What BOOKS do you recommend to superfuturians?

[thelion1856]

what books do u recommend superfuturians to read?



right now i got these and recommend them to yall....

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Suze Orman "The Money Book For the Young Fabulous & Broke.

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Sharon Rose & Neil Schlager "How Things Are Made" (cover is made of actual denim!)

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1591840783.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_AA240_SH20_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
Alex Wipperfurth "Brand Hijack (Marketing Without Marketing)" (book about how brands market without any real form of marketing and how to get your label to be a standout without making it look to mainstream!)

[Carl]

James Nachtwey Inferno. One of the most important documentary works of all time.
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0714838152.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

David Alan Harvey Cuba. Beautiful color photographs.
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0792275012.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

Antoine de Saint Exupery The Little Prince. Perfect. No other way to describe it.
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~aahobor/Lucy-Day/Images/Covers-50/The-Little-Prince.jpg

[junglejane]

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a "must-read"

[prufrock]

too lazy to rehost.

Fountainhead - Ayn Rand.

[koolaid]

hahah you beat me to the punch!!

fountainhead is v. superfutarian. you do what you want and are more productive because of it. :)

[minya]

Don't link directly to Amazon's images. If you want to use Amazon's images, rehost them on another free image host, like imageshack.us or imagesocket.com.

[watchman]

Denim- From Cowboys to Catwalks- Graham Marsh and Paul Trynka
great history of denim, very readable and interesting and written by someone on SF!

The Stranger- Albert Camus
Just because it's one of the best books of all time, and definitely makes you think about the materialistic lifestyle that so many of us SF'ers enjoy

[Dr Jonboy]

DPM - Maharishi's camouflage tome. Get the UK edition, not the US one.

[Fade to Black]

THE ALCHEMIST.

I don't know man...but if at some point in your life (maybe now) you are/were fuckin lost like i was. READ THIS SHIT. It changed my whole perspective....i went from Todd Bridges to Bill Cosby after readin that shit.

Oh yeah, "Good Luck" is a short, simple but very effective book as well.

[jo3 b]

cosign on the alchemist.

although. get to work quick on your new outlook as it easily wears off yet lingers in the back of your mind

[Corbin Law]

Antoine de Saint Exupery The Little Prince. Perfect. No other way to describe it.
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~aahobor/Lucy-Day/Images/Covers-50/The-Little-Prince.jpg


the greatest book of all time
i reccomend to all.

[mlproject]

among the thugs
the history of graphic design in france
vitamin d: new perspectives in drawing
watching words move
simplicity - john maeda
massive change
the edifice complex
chuck klosterman IV

[watchman]

among the thugs was really cool. very interesting insight into a mob mentality among otherwise normal people.

[werdtoyourmoms]

anything in oprah's book club

[fixoid]

Suze Orman really scares me.

i enjoyed john maeda's other books far more than simplicty. trying to make up laws never works. meada @ media is really good (i am such a sucker for the page edge printed flip book gimmick)
http://www.amazon.com/Maeda-Media-John/dp/0789305259/sr=1-2/qid=1160272440/ref=pd_bbs_2/104-1375618-5526331?ie=UTF8&s=books

i can never recommend calvin and hobbes enough.

[MIG]

at the moment im reading after the quake by Haruki Marukami, a great bunch of short stories...I just finished reading Enduring Cuba by Zoe Bran, a great read as I'm going to spend 3-4 months in cuba very soon. I can recommend both books. Also, my most favourite book at the moment is Martin Eden by Jack London, a great read! P.S- Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins is very insightful.

[prufrock]

Oscar Wilde - Picture of Dorian Grey.

vain superfuturians beware!

[lipmystocking]

Plato - The Republic

Donna Tartt - The Secret History

Jeffrey Eugenides (sp?) - Middlesex

[stayhandsome]

less than zero by bret easton ellis.

honestly, best book i've ever read.

all of his other books are great as well.

me talk pretty one day by david sedaris is good too.

[Matay]

http://static.zoovy.com/img/ningyoushi/W300-H400-Bffffff/oysterbook_large.jpg

it's got awesome illustrations...and it's a quick, fun read....i can stare at the pictures for ever!

[red]

look on the favorite books thread in superlist and read anything and everything on there.

[denimdestroyedmylife]

Suze Orman really scares me. seconded. deep fear.

[almondcrush]

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a119/almondcrush/utatane.jpg
book of photography by rinko kawauchi
from a set of three
lovely if you can get your hands on a copy

[Corbin Law]

what did everyone read last, currently reading and about to read?

im currently reading http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679722408.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

and just finished :
Stranger in a strange land and Band of Brothers

reading next:
probably 100 years of solitude
maybe running with scissors
maybe pillars of the earth

i can read mass amounts over the summer and on vacation but while im in school i can never find the time or energy,
but after reading this thread i am filled with a new sense of inspiration.

[horriblyjollyjinx]

everything by Ayn Rand and Johan Norberg. Don't be a socialist.

[Corbin Law]

on the subject of rand

i just read anthem
and would like to read atlas shrugged sometime soon.

[mwrenchd]

not ayn rand. don't be a nazi.

[Astérix]

Anthem is ok. The us instead of I shit was annoying to read.

[NatseOklim]

The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell

[thelion1856]

tipping point is dope, glad u mention it

[denimdestroyedmylife]

really?

gladwell's tipping point annoyed me more than any book i've read in recent memory

[cheapmuthafukr]

breakfast of champions- kurt vonnegut
on the road-jack kerouac
skinny legs and all- tom robbins

[denimdestroyedmylife]

love vonnegut, but never got into tom robbins for whatever reason.

[seraphim]

Vurt and Needle In The Groove by Jeff Noon
Thin Skin and Cherries In The Snow by Emma Forrest (don't know if many men would like these though, or well-adjusted girls)
Paradise Lost
Hallucinating Foucault by Patricia Duncker
Anything by Foucault, Sartre or Barthes.
The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer.
Chekhov's short stories.
Any of Shakespeare's plays.

I could go on and on, really.

[Etz]

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

[bee hee]

skinny legs and all- tom robbins

Cosign on everything tom robbins.

the wind up bird chronicle by Haruki Murakami, and all of his other books too.

[Dick Danger]

How to Shit in the Woods (http://www.amazon.com/How-Shit-Woods-Environmentally-Approach/dp/0898156270)

[superdupersang]

1. the day of the jackal
the original film, not the rehash with bruce willis, is one of my fav films
the level of detail
2. tom clancy raiiinbow seven also for detail heavy espionage SAS shit
3.the counte of monte christo and crime and punishment made me realise classics are classics for a reason

[docnbhd]

"Lunar Park" by Brett Easton Ellis - creepy as heck...
Working through "Why I am not a Christian" by Bertrand Russell

[fadingblue]

Antoine de Saint Exupery The Little Prince. Perfect. No other way to describe it.
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/%7Eaahobor/Lucy-Day/Images/Covers-50/The-Little-Prince.jpg


my dad used to read me "el principito" when i was little

[derdankhund]

Aldous Huxley - Point/Counterpoint
Iain Pears - The Dream of Scipio

[djrajio]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060554738.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

[jake431]

Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson

[jmatsu]

the new english dandy

[ericdw]

Lamb by Christopher Moore
Sex Drugs and Coco Puffs by Chuck Klosterman
IV by Chuck Klosterman
Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace

[kow]

http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/8294/0618001905liu2.jpg (http://www.amazon.com/King-Leopolds-Ghost-Heroism-Colonial/dp/0395759242/sr=8-2/qid=1168652835/ref=pd_bbs_2/102-5431669-7394543?ie=UTF8&s=books)

King Leopold's Ghost (http://www.amazon.com/King-Leopolds-Ghost-Heroism-Colonial/dp/0395759242/sr=8-2/qid=1168652835/ref=pd_bbs_2/102-5431669-7394543?ie=UTF8&s=books) by Adam Hochschild

Discusses the humanitarian crisis of the Belgian Congo in the late 19th century and pre-WW1 20th century. I suggest reading Heart of Darkness (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b/102-4268764-1322528?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=heart+of+darkness&Go.x=0&Go.y=0&Go=Go) by Joseph Conrad, first, to provide a short but direct point of reference for the setting of King Leopold's Ghost, which is a bit more autobiographical in nature.

I would suggest this simply because it's a topic a lot of people simply have no awareness of or familiarity with, and it's still relevant today, because the African continent is still in a horrible state. It wasn't even until 1984 that Belgium made public the few remaining documents it had on the atrocities of the early colonial era. This alone says a lot about why Africa, especially the central region, continues to be in the state that it's in, and the book itself offers substantially more perspective.

[LIVENUDEGIRLS]

THE ALCHEMIST.

I don't know man...but if at some point in your life (maybe now) you are/were fuckin lost like i was. READ THIS SHIT. It changed my whole perspective....i went from Todd Bridges to Bill Cosby after readin that shit.

Oh yeah, "Good Luck" is a short, simple but very effective book as well.

This post inspired me to check out The Alchemist. Thanks alot.

[C0C0]

the alchemist is always a good read....just finished reading it in italian also lol

[fallen angels]

Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World, by Haruki Murakami. i love imaginative japanese fiction

[B-15C]

Seeing all this Ellis makes me think there's a superfuturist joke going around; I'm bad with irony when I'm not listening for it. At least nobody's mentioned Palhaniuk yet.

Borges's The Aleph makes me happy. William Gibson's Neuromancer and All Tomorrows Parties - both about fake futures, appropriately fashion obsessive, but still readable.

[youngteam]

one of my majors as an undergrad was english. this is going to sound strange, but being forced to read joyce, plus being surrounded by unrepentant tools who un-ironically say 'tome' instead of 'book' or say things like 'the prose is like the bastard child of raymond carver' during class discussions, made me never want to read again. thank god i didn't study gynecology. fuck, i hate english majors.

and if you want a recommendation, go read to the lighthouse or some fucking thing, though the realization that i liked virginia woolf made me feel like i was emasculating myself. it still beats fucking ayn rand or bret easton ellis, though.

[Corbin Law]

though ive only read one of her books
i think it is set in my mind
that ayn rand can suck it
as can so many other writers of shitty dystopian novels
i still havent read 1984 and something about it
pushes me away. but i know i will have to senior year
i have a feeling im going to be let down.

[fadingblue]

faust (10 characters)

[showbiz00ditc]

i just picked up The Game at dj's recommendation.
im about 100 pages in and im lovin it.
i say superfuture needs a thread about PU (pickup) methods, stories, negs, openers, etc.
i may start it later.

[mswill_i_am]

Oscar Wilde - Picture of Dorian Grey.

vain superfuturians beware!
amen. great book

[mswill_i_am]

the curious incident of the dog in the night time by Mark Haddon

she's come undone by wally lamb

i know this much is true by wally lamb

white oleander by janet fitch [i know it was a movie but the book is much much better]

thats what i've read in the past 2 months or so...

[american_hearts]

i just picked up The Game at dj's recommendation.
im about 100 pages in and im lovin it.
i say superfuture needs a thread about PU (pickup) methods, stories, negs, openers, etc.
i may start it later.

trust me...all girls know about The Game by now except for the most naive. and for those...do you really need a book? there's nothing new under the sun.

[american_hearts]

Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World, by Haruki Murakami. i love imaginative japanese fiction

I halfway remember a lengthy murakami-centered thread from the past...

at any rate, I was introduced through Hard-boiled Wonderland, forced myself to finish Wind-Up Bird Chronicles and at the end of the day really prefer the poignancy of Norwegian Wood.

[Lucas]

Great book my mom read it to me when i was small just got back from a journey all around europe and im really glad i picked up the alchemist right be for i left for the trip! Because of this book we went on a side trip to africa haha
THE ALCHEMIST.

I don't know man...but if at some point in your life (maybe now) you are/were fuckin lost like i was. READ THIS SHIT. It changed my whole perspective....i went from Todd Bridges to Bill Cosby after readin that shit.

Oh yeah, "Good Luck" is a short, simple but very effective book as well.

[dasman989]

Catch-22
Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy


Two books to Ilive by.

[Agent Orange]

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/9826/fleursoj9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Mr Ibrahim and the flowers of the Koran, similar to le petit prince - imo even better, both best in the french original

also a great book
http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/4499/spitvu0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
boris vian - i spit on your graves
sarcastic to death, fun to read. i always give this as a present to peaople who dont like literature or read rarely. was first censored, then forbidden after its publication in 1947.

i also really enjoyed books that others already recommened, eg neil strauss - the game, and the stranger from camus is one of my alltime favorites.

"And I felt ready to live it all again. As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself - so like a brother, really - I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate."

i simply love that paragraph :D

[thefunkytechnician]

Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt
The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford

edit: forgot to add Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists (this book is the shit)

[Goose25]

'1421 - the year china discovered the world'

it's true - they did!

[Analyst]

Snow by Orhan Pamuk...

Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy...

Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe...

[jpgm]

don de lillo - underworld

[denimdestroyedmylife]

^ i love that book. great superfuturian rec. the graff, the urban grit, it's all in there.

[denimdestroyedmylife]

one of my majors as an undergrad was english. this is going to sound strange, but being forced to read joyce, plus being surrounded by unrepentant tools who un-ironically say 'tome' instead of 'book' or say things like 'the prose is like the bastard child of raymond carver' during class discussions, made me never want to read again. thank god i didn't study gynecology. fuck, i hate english majors.

and if you want a recommendation, go read to the lighthouse or some fucking thing, though the realization that i liked virginia woolf made me feel like i was emasculating myself. it still beats fucking ayn rand or bret easton ellis, though.

i agree with all of this. and TO THE LIGHTHOUSE may be the most beautifully written english-language book ever.

[sybaritical]

If we're talking about Don Delillo don't forget about "white noise".

I just finished " an artist of the floating world" by Kazuo Ishiguro.

It took a while to get with it but left me fairly happy.

[denimdestroyedmylife]

i liked white noise, too-----perfect for the supergay with a short attention span

[jpgm]

also....

jonathon lethem - 'the fortress of solitude'...amazing book.

anything by murakami...'dance dance dance' is a particular favourite.

currently reading david mitchell - 'number 9 dream'
and about to start on gautam malkani - 'londonstani'

[DJ_Flame]

Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
Honestly, it got boring after halfway through book 2. Too much extraneous banter.

[Swych]

Design book- Massive Change, Bruce Mau

Leisure reading- Rainfall, Barry Eisler

About a half japanese half american assassin based in Tokyo that specialises in 'natural deaths'. Yakuza, Politicians, Sex and very real descriptions of Tokyo make this a great fun read. Real slick kills and stylish action.

[designersheep]

my favourite fiction:
Albert Camus - L'étranger
http://i12.tinypic.com/33w63cj.jpg

a book just with illustrations (yet to look at all of it, but I find his drawings very appealing especially in here):
Zak Smith - Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow
http://i5.tinypic.com/47muohy.jpg
CLICK (http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/zak_smith/page%20index.htm) to see the illustrations

[DEPHT]

Who Owns History? by Eric Foner

[sybaritical]

i liked white noise, too-----perfect for the supergay with a short attention span


I am supergay.

Watch me ride!

Hear me roar!


Picked up Ernest Hemingway for some reason. $4 at a thrift store yesterday
and it reads like a boys' own.

[youngteam]

i agree with all of this. and TO THE LIGHTHOUSE may be the most beautifully written english-language book ever.

denimdestroyedmylife, let's start a superfuture book club. entree requires the ability to form sentences using a gerund, infinitive and participle; a written sample that contains correct and liberal usage of the semicolon; belle and sebastian on one's ipod; a conspicuous absence of testicles.

[haptronic]

http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/5369/5183h0edy4lbo2204203200lh0.jpg (http://www.amazon.com/Life-Nuova-Review-Books-Classics/dp/0940322870/ref=sr_1_1/002-5703279-1528038?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1182558620&sr=8-1)

[sybaritical]

I'll see you and raise.

http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/221/51txf3a0p2lbo2204203200hh5.jpg

[polishmike]

http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/1763/dummiesjk3.jpg

[cyberPUNK]

anything by haruki murakami is a great read. for beginners i'd recommend "hard boiled wonderland and the end of the world," it'll give you a good introduction to his writing style, even though it's been translated.

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/513B2A7P9AL._SS500_.jpg

[perledeculture]

Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts is an amazing read.
Be warned, however, it is a monstrosity of a book.

[feather]

Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
Neal Stephenson - Snow crash, Diamond Age
William Gibson - Neuromancer, Pattern Recognition
Ruy Murakami - Almost Transparent Blue
Neil Gaiman - Sandman, American Gods, Stardust
Grant Morrison - Arkham Asylum
John Simmons - The Invisible Grail
Alfredo Marcantonio - Well-written and red
M. J. Harrison - Light
Roger Zalazny - Lord of Light, Great Book of Amber
Steven Erikson - Malazan Book of the Fallen
Mike Carey - Lucifer
Haruhi Murakami - Norgwegian Wood
Banana Yoshimoto - Kitchen
Jorge Luis Borges - Labyrinth
Helen Gardner, et al - The Metaphysical Poets
E. E. Cummings - Selected Poems
Milan Kundera - Life is elsewhere
Jeff Noon - Vurt

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48 laws of power.

[justinbaily21]

A Light In August
Absalom, Absalom!
The Sound and the Fury (Big Faulkner fan)
Don Quixote
Infinite Jest (about 200 pages in and it's great so far)
The Sun Also Rises
The book of Ecclesiastes (Ignore the first and last few lines. Different author than the rest of the book.)

I also enjoyed "Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs," but the chapters are very hit and miss. Same with "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius." I can only take so much ironic, self-awareness. It was a good summer read, though.

[soepom]

the new english dandy

this is insane, i was at pageone today and i saw this very book for the first time. i was browsing through it contemplating whether i should buy it for the ex. but decided against it in the end because he doesn't have the personality for those fits. and then i come back and see this post!

too serendipitous. given what's transpired between us over the past few days jmatsu, this is frightening.


that said, it's also strange that out of the few books i do actually own, among them are the fountainhead, the alchemist, oyster boy and the little prince. i've also read quite a number of the other books listed here. given that music tastes seem so diverse on sufu, i find it odd that our reading preferences seem alot more similar.

since this isn't the favourite books thread, but the recommend-to-superfuturians thread. i'd say:

Life on The Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet - Sherry Turkle

The Internet has become a significant social laboratory for experimenting with the constructions and reconstructions of self that characterize postmodern life. In its virtual reality, we self-fashion and self-create.
Turkle, 1995:180

even though some of the observations are a little obsolete due to changes in the technology, it is still a seminal text for those interested in understanding online social interaction.

[superBobo]

epictetus - "the handbook"
marcus aurelius - "meditations"

very very inspiring, for me atleast.

[justinbaily21]

^^^ I'll sign off on both of those books. I didn't want to list off every philosophy book that I've read in college, although I gladly would. Meditations and Handbook are both air-tight examples of how to lead a noble life.

[zimzima911]

the omnivore's dilema - michael pollan...and botany of desire for that matter. both are by pollan.

im into food writing and these were both quite intriguing, both an outside of the box take on food culture and history in the us.

[palabok]

"Holes" - Louis Sachar

[sleazie ninja number 47]

Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts is an amazing read.
Be warned, however, it is a monstrosity of a book.

co-sign on this. i read this shit in 2 and a half days...so good.

[feather]

this is insane, i was at pageone today and i saw this very book for the first time. i was browsing through it contemplating whether i should buy it for the ex. but decided against it in the end because he doesn't have the personality for those fits. and then i come back and see this post!


Bah--you should've bought it for yourself. ;) It's dope.

[BOORADLEY]

black spring - henry miller

[feather]

No To kill a mocking bird?

[lllllllllllllll]

the five people you meet in heaven
falling leaves
the kite runner

[arevalo]

anything by haruki murakami is a great read. for beginners i'd recommend "hard boiled wonderland and the end of the world," it'll give you a good introduction to his writing style, even though it's been translated.

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/513B2A7P9AL._SS500_.jpg


I'm almost done with The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.

Awesome writer.