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  1. SpaceCity

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    Yes, I'm really bored today.

    What are some of your favorite books? Let's make this interesting by breaking this up into two sections:
    1) Books you read were ever and anywhere
    2) Books you read in the bathroom

    Where ever and anywhere:
    <b>LOTR</b> Trilogy - Compelling. hard to stop reading. I never read these back in the day. Now I wonder why that was.
    <b>Ender's Game</b> - Also very hard to stop reading. A friend handed me this book and said to read it and don't ask why. He was right.
    <b>Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy</b> series - Funniest books ever.
    <b>Misery</b> - I took this book everywhere when I read it the first time. I simply could not stop reading.
    <b>Firestarter</b> - My first introduction to Stephen King back in 81 or 82. I read everything he put out after that up until Misery.

    Bathroom Reading:
    1) Any of the Uncle John's Bathroom Readers
    2) Puzzle Books (not really reading material but perfect for the bathroom)
    3) Dirty Jokes and Beer - Drew Cary
    4) Various magazines
     
    #1 SpaceCity, Jul 15, 2003
  2. Maria

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    I used to be reading the bok "Goospumbs".It was so scarie.

    My bathroom books are usually Magazines about fashion and jewelry,asnd big books about Christmas.:D
     
    #2 Maria, Jul 15, 2003
  3. AntiSonic

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    Vonnegut, Asimov, Chrichton, and anything with pretty pictures of Spider-Man.

    And you guys read in there? Different strokes I guess... :p
     
    #3 AntiSonic, Jul 15, 2003
  4. GreenVegan76

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    Best books I've read recently? "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides, "Empire Falls" by Richard Russo, "Moneyball" by Michael Lewis, "Stealing Jesus" by Bruce Bower, "Culture of Fear" by Barry Glassner, and "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel.

    The books that have had the most profound impacts are probably "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan, "Diet for a New America" by John Robbins and "Going Home" by Thich Nhat Hanh.
     
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  5. coma

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    Wherever/anywhere:

    1984
    Brave New World
    Catcher In The Rye
    Grapes of Wrath
    Red Badge of Courage
    The Count of Monte Cristo

    Bathroom:
    Anything technology related.
     
    #5 coma, Jul 15, 2003
  6. YoYao

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    books I read in bathroom:
    playboy, penthouse, .....just kidding

    books I like:
    Brave new world
    The Hunchback of Notre Dame
    Gone with the wind
     
    #6 YoYao, Jul 15, 2003
  7. LAfadeaway33

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    book in the bathroom - david letterman top 10
     
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  8. Uprising

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    Book i read anywhere.... LOTR...I could never put it down until it was done.

    Bathroom reading...usually ads for electronics...CC...BB etc.

    Currently reading The Greatest Salesman in the WOrld.
     
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    a glutton for punishment...
     
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  10. Kam

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    Read?




    in the Bathroom, I just like to stare in the mirror.
     
    #10 Kam, Jul 15, 2003
  11. Mr. Clutch

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    I really liked 1984 and Brave New World. Hitchhiker's Guide was hilarious.

    But I prefer nonfiction for some reason. A couple of good ones:

    "Explaining Hitler"- Rosembaum (I think)- very interesting read on the theories on why Hitler was evil

    "Warrior Politcs"- Robert Kaplan- a must read after 9/11 IMO
     
    #11 Mr. Clutch, Jul 15, 2003
  12. bobmarley

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    Were ever and anywhere

    • "Fight Club" by Chuck Palahnuik
    • "Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger
    • Any in the series of Hitchhiker's Guides to the Galaxy
    • "Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep by Phillip K. Dick

    Bathroom reading

    • Any book from Dennis Miller
    • Hightimes magazine

    I know I had more that I wanted to add but....
    ehhh
     
    #12 bobmarley, Jul 15, 2003
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    Catcher in the Rye.
     
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  14. AstroRocket

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    All books are cool. They should be loved equally.

    (blatant attempt to get the 300,000th hangout post :) )

    EDIT: Hey I think I did it! :D
     
    #14 AstroRocket, Jul 15, 2003
  15. bamaslammer

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    Favorite Books
    "Choke" by Chuck Palahniuk
    "Fight Club" by Chuck Palahniuk
    "War as I Knew It" George S. Patton
    "1984" George Orwell
    "To Kill a Mockingbird" Harper Lee
    "Zen Mind, Beginners Mind" Shunryu Suzuki
    "The Problem of Pain" C.S. Lewis
    "The Good Life and Its Discontents" Robert J. Samuel
    "Shambhala, The Sacred Path of the Warror" Chogyam Trungpa
    "The Art of War" Sun Tzu


    Favorite bathroom book/s
    MLB baseball almanac
    Car and Driver Magazine
     
    #15 bamaslammer, Jul 15, 2003
  16. zhaozhilong

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    Favourite books:

    "The Eagle Shooting Hero" by Jin Yong
    "Godly Eagle and Hero" by Jin Yong
    "The Chronicle of Depend on the Sky and Dragon Slaying" by Jin Yong
    "Sky Dragon Eight Parts" by Jin Yong

    and so on.
     
    #16 zhaozhilong, Jul 15, 2003
  17. jello77

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    maria, i would like to congradulate you on becoming by far the most annoying poster ive ever met.


    bathroom:sports illustrated
    rolling stone
     
    #17 jello77, Jul 15, 2003
  18. peleincubus

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    hey jello your name is kind of annoying
     
    #18 peleincubus, Jul 16, 2003
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    MAXIM
     
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  20. Palmray

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    one of my all time favourîtes:

    Boy Wonder - Robert James Baker
    the great Gatsby - F.S. Fitzgerald
    White Jazz - James Elroy
    Confidental Cooking - Anthony Bourdain
    anything from Charles Bukowski
    burning the days - James Salter
    Snowblind - Robert Sabbag
    Please kill me - Legs McNeill, Gillian Mc Cain
    Poem from R.M. Rilke, H. Hesse, P. Neruda
    Catcher in the rye - J.D. Salinger

    bathroom:

    Trasher magazine
     
    #20 Palmray, Jul 16, 2003
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