Whats a good book?
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- lherb0
- Haha, I've read this so many times in the last 4 years.JerseyRaindog
- ian0
- Not read the Life of Pi but the other three are excellent.JerseyRaindog
- invisiblechamber0
one of the best i ever read and probably what you are looking for.
in english here:
http://www.amazon.com/Borderlineā¦
- bolus0
The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha, not just good, truly great...
- simple_space0
- +1 for Blindness...fantasti...mkhandekar
- The road was utterly gripping. Read it last month in a couple of days camping in the wild.JerseyRaindog
- Knuckleberry0
House of Leaves
- mkhandekar0
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
- matt310
anything by chuck klosterman
- JerseyRaindog0
Can't go wrong with a lot of Paul Auster's work either.
- keithrondinelli0
I second "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy, which is hands down one of the best 3 books I've ever read in my life, and I read quite a bit. If you feel like getting lost for several weeks, or perhaps months, Pynchon's "Against The Day" is great, and will stand alongside "Gravity's Rainbow" once enough people have read it, which will be in 30 years or so. If you want to read something scary, get "Best Ghost Stories" by Algernon Blackwood. What else? Hmmm. "Revolutionary Road" by Richard Yates is wonderful, Gatsby-like in its prose and evocation of a time and place. "Another Country" by James Baldwin is the other greatest American novel by an African American. "The House on the Borderland" by William Hope Hodgeson will twist your mind inside out; you'll never look at the machinations of the natural world the same after reading it. "The Purple Cloud" by M.O. Shiel is one of the first and best 'Last Man on Earth" novels, the inspiration for much apocalyptic fiction and cinema that has been created over the last century. Have you read "Lolita"? It's worth asking. Conrad's "Heart of Darkness". Anything by Don Delillo is worth reading, but especially "White Noise" and "Mao II". I also second Franzen's "The Corrections", which is about as close as you can get to a page-turning, entertaining, accessible novel without feeling embarrassed you're reading it. Hope that helps...
- I had to stop reading The Road after 20 pages or so, it pissed me off so much. Perhaps I'll retry another day.detritus
- keithrondinelli0
Correction, "The Purple Cloud" is by M.P. Shiel, not M.O. Shiel.