NSR: Literature thread

Just going to throw this out their maybe start a conversation.
My fav books.

Taras Bulba -Gogol
Hemingway- 'Whom the bell tolls, The old man and the sea
Midnights Children- Salman Rushdie
Dubliners- James Joyce
Crime and Punishment- Fedya D.
Divine Comedy- Dante Alighieri
I liked the concept of Paradise Lost (John Milton) but found it to hard to read so I didn't

Bio-Autobios
The Duke of Flatbush - Duke Snyder (Team leader of the 1950's Brooklyn Dodgers, great book about the Golden Age of baseball)
Bob Knight- forgot the title but this was a very intersting read.

 

Boys Will be Boys: The Golden Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty

 

i've been so fokked by this economicrisis that my reading has been on an inexperienced beggar's diet, blya.

 

That's totally kind, but for last 4 months it's been a mazafokkin' rollercoaster.

 

Ok you cultured bastards, check out this book. It's not War & Peace but it's entertaining and graphic as hell.

My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King.

We read this in high school my senior year and trust me you will get addicted to it.

 

its about gangs?

 

Yea. It's about a Puerto Rican kid who moves to Chicago's Humboldt Park Neighborhood. It's a ********ed up book, check it out. Really easy read and I bet you'll get addicted and finish it in a day.

 

The Stranger by Camus
Slaughterhouse-Five by Vonnegut
East of Eden by Steinbeck
1984 by Orwell

 

does anyone use audio-books

if they had that for all books and the narrator didn't talk so slowly but rather like a teleprompter i would use it all the time. same as reading but you don't go blind. i think i can be on the computer all day and not suffer the kind of eye damage 1 hour of reading does

and do you people count story-based video games as literature? ya.. think about that. those old lucas arts games. okay, not very complex, but it's all reading! or snatcher, which i'm playing right now.. some say its possible the best game ever. it's more like a playable comic book. love the music! (skip the 1st minute)
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuyUShtcn94"]YouTube - Snatcher - full intro /SEGA CD/[/ame]

btw that's supposed to be harrison ford as in blade runner

 

so no one made fun of me yet eh. no one thought about calling me a little kid for wanting to lay down with my eyes closed and use my imagination to picture scenes? no one wants to argue that it's somehow less intellectual when it's not your eyeballs doing the work?

well, not that i think about it,

possibly. not only will you look smarter with prescription glasses but reading yourself, in your own voice, allows you time to contemplate the deeper meaning of the text, while i listening should work better for "adventure" stories.

I've convinced myself then! I'll go download/rent/buy an audio cassette of indiana jones or james bond. i assume those are real books (anything 'fluff' based you can recommend me?)

 

can't believe this thread's still a sticky. any of you read david icke? i hear he's insane so i'm checking out some of his stuff

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Children-Matrix-Interdimensional-Controlled-Years/dp/0953881016/ref=pd_sim_b_1"]Amazon.com: Children of the Matrix: How an Interdimensional Race has Controlled the World for Thousands of Years-and Still Does (9780953881017): David Icke: Books[/ame]

 

sumthing I'm reading The Biggest Secret, on about page 130. I've heard it all so what he has to say doesn't get the 'shock value' or 'wtf' reaction from me.

There's a controversy regarding his alleged anti-Semitism and I can truthfully say that after readin 1/4th or so of this book that there is definitely a hint of anti-Semitic views to an extent. For example, he keeps mentioning the Khazars and how the world's current Jewish population is being mislead and lied to and how they have no connection to Israel. Apart from that he seems to believe that the repitilians mixed with white Aryans, even going as far saying that the 'reptilian elite' is of a white color while the rest are darker, lol.

David Icke's a nut despite being right about a lot of things. His books are great entertainment though.

 

Just read this one, didn't enjoy it much mainly because of the writing style but lots and lots of good info and not as wacko as Icke.

 

Anyone here ever read this one ? I just ordered it and looked the book up on google. Apprently Dinamo was considered to be the best team to ever visit the British Isles by their media after they played there. And the way they describe Dinamo's style of play might in fact prove that the forefather of 'Total Football' was in fact the USSR ! Imagine that !

 

So I read «Мастер и Маргарита» for the first time...
Not bad Mr. Bulgakov, not bad at all.

 

Нет документа - нет человека

Although I like Heart of Dog better myself.

 

I am torn as to what to read next. I want it to be something from the 19th century, and was thinking of the following list. Any suggestions?

Гончаров: Обломов
Лесков: no idea
Пушкин: Евгений Онегин
Толстой: Война и мир (would be my third/fourth attempt)
Тургенев: Отцы и дети

No time, adequate level of reading comprehension, or burning desire.

 

Finally something we agree on lately!