Good books

[zen_rider]

What's some good books you guys have read?

A few of my favorites:

Life of Pi
Long Walk to Freedom - by Nelson Mandela
Touching the Void - Joe Simpson
Ape to Superspecies - David Suzuki

forgot the title but it was about rubin carter

[Big Red]

Everthing by Irvine Welsh, he wrote Trainspotting amongst others. :shock:

www.irvinewelsh.com/index.php

[ruthlessgirl]

i read lotsa travel books - bill bryson's good for them. I recently read some more of Bryce Courtenay (Power of One...etc).

right now i'm just starting the marla streb downhill book...

after i finished uni i didn't know how to read normal books (instead of textbooks) but I've got the hang of it again now, which is kidna nice cuz i gotta lotta time on my hands ot waste.

[ona rampage]

Started reading fingerprints of the gods, looking at history and re-writing it (cant remember the author). Very interesting book.

[LordNikon]

Recently re-read the "Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy" series...

That's worth a mention.

Or anything by Hunter S Thompson is good, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

[n00b]

Michael Moore - Stupid White Men, Dude wheres my country?

[stinky|dan]

anything by noam chomsky (currently: hegemony or survival)
EVERYTHING by Henry Rollins; eye scream, see a grown man cry, solipsist, get in the van.
motley crue: THE DIRT -crazy stuff
matt hoffman's book.
tony hawk's book.

[ruthlessgirl]

isn't chomsky the lingusitics guy? I think i read him at uni...

[stinky|dan]

yep, he's a world renowned linguistics expert as well as an amazing writer on international politics. If you're into finding out how the world really works in a no-bullshit fashion then get onto some of his stuff or check http://www.zmag.org/weluser.htm, which is an awesome chomsky reference.

[RCOH]

The Narnia Chronicles - C S Lewis
Alice In Wonderland/Through The Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
Vernon God Little - D B C Pierre
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
The Shining - Stephen King

As well as everything everyone else has said (but i haven't read any Noam Chomsky)

Can't wait for the film of 'The Dirt' !!!!

[nicklouse]

terry pratchet's disc world books.

[CHEWY]

Micheal Connely's Boshe series
Hemingway - For Whom The Bell Tolls
The hitchhikers guide series
Red Dwarf - grant Naylor
Catch 22 - Hellar
The Forgotten soldier - Guy Sajer - BEST book I've ever read.
Read countless war books, by far my favorite genre...

[wombat]

Like LN said, The Hitchhiker's series: by far my favourite books, if you like them check out The two Dirk Gently books. Douglas Adams is my hero.
Catch 22 by Joesph Heller (I love satire soooo much). I enjoyed Tim Winton's Cloudstreet too for something a little different.

terry pratchet's disc world books.

the computer game was funky too :D

[CHEWY]

oh, and PAPILON of course!
Mash was a great one too, by Richard Hooker

[Tomas]

Disc World was THE best game ever.... Was his name rincewind or summink, cant remember. Michael Moore's book are a good read.

[zen_rider]

forgot the title but it was about rubin carter

The Hurricane?

Yeah I read that book a while ago - that dood is made of iron mentally.

I recently read Henry Rollin's 'Portable Rollins' (i think?) which is a collection of some of his best.

Culture Jam by Kalle Lasn is an interesting read too.

[Rexy]

the tommorow series im assuming everyone here has read it?

[CHEWY]

Oh!! And James Harriot ( I think thats him) the guy who wrote about all his country vetinearian experiances. Those are the best books!

[parallax]

I'm reading 'The Bourne Identity' at the moment. - nothing like the film and a cool book about assassins etc.

+ the latest issue of AMB

[Cronar]

- A Scanner Darkly
- UBIK
- VALIS
all written by Philip K. Dick

+ anything by Kerouac or Hunter S. Thompson

Also,
- The Blindmans Hat
- Snowdome
from Aussie writer Bernard Cohen

[Tomas]

+ the latest issue of AMB

You can read that in 30mins... Thats reading ALL the articles and having a quick wank over squids fly...

[parallax]

damn bike porn.

[dunk]

Perfume - Patrick Suskind - one of my favourite books ever
Kidwrangling - Kathy Lette - My bible at the monment.
Barnetts Manual - the best bike book ever

[Mahoney_007]

Shit reading, havnt done that since they invented the net!!!

Anyways Dean Koontz has some killer books.

[ruthlessgirl]

hey the hurricane - they filmed that movie like 20 min from my house!

Last book i finished was Chopper - friend from there sent it to me...

[schmook]

WILLIAM GIBSON.

[fuzzydice]

Anything by Douglas Adams. The man is a genius.

[wombat]

was a genius.......:cry:

[nicklouse]

read the "Salmon of doubt"?

[Emmett]

Books i have read in the last month or so that are worth mentioning

Voltaire- Candide and Zadig.
Thomas More- Utopia. (This is the best book I have ever read)
Aldous Huxley- The Doors of Perception, Heaven and Hell.
George Orwell- Collected essays volume two, essay number one.

As Big Red said, anything by Irvine Welsh is good for some entertainment. I just bought a copy of "Porno" (by Irvine Welsh) which i look forward to reading.

[Maggot]

The Amityville Horror-Jay Anson
The best thing was that it actually happened :shock: . w00t.

[LordNikon]

Sure have nicklouse...

Loved it.

[zac]

-discworld
-brian lumley's necroscope series (gory, gory shit)
-the bourne series (identity, ultimatum, and the other one that i can never remember)
-the nicholas linnear series by eric van lustbader (ninja, the miko, etc)
-the exorcist & legion
-from hell by alan moore (i suppose it's a comic, but apparently it was nominated for a booker prize or something)
-the sharpe, starbuck and grail quest novels by bernard cornwell
-space odyssey and sequels by arthur c clarke
-naked lunch by william s burroughs (this is the wierdest book i have ever read)
-the preacher series (again comics, but farkin strange and absolutely brilliant, though not recommended for devout christians - yay for blasphemy!)
-matthew reilly's books, but only the ones before (not including) area 7 and only if there's nothing else to read

that's about all i can think of at the moment

[Gonzo]

Has anybody read

The Immortal Class: Bike Messengers and the Cult of Human Power

I saw it on my despatches desk one day and was wondering if it was any good.

[shauno]

all the tomrrow when the war began books by jhon marsden are cooool.

[Maggot]

shaun, you had to read them! bloody school.

[®ider]

Michael Moore - Stupid White Men, Dude wheres my country?

best!!!

[n00b]

Ahhh.. without people like Mike and the likes of mad magazine and movies like clerks to warp my mind I might actually have a positive world view.........Nahhhhhhh what am I thinking

[zen_rider]

'7 years in tibet' - awesome

'tears of blood; a cry for tibet' - depressing, but enlightening, especially when you consider that beijing is hosting the olympics in 2008 - the big circus triumphing the ideals of humanity