5 Favourite Books

I am seeing some of the titles come up quite often. Is it because you actually read them and favored them or is it because someone else put it in their list? Maybe I am generalizing too much of the porn watcher community like myself. A 2x something who doesnt read that often. In general I have a conception that most people's English is atrocious so how can their be many fans of reading; whether they are in the Us or not? Maybe I'm also generalizing too much from what I've seen on this board and many others. Am I wrong? too cynical?
 
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
It - Stephen King
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life - Erving Goffman
Loose Balls: The Short Wild Life of the American Basketball Assocation - Terry Pluto
The Glory of Their Times - Lawrence Ritter
 
Maybe I'm also generalizing too much from what I've seen on this board and many others. Am I wrong? too cynical?

Well, one has to take a break from the porn once in awhile :1orglaugh. Just because you like your porn doesn't mean you can't appreciate a good read.
 
Oh wow. Great topic.
A Confederacy of Dunces -John Kennedy Toole
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
Harry Potter series
Rock This-Chris Rock
Dracula- Bram Stoker
 
Bad Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Watchmen by Alan Moore (not a true novel in the sense that it's being discussed, but I consider it one of the best pieces of fiction I've came across.)
The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
Night Watch by Timur Bekmambetov
Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
 
I am seeing some of the titles come up quite often. Is it because you actually read them and favored them or is it because someone else put it in their list? Maybe I am generalizing too much of the porn watcher community like myself. A 2x something who doesnt read that often. In general I have a conception that most people's English is atrocious so how can their be many fans of reading; whether they are in the Us or not? Maybe I'm also generalizing too much from what I've seen on this board and many others. Am I wrong? too cynical?

As long as you are sane, their is never such a thing as too cynical
 
What about Moby Dick?
Definitely in my Top Five. (even if it would only consist of the two chapters "Whiteness of the Whale" and "The Doubloon") Pure genius.

otherwise:

- Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow
- Michel Houellebecq - Les Particules Élémentaires
- Edward Albee - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Anton Chekhov - Collected Works
 
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
****** **** by George Orwell
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Coldfire Trilogy by C.S. Friedman
 
No particular order:

1. 1984 (George Orwell)

2.A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole) I'm actually surprised that only one other person has mention it so far.

3. The Ring trilogy (Koji Suzuki)

4. Battle Royale (Koushun Takami)

5 Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
 
I am seeing some of the titles come up quite often. Is it because you actually read them and favored them or is it because someone else put it in their list? Maybe I am generalizing too much of the porn watcher community like myself. A 2x something who doesnt read that often. In general I have a conception that most people's English is atrocious so how can their be many fans of reading; whether they are in the Us or not? Maybe I'm also generalizing too much from what I've seen on this board and many others. Am I wrong? too cynical?

You're entitled to your own opinon, of course, but I do not lie.

Ask Senob how much I read.

Ask my ******.

Ask his.

Hell, ask my coworkers.
 
The Grapes of Wrath--John Steinbeck
All Quiet on the Western Front--Enrich Maria Remarque
Johnny Got His ***--Dalton Turnbow
Peoples History of the United States--Howard Zihn
The Godfather--Mario Puzzo
 
I am seeing some of the titles come up quite often. Is it because you actually read them and favored them or is it because someone else put it in their list? Maybe I am generalizing too much of the porn watcher community like myself. A 2x something who doesnt read that often. In general I have a conception that most people's English is atrocious so how can their be many fans of reading; whether they are in the Us or not? Maybe I'm also generalizing too much from what I've seen on this board and many others. Am I wrong? too cynical?

You're not too cynical. I noticed the same thing, but most of the books that people are listing are books that I have also read. I figure that they're just good books that a lot of people have read.

"In general I have a conception that most people's English is atrocious so how can their be many fans of reading"

Also, I don't know if this sentence was intended to be ironic or not, but you wrote "their" instead of "there."
 
great qusetion!
as soon as I read 3 more books i will get right back to this thread, I read alot but mostly magazines
 
You're not too cynical. I noticed the same thing, but most of the books that people are listing are books that I have also read. I figure that they're just good books that a lot of people have read.

"In general I have a conception that most people's English is atrocious so how can their be many fans of reading"

Also, I don't know if this sentence was intended to be ironic or not, but you wrote "their" instead of "there."

put me down as another victim of the their/there homonyms
this raised a question for me does any1 proof read their post?
 
I once heard somebody say, "Only dumb people read books". That might be one of my favorite quotes I have heard just because the sheer stupidity and irony of it makes it so memorable and funny to me.
 
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