sources for that HBO show The Pacific (which is also very good). Really makes you feel like you are there, or at the least gives you a good understanding of what the grunts went through.

Another one of my favorites is In Dubious Battle, by John Steinbeck. Everything I've read by him is great actually.
 
ganjames

ganjames

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MrStickyScissors said:
I read alot of books in prison. my favorite author is greg isles. blood memory, 24 hours, turning angel where a couple gud ones. also bag of bones is a great book.
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I read salem's lot, dean koontz intensity, and about half of the saga of darren shan books when I was locked up.
 
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