Books

[domhunt]

Just finished George Orwell - Coming Up for Air and i'm starting on Jack Kerouac - On the Road.
Payday is coming up and i just wanna stock up really with books to last me the next few months.

Anyone got anything they'd recommend?

[christophera]

prometheus rising

[laurent__duval]

the great gatsby - f.scott fitzgerald

[drokkr]

Anything by Cormac Mc Carthy

Tokyo Doesn't Love Us Anymore by Ray Loriga

Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

[snypadub]

Anything by Cormac Mc Carthy

Tokyo Doesn't Love Us Anymore by Ray Loriga

Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

All the pretty horses is the one by Cormac

An absolute must: Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

[Neptune]

the great gatsby - f.scott fitzgerald

yes

[Shum]

Kafka On The Shore by Haruki Murakami

[laurent__duval]

brave new world - aldus huxley

and!

lolita - nabakov - this is a definite. feels a bit wrong reading (its basically the mind of a paedophile trying to justify himself) but its really beautifully written and very interesting!

[ahier]

lady chatterlys lover! so much more than 20s erotica

[Badman Juice]

[64hz]

Just finished George Orwell - Coming Up for Air and i'm starting on Jack Kerouac - On the Road.
Payday is coming up and i just wanna stock up really with books to last me the next few months.

Anyone got anything they'd recommend?

after On The Road, make sure you read Dharma Bums then Big Sur. Then read Dr. Sax then Town & City then read Satori in Paris. just read every book he ever wrote.

[cosmic_surgeon]

The Tao of Pooh!

[meanmrcustard]

Just read Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks which I highly recommend. Also Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides is amazing.

Oh! and Kill Your Friends by John Niven is awesome. It's a bit like American Psycho, but set in the late 90s UK music industry. It's written by an ex A&R man and takes quite a scathing, satirical look at the music industry. It's also absolutely hilarious.

[Pistonsbeneath]

[noam]

does anyone have a copy of prometheus rising they would send to me?

[slothrop]

In a vaguely similar sort of vein -

William Burroughs - Naked Lunch and Junky
Joseph Heller - Catch 22
JG Ballard - Crash, Drowned World and the short story collections
Alasdair Gray - Lanark
Tom Wolfe - The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
James Kelman An Old Pub Near the Angel

[HamCrescendo]

yh reccomend ballards stuff.


irvine welsh's stuff is good fun if you want something modern. Reccomend Glue and Trainspotting.

Dubliners - James Joyce is a good un too.

[lloydnoise]

Auster is a master of odd realities.. just got Moon Palace through the post, looks awesome

[laurent__duval]

irvine welsh's stuff is good fun if you want something modern. Reccomend Glue and Trainspotting.

i was obsessed with irvine welsh when i was 18/19 read nearly everything by him.

have to say that 'porno' was my favourite, its actually a proper novel, instead of just weird disconnected short stories.

[bigfootspartan]

I didn't see House of Leaves mentioned, it's kind of a strange read, but by far my favorite book. I read an interview with danielewski and apparently it took him almost 10 years to finish it. Unbelievably good read IMO.