"Subculture: The Meaning of Style" - Dick Hebdige
"The Hip Hop Wars" - Tricia Rose
"Lords of Chaos" - Michael Moynihan
"Sober Living for the Revolution" - Gabriel Kuhn
"The Philosophy of Punk:...
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"Subculture: The Meaning of Style" - Dick Hebdige
"The Hip Hop Wars" - Tricia Rose
"Lords of Chaos" - Michael Moynihan
"Sober Living for the Revolution" - Gabriel Kuhn
"The Philosophy of Punk:...
I like to take books jogging and on bike rides. I would call that active reading, yes?
More like homeworkishard, right? Right?
I received (from my parents):
Daniel Quinn's Beyond Civilization and Watchmen and Philosophy, from the Popular Culture and Philosophy series.
...along with Kurt Vonnegut's Welcome to the Monkey...
Dracula - Bram Stoker
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Watchmen and Philosophy - William Irwin (Series Editor), Mark D. White (Editor)
Atoll - *shels
This Time's For Real - Ill Nino
The Pot - Tool
Sand - HORSE the band
Visions From the Cave of Phobos - Undiscovered Moons of Saturn
"He will only use a sword on this occasion, since wresting singlehanded with a dragon is far too hopeless even for the chivalric spirit."
-The Tolkien Reader by...er, Tolkien
I borrowed Joesph Campbell's Hero With a Thousand Faces months ago (probably over a year ago at this point, now that I think of it...) and accumulated a huge fine. I haven't borrowed anything from...
Dark Muse, although you've probably heard of it (since it's a rather well-known novel), I think you would be interested in John Gardner's Grendel - the retelling of Beowulf from the point-of-view of...
I only completely finished:
Hocus Pocus - Kurt Vonnegut
Shardik - Richard Adams
I've been doing a looooot of reading for school, but nothing cover to cover.
Of course. Ironically, I really shouldn't have cared that you said anything either. I'm a fan of Lord of the Rings myself, but what bothered me with your post is the assertion that popularity =...
Draupnir, the magical ring of Odin that produces eight identical copies of itself every ninth morning:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draupnir
Being a professor of Anglo Saxon and taking much...
Bookmark Now - Kevin Smekler (editor)
The Pythons: An Autobiography of the Pythons (a Monty Python autobiography, if that wasn't apparent)
Best American Essays 2006 - Lauren Slater (editor), Robert...
I really like the name Malachi Constant, from Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan, a name which means "faithful messenger".
I've always just enjoyed the sound of it more than the meaning, really.
...
Suspended upside-down from the ceiling.
I recommend that everyone try it.
I wouldn't say that Inkheart is more "intense" than Lord of the Rings (it being a children's book with a 12-year-old protagonist), but I haven't read the book myself to comment on its quality.
I...
I couldn't stand Kate Chopin's The Awakening. I did manage to finish the book (thankfully it's short), and I can most certainly understand and appreciate the value that many see in it, but it just...
That's certainly debatable.
I would say that my fiction:non-fiction ratio is somewhere around 4:1. Biographies interest me quite a bit (but none of the recent barrage of "personal memoir" junk that everyone from Bill Clinton to...
I read another of Ishiguro's books, "An Artist of the Floating World", before I read "The Remains of the Day", and initially had difficulties getting through it. It took a while, but I finally...
8032.
When I was much younger all I read was fantasy, but I grew out of it the exact reasons you stated: everything became stale and formulaic. That's not to say I wouldn't enjoy a good fantasy novel if it...
Richard Matheson's "I Am Legend" is an excellent novel. The version I own also contains a handful of his short stories, which are also very good. I haven't had an opportunity to read any of his other...
If we're counting tobacco, Vonnegut is quoted as saying: "Let us be perfectly frank. For practically everybody, the end of the world can't come soon enough. [Cigarettes are] a fairly sure, fairly...
My eighteenth birthday present was actually an Amazon Kindle, my mom decided it would be the perfect gift considering my love of reading and her disdain for the piles of books stacked around the...