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Sister Ray
Joined: 25 Mar 2006
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| Svetlana wrote: |
| The Brothers Karamazov |
You've never read this?
I implore you to make haste to Kyobo and pick yourself up a copy.
It's unfeasibly good. |
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stevemcgarrett
Joined: 24 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:16 am Post subject: |
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Talk about judging a book (or CD) by its cover! How can you possibly know whether it's great until you actually read it? Lame thread.
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garygoodbloke
Joined: 15 Jan 2007
Location: Sydney, Australia
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| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 2:55 am Post subject: |
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1. Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov
2. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
The best books you've NEVER read. Everyone's read those (or are people really bigger morons than I give them credit for?) |
Fair point, missed that 'N' from skimming. That's was a constructive and helpful reply. While we're on the subject could you please explain how you would know which is the best book you've never read. Let's start a new post, best life changing moments that never never happened to you. I suppose reputations or the status quo is important to making a book the best. Okay, so I'm stung, but it wasn't a fair call by Mack the knife. So I re-post,
1. War & Peace
2. The truth of misnomers by Harding Miston, never even heard of it, potentially the best book I have never read, I know because I don't knw it exists.
Best girlfriend I never had: Holly Pickton - I have no idea who she is and where she is from, assuming she is still 'is' and not 'was'. It haunts me every day
Best post I never wrote: this one, because I wrote it and it sucked  |
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mack the knife
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 5:19 am Post subject: |
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| Fair point, missed that 'N' from skimming. That's was a constructive and helpful reply. While we're on the subject could you please explain how you would know which is the best book you've never read. Let's start a new post, best life changing moments that never never happened to you. I suppose reputations or the status quo is important to making a book the best. Okay, so I'm stung, but it wasn't a fair call by Mack the knife. |
Jesus. H. Christ.
The best book YOU'VE NEVER read. I'VE read it. YOU haven't. Does this clear things up? God. Damn. Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away? |
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ernie
Joined: 05 Aug 2006
Location: asdfghjk
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| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 5:38 am Post subject: |
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Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson) the best book from one of the best writers around... fast paced, visionary, philosophical sci fi
The Shape of Punk to Come (Refused) uberpolitical swedish hardcore punk/metal/jazz?... the best album of the 90s...
Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick) the least celebrated but darkest and earliest feature from the master... so many classic lines and peter sellers' does it all... |
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garygoodbloke
Joined: 15 Jan 2007
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Fair enough, I know its against the law to say this on the net but I made a mistake, wasn't thinking too sharply about it. So, sorry dude, still don't reckon you need to be hostile about it but whatever man, if that's your style. You were right. Also you I agree that most people have read those books, I still think they deserve a shout out though. If you haven't then they definitely deserve to go on the list. I've got a good book recommendation:
Mindhunter by John Douglas, true crime.
I don't normally enjoy this genre, most of it seems over-the-top and sensationalist to me. This one was right on the money though. one of those rivetting books that can be harrowing at times but ultimately challenged some of the views I had about the human condition, it could do the same for you. I tried his other stuff but he used all his A material in this one. |
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andy1111
Joined: 14 Dec 2006
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Book, Touching the Void by Jo Simpson. About a guy who breaks his leg whilst climbing one of the highest peaks in Peru back in 1985. This is a true story about how he survived and got down off the mountain on his own.
Mountaineering books will tell you that if you break your leg on top of a mountain, your a dead man. If your companion trys to help you down, he's dead also.
It's an astonishing tale of extra-ordinary grim determination. Quite harrowing at times. Pushes back the boundries of human physical and mental indurance. Is now embedded in mountaineering legend in Britain. Would recommend this to anyone.
Film, Amadeus. brilliant protrayal of the genius, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, at work, twixed with Selieri's (a fellow composer) jelousy.
Album, no matter |
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mack the knife
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Fair enough, I know its against the law to say this on the net but I made a mistake, wasn't thinking too sharply about it. |
Indeed. Heads MUST roll. It's the LAW. |
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