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04-15-2007, 10:27 AM
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Recommend me some books, please.
I've always wanted to read more but I never, I mean NEVER could find the time for it. I reviewed my schedule and I realized I had at least an hour and a half in 3 days a week for some quiet time to read. And this is great cuz I found a nice, quiet, coffee shop in my area as well.
Now, all I need are some books and I'm good.
What genre you ask? Well, I like fiction, but nothing dealing with dragons and unicorns 'n shit. Fiction but dealing with people. Some mind-boggling fiction. I also like history a lot too. I'll take some classics as well.
Some author's I've heard about or am interested in are guys like William Faulkner, John Updike, Malcom Gladwell, Chuck Palahniuk, even Kurt Vonnegut. Any other authors you think might relate to the guys I've mentioned would be great too. Oh and females! Shit there are great female writers too, and I'm actually down with the feminism so if you know any female authors or books that would be great.
Thanks in advance.
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04-15-2007, 10:44 AM
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Gooner n' Driver JudoBandwagon
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New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
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04-15-2007, 11:06 AM
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the art of war by sun tzu. just make sure you get a decent version.
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04-15-2007, 11:37 AM
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Here's a song for ya
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Alfred Bester - The Stars My Destination
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04-15-2007, 11:43 AM
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The secret history - Donna Tartt
The magus - John Fowles
The razors edge - Somerset Maugham
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04-15-2007, 11:52 AM
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Charles Bukowski - 'Post Office,' 'Ham on Rye,' 'Women,' 'Factotum.'
Bret Easton Ellis - 'American Psycho.'
And for female writers, i like:
Sylvia Plath - 'The Bell Jar.'
Flannery O'Connor - 'Everything That Rises Must Converge.' Most of her short stories are pretty good.
Terry Galway - 'For the Cause of Liberty.' Is a book on Irish history, but reads more like a novel than a stuffy text.
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04-15-2007, 11:55 AM
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Not on the rug, man!
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Anything by Chuck Palahniuk is a great read. Fight Club is his most recognized novel, but Choke, Survivor, and Lullaby are all awesome reads!
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04-15-2007, 12:17 PM
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I second the Fight Club rec.; also, check out the works of my favorite writer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, specifically The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor and The Autumn of the Patriarch.
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04-15-2007, 12:34 PM
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The Terror came out fairly recently and its a decent read..very lenghty as well
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04-15-2007, 02:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Kraysla
Charles Bukowski - 'Post Office,' 'Ham on Rye,' 'Women,' 'Factotum.'
Bret Easton Ellis - 'American Psycho.'
And for female writers, i like:
Sylvia Plath - 'The Bell Jar.'
Flannery O'Connor - 'Everything That Rises Must Converge.' Most of her short stories are pretty good.
Terry Galway - 'For the Cause of Liberty.' Is a book on Irish history, but reads more like a novel than a stuffy text.
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You have good taste.
From what the OP said, I'd recomend 1984-Orwell and Slaughterhouse-5-Vonnegut |
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