brotherryan |
topic: whos your favorite author? least favorite?
posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 20:23
Some of my favorite authors are: Jack Kerouac, Daniel Pinchbeck, Pablo Neruda, Ernest Hemingway, Dylan Thomas, Hunter S. Thompson, Howard Zinn, Walt Whitman, Miranda July, James Joyce, Charles Bukowski, Terrence McKenna, Carson McCullers, Harlan Ellison, Saul Bellow, Cornel West, Phillip K. Dick, Eric Bogosian, Chuck Palanhiuk, Whitley Streiber.
Some of my least favorite are: Ayn Rand, Tim LaHaye and most authors who are part of Oprah's Book Club.. |
tattooedjuliet |
topic: whos your favorite author? least favorite?
posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 13:46
some of my favorites are f. paul wilson, christopher golden, caitlin r. kiernan, and christopher moore.
least favorite would probably be nora roberts or danielle steele. |
buskey |
topic: whos your favorite author? least favorite?
posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 07:18
i thought he failed with rant....it was like 3 or 4 different authors tried to write one book....it was entertaining but not one of his best....i think he was reading alot of philip k dick when he wrote it...either that or he just got finished watching strange days... |
nobodieschild |
topic: Best Book turned movie
posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 18:35
My favorite movie (the Wonder Boys) was a book first, but the movie is faaaar better than the book was, does that count?
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nobodieschild |
topic: whos your favorite author? least favorite?
posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 18:32
Meanviv-- we're like book soul mates! I just finished Still Life With Woodpecker a month ago (my first Robbins) and now I'm hooked on him!
Read Rant Casey (the new-er Chuck Palahnuik), it's a totally different book. If you read a lot of Palahnuik, you know that while AWESOME all his lead characters seem strangely alike. Rant is pretty different, so it the set-up of the story. Anyway, it's a great read.
I just finished Water For Elephants (which I had been avoiding because I'm adverse to reading things that land on "Oprah's book club" lists) -- It's really REALLY good. The kind of good where you're sad that you can't keep learning about the characters. Don't read her other books though, they're all horse-riding-showing themed and a little dull. |
buskey |
topic: last book read
posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 01:07
the immoralist by andre gide...check it out.... |
buskey |
topic: favorite book of all time!
posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 01:06
who knows....maybe farewell to the sea by reinaldo arenas....incredible book....black spring by henry miller...or maybe hell by henri barbusse |
buskey |
topic: whos your favorite author? least favorite?
posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 01:03
favorite is impossible but top few.....harlan ellison, philip k dick, reinaldo arenas, bukowski, henry miller....
least favorite....stephen king....i distrust anyone who churns out books like he does |
buskey |
topic: Worst book ever read...
posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 01:00
pretty funny that i stumbled upon this post...i am in the middle of reading it now and it is pretty fucking boring....i am a huge fan of his short stories though... |
hackingchild6 |
topic: favorite book of all time!
posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 18:38
Mine is American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Just everything that can go wrong, does go wrong for the main character and its hard to not like a book that adds old mythology and creates new myths too. |
inkedbook |
topic: Tattoo Book
posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 10:27
Hello All,
Does your tattoo give people a chuckle and deserves 15 minutes of fame?
I'm looking for funny-ha-ha and funny-strange tattoos to be featured in "Inked: A Collection of Clever, Witty & Amazing Tattoos" This feel-good book will be out in stores this fall.
Artists/Photographers/Models will be credited and will receive a free copy of the book!
I need images are by April 20, so please contact me asap if you want in! I will then give you more info about our publishing company (so you know I'm legit), how to send images, etc.
If you want more info, have any questions or concerns, etc. please do not hesitate to contact me.
Thank you! |
meanviv |
topic: whos your favorite author? least favorite?
posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:14
I dont think I could decide on just one...I like Chuck Palahniuk, Tom Robbins. Jorge Luis Borges is a badass!, and I LOOOOVE Gabriel Garcia Maquez, as well as Paulo Coelho.
Least favorite, Barbara Taylor Bradford.
I have to say as much as I love vampire novels..and I actually enjoyed Anne Rice's Blood and Gold, she spends way too much time describing the vampires...and it gets boring after she describes them 5 times each. |
meanviv |
topic: Bangkok Tattoo
posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:06
what is it about? |
meanviv |
topic: Best Book turned movie
posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:05
Fight Club was as badass as the book |
meanviv |
topic: Worst book ever read...
posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:05
>Ernest Hemmingway's "A Farewell To Arms".
my best friend hates Hemmingway haha. I'd say The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold...what pisses me off about it is people praise that book like a motherfucker and its quite boring. Too girly and no substance |
meanviv |
topic: last book read
posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:03
>The last book I read was Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk. Unfortunately I dont get to read as much as I'd like to anymore, but I'm going to try to pick up some of the favorites you guys posted.
good book man...he's a very entertaining author...check out Invisible Monsters and Haunted...those will weird you the fuck out |
slickcity |
topic: last book read
posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 00:59
This book is deep. And not for the faint of heart or soul. It could have been the hangover I was nursing, which contributed to the depression of the book or maybe it was the torture with which men and women are made to live with in Russian prisons.
Many of the tattoos are self-deprecating but I suppose that is inline with the Ruskies especially in the sense the archaic definition of deprecate is:
Archaic. to pray for deliverance from
[Origin: 1615–25; < L déprec?tus prayed against, warded off (ptp. of déprec?r?), equiv. to dé- DE- + prec(?r?) to PRAY + -?tus -ATE1 ]
I found the most appealing concept deals with the emergence of a being through the tattoos on his/her skin. Until they were tattooed, they did not exist in the prison or thieves world. There is the sense of otherworldliness that one has stepped through a veil or shadow to be in the thieves’ world.
Tattoos have Symbolic interactionism in the prison world (Yeah! Go on George Mead and get down with your bad self!) That is, people act toward things based on the meaning those things have for them; and these meanings are derived from social interaction and modified through interpretation.
Most of the tattoos were political and pornographic, but not obscene nor grotesque. |
froggynz |
topic: last book read
posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 19:37
DMT the spirit molecule by Dr Rick Strassma.
it's a mind blowing book if you are into near-death experiences, mystical experiences and psychedelic drugs |
slickcity |
topic: last book read
posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 23:48
I just finished this book and it is a TRIP! Published in 1933 and it shows. While the POV is refreshing because it is not someone from today rambling about tattoos in the past, it reflects some very antiquated notions about people who get tattoos.
However, it also has some unique insights to the sociology of the time, not only those who get tattooed but the artists themselves and their perspective of why folks are getting tattooed and what they have to say about it. Freak shows, circuses, and carnival folk are mentioned but not the norm. This book covers tattooing minors in the day as well as the origins of some traditional designs such as the Rose of No Man’s Land
Masters of the day, from the very early Victorian period to the turn of the century and later are revealed. Those who are referenced include but are not limited to Hildebrant, Hori Chyo, O'Reilly, Charlie Wagner, and more.
One of the more unique sections is essentially a family tree of European royalty who are tattooed which is then the basis for the book's section of American high society of the times following suit in the 20's and 30's
Homosexual tendencies and Oedipus complexes are some of the more ridiculous theories proffered by leading psychologists of the day who bare their thoughts on those who are inked. Freud was everywhere then!
A good entertaining and short read for both the history and tattoo reader
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cynical1 |
topic: last book read
posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 20:38
Last Book read was "World War Z" by Max Brooks. Horror/Zombie fans you have to read this! EXCELLENT book by Max Brooks. More serious to the story then his previous Zombie Handbook.
Waiting for "99 Coffins" by David Wellington it is not out till Dec. 31st. Will post whether it is worth the read or not. |
melf |
topic: last book read
posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 12:02
just finished Perfume and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Perfume was brillaint, the sense of smell is so neglected, and to write a whole book about it...
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, incredible... nothing else to say. |
jhmetal |
topic: Bangkok Tattoo
posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 22:04
Just finished "Bangkok Tattoo" by John Burdett. Amazing. It's the second of a two book series. The first is "Bangkok 8," which I've just started to read. What can I say? I like to do things backwards.
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jeffreychase |
topic: Worst book ever read...
posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 15:03
Ernest Hemmingway's "A Farewell To Arms". |
jeffreychase |
topic: last book read
posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 20:00
"The Books Of Blood" by Clive Barker. |
beatjunkie |
topic: last book read
posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 03:43
Just finished reading "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez. It's set in the Dominican Republic during the reign of the dictator Trujillo. Las Mariposas are the sisters that become martyrs in the revolution. While the book itself is fictitious, adhering neither to fact nor legend, the Mirabal sisters are not fiction.
It was really good. |
beatjunkie |
topic: Reading Lists
posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 03:37
I do some book reviews at the library I work at and on my myspace page. If you want some, let me know. I like to think I have fairly good taste in books. |
swabby |
topic: The way it started
posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 17:14
'charlotte's web' was what got me started. i always try to give a copy of it to anyone that has a baby girl. i also loved 'to kill a mockingbird' by harper lee. the movie did justice to the book. i read a number of tarzan books too, suprisingly good, not like the movies.
robin |
phoenixxx |
topic: The way it started
posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:04
my dad read me the whole Lord of the Rings series when i was very little and i was sick. he also read me the Hitchikers guide to the Galaxy series and the Hunting of the Snark.
i remember that better than what i had been reading myself. |
lynnette |
topic: The way it started
posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 22:40
Can you remember... waaaaay back when you were a child. What book got you started as the bibliophile that everyone knows and loves today? |
lynnette |
topic: favorite book of all time!
posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 22:38
Possibly the Stand- Stephen Kind... or Midnight Club- Christopher Pike... or Pride and Prejudice-jane Austen.
I know Christopher Pike wrote books mostly for youngins, but I always found his work to be really psychological, ideolgical, and spiritua, especially Midnight Club. I love it!
As for the stand it is just classic... spooky, thrilling, funny, interesting, great characters.., etc Seen the miniseries about a billion times on top of that.
Pride and Prejudice is just amazing. I've read it a number of times and even took a writing class on it. Also seen the miniseries about a billion and 1 times. |
lucille |
topic: Worst book ever read...
posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 07:34
so we all know the one book that we truly hated and can't get it out of our heads because it had such a horrible impact on us....
i would say my least favorite book ever was Rebecca.....it's annoying when someone describes a flower for three pages....but more than that....I don't understand some brittish books about ugly young girls who marry handsome rich men.....it was a trend i was never really able to follow... |
lucille |
topic: last book read
posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 08:32
i just finished reading The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd...pretty interesting...I love southern writers...i generally do not read books on the top 100 list...but after reading The Secret Lives of Bees, I realized I loved the way she writes...and had to read her second book....
at the moment i'm reading Letters by Henry Miller to Hoki Tokuda Miller....seems interesting so far... |
bataleigh |
topic: last book read
posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 10:53
I finished 'The crying of Lot 49' and had to reread it. It messed with my head for a few days...made me paranoid.
I also read through 'The Zombie Survial Guide' by Max Brooks. Wow. I'm totally prepared now! Bring out the (un)dead! Yeah, I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys scientific satire and zombie humour. I can't wait for his new novel to come out in the fall.
I'm also reading through 'The Abandoned' a graphic novel by Ross Campbell, a great artist. It's a pretty good read...about zombies, of course. I'll say more once I've finished it. |
evilsleepy |
topic: last book read
posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 16:56
**Warning**
Unless I suggest it, please don't take any "last book" post from me as recomendations......I read a excessive amount of books so I tend to end up with a bad ratio of good to bad literature. |
evilsleepy |
topic: last book read
posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 15:41
First let me express how overjoyed I am to find other book lovers! I reald 3-5 novels a week (and have a subscription to 12 mags and 2 newspapers...not to mention the 10 or so news/ezines I read). I take my kids to the library every week and both of them are in the gifted and talented program at thier school (I attribute this to reading and reading to them since they were babies)
ok now then;
Last book I finished was "being a Green
Mother" by Piers Anthony |
bataleigh |
topic: last book read
posted: Wed May 31, 2006 13:45
I'm working my way through 'The Crying of Lot 49'. 'Fear and Loathing' made more sense when I was intoxicated and reading it. I'll say more once I'm done with it but for now, I'm a little confused. :) |
phoenixxx |
topic: favorite book of all time!
posted: Fri May 19, 2006 14:29
as silly as it may seem, my absolute favorite book is Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite.
its gothy and about vampires, but something about it just amazes me every time.
also Red Branch by Morgan Llwellyn is a great book, especially if you're into Irish mythology. |
hellolala |
topic: favorite book of all time!
posted: Sat May 13, 2006 02:45
so i failed to mention i was hoping to read about everyone else's favorite books, but i can't see how to edit my previous post, so anyhow, please share with me! i want to find new books and authors :)
thanks,
lala |
hellolala |
topic: favorite book of all time!
posted: Fri May 12, 2006 03:16
my one true book is called "In Babylon" and it's so awesome! i can't describe it too much except to say it's full of memories, flashbacks, storytelling etc. you may have to take notes (like i did for "the Illuminatus Trilogy") to remember what the hell is going on. but it's more than worth it. and it's one that will always have something new and different that you missed last time you read it. but beware, it is like the the movie "the Usual Suspects" once you've read it you won't be able to read it the same again. if you know what it mean. some things just change once you know. anyway, anyone self respecting book fanatic should read it for the mere fact that the whole family of protagonists are total book nerds, not to mention full on geniuses.
thanks for reading,
lala |
hellolala |
topic: last book read
posted: Fri May 12, 2006 03:11
well, at the moment i'm reading wuthering heights by emily bronte. it's freaksihly sad and totally fucked up. i love it :) back in high school i saw a comedic rendition performed as a play within a play. so the actors spend half the time acting the play out and the other half acting like actors learning how to put on the community theater play. it was called Wuthering! Wuthering! Heights! Heights! and fondly remembering this performance led me to decide to read it now. it's damn good, but really nuts. |
phoenixxx |
topic: last book read
posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 20:07
i just finished reading Traids by Poppy Z. Brite and Story of O by Paulene Reiage (i spelled that wrong)
what has everyone else been reading? |
