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kimcheeboi
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@massuer-never heard of those books. What are they about?
@absinthebri-have you read East of Eden! Absolutely BRILLIANT!
@ayush-im confused. 
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She don't know she's beautiful
(though time and time I've told her so)
There she goes just walkin down the street,
and someone lets a whistle out.
A girl like her, she just can't see,
What the fuss is all about.
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absinthebri
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No, Kim, newer read East of Eden. Another good book is "The Trial" by Franz Kafka.
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Ayush
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@kim so am I!
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kimcheeboi
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that's the one with the machine that etches out sins into the prisoner's backs right?
no wait thats the penal colony i think 
and you should definitely read East of Eden. Awesome book!
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masseur
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Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, or HHGTTG is the story of a most remarkeable elsectronic book called "The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy"
it starts off with Arthur Dent waking up to find builders wanting to knock his house down to make way for a bypass. It turns out that Arthur didn't know about this, mostly because the plans had been buried in a cabinet in a basement at the local council. While he is trying to stop the bulldozer from knocking his house down his friend, Ford Prefect (who Arthur doesn't know is from another planet somewhere in the vicinity of beetlejuice) comes along and tries to take Arthur off to the pub for some alcohol because he has found out that the vogon constructor fleet is coming to demolish the earth to make way for a intergalactic highway. Of course the earthlings don't know about that because the plans have been on display at their "local" star system Alpha Centauri for 50 years. The reason for the alcohol at the pub is to prepare the body for the shock of the matter transfer when Ford Prefect gets them picked up by workers on the Vogon ships.... and so the story goes on etc etc.
They meet Zaphod Beeblebrox, inventor of the pan galactic gargle blaster, the most potent drink in the universe, get picked up from deep space moments before they would die, and when it seems very improbably they will live, by the ship which Zahpod has stolen with the improbability drive in it after being thrown of the vogon ship. They go to the mythical planet of Magrathea where the earth was originally commissioned by the mice who are, in fact, beings from another dimension who project themselves into our space as mice and built with the sole purpose of finding the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything. There they meet Slartibartfast who did the coastlines and fijords of scandinavia.
oh there is so much more...
it started as a book which the BBC made into a famous radio series in the 70'sand then became a BBC series which you can buy on DVD and next year there is a movie version
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/
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kimcheeboi
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 that's kind of trippy!
I definitely want to check that out although sci fi isnt my fav. 
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mahkoy
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tnx for the replies.. mine would have to be, catcher in the rye.. by j.d salinger..
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absinthebri
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I *LOVE* "Catcher"! Stunning book.
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methylated_spirit
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Never heard of hitchhikers guide?? Where have you been?
Alistair Mclean books aint bad, HMS Ulysses is a brilliant read. Dune by Frank Herbert is great. That one by Bruce Sterling, oh crap whats the book called, aww crap! Its great anyway. Its about a guy who goes on a whaling expedition on a planet where the sea is actually dust, but really he's away to score some drugs that the whales produce. Its quite different, but its good.
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kimcheeboi
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i've been around, too busy getting my fair share of fun perhaps
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knight4led
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for a few great, short reads you must pick up The Gambler by Dostoevsky, Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway and Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut. |
masseur
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another one I just remembered is pretty much any book by Dave Barry.
Dave Barry started out writing humourous articles for some US papers incuding things like how to make a board.
his books include "Babies and other hazards of sex", "homes and other black holes" etc etc
worth checking out if you never heard of him
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vckay
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I like dragonlance. The dark tower series by stephen king are excellent as are all of douglas adams books. The best however is of mice and men . @masseur: you just gave away the entire hitchhiker's guide plot. ;-)
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plasmadog
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@masseur,
dave barry is really awesome!!
haa.. we seem to have the same taste in books!
u read his weekly columns? very good
http://www.miami.com/mld/miam[....]/living/columnists/dave_barry/
have u seen the movie big trouble starring tim allen?
its based on a dave barry book. very funny film!!! it has all the situations he writes about.
i've seen a few episodes of the hitchiker's tv series. its pretty authentic i must say!
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masseur
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I don't think I gave too much away about hitchhikers. I was just trying to give the "feel" of it
I haven't seen big trouble yet but I do like Tim Allens humour too and have seen most tool time episodes and also his movies. I'll add that one to my list then if its based on Dave Barry!
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