5 Books Everybody Should Read
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High Fidelity - Nick Hornby[/QUOTE]
I didn't like High Fidelity much, really. Nick hornby's style was alright at times, but it didn't really jump out at me- seemed more like light reading. Also, the whole theme seemed to be "settle, or die alone"; I don't know.. but the book didn't really compel me to read anything else by him.
"On The Road" --Jack Kerouac
"Animal Farm" --George Orwell
"The Jungle" --Upton Sinclair
"Survivor" --Who do you think(has good house keeping tips)
"Communist Manifesto" --Karl Marx
[QUOTE=AmazonJunkie;979833]"On The Road" --Jack Kerouac
"Animal Farm" --George Orwell
"The Jungle" --Upton Sinclair
"Survivor" --Who do you think(has good house keeping tips)
"Communist Manifesto" --Karl Marx[/QUOTE]
What about Battle Royale by Koshun Takhami?
1. The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell
2. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
3. Blindness - Jose Saramago
4. Skeleton Crew - Stephen King
5. Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk
1. The Holy Terrors by Jean Cocteau
2. Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
3. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
4. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
5. 1984 by George Owell
This is my first post so, uh, hello from Indiana everybody.
[QUOTE=styrofoam;1045834]1. The Holy Terrors by Jean Cocteau
2. Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
3. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
4. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
5. 1984 by George Owell
This is my first post so, uh, hello from Indiana everybody.[/QUOTE]
Howdy, Styro. You've got good taste in books. Greetings from North Cackalack. What's shakin' in Indiana?
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1. The Town And The City - Jack Kerouac
2. Catcher In The Rye - J.D. Salinger
3. House Of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
4. Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
5. The Book Of Illusions - Paul Auster
Not very original, and subject to massive change...
chuck palahniuk - all his books (i just can't decide)
irvine welsh - trainspotting
bret easton ellis - american psycho
patrick süsskind - perfume
george orwell - 1984
[QUOTE=shineone;1068437]chuck palahniuk - all his books (i just can't decide)
irvine welsh - trainspotting
bret easton ellis - american psycho
patrick süsskind - perfume
george orwell - 1984[/QUOTE]
Perfume- is that the one that's a movie now??? Because if it is, I want to read that!!! I haven't seen the movie, but the whole story sounds good to me.
It's been forever since I posted here. So:
Phineas Poe Trilogy by WCB (Cop-out by using all three as one book? Yes.)
Americana by Don DeLillo (This could easily change to The Names, as soon as I finish it.)
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck
[QUOTE=labelleza;1071306]Perfume- is that the one that's a movie now??? Because if it is, I want to read that!!! I haven't seen the movie, but the whole story sounds good to me.[/QUOTE]
Yeah
Personally, I never got what everyone sees in Gatsby. People look at me funny when I say that, but I still respect the book, I just didn't find it this extraordinary work to write home about.
Top 5, off the top of my head
Animal Farm, Jorge Orwell
Haunted, The Palahniuk
The Stranger Beside Me, Ann Rule
The Savage Nation, Michael Savage
The Seekers, Joshua Armstrong
Deliverance and Fight Club would be on my list, but I find those to be books many people read and either don't get, or are no more than just entertained by them. And from what I hear, I need to read The Stranger.
"They sold you hippies grunge, hip hop, now liberty activism."
hum...
i'm 23 and these are my favourite books so far ...it may change (probably it will)
Crime & Punishment - Fyodor Dostoievsky
The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
The Waves - Virginia Woolf
Autumn in Peking - Boris Vian
The Rules of attraction- Bret Easton Ellis
Wow nice pick on Crime and Punishment... I think it was on my first list and probably the others too. I love that book.
- Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions
- Arthur C Clarke: 2001 a space oddesy
- Hemmingway: The Sun Also Rises
- Camus: The Stranger
- Aldus Huxley: Brave New World
(no order)
. Choke-CP
. Temple of Gold -William Goldman
. Glamorama-Bret Easton Ellis
. Imaginary Beings-Jorge Luis Borges
. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass-Lewis Carroll
Other than CP
The Stranger- Albert Camus
Women - Charles Bukowski
Informers- Bret Easton Ellis
The Shining- Stephen King
Ask the Dust - John Fante
american psycho.
last exit to brooklyn.
clockwork orange.
trainspotting.
outsiders.
you'll never walk alone.
Fight Club (im sorry, i love the book)
Trainspotting
Zeroville(wow amazing read, especially because i love movies)
heavier than heaven
Fear and Loathing
Wow, Hemingway isn't getting much play. I just read 'the sun also rises' and it breezed right into my top five with ease.
the sun also rises
fight club
on the road
american psycho
then to round out the five.... the godfather ?,the beach?, choke?... It seems like A crime not to have the great gatsby up there .
I don't get the publics love affair with staggering genius. It was a chore to finish. I enoyed the tender bar much more.
I wonder what chuck's list would look like....
The site has list all over the place that he has stated are his favorite at the moment. I can't find them though...
Fiction
1984-George Orwell
Catcher in the Rye-J.D. Salinger
Fight Club-Chuck Palahnuik
Manifesto-Anonymous
The Outsiders-S.E. Hilton
Non-Fiction
Chomsky on Anarchism-Noam Chomsky
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century-Marcus
Days of War, Nights of Love-The Crimethink Collective
The Communist Manifesto-Karl Marx
The fifth may be The Revolution of Everyday Life. (I'm still reading it)
five books:
The Darktower series by Steven King ( ok this is more than one book)
Y the Last Man trade paperbacks by Brian K. Vaughan
The Bible.. I dunno who wrote it.
The Nightly News trade paperback By Jonathan Hickman
Haunted by Chuck P.
I'd throw The Stranger in if it hasn't already been, not that its a terribly important read, but its short and very unique, so worth adding to the list of to-reads.
And it's been said before, but it's worth repeating: F**k Gatsby.
"They sold you hippies grunge, hip hop, now liberty activism."
F**k Gatsby.
Amen.
it sucks to try to choose only five... but here goes (in no particular order)
Watership Down (Richard Adams)
Choke
The Catcher in the Rye (i know it's been mentioned a thousand times, but it's one of my absolute favorites)
Girl, Interrupted (Susanna Kaysen)
Brave New World (seen it mentioned a number of times as well, but i just can't bring myself to leave it off...)
Okay, I'm sure I wrote this after finishing one of the better passages in Americana, because as a whole, it's unfocused and there are very draggy sections. I'd recommend it only to folks who've already read several by DeLillo.
And, because Im bored and have what WCB would call "writer's fear":
Phineas Poe by WCB
V. by Thomas Pynchon (Maybe this should be Lot 49, since I think more people would like it...)
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
The GREAT MUTHAFUCKING GATSBY BITCHES by Fitzgerald
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Huh, this hasn't actually changed all that much. Pretty much I just read Pynchon, and remembered that Camus is cooler than Steinbeck. Which is saying something.
The GREAT MUTHAFUCKING GATSBY BITCHES by Fitzgerald
i didn't know he had a Gangsta Edition.
Plenty of guns and bitches in the standard edition anyway.
Bitches sure, not enough guns.
"They sold you hippies grunge, hip hop, now liberty activism."
I've been looking for American Psycho and Dermaphoria. I can't find either one. I don't really want to order from the internet...
Looks like Spunck's life is dull and pointless.
tropic of cancer
slaughterhouse five
naked lunch
bonfire of the vanities
the old man and the sea
honarable mention
gravity's rainbow
I've been looking for American Psycho and Dermaphoria. I can't find either one. I don't really want to order from the internet...
But Dermaphoria you'll probably have to order.
Not in any order.
Stranger in a strange land- (Drawing a blank)
Catcher in the rye- J.D. Salinger
Perks of being a wallflower- Chobsky
Choke- CP
A Dirty Job- Christopher Moore
"Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals." --Oscar Wilde
Stranger in a strange land- (Drawing a blank)
That's Robert A. Heinlein. <3
Thank you, how could I have ever forgotten his name....
"Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals." --Oscar Wilde
Why don't you wanna order online? Always cheaper.
"They sold you hippies grunge, hip hop, now liberty activism."
I have to wait for Paypal to go through...
Looks like Spunck's life is dull and pointless.
top 5 ,in no particular order not including CP
1 lord of the rings- best written book Ive read,similarion was good also, to bad tolkien didnt write more books
2 veiw from the center of the universe, science type book , but very interesting and informative
3 fear and loating in las vegas, rum diary by thompson is also really good, but much different
4 the beach-alex garland, was really good, oryx and crate- margret atwood is similar and also really good
5 andromada strain by crichton I liked alot, in fact most of his books that Ive read are good
favorite book by CP would be haunted
everyone mentioned the stranger by cumas, that was probably the most boring book Ive read, I liked the last 10 pages ,would have been much better if he expandded the end and shortened the rest
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Maybe if you'd paid a little more attention, for instance to the author's name, you mightn't have found it so boring?
thanks for sharing.blackhawk tactical pants.
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"I could have done worse!" exultantly cried the murderer Lebret, sentenced at Rouen to hard labor for life. — Félix Fénéon
I always thought "Green Eggs And Ham" spoke to me as a person. 
In no particular order. I dont think any of the following have been mentioned yet. I may be wrong.
Read some Harry Crews.
Father & Son - Larry Brown
Syrup - Max Barry
the Gospel Singer - Harry Crews
Ask the Dust - John Fante
the Wanting Seed - Anthoney Burgess
The Anatomy Lesson- John David Morley
Dermaphoria- Craig Clevenger
The Raw Shark Texts- Stephen Hall
Choke- Chuck
The Frog- John Hawkes
At least two of those will be on there no matter what- The Anatomy Lesson and Dermaphoria. Maybe even The Frog. I should read that again.
Read some Harry Crews.
Father & Son - Larry Brown
Syrup - Max Barry
the Gospel Singer - Harry Crews
Ask the Dust - John Fante
the Wanting Seed - Anthoney Burgess
Hmmm, The Wanting Seed. I was so disappointed with it, but probably because I read it just after A Clockwork Orange, and his oeuvre is just so vast that his novels are all starkly different. I've had a resurgence of interest in his stuff, though, after discussing him so much in my British PostModern class. I'm thinking about checking out Napoleon's Symphony from the library sometime soon.
the book sucked, probably the worst book Ive read to date, but I think I have different tastes than most of you because I read catcher and the rye and thought it was horrible also
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ask the dust was one i was gifted by a friend at a party and didnt claw too much immediacy within my intent to read, and then i did read it and it impressed me with marvel. certainly understand why bukowski called fante his god.
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play hard, like it's work to be done.
where the wild things are
after that, youll never need to read again.
Jesus' Son - Denis Johnson
Already Dead: A California Gothic - Denis Johnson
Requiem For A Dream - Hubert Selby Jr.
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
Bringing Out The Dead - Joe Connelly
there's my five cents.