Hey Tosser/HPN/Idi, your moments of lucidity kind of scare me.
ham on rye by charles bukowski
love is a dog from hell, also by charles bukowski
naked lunch by williams s burroughs
the road by cormac mccarthy
the plague by camus
for whom the bell tolls by hemingway
catcher in the rye by salinger
the dark tower series by stephen king
dragon weather by lawrence watt-evans
dracula by brahm stoker
at the mountains of madness by lovecraft
the metamorphosis by kafka
my ishmael by daniel quinn
i am not HPN or Idi. and i haven’t read any HPN posts and barely remember any of the recent from Idi, for the moment. since i’m so frequently compared to HPN, i’m kind of curious if you could quote some notable posts by him.
also, Nietschesaurus posted many good ones. i decided to follow the rules in this thread, though.
oops, one book? i must have misread. i would have to pick my ishmael by daniel quinn. it’s not particularly notable in many ways, but the message of the book is deafening and i think that everybody should read it at least once.
jsut keepin it real, man. just keeping it real. also stop accusing me of being people at least 33% of those people are not me
how could you ever mistake anyone for idi/hpn? hes way more awesome than anyone else here
The unabridged Arabian Nights as translated by Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, my personal hero. It is a badass middle eastern fairytale that real men have read to them as a bedtime story. Beautiful poetry, fascinating narrative, and a complex structure give it extremely high marks from me. And seriously, check out this guy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Francis_Burton
TL;DR? He escaped from some savages with a spear through his face.
World War Z
Check out a book called Crash by J.G. Ballard. You’ll be glad (?) you did.
The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert.
A fascinating read about the real life of Eustace Conway, a man who, since he was a kid, always felt at home in the wilds and when he was 17 decided to live in the wilds for real.
How about “Neverending Story” 
But be warned - the content doesn’t hold up to the title’s promise.
Anthem, They never use the word “I” in the book at all
^^ Actually they do, near the very end around when he discovers the book about Prometheus discovering fire and just before he goes insane and decides the best course of action is to a destructive rampage… ya… I think the ending more or less ruined the entire point of that book.
I’m going to go with “The Stories of Ibis” by Hiroshi Yamamoto. Partly to break up the predictable string of classics, but also because it’s an excellent read. Presents an interesting view on a future where robots have taken over and uses this setting to analyze human nature.
1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein (Warning: This book has a tendancy to leave one suicidally despondant)
Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
hte shock doctrine is wicked good
Foucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco.
lol who reads?
The only books I ever read were…
Holes
1984
Barny’s Adventure
And I regret wasting my time with those. 1984 was pretty good tho, they should make that into a video game. Then I’d be WAY more interested
It was a good book but Surely it’s not the most important one, is it?
1984 is one that everyone should read imo. The movie adaptation that was made in 1984 is quite close to the book too, but it doesn’t substitite reading the whole thing. I found a copy of The Art of War at home, is it worth reading anyone?
Also I recommend reading Do androids dream of electric sheep by Phillip K. Dick, the book that was adapted into Blade Runner.
people who arent fucktards?