books

  1. Guimus12

    Does anybody else hate The Catcher in the Rye?

    My grandma told me she had read it three times and she didn't understand why people liked it. So she asked me to read it to see if I could understand why. I forced myself through it and honestly is just so bad. It dosen't happen anything in this book. Why Jhon Lennon had to die because of this...
  2. Eden

    Children's Books

    Children's literature Here on Agora Road, we lub da children. We kar 4 da children. We R da children. And so, in reverence to our inner (yet clearly forsaken) innocence, we birth this thread. Consider this your opportunity to make your claim and / or state your case for the book(s) your father...
  3. Eden

    Agora Road Bookshelves

    Yo. So I've noticed a couple of Agorans have been posting their bookshelves... @Taleisin - bookshelf check @Kyou - sufficient bookshelf? I've recently filled out one of my own (in part inspired by these aforementioned posts); having decided that owning exclusively digital is too soulless...
  4. Jazz Wizard

    An excerpt from my book about Vaporwave

    Hi everyone! I'm writing a book documenting and analyzing Vaporwave and I wanted to share something I wrote, please let me know what you guys think! "Classical Vapor sounds haunted, like the rotting corpse of a mall. It's the 80s through blue tinted glasses. It's ads on tv, it's paradise...
  5. remember_summer_days

    Agora Road Book Club: Confederacy of Dunces Edition

    It's been a while hasn't it? Sorry for the delay, rough last month since I moved to a new country, anyways the OP is finally here... Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. Inatius Jacques Reilly is an overweight and unemployed thirty-year-old with a master's degree in Medieval History...
  6. IceFord345

    Phillip K Dick Thread

    Let's discuss anything and everything related to Phillip K Dick. He is personally one of my favorite authors. His philosophical trippy sci-fi is really unique and hard to come by anywhere else. I have read many of his novels. I have read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,The Man in the High...
  7. Yabba

    Vaporware books

    What books give you that Vaporware feeling. Why do you like them and how did you find out about them? For me I'd have to choose R.U. Sirius, St. Jude's, and the internet 24's unknown masterpiece How to mutate and take over the world. It's a extremely experimental book about the internet and the...
  8. JuiceMM

    Book recommendations / Reviews

    Post and talk about books you've read, recommend, or why they shouldn't be read! Digital or physical, Reading is still reading!:sleeplate:
  9. remember_summer_days

    Fake or Cringe book covers

    I've been having way too much fun using this https://penguin.jos.ht/ It's a browser software that generates one of those fancy Penguin Classic (TM) book covers for you, which you can use for some meme-worthy covers. There are probably a lot more versions on the web. Feel free to generate as many...
  10. manpaint

    "Outdated" books

    Last night, I was thinking about the concept of a book "aging well" and having "timeless theme" . This naturally implies that some book do not age well at all and reading them in the modern would simply lead the reader to say "wtf did I just read". That being said, I am somewhat struggling to...
  11. Orlando Smooth

    SciFi and Fantasy Novels

    I've been on a serious non-fiction kick for the past couple years or so and wanting to get back into fantasy (and maybe some sci-fi) for a while, but struggling to do it. I just can't seem to find anything that manages to scratch the itch. I've put some of the books and series that I've read...
  12. Oasisboi

    Books that feel unreal

    This book right here was one of the most magical reads I have ever gotten my hands on. Some of the plot and logic were so unique and yet similar. I want to buy it again to see if I get the same fascination. I highly recommend you read it if you hadn't. magical snow is one of my favorite things...
  13. remember_summer_days

    Agoraroad Book Club Voting #1 Thread.

    It´s time Agora bros. Vote for your favorite book to start the book club! I was actually planing to add all 25 entries you guys recommended but turns out polls have a limit of 10 choices :REEEEE: . Probably for the best tbh. So I tried picking a bit of everything. For the next book we read, I'll...
  14. cyberdream

    Have you ever read "Ten arguments for deleting your social media right now", by Jaron Lanier?

    I'm wondering if anyone in this forum read this book. I've deleted most of my social media due to what I've learned while reading this book (I'm only with YouTube and Whatsapp) but I'm trying agora road as an alternative way to have social experiences on internet. Do you guys have social media...
  15. Weary traveler of the web

    Found this arabic book that might be a Quran

    So I picked this up and the thrift store a few days ago and I had no luck with google translate, maybe some people on the internet can help, I'm thinking it might be religious in nature, like a Quran but for all I know it could be a bike manual, kek :MachoMan: