I NEED YOUR BOOKS

hey peeps do anyway have good books to put me on 2 im kinda stuck on what to read next

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Permalink Reply by Mesi Laveau-Jupiter on October 30, 2009 at 11:09am

oh yes, that is a must!
i would also suggest the Autobiography of Malcolm X, and Message to the Blackman in America by the Hon. Elijah Muhammad (P.B.U.H.) .

Christopher Irving said:

Brotha, have you read The Miseducation of the Negro By Carter G.Woodson?

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Permalink Reply by Folklore on December 16, 2009 at 8:22pm

Ishmael, My Ishmael, The Story of B...all by Daniel Quinn. Its stuff you know, but you dont know you know it till you know that you know it. Its not afro so much as human. Check it out.

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Permalink Reply by Sonny BOMBS on December 16, 2009 at 11:24pm

thank you 2 all please keep it coming trying to make my collection as big as possible and yes ms debby language is what im looking 4 2

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Permalink Reply by Stephanie Huskey on January 5, 2010 at 12:46pm

I have been reading Terry Goodkind's book. The Sword of the Truth series. They are action and some romance. Alot of thrill and politics later on in the book series.

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Permalink Reply by DMS on January 14, 2010 at 3:52am

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. Post-modern(ish) magical realism at its finest. It is indisputably my favorite fictional work as of late.

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Permalink Reply by Sumayyah Talibah on February 4, 2010 at 10:16am

50 recent books I've read:

1. The Muslim Next Door - Sumbul Ali-Karamali
2. After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam - Lesley Hazleton
3. Dope Sick - Walter Dean Myers
4. Sexuality and the World's Religions - Frank Korom
5. Rose of No Man's Land - Michelle Tea
6. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
7. Lord of the Vampires - Jeanne Kalogridis
8. Jihad of the Soul - Zarinah El-Amin Naeem
9. Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked The Gay Revolution - David Carter
10. This Is Not A Love Song - Sarahbeth Purcell
11. Dull Boy - Sarah Cross
12. Public Enemy #2 - Aaron McGruder
13. Cut - Patricia McCormick
14. Pirate Latitudes - Michael Crichton
15. Street Pharm - Allison van Diepen
16. Love The One You're With - James Earl Hardy
17. The Other Side of Paradise - Staceyann Chin
18. All American Dream Dolls - David Haynes
19. Strange Brew - P.N. Elrod
20. Thin Air - Rachel Caine
21. Bone Crissed - Patricia Briggs
22. A Right To Be Hostile - Aaron McGruder
23. Almost Perfect - Brian Katcher
24. Suck It Up - Brian Meehl
25. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
26. She's Not There - Jennifer Finney Boylan
27. Rage: A Love Story - Julie Ann Peters
28. Almost Home - Jessica Blank
29. Big Fat Manifesto - Susan Vaught
30. Hope On A Tightrope - Cornel West
31. Under The Dome - Stephen King
32. The Size of a Mustard Seed - Maryam Sullivan
33. Boy Meets Boy - David Levithan
34. Whale Talk - Chris Crutcher
35. Children of the Vampire - Jeanne Kalogridis
36. Hardcore Zen - Brad Werner
37. The Virgin of Flame - Chris Abani
38. Define Normal - Julie Peters
39. Luna - Julie Ann Peters
40. Home Safe - Elizabeth Berg
41. Angry Black White Boy - Adam Mansbach
42. When A Man Loves A Weapon - Toni McGee Causey
43. Orlando - Virginia Woolf
44. A Little Piece of Sky - Nicole Bailey Williams
45. The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly
46. Angry Management - Chris Crutcher
47. Dead and Gone - Charlaine Harris
48. Fall To Pieces: A Memoir of Drugs, Rock 'N' Roll, and Mental Illness - Mary Weiland
49. The Prophet - Khalil Gibran
50. A Mercy - Toni Morrison

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Permalink Reply by Rosenda on February 6, 2010 at 6:33pm

If you have not ever read any of them, do a search on Amazon "Re/Search Publications", done by V Vale and A Juno.

My favorites are Modern Primitives, 4/5 about Burroughs/Gysin/Throbbing Gristle, 6/7 Industrial Culture Handbook, Pranks, Bob Flanagan:Supermasochist, Swing: The New Retro Renaissance, Angry Women, Angry Women In Rock, Torture Garden, Confessions of Wanda Von Sacher Masoch, and the one about hot rod car racing. I'd read the whole thing before I saw that it was this very talented sister that wrote that whole book on cars.

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Permalink Reply by Sonny BOMBS on February 10, 2010 at 12:13am

have you guys read "The 50th law" by robert greene and 50 cent...cant lie it was deep all the while still kinda ghetto...i like'd it

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Permalink Reply by SaintGermaine on February 12, 2010 at 12:01am

I just got the J.G. Ballard Re/Search a little while ago at the book tables in the accursed Williamsburg!

Here's some sci fi for you, don't know if it's up your alleyhole but here it is anyway...

Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge is great fun. It's about germ warfare, high tech espionage and teenage life in a future that's just around the corner, maybe 30 years. Really cool stuff.

Accelerando by Charles Stross is also pretty kick ass. It starts out about now and rolls out another 100 years into the future. The concepts will blow your mind -- super smart cats and soda can space ships!

The Einstein Intersection by black sci fi genius Samuel Delaney is a one of my all-time favorites. I don't want to give it away though, since "what it's about" is sort of the whole thing, but it's a doozy

Finally, Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson is a thinly veiled Marxist screed wrapped inside a colonization of Mars story, and I love it so so much.

Anyway, sci-fi might not be your thing, but sometimes stepping out of your comfort zone is just what the doctor ordered.

That's all from me.

Rosenda said:

If you have not ever read any of them, do a search on Amazon "Re/Search Publications", done by V Vale and A Juno.

My favorites are Modern Primitives, 4/5 about Burroughs/Gysin/Throbbing Gristle, 6/7 Industrial Culture Handbook, Pranks, Bob Flanagan:Supermasochist, Swing: The New Retro Renaissance, Angry Women, Angry Women In Rock, Torture Garden, Confessions of Wanda Von Sacher Masoch, and the one about hot rod car racing. I'd read the whole thing before I saw that it was this very talented sister that wrote that whole book on cars.

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Permalink Reply by X-D-D-M*9 on February 14, 2010 at 1:45pm

Just finised DREAD MEETS THE PUNK ROCKERS: Autobiography of Don Letts.
Must read for anybody who interested in the whole punk movement (not just music) and the D.I.Y. effort. This brother from the UK directed all The Clash's videos, made the first documentary on British punk rock, shot docs on Sun Ra, Bob Marley & Gil-Scott Heron (too name a few), brought dub reggae to the punk scene in London, and had more adventures than can be believed. Great piece of work, unsentimentaland brutally honestas well as inspirational.