any reccomendations?
Hey there! I'm lookin' for some good pieces of literature to entertain me for a six hour car ride. Anyone have any suggestions? I'm partial to Nabokov myself, but I'm willing to read anything that is reccommended to me. Thanks a ton!
nabokov.. it's been a long while, such beautiful prose
steve erickson has remarkable prose and it's beautiful too, but his writing style is very different: his novels Rubicon Beach and Days Between Stations are favorites here
Dermaphoria by craig clevenger is beautiful written, especially for noir
I read ask the dust by John Fonte a few months back--not a very decent movie adapt, but the book possesses some flawless pages
if you want to be busy with a read for most of a week and enjoy your share of thrillers, pick up [color=blue][i]House[/color] of Leaves[/i]
welcome to the cult. look around, also check out the recommended author's page: maybe read hempel's anthology, or the phineas poe trilogy
-kabol
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Hunger or Mysteries by Knut Hamsun
Well, I was going to say Kazuo Ishiguro's Artist of the Floating World, but to get the most out of it, I needed more seclusion and silence than a car ride would offer.
So, I have to say Fury, by Salman Rushdie.
I can't help but giggle at his description of EVERYTHING.
"Five Quarters of the Orange" by Joanne Harris
Kiss Me Judas by Will Christopher Baer is great, its the first in a superb trilogy.
I second Kiss Me, Judas. Great book; great trilogy.
Also, you might try American Gods by Neil Gaiman. People seem to love him or hate him, but in either event, the action arcs across the country in the form of a bizarre road trip, and roadside attractions take on special meaning. Seems fitting, no?
make some research, there are a billion threads that could answer this question for you.
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
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so. how was the trip. and what read did you choose ?
there are so many of them out there, it's often hard to choose..
-kabol
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Have a look in the book forum, there are lots of threads their that may help you out, Check out the 5 books everyone must read or something like that.