Anx said:

I know that reading A Wrinkle in Time at a certain age will permanently bend your brain.

CortestheKiller said:

What's it about and how so?

If I HAD to chose just one. . . . . . it's between A Wrinkle In Time and The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy. . .

I'm gonna say The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy.

This is another fave...



an excerpt..

Stax said:

I don't understand this book.

I picked it up and looked at it at the bookstore cuase I want to be popular and shit with the smart folks.. Well, the smart popular folks anyway, but I just didn't understand the book? What is the concept. It looked like a scrap book.

I don't understand this book.

I picked it up and looked at it at the bookstore cuase I want to be popular and shit with the smart folks.. Well, the smart popular folks anyway, but I just didn't understand the book? What is the concept. It looked like a scrap book.

So, my list of books besides The Egyptian:

Ghostwritten, Number9Dream and Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
Aztec series by Gary Jennings
October Horse - Colleen McCollough
Dark Tower 1-5 - Stephen King... I read the whole series and 6 and 7 were disappointing.
Gerald's Game - Stephen King - The only book that has ever truly terrified me.

Imago said:

It's a difficult book to read, but well worth it. It is really three or four books within a book.

the narrator is a tattoo artist who finds a manuscript for a documentary film in the apartment of a blind old man who recently died. The documentary is about Navidson record, which is a journal kept kept by a man who's family moved into a house, the interior of which is much larger than its exterior. there are a ton of footnotes in the book which tell another couple of stories. one set of footnotes is letters written by the narrator's mother and another set from the narrator's editor. the story alternates between the narrator, the manuscript and the footnotes (which often have their own footnotes).

insanity ensues (maybe, or maybe its the drugs).

the book also contains codes and strange textual layouts. sometimes the text is backwards, so you have to hold it up to a mirror to read it. sometimes you have turn the book around in your hands to read the text, which is sometimes printed in a spiral.

toward the end, you start to feel like you are going insane yourself, just like the narrator, which is its brilliance.

read it.
[Edited 4/5/07 20:45pm]

I read a lot. Mostly garbage but here it goes.

Salem's Lot - Stephen King
The Dreyfuss Affair - Peter Lefcourt
Suffer the Children - John Saul
Stiff - Mary Roach
Exquisite Corpse - Poppy Z. Brite
The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty

Oh lord, people are going to start to be afraid of me.

M
[Edited 4/6/07 0:31am]

Stax said:

I read it last year. It was interesting to read in public. People would stare at me because there are pages where the writing is written in circular form. I had to read and rotate the book.

I liked it a lot, it was crazy.

M

Imago said:

It's a difficult book to read, but well worth it. It is really three or four books within a book.

the narrator is a tattoo artist who finds a manuscript for a documentary film in the apartment of a blind old man who recently died. The documentary is about Navidson record, which is a journal kept kept by a man who's family moved into a house, the interior of which is much larger than its exterior. there are a ton of footnotes in the book which tell another couple of stories. one set of footnotes is letters written by the narrator's mother and another set from the narrator's editor. the story alternates between the narrator, the manuscript and the footnotes (which often have their own footnotes).

insanity ensues (maybe, or maybe its the drugs).

the book also contains codes and strange textual layouts. sometimes the text is backwards, so you have to hold it up to a mirror to read it. sometimes you have turn the book around in your hands to read the text, which is sometimes printed in a spiral.

toward the end, you start to feel like you are going insane yourself, just like the narrator, which is its brilliance.

read it.
[Edited 4/5/07 20:45pm]

Stax said:

Why haven't I heard of this before?

CarrieMpls said:

you would like it. i know it. it's up your alley.

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

I had my copy confiscated when I was reading it during Religious Education class at my catholic high school. Our priest Father Shanley had even done exorcisms himself so I don't know what the fuss was all about!

I read a lot. Mostly garbage but here it goes.

Salem's Lot - Stephen King
The Dreyfuss Affair - Peter Lefcourt
Suffer the Children - John Saul
Stiff - Mary Roach
Exquisite Corpse - Poppy Z. Brite
The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty

Oh lord, people are going to start to be afraid of me.

M
[Edited 4/6/07 0:31am]

Stax said:[ quote]This is another fave...

Rotaredom said:

Oh I met him and his sister Poe. What happened to Poe? I heard that he has another book out.

I picked this up today. Looking forward to it.


I'm already a chapter in on one of the others I picked up, though, so it'll be a few days before I dig in.

Imago said:

It's a difficult book to read, but well worth it. It is really three or four books within a book.

the narrator is a tattoo artist who finds a manuscript for a documentary film in the apartment of a blind old man who recently died. The documentary is about Navidson record, which is a journal kept kept by a man who's family moved into a house, the interior of which is much larger than its exterior. there are a ton of footnotes in the book which tell another couple of stories. one set of footnotes is letters written by the narrator's mother and another set from the narrator's editor. the story alternates between the narrator, the manuscript and the footnotes (which often have their own footnotes).

insanity ensues (maybe, or maybe its the drugs).

the book also contains codes and strange textual layouts. sometimes the text is backwards, so you have to hold it up to a mirror to read it. sometimes you have turn the book around in your hands to read the text, which is sometimes printed in a spiral.

toward the end, you start to feel like you are going insane yourself, just like the narrator, which is its brilliance.

read it.
[Edited 4/5/07 20:45pm]

hell no.