Books you cant put down?

[onogs33]

Just finished "Mystic River" by Dennis Lehane and it took me 2 days. Its the only book in a long time that kept my interest enough to finish it. And there was not a lame ass ending ! Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks is another great read. I suggest both of them. Any others?

[PanterA]

Anything by R.A. Salvatore.

I read all his Forgotten Realms books and I already ordered his next book in The Hunters Blade trilogy. It comes out Oct 25. I cant wait.

Right now I'm reading The Tribune by Patrick Larkin. It's pretty good. Alot of gore and action which is always good. I would suggest it to anyone.

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[ChickenHawk]

I can put pretty much any book down... Reading is gay.

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[El Mudo]

Bruce Catton's "Army of the Potomac" Trilogy, composed of "Mr. Lincoln's Army", "Glory Road", and "A Stillness at Appomattox", which won a Pulitzer Prize. I've been reading these books since i was a kid, and theyre still fantastic. He's got this great set of lines in "Glory Road" about the Iron Brigade marching into battle on the First day of Gettysburg that are some of the most beautifully crafted words ever written...If i wasn't moving and had them already packed up, i'd put it here...

It's almost as beautiful as that great set of prose by Faulkner in "Intruder in the Dust" about how for every southern boy, its still 1 PM before Pickett's charge...

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[Yerdaddy]

Just about anything Hemmingway. "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," "Pudd'nhead Wilson / and Those Remarkable Twins" and "Letters From Earth" by Mark Twain. "Juicy Asses" I usually can't put down because it's stuck to my fingers. Anything Elmore Leonard. And the first book I ever read in one day was "Silence of the Lambs," by Thomas Harris, which I followed up with "Red Dragon" in a day and "Hannibal" in two. "The Prize" by Daniel Yergin was a real page turner, but there were so many pages that I did take a long break halfway through it. There was a series called the "Buru Quartet," by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, about an Indonesian growing up in the era of Indonesian independence from the Dutch. I thought it was going to be tedious, but I ended up hooked on the books until I read them all. The guy was a beautiful writer.

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[Poma]

I don't read books, but one book did catch my eye, it's called "Super System" by the greatest poker player of all time doly brunson. Basically its the best guide to every single poker game in the world and it will help u win, i garauntee it!

[Poma]

oh also anything doctor seuss and winnie the pooh

[shamus mcfitzy]

I'm just getting to reading "Moneyball", the book about Billy Beane and how his ideas (which he stole) have revolutionized baseball. It's a really good read.

[TheMojoPin]

Isn't it woefully clear at this point that NOBODY on this board can fucking read?

And I just finished the new collection of the best articles from "Vice" magazine.

Check it out. They got reeshy to pose for the cover.

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[Death Metal Moe]

A book covered in Krazy Glue?

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[A.J.]

The Bible. I can't wait to see how it ends!

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[Yerdaddy]

I can't wait to see how it ends!

For you, good. For me, not so good. But thank God it's fiction.

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[Mike Teacher]

I want to read a lot of the fiction mentioned here, but I can get past the god damn non-fiction.

Christ does everyone gotta write 10 books on every event that ever happened? Well, I guess so.

The last fiction I read was American Gods; which reminded me that there are fantastic fiction writers out there, and I should read more fiction.

But when you hear some of what's listed above like 'A Stillness At Appomattox' <--wow did I butcher that

That to me is the shiz-nitt, because it Really Happened. I know it's weird, I dont understand myself, but I'm a history junkie. I can't get enough.

Example: How good are you guys at Jeopardy? Well, Mike the Teacher WILL run the category if its Chemistry.

But,
Shakespeare?
Mythology?
Authors?
Most Sports?
European History [beside science or war stuff]?


and about 20 more? I just stare at the screen like Jan Brady as Marcia yells 'Baton Rouge! Baton Rouge!' [nice brady ref, eh?]

Actually, I'm invited to go on-air with R+F and I want to bring a Game Show. It will most likely be stuff like the above, what ED Hirsch Calls 'Cultural Literacy'

He means yes, we can read and write and know things about our lives, but how much do we know about our world culture.

OK Here's an expample. Actually fuck it. I derailed this thread. I'm going to start a new one.

Seeya!!!

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[A.J.]

I just stare at the screen like Jan Brady as Marcia yells 'Baton Rouge! Baton Rouge!' [nice brady ref, eh?]

Cindy, not Jan, was the one who froze on TV.

I'm sorry I knew that.

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[TrailerTrash]

Two of my favorites are Kafka's _The Metamorphosis_ which I've read like 7 or 8 times and Seamus Heaney's translation of _Beowulf_ - it rules!

What's the deal with _Catcher in the Rye_? I've read it twice and both times, when I got to the end, I was like 'yeah... ok, now what"?

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[neoprosto]

Clancy. Clancy. All things Clancy.
Grisham. Overrated, but Grisham.
A tad little bit of Carl Hiaasen, especially liked the one with the litterer.
Most of Raymond Chandler.
Try Scott Turow.

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[blakjeezis]

Example: How good are you guys at Jeopardy?


I'm the Jeopardy fuckin' mastah, and I'm not afraid to say it! I cannot be beaten. Just waitin' for my call, man, just waitin' for my call.

As far as books go the "The Long Short War" by Christopher Hitchens was tough to put down, but it was more of a pamphlet than a book, a series of essays. "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" I read twice the week it came out. And "Survivor" by Chuck Palahniuk (sp?) was excellent.

And Mojo, I started reading the "Vice" book in Border's the other day. I would have purchased it, but funds were running a bit low at that point. At least I learned how to properly suck dick now though.

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[Uncle Smokey]

Just about anything Hemmingway. "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," "Pudd'nhead Wilson / and Those Remarkable Twins" and "Letters From Earth" by Mark Twain. "Juicy Asses" I usually can't put down because it's stuck to my fingers. Anything Elmore Leonard. And the first book I ever read in one day was "Silence of the Lambs," by Thomas Harris, which I followed up with "Red Dragon" in a day and "Hannibal" in two. "The Prize" by Daniel Yergin was a real page turner, but there were so many pages that I did take a long break halfway through it.

This is so similar to the list I would have given that it's creepy. I'll just add in the last few books by James Ellroy and Richard Price, Don Delillo's Mao II, Libra and Underworld, and anything by Richard Ben Cramer. Ohhh and some of Joan Didion too...Im thinking Slouching Toward Bethlehem, Miami, and Salvador.

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[TheMojoPin]

And Mojo, I started reading the "Vice" book in Border's the other day. I would have purchased it, but funds were running a bit low at that point. At least I learned how to properly suck dick now though.

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I forget who brought it up, but I almost always pick up non-fiction before fiction, specificially fiction, cultural studies, current events, etc.. Real life just always seems so much more exciting and interesting to me.

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[high fly]

I loves my Hemmingway, LeCarre, Deighton. There's just so many.
Then in non-fiction, you ain't read about WWII unless you've read a few of the books by Robert Leckie who was in the !st Marine Division in the Pacific.
I just read The Physics Of Baseball, 'twas fascinating, although some of the math I've forgotten and it was funny to be reading some explanation, be following the math, then suddenly be lost, completely lost and not be able to get back on track.
I like reading books on all periods of history. One thing I like to do is to read about a period or subject that I know little about.

That so many on the board do not read is both pathetic and obvious.



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[East Side Dave]

I like picture books. But I can still put them down! I have hands, don't I?! Well, don't I?!?!?! Hahahahaaha!!!!








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[Death Metal Moe]

I haven't read a book in years. I'm a little ashamed to admit it, but I just haven't.

But when I read them, I couldn't out down both of Howard Stern's books, The Hobbit and the Ring's Trilogy by Tolkein. All 6 great in their own way.

Too bad Howard is a parody of himself now. And to bad Tolkein is dead.

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[stickyfingers]

"Teusdays with Morrie" by sportswriter Mitch Albom

has nothing to do with sports and is the only book i've ever read in one day

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[JustJon]

Dick and Jane

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[squrl]

"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson. It's short about 200 pages but I read it twice in two days. Boy do I miss college.

[reeshy]

One of my all time favorites is "Moby Dick"!! I have read that book from cover to cover at least 5 times over the years and each and every time I get something different from it. The imagery, the symbolism, the way the words are crafted... nothing short of a masterpiece!!!

BTW, Bunny, Clancy is going the way of King...he's running out of material and is writing strictly for the money!!!

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[JohnnyCash]

The Last Party by John Harrris. All about the Brittish rock invasion in early 90's. Lots about Oasis (my favorite band) Blur, Suede, Charltons UK and some others.
The best quotes from the Gallagher brothers...
Really cool stuff and actually a pretty funny book.

Real books make me tired.

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[TheMojoPin]

Hey, my roommates and I all picked up that book a couple months ago, Cash! Good stuff! You should check out "My Magpie Eyes Are Hungry For The Prize: The Creation Records Story" if you liked "The Last Party"...

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[Se7en]

I'm currently reading Cyril Falls "The Great War", along with Jack McDevitt's "Moonfall", and the 2nd Billy Chaka mystery (I didn't even know the 2nd & 3rd had come out until I visited the bookstore the other day) "Hokkaido Popsicle" by Isaac Adamson.

Oh, and I'm rereading some of the old Sherlock Holmes stories as I just recently scored a copy of "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" that BBC Radio did a few years back, with full cast dramatization. Huzzah!

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[JohnnyCash]

Thanks Mojo. Iv seen a bunch of books on the subject and The Last Party was the first good one i read. I'll check out the one you mentioned.

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[carcass]

I think it was called the beach or something...set on longg island

another was not a penny more not a penny less

art fraud ..

face down in the gutter
wont admit defeat
thou his clothes are soiled and black
he's a big strong man , w/ a childs mind
dont you take his booze away

[shamus mcfitzy]

Now I'm reading "How 2 Take an Exam....& Remake the World" by Bertell Ollman, the communist.....that one's self-explanatory

i'm also reading "Bringing Down the House" by Ben Mezrich. That's the one about the MIT students who came up with a formula for Blackjack to win millions in Vegas. It's gonna be a movie but i don't know what they'll call it, because Queen Latifah was in "Bringin' Down the House" already.

[Crippler]

I just finished Michael Crichton's Andromeda Strain...it definitely qualified as a "can't put it down" right until the end, when it became something of a disappointment. But I'll bet it would make a great movie these days.

Now I'm in search of more books like this. I love books based in science, but the "science fiction" section of any bookstore is so littered with Star Wars & Star Trek style science fiction that I hate...anyone have any suggestions?

Example: How good are you guys at Jeopardy? Well, Mike the Teacher WILL run the category if its Chemistry.

Not so fast, big man. :)

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[JustJon]

Crippler,

Ever check out any cyberpunk novels? If not check out, William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling and Rudy Rucker. Varying levels of science based fiction.

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[Se7en]

I strongly recommend "Cryptonomicon" by Neal Stephenson. The novel jumps back and forth between World War 2 and to the present - although the present in this book is actually set a few years in the future. Not really a whole lot of "cyberpunk" stuff in there, as portions of it are set only in the near future, but there's a lot of fun stuff with cryptography, and all of the WW2 stuff is golden.

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[nycenice]

i like The Da Vinci code by dan brown which has a story built around factual documents and paintings such as the dead sea scrools and the like and thier content. points out how christianity has a lot of half truth's and some straight out lies in it. also the bear and the dragon by tom clancy is my favorite all time book

[gypsy]

I just finished reading "The Prophet," by Gibran

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[carcass]

yeah clancy rocks....

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Spicy was big, burly, and strong. His pipes were gigantic and so was his schlong...

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[TheGameHHH]

"Tuesdays with Morrie" by sportswriter Mitch Albom

has nothing to do with sports and is the only book i've ever read in one day
I was not impressed by that book at all, we all have people in our lives who touch us in a special, emotional way......i dont need Mitch Albom to write a book about it.
Right now I just started The Da Vinci Code, I should be reading the books I have assigned for school, but fuck that


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Catch 22
Catcher in the Rye
The Hot Zone
The Godfather

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[Yerdaddy]

I just finished Michael Crichton's Andromeda Strain...it definitely qualified as a "can't put it down" right until the end, when it became something of a disappointment. But I'll bet it would make a great movie these days.
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[Justice4all]

I LOVE Stephen King's The Stand..un-edited version.
I have read it about 5 times and I can never just put it down.

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[Crippler]

Andromeda Strain, The (1971)

Thanks, Yerdaddy...I was aware of the fact that it was made into a movie back when it was written...but can't you just see the randomly cheesy bubbling colored test tubes and all the stuff that makes old sci-fi so laughable? I meant that with today's technology it could probably be made to look very compelling.

Ever check out any cyberpunk novels? If not check out, William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling and Rudy Rucker. Varying levels of science based fiction

Jon, no I haven't read any of these works, but thanks for the heads-up...I will certainly look into them when I'm next in search of a novel.

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[Yerdaddy]

I was aware of the fact that it was made into a movie back when it was written...but can't you just see the randomly cheesy bubbling colored test tubes and all the stuff that makes old sci-fi so laughable? I meant that with today's technology it could probably be made to look very compelling.

I haven't seen it in 20 years, but I don't remember it being cheezy at all. It had the feel of Kubrick's 2001 or a Twilight Zone episode. It's one of those movies like Westworld, that, even if I can't remember the whole story, I will always remember some scenes and the creepy intensity of the movie. If you get a chance to see the movie, don't pass it up. It's damn good.

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[Mike Teacher]

I haven't seen it in 20 years, but I don't remember it being cheezy at all. It had the feel of Kubrick's 2001 or a Twilight Zone episode. It's one of those movies like Westworld, that, even if I can't remember the whole story, I will always remember some scenes and the creepy intensity of the movie. If you get a chance to see the movie, don't pass it up. It's damn good.


It Does look a bit dated, but stands up pretty damned good. Yes it looks like the 1970's view of the Future, and that dates it.
Damn Kubrick really dated 2001 by having Men in all the important positions, and women are relegated to stewardesses, or food servers, etc...

Anyway; it's the classic beginning of Michael Chrichton: Put a bunch of people in a situation where the high-techology goes batshit, making a rescue necesary, usually from an unusual hi-tech environment.

Jurassic Park [good movie, MUCH better book]
Andromeda Strain
Timeline [a KICK-ASS book, wow what a movie it would make]
Sphere [movie blew donkey]
Coma [pretty cool movie]
Westworld [gotta love it]

The theme remains the same.

Rent it, if you're obsessive about cleanliness, you'll LOVE/HATE it!

Chrichton Trivia:

The guys a friggin MD who started writing when he got bored with being an MD. He does have at least one non-fiction book out ['Five Patients'] about the Medical Profession.

He's Very Tall, and Very recently Divorced.

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[high fly]

The best war vstories are the true ones.
Check out We Were Soldiers Once...And Young.

" and they ask me why I drink"

[JustJon]

Timeline [a KICK-ASS book, wow what a movie it would make]
I saw the trailer before School of Rock. It'll be out later this year.

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[Crippler]

I just finished Michael Crichton's Andromeda Strain...it definitely qualified as a "can't put it down" right until the end, when it became something of a disappointment. But I'll bet it would make a great movie these days.

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Thanks, Yerdaddy...I was aware of the fact that it was made into a movie back when it was written...but can't you just see the randomly cheesy bubbling colored test tubes and all the stuff that makes old sci-fi so laughable? I meant that with today's technology it could probably be made to look very compelling.

I haven't seen it in 20 years, but I don't remember it being cheezy at all. It had the feel of Kubrick's 2001 or a Twilight Zone episode. It's one of those movies like Westworld, that, even if I can't remember the whole story, I will always remember some scenes and the creepy intensity of the movie. If you get a chance to see the movie, don't pass it up. It's damn good.

I guess I got my wish, Michael Crichton's Andromeda Strain has been remade & will be airing on A&E tomorrow at 9pm, with the second part airing Tuesday. Comments from IMDB users in other countries where it has already aired don't sound too good, but I'm avoiding reading too much until after I've seen it myself.

IMDB page for Andromeda Strain 2008 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424600/)

Some names you'll know (Benjamin Bratt, Rick Schroeder, Eric McCormack of Will & Grace fame) and some more you'll recognize even if you don't know their names (Christa Miller from Scrubs, Daniel Dae Kim from Lost, Andre Braugher from Homicide and more recently The Mist & the Second Fantastic 4 movie). Seems like a good cast, I hope they do the book justice.

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2) Enders Game

3) Swan Song, The Wolfs Hour (Robert McCammon)

3) All 3 Dan Brown Novels

5) Paratwa Trilogy (Christopher Hinz)

6) Old Mans War (John Scalzi)

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The boys despised everything their elders valued. They scorned beauty and mocked goodness. They would hoot with laughter at the sight of a cripple, and if they saw a wounded animal they would stone it to death. They boasted of injuries and wore their scars with pride, and they reserved their special admiration for mutilation: a boy with a finger missing could be their king. They loved violence; they would run miles to see bloodshed; and they never missed a hanging.