What are some good short books

**StonedApe** · 03-17-2011 12:48 PM

What are some good quick reads? All the books I've been reading lately are non-fiction and over 400 pages, I'm looking for a change.

**Philosopher8659** · 03-17-2011 12:51 PM

Originally Posted by stonedape

What are some good quick reads? All the books I've been reading lately are non-fiction and over 400 pages, I'm looking for a change.

The Elements by Euclid.

**Philosopher8659** · 03-17-2011 12:52 PM

Originally Posted by stonedape

What are some good quick reads? All the books I've been reading lately are non-fiction and over 400 pages, I'm looking for a change.

The Elements by Euclid.

I provide Heaths edition, on the archive.

**Philosopher8659** · 03-17-2011 12:53 PM

Originally Posted by stonedape

What are some good quick reads? All the books I've been reading lately are non-fiction and over 400 pages, I'm looking for a change.

The Elements by Euclid.

I provide Heaths edition, on the archive.

You can also get digital editions of Doc Savage on the net. I use to like those.

This web or ie 7 did a crash and recovery to get tripple postings. Or it was the security measures on this corporate puter?

**IAmCoder** · 03-17-2011 01:46 PM

This is the one for you then; Jonathan Livingston Seagull. You can read it in 30 min flat, again and again.

**StonedApe** · 03-18-2011 09:08 PM

Damn the library doesn't have almost any of these, probably gonna go with howl or letters to the earth.

**Replicon** · 03-18-2011 12:02 AM

Catcher in the Rye is really quick to get through.

**Raphael** · 03-18-2011 01:35 AM

The Alchemist, it will motivate the crap out of you.

**stormcrow** · 03-18-2011 02:40 AM

Letters from the earth by mark twain
ficciones by jorge luis borges
I sing the body electric(short stories) ray bradbury
short stories by franz kafka
howl and other poems by allen ginsberg
idk im not a big fiction guy so I dont have much else to recommend but those are all really short and fun

**Siиdяed** · 03-27-2011 02:34 AM

Originally Posted by stormcrow

Letters from the earth by mark twain
ficciones by jorge luis borges
I sing the body electric(short stories) ray bradbury
short stories by franz kafka
howl and other poems by allen ginsberg
idk im not a big fiction guy so I dont have much else to recommend but those are all really short and fun

These are all nice choices.

But seriously.

Graham Greene's The Third Man. All the fun of detection, post-war austerity and confusion, and engaging characters neatly encompassed within a concise, contained plot.

**Replicon** · 03-18-2011 03:09 AM

+1 for the Alchemist - awesome read!

**Keresztanya** · 03-18-2011 03:22 AM

Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago, excellent book

**IAmCoder** · 03-18-2011 02:55 PM

+2 The Alchemist

Originally Posted by Paul Cohen

When you really want something to happen, the whole universe conspires so that your wish comes true.

The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield is another classic that can be read in an evening.

**Replicon** · 03-18-2011 05:53 PM

(you mean Paulo Coelho

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**theMagician** · 03-23-2011 08:02 PM

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: 127 hours.

Good book even if you have seen the movie or know the story.

**Raphael** · 03-24-2011 08:12 PM

Fight Club is a nice short read.

By the way you can probably find these at a book store and read them in there, if you have hours to kill. Or buy one, then return after you read it

**StonedApe** · 03-25-2011 08:59 PM

Originally Posted by Raphael

Fight Club is a nice short read.

By the way you can probably find these at a book store and read them in there, if you have hours to kill. Or buy one, then return after you read it

That is, but I already read it. But I was think about getting something else by Palahniuk. All his books are like 2 day reads, or at least the ones I've read.

Might have to try getting some of these from a store and just return them when I'm done, never really thought of that.

**Arra** · 03-24-2011 11:39 PM

I've heard really good things about the book 'The Last Unicorn', but I haven't read it myself yet. I'm not even sure what genre it is. I think I heard it's a fantasy sort of mocking other fantasies, but carries a lot of meaning and is just a simple short beautiful perfect book.

**NoctemConArtist** · 03-25-2011 02:38 PM

Flowers for Algernon. I read the short story, but there's also a novel.

The Last Question. Short story, quick read, ending will make you either LOL or OMGZING.

**Erii** · 03-27-2011 01:27 AM

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

<3 also, +3 for The Alchemist

**Solipsism** · 03-30-2011 08:27 AM

You could always buy a book of short stories. Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi, has one titled The Facts behind the Helsinki Roccamatios.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne is also pretty good.

**Lseadragon** · 03-30-2011 12:08 PM

Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
Ubik -or- A Scanner Darkly - Phillip K. Dick (who, if you don't know him, is a quintessential concept sci-fi writer. Nobody does the banal like Dick, though if you're looking for a bildungsroman you'd be advised to look elsewhere.)
Changing Planes - Ursula Le Guin (a short story collection, a wonderful collection of her talent while avoiding the flaws that plague her longer stuff sometimes)

**stormcrow** · 03-30-2011 08:30 PM

I highly highly recommend Siddhartha too and it is literally 100 pages.

I havent read Changing Planes but Ive read The dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin she is one of my favorite fiction authors.

**StonedApe** · 03-30-2011 09:51 PM

Siddhartha is really quick, but I've already read it. I haven't read Ubik yet but I'm a big Philip K Dick fan so I might just go for that.

I also found the alchemist at a used book sale yesterday. Gonna read it soon but I might read something else first.