Trying to get into reading and I thought I create a thread where people can post a short summary of a book they like or something.
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Trying to get into reading and I thought I create a thread where people can post a short summary of a book they like or something.
One of the better books I've read is Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut. The book is a prediction of thefuture writtin in 1948. In the book, you're either an engineer; scientist, or you're dirt poor.
"The Count of Monte Cristo ..." by Alexander Dumas ... not the one u read in like 7th grade but the actual unabridged version
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What genre do you like? If you like fine literature, I can suggest quite a few. I don't like to waste my time on fluffy books; when I am in school, I don't have a lot of free time to spare, so I tend to read award winning books because they are pretty much a sure thing. I love classics.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kiechi
I am currently reading "The Human Stain" by Philip Roth. It's about a college professor who is forcibly retired after a comment he makes in class that is wrongly interpreted as racist. It is a very good book. Roth is a wordsmith.
Ha. I don't particuarly know what genre i'm into. I've took a liking towards dystopian related novels if that helps? but I like to read books that would would help improve my intelligence (haha) and help to expand my volcabulary.
When you say dystopian, I take that to mean you are interested in books about human misery and suffering, perhaps as a result of scientific progress or politics. Is that accurate?
Catch 22 - hilarious
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - hilarious and sad
Catcher in the Rye - a fairly solemn drama
Good Omens - a humorous take on the end of the world
Yeah, books such as George Orwells 1984.Quote:
Originally Posted by shh!
These were suggested by a friend who is more into that genre than I am:
The Trial by Kafka
Candide by Voltaire
Looking Backward by Bellamy
The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot (it's an epic poem, considered hard by many)
Lost Horizon by Hilton
The Left Hand of Darkness by LeGuin
Walden by Thoreau
Future Shock by Toffler
These are the ones I suggest:
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Handmaids Tale (I can't remember the author)
Thanks shh! If you don't mind me asking how old are you?
34, probably too old to be on this forum, but now that I see how many young kids are on here asking questions, I am afraid the only advice they will get will be from know-nothings like that girl ****, and mentally ill people like **** who want to copulate with relatives, so I'll stick around for a while and give out advice their mothers would approve of.
Why - how old are you? And by the way, several of those books I mentioned you will likely read in college (assuming you go and you aren't there yet).
Na... your not too old to be on this forum. It's nice to have people as knowledgeable as yourself around.Quote:
Originally Posted by shh!
I'm 17 and yes your right, we were reading 1984 and the handmaids tale (Not a very big fan of this book) in college.
You don't like Handmaid's Tale? Hmm... I really liked it. Well, I am sure if you ask your English professor, you will get a lot of good suggestions. I don't wish to sound sexist, but I think this genre is frequently more embraced by males because of the science fiction-y aspect, so I'd ask a male English professor.
Hm, personally I think it's women who take a liking towards this book because of it's major difference compared to 1984. can you guess what it is? If you get it right I'll give you a cookie.Quote:
Originally Posted by shh!
I have not read 1984 (but I think I know the general story line), and in any case, I think Handmaids Tale is an exception because it deals specifically with the use of women’s bodies as political instruments, a topic that would be appealing to feminists.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kiechi
No cookie for you. Major difference is a womans perception of a dystopian society. Apart from one account in 1984, when one of the characters dismisses the protagnists intrest in Oceania (society the book takes place) .Quote:
Originally Posted by shh!
Very clever, aren't you? :-) Oh well, no cookie for me. That is okay, though. they are fattening.
I'll take that cookie.
Is that sarcasm? :nerd:Quote:
Originally Posted by shh!
:: Gives Choi the cookie ::
Enjoy.
hahaha! No, actually it wasn't, but I can see now how it could be read that way. Who is Choi? Is that another name for Frasbee?
Thats what I call him by. If my memory serves me correctly I believe it is also his surname?
Also thanks for the compliment. I don't really consider myself "smart" because I seem to compare myself to people who are like older than me by donkey years.
Comparing yourself to a selective group of intelligent, older people with more life experience isn't the way for you to measure your own intelligence. Their level of knowledge is merely the goal. Try comparing yourself to some of the people who post in this forum. (You probably have at least one or two on your mind; I know I do.) You will feel very intelligent indeed!
:-D
I do... but they are far much more knowledgeble than I. Maybe I try and compare myself to people in the same age group?
As a science fiction fan, I suggest Bradbury. "Martian chronicles" for example, it was a very good book about human process and its stupidity. Just start reading it and you will get your summary after you have red the book.
more great scifi and i honestly suggest you read all 6 book out of the series:
DUNE , essentially it is about religious war and power and government - but i suggest you read it.
My full name is Anthony Charles Choi.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kiechi
AKA: Choi, Anthony, Frasbee
Haha I was right.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frasbee
I'm always torn between book or film, so I've resolved the ambivalence by reading a book and watching the film version, one behind the other. (Reading the script along with the film is kinda fun for me, too.) Interesting reads/watches:
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Bladerunner
Naked Lunch (the book) and Naked Lunch (the video)
Interesting take on Naked Lunch: Some interpret the "interzone" in the 1950's book as the the first elucidation of the Internet.
Ray Bradburys book "Martian chronicles" is quite a good sci-fi book. "It is not telling you what future should be, it is trying to predict the future", as Bradbury said. it is telling us that we ruin everything old by tring to make progress at everything without seeing that proper prgress is impossible and sometimes too much progress is not welcome. As we are making progress into unknowness...
i started reading Orwells "1984" but hasn't got much since I am like 10 hours at work almost every day and don't feel like reading after that.
Louis L'Amour's The Walking Drum was the perfect book. I had to read it for school, and usually I never pick any good books when I have to read them for school. But I actually did pretty well this time. So proud of myself..
Anyway.
It's an adventure/action/romance (one dude and many ladies at different times)/drama/everything book. From page one, the action starts and doesn't stop until the book ends. It'll take you a while to finish, because if I remember correctly, there's over 400 pages in that book..
But hey! 400 pages of good reading. You can find a summary [URL=http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=9C5d8KgBeG&isbn=0553280406& itm=1]here[/URL].