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Happiness is..... a good book

star crash

We Will Get By ... We Will Survive
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The Dune 2021 movie Has inspired me to read the novel once again if you haven’t read it and you enjoy epic science fiction it’s unsurpassed I highly recommend it while the movie was good they can’t cover more than one 100th of what the book has to offer
 

armedoldhippy

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The Dune 2021 movie Has inspired me to read the novel once again if you haven’t read it and you enjoy epic science fiction it’s unsurpassed I highly recommend it while the movie was good they can’t cover more than one 100th of what the book has to offer

i saw the original movie (spoiler alert-it sucked) but i loved reading the trilogy. like you say, good writing lets your imagination show you all of the details that are impossible to get on film. i just finished a collection of Jack Londons works earlier today. my damn feet get cold just reading those stories. i've read most of them over & over. dated terminology and all, still good shit. call me "old-fashioned", lol. my sons think there was nothing written before "Harry Potter" that was worth reading...😄 they also consider themselves movie buffs, but have never seen "High Noon", "Shane", "The Graduate", anything with Hepburn & Tracy in it etc. to them, "classic" means "old & dull". gotta have a superhero these days...🙄
 

flower~power

~Star~Crash~
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Hippie ..I almost actually prefer old movies just last week I watched this as you mentioned
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And the dune book is going to keep me busy for quite a while the depth and the scope of it is amazing
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Slator650

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Hey Book worms, you might like my novel of canyon cultivation in 1980. First part is posted on this site:
Jonathan, author
 

Douglas.Curtis

Autistic Diplomat in Training
Two books...

"Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand. The version I used to have was 1100'ish pages of regular sized print. The first 200 pages were torturous back-history/character-development, and it took me about a month to get through it the first time. After that, I could not put it down till I finished it. (Spoilier: Altruism is really b.s. when it comes to people)

Lots and LOTS of parallels between that crashing society and today.


"Prometheus Rising" by Robert Anton Wilson, a rather interesting philosopher from a while back. Arguably one of the best manuals on how 'your' organic computer and psyche developed.

Edit: Ok, 3 books.
"The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands" by Dr. Laura Schlessinger. A book which covers an amazing number of points I find totally missing in the relationships of people around me. Both husbands and wives should read this one, and you'll thank yourselves for doing so.
 

sneezydog

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@armedoldhippy , im with you with the Jack London. 100%.
Dune was a trip for sure.
slaughter house 5.
Recently read the black mass of brother springer by charles willeford. edit:funny, light book.
and cockfighter was good too.
read all the cs lewis and redwall books as a kid, animals who are gangster little village creatures? perfect.
Grateful this thread resurfaced, i will try some. too many to list all the books i liked..
 

St. Phatty

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I read ALL the Michael Connelly books, except maybe the first 2.

I found about 8 spelling errors in one of his books.

I'm gonna apply to be a Proof-reader - and be paid in Ganja !
 

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