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Lately I've been quite bored, and I feel my brain is rotting away. Too many video games and partying for me. Up here where I live there, there are only retards, with average and under IQ's. I am only able to have real interesting conversations with one person in this town, and she's away. Somewhere. I need something where I can work my brain on, and do some deep thinking. Or learn something interesting.

So, if anyone has any suggestions for deep and interesting books, then I hope you don't mind telling me. Oh, also include the author, if you know who it is.

Has anyone else read the Sword of Truth series? What did you think?

[Edited on 8/20/2004 1:33:52 PM]

  • 08.20.2004 1:29 PM PDT
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Read "Eternity Road"

  • 08.20.2004 1:29 PM PDT

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The Sphere.

  • 08.20.2004 1:33 PM PDT
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Unfit for Command

  • 08.20.2004 1:37 PM PDT
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Posted by: ajenteks
Unfit for Command

Thats a great read.

  • 08.20.2004 1:41 PM PDT
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Anything by Franz Kafka, start with "The Trial" (also a great orson welles film).

Also, for the particularly risque reader, Friedrich Nietzche has written some of the most interesting quasi-existentialist books out there.

Kurt Vonnegut's great, try Timequake, Slaughterhouse 5, Player Piano, to name a few.

The Stranger, and The Fall by (Albert?) Camus, also for the existentially-minded

House of Leaves (can't remember how to spell it, Mark Danielewski or somethign)

The Foundation Series (Issac Asimov i think)

Dune by Frank Herbert

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

Brave New World, and The Doors of Perception/Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley

I could go on forever...

  • 08.20.2004 1:42 PM PDT
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The Foundation Series (Issac Asimov i think)









Read that one.

  • 08.20.2004 1:44 PM PDT
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Posted by: Terminus
Posted by: ajenteks
Unfit for Command

Thats a great read.


Very.

  • 08.20.2004 1:44 PM PDT
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Library > Philosophy > Kant, Freud, Nietzsche

Also, I thought Herman Hesse's Demian was pretty interesting.

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You forgot Heidegger.

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why not do something that you can really express yourself like start playin an instrument like guitar but i wish i could have learnt piano at a young age cos... i.... have... a... cough.. never mind! but guitar is brilliant its a great way to keep one occuppied and to show to you lesser IQ friends if you have any. :)

or read 'the northern lights' trilody by philp pullman!

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It's all about Dostoyevsky.

Notes from the Underground, The Idiot, Crime and Punishment, the Karamazov Brothers... Classic. I spent most o high school reading that stuff. It's great. All of Dostoyevsky's characters are real weirdos in some manner. And I wouldn't have it any other way. : )

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Posted by: Pasado
why not do something that you can really express yourself like start playin an instrument like guitar but i wish i could have learnt piano at a young age cos... i.... have... a... cough.. never mind! but guitar is brilliant its a great way to keep one occuppied and to show to you lesser IQ friends if you have any. :)


I already play an instrument. I play piano, and a bit of drums. A bit. Thanks to everyone for all those suggestions, I'll be sure to make a trip to the bookstore soon.

Oh, and trust me, I have plenty of lesser IQ friends.

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  • 08.20.2004 2:03 PM PDT
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i hope you don't look down on them for it tho...did you do grades on the piano? if so what grade did you reach btw what age are you?

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Posted by: Surge
You forgot Heidegger.


Ehh... he's eclectic, his language is too self-referential, and I'm not a fan of thinking about death all the friggin time just to deal with it. But, definitely worth reading, adds a little depth to your knowledge.

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Posted by: GreenChief
It's all about Dostoyevsky.

Notes from the Underground, The Idiot, Crime and Punishment, the Karamazov Brothers... Classic. I spent most o high school reading that stuff. It's great. All of Dostoyevsky's characters are real weirdos in some manner. And I wouldn't have it any other way. : )


I'll forgive your Russian-ism because Dostoyevsky is da shizznat.

One of the first true existentialist style writers.

Oh and no offense with the russian thing.

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  • 08.20.2004 2:48 PM PDT
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Nyeh problema, moy droog.

  • 08.20.2004 2:53 PM PDT