two shmoo@!

whoops-two shmoo!-i also wanted LORD OF THE RINGS!

OK-im stopping hijacking my own thread-

Books I keep returing to are Thea Beckman's Kruistocht In Spijkerbroek (Crusade In Jeans; never go see the movie, please), which is my favourite children's book EVER about a teenager that gets transported to medival times.

And I love Robert Jordan's Wheel Of Time series, which I have started rereading after he passed away two weeks ago. Eleven really thick books.

Most translations by D.T. Suzuki

Some of Alan Watts' stuff

Chuang-tzu's writings

really just particular translations of Eastern philosophy over others. I don't read too many novels.

I will say Marlowe's Dr. Faustus though. I love that play.

I really enjoyed the half of Dostoyevsky's 'The Idiot'. Can never seem to finish that damn book.

Cheesy popular choices? The Kite Runner.

Oh, and shouldn't forget Nagarjuna's middle way stuff - Garfield's translation. That shit even makes complete sense to me now.

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favourite 2 growing up

my favourites now

and the artemis fowl series by eoin colfer


i just love kids books

prb said:

Try Keys To The Kingdom by Garth Nix. Really fun series.

HamsterHuey said:

thx - its on my list!
im actually waiting 4 the whole series 2 finish 1st- only up 2 lady friday here at the moment- 2 more 2 go

i also love his dark materials -by philip pullman(but u already knew that ) and the bartemaeus (sp?) trilogy by jonathan stroud

just 2 name a few

My Grandfather is in the second one.

"The wind-up bird chronicles" Haruki Murakami

'If on a winter's night a traveller" Italo Calvino

I can't name just one....

I love:
Soul on Ice -- Eldridge Cleaver
The Bell Jar -- Sylvia Plath
The Beautiful and The Damned -- F Scott Fitzgerald
Le Petit Prince -- Saint Exupery
The Drowned and the Saved -- Primo Levi
Giovanni's Room -- James Baldwin
The Gita Govinda -- Jayadeva

I'm quite the voracious reader, but I mostly read non-fiction now. But here're my all-time faves:

Fiction

Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov
Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
Stripper Lessons by John O'Brien
Post Office by Charles Bukowski
The Demon by Hubert Selby Jr
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

Nonfiction

STP by Robert Greenwald
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
England's Dreaming by Some Dude Whose Name Escapes Me
The Sound and the Fury (rock journalism anthology)
The Game by Neil Strauss
The Seducer's Diary by Soren Kierkegaard
The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts

THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird


and


THE POWER OF NOW by Eckhart Tolle

when i was 14 i read this book more than eight times..


the best book ever..

Only 2? .... that's a hard ass question...

but I'd say....

Kayleigh said:

what was this about? I know I have read and loved this book

Anne Rice: Interview With The Vampire and Anne Rice: The Queen Of The Damned.