Any other good authors to check out besides chuck?
Can anybody inform me about some good authors that they personally like? I'veb een trying to expand my whole reading area to other authors and topics..but I can't really get into fantasy...
Douglas Coupland, Jack Kerouac.
There is hope, but not for us.
Ernest Hemingway. The man makes me want to read and write, and live.
We'd all like some real friends, but what are the odds of that happening?--Cheif Wiggum
<---- Harry MuthaFuckin' Crews ---- Well a lot of his books are out of print and hard as hell to find for some reason though FEAST OF SNAKES is in print and that is one of his best ones. It's under 200 pages, brutally disturbing and funny as hell all at once. Also try to find BODY and ALL WE NEED OF HELL by him also. He is currently my fav. author along with Chuck even though I have only read a few books by him. He is like David Lynch if David Lynch was a novelist that revolved around the south and rednecks.
Also check out Joe Connely, he is not "Chuck-ish" but still great, he has only written 2 novels thus far though "Bringing out the Dead" and "CRUMBTOWN".
Also: James Kelman, Bret Easton Ellis, Jerry Stahl, Willaim Burroughs and Hubert Selby Jr's earlier books if you don't mind the fact that the guy doesn't use writing syntax at all.
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"Excuse me sir, Did you wash your hands after you took that big heaping dump. You know that sign, that sign says ALL employees MUST wash their hands after using the restroom, What part of that do you not understand?"- Malcom X
"Would you care to lick my sweaty baulz after they have been dipped in the finest venerial juices and sauteed in my own ass-sweat, madam?"- Winston Churchill
Mary Gaitskill... I know I always say this... her style not so much like Chuck, but she writes sooo well about edgy sex and fucked-up bizarre people, or fucked-up bizarre people pretending to be "normal"... you can't read a story of hers and not come away disturbed in a very visceral way.
The movie, "Secretary," was based on a Mary Gaitskill story...
I only wish she had more stuff out there!!!
"I've never caught a jewel thief before. It's very stimulating."
Frances Stevens, To Catch a Thief
"Jeff, you know if someone came in here, they wouldn't believe what they'd see? You and me with long faces plunged into despair because we find out a man didn't kill his wife. We're two of the most frightening ghouls I've ever known."
Lisa Fremont, "Rear Window"
AHAHAHAHAH!! *Bashes head against desk several times!!!!* WHY THE FUCK IS THIS IN THE MUSIC AND MOVIES FORUM????? AAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAH!!! I'm god damn drunk and this post is STILL retarded as fuck!
YOU FUCKED THE WORST, NOW FIGHT THE BEST!
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Did you just call me girlfriend? Ack, I can hear you saying that in this really horrible voice. "Oh no you didn't! What am I supposed to do without my ceeeelll phone?"
There is hope, but not for us.
hmm..it seems like this needs to be moved....to general discussions...now..hmm...need to learn how to do so without messing cp.net up...
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Kerouac is the shit. On the Road changed my life.
There is hope, but not for us.
my teacher back in OAC (grade 13) wanted to kick me out of the class for doing a comparison between american psycho and bonfire of the vanties...instead i got him fired
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Bret Easton Ellis.
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Max (or Maxx) Barry's "Syrup" is one of the freshest voices I've read in a while.
Michael Chabon is great, but completely "UnChuck". I recommended reading him after a few books of "Chuck" type books… or trepanation if your brain feels like it’s about to explode.
Kerouac blew my fucking mind.
I picked up a graphic novel called "Safe Area Gorazde" by Joe Sacco at the library today. It's a journalistic/Comic book that grabbed me within the first pages -- and by the Maus reference on the back.
Oh and Amy Hempel if you are prepared to get your ass kicked in minimalist Yoda talk that packs 4 paragraphs inside 10 words or less. I suggest read slowly and ignore most of the periods like this one.
Or you could just go to Palahniuk-Esque found within the Author section.
“If you can quit, probably you should.”
-Alexander Blackburn, then editor of Writer’s Forum in Colorado
V. Much enjoying Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son, which I just picked up...
"I've never caught a jewel thief before. It's very stimulating."
Frances Stevens, To Catch a Thief
"Jeff, you know if someone came in here, they wouldn't believe what they'd see? You and me with long faces plunged into despair because we find out a man didn't kill his wife. We're two of the most frightening ghouls I've ever known."
Lisa Fremont, "Rear Window"
Thank you for saying the name of the author of Jesus's Son! I've been wanting to check that out, but I'm too lazy to actually check for it on the site or ask someone about it at a bookstore. Denis Johnson, thank God (I'm an atheist).
Also, I recommend A.M. Homes. Read this amazing, disturbing, wonderful, incandescent short story ([url]http://www.barcelonareview.com/eng/eng44.htm[/url]) unless you want me to slip you my convinsah. It's called "A Real Doll" and it's from her short story collection "The Safety of Objects."
You're going to feel ripped off when you buy it, $12 for a skinny paperback, all of 160 pages, the size of a large index card.
Don't, every word is precious, worth it. Buy it!
"I've never caught a jewel thief before. It's very stimulating."
Frances Stevens, To Catch a Thief
"Jeff, you know if someone came in here, they wouldn't believe what they'd see? You and me with long faces plunged into despair because we find out a man didn't kill his wife. We're two of the most frightening ghouls I've ever known."
Lisa Fremont, "Rear Window"
I have an affection for Jordie that is based purely on her avatar (although I liked the previous one more). Thank you, Jordie, thank you.
And also, yes, for saying Denis Johnson's name and for saying that I live in a literate state. Thank god (I'm an atheist) for Jordie.
I really can't bring myself to read On the Road, I own it, I read it from time to time, I can't get into it at all, I think there's something wrong with me.
hold on, alex, the literature paramedics are on their way.
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there hope for you yet alex *grabs the defibulators*
any body read hubert selbys last exit to brooklyn, or requiem for a dream. i hear there really raw? picked up requiem for a dream for 10 bucks, and i went what the fuck theres a directors cut, this movies fucked up enough
godspeed:
They cut a few seconds of the ending orgy for it to be R-rated and available at blockbuster, because originally it was deemed NC-17 and released as NR (not rated.) The director's cut dvd might have more special features though, I haven't looked at them closely enough.
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[B]I live in a literate state. [/B][/QUOTE]
Are you the one who lives in Minnesota?
"I've never caught a jewel thief before. It's very stimulating."
Frances Stevens, To Catch a Thief
"Jeff, you know if someone came in here, they wouldn't believe what they'd see? You and me with long faces plunged into despair because we find out a man didn't kill his wife. We're two of the most frightening ghouls I've ever known."
Lisa Fremont, "Rear Window"
Well, obviously. Speaking of that, today at lunch in the Cities, I was served by an extremely charming waiter who had a long conversation with a woman at another table about Notes From Underground, and I was reminded of your post about our literacy. It's a good thing to know.
Jim Thompson.
Jim Thompson.
Jim Thompson.
A talking dog. A hick deputy sheriff who thinks he's Jesus Christ. A dwarf with TB in love with a crippled girl. A white negro raping the one he believes to be Virgin Mary (actually his own mother). A funny fella who grows human limbs in his garden. Losers. Alcoholics. Incestuous brothers and sisters. Grifters. Psychos.
You name it.
And he co-wrote 'The Killing' and 'Paths of glory' with Kubrick.
A dwarf with TB in love with a crippled girl!?! Title, por favor. Thats next on my reading list.
Requiem is Selby's best.
Last Exit to Brooklyn was also good, it has no likable characters.
"Excuse me sir, Did you wash your hands after you took that big heaping dump. You know that sign, that sign says ALL employees MUST wash their hands after using the restroom, What part of that do you not understand?"- Malcom X
"Would you care to lick my sweaty baulz after they have been dipped in the finest venerial juices and sauteed in my own ass-sweat, madam?"- Winston Churchill
damn franc what book is that sounds fucked up, i wanna read.
I gotta read Jim Thompson heard about him before. I love any book that is darkly comic with lots and lots of weirdo characters.....
"Excuse me sir, Did you wash your hands after you took that big heaping dump. You know that sign, that sign says ALL employees MUST wash their hands after using the restroom, What part of that do you not understand?"- Malcom X
"Would you care to lick my sweaty baulz after they have been dipped in the finest venerial juices and sauteed in my own ass-sweat, madam?"- Winston Churchill
James Frey, A Million little pieces
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
What is the title of that Jim Thompson book?
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Dwarf with TB title : "Savage Night"
However, my personal favorites are :
"Pop. 1280" (hilariously chilling)
"The killer inside me" (psychopath killer with a badge)
"Child of rage" (some of the most outrageous shit I've ever read)
I'd say the most Chuck-esque are :
"The nothing man" (about a bitter journalist who had this balls destroyed at the war)
"A hell of a woman" (about a loser with a split-personality)
Also, his autobiography ("Bad boy" and "Roughneck") is a masterpiece of lucidity, fantasy and humor.
Some of his books have been made into film.
"The Getaway" : McQueen vehicle without the perversity of the book
"Coup de torchon" : Pop 1280 set in French colonial Africa; rather faithful, Philippe Noiret (Pablo Neruda in Il Postino!) is THE actor for the part
"Serie Noire" : Hell of a Woman in suburban France (nightmarish)
"The Grifters" : Very good modernization.
yeah u reminded me angel face i was trying to figure out what book that was, when i came across a thread about the perks of being a wallflower, i think it was the same publisher or something, both the paperbacks look similar. anyways that book is great, the fuck i mean. pretending your gay in a porn theatre just so u can hold on to a job is pretty low. but then when he gets that pad in new york. what a dream huh? that would be so sweet.
Haven't seen Nick Hornby's name mentioned yet. Great author. Very quick writing, yet each word seems to resonate and make you say, "Holy shit, he just described me."
For any of you who've seen High Fidelity and loved it, read the book too. It's a lot different, but a lot of it is the same. You can seriously read the entire thing in two or three sittings. It's just that damn good.
And for anyone who happened to look over Jay McNearney and his 80's masterpiece "Bright Lights, Big City." You gotta check that one out. Quick read and the writing is right to the point.
Bret Easton Ellis was mentioned before too, but for any aspiring writers check out "Less Than Zero." For all the accolades it got it's pretty general. He wrote it while still in college. If you can get an old hardcover of it, check out the picture and you can see it. But it's still a great read just the same. Along the same lines as "Bright Lights"--the entire drug scene--only not quite as good.
Vladimir Nabokov is pretty damned awesome if you ask me.
ooh, yeah, totally.
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BENTLEY LITTLE, horror writer ALTERNATIVE TO STEPHEN KING (only bad thing about his books are the endings read two or three of his books and you'll see what I mean) He has a new book coming out in September THE POLICY
ROBERT J. SAWYER, I actually met him a friend of my english teacher, (CANADA !!!)Sci-fi writer his latest work is a series (two parts released so far) start with HOMONIDS
jonathan lethems mother brooklyn is pretty good, that was a little detective type story, but he wrote science fiction to
I've wanted to read Bentley Little's THE IGNORED for the longest time, its plot outline is very similar to Fight Club but different.
"Excuse me sir, Did you wash your hands after you took that big heaping dump. You know that sign, that sign says ALL employees MUST wash their hands after using the restroom, What part of that do you not understand?"- Malcom X
"Would you care to lick my sweaty baulz after they have been dipped in the finest venerial juices and sauteed in my own ass-sweat, madam?"- Winston Churchill
Beside Jim Thompson, my 2 all-time favourite writers are : Dashiell Hammett (the Maltese Falcon, the Glass Key), and James Ellroy (the L.A. Quartet)
Everyone on the whole friggin planet should have to read Joseph Heller's Catch-22...but that's just my thoughts. Seriously, the best book ever. And then there's Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), who isn't too Palahniuk-esque, but is still awesome in his own right. Also, you should check out Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart. I'm not sure if it's out of print yet (his other two books are cause of author/publisher disputes), but if it is you should still be able to find it used at borders or somewhere. Bridge is very dark and sarcastic, and tells one hell of a good story. His other two books (Story of the Stone and Eight Skilled Gentlemen) are pretty great too, but neither stack up to Bridge.
"A fool will study for twenty or thirty years and learn how to do something, but a wise man will study for twenty or thirty minutes and become an expert. In this world it isn't ability that counts, but authority."
-Barry Hughart
"Giant Typhoon Rips Through Graveyard, Hundreds Dead"
-Headline from The Daily Pennsylvanian
Catch-22 didn't live up to my expectations, I liked parts of it but was disappointed.
So lets see, I don't much care for Kerouak or Catch-22, somewhere an English teacher is bleeding.
Actually, from my experience of taking 30 or so English classes in college, I haven't run across one single class where Kerouac or Heller was taught.
But I did come across a kick ass teacher who taught Fight Club and Survivor...
yeah kerouac isnt mentions much in school literature but its widely known and liked.
Yesterday I bought a book called " You Got Nothing Coming." by somebody called Lesner, (don´t recall the first name.) and it´s been sofar excellent.
Also a good book is called "Twelve", who´s author I don´t remember either.
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Twelve is by Nick McDonell I think. It was pretty good. Would make a good movie if the right person gets ahold of it.
Thanks P-Keeny, and that Lesner is Jimmy Lesner.
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Some good books I've read:
Irvine Welsh
- Trainspotting
- Porno
- Filth
- Glue
Tom Robbins
- Another Roadside Attraction
- Jitterbug Perfume
- Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
- Skinny Legs and All
- Half-Asleep In Frog Pajamas
- Villa Incognito (so-so)
Kurt Vonnegut
- Cat's Cradle
- Mother Night
- Sirens of Titan
- Breakfast of Champions
- Gallapagos
- Bluebeard
- Hocus Pocus
- Dead-Eye Dick
- Time Quake
- Player Piano
Don DeLillo
- White Noise
William S. Burroughs
- Junky
- Queer
- Naked Lunch
- Cities of the Red Night
- The Place of Dead Roads
- The Western Lands
Jack Kerouac
- On The Road
- The Subterraneans
- Dharma Bums
Victor Hugo
- Les Miserable
Fyodor Doysteovsky
- Crime and Punishment
- The Idiot
- The Brothers Karamazov (The Inquisitor!)
Alexander Dumas
- The Count of Monte Cristo
Charles Bukowski
- Love is a Dog from Hell
- What matters most is how you walk through the fire
- Notes of a Dirty Old Man
Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea
- The Illuminatus Trilogy
J.R.R. Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings'
Fritz Leiber's 'Tales of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouse'
- Book of Swords
- Three of Swords
- Knight and Knave of Swords
etc.
Douglas Adams
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Allen Ginsberg
- The Howl
- The Fall of America
E.E. Cummings
William Carlos Williams
Celine
- Death on the Installment Plan
Henry Selby Jr. (?)
- Requiem for a Dream]
- Last Exit to Brooklyn
Tobias Wolfe
- This Boy's Life
Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat series
Neal Stephenson
- The Cryptonomicon
- The Diamond Age
- Snow Crash
Bruce Sterling
- The Artificial Kid
- Distraction
- Heavy Weather
- Schismatrix
- Holy Fire
William Gibson
-Burning Chrome
- Neuromancer
Phillip K. Dick
H.P. Lovecraft
Edgar Allen Poe
Oh man the list could go on...it's a good start though.
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Everything will go smoothly this week, except for the part with the
monkeys and the cream pies.
Morgan we might have to sit down and talk.
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Mark Z. Danielewsky-House of Leaves
Craig Clevenger-The Contortionist's Handbook
Christopher Chester (Prototype)-Of My Own Free Will
its hubert selby, and i couldnt get into white noise, but i loved loved LOVED libra.
I would reccomend kurt Vonneugt, Philip K. Dick, and Irvine Welsh. They're all cool. I also kinda like Michael Chabon.
Mother Superior: "Would sir care for a starter? Some garlic bread perhaps?"
Renton: "No, thank you. I'll proceed directly to the intravenous injection of hard drugs, please."
There's just never enough room for all the quotes that seem necessary.