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- grafiske
Anyone read books? I am looking for a good book I just read 3 shitty ones in a row.
Here are some of my fav's if it helps:
Fountainhead
Breakfast of Champions
Blink
The World According to Garp
Hard Boiled Wonderland
- chossy0
me talk pretty some day
stormy weather
adrian mole and the weapons of mass destruction (is currently making me cry with laughter he heee see there I go again heee heee)
- prajna0
we share a lot of fav's. You might like something by Tom Robbins (Another Roadside Attraction or Jitterbug Perfume are both great)
- grafiske0
I tried reading Still Life.. couldnt get into it, but I will try one of those, someone also recommended Fierce Invalids.. that one any good?
- ********0
I rarely read fiction, if at all anymore, and I usually only read books seeped in politics for some reason. With the occasional socio-economic, or auto/biography for a little spice.
... I think I am going to look into a lot of books that show up in this thread, heh.
- mrseaves0
You might like something by Tom Robbins (Another Roadside Attraction or Jitterbug Perfume are both great)
prajna
(Oct 4 07, 06:53)Jitterbug Perfume is one of my favorite books!
- prajna0
Jitterbug is probably my favorite. Also "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel is very good
- tommyo0
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer is awesome
- grafiske0
Oh! Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close I should have listed as one of my favorites, that book is mind blowingly good.
- kelpie0
I 5th Jitterbug Perfume and suggest Stone Junction by Jim Dodge
- OSFA0
here's one I would recommend...
- mrseaves0
any books by Augusten Burroughs are good too.
- TheBlueOne0
I read mostly history, political and military stuff, Although I do have some favorite geekboy sci-fi/fantasy writers..since what you put up was fiction I will respond likewise:
Recently read Peter Watts' Blindsight for some whacko techno scifi with vampires and alien contact. Sounds lame, but it's quite good (I think there was a free pdf version available from his website for a while):
http://www.amazon.com/Blindsight…
Anything by Steven Brust, my favorite contemporary fantasy writer. Sure it's got magic and swords and thieves and elves and shit, but it's also got whipsmart political thrillers (imagine if a socialist rebellion formed in Middle Earth..wait..cooler than that...really), hardboiled detective thrillers, whores, assasinations, mob bosses, fun plot reads adn stuff that makes you go "hmmmmm...". Brust is a bright guy. I'd suggest starting here:
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Jhere…
or here for his take on the whole God/Satan thing:
http://www.amazon.com/Reign-Hell…
I'm currently reading this, which is not fiction but rather an interconnected collection of essays on things in the world..somewhere between bathroom reader adn one fo those.."Woah..coool!" kinda books.
- grafiske0
The only SciFi book I ever read was Enders Game by Orson Scott Card.
Sort of a symbolic story, pretty awesome, but I have to admit, not a big fan of sci-fi.
- ian0
Ian Banks is a good bet, investigate 'the crow road' or 'the wasp factory'. Thought the wasp factory is a bit heavy.
In the past year or two Ive gotten into crime novels, anything by Walter Mosley (Devil in a Blue Dress, Fearless Jones, Fear Its self), Elmore Leonard (
Unknown Man No. 89, the switch, swag) all good uns!On an aside my gf read a book called the time travellers wife, which I have yet to read though she highly recommended it, she also liked life of pi...
- ********0
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- ********0
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- MLP0
Glenn O'Brien: Soap Box
- duckofrubber0
Oh I think that Atlas Shrugged is better than The Fountainhead. If you haven't read it yet, then do it immediately. Also, A Confederacy of Dunces is another great novel. Interesting story about how it got published, too...
- ********0
Yes, Confederacy of Dunces is indeed a good book, and fiction.
Which is usually not my cup of tea.
Phenomenal book really, coupled with how it got published, and the author himself (Neon Bible to a lesser extent as well, you can really see the transformation of a writer between the two which is why I am glad it was published later [even though it preceded CoD]).
- ********0
Also, Confederacy of Dunces has never been turned into a movie.
Some say it is a hex.
Belushi, Candy, and Farley I believe were all slated at one time to play Ignatius.
Now actors won't take the role, haha.
Plus the book is so good, I wouldn't want a movie to ruin it - though it would be great to see if done correctly.