book reccomendation
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- thanton
I like: Hesse, Huxley, Marquez, Kundera, Calvino.
But I want something maybe more contemporary? Something really compelling so that I can't put it down.... any suggestions?
- k770
- jeffferson0
try this:
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the Worldby Haruki Murakami
- ave0
Jus read Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller. Fantastic book. It's a pretty good summary of life as an American expatriot living in 1930's Paris. Sloth and debauchery, brilliant!
Also, Daniel Quinn - "Ishmael" and "The Story of B". Ishmael covers the ground work of this guys theories on modern society and it's birth, which opened my eyes, to say the least. The Story of B takes it up a notch and sheds some light on Christianity and the Anti-Christ. Incredible story telling and brilliant ideas.
Quinn's work makes you want to say "Happy Holidays", and drop the "Merry Christmas".
- ave0
...and if it adds any excitment, Tropic Of Cancer was banned in the states until the 60's. Now I'm thinking about again, fabulous, couldn't stop reading it at the time!
- ave0
I've been meaning to read The Glass Bead Game again. I read it well before I encountered multimedia, without doubt the place where composition has its home now. God Bless Hesse!
- thanton0
jefferson! I just got back from the bookstore- that's exactly what I picked up! weird! I've read wild sheep chase, and I liked it.. so I thought I would give this a shot.
zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance is awesome.
ave I will keep your suggestions in mind. I tried Henry Miller once and didn't get into it for some reason. My ex was obsessed with Anais Nin, then started emulating her, which sucked.
Thanks all
- notime0
I love the authors you've mentioned so maybe this recommendation will help. I just finished reading Zadie Smith's White Teeth. It's like a contemporary 100 years of solitude but only spans 25 years...
- jeffferson0
that is odd. murkami is great. so is nabakov.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obido…however, if your looking for a quick read you might want to pick up:
The Wasp Factory
by Iain Banksyou gotta love a book that starts off like this:
"Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim.
That's my score to date. Three. I haven't killed anybody for years, and don't intend to ever again.
It was just a stage I was going through.
- aquabotic0
anything by chuck palahniuk, author of fight club
i'm reading 'choke' right now by him, it fucking rules
really blunt ass witty concise writing for when youre in a "dude fuck this shit" mood
know what im sayin
- kodap0
jose saramago. nobel prized 2 Y ago
- BEEMO0
wow, interesting...I'm a Henry Miller freak, I've pretty much read all his books. Have to say Air-Conditioned Nightmare and Standstill Like a Hummingbird are my favs. And Hesse too, all his books are great (we can always count of a really sad ending, right?). I'm starting to reread some Vonnegut books and I'm really lovin it - Breakfast of Champions, Jailbird, etc. However, I have to say, the best book I've read in the last, umm, let's say 10 years was Miles Davis' Autobiography. He's now one of my heros - just a 100% cool motherfucker.
- dequinix0
Murakami is the first person I thought of as well, although my recommendation would probably be Norwegian Wood.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obido…
Also, David Schickler's Kissing in Manhattan was a great, fun read that came together much more intelligently than one would initially imagine.
- snowtrooper0
should get some sort of book-swap going on. once youve read the sucker, just swap it for another goodie from another "member" via the lovely postal service.
just like amazon, but free-er
- flossyB0
jesus' son- denis johnson
any collection by raymond carver
tropic of cancer, tropic of capicorn, blackspring-miller
thethings they carried-tim obrien
the wasp factory-ian banks
portnoy's complaint-philip roth
new york trilogy- paul auster
the stranger-albert camus
big sur- jack keroauc
breakfast of champions, slaughterhouse 5-kurt vonnegut
13 stories 13 epithats-william t.vollman
- unknown0
Paul Auster