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We have all read Ender's Game (or some other OCS book) and loved it. Or hated it... but if you hated it then i have no idea what you're doing on this website but...whatever
What I want to know is what other books you like. Or, if you dont feel like listing books, authors.
I'm just going to list authors. God knows there's enough as it is, anyway.
Patterson, Connely, Rowling, William Blake, Charles Baudilaire, Milton, Crowly, and bunch of authors where I only read one or two books. Also, that woman who wrote Medalon was pretty cool.
PS- this is the first time I've ever posted on this website- considering i just made it 10 minutes ago in my Networking class. My name may be Ozymandias but my real name is Alexis. Not quite sure why i felt inclined to share that bit of information... please dont yell at me Posts: 19 | Registered: May 2006
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Welcome to the forum, Ozymandias! Sounds like you've got fairly ecclectic tastes in fiction and poetry--you should fit in here quite well.
It isn't uncommon for us to have book and author recommendation threads--I'll see if I can dig up a few of them for you. In the meantime, why don't you tell us a bit more about yourself?
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Thank you =) always looking for new stuff to read!
Hmmm... more about myself...hmmmm. Well, I'm in 10th grade, a redhead, a girl, a flaming liberal, I have the weirdest tastes in food and cloths, i love debates and discussing philosophies, and I'm a bit of a goofball.
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Welcome to Hatrack, Ozy. I think you'll like it here, given your list of interests.
I lean more towards SciFi/Fantasy in my reading, although I haven't been doing as much lately at all. Computer games and yardwork have gotten the lion's share of my time recently.
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Second to OSC (of course) my favorite author is Tom Robbins. They have completely different styles, but I love that silly man.
Third, I guess I would go with Chuck Palahniuk. That man is a genius. He's like a Tom Robbins on downers. Invisible Monsters was freaking amazing, and so was Choke and Survivor and everything else he's written for that matter. Gah! Love that psychotic freak.
Hmm, after that comes a conglomeration of Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Charles Bukowski (<-- that guy rocks the hoo-haw), W.S. Burroughs, H.S. Thompson, and, well, uh... lots of others.
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Incidentally, anyone with the phrase "anarchistunite" in their SN is bound to get on my good side.
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quote:Charles Bukowski (<-- that guy rocks the hoo-haw)
Amazing, someone else who actually likes his writing!
I guess I should actually answer the question put out in the first place...
...recently I've been re-reading a bunch of Studs Terkel. I brought him up in another thread and it re-inspired me.
Also re-reading Asimov's Foundation series. After that, I'll probably re-read Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, since reading it at least once a month is what keeps me sane.
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Book Reccomendation (Please) (this one is specifically a request for books for a 16 year old girl. Most people seemed to recommend books for 6-10 year old girls, for some reason, but hey)
Books for free (check it out!) (Not technically a book recommendation thread, but you can get a good idea of what people are champing at the bit to get their hands on, and possibly pick up some free books yourself, if your parents are okay with your giving your address to a complete stranger you met on the internet. )
Favorite online short stories. (this thread is woefully incomplete--there are a couple of stories that I could have sworn I linked to in it, but I must have been thinking of a different thread. I think I'll be resurrecting this one. Unless I, you know, forget.)
There are more, I'm sure, but these are a good number of them.
There used to be a really fantastic thread on the OSC side of the river in which Card had solicited recommendations for a "best of the best" type short story anthology he was editing. It's been lost in the sands of time now (threads here are subject to deletion after they've been inactive for more than 6 months), but it was stuffed with fantastic recommendations.
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I don't get the "The Destroyer of Worlds" thing. I thought that was either Oppenheimer or Galactus. Where does the Ozymandias association come from?
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The phrase "infinite number of monkeys" does it for me every time. I will now be giggling at intervals for the rest of the morning.
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Ozymandias... The King of Kings. Actually I read it in Patterson's The Lake House. Loved the name/character. Yes,a flaming liberal. Thanks for all the suggestions and threads =)
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