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Old 08.09.2007, 10:41 PM   #1
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i need to read a few books over the rest of the summer. any suggestions for a good quick read?
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Old 08.09.2007, 11:21 PM   #2
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What type are you looking for?
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Old 08.09.2007, 11:30 PM   #3
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fiction. maybe 60s 70s era.
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Old 08.09.2007, 11:36 PM   #4
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Cuckoo's Nest was pretty good.
Do some Vonnegut. I liked Cat's Cradle
Umm I know no more. My mind is tired.
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Old 08.09.2007, 11:42 PM   #5
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i have already read those. but thanks anyways
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Old 08.09.2007, 11:49 PM   #6
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Valley of the Dolls- I've heard is good.
In Cold Blood- Capote
The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath(Higly Recomended)
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Old 08.09.2007, 11:50 PM   #7
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Old 08.10.2007, 12:11 AM   #8
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Try Now Wait For Last Year by Phillip K Dick. It's science fiction that came out around that timeframe, but if you like mind-alter(ed)(ing) books about drugs, it's hard to beat. First Dick book I read, and still my favorite even over Valis.
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Old 08.10.2007, 12:13 AM   #9
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Dead-Air, I've been meaning to get into P.K.D. any suggestions on where I should start?
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Old 08.10.2007, 12:31 AM   #10
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Dead-Air, I've been meaning to get into P.K.D. any suggestions on where I should start?

Heh. See above. Seriously, Now Wait for Last Year is brilliant.

Valis is considered by many his masterwork, but I would start with a few easier reads (not that you couldn't handle it, just that it pays to get to know him first.) Keep in mind that he wrote a lot of books on speed to pay the bills, so he reused a few plots at times. Still though many of those books are flawed, they still have great paranoid bits of altered reality making them worthwhile.

His other most critically acclaimed book is The Man in the High Castle, which is a more "traditional" read. It's an alternate history where we lost WWII, which was a lot more of an original idea when he wrote the book than it might seem today.

I've actually never read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, out of fear Bladerunner might ruin it for me. Still, it's supposed to be quite good.

Ubik is another good weird, druggy, SF book about the nature of consciousness.
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Old 08.10.2007, 12:50 AM   #11
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D-A, I've not seen Blade Runner, but Androids is one of my favourite books of all-time. I never tire of 'pimping' it haha.
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Old 08.10.2007, 12:53 AM   #12
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Old 08.10.2007, 01:12 AM   #13
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Try some Thomas Pynchon. He's pretty great.
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Old 08.10.2007, 01:16 AM   #14
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Well.. it's probably trendy, but one of my all time favorite books is the Nova Express.. simultaneously hilarious and frightening, I think it's Burroughs's best work.. he takes me to a whole new world with it... it's amazing.. it's really short but infinitely readable with new feelings and textures expressed every time you read it.. depending on my mood, it feels like a completely different book every time.. yeah..
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Old 08.10.2007, 08:59 AM   #15
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Old 08.10.2007, 09:26 AM   #16
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'siddarta' by herman hess for a quick read
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Old 08.12.2007, 10:15 PM   #19
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The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath(Higly Recomended)

so i took your advice and read this over the weekend. i really did enjoy it. the way her insanity is so casually described sort of justifies it.

anyways i'm working towards reading some of everyone's recommendations. they all seem fantastic.
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Old 08.12.2007, 11:14 PM   #20
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Yes it was really well written. I am thinking of buying a book of short stories of hers that I saw recently on the bookstore.
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