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Kaz
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Posted : Oct 27, 2007 22:15
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Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (funniest book ever, brilliant word games and off-hand and extremely observant of human nature)
Edgar Allen Poe - Tales of Edgar Allen Poe (just for the brilliant use of the English language, the richness of descriptions... a combination of masterpieces)
Franz Kafka - The Prison Colony (sick, twisted and riveting - even more so than the average Kafka story)
Joseph Heller - Catch 22 (best army story ever, and funny as hell, but with a deep insight to the human core of the experience)
George Orwell - 1984 (catharsis)
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness (the story on which Apocalypse Now was based)
Jhonen Vasquez - Johnny the Homicidal Maniac (yes, a comic book series. The best one ever though)
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray (genius, both literary and philosophically)
I believe these are basically the greatest things ever written  http://www.myspace.com/Hooloovoo222 |
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phazed
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Posted : Oct 28, 2007 12:19
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On 2007-10-27 22:15, kaz wrote:
Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Joseph Heller - Catch 22 (best army story ever, and funny as hell, but with a deep insight to the human core of the experience)
I believe these are basically the greatest things ever written
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Pavel
Troll
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Posted : Oct 30, 2007 20:31
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Bible
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Anak
Anakoluth
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Posted : Oct 30, 2007 20:53
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Kaz
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Posted : Nov 1, 2007 21:35
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kalumet
Kalumet
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Posted : Dec 18, 2007 18:27
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my all time best-of's:
all vonnegut novels and short novels,
all boris vian novels,
all douglas adams novels,
arthur c clarke: childhood's end
emile ajar: the life before us
khaled hosseini: kite runner
and da real killargh masterpiece:
bulgakov - master and margherita (orig edit)
New album 'ONE INCH PUNCH' is out on Random Records
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Goddess of Chaos
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Posted : Dec 18, 2007 22:26
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On 2007-10-27 22:15, Kaz wrote:
Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (funniest book ever, brilliant word games and off-hand and extremely observant of human nature)
Edgar Allen Poe - Tales of Edgar Allen Poe (just for the brilliant use of the English language, the richness of descriptions... a combination of masterpieces)
Franz Kafka - The Prison Colony (sick, twisted and riveting - even more so than the average Kafka story)
Joseph Heller - Catch 22 (best army story ever, and funny as hell, but with a deep insight to the human core of the experience)
George Orwell - 1984 (catharsis)
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness (the story on which Apocalypse Now was based)
Jhonen Vasquez - Johnny the Homicidal Maniac (yes, a comic book series. The best one ever though)
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray (genius, both literary and philosophically)
I believe these are basically the greatest things ever written
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If you could please recommend a few of the best ones out of this list for my reading? Thanks a lot! And I think your PM box is full 
"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace" |
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Mad Purple State
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Posted : Dec 19, 2007 13:15
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Angels and Deamons - Dan Brown
MUST!
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Kaz
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Posted : Dec 25, 2007 05:17
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On 2007-12-18 22:26, Goddess of Chaos wrote:
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On 2007-10-27 22:15, Kaz wrote:
Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (funniest book ever, brilliant word games and off-hand and extremely observant of human nature)
Edgar Allen Poe - Tales of Edgar Allen Poe (just for the brilliant use of the English language, the richness of descriptions... a combination of masterpieces)
Franz Kafka - The Prison Colony (sick, twisted and riveting - even more so than the average Kafka story)
Joseph Heller - Catch 22 (best army story ever, and funny as hell, but with a deep insight to the human core of the experience)
George Orwell - 1984 (catharsis)
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness (the story on which Apocalypse Now was based)
Jhonen Vasquez - Johnny the Homicidal Maniac (yes, a comic book series. The best one ever though)
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray (genius, both literary and philosophically)
I believe these are basically the greatest things ever written
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If you could please recommend a few of the best ones out of this list for my reading? Thanks a lot! And I think your PM box is full
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All of the books here are masterpieces IMO, but very different from one another. I mean, Douglas Adams, Franz Kafka and Jhonen Vasquez really can't be compared... they're too different.
I suppose that The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Catch 22 and 1984 are the most popular of these. That's a good place to start as any. |
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Goddess of Chaos
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Posted : Dec 27, 2007 12:06
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^^
Thank you!
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