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GTLive	Date: October 16, 2004 @ 12:53 PM Just finishing up Greg Iles The Footprints Of God, gonna move over to Peter Straub Lost Boy, Lost Girl next.
dicktruth	Date: October 16, 2004 @ 4:19 PM Band of Brothers is sooo good, even better than the TV show which is the best thing I have ever watched
moam	Date: October 16, 2004 @ 5:57 PM The Twelfth Garfield Fat Cat 3 Pack Good stuff
sinai	Date: October 16, 2004 @ 8:49 PM Lies and the Lying Liars by Al Franken
chrismacmanus	Date: October 17, 2004 @ 2:05 PM 'The Island of the Day Before' by Umberto Eco is a must - it's a lot easier to read than his others, but he covers just about every topic in that novel, it's one of my all time faves. John Connolly's series of Charlie Parker (not the sax player) books are great ones to get hooked on
mtekk	Date: October 17, 2004 @ 8:58 PM '1984' is great 'Catch-22' was good 'Devil's code' was a great listen on CD, looks like a even beter read.
GTLive	Date: October 17, 2004 @ 11:24 PM Not fiction but always recommended by GT: The Gift Of Fear by Gavin DeBecker.
hueseph	Date: October 18, 2004 @ 4:00 AM http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/ I didn't post that link. So when the FBI come knocin', it wasn't me.
Woof	Date: October 18, 2004 @ 4:04 AM In a word, no... I haven't read a good book in quite awhile... Although I recommend "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence", anything Vonnegut wrote prior to "Jailbird", Ernst Becker's "Denial Of Death" (a good read, even if you don't agree with him... most folks don't), and Warhol's "Philosophy of Andy Warhol; From A to B and Back Again"
hueseph	Date: October 18, 2004 @ 4:17 AM Interesting that 5 minutes of grammar a day could be so abhorent that it had to be tossed as a part of pulic school curriculum.
Dexter	Date: October 18, 2004 @ 7:00 AM And The Ass Saw The Angel by Nick Cave. As dark and disturbing as his music at its best.
silverwolf121	Date: October 20, 2004 @ 11:44 AM Hate to admit it but Harry Potter and the Order of the Phonix was real good
Etheracide	Date: October 22, 2004 @ 8:29 PM I am currently reading Dean Koontz's From The Corner Of His Eye. I am loving it. I love all of his books. I still have By The Moonlight and One Door Away From Heaven to read after this one.
GTLive	Date: October 22, 2004 @ 8:34 PM From The Corner Of His Eye is the one with Bartholomew? That is a GREAT book! The first one I read was Whispers. One Door away From Heaven is incredible also! I read all his stuff, another good one is Lightning! Hell they're ALL good.
victorsskull	Date: October 22, 2004 @ 11:31 PM green eggs and ham dude was smokin weed when he wrote that
GTLive	Date: October 23, 2004 @ 12:04 AM Would he smoke it in a box? Would he smoke it with a fox? Would he smoke it here or there? Would he smoke it anywhere? I do not smoke Green Weed at all I do not smoke it, Victor Skull!
Cryxan	Date: October 23, 2004 @ 5:43 AM All I've been reading lately are Star Trek novels. Ones worthy of mention are Sanctuary by John Vornholt, The Three Minute Universe by Barbara Paul, and Memory Prime by Judith and Gar Reeves-Stevens. The latter was great, but at the end I reeeeeally wanted it to go on for another hundred pages to explore some of the characters more. And just last night I started rereading, for the umteenth time, my favorite book of all time, Uhura's Song by Janet Kagan.
DeltaF86	Date: October 25, 2004 @ 12:24 AM I just read "Notes From the Underground" by Fydor Dostoevsky It was SO GOOD.
DeltaF86	Date: October 25, 2004 @ 12:25 AM You can get many many classics for free in ebook form by the way: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/ebooklist.html
GTLive	Date: December 8, 2004 @ 3:48 AM Wow how can this thread be allowed to die in this literate century of ours? Just finished Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins. Awesome when you are in the right frame of mind. I am now reading Lost Boy, Lost Girl by Peter Straub. I'm only like 20 pages into it but it seems to be doing the trick so far. Soon as I'm done with this I'm gonna revisit Jerzy Kosinski. It's been awhile, I think he was alive last time I read any of his stuph.
zedsalt	Date: December 8, 2004 @ 11:03 AM Yeah, Gary, Iles is a genius! I read "Spandau Phoenix" and "Body of Evidence" in a day each (Never let it be said that incarceration is ABSOLUTELY worthless). Al Franken's work always serves to calm and center me. Hey, Woof, had you read the sequel to "Zen...", "Lila"? I highly recommend it. Another recommendation: "Forbidden Archaeology". It's not a fast read, but it's FASCINATING!
moam	Date: December 8, 2004 @ 11:17 AM ICP - Behind the Paint Book written by the Jay himself
djfacemachine	Date: December 9, 2004 @ 12:58 PM i just finished the davinci code. i was completely fascinated by it. especially going on the intarweb afterwards and actually looking at some of the artwork that was refered to... incredible. creepy. awesome book though. if you haven't read it, get it today.
Hlao-roo	Date: December 10, 2004 @ 2:28 PM One of my all time favorite books was "Watership Down" by I think Adams... I love that book. I also like the Ender series, and I don't remember who wrote those... Pick them up, they are the awesomest books ever!
redrasta	Date: December 10, 2004 @ 2:33 PM I loved the Assassin Trilogy by Robin Hobbs. Fave book hasta be Imajica by Clive Barker. OOh, and Weaveworld by same. Cant beat Stephen King or CliveBarker for me....or failing that, any Asimov
freddemillio	Date: December 11, 2004 @ 4:45 PM Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith La Rencontre by Françoise Rey Io Uccido by Giorgio Faletti
mudshadow	Date: January 9, 2005 @ 6:44 PM yeah, my freaking Zoom MRS 1266 Digital Recording Studio owners' manual
AngelinHeat	Date: January 11, 2005 @ 1:19 AM Zen Guitar. If you're a spiritual type person, it works wonders on your perspective on playing guitar, and any instrument really.
AdilC	Date: January 19, 2005 @ 6:36 AM "Fruits from the tree of life" Wonderful book detailing how ignorant godless people are.
Omnipotent12	Date: January 19, 2005 @ 8:13 AM "Earth Abide" by George R. Stewart. I read this in high school. Its about how some disease can wipe out everything in this world but the human race. Suddenly, one man (the narrator) hasn't been infected by this disease and willing to see how the rebirth of civilization can occur. Its a crazy book...but I shall recommend it lol.
onewhodreams	Date: January 19, 2005 @ 10:50 AM "Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold and I just found out that Peter Jackson (Director for the Lord of The Rings Movies) will be making this book into a movie after he finishes King Kong!!
MCCUBED	Date: January 20, 2005 @ 12:45 AM THE ELEGANT UNIVERSE FROM BRIAN GREENE
ryanwilliams	Date: January 20, 2005 @ 11:37 AM Mary Roach. A little morbid, yes, but quite interesting. " id="124815">Currently working on Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach. A little morbid, yes, but quite interesting.
wailingmiserere	Date: January 20, 2005 @ 12:37 PM 'Antartic Navigation' by Elizabeth Arthur. Just a massive, epic, masterpiece of a novel, beautifully written. It's hard to explain what it's about. Basically it's a fictional autobiography of a women who has a strange obsession with Robert Falcon Scott (the English explorer who died in his attempt to reach the South Pole) and who decides to put together her own Antartic expedition. But that's just the plot, it's about so much more than that. I can't recommend it enough. It must be about 800 pages long, but I never, ever wanted it to end. I love Iain Banks too. 'The Wasp Factory' is one of my favourites, for sheer twisted imagination and black comedy.
ChaosSurfer	Date: January 20, 2005 @ 2:57 PM Ah, I have to agree with OneWhoDreams, "The Lovely Bones" is a beautiful, tragic, heartwarming and gripping read. Can't imagine it as a movie but there won't be a dry eye in the house. Everyone should read this book.
leplume	Date: January 29, 2005 @ 3:34 PM Ummm...I just reread a classic...To Kill A Mockingbird. Highly recommend it if you haven't read it.
blacklieder	Date: January 29, 2005 @ 6:02 PM After all the cool boks aforementioned, I may never sleep again... I just finished Caleb Carr's "Killing Time," and it wasn't bad. Alan Moore's "Watchmen", although a bit dated, gives me comfort. Crichton's "Prey" and "Timeline" were good to me. Steve Martin's "Pure Drivel", aaaaand... "Confessions of a Record Producer" by Moses Avalon
Dexter	Date: January 29, 2005 @ 6:03 PM I'm currently reading Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas. An "invigorating" read to say the least
zedsalt	Date: January 30, 2005 @ 11:00 AM Hunter S. Thompson RULES. I had the pleasure of seeing him on his speaking tour for "A Generation of Swine". In grand HST fashion, he was travelling college campuses to promote a book that bemoaned the state of that crop of college students. He had a clause in his contract which obliged the schools to provide him with cigars and a fifth of whiskey. He opened the bottle at the start of his "speech", and by the end, it was about an inch and a half from empty. I haven't been insulted in such an entertaining manner before or since.
koiulpoi	Date: January 30, 2005 @ 7:51 PM The Four Agreements. I recommend it highly.

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