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Jen0125
01/11/18 12:17:33 PM
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i want to buy some books because me and @RCtheWSBC are supposed to read a book a month

please recommend me something

i like most genres. i like historical memoirs a lot. anything is good though.
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RCtheWSBC
01/11/18 12:18:52 PM
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Read any Kurt Vonnegut novels?

I'm reading And Then There Were None right now.
I'll recommend The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway.
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MannerSaurus
01/11/18 12:19:41 PM
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"What it is Like to Go to War" by Karl Marlantes is a book I read in nearly one sitting. He goes into the psychology of being a warrior, and how PTSD didn't strike him until years and years later out of the war when he finally turned that part of himself off. (While trying to survive in combat, all they cared about was winning and keeping as many of "their team" alive. Killing the Vietcong was just a scoreboard for him in combat, because he wanted to survive. Many years later, he suddenly saw the scared and horrified face of a "Vietnamese boy" that he killed in place of the face of all of his coworkers and stuff. It just happened at random.) He talks about how he wishes the military had taught them not just how to kill someone effectively, but the spiritual side of understanding why you have to take a human life, and that that would help veterans better compartmentalize their experience. Really intense stuff.
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Kungfu Kenobi
01/11/18 12:19:59 PM
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Jen0125 posted...
i like historical memoirs a lot


Ass Goblins of Auschwitz.
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Jen0125
01/11/18 12:20:59 PM
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RCtheWSBC posted...
Read any Kurt Vonnegut novels?

I'm reading And Then There Were None right now.


i don't think i have.

the description to that book sounds interesting. i'll probably pick it up but don't know if i'll start that one tonight.

Kungfu Kenobi posted...
Ass Goblins of Auschwitz.


i'm not sure if this is a joke lmao but i have read hundreds of holocaust memoirs. i actually purchased a book at the holocaust museum in washington dc and met the woman who wrote it.
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MannerSaurus
01/11/18 12:21:16 PM
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Kungfu Kenobi posted...
Jen0125 posted...
i like historical memoirs a lot


Ass Goblins of Auschwitz.


... I thought you were making this up, until I looked it up. Aaaaand good night.
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RCtheWSBC
01/11/18 12:22:22 PM
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Jen0125 posted...
i don't think i have.

Look into Mother Night or Slaughterhouse Five.

The Awakening by Kate Chopin is relatively short. I really enjoyed the themes of it.
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Far-Queue
01/11/18 12:22:45 PM
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City of Thieves by David Benioff
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Jen0125
01/11/18 12:22:58 PM
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MannerSaurus posted...
Kungfu Kenobi posted...
Jen0125 posted...
i like historical memoirs a lot


Ass Goblins of Auschwitz.


... I thought you were making this up, until I looked it up. Aaaaand good night.


lmfao i just did too
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Mead
01/11/18 12:24:00 PM
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Ready player one
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Jen0125
01/11/18 12:46:25 PM
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Zangulus posted...

The Tales of Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever by Stepen R Donaldson


based on your description i might buy this lmao it sounds like a doozy
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Jen0125
01/11/18 12:50:21 PM
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Zangulus posted...
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist


i've seen this movie. i'll probably pass on the book.

Zangulus posted...
Handling the Dead by John Ajvide Lindqvist


this sounds interesting

Zangulus posted...
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski


i am reading digitally so i'll probably pass on this one too
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Jen0125
01/11/18 12:55:14 PM
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i've seen both movies too. the dutch and the english one.
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gguirao
01/11/18 12:56:00 PM
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Check out the three books in The Divine Comedy, especially Inferno.
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NightShift
01/11/18 12:56:23 PM
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RCtheWSBC
01/11/18 1:03:07 PM
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gguirao posted...
Check out the three books in The Divine Comedy, especially Inferno.

Have you read The Dante Club? It's a good read if you enjoy Inferno.
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shadowsword87
01/11/18 1:20:12 PM
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If you want historical memoir stuff, you absolutely need to check out The Bloody White Baron by James Palmer.
Follow a man go slowly (or quickly) crazy as he goes into the bumf*** nowhere Siberia and believes himself to be the reincarnation of Genghis Khan in the 1920s during the Russian Revolution!

https://www.amazon.com/Bloody-White-Baron-Extraordinary-Nobleman/dp/0465022073
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Jen0125
01/11/18 1:24:25 PM
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im gonna add a lot of these to my wishlist. i bought the agatha christie one and the thomas covenant one for now

keep suggesting though!
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shadowsword87
01/11/18 1:26:14 PM
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Oh, there's my absolute favorite book that is kinda dumb but awesome anyway.

Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky.
You want to know about how salt changed the world? The historical significance of salt? The history of salt production? Modern techniques for salt mining? This is the book for you!
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Revelation34
01/11/18 1:43:43 PM
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Read everything by Kurt Vonnegut. Literally everything.
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ss4parrothair
01/11/18 1:43:51 PM
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Go Dog Go
Hop on Pop
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Doctor Foxx
01/11/18 1:48:03 PM
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If you want a good book with all the sad feels I'd suggest The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein. It's a book narrated by a dog.

I liked the Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson. It was absolutely brutal at points and hard to put down. No idea if the 2 new Millennium books are worth a read.
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supergamer19
01/11/18 1:50:08 PM
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https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/3-poll-of-the-day/76154687
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Doctor Foxx
01/11/18 1:50:49 PM
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Zangulus posted...
Jurassic Park and The Lost World by Michael Chriton. The books have significantly different portions. The second book ends so much better.

Lots of Crichton's stuff is worth a read imo. There's nothing quite like scifi focusing on the pitfalls of technological advancement as written by a paranoid medical doctor. Is it particularly well written? Not always. But it is interesting, and usually easy enough to read at a good pace. He was doing Black Mirror first.

I could suggest my top dozen Crichton novels here
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Troll_Police_
01/11/18 2:01:12 PM
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Prince of throns
King of thorns
Emperor of thorns
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solid_kush
01/11/18 2:03:19 PM
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Punisher Max by Garth Ennis
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LeningradCowboy
01/11/18 2:21:38 PM
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No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai.
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Smarkil
01/11/18 2:45:11 PM
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Mead
01/11/18 2:46:32 PM
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smarkil are you ok
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Revelation34
01/11/18 3:00:52 PM
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Zangulus posted...
Jurassic Park and The Lost World by Michael Chriton. The books have significantly different portions. The second book ends so much better.


Ugh. That adaptation was so bad considering how much they changed.
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Greenfox111
01/11/18 3:15:14 PM
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Doctor Foxx posted...
If you want a good book with all the sad feels I'd suggest The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein. It's a book narrated by a dog.

I liked the Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson. It was absolutely brutal at points and hard to put down. No idea if the 2 new Millennium books are worth a read.

wait wait let me guess
the dog dies
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Smarkil
01/11/18 3:17:24 PM
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Mead posted...
smarkil are you ok


ty4CdxV
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Doctor Foxx
01/11/18 3:26:47 PM
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Greenfox111 posted...
Doctor Foxx posted...
If you want a good book with all the sad feels I'd suggest The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein. It's a book narrated by a dog.

I liked the Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson. It was absolutely brutal at points and hard to put down. No idea if the 2 new Millennium books are worth a read.

wait wait let me guess
the dog dies

Nah! That's not what's sad in the book for sure
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AllstarSniper32
01/11/18 3:27:57 PM
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The Gladiator by Harry Turtledove.
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Steven010702
01/11/18 3:44:14 PM
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The Alchemist
The Shadow of the Wind
American Gods
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InfestedAdam
01/11/18 4:01:54 PM
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Jen0125 posted...
i like historical memoirs a lot

Not exactly historical but I enjoyed Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond. It goes over why different regions in the world are now at different development level despite some having a headstart over others.

There's also The Circle by Dave Eggers which given our society nowadays, I can almost imagine it being an alternative version of how things could potentially be.
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kind9
01/11/18 4:28:22 PM
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Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
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OmegaTomHank
01/11/18 4:29:05 PM
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thedeerzord
01/11/18 4:29:38 PM
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The Witcher, Star Wars, and Halo: New Blood.
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Smarkil
01/11/18 4:37:37 PM
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thedeerzord posted...
The Witcher, Star Wars, and Halo: New Blood.


can you read those books if youre not a virgin?
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Lokarin
01/11/18 5:20:04 PM
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Haunted, by Chuck Palahniuk
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