babyhitch
07.09.12 | ubik by philip k dick
the man in the tall castle by philip k dick |
babyhitch
07.09.12 | no prob. i have read that one as well. i liked that one but both of these much more. mind fucked me so good |
Trebor17
07.09.12 | Chainer's Torment
Hop On Pop
Star Bellied Sneeches
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Winesburgohio
07.09.12 | The Savage Detectives-Roberto Bolano
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles-Haruki Murakami
Infinite Jest-DFW
Just in case you wanted some TRUE EPICS in your life |
wacknizzle
07.09.12 | The most mindblowing book you are ever going to read is The Pleadian Mission, it's so out there and the story is supposed be true but I take it with a grain of sand.
I also love anything by Chuck Palanuck. Choke, Rant, and Fight Club are all really good. |
MichaelSnoxall
07.09.12 | Check out Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. It's an absolutely brutal book. |
wacknizzle
07.09.12 | This is a good idea for a list, there's no such thing as not enough good books and they're not always easy to find. |
danielito19
07.09.12 | I'll recommend Salinger's other two books (Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey) in case you haven't read those. Other than that, 1984, Brave New World are good. |
MichaelSnoxall
07.09.12 | "i heard he doesnt use punctuation normally"
Yeah, it takes a while to get used to and it gets confusing at times, but still works. |
TMobotron
07.09.12 | God tier profile pic |
TMobotron
07.09.12 | speaking of cormac, the road is one of my fav books. |
taylormemer
07.09.12 | You still haven't read Moby-dick have you? |
Winesburgohio
07.09.12 | Have you read Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters? That's pretty sweet |
MichaelSnoxall
07.09.12 | if you want classics, hit up Moby-Dick, Catcher in the Rye, Catch 22, Heart of Darkness, Don Quixote, Watership Down, The Hobbit, LotR, Tale of Two Cities, Huckleberry Finn, Tow Sawyer,blahblahblah.
Also check out John le Carre's The Spy Who Came In From The Cold and hit Quest for Karla trilogy (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honorable Schoolboy, Smiley's People).
If you like Nick Cave at all, as a fan you should check out his novels And The Ass Saw The Angel and The Death Of Bunny Munro, but you should check them out anyway because they're damn good books. |
MichaelSnoxall
07.09.12 | his* |
londoncalling457
07.09.12 | the great gatsby |
JordanS
07.09.12 | joyce-dubliners
pynchon-gravity's rainbow
borges-labyrinths
graham greene-the heart of the matter
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MichaelSnoxall
07.09.12 | And if you want any non-fiction, check out Greg Graffin's Anarchy Evolution. One of my favourite books, but that's probably because of my Bad Religion fanboyism. |
Calc
07.09.12 | anything by Terry pratchett if you'd like tolkien-esque/satire |
wacknizzle
07.09.12 | @Sonic: Cool man Ill check out his work. |
MichaelSnoxall
07.09.12 | Mogworld by Yahtzee Croshaw (the guy who does Zero Punctuation) is hilarious and really good. Raymond E. Feist's Magician is considered a modern classic fantasy novel. Check out The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks, it's got quite a few flaws, but they're still really terrific books. |
jopower
07.09.12 | Crime and Punishment
War and Peace
Anna Karenina
1984
Brave New World
Animal Farm
Lord of the Flies
Les Miserables
The Jungle
Oliver Twist
Middlemarch
Vanity Fair
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Last of the Mohicans
Treasure Island
Jane Eyre
Rebecca
The Lord of the Rings
A Song of Ice and Fire
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WeepingBanana
07.09.12 | Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five, Mother Night all by Vonnegut
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Stranger by Albert Camus
A Hero Of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Alchemist by Paulo Cohelo |
Trebor17
07.09.12 | the once and future king |
Da11thMytrillSphere
07.09.12 | You should check 1984, after dark and the alchemist. |
Recspecs
07.09.12 | Eye of the Needle
Fuckin classic |
MichaelSnoxall
07.09.12 | Where Eagles Dare by Alistair Maclean.
Steven King's Dark Tower series. |
elephantREVOLUTION
07.09.12 | rant by palahniuk |
WeepingBanana
07.09.12 | i just finished The Fall by Albert Camus and started God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut today |
Recspecs
07.09.12 | I read the Bible during high school does that count as a book? |
MichaelSnoxall
07.09.12 | I'm reading Blood Meridian, hence my first rec. It's pretty sweet so far, so yeah. I intend to buy all Cormac McCarthy's books. I really wanna check out the Road and No Country For Old Men. |
SeaAnemone
07.09.12 | good writers ahoy, my favorites:
Tolstoy (more so his short stories than novels)
Herman Melville
Mark Z Danielewski
David Foster Wallace
Camus
Cormac McCarthy
Michael Crichton
Vonnegut
Plato
Kafka
Nietzsche
Dostoevsky
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Trebor17
07.09.12 | wuthering heights
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SeaAnemone
07.09.12 | "I'm reading Blood Meridian, hence my first rec. It's pretty sweet so far, so yeah. I intend to buy all Cormac McCarthy's books. I really wanna check out the Road and No Country For Old Men."
finished that this spring, one of my all-time favorite novels I REALLY have to revisit it it was a little mind-boggling |
Da11thMytrillSphere
07.09.12 | The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a good one |
MichaelSnoxall
07.09.12 | Will Storr vs. The Supernatural. |
SeaAnemone
07.09.12 | ugh I thought Rant was absolutely horrible, Palahniuk's worst I've read |
WeepingBanana
07.09.12 | "I'm reading Blood Meridian, hence my first rec. It's pretty sweet so far, so yeah. I intend to buy all Cormac McCarthy's books. I really wanna check out the Road and No Country For Old Men."
all i've read from him is The Road and goddamn it's good. i wanna read Child of God and Blood Meridian next |
SeaAnemone
07.09.12 | "The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a good one" yeah that's my favorite of Tolstoy marvelous book |
Trebor17
07.09.12 | The fantasy elements in the bible are too strong for my taste
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MichaelSnoxall
07.09.12 | "finished that this spring, one of my all-time favorite novels I REALLY have to revisit it it was a little mind-boggling"
Yeah, and it moves really fast too, I get confused, but each chapter has a little recap of what happened so I read it after each chapter and I'm like "Oh, yeah, his language was weird, but I totally get it all now". It's some brutal stuff, though. |
Recspecs
07.09.12 | Seriously Avery
Eye of the Needle |
Crysis
07.09.12 | The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky |
MichaelSnoxall
07.09.12 | @weeping, he only has like ten novels or something and they're all critically acclaimed. I really want to read Child of God and his All The Pretty Horses trilogy. |
SeaAnemone
07.09.12 | "rant prolly sucks i mean chuck palahniuk isnt very good"
he was entertaining in high school and probably still would be now if I read Fight Club or something but yeah there's better similar authors
GUYS WHAT SHOULD I READ NEXT? (out of the following on my shelf):
Moby Dick (already halfway through but it's a little grating at the moment)
Infinite Jest (reread)
Blood Meridian (reread)
Naked Lunch
The Road
something by Nietzsche on my Kindle |
Crysis
07.09.12 | you should, absolutely brilliant
"Rebellion" and "The Grand Inquisitor" are two of the greatest chapters in modern literature |
SeaAnemone
07.09.12 | awesome list btw thanks for the reminder to start a book
I haven't read all summer because I was studying non-stop and that sucked but now I actually have time |
auberginedreams
07.09.12 | invisible monsters, best book ever /list. |
ZombieParty
07.09.12 | Goosebumps |
Recspecs
07.09.12 | Jackdaws by Ken Follet
Book is decent, but the sex scenes are sploogeworthy. |
SeaAnemone
07.09.12 | "naked lunch is pretty cool also dont try to understand it you fucking wont other than a paragraph here and a page there and a sentence or so every once in a while, it's written with the cut-up technique so dont try to be like OMG IT'S A METAPHOR FOR THE OPPRESSION OF CHOCOLATE or some shit"
yeah I got through the first chapter when I first bought it and was just like ummmm this is feeling like a waste of my time but I'll give it another try eventually |
auberginedreams
07.09.12 | well i'm a really big fan of chuck palahniuk, although i haven't finished reading all of his books. i got my username from invisible monsters. |
SeaAnemone
07.09.12 | have you read Survivor? that's the only one of Palahniuk's I can still say I really enjoy |
TBliss2
07.09.12 | the wasp factory dude |
Relinquished
07.09.12 | anything by Jack London, namely White Fang and The Sea-Wolf |
SeaAnemone
07.09.12 | dude Sonic read Bartleby by Herman Melville it rocks |
auberginedreams
07.09.12 | no i haven't read survivor yet. several years ago i went on kind of a reading spree and i read fight club, invisible monsters, diary, and rant, but i haven't read that much recently. |
SeaAnemone
07.09.12 | yeah it's not difficult or confusing or meta at all it's super straightforward and rather short that's one reason I love it, I've read it like 3 times now and it goes quickly
(bartleby that is) |
auberginedreams
07.09.12 | oh and i read some of haunted. |
Recspecs
07.09.12 | You guys have any satanic literature recs? |
auberginedreams
07.09.12 | yeah i like reading but i have adhd so it's really hard for me to actually sit down and read for more than like 20 minutes at a time. i started a clockwork orange a while ago, i still need to finish it. |
Recspecs
07.09.12 | I don't see how people can not finish reading a book unless it sucks. If I start reading something I will go out of my way to finish that bit. |
Xenophanes
07.09.12 | Lolita,
Invisible Monsters,
House of Leaves,
Ulysses,
The Wind Up Bird Chronicle,
The Great Gatsby,
Brave New World,
The Brothers Karamazov,
Battle Royale,
The Bible lol,
Chronic City,
Tinkers,
Middlesex,
1Q84,
A Staggering Work of Heartbreaking Genius,
The Old Man and the Sea,
I can't be fucked to look at the rest of my bookshelf |
Recspecs
07.09.12 | The Old Man and The Sea is good but most of it is full of lol. |
mindleviticus
07.09.12 | House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
This is where Johnny Truant came from. |
scissorlocked
07.09.12 | if you like modernists but Ullysses sounds terrifying then try some Faulkner or Virginia Woolf
they're kinda difficult but once you get the pace it's truly satisfying
also, read Joyce's Dubliners or The Portrait of The artist before ever turning to Ulysses. It will help you a lot |
Oneironaut
07.09.12 | The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell. Best book I've read in a long time, and I hit the books pretty often mate |
FromDaHood
07.09.12 | American Psycho |
scissorlocked
07.09.12 | read Faulkners " As I Lay Dying"
then listen to some shitty metalcore |
auberginedreams
07.09.12 | "adhd must be why you dont dig metal haha i rule!"
since when do i not like metal? |
scissorlocked
07.09.12 | i think some of his first writings are the easiest
but I think you wont have problems with "As I lay Dying". It's awesome and the narration techniques are cool |
Turtlestlker
07.09.12 | The Gunslinger by Steven King
The Divine Comedy
The Call of C'thulu (Short Story)
I Have No Face But I Must Scream (Short Story)
The Night Circus is good if you like lots of Imagery |
Da11thMytrillSphere
07.09.12 | The Decameron by Boccaccio is an excellent book in my opinion , I recommend that one to you if you like Italian Literature. |
LifeAsAChipmunk
07.09.12 | This should be featured. |
BirthRite
07.09.12 | You may not be into this Sonic but try reading the Bible from beginning to end. I think you would quite surprised as to what you might find. If you have any questions you can ask me. |
LifeAsAChipmunk
07.09.12 | The Bible has some nice fantasy stories in it. |
aokuneff
07.09.12 | you ever end up reading 'as i lay dying' sonic? i read that when i was your age i think and really enjoyed it. just the right amount of twisted |
BirthRite
07.09.12 | There is nothing fantasy about the bible. I challenge you to find just one thing that is fantasy.
And sonic if you the bible is about incest and so forth then you are greatly misinformed. |
bloc
07.09.12 | wait u can read |
Relinquished
07.10.12 | lol bloc come on |
FictionalFlames
07.10.12 | Crime and Punishment is a classic Russian novel from the 1800's, it's under the rankings of a classic. |
Yotimi
07.10.12 | The Farside collection |
phishing
07.10.12 | the crow road or complicity by iain banks |
fish.
07.10.12 | "Jane Eyre"
fuck Jane Eyre |
fish.
07.10.12 | I had to spend a whole year studying it, made me enjoy the emily dickinson we had to do as well. all she does is bitch about other people and whine and nothing happens for the whole book and she almost dies but she doesn't UGHHHHH |
omnipanzer
07.10.12 | Again?
Dances with Wolves
Piers Anthony - Incarnations of Immortality series (eight novels)
Piers Anthony - Apprentice Adept series (seven novels)
Philip Pullman - His Dark Materials series (Trilogy)
James Clavell - The Asian Saga (six novels)
50 Shades of Grey (see what the ladies are reading)
John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces < -- published after the dude committed suicide, cool story behind it becoming a Pulitzer prize winner.
That aught to keep you busy. |
taylormemer
07.10.12 | Have you read 50 Shades omni? |
omnipanzer
07.10.12 | U wanty classics?
Upton Sinclair - The Jungle
Jack London - The Sea Wolf
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle - The Holmes books
Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy
William Shakespeare - Pick one...
oh and:
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
World War Z |
omnipanzer
07.10.12 | "Have you read 50 Shades omni?"
Yah, my wife wanted them so I read them too, see what all the hubbub was all about. 1st one is pretty good, Darker and Freed are Okay too.
Grey: 4/5
Darker: 3/5
Freed: 3.5/5 |
omnipanzer
07.10.12 | ^ I don't think I copied anyone Sonic
"There is nothing fantasy about the bible. I challenge you to find just one thing that is fantasy. "
"How many loaves do you have?" he asked. "Go and see." When they found out, they said, "Five--and two fish." Then Jesus directed them to have all the people sit down in groups on the green grass. So they sat down in groups of hundreds and fifties. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to his disciples to set before the people. He also divided the two fish among them all. They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces of bread and fish. The number of the men who had eaten was five thousand."
I call shenanigans |
fsharptrit0ne
07.10.12 | the bible rules, just don't take it literally. for fantasy read the name of the wind |
omnipanzer
07.10.12 | I personally think the bible has a ton of great stories and has a lot of great social lessons. It's also a great peak into society from many many generations ago. I am not however looking for enlightenment from a bunch of retards that lived pre-science and couldn't even tell you what an amoeba or proper hygiene are. |
fsharptrit0ne
07.10.12 | joseph's story is boss |
omnipanzer
07.10.12 | Judgment of Solomon
m/ |
fsharptrit0ne
07.10.12 | it's been a while. i should read through deuteronomy again. |
