your favorite writer/book

Sunset Song - Lewis Grassic Gibbon
The Nazis: A Warning From History - Laurence Rees
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh

Boris Pasternak- Doctor Zhivago

Chuck's Choke is in my top five.

I second that by saying my other 2 all time favourites are Choke and Survivor, in no particular order.

Hunter H. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Original Conan novels
The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings Trilogy (first real books I ever read)

not to sound like a nazi or the board police but shouldn't this be moved to the book forum

I mostly read self-help type books. Which have never actually helped.
As of now I'm learning the magic of thinking big, last week it was the 7 habits of highly effective people, prior to which was Dave's Way, an old fashioned approach to bussiness. The Enlightened Eater: a nutrition book and steps to eating to grow muscle. "How to become a millionaire", "What they don't teach you at harvard law", "Proffesional selling in canada".
Take it from me, these books are all shit. Except for Dave's Way, that was pretty cool. It's written by the founder of Wendy's, Dave Thomas. It's about how he stood by his product, eating it everyday until he finally died of a heart attack.

As far as fiction goes I read whatever is laying around the house, which changes pending on my enthusiasm to go to the library. I've read most of my mom's Danielle Steele collection, I feel like a twat for actually enjoying them. Now and then I check to make sure my dick is still there.
I find a lot of good books in E-book PDF files on Imesh(best p2p download program for books and movies), right now I'm reading Stupid White Men and Dreamcatcher, the former written by Michael Moore and latter by Steven King.

Pretty much everything I read is shit, unless it's written by Chuck. If you know any other good authors let me know.

aside from my previous post, if all the non-chuck books you read suck that's your fault for not finding other good books! there are lots out there my man LOTS

I could never read The Hobbit. I got it from the library once and I thought it would be great. Unfortunately I had just read my 3rd Chuck Palahniuk book and I couldn't get into the right mind set for The Hobbit, I needed something with a little more bite. Plus it's like a really long book for kids and it was just so fairy-tale like. That's the idea though. When it comes to Tolkien I'll stick to the movies.

Brett Easton Ellis - [i]American Psycho[/i].

the only book i can think of that has made me laugh out loud, pop a boner, and sick to my stomach.

no way grae!!!!! the movies are great but the books kick way more ass! the hobbit/LOTR books are so badass, plus i know i'm slow to just now be reading it , but i'm most of the way through the contortionist's handbook and its great, i'm also reading naked lunch by burroughs, also good but really weird

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Nightrious [/i]
[B]Pretty much everything I read is shit, unless it's written by Chuck. If you know any other good authors let me know. [/B][/QUOTE]

Mark Brandon Read is pretty good. Chopper has to be the funniest book I've ever read, still got to get Chopper2 and Chopper3
Irvine Welsh is also very good.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Foot Foot [/i]
[B]Brett Easton Ellis - [i]American Psycho[/i].

the only book i can think of that has made me laugh out loud, pop a boner, and sick to my stomach. [/B][/QUOTE]

great book and a decent movie translation

i like the movie a lot, mainly because the acting is really good. but it doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of the novel.

edit: english good speak i don't.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by phytoplankton [/i]
[B]no way grae!!!!! the movies are great but the books kick way more ass! the hobbit/LOTR books are so badass [/B][/QUOTE]

I just couldn't read The Hobbit, my eyes were closing everytime and I just found it dull and boring, I read the first chapter and took it back. I've still to read The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy books, I'll pick up The Fellowship of The Ring when I take this Nazi book back in a week or so, I'll read it, then I'll come back and see if my opinion on them has changed any.

Foot Foot - Thought I would correct you, the phrase is "scratch the surface"; not: "...service".

in my opinion if you don't read the hobbit and get some back story you wont enjoy LOTR as much but its not a MUST to read the hobbit, i also suggest reading the appendices at the end of the LOTR books and other tolkien backstory books

fight club
fierce invalids home from hot climate by tom robbins
breakfast of champions by kurt vonnegut

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by phytoplankton [/i]
[B]not to sound like a nazi or the board police but shouldn't this be moved to the book forum [/B][/QUOTE]

geez, have a little faith...

in no particular order...

Eugene O'Neil: "Long Day's Journey Into Night"

Flannery O'Conner: 'Collected Short Stories

Gabrial Garcia Marquez:
'No One Writes the Colonel'
'Chronicle of a Death Foretold'
'One Hundred Years of Solitude'

J.D. Salinger:
Franny and Zooey
Raise High the Roofbeam and Seymour: an Introduction'

Ian McEwen: 'Atonement'

James Ellroy:
'The Black Dahlia'
'My Dark Places'

Jane Smiley:
'A Thousand Acres'
'Ordinary Love and Good Will'

Craig Clevenger: 'The Contortionist's Handbook'

Cormac McCarthy:
'Blood Meridian'
'Border Trilogy'

Carson McCullers:
'A Member of the Wedding'
'Ballad of the Sad Cafe and other Stories'

Ray Bradbury: 'Martian Chronicles'

Philip K. Dick:
'Martian Time-Slip'
'Do Androids Dream of Electrip Sheep'
'Valis'
'The Transmigration of Timothy Archer'
'The Golden Man'

Paul Bowles:
'Collected Stories'

Harper Lee: 'To Kill a Mockingbird

Wiliam Golding: 'Lord of the Flies'

Joseph Heller: 'Catch 22'

Pablo Neruda:
'Residence on Earth'
'Memoirs'

Oliver Sacks:
'An Anthropologist from Mars'
'The Man Who Mistook His wife For a Hat'
'Awakenings'

Micheal Ondaatje:
'The English Patient'
'In the Skin of a Lion'
'Coming Through Slaughter'

Toni Morrison: 'Beloved'

Ranier Maria Rilke:
'Collected Poems'

e.e. cummings:
'i, six non lectures'
'ViVa'

Albert Camus:
'The Fall'
The Plague'
'Notebooks 1935-1951'

I'll post more later

Top right now: BEE's Glamorama

Honorable mention:
AP-BEE

All Palahniuk (bar F&R which STILL isnt out!)

The Basic Eight, and Watch Your Mouth-Daniel Handler

Exquisite Corpse, and Wormwood-Poppy Z. Brite

A Clockwork Orange-Anthony Burgess

Lord Of The Flies-Whatshisname(can't be assed to Google)

Catcher in the Rye-Salinger(sic) (for teaching me that I shouldnt feel obligated to read the classics, cause this in no way lived up to it's reputation)

On The Road,and Fellowship Of The Ring for the same reason ^

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Fiberoptic Jesus [/i]
Lord Of The Flies-Whatshisname(can't be assed to Google)
[/QUOTE]

Can't be assed to read other peoples posts either...William Golding baby, in my post right before yours...

favorite=Ernest Hemingway "Islands in the Stream"

Mark Z. Danielewski-House Of Leaves

here's some stuff i read in the last year or so:

Puzo-
the godfather
the sicilian

Plath-the bell jar

Takami-battle royale(spanked the movie hardcore!)

King-dark tower book 5,everything's eventual

orwell-1984, animal farm

huxley-brave new world

ellis-A.P.

Zamyatin-WE(didn't finsih this yet)

Anonymous-Go ask Alice

plus others

I forgot Thom Jones: 'Cold Snap' and Donna Tartt: 'Secret History'

I LOVE 'The Godfather', I've read it a couple of times. It has so many more characters and side stories than the movies which are also favorites of mine.

yes i also love the movies, but i liked how " the sicilian" filled in the gap about what michael corleone did in sicily after appolonia blew up and all that stuff, i still need to read "the last don" and "omerta"

I need to read 'The Sicilian'. I really had no idea that that was about the Corleones. I'm so exited! I'm going to pick that up at the library tommorrow. Are the other two you mentioned about the Corleones also? Or just mafia?

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by mirkah [/i]
[B]I need to read 'The Sicilian'. I really had no idea that that was about the Corleones. I'm so exited! I'm going to pick that up at the library tommorrow. Are the other two you mentioned about the Corleones also? Or just mafia? [/B][/QUOTE]

as far as i know the corleones aren't in the last don and omerta, but i'm not positive.......as far as the sicilian goes i think you will be happy to see some of the old characters from the godfather

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by mirkah [/i]
[B]in no particular order...

Philip K. Dick:
'Martian Time-Slip'
'Do Androids Dream of Electrip Sheep'
'Valis'
'The Transmigration of Timothy Archer'
'The Golden Man'

Albert Camus:
'The Fall'
The Plague'
'Notebooks 1935-1951'
[/B][/QUOTE]

you= back in my good graces

Autofac is another PKD gem.

but where's THE STRANGER?

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by TastesLikeChicken [/i]
you= back in my good graces
[/QUOTE]

Really, you promise? Can you MAKE THAT ABSOLUTELY FUCKING CLEAR?

[QUOTE]
Autofac is another PKD gem.

but where's THE STRANGER?[/QUOTE]

Haven't heard of Autofac. I'll keep an eye out.

I liked and admired The Stranger but I can't say its a real favorite. I've read the Fall several times and just love it. Something about it just really speaks to me. The Plague just blew me away with how freaking good it is.

That reminds me to add to my list of favorites:

The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass. If you like Camus and Palahniuk, you'll love this book! Weird, I know, but someone thats read it is going to come along and back me up on this.

add Clevenger-the contortionist's handbook too my list (yea i know it took me a while to get it) but once i got it i couldn't put that shit down

Stephen King is my favorite author and 'Thus Spake Zarathustra' by Friedrich Nietzsche and 'Dune' by Frank Herbert tie for my favorite books.

i'm around halfway through sex, drugs & cocoa puffs and i dont care what anybody says this shit is genius! genius i tell you!

Kafka: His short stories and The Trial
Still need to read the Castle

Burroughs: Either Naked Lunch or Junkie

H S Thompson: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Just bought his newest book

Want to read Crash (Ballard), Trainspotting (Welsh) and Camus and Nietzsche

Bret Easton Ellis - [i]Glamorama[/i]

Favorite authors :
Dashiell Hammett
Jim Thompson
James Ellroy

Favorite book :
"White Jazz", James Ellroy

Mark Z. Danielewski - House Of Leaves - Probably the best Reading Experience I've ever had.
Rohinton Mistry - A Fine Balance - Just such a beautiful book, that sorta gota me interested in reading, again.
Craig Clevenger - The Contortionist's Handbook - SOOO Cool!

How bout a touch of the classics?

Hawthorne-

House of the Seven Gables
Scarlet Letter

Melville

Israel Potter
Typee

Poe

Any short story or poem, really

... and for something a little more current

H.P. Lovecraft

Call of Cthulhu
Herbert West- Reanimator
The Dunwich Horror