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spectral 
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Posted: June 13 2005 at 07:30 |
varied. kerouac, ben okri, dylan thomas are my personal faves, but it depends on recommendations from other people, what I pick up in the shops etc..
on the road by kerouac and the famished road by ben okri are simply stunning books that must be read. I've found them hugely inspirational. as is thoreau's book Walden.
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"...misty halos made visible by the spectral illumination of moonshine."
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Flyingbebert
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Posted: June 13 2005 at 05:56 |
I was surprised when I read Bernard Werber's "the revolution of the ants" ('La révolution des fourmis" in french) because in the end the author recommends some music that helped him creating the atmosphere of the book : there was Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Mike Oldfield, Marillion, plus some classic composers (Debussy, Bach...) and other non-prog groups
And in the story there is a group of teenagers playing prog !
I think every prog fan would be interested in reading "the ants" (the trilogy "the ants", "the day of the ants" and "the revolution of the ants") or any book by Bernard Werber !
I also recommend "American Psycho" by Brett Easton Ellis...it helps understand why 80's Genesis is bad 
Did anybody else read these books ?
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Trotsky
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Posted: June 12 2005 at 22:55 |
Most read authors in my collection ...
Fantasy ... Real obvious ones here ... C.S. Lewis' Narnia, Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea and J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth books
Sci-fi ... Ursula K. Le Guin's awesome Hanish series, particularly The Left Hand Of Darkness and The Dispossessed
Humour ... Saki - The Complete Works, and most P.G. Wodehouse books, although Aunt's Aren't Gentlemen stands out for me
Contemporary ... John Irving, particularly The World According To Garp and A Son Of The Circus
Mystery ... read over 70 Agatha Christies, recommend And Then There Were None and The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd ...
Loads of political/historical non-fiction too ...
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"Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.”
"No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present."
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Zargus
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Posted: June 12 2005 at 20:59 |
Isaac Asimov 
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firth_of_Fifth
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Posted: June 12 2005 at 17:14 |
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Raymond E Feist. Riftwar saga is amazing, better than LOTR
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undefinability
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Posted: June 12 2005 at 08:49 |
A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin,
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski,
and pretty much anything by Alexandre Dumas.
Right now, those are the main ones I've been focusing on.
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"Don't listen to me."
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The Hemulen
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Posted: June 11 2005 at 16:53 |
 radiognome3 wrote:
Alfred Jarry |
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radiognome3
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Posted: June 11 2005 at 15:28 |
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Tolkien, William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Thomas Pynchon, Alfred Jarry, Raymond Roussell
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Vive Gong!
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Scrambled_Eggs
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Posted: June 11 2005 at 06:43 |
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Some of my favorite authors are Niccolo Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, Karl von Clausewitz,...notice a pattern? I also enjoy some medieval literature such as "The Divine Comedy," "The Song of Roland," and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms."
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And I am not frightened of dying, any time will do, I
don't mind. Why should I be frightened of dying?
There's no reason for it, you've gotta go sometime.
I never said I was frightened of dying.
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WillieThePimp
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Posted: June 11 2005 at 01:58 |
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The Hobbit is one of my favorites and have yet to finish The Silmarillion.
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You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. ~Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket
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Cygnus X-2
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Posted: June 11 2005 at 00:14 |
I enjoy the Ian Flemming works. The Redwall series, and of course Tolkien.
I also have to say I really like the Star Wars literature.
What Can I Say, I'm a nerd!
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tuxon
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Posted: June 10 2005 at 23:52 |
Tolkien of course
And Umberto Eco, Bordewijk, Mulisch, Vidal and many more.
My favourite book: Kalki - Gore Vidal
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WillieThePimp
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Posted: June 10 2005 at 23:39 |
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What books/literature do prog boys and girls read?
Anything by Dr. Suess for me
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You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. ~Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket
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