Sinternet: Favourite book?

CapnJizz 08.18.15	I don't read as much as I used to but probably a toss up between We by Yevgeny Zamyatin and Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
puntugruhm 08.18.15	so godamn hard but im gonna say women by charles bukowski, hunger by knut hamsun, and fear and trembling by soren kierkegaard are some favorites.
treeqt. 08.18.15	literature is an inferior medium and should be banned
hikingmetalpunk 08.18.15	1984
TheMagicalBlender 08.18.15	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Prima Guide
tom79 08.18.15	probably the brothers karamazov if I had to pick one. or east of eden. "hunger by knut hamsun" great book as well
Sinternet 08.18.15	@treeqt. pls kil urself
theBoneyKing 08.18.15	Probably The Lord of the Rings Tbh I found The Children of Húrin boring. The short version in The Silmarillion was better.
BeeRyan 08.18.15	ayoooooo arcade Pale King is unbelievable, as is just about all DFW. i honestly think TPK could have been better than IJ had it been finished
Calc 08.18.15	house of leaves IQ84 Night Watch i'm currently reading 300,000,000 and man it's graphic....very interesting and creepy read if not a little verbose and pretentious with its constant run-on sentences meant to convey how crazy one of the character's thoughts are
RoundOnEndHiInMiddle 08.18.15	honestly, it would probably have to be watership down by richard adams. don't quite know why, but the whole mythology of the book and the parallels it draws to real-life governments and regimes is really appealing to me. haven't seen the movie though
Rsetness9 08.18.15	The Wind in the Willows Your #3 is in my top 5.
AlexKzillion 08.18.15	Probably the novelization of Revenge of the Sith, so much more depth then the movie. EDIT: I really don't do too much reading unless it's for school.
BeeRyan 08.18.15	House of leaves, 2666, and any DFW fiction are my favs. Also Jurassic park and times arrow and watchmen
zaruyache 08.18.15	Impossible question but um I guess Game of Thrones/A Sword of Swords Dune Baphomet's Agony Catch-22 Hyperion Les Miserables (abridged version) or something like that
TheGreatQ 08.18.15	A Game of Thrones Catch-22 'Salem's Lot The Cobra Event but idk it's really hard to choose
RogueNine 08.18.15	A Prayer for Owen Meany. Either that or something by Jack London.
Supercoolguy64 08.18.15	goosebumps books
DrMaximus 08.18.15	what's a book
RogueNine 08.18.15	Admittedly, I don't read anymore either, but those come to mind.
BlackLlama 08.18.15	Anything with Jim Butcher's name on it.
Lord(e)Po)))ts 08.18.15	house of leaves
Havey 08.18.15	THE WAVES (PHILIP ARE YOU SEEING THIS)
ConcubinaryCode 08.18.15	Brave New World
Winesburgohio 08.18.15	HAVEY YOU SON-OF-A-BITCH i am smiling like a loon rn, i expect an email with in-depth analysis post-haste
Winesburgohio 08.18.15	As 4 me: The Recognitions or Cannery Row or The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles or Swann's Way argh fuck this is hard
Deathconscious 08.18.15	1984 is probably my favorite book on its own. The Dark Tower is my favorite series.
zaruyache 08.18.15	Welp, just put most of these on my wishlist and bought cheap used copies of american gods/ringworld/the forever war/time's arrow/the pale king thx guys
Sinternet 08.18.15	Ooh lots of good ones and a few I have to check out too. @Calc I just looked up 300,000,000 and it sounds really good so I'll have to put that on my reading queue.
BeeRyan 08.18.15	@Zaruyache it gets me so hype to see you ordering two of my favorite books. i read Times arrow on two plane rides, it's p short and readable, really great read
DoctorDoom 08.18.15	Don Quixote
Clumseee 08.18.15	Less Than Zero
Winesburgohio 08.18.15	The Pale King is the tits, just as good as Infinite Jest in many ways although i mean let's not be ridiculous
Riviere 08.18.15	Le Chants de Maldoror
Riviere 08.18.15	"goosebumps books" Which ones in particular? The haunted school and Legend of the Lost Legend are my favorites.
Lambda 08.18.15	Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden and The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway
Balerion 08.18.15	I'm reading Blood Meridian right now and it's p sweet.
ZombicidalMan 08.18.15	probably Murakami's A Wild Sheep Chase. Norwegian Wood was also my first read of his, but I loved the weird mystery of AWSC. I just grabbed the recent translation of Wind/Pinball, can't wait to read it
Ovrot 08.18.15	Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo Neuromancer by William Gibson Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes I don't do much reading though.
Winesburgohio 08.18.15	best translation is original translation zombicidal man TRACK IT DOWN like the new one is still mean but
Rowan5215 08.18.15	The Road, American Gods, Secret History are probably my favourites
Cimnele 08.18.15	harlan ellison "deathbird stories" very good short stories all to do with terrible little demigods we've invented out of weakness
zakalwe 08.18.15	Lord of the Flies Under the Volcano Catch 22 The Stand The Power of One A Confederacy of Dunces Flowers for Algernon (nice choice ovrot, classic) 1984 The Beach Birdsong Pillars of the Earth Lord of the Rings To Kill a Mockingbird Cloud Atlas The Wind Up Bird Chronicle Consider Phlebas But me number 1 is Use of Weapons
Rowan5215 08.18.15	Lord of the Flies is rubbish but good picks I guess dude
zakalwe 08.18.15	I used to think it was shite when I was your age rowbro. It's an absolute classic.
Rowan5215 08.18.15	There's a solid idea and behind it and one of the best scenes of all time (Simon talking to the severed pig head) but holy hell it has a lot of absolute wank in it
zakalwe 08.18.15	Row it was written in the '50s when such unspiffy behaviour would have had you flogged and buggered. Book is wizard and is an absolute rip snorting tale of innocence lost by jingo
zakalwe 08.18.15	House of Leaves is the definition of wasted paper. Total drivel spouted by some bell end at college who thinks he's the shit but is obviously a total wanker. On the Russian girl front I slept with a ruskie prostitute once, it was a soul destroying experience, a part of me died inside......highly recommended.
Rowan5215 08.18.15	Agreed badly written horribly characterised children running around for like 200 pages before something finally happens > the most creative book of our time
Aftertheascension 08.18.15	literature is an inferior medium and should be bannedliterature is an inferior medium and should be bannedliterature is an inferior medium and should be bannedliterature is an inferior medium and should be bannedliterature is an inferior medium and should be bannedliterature is an inferior medium and should be bannedliterature is an inferior medium and should be bannedliterature is an inferior medium and should be bannedliterature is an inferior medium and should be bannedliterature is an inferior medium and should be bannedliterature is an inferior medium and should be bannedliterature is an inferior medium and should be banned
NorthernSkylark 08.18.15	carson mccullers - the heart is a lonely hunter
Piglet 08.18.15	Owl city - Ocean Eyes
SCREAM! 08.18.15	All 7 Harry Potters m/
Keyblade 08.18.15	man i wish i could find a reasonably priced box set. i'd read all them joints all over again. good times
Artuma 08.18.15	"Right now I'm really into the process of getting Artuma to like me again" "again"?
theBoneyKing 08.18.15	Aftertheascension is an inferior user and should be banned Aftertheascension is an inferior user and should be banned Aftertheascension is an inferior user and should be banned Aftertheascension is an inferior user and should be banned Aftertheascension is an inferior user and should be banned Aftertheascension is an inferior user and should be banned Aftertheascension is an inferior user and should be banned Aftertheascension is an inferior user and should be banned Aftertheascension is an inferior user and should be banned Aftertheascension is an inferior user and should be banned Aftertheascension is an inferior user and should be banned Aftertheascension is an inferior user and should be banned
Mort. 08.18.15	For whom the bell tolls - hemingway
Mort. 08.18.15	or the sirens of titan - vonnegut
SCREAM! 08.18.15	"man i wish i could find a reasonably priced box set. i'd read all them joints all over again. good times" Tell me about it. That boxset where all the books line up and make a picture of Hogwarts is so nice
guitarded_chuck 08.18.15	hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy trilogy
SCREAM! 08.18.15	but there are 5 books in that series?^^(great series though)
insanedrexl1 08.18.15	The Hunchback Of Notre-Dame
guitarded_chuck 08.18.15	THE TRILOGY OF FOUR
GuanoBumbershoot 08.18.15	I don't know about my favourite, but I just finished The Circle by Dave Eggers. It's worth a read for anyone who's into Orwell, Huxley, or has strong opinions/interested about the potential of mass surveillance. Guess if I had to pick, I'd go with Necronomicon by H.P. Lovecraft. Always up for reading a couple of his shorts.
theBoneyKing 08.18.15	I need to read more Lovecraft
DikkoZinner 08.18.15	The Count of Monte Cristo
YetAnotherBrick 08.18.15	Naked Lunch Slaughterhouse-Five Portnoy's Complaint A Clockwork Orange One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest The Maltese Falcon I'm almost done with Catch-22 too and yeah it's fucking amazing
Strider 08.18.15	I'm on a Storm of Swords right now, I'll get back to you when I finish it
bakkermaarten007 08.18.15	"Brave New World " [2] Starting with a new book is always a very hard part for me to do. I feel like truly committing to something lengthy is much harder when every other article or blogpost is within reach by the tap of a finger or the click of a mouse.
dbizzles 08.18.15	I always thought Catcher in the Rye was my favorite, but I honestly haven't read it in over 5 years and I was 22 back then, so who knows. The Old Man and the Sea is probably up there for me now and I really dug The Snows of Kilimanjaro. I'm more into graphic novels and comics these days. Alan Moore is probably my favorite author at the moment.
InFlamesWeThrash666 08.18.15	The Book Of Souls
EyesWideShut 08.18.15	Ham On Rye but i really liked Lunar Park and The End of Alice too.
Sinternet 08.18.15	^^^ I used to feel that way, but I learnt that 'friends' I don't want to see at college will avoid me if I'm reading so now i do it all the time.
SharkTooth 08.18.15	Catch-22 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest The Three Musketeers A Confederacy of Dunces 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Lord of the Flies sucks and I know that Harper Lee wrote a sequel to To Kill A Mockingbird, but how good is it?
zakalwe 08.18.15	The irony, passage of innocence lost, inherent evil, politics, childhood and the themes of freedom explored in Flies is brilliant. The ending is fucking amazing. I read it at school when I was 12 and like everything with any depth it was wasted on me at the time.
Rowan5215 08.18.15	it's not a sequel, it was an unpublished work that was originally meant to be published in its place and her editor told her to write a story based off the flashbacks in the book which later became To Kill a Mockingbird. So yea Mockingbird is techically the prequel not the other way round
JWT155 08.18.15	A Random Walk Down Wallstreet by Burton Malkiel, fantastic Finance book.
VheissuCrisis 08.18.15	To Kill A Mockingbird Shadow of the Wind Neverwhere My top 3, will take something special to break in.
Sinternet 08.18.15	I haven't yet bought Go Set A Watchman, but it's had mixed reviews so I'm not sure whether I want to.
Trebor. 08.18.15	storm of swords
Let 08.18.15	Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciones (fav story - The Library of Babel) Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (omnibus) Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five Currently reading A Confederacy of Dunces and its awesome
Muppelope 08.18.15	Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Winesburgohio 08.18.15	have any of u cunts read vonnegut and where the hell do i start
dbizzles 08.18.15	I like some Vonnegut. I really enjoyed God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. I could not get through Slaughterhouse-Five. Vonnegut is weird.
BandNewbac 08.18.15	in search of schrödinger's cat tbh
rodigo1 08.18.15	this is a good thread. i need to read more. currently on dfw bender. super intrigued by harlan ellison i think ill check out deathbed stories next. but only after steinbeck's travels with charley, which i am obligated to read because a pretty girl gave it to me. cool.
Sinternet 08.19.15	^ A pretty girl got me into Murakami, so it usually ends up well in that situation.
beefshoes 08.19.15	Green eggs and ham
zaruyache 08.19.15	"and I know that Harper Lee wrote a sequel to To Kill A Mockingbird, but how good is it?" I'm reading The Water Knife right now (it's also really good btw), but Watchman is sitting on my bookshelf taunting me. Gonna hit it up next. Might report back here if I remember.
Winesburgohio 08.19.15	i'm reading travels w/ charley too uwu go set a watchman is SO BaD it's like the first draft of an average novel
YetAnotherBrick 08.19.15	"I could not get through Slaughterhouse-Five." don't even know what to say to this
zaruyache 08.19.15	I loved Slaughterhouse-Five. It's goofy and weird but makes me feel so powerless about life.
dbizzles 08.19.15	Brick, it's my shit attention span. I can get bored easily reading. Not his fault.
Trebor. 08.19.15	The first chapter of Slaughterhouse-Five is 100 times better than the rest of the book
Rowan5215 08.19.15	Cat's Cradle aye
SIMBOLIC 08.19.15	The Shadow of the Wind rules dick 5eva
Asdfp277 08.19.15	Todos los fuegos el fuego, La tregua, Cien años de soledad, John Dies at the End (yeah I don't read a lot tbh)
YetAnotherBrick 08.19.15	"Brick, it's my shit attention span. I can get bored easily reading. Not his fault." okay but that book is some of the clearest and funniest literature i've ever read. it's like it was written by a genius child or something. "The first chapter of Slaughterhouse-Five is 100 times better than the rest of the book " yeah except not really tho. everything ties together
dbizzles 08.19.15	It's such a short book, maybe I should give it another go.
YetAnotherBrick 08.19.15	i think that'd be a great idea
Trebor. 08.19.15	I'm not saying it doesn't tie together, I just find the first chapter more interesting than the rest of the book I could read a whole book of Vonnegut writing about himself
Happy2review 08.19.15	Cat's Cradle, Catcher in the Rye, Ready Player One. I couldn't get through chapter 3 of Catch-22. Don't see what all the hype is about.
Let 08.19.15	"I could read a whole book of Vonnegut writing about himself" Well Timequake is kinda like that
zaruyache 08.19.15	The point of Catch-22 comes at the end when you realize what the book's really about. Without getting far into it you'll just be reading an out-of-order borderline absurdist WWII book that makes no sense imo. I liked how goofy it was tho so that made it easier to sit through for me.
Happy2review 08.19.15	I know you shouldn't judge a novel until you've finished it. The black humor on Catch-22 just doesn't work for me. Which is weird, because I find black comedy entertaining in other works like Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove" or Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle". Maybe those are just the exceptions for me.
Tunaboy45 08.24.15	Trainspotting Filth Jane Eyre is good too
Tunaboy45 08.24.15	Marabou Stork Nightmares is criminally underrated but I think Filth might just be my favourite, for that sucker punch of an ending.
Ryus 08.24.15	the road, confederacy of dunces, idk
Let 08.24.15	Woah I'm reading both right now. Are you me? If that's the case there can only be one of us. We have to settle this somehow.
YetAnotherBrick 08.24.15	"I couldn't get through chapter 3 of Catch-22. Don't see what all the hype is about. " well, it's probably one of the best-written books ever. every character and every line have some kind of bitter, hilarious irony to them. and it's pretty amazing how clear it can be if you're in the right mindset. don't think of it so much as a "story" as just a collection of hilarious satirical scenes. i mean, some things stay around, like the deaths of some characters and whatnot, but mostly you can get away with thinking about it like that haha
YetAnotherBrick 08.24.15	"I'm not saying it doesn't tie together, I just find the first chapter more interesting than the rest of the book" interesting. i mean, i can see why someone would think that, but the first chapter is so clearly there to set up the rest of the book i just a have a hard time seeing how someone could see them so separately
Alastor 08.24.15	anyone here into paul auster? most of his work is brilliant, especially city of glass.
NorthernSkylark 08.24.15	was very much into auster some years ago, my fave is still moon palace. it's kinda fucked up.
NorthernSkylark 08.24.15	also, ending of a farewell to arms destroyed me mentally yesterday.
Zig 08.24.15	James Joyce's Ulysses.
YetAnotherBrick 08.24.15	^ this. haven't finished it yet, but jesus christ... it's like a new language
Alastor 08.24.15	@northern: moon palace is great. probably in my top 3 auster, together with Mr. Vertigo. Another favourite of mine would be Baudolino by Umberto Eco, highly recommended.
Ryus 08.25.15	"Woah I'm reading both right now. Are you me? If that's the case there can only be one of us. We have to settle this somehow." we can both coexist peacefully, friend ~
Let 08.25.15	Do you carry the fire?
Parallels 08.25.15	hands down Anne Sexton's The Complete Poems
TooLateToGoBack 08.25.15	The Road
deadcrown 08.25.15	whats a book
NorthernSkylark 08.25.15	Let@ do you really prefer her over plath??
Sinternet 08.25.15	Plath and Stevie Smith have to be the best female poets of all time.
omnipanzer 08.25.15	Dances With Wolves Lilith's Brood Dune +48 The Four Lords of the Diamond His Dark Materials The Asia Saga The Incarnations of Immortality The Apprentice Adept A Song of Fire and Ice Harry Potter
omnipanzer 08.25.15	^ all but the first are series
BlueW 08.25.15	for murakami i'm a big fan of sputnik sweetheart
omnipanzer 08.25.15	What the fuck are you talking about Arcade?
omnipanzer 08.25.15	"Dune is better as an overblown Lynch film" So you think one of the greatest sci-fi books ever written is better as a middling sci-fi movie with a large cult following? Statistically I'm being kind here because I love this move as a fanboy but the move was a failure. Have you read it?
omnipanzer 08.25.15	Agreed, It has his bullshit leftover Star Wars shit in it for gods sake... Sting is a sexy bitch though! edit
omnipanzer 08.25.15	Kenneth McMillan as Harkonnen always made me feel skeeved out. those face boils and crap were not from the book, they were supposed to be for emperor palpatine.
SCREAM! 08.25.15	any of you fools have goodreads accounts?
Sinternet 08.25.15	I haven't read 1Q84 yet, been meaning to though. Doesn't look like one of his strongest releases to me. Also adding Remains Of The Day - Kazuo Ishiguro to my favourites, just finished and I loved it.
Sinternet 09.01.15	Ok I tried Go Set A Watchman and it's honestly one of the worst books I have ever read
Sinternet 09.01.15	Not particularly, but I was expecting somethibg slightly more coherent
Mort. 09.01.15	its not even a sequel apparently, more of an early draft of mockingbird i just finished Plato - Gorgias i just started reading The age of reason - sartre sinternet you should post in the books threads in the forums if you read a lot
Mort. 09.01.15	i used to be a pretty heavy reader, stopped for a few years now im trying to be more well read will probs get to Leibniz at some point. but for now it will be Sartre's trilogy then i dunno i might try and get through the first few pages of Ulysses without falling asleep again
Mort. 09.01.15	i actually love Fahrenheit 451 but i can see how someone could find it erm......irritating. wasnt a fan of his style at all for the beginning
Mort. 09.01.15	reading at school certainly did nothing to foster a love of reading within, didnt really impede it in any either tho. how they choose such awful books is beyond me
Sinternet 09.01.15	I've never been to the forums. Maybe I should. My current reading is T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland.
Sinternet 09.01.15	My school reading consisted of Of Mice & Men and Boy In Striped Pyjamas, both of which were mind-numbingly dull.
Sinternet 09.01.15	Ahh that sucks. I enjoyed Animal Farm but it's hyped way too much. It's good but it's not a classic.
Mort. 09.01.15	i quite like Of Mice and Men, its a good book to read quickly and then put down, not a great book for stretching months of analysis (think i did it in yr 10 or 11 cant remember)
Sinternet 09.01.15	I had it in Year 10. I may have enjoyed it a little more had some prick not shouted out the ending during the first lesson. My main problem with it though is that it begs for sympathy too bluntly, Lenny as a character is meant to be felt sorry for before he is detailed and I'm not really a fan of that.
SCREAM! 09.01.15	"i read Animal Farm in yr 11 and it thoroughly turned me off Orwell for life" Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat I liked a few of the books they had us read, mainly Brave New World, Lord of the Flies and The Fifth Business. The Great Gatsby was dull af tho
Mort. 09.01.15	The Great Gatsby is one of those books where for the most of it fuck all actually happens
Sinternet 09.01.15	I would have loved to read that kind of stuff. The majority of our syllabus was poetry, which I love. Of course they had to include virtually every Carol Ann Duffy piece, worst poet I've ever read.
Let 09.01.15	Hmm, I dig poetry too but I haven't read any of her. Have a particularly bad example?
Sinternet 09.01.15	Medusa is pretty awful. And she did one about the olympics as well which sounded like a pretentious 14 year old. It makes me sad thinking she's poet laureate when there are so many more deserving poets.
Muppelope 09.01.15	Yeah that was pretty bad...
Sinternet 07.15.19	don't think i've read more than four or five books since this smh
Gyromania 07.15.19	harry potter and the chamber of secrets is objectively the best book of all time
Sinternet 07.15.19	its pretty tight agreed. would probably put it 3rd overall behin prisoner of azkaban and order of the phoenix personally
Thalassic 07.15.19	Either 'Blood Meridian' by Cormac McCarthy or 'At the Mountains of Madness' by Lovecraft.
Sinternet 07.15.19	definitely need to check more lovecraft, ill keep that one in mind
Thalassic 07.15.19	There's some real treasures to be found among Lovecraft's short stories as well.
Casavir 07.15.19	Children of Hurin is awesome, great call.
ian b 07.15.19	few years late, but 'The Fall of America: Poems of These States (1965-1971)' by allen ginsberg is still a collection i always come back to. especially a good rec if you've already read "America" or any poems from his first collection with "Howl," "Kaddish," etc.
Shuyin 07.15.19	I love Murakamis work. My favourite book would be Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World with Kafka on the Shore being a close second. The chapters on "The End of the World" felt like i was dreaming while reading, fantastic book
Meridiu5 07.15.19	"Dune +48" [2] alsothe portrait of dorian gray
kevbogz 07.15.19	DUNE
whalebone 07.15.19	Brave New World is probably my favorite book. My favorite short story is I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.
whalebone 07.15.19	Moby Dick is another one I enjoy.
Uzumaki 07.15.19	Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
iglu 07.15.19	I liked 1984, not what I expected