Reading

[Caciss]

Is cool.

I've been reading Paradise Lost because I've heard it mentioned several times here. It's okay.

So, recommend some stuff, which I'll be bound to check out after I read more Ralph Waldo Emerson.

And... proceed.

Oh, you can also totally hijack the topic if you want, I don't care.

[hitogoroshi]

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Reading is cool.
The Bartimaeus trilogy is a good read. Also Abarat.

[jvrlopez]

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Paradise Lost is good. I like John Milton.

I'm reading some of William Blake's work as well as other english poets such as John Donne and William Wordsworth.

I'd recommend them, and would especially recommend you read William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience (check out his varying illuminations of his writings, cool stuff.)

http://www.blakearchive.org/cgi-bin/...onView;cv=java

[Shard]

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Well I won't pass on the chance to pimp Robert Louis Stephenson. His craftsmanship just awes me. Read The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde here for free: http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0geutAf.u...c/SteJekl.html

I was mildly interested in Bernard-Henri Levy's American Vertigo, until I learned more about it. However, it did stoke my curiosity about Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America. I'll pick that up sooner or later.

[highwind]

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I don't read anything.

[MC Ardle84]

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Ah, Paradise Lost. I love it.

I'm reading Romance of the Three Kingdoms, I got it for Christmas. On page 400 of 2489.

Gonna be a loooooonnnnnnnggggg read.

[jvrlopez]

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Also reading On The Road by Jack Kerouac.

Check out him and Allen Ginsberg as well other Beat poets.

[Vonwert]

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Weathering Heights is really good.

[highwind]

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Ah, Paradise Lost. I love it.

I'm reading Romance of the Three Kingdoms, I got it for Christmas. On page 400 of 2489.

Gonna be a loooooonnnnnnnggggg read.

daaaaaaaaaaaaamn.

[RPGD]

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I don't really read much in the way of modern literature. I prefer the works of the old masters like Vern, Conan Doyle an Dickens.

Go read Great Expectations and Around the World in 80 Days now.

AND DO NOT CHEAT BY WATCHING MOVIES BASED ON THEM.

[Kefka Jr.]

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Emerson's cool. Better than that DOUCHE, Thoreau.

Give Kurt Vonnegut a read. I've only read Cat's Cradle and Slaughter-house Five, but that's enough for me to consider him my favorite author.

[Translucid]

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Ah, Paradise Lost. I love it.

I'm reading Romance of the Three Kingdoms, I got it for Christmas. On page 400 of 2489.

Gonna be a loooooonnnnnnnggggg read.

Oh god. I got through about 50 pages before I stopped. It was volume two of the set, I couldn't find the first one. The writing style was too archaic for me, although I may pick it up again.

Also, Catch-22 is a hella tight read.

[The Dark Jester]

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I was reading Naked Lunch and got about half way through.


I need to finish it.

that book is ****ed up.

[Roland Of Gilead]

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Stephen King, Stephen King, and Stephen King. All of his books and short storys are great. Also, Chuck Palahniuk is excellent.

[Snarf]

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I love Romantic poetry like Colridge, Wordsworth and Byron. I also *very* much enjoy Poe.

I havent read many "classics". Dante's Inferno is great, Frankenstein, The Good Earth. I really enjoy those. I have read all of Jane Austens books except one.

Modern books, I would have to say my favorite story teller is Stephen King. His older stuff cause his newer pieces are lacking. William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Clive Barker, Robin Cook etc. So yeah, I like horror and scifi.

Oh and I like Robert Blake as well.