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04-04-2008, 09:19 AM
|  | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Westport, New Zealand
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| | | Patrick White - Voss
Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook
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Time is the distance that you can't return by miles.
I escaped somehow. Let's go
actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter |
04-04-2008, 03:50 PM
|  | in brian wilson's sandbox | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: chaos, constant, forever
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| | thank you everyone  ....especially those of you whom did not mention catcher in the rye....or the great gatsby. etcetc. i wrote down a lot of these...i'm at the library, as i am too poor to buy new books as often as i want. |
04-04-2008, 09:27 PM
| | in brian wilson's sandbox | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: chaos, constant, forever
Posts: 2,448
| | | oh. i need more gay ocd memoirists in my life.
daylight? |
04-04-2008, 09:51 PM
|  | books written for girls | | Join Date: Apr 2006
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| | | Rebecca - Du maurer. doesn't pick up till after the first few chapters
The wasp factory- ian banks. the most fucked up book i've ever read |
04-05-2008, 12:36 AM
| | in brian wilson's sandbox | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: chaos, constant, forever
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| | | i need something like thomas whooley's Toilet. |
04-05-2008, 08:58 AM
|  | with CLUB SAUCE | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: your pants
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| | | david sedaris, have you ever read anything by him?
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04-05-2008, 09:53 AM
|  | die kleine daumenlutscher | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Socialist Republic of Wales
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| | | JG Ballard. Crash or The Atrocity Exhibiton.
__________________ I hope you blink before I do
I hope I never get sober |
04-05-2008, 09:58 AM
|  | Blessed are the forgetful | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: New York
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| | I think everyone named basically every book I was going to mention so just let me say...
Welcome to the monkey house- Kurt Vonnegut....though it is his short stories it is still my favorite book by him, you'll see why and probably love it.
The Trial- Franz Kafka
****Read Fountain Head.
(I hate Ayn Rand anywho by the way)
Gravity's Rainbow- Thomas Pynchon
Someone mentioned Thom Wolfe's book....also Read on The Road by Jack Kerouac and One Flew over the Cuckoo's nest by Ken Keasy.
****The World According to Garp- John Irving ...yeah definetely get this one.
Illusions- Richard Bach
if you want more just ask, I'm nerdy with books. |
04-05-2008, 10:14 AM
|  | Inventor of the Rapedar | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: nTown, UK
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| | | Re: Vonnegut, have you ever read Galapagos, CC? It's a personal favourite of mine.
I also recommend House Of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski, even though Pynchon nerds hate it for being too easy. |
04-05-2008, 11:01 AM
|  | Ian MacKaye loves me | | Join Date: May 2006
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| | Quote:
Originally Posted by Little Prince  Philosophy in the boudoir-Marques De Sade
Against Nature(A rebours)-Huysmans
Notes from the underground-Dostoevsky
Les enfants Terribles-Jean Cocteau
The city and the pillar-Gore Vidal
I'd also read proust and eurepides especially if you go for the more obscure tragedies! | Ah I'm in with you just because of this list. |
04-05-2008, 01:17 PM
|  | nothing much to lose | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: murray street
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| | | chuck klosterman
philip k dick
arthur c clarke
collapse and guns, germs and steel by jared diamond |
04-05-2008, 07:13 PM
| | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Westport, New Zealand
Posts: 18,681
| | | omg
Jonahan Livingstone Seagull
I know a mad witchy woman who read it to the guys at the garage her husband worked at, she read a bit every lunchtime for a few weeks. Awesome.
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Time is the distance that you can't return by miles.
I escaped somehow. Let's go
actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter |
04-05-2008, 08:07 PM
| | in brian wilson's sandbox | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: chaos, constant, forever
Posts: 2,448
| | | i got The Golden Notebook (thanks bort) and On Beauty (thanks gaylight) and Kingdom of Fear by Hunter S.
has anyone read chelsea handler's memoirs? funny? |
04-06-2008, 11:45 PM
| | Blessed are the forgetful | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: New York
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| | Quote:
Originally Posted by bort omg
Jonahan Livingstone Seagull
I know a mad witchy woman who read it to the guys at the garage her husband worked at, she read a bit every lunchtime for a few weeks. Awesome. | Holy shit...someone has read this other than me?
book brings back memories. |
04-06-2008, 11:48 PM
| | Blessed are the forgetful | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: New York
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| | Quote:
Originally Posted by Ophiel Re: Vonnegut, have you ever read Galapagos, CC? It's a personal favourite of mine.
I also recommend House Of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski, even though Pynchon nerds hate it for being too easy. |
Nope, I finished Blue Beard recently. I'll read everything by him by the time I turn 20. There's actually a new book coming out of unfinished works that his son wanted to get published.
Ohh and yes, I definetly back you up on House Of Leaves. I'm saving it for the summer, don't ask XP. |
04-07-2008, 12:07 AM
|  | pull me out of the lake | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: soho
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| | | omg.
on beauty.
i forgot. love lovelove that.
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04-07-2008, 02:13 AM
|  | Registered Member | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: In a castle
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Originally Posted by GirlBlondieVol2 Ah I'm in with you just because of this list. | Why thank you my dear.I always enjoy taking my afternoon tea with decadent literature and my evening gin with galavanting and swoons 
Also another book recomendation, the complete poems of Cavafy.I read this in greek.
Little Prince x |
04-07-2008, 03:22 AM
| | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Westport, New Zealand
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| | Quote:
Originally Posted by CuntCake Holy shit...someone has read this other than me?
book brings back memories. | I listened to the record on new year's eve. Does that count?
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Time is the distance that you can't return by miles.
I escaped somehow. Let's go
actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter |
04-07-2008, 05:51 AM
|  | irony maiden | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: denny's.
Posts: 2,010
| | | Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (jean paul i think you'll really like this?)
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Jazz by Toni Morrison
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Wild Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (technically a play but SO GOOD.)
Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave
Not the End of the World by Kate Atkinson
Foxfire by Joyce Carol Oates
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Into the Forest by Jean Hegland
Random Acts of Senseless Violence by Jack Womack
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
1984 by George Orwell
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04-07-2008, 06:32 AM
| | Blessed are the forgetful | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: New York
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Originally Posted by bort I listened to the record on new year's eve. Does that count? | Haha sure. | |
