danielcardoso
09.11.14 | 2, 4 and 5 are great picks. |
Gameofmetal
09.11.14 | I love the game and sequel based on 13. Metro is fucking awesome. |
Clumseee
09.11.14 | where is less than zero |
Gameofmetal
09.11.14 | Is 9 about Jack The Ripper. I saw a movie with that title and it was pretty cool. |
Tunaboy45
09.11.14 | Of Mice And Men
Trainspotting
The Shining |
Gameofmetal
09.11.14 | Oh wow didn't notice 10. Dayum |
YetAnotherBrick
09.11.14 | fucking Naked Lunch. yay for 11 and 5 tho
and isn't 7 technically an epic poem? |
Veldin
09.11.14 | 5 is godawful, but hell yeah for 13, 12 and 2. |
Let
09.11.14 | Got 10 in the mail not to long ago. I don't know if i ever would have been interesting in it had it not been for True Detective. |
Veldin
09.11.14 | Naked Lunch is insane. |
Let
09.11.14 | The only thing I know about that book is that Steely Dan got their name from a dildo in it. |
YetAnotherBrick
09.11.14 | go read it now |
YetAnotherBrick
09.11.14 | And yeah 5 is godawful, only godawful books have a legacy like The fucking Catcher In the Rye's |
Let
09.11.14 | Can you give a quick synopsis of it? |
YetAnotherBrick
09.11.14 | It's probably one of the most difficult books of which to give a "quick synopsis," but I'll do my best.
First off, it's not set up like a regular novel. There's no "beginning," "middle," or "end." Burroughs himself said you can start the book anywhere you like. Although, your first time through, it is a more satisfying experience reading it from front to back. It's basically a wide, expansive series of skits, all of which are built of vulgar, unhinged, hilarious satire. The main recurring themes are addiction and control. The book starts following a heroin addict, but eventually you meet people like Dr. Benway, who's addicted to control. There's drugs and sex and violence all over the place, but it all represents the ridiculousness of everyday American life. It was written in the early 60s, but the language is so vibrant and strange it feels like it could've been written yesterday. |
NorthernSkylark
09.11.14 | hemingway - the sun also rises / the first forty nine stories
mccullers - the heart is a lonely hunter
harper lee - to kill a mockingbird
wolfe - to the lighthouse / Mrs. Dalloway
o'connor - collected short stories
burroughs - queer (i love his prose, and will read naked lunch/junky soon too)
raymond carver - will you please be quiet, please
fitzgerald - the great gatsby (sorry for classics overload, but had to be said)
camus - the stranger
t. williams - cat on hot tin roof
ray bradbury - fahrenheit 451 (again, nice and simple prose, good storytelling)
etc. |
YetAnotherBrick
09.11.14 | Fitzgerald's short stories are amazing too. Especially "Head and Shoulders" and "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" |
apert
09.11.14 | did you read King in Yellow because of True Detective |
FuneralMarch
09.11.14 | "Is 9 about Jack The Ripper. I saw a movie with that title and it was pretty cool."
Yeah it is but the story of the graphic novel is way deeper than just that.
"where is less than zero"
I was only doing one book per author. I loved LTZ, but AP is better imo
Also yeah, Catcher in the Rye isn't for everyone but I liked it.
And no, I was familiar with the King in Yellow before True Detective. |
NorthernSkylark
09.11.14 | bernice bobs her hair, yes! also, if you like short stories check out Tobias Wolff's Bullet in the Brain |
Let
09.11.14 | Cool, thanks brick. I might pick it up after I finish the King in Yellow. |
Rail
09.11.14 | Have you read Mantel's Cromwell books? |
Onirium
09.11.14 | Lovecraft > Stephen King
Also, try Philip K. Dick and Jack Kerouac, unrelated to each other but you'd probably dig both |
BMDrummer
09.11.14 | 5 is probably my fav |
danielcardoso
09.11.14 | 5 is amazing. |
Rail
09.11.14 | 5 is one of those that you have to read at the right time in life, I think. I came to it a little late and found it cloying. |
Friday13th
09.11.14 | Only read 3, 8, and 11, and those are all gold. |
YetAnotherBrick
09.11.14 | Holden can definitely be annoying but from an objective standpoint, it's amazing how it feels like he's talking right into your ear |
Deathbeds
09.11.14 | Looks like I need to read more. |
Mythodea
09.11.14 | Lovecraft > Stephen King
Hm, this is ''discussable''. I believe Lovecraft had more imagination in creating worlds and 'bad guys', but Stephen King is master in analyzing one's psychology. His ideas may be somewhat the same in the end, but his heroes are unique and in the way, just like us, normal people. Also, he's a better writer. |
Onirium
09.11.14 | Yeah ok, Stephen King really nails the psychological aspect, but for me the genius of Lovecraft lies in his
extremely vague descriptions of monsters and abominations that leave us with an even greater feeling of
dread, since we're never really sure about the nature of the horrors. His way of telling his horror stories
with a surprising realism wins for me. I'm not much of a Stephen King connoisseur, but I've read like three
of his novels, and he's a brilliant author as well. |
Mythodea
09.11.14 | Yeah, you can't but love Lovecraft's extreme sense of realism. And I give him that too, his descriptions are
abstract because we all know that the more you identify horror, the less intimidating it gets.
Stephen is an excellent storyteller. His terrors might be a little stupid sometimes as he's written a pile
of literature crap, but when he's good he's excellent. 90's was a bad decade but then the last falf of 00's
was badass. |
Onirium
09.11.14 | Yeah, King has brilliant ideas and his writing style is excellent too, as I said I'm not very familiar with
his work, but I'm planning to read some more of his stuff someday. As much as I respect King as an author,
nothing gave me chills like The Call of Cthulhu and The Color Out of Space in his novels. But they have a
very different approach to horror litterature anyways, and they're both awesome in their respective fields |
menawati
09.11.14 | all those night watch books are good, quite enjoy the movies too |
Rail
09.11.14 | Stephen King is so in thrall to the deus ex machina, that it ruins a lot of his books for me. I think the last one I read was Under the Dome. Well paced, dramatic, compelling and then it ends with some sort of alien nonsense. |
Mythodea
09.12.14 | Well, anytime, Stephen King's ending is not sub par to the rest of it. Under the Dome wasn't about aliens any way. It was a metaphor.
Also, one of the best books he's ever written and is quite recent too is 11/22/63. Just loved it. |
Mythodea
09.12.14 | Also, the colour out of space gives me chills no matter if it's day or night. |
Rail
09.12.14 | The metaphor was trite hack-work. Like I said, that book was a compelling, apocalyptic political drama. Ending it the way he did was awful.
Not to mention the seven book series that concludes with the main character going back to the beginning of the first book. Stephen King tends to be all stroke and no come. |
Rowan5215
09.12.14 | Check the Road by Cormac McCarthy
and yeah House of Leaves is exceptional |
Mythodea
09.12.14 | Well, the whole Dark Tower series is self sarcastic imo. He wanted it to be entertaining, not innovative (which was at places). |
Rail
09.12.14 | Self sarcastic? |
Mythodea
09.12.14 | Yup. When the hottest girl, Susannah Dean, gets crippled, you can't but think he's slightly joking. |
Rail
09.12.14 | ...uh, okay. |