5 last books you have read

Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk
Jarhead - Anthony Swofford
Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk (amazing!)
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Neighbors - Thomas Berger

Last 5 reads have been great...

Lunar Park (Ellis)
The Code of the Woosters (Wodehouse)
This Side of Paradise (Fitzgerald)
The Gun Seller (Laurie)
The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes (Doyle)

Currently reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce).

With school keeping me so busy I haven't had a chance to do any pleasure reading, and for the first time I'm not taking summer courses so I've got some catching up to do!

Lullaby by Chuck - JUST started it
Choke by Chuck - It was good, but not my favorite
Survivor by Chuck - Loved it... I laughed, because I'm from Nebraska. I picked it up because I hadn't ever seen it on the shelf at the bookstore before! Then I came to the website and joined and found out that he has a brand new book out, and I have a few more Chuck books to read!
A Million Little Pieces - Graphic, and despite all the controversy around it, It's a good book about addiction recovery.
** I remembered the last one: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas**

Here's to catching up! I'll take any suggestions for good reads!

1. Youth In Revolt

2. A Bright Red Scream

3. Survivor

4. Haunted

5. Choke

[QUOTE=leftisbest;975044]
A Million Little Pieces - Graphic, and despite all the controversy around it, It's a good book about addiction recovery.

Here's to catching up! I'll take any suggestions for good reads![/QUOTE]

If you're into addiction recovery stuff, Drinking, A Love Story by Caroline Knapp is a good memoir.

5. House of Leaves
4. The Stepford Wives
3. Stranger Than Fiction
2. Perfume (again)
1. The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things (again)

Having a lack of new things to read isn't that great of a thing.

i. Divine Madness - Jeffrey Kotler
ii. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
iii. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
iv. Survivor - Need I say?
v. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

[QUOTE=projcon;972927]ooh...how was Heart Shaped Box? I almost grabbed it at the bookstore the other day.

5. The Road - Cormac McCarthy - just started[/QUOTE]

[COLOR=DarkOrange]I was hopeful for HSB, good story very reminiscent of S. King's early works (King is the Author's father if you didnt already know). Being a huge NIN fan it was also fun to see Trent Reznor's name woven into the storyline. But I have to say that I was very disappointed with the ending. It could have been so much better than it was. Overall I say give it a go, but I would pick it up from the library first before I made it a permanent part of my own.

How did you like "the Road"? A friend of mine just gave me a copy... so far I'm loving it.[/COLOR]

[QUOTE=PureTaurine;975094]If you're into addiction recovery stuff, Drinking, A Love Story by Caroline Knapp is a good memoir.[/QUOTE]

[COLOR=DarkOrange]"Dry" by Augusten Burroughs is fantastic if you are into the memoir/recovery jaunra (sp? need more coffee)[/COLOR]

The Stranger by Camus- Great book, obvious influence on many modern writers, including chuck. Possibly my new favorite book.
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger- Liked it, but it's obviously not as important today as it was in the era it was written.
Kiss Me, Judas by W.C Baer- Twisted and sexy. Loved it.
Dermaphoria by Craig Clevenger- FUCKING AWESOME!
Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland- Great insight into loneliness. Depressing at times, uplifting at other times. Really a great book.

In between all these books I've been diving into short stories by Hemingway, Faulkner, Bradbury, and Richards. I'm stuck at an army base with nothing to do except read and write.

The Crucible (for school but i loved it)- Arthur Miller
Lullabies for little criminals
The Day Room- Don DeLillo
The Hours
...I Remember reading the rules of attraction by Bret Easton Ellis recently, but I know there have been more after that

1. "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" - Stephen Chbosky (again, it's just nice.)
2. "House of Leaves" - Mark Z. Danielewski
3. "Rant" - Chuck
4. "Notes From a Dirty Old Man" - Bukowski
5. "The Complete Works of Woody Allen" - Woody Allen

"Stranger Than Fiction" --Palahniuk
"Naked" --David Sedaris
"Survivor" --Palahniuk
"On The Road" --Jack Kerouac
"The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" --Milan Kundera

"Johnny got his gun" - great.
"The 5 people you meet in heavan" - possibly the worst book I ever read.
"Invisable Monsters" - very good, not as good as "choke" but still great
"Slaughter House 5" - one of the best I ever read
"The Contortionist's Handbook" - good, but I think it was a little overrated, to me it seamed like a 30 page short story streched into 200 pages, but it was worth reading.

Blaze by Richard Bachman
Forever Odd by Dean Koontz
The Long Walk by Stephen King
Invisible Monsters
Rant

Boring list compared to most of you I know but if it's any consolation, I've got The Contortionists Handbook, The Informers, and Clown Girl lined up.

"Shampoo Planet" by Douglas Coupland
"At the mountains of Madness and other wierd stories" by H.P. Lovecraft
"Thus Spake Zarathustra" by Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil" by Nietzsche
"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle maintenance" by.... I can't remember.

American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis
The Sirens of Titan by Vonnegut
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
Company by Max Barry

...currently reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

ah, another time to be a truly literate pretentious bitch:

Of Human Bondage- Maughham
Can You Forgive Her?- Trollope
Adverbs- Handler
Cakes and Ale- Maughham
The Painted Veil- Maugham

On Moral Fiction - John Gardner
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
Against the Day - Thomas Pynchon
Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone? - Frank Furedi
Intercourse - Andrea Dworkin

(1.)Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction by J.D. Salinger
(2.)Crying of Lot 49-Thomas Pynchon
(3.)Rant- Chuck Palahniuk (haven't enjoyed Chuck this much since Choke)
(4.)The Raw Shark Texts (which I stopped to read #5 and really regret it. I'll start it again tomorrow.)
(5.)Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs-Chuck Klosterman(I hate this book.)

-Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Mary Roach
-Torture the Artist Joey Goebel
-Hideaway Dean Koontz
-Heart-Shaped Box Joe Hill
-Rant Chuck Palahniuk

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I have never read a book

just kidding,

The prince. by michiavelli
Art of war> by Sun Tzu
Mind control by Dr. Haha Lung
how to read a person like a book (forgot the author)
Tao of jet cun do By Bruce Lee

1. The Secret Life of Bees
2. Choke
3. Cell
4. Invisible Monsters
5. Monster

Currently enjoying Don DeLillo's [I]White Noise[/I].

Before that, it was Coupland's [I]Planet Shampoo[/I], which I liked much more than I expected to; Bret Easton Ellis's [I]Less Than Zero [/I]which is so much better than the movie I can't even articulate it into words; [I]Happy Baby [/I]by Stephen Elliott, and [I]Beasts of the Southern Wild and Other Stories[/I] by Doris Betts. All of which were really intense reads.

I just finished Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo, and it was one of the best books I've ever read in my life. I REALLY want White Noise.
Before that was:
Raw Shark Texts
House of Leaves. This has become another of my favourite books of all time.
Channel Surfing in the Sea of Happiness - Guy Babineau . I stumbled over a signed copy of this basically unknown book in a thrift store. who says straight girls can't read (and enjoy) homo fic?
Gates of Janus - Ian Brady.. I think? I can't remember but it was one of the most recent.

The Coma - Alex Garland
Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lyndsay
JPod - Douglas Coupland
Eleanor Rigby - Douglas Coupland
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling
am currently reading Luna Park by Bret Easton Ellis and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(recommend them all!!)

[QUOTE=xec8;1003127]On Moral Fiction - John Gardner
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
Against the Day - Thomas Pynchon
Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone? - Frank Furedi
Intercourse - Andrea Dworkin[/QUOTE]
I feel out of place.

[QUOTE=Caligula7;1004357]Currently enjoying Don DeLillo's [I]White Noise[/I].

Before that, it was Coupland's [I]Planet Shampoo[/I], which I liked much more than I expected to; Bret Easton Ellis's [I]Less Than Zero [/I]which is so much better than the movie I can't even articulate it into words; [I]Happy Baby [/I]by Stephen Elliott, and [I]Beasts of the Southern Wild and Other Stories[/I] by Doris Betts. All of which were really intense reads.[/QUOTE]

How was [I]Happy Baby[/I]? That one has been on my list, but I never get around to it for some reason.

Cats Claw by Vagina Crazy
Enter the Anal By Danielle Steele
Orpheus Penetrating by Donna Crack
Will you or won't you By Ernal Hemingsway.

5."Cell" Stephen King
4."Diary" Chuck Palahniuk
3."Haunted" Chuck Palahniuk
2."The American Short Story" Thomas K. Parkes
1."Fight Club" Chuck Palahniuk

Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk
Less Than Zero Bret Easton Ellis
Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Catcher In The Rye - J.D. Salinger

1. Glamorama
2. Rant
3. Lullaby
4. The Contortionists Handbook
5. Dermaphoria

and currently reading JPod.

How was the Contortionist's Handbook?

5. "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
4. "The Vampire Lestat" by Anne Rice (reread)
3. "Tales of Edgar Allan Poe" by George Foreman... just kidding it was Edgar Allan Poe.
2. "Paradise Lost" by John Milton
1. "The Damnation Game" by Clive Barker

I read all of these in Finnish.

Charles Bukowski: Dangling In The Tournefortia War All The Time
William S. Burroughs: Queer
Robert Löhr: The Chess Machine (for an entrance examination)
Wladimir Kaminer: Schönhauser Allee (for an entrance examination)
Alexander Trocchi: Young Adam

Currently reading: CP: Haunted (in English)

[QUOTE=HumbleMorningStar;1018669]How was the Contortionist's Handbook?

4. "The Vampire Lestat" by Anne Rice (reread)
[/QUOTE]

I really enjoyed "Interview.." but I could never get into this one. I never get to page number 100 Should I give it a chance?

5. The Deathly Hallows
4. The Secret of Lost Things (surprisingly good!)
3. Lamb (hi-larious)
2. Special Topics in Calamity Physics (excellent)
1. currently: Set This House in Order

[QUOTE=drinking mercury;1026053]5. The Deathly Hallows
4. The Secret of Lost Things (surprisingly good!)
3. Lamb (hi-larious)
2. Special Topics in Calamity Physics (excellent)
1. currently: Set This House in Order[/QUOTE]

Two of my favourites are right there.
I must get Lamb.

1. Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol (a work of the highest form of genius)
2. Lost in the Barrens - Farley Mowat (had to teach it)
3. Monster - the name escapes me right now (had to teach it)
4. Best Gay Short Fiction of 1996
5. All My Relations (Short Native Canadian Lit)

The Informers - Bret Easton Ellis
Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoevski
The Coma - Alex Garland
The Contortionist's Handbook - Craig Clevenger
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle

...Currently reading The Beach by Alex Garland

[QUOTE=Barca Boy;1026208]Two of my favourites are right there.
I must get Lamb.[/QUOTE]

so i know one of the two (since i found it in my mail!) but what's the other? and yes, get [U]Lamb[/U]! oh no, don't! i'll send it too you! did you read [U]A Dirty Job[/U]? it tops [U]Lamb[/U] in hilarity... at least for me it did.

I think this is mostly right...I forget. I may be off by a book or something...

The Tesseract - Alex Garland
Dermaphoria - Craig Clevenger
I Am America (And So Can You!) - Steven Colbert
Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
Only Revolutions - Mark Danielewski

currently reading Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis

The Names-Don DeLillo
Crime and Punishment-Dostoevsky
The Double-Dostoevsky
Assorted part of the Nietzche reader-umm, Nietzche
Americana-Don DeLillo

Hopefully, I'll be getting the Contortionist's Handbook Tuesday. It's odd I haven't read that yet.

Death on The Installment Plan- Celine
House of Leaves- Danielewski
American Psycho- BEE
A Farewell to Arms- Hemingway
Breadgivers- Yezierska

5. Rant-Chuck Palahniuk
4. I hope they serve beer in hell-Tucker Max (Funniest book ever i dare u to challenge it !)
3. Shooter- Gunnery Sgt. Jack Coughlin
2. I am Legend- Richard Matheson
1. The blood makes the grass grow greener-Johnny Rico

1.The Doom that came from Sarnath and Other Stories by H.P Lovecraft
2. Specials by Scott Westerfeld
3. A Graveyard for Lunatics by Ray Bradbury
4. Rant by Chuck Palahniuk
5. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk- I just finished it like 10 minutes ago

Right now I'm starting Choke by Everyone should know this one...