trythebill at the library all night: recommend books for him

trythebill · Post by **trythebill** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 7:29 am

since i have 3 tests tomorrow i'm going to be here studying all night. i have redbull, back-up pens and lots of notebook paper. i just need something to do for my 15 minute study break every half-hour.

recommend me some interesting books to look at while i'm here. i don't care what they're about so long as they are interesting.

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 8:11 am

Starship Troopers, Robert Heinlein; Steppenwolf, Hermann Hesse; The Jesus Incident, Frank Herbert; or, my personal #1 suggestion

The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead by Max Brooks

CloudNineGT · Post by **CloudNineGT** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 8:31 am

The Zombie Survival guide was awesome. A few good books just off the top of my head include I Will Fear No Evil, The Godmakers, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Dracula, Stranger in a Strange Land, Shogun, The Lazarus Effect, Time Enough For Love, A Canticle for Leibowitz, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Dune, and The Bridge of the Gods.

Whatever happened to that DAC book club that Killzig talked about a long time ago? That was a good idea. Maybe we could put it into action and dedicate a bit of the forum to it. There could be a book of the month and people could read it and then argue about/discuss it. Sounds fun to me.

trythebill · Post by **trythebill** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 8:44 am

jetbaby wrote:Steppenwolf, Hermann Hesse

holyfuckballs is that a strange novel.

Anthony · Post by **Anthony** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 8:56 am

The Art of War, The Kama Sutra, and the Anarchist's Cookbook.

Anyone else want to beat the shit out of these kids putting Anarchist Society symbols all over? Just press their face into one until they can tell you why that's an oximoron?

Ernesto · Post by **Ernesto** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 1:39 pm

Anthony wrote: Anyone else want to beat the shit out of these kids putting Anarchist Society symbols all over? Just press their face into one until they can tell you why that's an oximoron?

DOOD! THEY"RE BRINGING DOWN TEH SYSTEM BY TALKING!!!11

Hmm... 1984 was awesome. I enjoyed Dune I and the last book I read was Jennifer Government - cool book about anti-gobalization.

Stainless · Post by **Stainless** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 1:51 pm

The original Dune was great. Messiah was OK. Children of Dune lost the plot and sucked monkey balls.

Franz Schubert · Post by **Franz Schubert** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 2:28 pm

Uhh, so you're studying 30 minutes straight, then taking a 15 minute break, ad nauseum? Maybe you should go for, say, 45/15?

Mandalorian FaLLouT GoD · Mon Mar 01, 2004 3:31 pm

Franz_Schubert wrote:Uhh, so you're studying 30 minutes straight, then taking a 15 minute break, ad nauseum? Maybe you should go for, say, 45/15?

try not studying at all and be l33t. Day of the Triffids is good. Dark Tower series is good. The Long Tommorow and The Eternity Brigade are awesome.
i just finished reading The Vault of the Ages by Poul Anderson which was pretty damn good.

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 7:37 pm

Everything by Chuck Palahniuk=teh win

Phias · Post by **Phias** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 8:21 pm

Glenn Cook's Black Company series.
Any Lovecraft collection.

There are many books I could advise you to read, if you could tell us what genre of literature you prefer, we could give you a better answer.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 9:49 pm

Billboard's Book of Number 1's. Collection of number 1 hits since the beginning of time, pretty much.

Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King.

trythebill · Post by **trythebill** » Mon Mar 01, 2004 9:58 pm

Franz_Schubert wrote:Uhh, so you're studying 30 minutes straight, then taking a 15 minute break, ad nauseum? Maybe you should go for, say, 45/15?

45 minutes is too long. ideally it should be 20/10 study/rest but i never get anything done when i do that. i find the 30/15 works best for me.

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 12:04 am

Stainless wrote:The original Dune was great. Messiah was OK. Children of Dune lost the plot and sucked monkey balls.

Agreedish. I thought Children was still pretty good.. I got up towards the end of God Emperor and I was getting twitchy with how weird it had gotten. I'll finish the series sooner or later.