My reading list is a bunch of boring historic essays and texts. Unless you're a rabid 19th and 20th century history geek, they're pretty much Sominex with writing on them.

However... Kurt Vonnegut. Read lots of that. I agree.

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

Also, anything by P.J. O'Rourke or Florence King. Especially since the latter of these two authors is capable of gleefully ripping the spine out of anything that even vaguely smacks of bullshit, using nothing more than a typewriter and a piece of paper.

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

I just reread Kim Stanley Robinson's entire Mars series and was reimpressed by how brilliant the whole damn thing was.

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"Only things I approve of should exist." -some guy on the internet

OH GOD PJ RIPPED OUT HIS OWN SPINE

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What others say about boorite!

Oh you said the latter. Never mind.

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What others say about boorite!

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Wonderful fiction that's a joy to read
William Goldman: The Princess Bride

I just picked this version up at Borders; DexX had the DVD and bunner had set up his player and speakers, and I'd only seen the movie for the first time out on the island. I loved it.

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“It is only with the heart that one sees rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” - The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1945)

You don't have to agree with P.J. O' Rourke, mister. This is because he is a brilliant writer. So.. so fucking EAT IT! HAH!

Or something.

Peej is good, though.

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

after you read Battle Royale you'll never look at books the same way again. literally. this book is printed japanese style, so it's all right-to-left. enter the confusion. after you get done with this 600+ page novel, you'll start opening all your books backwards and become utterly confused when it comes to which direction to read. i don't know how the japanese do it.

also read anything by Nancy Kress. she writes some fantastic science fiction.

the Artemis Fowl series of books is really interesting, what with the elves and faries and such. faries? that doesn't look spelled right. hmm...

ha. and im surprised boinky and the rest havent mentioned this classic literature: Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants. classic. those are the only real books i read however, as my real passion is for comic books. i wont bother you and say The Animorphs Series, as you all probably hate it. i rather like it, so ha.

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It's grime time.

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You don't have to agree with P.J. O' Rourke, mister. This is because he is a brilliant writer. So.. so fucking EAT IT! HAH!

Or something.

Peej is good, though.

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People have said stuff I was gonna say so I'll say other stuff.

If you like fantasy, but not to whacky, I say
Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd & the Gray Mouser.

The greatest science fiction writer ever is Ray Bradburry. It doesn't matter if you write science fiction, because he doesn't so much write that as people fiction, if you know what I mean. It's good. Check out Something Wicked This Way Comes, Death is a Lonely Business or Green Shadows, White Whale.

The best adventure story I've ever read is Alexander Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo. The books have always been beter than the movies, right back to the 19th century.

Some of the greatest popular modern fiction is written by Micheal Chriton. You've definatly seen some of the movies based on his books, Sphere(which is definatly worth reading, Jurassic Park, Andromena Strain(one of my favorites), The Terminal Man(another one of my favorites), and Eaters of the Dead AKA The 13th Warrior. They're all somewhat "guyish" but you'd probably like at least a few of them. The Terminal Man is actualy from the perspective of a lady-doctor. Timeline was alright and somewhat less spacy in some regards.

Burgess wrote some good but difficult-to-read books(probably owing to the fact he was a linguist), so check out that if you're interested, most notable being A Clockwork Orange. A more understandable and easily enjoyable book is One Hand Clapping, about a woman who's husband wins a quiz show and makes alot of money, and what happens to them afterwards.

Some "girl" classics(I've never read but 'everyone knows they're good or something')

Jane Austin - Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables and this that and the other thing.

Less girly but one of my favorites, Oscar Wilde's - The Portriat of Dorian Grey is a great book.

Other good authors - Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rudyard Kipling, Washington Irving, Robert Louis Stevenson...

That's all for now.