Awesome books...

[bigchiefbc]

man. i'm not trying to be an elitist snob or nuthin' cuz i spend my fair share of being lobotomized-out on video games and the INTERNET and watching professional sports and stuff but this thread is mega-depressing.

[iblamesummers]

Books (or tits) or gtfo

i've actually read 'Infinite Jest' twice & am currently reading 'V.' but i wouldn't consider either one "awesome." i don't exactly look for instant gratification or "entertainment" when i read. books.

if i had actually read any (cyber-punk) science fiction, early stephen king, ayn rand or even cough magic realism i would have made a recommendation. really i feel left-out. (really i'm just a cocksucker...).

i am GTFO...

[Gunner Recall]

Don't make me throw the book at you.

[iblamesummers]

[smile_man]

man. i'm not trying to be an elitist snob or nuthin' cuz i spend my fair share of being lobotomized-out on video games and the INTERNET and watching professional sports and stuff but this thread is mega-depressing.

[veteransdaypoppy]

man. i'm not trying to be an elitist snob or nuthin' cuz i spend my fair share of being lobotomized-out on video games and the INTERNET and watching professional sports and stuff but this thread is mega-depressing.

man. you ever heard of 'if you don't have anything good to say, don't say anything at all?'

this.

you skipped over the mentions of hemingway and vonnegut, ps.
way to namedrop infinite jest.

[iblamesummers]

man. i'm not trying to be an elitist snob or nuthin' cuz i spend my fair share of being lobotomized-out on video games and the INTERNET and watching professional sports and stuff but this thread is mega-depressing.

man. you ever heard of 'if you don't have anything good to say, don't say anything at all?'

this.

you skipped over the mentions of hemingway and vonnegut, ps.
way to namedrop infinite jest.

only (forced to) read Old Man & the Sea in High School & i've never read Vonnegut. some of the better stuff previously mentioned i own copies--Satre. Nausea-- of but have not read. yet. except Vonnegut. i read a few articles when he used to write for In These Times though. i didn't name drop DFW Gunner Recall did earlier. yes i do like meta-fiction though SOSUEME. i am a jackass and a nimrod but i do my thug-bizell.

peace.

[iblamesummers]

man. i'm not trying to be an elitist snob or nuthin' cuz i spend my fair share of being lobotomized-out on video games and the INTERNET and watching professional sports and stuff but this thread is mega-depressing.

[Gunner Recall]

I admit I am a DFW fanboy after having read consider the lobster and broom of the system, though IJ looks like a bit overkill.
I can only hope some day I can write my breakout novel and then later found on the patio dead with a belt wrapped around my neck.

some of the better stuff previously mentioned i own copies--Satre. Nausea-- of but have not read. yet.

I'm sorta the same way, I've got an impressive library but I've read maybe less than 1/4th of it.

[1,2,3, Pull Out!]

Less Than Zero & American Psycho- Bret Easton Ellis
J Pod- Douglas Coupland
Killing Yourself To Live & Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs- Chuck Klosterman
For Whom The Bell Tolls- Earnest Hemingway
The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier and Clay- Michael Chabon
The Sot-Weed Factor- John Barth

[iblamesummers]

& American Psycho- Bret Easton Ellis

now that's an AWESOME book !!!

[bigchiefbc]

Das Parfum - Patrick Süskind (fantastic novel, blew me away)
To Reign in Hell - Steven Brust (the fall of lucifer told from a different point of view)
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway (his best if you ask me)
The Complete Plays of Aristophanes (greek king of comedy. some hysterically funny plays in here)
The Forever War - Joe Halderman (best sci-fi book EVAR)
Island in the Sea of Time - S.M. Stirling (best alternate history/time travel novel EVAR)

[1,2,3, Pull Out!]

& American Psycho- Bret Easton Ellis

now that's an AWESOME book !!!

I love how every book Ellis has made since then has had some reference or mentions of Patrick Bateman in it.

[magiclawnchair]

player piano - kurt vonnegut
rum diary - hunter s thompson
dune - frank herbert
childhoods end - sir arthur c clarke
rendezvous with rama - sir arthur c clarke
stranger in a strange land - robert a heinlein
flowers for algernon - daniel keyes

these are all very good books.

i havent read a book all year.....

[Wizard]

Nausea and the stranger are two of the best books i've ever read. No Exit by JPS, also.

But i think after high school i needed to stop reading existentialist books, i was starting to read Nietzsche and Dostoevsky and that shit is just way too dark for people that don't wear black eyeliner.


so i read everything tom robbins had to offer.

and now its all...

PHILIP K. DICK