your favorite book
What is your favorite book and why?
Mine would have to be Either American Psycho by Ellis or Invisible Monsters by Chuck
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I have not been here in a long time,.....favorite book? Brotherhood of the Grape...I can feel the Mortar in my hands while reading it
CATCH 22 - Yossarian lives!!
The Proud Highway - a collection of early letters by Hunter S Thompson chronicaling his development as a young aspiring writer - I dont leave home without it.
"They express their individuality by wearing the same clothes reading the same books listening to the same music and hanging around in a big group - individulas finding safety in numbers - even God laughed at that one" Chuck Palahniuk
- White Jazz (James Ellroy) for fiction, because it is a pinnacle of crime fiction.
- The Art of War (Sun Tzu) for nonfiction, because of its depth and conciseness.
way too many...but.....i loved 'breathers, a zombie lament'
and i've loved everything i've read by chuck, which is all but the non fiction ones....
I've a few I can read over and over again. I hate naming my favorite because all of my loves are beautiful and unique snowflakes.
The Big Sleep
The Great Gatsby
Franny and Zooey
The Count of Monte Cristo
Les Miserables
The Beautiful and the Damned
The Musashi saga (This five part WWII Japanese war propaganda book about Miyamoto Musashi. It's effing beautiful, like Legends of the Fall with samurais and honor debts.)
You know in all the years I've been here I've never been sigged?
Come on, Musashi is very bad !
No way man!
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That series?! I loved it.
You know in all the years I've been here I've never been sigged?
Mine would have to be Either American Psycho by Ellis or Invisible Monsters by Chuck
i have been wanting to talk with someone here about this book. it's been a couple years since i read it, so sorry about the sketchy proposition but:
do you remember in AP when what's his face (the protagonist) goes to see his mom and he mentions a photo of his dad by her bedside? if i remember correctly, the only thing he says is there's something wrong with his dad's eyes, just one sentence. it was so reserved. why do you think this was written that way? or what might it mean? i mean these questions to be considered from the POV of the character and possible intentions of BEE, but if you have something better in mind i'd like to know.
i'd like to say i do understand it may just simply mean they were obviously distant. genuine psycho killers & pseudo psycho killers usually don't have the tight knit families. yup. but i just wondered what he meant by there being something wrong with his eyes. maybe i mean symbolism.
i gave my copy to the local jail, so all my highlights are gone thus no page numbers for easy reference. sorry about the inconvenience.
ps
i cried when the guy was considering his secretary's intense feelings for him (pretty late in the book) and he said (internal dialogue) he could not love her because he was incapable of love. then he also said (around the same time?) that she smelled like fresh tea i think it was.
any fav parts you'd be willing to share?
pps
i'll get to my favorite book later, after i get this outta the way if i can.
I can't just mention one. I can get it down to 3:
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas--Brilliant book by the good doctor... hilarious and flavoured by the times with a strong heart throughout.
Less Than Zero--Everything I'd want my debute novel to be. Almost a new-age Catcher in the Rye.
Fight Club--An obvious book for me to pick, but an honest choice that ticks all the boxes. The best, most engaging voice ever to narrate to me.
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Anna Karenina
Ham On Rye
A Clockwork Orange
Jitterbug Perfume
The Visual Encyclopedia of Serial Killers
and all the books I've read by CP, does not include non-fiction works, Survivor, and Tell-All. Haven't read any of those.
Good arms vs bad arms will win hands down.
Fight Club
Survivor
American Psycho
A Clockwork Orange
Dark Tower Series
Deathbird Stories
Lonesome Traveler (much prefer it to On the Road)
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As far as Chuck's books go, I'd have to say Survivor. Having lived as an outsider right in the middle of the world's largest religious cult for years the similarities crack me up.
The book I've read multiple times and I find the most entertaining is The Immortal Class by Travis Culley. Having been a bicycle courier during college back in the '90's it speaks to me in some wierd way.
However, when I pull it out (the book, not a certain body part) in public I always try and cover it up for the single reason that all the hipster fixie nerds tend to either A. Geek out on it. OR B. Get all smug that I'm not 'core enough to be reading it as my current commuter has gears and brakes 
. Perhaps it also has something to do with the number (too few) of tattoos I have, that my jeans aren't tight enough (and my clothing is gender specific) and it doesn't look like a grenade went off next to face with zero piercings.
The Monkey Wrench Gang would also be up there. Again, it goes with where I live currently and that most of that book took place out my back door.
Last One Dead Is A Sissy
Survivor
American Psycho
A Clockwork Orange
Dark Tower Series
Deathbird Stories
Lonesome Traveler (much prefer it to On the Road)
nice call on Lonesome Traveler
"Why don't you smile nice and say good morning?" said the captain as I laid down his eggs before him.
"I'm not the smiling type."
I only put 4? ok
Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
1984 by George Orwell
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Last Temptation of Christ
A Clockwork Orange
The Art of War
Fight Club
The Sun Also Rises
A Farewell to Arms
Not in that order and I know I'm forgetting many.
Not a favorite, but the last book I couldn't put down is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Animal Farm
Fight Club
what I've read of Brave New World..
any suggestions for another book I'd like?
"I just don't want to die without a few scars, I say. It's nothing anymore to have a beautiful stock body. You see those cars that are completely stock cherry, right out of a dealer's showroom in 1955, I always think, what a waste"
1984?
This is why we can't have nice things.
Fight Club
what I've read of Brave New World..
any suggestions for another book I'd like?
How can you say a book is your favorite when you can't even finish it...
Did I say Moby-Dick yet? because I really, really like that one.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz.
Torture The Artist by Joey Goebel.
I can agree with Animal Farm -that one has always stayed with me, for a lot of reasons, and it remains super relevant.
The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller.
Kiss Me Judas by Will Christopher Baer.
Those would be my top five.
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The Third Policeman
Post Office
Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance
Of Chucks books Fight Club and Haunted equally.
dermaphoria - craig clevenger
ledfeather - stephen graham jones
kiss me, judas - will christopher baer
lean on pete - willy vlautin
Fahrenheit 451 - ray bradbury
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“...There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one's head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain. You ought to have some apprehension that the man you see before you was once even younger than you are now and arrived at his present wretchedness by imperceptible degrees.”
-James Baldwin
The Stand - Stephen King
It took me 3 tries to get going, as the first 200 pages or so are a mess of character and environmental creation/development, but it's far and away the best read I've ever had. It can turn the most adamant hater into a Kingthirsty savage.
"Undaunted, I knew the game was mine to win. Just like in life, all of my successes depend on me. I'm the man who has the ball, I'm the man who can throw it faster than fuck. So that is why I am better than everyone in the world. Kiss my ass and suck my dick. Everyone."
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
A wonderful slice of America, such compelling characters, and just packed full of lessons to be learned. Atticus Finch is my literary hero.
I'd like to read that someday...
So many books, so little time. 
This is why we can't have nice things.
Yeah - I bought it years ago, but have never gotten around to it.
I have a few.
The Implacable Order of Things (aka Blank Gaze) by Jose Luis Peixoto.
Lanark by Alasdair Gray.
Illuminatus! by RA Wilson and Robert Shea.
Cryptonomicon by Sean Stephenson.
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