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Posted on 5/11/13 at 4:02 pm to InThroughTheOutDore
Posted on 5/11/13 at 4:02 pm to InThroughTheOutDore
Very cool. 
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Posted on 5/11/13 at 4:02 pm to WestCoastAg
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catcher in the rye
I keep trying this one again every few years, but I just find it to be tedious and annoying. Of course, that's probably the point...
Posted on 5/11/13 at 4:04 pm to InThroughTheOutDore
I know a lot of people feel that way, but I just find holden caulfield to be a very interesting character.
Posted on 5/11/13 at 4:06 pm to BluegrassBelle
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The A Song of Ice and Fire series is up there with Storm of Swords being my favorite.
I love the Martin books. Will probably work through them a 3rd time once this season of GoT is over.
I'm also a huge fan of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, though it is much more humor-oriented. Sort of Tolkien meets Douglas Adams...
Posted on 5/11/13 at 4:39 pm to WestCoastAg
Well, it's not Fight Club.
McCarthy's Blood Meridian is certainly up there. Ellis' Rules of Attraction was also entertaining and well done.
Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises for the obnoxious romantic in me.
1984 is one of my favorites to teach.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil was a blast as I was drunk and in Savannah at the time of reading it.
Been reading a bunch of Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman graphic novels lately (Swamp Thing, From Hell, Sandman, etc.)
McCarthy's Blood Meridian is certainly up there. Ellis' Rules of Attraction was also entertaining and well done.
Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises for the obnoxious romantic in me.
1984 is one of my favorites to teach.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil was a blast as I was drunk and in Savannah at the time of reading it.
Been reading a bunch of Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman graphic novels lately (Swamp Thing, From Hell, Sandman, etc.)
This post was edited on 5/11/13 at 4:43 pm
Posted on 5/11/13 at 4:42 pm to tylerdurden24
Catch 22 is up there as well
Posted on 5/11/13 at 4:42 pm to tylerdurden24
quote:I just could not get into this book. I just couldn't get past his writing style for this one.
McCarthy's Blood Meridian
quote:Awesome book
The Sun Also Rises
Posted on 5/11/13 at 4:45 pm to Porter Osborne Jr
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I just could not get into this book. I just couldn't get past his writing style for this one.
English major, creative writing concentration. My taste in literature fluctuates wildly and borders on the bizarre at times
McCarthy is just one of those writers I have a weird fascination with and I have never really understood why.
Another one I love is Tim O'Brien. The Things They Carried, Going After Cacciatto, and In the Lake of the Woods are all on my personal bookshelf.
Posted on 5/11/13 at 4:48 pm to tylerdurden24
It's weird, I loved The Road and thought I would dig Blood Meridian but it just didn't click for me.
Posted on 5/11/13 at 4:50 pm to tylerdurden24
I didn't like Cacciato. The Things they Carried was good, and I thought In the Lake of the Woods was brilliant. When done right, I love minimalist postmodernism. Too many don't know how to do it right, though. Margaret Atwood is pretty good too- I recommend Handmaid's Tale
Posted on 5/11/13 at 5:02 pm to Bama Bird
Some of the lines from In the Lake of the Woods just make me feel inadequate.
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“I cannot remember much, I cannot feel much. Maybe erasure is necessary. Maybe the human spirit defends itself as the body does, attacking infection, enveloping and destroying those malignancies that would otherwise consume us.”
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“("I love you," someone says, and instantly we begin to wonder - "Well, how much?" - and when the answer comes - "With my whole heart" - we then wonder about the wholeness of a fickle heart.) Our lovers, our husbands, our wives, our fathers, our gods - they are all beyond us.”
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“I have tried, of course, to be faithful to the evidence. Yet evidence is not truth. It is only evident.”
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“He wanted to swim through her blood and climb up and down her spine and drink from her ovaries and press his gums against the firm red muscle of her heart.”
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“It was in the nature of love that John Wade went to the war. Not to hurt or be hurt, not to be a good citizen or a hero or a moral man. Only for love. Only to be loved. He imagined his father, who was dead, saying to him, “Well, you did it, you hung in there, and I’m so proud, just so incredibly goddamn proud.” He imagined his mother ironing his uniform, putting it under clear plastic and hanging it in a closet, maybe to look at now and then, maybe to touch. At times too, John imagined loving himself. And never risking the loss of love. And winning forever the love of some secret invisible audience- the people he might meet someday, the people he had already met. Sometimes he did bad things just to be loved, and sometimes he hated himself for needing love so badly.”
Posted on 5/11/13 at 5:14 pm to mwlewis
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Anything Hemingway.
The Old Man and The Sea.
Posted on 5/11/13 at 5:20 pm to DrunkenStuporMan
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The Old Man and The Sea.
Good book. I have that one.
Posted on 5/11/13 at 5:24 pm to Henry Jones Jr
Anything by the great Matt Christopher.
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Posted on 5/11/13 at 5:24 pm to CatFan81
A Confederacy of Dunces or maybe The Firm/The Client.
The Firm was probably the most wrapped up in a book I've ever read to where I couldn't put it down. ACOD is probably my favorite book I've read though.
The Firm was probably the most wrapped up in a book I've ever read to where I couldn't put it down. ACOD is probably my favorite book I've read though.
Posted on 5/11/13 at 5:27 pm to bamafan425
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Matt Christopher.
Spy on Third Base
Posted on 5/11/13 at 5:27 pm to Henry Jones Jr
Around the world in 80 days
A tale of two cities
A tale of two cities
Posted on 5/11/13 at 5:59 pm to Henry Jones Jr
I love the Dark Tower series by Stephen King.
I recently can't get enough of the Mitch Rapp books by Vince Flynn.
I recently can't get enough of the Mitch Rapp books by Vince Flynn.
Posted on 5/11/13 at 6:17 pm to Henry Jones Jr
To Kill a Mockingbird for me. I've read it at least four times. "Scoooout"
Posted on 5/11/13 at 6:17 pm to pvilleguru
LOVE me some Edgar Allan Poe. I could read his stuff every day.
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