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- ian0
CoD is a fine book indeed, been a while since I read it but it cracked me up at times. The story behind it is also interesting and more than a little sad.
- jnnbugg0
im reading a book by miranda july called "no one belongs here more than you"
its pretty damn funny, and quirky at the same time.
another book i read.. took me 5 minutes to finish... is this adorable and hilarious book called "me write book, it bigfoots memoir" i chuckled throughout. i forget the authors name though.
- arthur0
The Sparrow
- ********0
I was maybe 5/7 way thru Fountainhead and I end up leaving it on a train.
pissed. but oh that Howard Roark! I wanted to bed Ms. Francon too. So hot! in a cold way...
- grafiske0
I've read Atlas Shrugged. It's hard to say which one I like more. I read Fountainhead first, so I am kind of bias, but AS was so god damn epic.
I have never, and don't think I will ever be as engrossed as I was when reading either of those books.
- blackfrancis0
The Road
or
No Country For Old Men
by
Cormac McCarthyBoth are really good reads.
- JerseyRaindog0
Nearly anything by Paul Auster, more Murakami (I see you had one in your list) Kafka on the Shore is very good. Or any David Mitchell book.
- grafiske0
Kafka on the shore is so good.
I actually started reading the New York Trilogy but couldnt get into it.
- skelly_b0
Some favorites of mine that haven't already been listed up above:
Money by Martin Amis
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Narcissus & Goldmun by Hermann Hesse
Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Euginedes (sp?)
Libra by Don Dellilo
Catch 22 bu Joseph Heller
- TheBlueOne0
See, I'm not a fan of the old Ayn Rand and it's attending solipsism, but hey, whatever crumbles your cookie...
- grafiske0
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides was awesome. I have trouble reading books when I saw the movie first, as disrespectful to the author as that may be.
I started reading Americana by Don Delillo, and I sort of hated it. It started off strong and then I had no idea what the point was for about 100 pages.
- Mimio0
Grafiske, you're one of those people with half-read books laying all over your place.
We know our own.
- skelly_b0
Americana is one of those books that doesn't go anywhere but just wanders about for a couple hundred pages. If already a fan of delillo it can be good.
Libra is a page turner. It's a ficitonal look at the Kennedy assasination from the point of view of Oswald and some CIA agents. Very good.
- JerseyRaindog0
Also Milan Kundera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez etc etc
- doesnotexist0
super fast read, classic and really good:
The Stranger by Albert Camus
- ********0
Vonnegut's Man Without a Country is a very quick read, but nonetheless entertaining and amusing.
- jamble0
"Life of Pi" by Yann Martel is very good
prajna
(Oct 4 07, 07:02)It really is a good read.
I don't normally read fiction much so can't recommend a lot there.
I did just read The secret life of Houdini which I'd highly recommend, it was fascinating: http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Lif…
- kelpie0
I'm with the blueone on Ayn Rand.
Tried the fountainhead, put it down quickly, not keen on atlas shrugged's association with certain types of people.
- dablammit0
I don't read fiction all that often, but if you feel like getting into some travel writers, Marteen Troost's "Sex Lives of Cannibals" and "Getting Stoned with Savages."
- ********0
Animal farm was interesting.