Mars Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 No Particular order: Apathy and Other Small Victories - Paul Neilan The Contortionist's Handbook - Craig Clevenger Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk House of Leaves - Mark Z Danielewski Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky Songbook - Nick Hornby The Raw Shark Texts – Steven Hall The Wind Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami Mentions: The Teseract - Garland The Haunting of Hill House - Jackson Sexing the Cherry - Winterson Inspecting the Vaults - McCormack High Fidelity - Hornby A Light in the Attic - Silverstein Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chkadea Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 So glad to see others respecting Jonathan Safran Foer's work. I have autographed copies of both EiI and ELaIC on my bookshelves. How was ELaIC? I never got around to reading that, but have loved everything else he's done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cephcarn4 Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 The Shining - Stephen King Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess Flowers In The Attic - VC Andrews America Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis Catcher In The Rye - JD Salinger Death of A Salesman - Arthur Miller The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams Ordinary People - Judith Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidney Crosley Posted December 8, 2015 Author Share Posted December 8, 2015 How was ELaIC? I never got around to reading that, but have loved everything else he's done. I liked it even more than EiI. Though it's pretty heavy at times... Also of interest, his brother Joshua Foer wrote a great non-fiction book, Moonwalking with Einstein, which is about memory (and entering a memory competition, plus the existence of 'mental athletes'). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chkadea Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 I liked it even more than EiI. Though it's pretty heavy at times... Also of interest, his brother Joshua Foer wrote a great non-fiction book, Moonwalking with Einstein, which is about memory (and entering a memory competition, plus the existence of 'mental athletes'). Sounds pretty intriguing! Will have to pick them up when I get some downtime next. Thanks for the recs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexicondevil Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - McCullers Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway Ask the Dust - Fante Women - Bukowski Lives of the Monster Dogs - Bakis Journey to the End of the Night - Celine Confederacy of Dunces - Toole Let It Come Down - Bowles The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway again Harry Potter series - Rowling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGhostOfRandySavage Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - McCullers Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway Ask the Dust - Fante Women - Bukowski Lives of the Monster Dogs - Bakis Journey to the End of the Night - Celine Confederacy of Dunces - Toole Let It Come Down - Bowles The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway again Harry Potter series - Rowling Somehow I still haven't picked up any Hemmingway. Soon. Soon... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexicondevil Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Somehow I still haven't picked up any Hemmingway. Soon. Soon... He is deceptively easy and yet really difficult if you squeeze out all of his symbolism. For books, I would start with Old Man and the Sea. One of my favorite works by him is actually the short story, "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place". I've read an reread that many times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGhostOfRandySavage Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 He is deceptively easy and yet really difficult if you squeeze out all of his symbolism. For books, I would start with Old Man and the Sea. One of my favorite works by him is actually the short story, "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place". I've read an reread that many times.Noted! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAXXX Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 1Q84 - haruki murakami a confederacy of dunces - john kennedy toole atlas shrugged - ayn rand of mice and men - john steinbeck philip k. dick books - any of them starship troopers - robert heinlein the count of monte cristo - alexandre dumas the great gatsby - f. scott fitzgerald the hobbit - j. r. r. tolkein the mistborn trilogy - brandon sanderson lone wolf and cub (manga) - kazuo koike the sandman (graphic novels) - neil gaiman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronniegwilliams Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Agreed. I still read Extremely Loud once a year though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GHOSTDRONES Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 I think I could do authors moreso than books Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGhostOfRandySavage Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 1Q84 - haruki murakami the mistborn trilogy - brandon sanderson the sandman (graphic novels) - neil gaiman I honestly couldn't choose a Murakami book, so I just picked one at random. 1Q84 is so fucking good. I've considered these books quite a bit but never picked them up yet. So close to making my list. I didn't want to have too many graphic novels in it though and Akira just edged it out. Black and White is probably my number one graphic novel(manga, whatever) of all time though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGhostOfRandySavage Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 I think I could do authors moreso than books This x100. it was really hard to pick specific books/series from an author. I love pretty much everything Frank Herbert ever wrote, so it was tough just to say Dune, even if it is 6 books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ntslash Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 English major and former high school English teacher (9 years) here. This is my (mostly predictable) list of top 10 books: The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien The Trial - Kafka The Stranger - Camus Forty Stories - Donald Barthelme Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov Moby Dick - Melville A Light in August - William Faulkner Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut The Complete Enderby - Anthony Burgess Yup...mostly dead white dudes. Except for the living white dude. I might need to revise this in a day or two after thinking on it some more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGhostOfRandySavage Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 I almost feel bad that mine was pretty much all sci-fi and fantasy...then I remember it's fun to read that stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeeMoreGlass Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 The Catcher In The Rye - J.D. Salinger Last Exit To Brooklyn - Hubert Selby Jr. 1984 - George Orwell In Cold Blood - Truman Capote Requiem For A Dream - Hubert Selby Jr. A Good Man Is Hard To Find/Everything that Rises Must Converge - Flannery O Connor Macbeth - Shakespeare To Kill A Mockingbird/Go Set A Watchman - Harper Lee The Star Shards Trilogy (Scorpion Shards/Thief of Souls/Shattered Sky) - Neal Shusterman It - Stephen King Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ntslash Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 The Catcher In The Rye - J.D. Salinger Last Exit To Brooklyn - Hubert Selby Jr. 1984 - George Orwell In Cold Blood - Truman Capote Requiem For A Dream - Hubert Selby Jr. A Good Man Is Hard To Find/Everything that Rises Must Converge - Flannery O Connor Macbeth - Shakespeare To Kill A Mockingbird/Go Set A Watchman - Harper Lee The Star Shards Trilogy (Scorpion Shards/Thief of Souls/Shattered Sky) - Neal Shusterman It - Stephen King Dang, you're the first person I've heard say anything positive about Go Set a Watchman. I gave up after about 20 pages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GHOSTDRONES Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 This x100. it was really hard to pick specific books/series from an author. I love pretty much everything Frank Herbert ever wrote, so it was tough just to say Dune, even if it is 6 books. Yes... exactly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAXXX Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 the mistborn trilogy - brandon sanderson I've considered these books quite a bit but never picked them up yet. if you enjoyed wheel of time and could make it through all of them, then i highly recommend the mistborn books. major epicness in a surprisingly unique fantasy world packed into three books for a much quicker read. would also recommend sanderson's new stormlight archive series. two books in and pretty enjoyable so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGhostOfRandySavage Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 if you enjoyed wheel of time and could make it through all of them, then i highly recommend the mistborn books. major epicness in a surprisingly unique fantasy world packed into three books for a much quicker read. would also recommend sanderson's new stormlight archive series. two books in and pretty enjoyable so far. I'll check it out! I did WoT straight through with no problem, so I'm in! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chkadea Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Dang, you're the first person I've heard say anything positive about Go Set a Watchman. I gave up after about 20 pages. From my understanding, isn't the reason it was never published in the first place due to Harper Lee considering it to be a first draft for TKaM? I haven't read the new one, to be fair, but not sure how much interest could be garnered from that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeeMoreGlass Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 Dang, you're the first person I've heard say anything positive about Go Set a Watchman. I gave up after about 20 pages. Honestly, I loved it. It is a great book about recognizing how human your heroes are. I think a lot of people got pissed because Atticus wasn't portrayed as a "hero" in it but for me that just made him a better character. I guess I get why people aren't into it but I couldn't put it down while reading it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronniegwilliams Posted December 9, 2015 Share Posted December 9, 2015 From my understanding, isn't the reason it was never published in the first place due to Harper Lee considering it to be a first draft for TKaM? I haven't read the new one, to be fair, but not sure how much interest could be garnered from that. Yeah, the original TKaM was just a small side story within GSYW and her editor thought the story within was stronger. Mockingbird has always been one of my favorite novels, but Go Set is just hard to read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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