A couple of authors I like and my fav books by them
Flann O Brian - The third policeman ( A twisted alice in wonderland on crack, set in 1960's rural Ireland )
Ken Kesey - Sometimes a great notion
Hunter S Thompson - Fear and loathing in LA, The run diaries
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
Robert M Pirsig - Lola ( a better read than his more famous book )
Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote ( damn funny read in spite of its age )
Luke Davies - Candy ( pretty harrowing read about heroin addiction )
William S Borroughs - Junkie ( same topic as above )
George Orwell - Down and out in Paris, 1984, Animal Farm
Jostein Gaarder - Sophies world
Kurt Vonnegut - Mother night
John Steinback - Grapes of wrath, Of mice and men
John Pilger - Tell me no lies, Secret rulers of the world
Originally posted by Zonko The Sane 'The Cider House Rules' by John Irving, and other novels by him.
I read "Life according to Garp" and liked it, but it didn't blow me away..
Then I tried reading "A Prayer for Owen Meany" and as I started to get into it everytime the Owen character talked the text was in LARGE PRINT and it REALLY PISSED ME OFF...
I generally try my best to finish a book but the all the SHOUTING just got on my wick..
Originally posted by darvlay It's on mine too. I was in the book store yesterday with the intent to buy it but forgot to write the title/author down. For some reason I kept thinking it was called 'Shampoo'. 😞
Favourites for me include:
Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon for its pure mindf--k capabilities
The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald and The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger for the ...[text shortened]... d
American Tabloid by James Ellroy for being the best hard-biting crime story ever written.
This weekend at my favourite bookstore, I found a used copy of Hopscotch for only $5! The same edition found in the wiki article. I plan to get right into after I finish the novel I'm currently reading now.
"A Perfect Spy" by John Le Carre
"The Silver Locusts" by Ray Bradbury
"Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert Heinlein
"The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams
"My Family and other Animals" by Gerald Durrell
Must also confess to loving the Lord of the Rings Trilogy and the Harry Potter Series.
Originally posted by dk3nny A couple of authors I like and my fav books by them
Flann O Brian - The third policeman ( A twisted alice in wonderland on crack, set in 1960's rural Ireland )
Ken Kesey - Sometimes a great notion
Hunter S Thompson - Fear and loathing in LA, The run diaries
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
Robert M Pirsig - Lola ( a better read than his more famous book )
Mi ...[text shortened]... k - Grapes of wrath, Of mice and men
John Pilger - Tell me no lies, Secret rulers of the world
Lolita's a good book, but I'm not really drawn to it. I can appreciate the book but I'm not paedo enough to really get into it.
Now, I knew a smoking hot girl in college, 18, voluptuous, intelligent, charming; we had a bit of a bond I think on certain levels (no, we never hooked up) while politically and in certain other ways being quite opposite. She loved that book and I respected her for that.
Originally posted by AThousandYoung The Dragonlance Legends when I was a kid (Weiss and Hickman)
The Fountainhead (Rand)
The Foundation series (Asimov)
Yes ... was hooked on Dragonlance age 11-14 ... probably ruined me for life ... not to mention David Eddings first series ... Stephen Donaldson ... that dreck ... mercifully tempered with Ursula Le Guin, still a first-class read.
Loved the Foundation series. The robot murder mystery series was even better.
Originally posted by rbmorris Not necessarily your absolute all-time favorite or anything. Sometimes that can be hard to pin down. But, if you had to name a book that really moved you...a book you consider a work of inspired creative genius...what would it be?
Favorite Books
04 Apr '08 19:52
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