BallsToTheWall
05.17.09 | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Or you could just stick to harry Potter and Eragon. |
marksellsuswallets
05.17.09 | House of Leaves... |
mfbroom
05.17.09 | Check out some Jack Kerouac, maybe the Dhrama bums |
AggravatedYeti
05.17.09 | The Stranger - Albert Camus
The Golden Compass, you'll probably dig the His Dark Materials series if you haven't read any of it yet. |
Lelle
05.17.09 | Terry Pratchett - Good Omens. Funny as hell |
Masochist
05.17.09 | ^^^ That. |
marksellsuswallets
05.17.09 | Anything by Chuck Palahniuk
Mitch Albom - Tuesdays With Maury (yes I'm serious)
Lately I've just been reading things like first hand accounts of genocide in various African countries...interesting/horrifying stuff. |
kitsch
05.17.09 |
you should read atlas shrugged by ayn rand it is the most literary genius thing ive ever read seriously its so good |
willfellmarsy
05.17.09 | The Dharma Bums-Jack Kerouac
if you're gunna check chuck palahniuk (and being 16 makes you susceptible to his wily charms) check out Choke
Ender's Game-Orson Scott Card...read this when i was in high school and couldn't put it down (was at a point where i hated reading)... |
kitsch
05.17.09 | in all seriousness, kerouac is badass. i fell in love with on the road when i was 16.
dont get into palahniuk. at this impressionable age, youre likely to think he's a good writer for quite a few years. |
Athom
05.17.09 | I would say House of Leaves too since that's one of my favorite books, but im sure it would make you hate reading.
Since you liked 1984 get Brave New World
Chuck Palanhiuk - Choke
Faulkner - As I Lay Dying
Hunter S. Thompson -Fear and Loathing In Los Vegas
Charles Bukowski - Post Office
Achebe - Things Fall Apart
Tucker Max - I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell |
foreverendeared
05.17.09 | catch-22 is probably the funniest book ever written. it blows anything Vonnegut has written out of the water, and i happen to really like Vonnegut. Also Les Miserable is up there as the greatest novel ever written |
kitsch
05.17.09 | faulkner is good but i wouldnt recommend reading it for enjoyment to anyone that wasnt already pretty bookish |
kitsch
05.17.09 | and god dont read ayn rand |
natey
05.18.09 | never really loved any Faulkner
Vonnegut, Hemingway are where its at yo.
"Crime and Punishment" is incredible too, read it |
kitsch
05.18.09 | hemingway is cool
dostoevsky is so fucking tight you just went up a notch |
shade
05.18.09 | Fight Club-Chuck Palahniuk. |
joshuatree
05.18.09 | read the obvious ones by dostoevsky
read everything by bukowski
definitely don't read palanhiuk |
Electric City
05.18.09 | you can get away with fight club or survivor by him but his bullshit is a lot less tolerable in other books. Bukowski is great, Naked Lunch is great. |
kitsch
05.18.09 | but tbh do you think he could appreciate naked lunch?
its sooo crazy |
joshuatree
05.18.09 | its not hard to understand at all unless you're like retarded
its not that enjoyable tho at all |
kitsch
05.18.09 | im not talking about understanding the meaning
im talking about the style that its written in |
joshuatree
05.18.09 | i guess the cut-up style is a bit off-putting
and using molestation and child-raping and shit like that as metaphors isn't anyone's idea of accessible
and plus the book sucks
all in all OVERRATED |
natey
05.18.09 | you guys are being way to stereotypical of 16 year olds
the fact that he's looking for books to read means he's ahead of the curve and'll probably swallow whatever good shit you throw at him |
natey
05.18.09 | i fapped to the ents |
joshuatree
05.18.09 | Well I'm 17 and read naked lunch when I was 15 but it's not a matter of the book being complex it's a matter of not being good |
kitsch
05.18.09 | yea, i started reading Shakespeare on my own at like age 13. im not saying age means anything BUT
"Also keep in mind that I'm 16 so don't rec anything way over my head. THANKS."
and the books he listed are pretty elementary.
and naked lunch is badass. |
DeadToPain
05.18.09 | One of my favorites is "House of Sand and Fog" by Andre Dubus. Another I always liked at your age was "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath. |
natey
05.18.09 | omg joshuatree i'm seventeen too. i'd say we're twins but i haven't read naked lunch |
kitsch
05.18.09 | if you two hooked up the story would be a magnetic fields song |
widowslaugh123
05.21.09 | read dry |
tom79
05.21.09 | You'd probably like Ham on Rye by Bukowski. Also, pretty much any Kerouac is good. |
backinhindsight
05.27.09 | agree with Catch 22 being amazing. I found it a little hard to follow the overall story so I read sparknotes with it to help keep me on track but the puns and such in it are classic |
