ITT: Boooooooooooooks

[wasted ink]

I like reading books.. I like learning about new things, or even expanding my knowledge on things I already know (or think I know). If you're a reader, throw down what you thought was good/worth reading or even bad/disappointing...

In no particular order, some of my collection..

Buddhism, meditation:
A Year to Live - Stephen Levine

His son, Street punk/addict turned buddhist/spiritual teacher:
Dharma Punx - Noah Levine
Against the Stream - Noah Levine

Philosophy:
Get a grip on PHILOSOPHY - Neil Turnbell
The Art of War - Sun Tzu (translated)
Darwin - The Indelible Stamp - James D. Watson

Biography:
Monster - Sanyika Shakur
Broken - William Cope Moyers
Save Me From Myself - Brian "Head" Welch
The Dirt - Motley Crue
Tommyland - Tommy Lee
The Heroin Diaries - Nikki Sixx
Brutal - Kevin Weeks

Others:
The Art of Justice - Courtroom reporter Marylin Church
Maximum Boost - Corky Bell
A Child Called It - Dave Pelzer
A Man Named Dave - Dave Pelzer

I have a bunch more, but these are the ones i'd recommend...

[Spider Monkey]

There is no way a tatt'ed motherfucker like you reads books.

Why in the fuck are you wasting your time reading books?

[wasted ink]

There is no way a tatt'ed motherfucker like you reads books.

Why in the fuck are you wasting your time reading books?

I'm not as ignorant as I look.

[Volpone]

I need to take a picture of one of my bookshelves. Hold on a minute.

[wasted ink]

I meant to do that, and got lazy. I will soon as well.

[Spider Monkey]

I need to take a picture of one of my bookshelves. Hold on a minute.

Holding

[Volpone]

I appreciate your patience.

[Volpone]

Damned photobucket took a while.

Anyways, here is some of my collection so far. By my count, it is around 350 books strong now (not all pictured), of course not all of which I've read, but I knock them down as quickly (and as thoroughly) as I can.

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[Spider Monkey]

Shit negro, my hardy boys collection is half that. lel

[Volpone]

As for my favourites:

Fiction
William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying
Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer
Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

Non-Fiction
Mara Leveritt - Devil's Knot - this is a true story about the West Memphis Three who were sentenced for a murder largely because of a satanism scare involving metal music and the coerced confession of a mentally retarded teenager
James Warren - Facing Death: Epicurus and his Critics - contains a series of papers discussing the Epicurean tenet that death is nothing to be afraid of, which I fully concur with
Jill Jonnes - Empires of Light - a historical recounting of the battle between Edison's DC and Westinghouse/Tesla's AC; I've always had the electronics bug and Tesla is, as is typical for most of that ilk, a hero to me
Charles Darwin - The Origin of Species
Bertrand Russell - A Brief History of Western Philosophy

I like plays and poetry, too. John Donne is a favourite poet, Christopher Marlowe is a favourite playwright, and Ben Jonson is a favourite everything, especially the play Volpone. I'm a big Poe fan, as evidenced by my username of Ligeia on some other forums. Oh, and if you like sports, Jeff Pearlman's Boys Will Be Boys is an awesome re-telling of the partying days of the Cowboys dynasty.

Shit negro, my hardy boys collection is half that. lel

lol. My reading habit started with Hardy Boys and my mom's Stephen King books.

[Spider Monkey]

Close-up so we can actually see the names?

[Volpone]

The battery is charging at the moment. I'll take some in the morning if you'd like.

[Spider Monkey]

I see nothing but a shit load of VHS tapes, magazines, and DVDs brah.


Rock my world. Show me a close up.

I'll go downstairs and snapshot a 'holy fuck' pic of my own. ;)

[Volpone]

You'll have to excuse the blurry shots. I don't have very steady hands and the tripod is not here.

The Question of God, Point Counter Point, Ring for Jeeves, Silas Marner, Stories of O. Henry, American Psycho, Religion and Science, Portnoy's Complaint, Bleak House

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[Volpone]

Technology and Society, And the Band Played On, Pride and Prejudice, The Alchemist and Other Plays, Facing Death, Chemistry, Calculus 6E (last two are textbooks)

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[Volpone]

The Count of Monte Cristo, The Prince, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, The Portrait of a Lady, A Passage to India, The Twelve Caesars, Heart of Darkness, Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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[Volpone]

The Phantom of the Opera, The Call of the Chtuhlu and Other Weird Stories, Carry On Jeeves, The Inimitable Jeeves, TS Eliot Collected Poems, John Donne Selected Poems, Essential Keats, In Flanders Fields and other War Poems, The Road Not Taken, Candide, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, Twice-Told Tales, The Scarlet Letter, Symposium and Phaedrus, Frankenstein, The Odyssey, The Iliad

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[Volpone]

JFK Handbook, The Birth of the Nazis, Stalin, People in Auschwitz, The Hollow Crown, Sputnik, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Warriors at Suez, The Iraq War, High Noon in the Cold War

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[Volpone]

The Blind Watchmaker, The Origin of Species, On Natural Selection, The Selfish Gene, Infinity, The Golden Ratio, Chaos, Seinfeld and Philosophy, The Second Tree, Sacred Sites of the Knights Templar, Freemasonry and the Birth of Modern Science, The Secret Man, 1917: Russia's Year of Revolution, With God on Their Side, Build this Bong, The Hudson Book of Fiction, Wascana Poetry Anthology

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[Volpone]

Audio Transducers, An Introduction to the Psychologyof Hearing, Volcanoes Earthquakes and Tsunamis, The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Being and Nothingness, Basic Writings of Nietzsche, A History of Western Philosophy, A Concise History of Opera, Theories of Personality, The Billboard Encyclopedia of Classical Music, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide, The Complete Dictionary of Opera and Operetta

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[Volpone]

The Seperation, The Prestige, 1408 and Other Short Stories, Lisey's Story, Cell, A Painted House, The Sum of All Fears, SSN, Clear and Present Danger

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[Volpone]

Memnoch the Devil, The Tale of the Body Thief, Queen of the Damned, The Vampire Lestat, Interview with the Vampire, Night Moves, Without Remorse, Cold War, Bio-Strike, Rainbow Six

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[Volpone]

Crime and Punishment, Jane Eyre, Dracula, Lolita, A Clockwork Orange, The Great Gatsby, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Tender is the Night, Paradise Lost, Tropic of Cancer, Faulkner Collected Stories, Light in August, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying

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[Volpone]

Go Ask Alice, The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories, The Canterbury Tales, Dante's Inferno, Death of a Salesman, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Animal Farm, Of Human Bondage, Mansfield Park, Pride and Prejudice, Brave New World, The Metaphysics, The Politics

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[Volpone]

Red Dragon, Hannibal, the Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal Rising, War and Peace, Waiting for Godot, Nicholas Nickleby, King Arthur's Last Battle, The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills, The Last Enchantment

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[Volpone]

Beowulf, The Complete Sherlock Holmes, The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, The Norton Introduction to Literature, The Complete Poems of W.B. Yeats, Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

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[Volpone]

Inside Out: a Personal History of Pink Floyd, Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman, :07 Seconds or Less, The Black Dahlia, The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, Outrage: The 5 Reasons OJ Simpson Got Away With Murder, Jack the Ripper, Devil's Knot, Studio A, Jim Morrison, Heavier than Heaven

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[Volpone]

You Cannot Be Serious, Walt Disney, My Years as Prime Minister, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Cannabis A History, Empires of Light, Marconi's Magic Box, 100 Most Infamous Criminals, DisneyWar, Seinfeld

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[Volpone]

This is the last shot of about 2/3 of the collection.

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Classics in Western Philosophy, Beyond Reason, A Short History of Nearly Everything, Nostradamus, Vampires

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[wasted ink]

You have been repped.

[Pop Da Hatch]

You have tattoos and know how to read? omgnowai.

[bluecar]

I think I own maybe 6 books.

[90lac]

art of war is a great book

[wasted ink]

You have tattoos and know how to read? omgnowai.

Werd.

I think I own maybe 6 books.

Anything worth posting?

art of war is a great book

Indeed. Still not done with it. I think they should make this a requirement for some classes.

[ThomasG]

I really like to read I need to start more but lately I've just been so busy with the textbook. The Message is the latest book I've read amazing read

[bluecar]

Actually, more than six

The Power and the Glory: Graham Greene*
My Kitchen Wars: Betty Fussel*
Everything I know about business I learned from Monopoly: Axelrod
48 Laws of Power: Robert Greene
The Rose that Grew from Concrete: Tupac Shakur
The Little Book of Value Investing: Brown
Creating Competitive Advantage: Jaynie Smith
Lord of the Flies: Golding*
The Republic: Plato*
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Wilde*
Frankenstein: Shelley*
The 80/20 Principle: Richard Koch
The Iliad: Homer*
Bacchae: Eurpides*
Death in Venice: Mann*
The Devil in the White City: Erik Larson*
Co-opetition: Brandenburger and Barry Nalebuff
One up on Wall Street: Peter Lynch
Undercover Economist: Tim Harford
How long is a piece of string: Eastway and Wyndham
The World is FLat: Thomas Friedman
The Prince: Machiavelli
A perfect mess
The Fabric of the Cosmos
Self Reliance
The Paradox of choice
Enough

* means I needed it for a class, not pleasure

[wasted ink]

Actually, more than six

The Power and the Glory: Graham Greene*
My Kitchen Wars: Betty Fussel*
Everything I know about business I learned from Monopoly: Axelrod
48 Laws of Power: Robert Greene
The Rose that Grew from Concrete: Tupac Shakur
The Little Book of Value Investing: Brown
Creating Competitive Advantage: Jaynie Smith
Lord of the Flies: Golding*
The Republic: Plato*
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Wilde*
Frankenstein: Shelley*
The 80/20 Principle: Richard Koch
The Iliad: Homer*
Bacchae: Eurpides*
Death in Venice: Mann*
The Devil in the White City: Erik Larson*
Co-opetition: Brandenburger and Barry Nalebuff
One up on Wall Street: Peter Lynch
Undercover Economist: Tim Harford
How long is a piece of string: Eastway and Wyndham
The World is FLat: Thomas Friedman
The Prince: Machiavelli
A perfect mess
The Fabric of the Cosmos
Self Reliance
The Paradox of choice
Enough

* means I needed it for a class, not pleasure

I also own Rose from the Concrete.

The Devil in the White City was a good one IMO.

[Tiger Bass]

Gulliver's Travels
Traffic
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Freakonomics
The Paradox of Choice
Three Can Keep a Secret if Two are Dead
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Catch Me If You Can
Atlas Shrugged

[Volpone]

My birthday order arrived today:

David Copperfield - I am a big fan of Dickens' writing style, and have not read this classic yet
A Treatise of Human Nature - An essential for any person interested in philosophy
The Necklace and Other Stories - I have not read any of de Maupassant's work, but it was recommended to me by a teacher at University
The Republic - Again, a complete essential
Killing Hitler - I have always been interested in the Hitler assassination stories (the Von Stauffenburg one being perhaps the most famous), but I haven't read much of them yet
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Drug history
Not In Our Classrooms - This is a cheerleader book, where you read something you know you already agree with and cheer along the whole time
The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism - I've been meaning to buy this one for quite a while; this seems to be a popular topic of late, further assisted by the current economic climate
The Age of Innocence - Never read it; not sure what prompted me to add it to my wish list, but bought it to give it a try anyways
Slaughter-House Five - Haven't read this one; it's been a back-burner book for about 10 years now and I decided on impulse to get it

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[icpurplepplalot]

As for my favourites:

Fiction
William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying
Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer
Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

Non-Fiction
Mara Leveritt - Devil's Knot - this is a true story about the West Memphis Three who were sentenced for a murder largely because of a satanism scare involving metal music and the coerced confession of a mentally retarded teenager
James Warren - Facing Death: Epicurus and his Critics - contains a series of papers discussing the Epicurean tenet that death is nothing to be afraid of, which I fully concur with
Jill Jonnes - Empires of Light - a historical recounting of the battle between Edison's DC and Westinghouse/Tesla's AC; I've always had the electronics bug and Tesla is, as is typical for most of that ilk, a hero to me
Charles Darwin - The Origin of Species
Bertrand Russell - A Brief History of Western Philosophy

I like plays and poetry, too. John Donne is a favourite poet, Christopher Marlowe is a favourite playwright, and Ben Jonson is a favourite everything, especially the play Volpone. I'm a big Poe fan, as evidenced by my username of Ligeia on some other forums. Oh, and if you like sports, Jeff Pearlman's Boys Will Be Boys is an awesome re-telling of the partying days of the Cowboys dynasty.



lol. My reading habit started with Hardy Boys and my mom's Stephen King books.

The Fountainhead and Brave New World are definitely two of my all time favorites.