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Really need to read something good, so suggest books please!

I just read Jurassic Park and while it is certainly not a classic, I loved it.

Favorite Book/Author?? I really love Augusten Burroughs & Richard Brautigan. I also think The Picture of Dorian Gray is pretty amazing.

Zane Grey

i hope they serve beer in hell - tucker max

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a wrinkle in time

i have a lot of books for you to borrow, just come over. and return the books you've already borrowed.

No one here reads. Asshole.

Thom wrote:No one here reads. Asshole.

Reading is for suckers

I used all my books to roll joints. AMIRITE???

Thom wrote:I used all my books to roll joints. AMIRITE???

YOU'RE ADDICTED THOM

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck. White Fang and Call of The Wild by Jack London. Anything by Jack London, Steinbeck or Mark Twain is good.

And don't forget Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.

Big Fat Retard wrote: White Fang and Call of The Wild by Jack London. Anything by Jack London,

You are my man

I'll third those.

You can try Bradbury, Lovecraft, Hinton, Gaiman. Randomly picking something off from Hugo awards hasn't been too bad to me either.

Henry Miller is my favorite. Re-reading Air Conditioned Nightmare right now.

Tropic of Cancer is basically required reading, if you haven't yet had the pleasure.

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Dark Elf Trilogy - R.A. Salvatore

Animal Man - Grant Morrison

Preacher - Garth Ennis

robdigi wrote:Henry Miller is my favorite. Re-reading Air Conditioned Nightmare right now.

Tropic of Cancer is basically required reading, if you haven't yet had the pleasure.

agree, but id throw up rosy crucifixion

i buy shit off the dollar rack at half price book store.

no classics but i did read the whole DOOM novel series.

i hope they serve beer in hell - tucker max

ugh, fuck this.

Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson

Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars -- so fucking good.

robdigi wrote:Henry Miller is my favorite. Re-reading Air Conditioned Nightmare right now.

My favorite author. That is also my favorite book of his. I'm re-reading Stand Still Like a Hummingbird again. So great.

on the graphic novel end:

Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan

Fables by Bill Willingham

Good for a little (of a lot!) if mind-blowing:
Aldous Huxley
Robert Anton Wilson
Daniel Quinn

oh snap, someone said graphic novels


Read everything by Charles Burns, but if you have to pick and choose, Black Hole is his opus. Skin Deep is a great collection of his one-off comics. My avatar is a character from one of the Skin Deep stories.


I'm a fan of Jason, mainly because of his mastery of visual narrative... the stories aren't that deep or complicated, but they are told with a minimum of dialogue and he accomplishes a lot with very simple images. I'm also a fan of old-timey looking cartoon animals, which most of his characters resemble.


I've heard a lot of good things about Asterios Polyp... I plan on picking that up next time I raid the comics store.

Bullet Tooth wrote:i buy shit off the dollar rack at half price book store.

no classics but i did read the whole DOOM novel series.

i was way into the sex scenes in those books when i was in the fourth grade

science fiction i've recently enjoyed: the left hand of darkness by ursula leguin, the gods themselves by isaac asimov, stranger in a strange land by robert heinlein, ringworld by larry niven, the mote in god's eye by larry niven

reading dhalgren by samuel delaney right now and it rules so far.

and i'll back moltar's hugo awards suggestion and add the nebula award. just wiki the past winners and they've all been great books in my experience.

I just finished Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger. Currently reading The First Five by Henry Rollins because I am punk/alternative and everyone should know it.

a lot of his shit is really really really whack. makes sense, cuz the dude loved jim morrison.

Some authors I like...


H.G. Wells. Pretty much everything this guy did was bad-ass.


Jack London. Call of the Wild and White Fang are highly recommended but I would also highly suggest picking up Jack London's science fiction short stories anthology at the downtown library.


Albert Camus. French. Very French. "The Stranger" has always been one of my favorites. The colonial North African settings are pretty sweet.


Jose Luis Borges. A product of Buenos Aires' early bohemian circuit and widely regarded as the second best Spanish language author ever (behind Cervantes, Don Quixote also gets recommended from me). The closest comparison I could make would be an Argentine Kerouac with Bukowski's grit.

@nonymous wrote:
Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan

Fables by Bill Willingham

I just started reading fables. So good. I loved Y. The Walking Dead is still my old glory.

El Rhino wrote:Some authors I like...


H.G. Wells. Pretty much everything this guy did was bad-ass.


Albert Camus. French. Very French. "The Stranger" has always been one of my favorites. The colonial North African settings are pretty sweet.

agree.
camus "the rebel" is sweet as well.

My favorite author is Faulkner.

Also, "Women" by Charles Bukowski is one of the funniest books ever.

"Against His-story, Against Leviathan" Fredy Perlman

"The Revolution of Everyday Life" Raoul Vanigem

"The Social Contract and Discourses" Jean Jacques Rousseau

"Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Biography" James Bieri

"Eternal Treblinka" Charles Patterson

I have Craig Ferguson's new book "American on Purpose" on hold at the library. I've never read an autobiography by a stand up comedian/talk show host before, so I guess he's as good a place to start as any.