Books you can't put down.

[Prometheus]

I just recently read Wake and Watch by Robert J. Sawyer (yes, the Flash Forward guy) and couldn't put them down. Decided to read rather than going to bed. Eagerly looking forward to the third book in the trilogy, Wonder.

What books do you have a hard time putting down?

[007GoldenShower]

Guns, Germs and Steel.

I superglued it to my hand 5 years ago and I can't be fucking bothered getting it off.

[Ambient]

Road to Revolution by Ted Kaczynski. It's about the technoindustrial system. I started reading it about a week ago and I'm almost finished. It's an e-book, here is the download if anyone is interested.

http://zinelibrary.info/road-revolution-ted-kaczynski

[Tunicate]

The Unabomber!? I must read it.

Also, The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny is a good one. It's so confusing, you keep reading to figure out what the hell he's on about. I came in thinking that it was supposed to be scifi, and right about now I'm thinking it's just alternate reality/ fantasy. Some of the settings are in modern New York/the east coast, but then it lapses into a dream world named Amber where everyone dresses differently and is stronger. Certain characters can enter it at will, by thinking of certain settings etc.

Anyway, Sphere by Michael Crichton is also a page turner.

[Ambient]

The Unabomber!?

Wierd. Everyone seems to know/identify Ted Kaczynski as the "Unabomber" (bomber of university and airplane executives). I never even heard of "Unabomber" before I read his writings. Coincedently, alot of people who know "Unabomber" are not familiar with Ted Kaczynski's ideas.

[Euda]

I think I've said it before, but the last book that really drew me in was Faust.

[J-Beth]

The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I read one of his other books No country for old men, but I fucking ripped through the road it is super good.

[Built To Last]

Road to Revolution by Ted Kaczynski. It's about the technoindustrial system. I started reading it about a week ago and I'm almost finished. It's an e-book, here is the download if anyone is interested.

http://zinelibrary.info/road-revolution-ted-kaczynski

How ironic.

[Ambient]

How ironic.

Hah. Indeed. It's kinda hard to get published when yer convict serving a life sentence in jail :p The published (paperback) version also utilizes the techno-industrial system, is that not ironic also? It is not as though the way to destroy the techno-industrial system is through abstinence from it, although that may solve the problem for an individual. In order for it to collapse it will take alot of cunning, and a bit of nature's help too, but more importantly it requires that we use the system against itself. That means using technology to destroy a system dependent and rooted on technology. It's perfectly acceptable, though it may seem not at face value. It's just like the philosophy "We hate violence, but we will hang any murderer, and especially any genocider". The techno-industrial system is genocide.

[supperrfreek]

Cormack McCarthy's The Road was hard to put down, Sun Tzu's The Art of War is another book that one can blitz through. On The Road by Jack Kerouac reads fast, as does The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. In general, I found Robert Parker books to read quickly also.

[water bottle]

Anything by Kurt Vonnegut. Literally can't put them down, and they're generally fairly short, so I almost always finish them in a sitting or two.

[Jack]

Pretty much anything by Orson Scott Card, Malcolm Gladwell, ^^^Kurt Vonnegut^^^, David & Leigh Eddings, and a lot of other people I can't remember all at once.

[missingno]

anything that features a nice face, curves, and nudity :smug:

[Earthbound01]

The Phantom Tollbooth

Starship Troopers

Hitchhiker's Guide

Harry Potter series

Artemis Fowl

[Roxi39]

The Nanny Diaries
Serious :/

and an author James Burke!

[Prometheus]

Dammit, I just found another one. Pattern Recognition by William Gibson. I love the concept of someone who's actually allergic to corporate branding.

[King of the world]

One thing's for sure, a few books I can easily put dow. The qu'ran being one, I'm dropping it like it's hot.


The best book ever is Torat Ha'Melech.

[Usama Bin Laden]

The Unabomber!? I must read it.

Also, The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny is a good one. It's so confusing, you keep reading to figure out what the hell he's on about. I came in thinking that it was supposed to be scifi, and right about now I'm thinking it's just alternate reality/ fantasy. Some of the settings are in modern New York/the east coast, but then it lapses into a dream world named Amber where everyone dresses differently and is stronger. Certain characters can enter it at will, by thinking of certain settings etc.

Anyway, Sphere by Michael Crichton is also a page turner.

I fucking LOVE the Chronicles of Amber! It just keeps getting crazier and crazier as time goes on... Just make sure you read both Merlin and Corwin's books. It all makes SO much sense that way.

[-SpectraL]

The book, The Talisman (Stephen King/Peter Straub) is just such a story that you are extremely eager to resume reading.

[sepht]

foxes of firstdark

its basically watership down except with foxes

[kotorfreak666]

I kn ow it's kind of oriented at a younger audience, but The Pendragon books by D.J. MacHale are ultimately badass.

[Tunicate]

I fucking LOVE the Chronicles of Amber! It just keeps getting crazier and crazier as time goes on... Just make sure you read both Merlin and Corwin's books. It all makes SO much sense that way.

Finally, some validation! lol, I finished the first volume, which is the first two books. STILL PRETTY EPIC. Hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of people die They travel the world... many worlds! Things appear out of nowhere like Princess Mononoke/Spirited Away status, people fight and make up and fight and make up, like 5 years go by, people get married, Corwin kisses the devil thing, a whole bunch of his siblings die, peoples limbs get cut off or poked or whatever, he gets thrown in jail, he escapes. IT'S MADNESS!

We still have no idea what happened to his dad or his brother Brand, or Bleys for that matter. And where the hell's Fiona? Damn, I need the other book. THE CHRONICLES OF AMBER BY ROGER ZELAZNY (10 books on half.com for like $5 plus shipping)

[Usama Bin Laden]

Finally, some validation! lol, I finished the first volume, which is the first two books. STILL PRETTY EPIC. Hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of people die They travel the world... many worlds! Things appear out of nowhere like Princess Mononoke/Spirited Away status, people fight and make up and fight and make up, like 5 years go by, people get married, Corwin kisses the devil thing, a whole bunch of his siblings die, peoples limbs get cut off or poked or whatever, he gets thrown in jail, he escapes. IT'S MADNESS!

We still have no idea what happened to his dad or his brother Brand, or Bleys for that matter. And where the hell's Fiona? Damn, I need the other book. THE CHRONICLES OF AMBER BY ROGER ZELAZNY (10 books on half.com for like $5 plus shipping)

That's as far as you've read? Damn.... Shit hasn't even BEGUN to get crazy yet! Once Brand shows up is when it all really kicks off. And once you get done with Corwin's story and get into Merlin's, it gets even more insane... Fuck buying the shit, I say go library up. It's a lot quicker.