Just a question, Im new here and was just wondering what everyone's favorite book(s) is/are and why.
I'd have to say that mine are The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, because Im amazed at the imagination it took to create it, the descriptivness of the story, how I can relate to the characters, and that you can find something new about it everytime that you read it.
Also the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, because they are fun to pick up and read at almost any time and The Pendragon Cycle by Stephen Lawhead, because they are good reads, even though I havent finished the story yet. Also Runaway Jury, by John Grisham because it is also an excellent story.

I liked " Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" By Douglas R. Hofstadter. It's a metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll.

My favourite is George Orwell's 1984. Blair is an excellent writer, and the book is very atmospheric - an essential characteristic for such a disturbing book.

Bloodline of the Holy Grail: The Genealogy of Jesus, by Laurence Gardner

Genesis of the Grail Kings, by Laurence Gardner

The Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark, by Laurence Gardner

Realm of the Ring Lords, by Laurence Gardner

enders game. orson scott card.

How can someone pick just one? There are so many choices that it boggles the mind, so in short order, here are a few of mine:


Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut. The novel in which Kilgore Trout, Vonnegut's alternate personality, dies.
Albert Camus is a personal favorite, so his novel The Stranger goes on my list. Also his book of essays entitled The Myth of Sisyphus.
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. Also Farnham's Freehold.
Insurrection by David Weber, a guilty pleasure, a piece of shit scifi novel that has no redeeming value.
Neil Gaiman's American Gods and Good Omens. But never Stradust, I never understood it's appeal.
Catch-22 by Joseph Hellar. A classic and it never stops being funny.


And that's all I got for you guys right now.

*EDIT* Mad props to my hommie, Douglas Adams.

Originally posted by cosmictraveler
I liked " Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" By Douglas R. Hofstadter. It's a metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll.

That is such a great book. I read it probably about 8 years ago or so. I second your oppinion.

Other than that, hmmm..
Hyperspace is good. (michio kaku) Brian Greene and Paul Davies are both good authors as far as sciences for the layman goes.

Anything published by the hematic order of the golden dawn, or based on its publishing. Crowley is a nut. Israel Regarde is pretty good, but don't waste time with the wicca shit and all that silver ravenwolf and shit like that. If you are going to study the occult, go old school. Ignore this new age bullshit.

Fiction: C.S.Lewis was mentioned. Narnia was a great series. Terry Goodkind is great. Sword of truth series in particular. Piers Anthony is light reading, butif you like puns, Xanth is the way to go. McCaffrey's pern is a great world. You would think its fantasy until you get deeper in to the series. Who else...Pratchett is funny as hell, D. Adams is a must. There is just to many, and I have most of them boxed up right now. I know I am forgetting some great authors though. Those are just what is of the top of my head.

As far as classics go: Well, I am tying to catch up on those now. Hemmingway isn't bad. I've always like hawthorne. Poe was cool when i was alot younger.
other shit:
Freud is an idiot. he needed to be getting therapy, not creating it. (guess that wouldn't work well though) Jung is the way to go. Plato had some neat little tricks. Most of this stuff i forget though. I just remember the concepts and not who did what, so I really can't recomend here.

As a rule, just read it all, good or bad. The more parts you have to work with, the more you can build.


*edit: I must be tired as hell. I hate repeating words like that. Just look at how many times I said great. Yuck..

OK.Finally I get bored enough to reply to this post:

1. James Joyce: Ulysses
2. (Un)Holly Bible (no joke - although I do not like religion, Bible is interesting book)
3. Marquis de Sade: 120 days of Sodome
4. Paul Reps: Zen flesh, zen bones.

I liked Animal Farm by George Orwell

P.S: This is my 600th post... yea.

Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes) and Animal Farm (George Orwell) stand as my two favorite books, currently.

Fiction

Clive Barker: Weaveworld
Madeleine L'Engle: A Wind in the Door
J.D. Salinger: Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpenters, and Seymour
Jack Cady: The Off-Season; The Jonah Watch
Steven Brust: Cowboy Feng's Space Bar & Grille; The Phoenix Guards
Ray Bradbury: Death is a Lonely Business; Graveyard for Lunatics°
Shel Silverstein: The Giving Tree

Non-Fiction

Barry Fell: America, BC
Karen Armstrong: A History of God: The 4,000 Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Jack Cady: The American Writer: Shaping a Nation's Mind
Emma Goldman: Anarchism, and Other Essays
Idries Shah: The Dervish Tales°

These lists are presented "in no particular order". These lists are not definitive, nor are they complete; however, we're not here to discuss my literary theories.

Notes:

° Graveyard for Lunatics is the sequel to Death is a Lonely Business. I recommend reading them in the reverse order. Of course, almost anything by Bradbury belongs on this list, but most notable are The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, R is for Rocket, S is for Space, and Something Wicked This Way Comes.

° The Dervish Tales, while composed mainly of fictional and mythological stories told by religious and metaphysical masters, the volume is presented as a collection of historical examples, and is interspersed with historical footnotes regarding the people each story is attributed to. It's an enlightening work, and can go in either fiction or non. I put it with the latter for its historical and educational value, though that doesn't mean I won't someday read them to my daughter before bed.

Men Among The Ruins- Julius Evola

Unabomber Manifesto- Ted Kaczynski

Hyperspace- Michio Kaku

Beowulf

The Book of Five Rings- Myamoto Mushasi

The Ynglinga Saga

Illuminatus! Trilogy- Robert Anton Wilson

Wheel of Time series

The Will To Power- Frank

1984- George Orwell

Rats In The Walls, The Moutains of Madness, Call of Cthulhu - H.P. Lovecraft

and200x
The Will To Power- Frank


That's Frank with an L at the end.

Never met anyone that's read him.

Scratch that- never meet anyone that fucking reads fucking period. Fucking pity. But anway, wonderful book. I'm fully convinced the ideal place to guage what drives humanity is a concentration camp. Lucky bastard- what I'd do for another genocide just to study the natural reactions of men slowly dying.

never meet anyone that fucking reads fucking period. Fucking pity

you should get out more darling.

the Dervish tales, is that a good starting point with regards to reading about sufism?

I've visited a great sufi several times over the last few years, figure might as well read up on it eh?

Thing is that there are so many different sects within sufism.

Originally posted by gendanken
Lucky bastard- what I'd do for another genocide just to study the natural reactions of men slowly dying.

gendanken, you are messed up, sorry, but you may need just a tad bit of counseling.

Originally posted by gendanken


yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda yaad yadda yaddda yadda yadda yadda yadda yadda

....just ignore her.

genitlewarts:

if you want human condition, take a look at this:

Witness Palestine (http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?threadid=29075)

Wraith:
you should get out more darling.
Pause.

Its my going out that proves to me people don't read anyfuckingmore. Strike one.

....just ignore her.

.....damn near impossible when its a hellcat this fucking fabulous it sickens her subjects..........

genitlewarts:
G-e-n-i-t-a-l, fellow. Genital.

Suggestions: gend the gonad, gend the gonococcus dopest, or guh-gonnorhea altogether.

You lack flavor. Heed to the powerful might of imagination.

Wraith the windigo. Wraith the wrong turn, the writhing maggoto faggotto. Wru-wruh diculous dickless.

Sevi?

if you want human condition, take a look at this:

Witness Palestine
So I take it you are some kind of Arabic empath whose mistakenly believed I'd have feelings for a Palestinian blown to bits on the West bank. What you don't know is that I'd personally blow you all off the face of this planet.



Strike two.


**EDIT**

Mispelled "read" as "ready" and "mistakenly" as "mistakely".

Oooooooh. Aaaaaaahh.

What you don't know is that I'd personally blow you all off the face of this planet.

and what a blow job that'd be.

Its my going out that proves to me people don't ready anyfuckingmore. Strike one.

that would be read then?

So I take it you are some kind of Arabic empath whose mistakely believed I'd have feelings for a Palestinian blown to bits on the West bank.

that would be mistakenly then?

I mistook nothing.

you lack the comlexity to have feelings

Go back to attempting to correct my spelling, like some two bit grade school teacher.

You're out

What you don't know is that I'd personally blow you all off the face of this planet.


*yawn*

I doubt it.

http://www.smh.com.au/ffxImage/urlpicture_id_1047749863489_2003/03/20/baghdad09.jpg

Wru-wrong:
Go back to attempting to correct my spelling, like some two bit grade school teacher.


Yowsa. Quite right: "Read" and "mistakenly"

Get me a new keyboard and you'll no longer have to accuse the gendanken of being some godammned schoolteacher.

You're out

No, actually I'm still in and here's why:

*yawn*

I doubt it.



Your attempts to curb reality with a yawn is the same delusional ploy we Americans kid ourselves with thinking Just Say No campaigns will end drugs one day.

Each and every time a hairy little Ahmed blows himself up he's as effective as Bush funneling money into non profit organizations thinking this is the way to cure druglords.

What Ahmed really accomplishes is doing his bit for humanity and erasing himself.

Your attempts to curb reality with a yawn is the same delusional ploy

really??

What you don't know is that I'd personally blow you all off the face of this planet.

.....damn near impossible when its a hellcat this fucking fabulous

that's sweet coming from you.

So I take it you are some kind of Arabic empath whose

No. Just Human.

What you don't know is that I'd personally blow you all off the face of this planet.

"us all"? who "us"?

book??? whuts a book never heard of it
well if u ask me i du read books just the only books i readed
wass my school books anyway have a nice time with ur books

books can only tell you so much. they are stuck, frozen in their own time. i see them more as a research, reference source than entertainment.

two good ones:
Black Holes and Time Warps , Einstein's Outrageous Legacy - by Kip S Thorne
Flatland , A Romance of Many Dimensions - by Edwin A Abbott

War of the Worlds - HG Wells
And the Ass Saw the Angel - Nick Cave
Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
The Stranger - Albert Camus
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
The Virtue of Selfishness - Ayn Rand
Faster - James Gleick
Hor Mit Schmerzen (Listen With Pain)
The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
The Short Stories of J.G. Ballard
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe

i love any of dean koontz's novels, he's amazing.
oh and wraith, if you thing reading is for people who don't have lives, and you call people who spend time on sciforums losers, then maybe you should just stop coming to this site, obviously, you are much better than us losers who read and don't go out anywhere, right?

*think

Originally posted by Walker
The Stranger - Albert Camus my favorite book ever. :D

Umberto Eco
- Foucault's Pendulum
- The Name of the Rose
- The Island of the Day Before

Friedrich Nietzsche
- Thus Spake Zarathustra
- The Anti-Christ
- Beyond Good and Evil

William Gibson
- Neuromancer
- The Miracle Worker
- Count Zero

Michael Crichton
- Sphere


. . . and many more, which I cannot recall at the moment.

My favourite:

William Golding - The Lord of the Flies
Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera
Mary Shelly - Frankenstein
Stephen King - many of his books
John Grisham - A Painted House
Harper Lee -To Kill a Mockingbird
J. D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye
Stephen Dobyns - The Church of Dead Girls
Par Lagerkvist - Dwarf


I love reading!!!:D :D :D

Noticed a couple authors my bro turned me on too haven't been mentioned yet. Here are some good reads (linked):

Kundera, Milan
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060932147/qid=1071209455//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i3_xgl14/103-1658151-5547022?v=glance&s=books&n=507846)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060932139/qid=1071209509//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i0_xgl14/103-1658151-5547022?v=glance&s=books&n=507846)

Marquez, Gabrial Garcia
One Hundred Years of Solitude (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060929790/qid=1071209536/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-1658151-5547022?v=glance&s=books)
Love in the Time of Cholera (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140119906/qid=1071209552/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/103-1658151-5547022?v=glance&s=books)

Desiree by annemarie selinko
Faust by Johann wolfgang von goethe
the sorrows of werther by Johann wolfgang von goethe
Gulliver's travels (my favorite since i was a little girl) by dean swift

Add these others to my pretty little basket:

"Fathers and Sons"- Turgenev
I will start a thread about why it is that we ....'thinkers'.....are a blot for planet earth.

"Candida"- Shaw
More reasons why I should start that thread.

And "La Vita Nuova" by Dante
...only because she physically eats his heart in front of him. Smoooooooth.


Dreamsa:
I love reading!!!!!
Sing it brother, sister, whateverthefuckyouare.......

Only expection is that you have, in all honesty, horrible reading tastes. Grisham and Salinger of all people...............*cringe*. Dear god.

Coluber:
Gulliver's travels (my favorite since i was a little girl) by dean swift
Johnathan Swift, dear. J-o-h-n-a-t-h-a-n.

why dante is my fav too!!!!!

Liar


::slap slap::

i love books!

but most of all...i love you!

can we like ...chat or something? yknow im and stuff?

Allright little boy- that was the last straw.

Usually I'm either curbing your inanity with a yawn or feigned interest but I wonder as only the Universe would in my case:

what the fuck is your godamned problem?

i thought it was obvious:confused:
it's love, baby!:o

what is this straw thing?

Shut. Up. And since the boy asked:

what is this straw thing?

First straw- namecalling the gendy in a Tessie thread
Second straw- outlining why it is that she's boring, stupid, and nothing in the face of his cockmaster Tiassa
Third straw- calling her decent
Fourth straw- calling her run of the mill
Fifth straw- calling her all sorts of tripe not worth repeating
sixth straw- enter his cheap ploys of turning over new leaves and starting over
seventh straw- backing a clueless nobody named Wruh-something right after he's stabbed in the dark and psyhoanalysed yours truly

Then some more pound-puppy cheap political moves........



And now the last straw- an invite to..............a fucking chatroom.?


I don't like you. You know this writ large.
You don't like me. And yet play fucking dumb.
There are no qualms in me making this clear to you.

ok
i really kinda like you. your "puppy" scenario is pointless. if i wanted to play i'd do it directly. aint in to pussyfooting and stuff y'know.

forget my past crap and lets move on babe. what say you? how come i am such a bad guy? let your guard down, little gendy and lets...dialogue! (or chat)

besides, aint i just being cool and stuff while the others make their usual play? months now i think. what say you babe?

*gonna run to 7/11 for coffee. want anything?

spookz:

sir, far from me to invade your business, but from one gentleman to another.....ummm.....time for a vacation??:)

I appreciate your strategy, but I think for this pecan, the sledgehammer approach is best.;)

Wraith goes:
( baggy bilge)........I appreciate your strategy, but I think for this pecan, the sledgehammer approach is best
And for your brand of peon getting peed on by superiors is by far more interesting.




You:
forget my past crap and lets move on babe.
What did I tell you about that "babe" bullshit?

what say you? how come i am such a bad guy?
Becuase you are.
Waxing apologetic why? Politics.

Perhaps you missed it the first time.
"Rich.gifts.wax.poor.when.givers.prove.unkind"

This is is what makes you such a carping, perfectly shitty piece of asshole:
*gonna run to 7/11 for coffee. want anything?
Patronizing piece of shit.


Yes I want some. Ram it through the monitor so I can reach for it right after you fuck up your system Guranteed you won't be logging on for a while.

there is no strategy. stop being so suspicious.
i dig gen. wes and i had a dialogue at one time and that made me reconsider my trolling of her posts. i am gonna give credit when credit is due and errors wll be approached in a constructive manner.

enoough of the idle talk. the proof is in the posts!


:)

you gotta understand that i never made the play you accuse me off.:)
and ok gendanken! no more "babe"

Pause.

Odd silence.

What? No retorts of gendanken being an alopecic hag with no eyebrows? Run of the mill thug making up for no penis? Insecurites? Come again?

"there is no strategy."


Now, the question is what would happen the next time your little friend Wraith comes out with some wishful "psychoanalyzed" rot on yours truly?

Answer: meaty applause praising his 'excellent' observations- another one of those eulogies you've got going for people that can't stand me as much as I can't stand you.

And there will be another one of those yellow thumbs-up in the title. Maggot.

Originally posted by gendanken
Now, the question is what would happen the next time your little friend Wraith comes out with some wishful "psychoanalyzed" rot on yours truly?

Answer: meaty applause praising his 'excellent' observations- another one of those eulogies you've got going for people that can't stand me as much as I can't stand you.

And there will another on of those yellow thumbs-up in the title. Maggot.

ahh
i had no idea what you were referring to. now i remember. i was conflicted about that. you were very mean to a harmless little girl. as much as i wanna get along, somethings are just not kosher. not everybody is tough as you gendy. show a little compassion. save the vitriol for those that can actually fight back. aint gonna be hard.

you too can find jesus!

;)

Ah.

For once.........I'm silenced. For a nanosecond. "Congratulations"- blink and you'll miss it.

Anway!- about Nightfall, true enough...but if you took a breather you'd notice she started the petty "namecalling". Can't blame a girl for capitializing, could you?

Done and did. Over. I'll leave her be and I have.

super
feel free to disengage with the other guys. there are no actual issues that are in dipute. it is pointless. if they keep harassing you without just cause, i'll take care of em. this shit makes all of us look stupid.

i was very young when i read junkie by burroughs. it blew me away. subsequently i went on to have my own little version of the tale. pathetic tho i survived. henry miller was another guy.

fave pulps were ed mcbain and the absolute best... modesty blaise! by peter o donnell. she used to cry after all the battles with willie and i was a real sucker for that. it started out as comic strip. i think tarantino is working on the 2nd movie version or something like that

oh and my tibetan guru... lobsang rampa!
for a time i got hooked on my sibling's romance novels (the generic kind):o

* i do not read books now

I used to be an incurable readaholic, but now I even have trouble remembering what my fav. books are. Just dont have the time for books anymore. But the last book I read (about 6months ago :eek: ) was Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier. It's entertaining, funny but aimed for a younger audience (that is if ur older than 18, u prob. won't like it) & if you're not desi, you probably won't get it.
This isnt the exact topic, but one of the worst books I've ever read: Satanic Verses, which I'm sure many of you have read & love. That book is craazyy as hell & makes no sense. My aunt took it away from me before I could finish reading it, because it was too "mature" for me. *sigh* I'd like to grow up. This is when I was 15 thou, so I guess she had a pt.

April Fools Day by Bryce Courtney. I don't know why and even though I've probably read thousands of books in my lifetime and could list any of them as a favourite, but that particular book and the story moved me beyond words. Very powerful.



:eek:

gendy:

For once.........I'm silenced. For a nanosecond. "Congratulations"- blink and you'll miss it.

grrrrrreat!...muggins here does all the leg work, spooky takes all the credit. Fine.:rolleyes:


Anway!- about Nightfall, true enough...but if you took a breather you'd notice she started the petty "namecalling". Can't blame a girl for capitializing, could you?

1)pitiful apology. Better late than never I suppose.
2) She started nothing.
3) let that be a warning.

spookz:
super
feel free to disengage with the other guysere are no actual issues that are in dipute. it is pointless. if they keep harassing you without just cause, i'll take care of em. this shit makes all of us look stupid

group hug.....BARF:rolleyes:

other guys, they, take care of 'em
come now dear fellow, don't mince your words, we all know who you mean




;)

I was a bit worried. I saw that wraith had posted in 'favorite books' and I actually thought for a second that he had one.

let it go. please

:)

*holds hands up*

....it's gone....see?....all gone.;)


....but if she steps outta line...........

merry xmas
:m:

well, looks like my first thread just caused arguments. Oh well, live and learn, then get LUV's! oh well, i guess its just human nature to argue, everyone feels that their point of view is better. And in a sense me saying this is saying that this point of view on human nature is better than yours. Hypocritical? maybe, but im not trying to be, does that count for anything? Cant we all just get along. "Theres battle lines bein drawn, nobodys right if everybodys wrong. Time we stop, hey whats that sound everybody look whats going round." ok so I skipped some verses and parts but oh well. by the way just for quoting sake, Buffalo Springfield, "Stop Children What's That Sound"

you didn't start the fire, it's been burning for some time now....just ended up in your thread.;)

..sorry for any inconvenience.

DC - when you see Popeye and Pluto fighting in your thread, don't stop to ask yourself if they're fighting because of something you said. Just ignore 'em and put away the dishes.

How could you relate to Lord of the Rings? Those books you like have no depth in them, its just a story. In a good book a writer will give part of themselves in the literature. Here a few good ones that I enjoyed: Bless Me Ultima, Lord of the Flies, Don Quixote, Jane Eyre, A Place Where the Sea Remembers. If you want a good story read Andromada Strain by Michael Crichton, don't read about some stupid hobbits.

Originally posted by ItalianItellectual
How could you relate to Lord of the Rings? Those books you like have no depth in them, its just a story. In a good book a writer will give part of themselves in the literature. Here a few good ones that I enjoyed: Bless Me Ultima, Lord of the Flies, Don Quixote, Jane Eyre, A Place Where the Sea Remembers. If you want a good story read Andromada Strain by Michael Crichton, don't read about some stupid hobbits.

I almost gasped when I read this! what do you mean how could I relate to the Lord of the Rings? It's a classic story of good versus evil. If you think that Tolkien didnt give an entire part of himself to his literature you are completely mistaken. He spent 12 years of his life writing and rewriting that. He came up with every language you find inside of it. There is so much hidden meaning inside of it!
Now I have read me Bless Me Ultima and I enjoyed it, Don Quixote too. But I hated Jane Eyre. I thought that was a book that would never end.

And hobbits are far from stupid. They are still around its just that us clumsy humans make so much noise they hear us coming and hide. They live much differently now than they did in the books.
Ok so I kinda stole that from Tolkien, but oh well. :D

Italian... do you really identify so strongly with Lord of the Flies? I found it to be a highly moralizing and offensive read myself... certainly I didn't identify well with any of the characters, and the religious allegories were too thick to have any overreaching power in the narrative.

Add another one to my stash: The Tempest. Now, for my demipuppets....

Wart:
....but if she steps outta line..........
........she'll keep right on stepping all over that face of yours with her eyes closed.......

group hug.....BARF
Yes, isn't it just fucking grand bonding like a bunch of menopausal soccer moms?

I still don't buy it.........so! Say spooky and I picture
a Steve Buscemi looking sewer rat.

[for a time i got hooked on my sibling's romance novels (the generic kind)
?

Bigblue:
Italian... do you really identify so strongly with Lord of the Flies? I found it to be a highly moralizing and offensive read myself.
And something much simpler: boring.

James Thurber:

The Middle Aged Man On The Flying Trapeze.

Let Your Mind Alone and Other More or less inspirational pieces.

The Owl In The Attic And Other Perplexities.

I'm a reference fiend, so I'll just stick to my top reference books:

Aside from a really good dictionary...
Powers of Ten, Morrison/Eames
Lunar Atlas, ed. Alter
Science Speaks to Young Men on Liquor, Tobacco, Narcotics, and Marijuana, Thomason -- this is a gem;propaganda published in 1938, detailing the evils of drugs & drink
Culpeper's Complete Herbal
A Dictionary of Symbols, Cirlot

There are lots of others I value, but those are some of the more interesting ones.

Originally posted by gendanken
?

please! like i am gonna elaborate anymore on that sordid chapter

spookz, remember when I said I had let it go? well it needs another swift punch in the face..............

:mad:

Another good book is 'Where do I come from'... don't ask me who wrote it, I read it long ago as a child (amazing I even remember it in my old age) and it's about well.. where do I come from.

It's got pictures and everything:D... hehehe

Although I must say, I'd always thought I was dropped from a plane.. shattered that illusion really:(... sigh

Errrmmmm anywho, nevermind. I think I may have said too much. Ahem... ermmm I think I have to be somewhere now... ummm...

slinks away embarrassed:o

Bells:
Another good book is 'Where do I come from'... don't ask me who wrote it, I read it long ago as a child (amazing I even remember it in my old age) and it's about well.. where do I come from.

It's got pictures and everything... hehehe


I know........remember all those beaver shots with the labels etched in crayon? It was the most educational piece of porn.
Spookz:
please! like i am gonna elaborate anymore on that sordid chapter
E.l.a.b.o.r.a.t.e

spookz, remember when I said I had let it go? well it needs another swift punch in the face..............


Punch me. Kick me, rob me, thrill me. But please don't pop my cherry.

Pause.

All hail prose..........I swear to you all, I'm the next Shakespeare.

no.
You're not.

Yes, boo boo, I am.

Luck and pluck and you'll be reading me one day.

....in the obituary hopefully.

Thy glassy shards of broken wishful thinking.
Gorogeous whoreson...you'll be just as broken one day.

no my sweet. I have endured pain and hardship beyond your comprehension. I have paid my dues, given my pound of flesh. Been to the nadir, overcome everything it threw at me, now nothing but the zenith for me.

......and here I am thinking Nadir was your nesting hole, a ditch with no elbow room life stuffed you in like Saddam.

glassy shards of your broken wishful thinking i'm sure.

You only know just how good you are untill you are thrown into adversity. It's the best teacher in the world.

When you finish your education, you'll know what I mean.
That said, I wouldn't wish those adversities which I have overcome on anyone....not even you.

Liar.


And word to the whys- education has no finish line.

You guys at it again?????

Originally posted by gendanken
Liar.


And word to the whys- education has no finish line.


education has no finish line
that's the truest thing you've said for a long long time, there may be hope for you yet.

liar.
I never lie, I have no need to. Whatever you wish to think is of no matter to me.

*sob*
i even read nancy drew!:o

Originally posted by spookz
*sob*
i even read nancy drew!:o
Oh my... deary me...

errrrmmm... ummmm...

I'm sorry, I shouldn't laugh... but LMAO!



:eek:

"read" as in past tense! i was a voracious reader. i could knock off 3 or 4 regular novels a day. naturally i'd run out of material!;)

Originally posted by spookz
"read" as in past tense! i was a voracious reader. i could knock off 3 or 4 regular novels a day. naturally i'd run out of material!

Of course. I... eerrrrmm... never thought otherwise:D

And it's ok, I too have read things that are frightening. I got so desperately bored on a flight once and since I'd read the 3 books I'd brought with me and I'd read the flight magazine cover to cover, boredom drove me to such a level of insanity that I ended up borrowing a Barbara Cartland book from a woman behind me. I'm still scarred from that experience:(.




:eek:

at the homefront, the dinner table was kinda wacky. siblings and i always read during meals. parents gave up on trying to converse as they were simply ignored. mater however drew the line when i plunked a stack of britannicas down. i remember my marvel comics being confiscated for a period of time. very traumatic

i still cart a book to the table. i do not read. i fondle and play with it

*cartland? read em all!:o

Yeah I was like that as well. It got to the point where the bookshelves groaned each time I crammed a new book in them. In the end they were stored in boxes in the shed as there was no room in the house for any more books.

My parents used to call me anti-social because I would walk through the house reading and I used to sit there and read at the dinner table as well. It all came to a head with my parents when I fell asleep while reading in the bathtub at the age of 15. My mother had walked past the bathroom as my head slipped under the water line and she heard me choking and stormed in and found me flailing... lol.. I had to promise not to read in the bath after that and they refused to buy me as many books as they had in the past:(. I was of course devastated and ended up saving all of my allowance to buy new books and since I'd go through them so quickly, I was always looking out for specials at the book stores or the second hand or book exchanges. The library was a very popular haunt and trips there supposedly to study in my final year of high school would see me there until closing time at 10pm every night, as I'd spend the final hour looking for books to read for pleasure and not study... lol. Parents would grumble about having to come and pick me up at that time but as far as they were concerned I was supposed to be studying so I'd get the squinty eyed look from my father as I'd get into the car with a stack of books saying they're for study.. Even now so many years after that, my father still laughs that I could think he was so gullible. Ahhh the good old days. Now I'm old :p and don't have enough time to read as I did in my younger years.. Sigh....

And you've read all of Cartland? Eeeekkk... I've only read one and that was out of desperation. It was so cloying and the sickly type of romantic.. with the simpering looks and the kind of sex scenes where his and her body throbbed, etc. LMAO... ugh the memories from that book are flooding back... even after more than 13 years...:(

Kid gloves aside, I don't care who sees this.

at the homefront, the dinner table was kinda wacky. siblings and i always read during meals. parents gave up on trying to converse as they were simply ignored. mater however drew the line when i plunked a stack of britannicas down. i remember my marvel comics being confiscated for a period of time. very traumatic


I envy this kind of childhood. It tears my heart to know I did not have that.

And you've read all of Cartland? Eeeekkk... I've only read one and that was out of desperation. It was so cloying and the sickly type of romantic.. with the simpering looks and the kind of sex scenes where his and her body throbbed, etc. LMAO... ugh the memories from that book are flooding back... even after more than 13 years...

No fucking way, romance novels fucking OWN.
The sex scenes are hilarious. How can you dispute something that has lines like "sumptuous mating of lips" and "his tounge conquered and explored her mouth"?

Plus, you feel so superiour to the loser cunts who are the main characters. The whole plot revolves around them throwing tantrums and allowing themselves to be treated like shit because they're "in love". What could be more amusing and cathartic than the treatment of another woman's pathetic-ness?

What could be more amusing and cathartic than the treatment of another woman's pathetic-ness?

If he beat her and then fucked her with his large meat like sasuage.

"meat like sausage"?

What, his cock was made out of soy?

Yep. I believe that eating an animal is wrong. So it has to be a 'meat like substance'.

Screw it. I'll just say it was a carrot or something. A big hard pulsing carrot.

So, did you ruin any dinners today?

Anybody here like to read sleazy scifi novels? Like David Webber? He sucks, but it's cheap fodder.

Yep. I believe that eating an animal is wrong. So it has to be a 'meat like substance'.

"Porn for vegans"

Screw it. I'll just say it was a carrot or something. A big hard pulsing carrot.

Carrots don't pulse.
The still-beating hearts of men I dated then disembowled with my set of Hitler Youth knives pulse, but you don't need to know that.

So, did you ruin any dinners today?

Hell yeah.

Actually I find the comment about your Hitler Youth Knife highly arousing.

Carrots can pulse. They have to be boiled though. So how about this:

"Romeo shoved his fat meat-like stick into Juliet’s love pool. He then moved back and forward, his throbbing soy meat poking her nether regions."

You should tape record your phone conversations and put them online. Actually, I have a .wav of a message that my sister left on my friend’s cell phone (She’s drunk as hell). Want to hear it?

I forgot two of my favorite books, Piercing the Darkness and This Present Darkness by Frank Peretti