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04-07-2008, 06:42 AM
|  | Inventor of the Rapedar | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: nTown, UK
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Originally Posted by cheshirecat  Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (jean paul i think you'll really like this?) | Someone recommended that to me, actually. Any good? All I know about it is it's meant to be really fucking looong. |
04-07-2008, 06:46 AM
|  | irony maiden | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: denny's.
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Originally Posted by Ophiel Someone recommended that to me, actually. Any good? All I know about it is it's meant to be really fucking looong. | it's my favourite book (apart from Cat's Eye and God of Small Things), so yes, i think it is very very very good. |
04-08-2008, 05:26 AM
|  | the figurehead | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: evidently chickentown
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| | Warning: very much 
Nausea/The Wall - Sartre
The Outsider - Camus
The Trial/Amerika/The Castle - Kafka
In the Country of Last Things/The NY Trilogy/Mr Vertigo/The Brooklyn Follies - Auster
Family Dancing/Equal Loves - David Leavitt |
04-08-2008, 05:35 AM
|  | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Westport, New Zealand
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| | | How about some Coetzee? Life & Times of Michael K is a good read.
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04-08-2008, 10:44 AM
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Originally Posted by saturdays=youth You are gay. Avoid Stephen King also.
Back to the thread.
Whoever named Camus and John Waters deserved a pat on the back but the rest of their list shocked and appalled, so patting has been suspended.
Bronte, Orwell, Austen, Woolfe, Coupland, Waugh, NEIL FUCKING GAIMEN??? all shit. I think one should read him. He marked the 20th century lit, in my opinion you have to confront it. Same for Aldous Huxley.
Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Bell Jar, The Great Gatsby - all worthless too. I disagree.
Off the top of my head:
Camus - The Fall, The Outsider. Yes
Bukowski - ANYTHING except Pulp, that was worthless. Hell yes. I especially love love love his short stories.
Hunter S Thompson - The Rum Diary, Fear and Loathing.
DH Lawrence - The Rainbow
William Burroughs - Queer Yes
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange Impossible for me to read this book in english.
Jack Keroac - On The Road Cliché
and as someone else said.
"Philosophy in the boudoir - Marques De Sade Yes
Notes from the underground - Dostoevsky Anything from Dostoïevski really.
Les enfants Terribles - Jean Cocteau" Yes | May I add some more. don't confine yourself with The Unbearable (...) by Kundera. The Novel, The Ignorance, etc. are short but delicious. Ulysse by James Joyce. I wish I could read it for the first time again.
Same with Voyage au bout de la nuit by Céline. Bonjour, tristesse by François Sagan. The Lover, by Marguerite Duras
brb
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04-08-2008, 01:19 PM
|  | Mysterious World | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: the business end
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| | | Portnoy's Complaint - philip Roth
Maus - Art Spiegelman
Epileptic - David B.
whitsun weddings - philip larkin
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04-08-2008, 01:43 PM
|  | Registered Member | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: In a castle
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Originally Posted by RomanNoseJob Portnoy's Complaint - philip Roth
Maus - Art Spiegelman
Epileptic - David B.
whitsun weddings - philip larkin | Yes! I agree with Maus altho it is a graphic novel!It is simply fantastic! |
04-08-2008, 03:38 PM
|  | Blessed are the forgetful | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: New York
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Originally Posted by obscurearse Warning: very much
Nausea/The Wall - Sartre
The Outsider - Camus
The Trial/Amerika/The Castle - Kafka
In the Country of Last Things/The NY Trilogy/Mr Vertigo/The Brooklyn Follies - Auster
Family Dancing/Equal Loves - David Leavitt | I'm taking all of these from you 
(Minus the Trial which I've already read) |
04-08-2008, 04:08 PM
|  | Registered Member | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: UK
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| | | the life and opinions of tristram shandy, gentlemen by laurence sterne is another good funny one
a vindication of the rights of woman by mary wollstencraft
another vote here for the whitsun weddings
look back in anger by john osborne |
04-08-2008, 04:15 PM
|  | blah | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: London
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| | | ALSO
Nick McDonell - The Third Brother and Twelve. |
04-08-2008, 04:54 PM
| | Registered Member | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: In a castle
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Originally Posted by Duchess ALSO
Nick McDonell - The Third Brother and Twelve. | Yes!12 was a fantastic book! |
04-11-2008, 02:43 PM
|  | NO TENGO MIEDO | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: San Francisco, cA.
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| | | These are my classics:
Fiction:
PUSH by Sapphire
THE ROAD, Cormac MCarthy
INVISIBLE MAN, Ralph Ellison
BRAVE NEW WORLD, Aldous Huxley
DHARMA BUMS, Jack Kerouac
THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA, Ernest Hemingway
HOPSCOTCH, Julio Cortazar
NAKED LUNCH, William Burroughs
BLONDE, Joyce Carol Oates
LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN, Hubert Selby Jr.
NonFiction/ Memoirs:
THE SPIRIT CATCHES YOU AND YOU FALL DOWN, Ann Fadiman
WHAT IS THE WHAT, and A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS BY Dave Eggers
VALENCIA, Michelle Tea
FRIDA (Biography of Frida Kahlo), Hayden Herrera
STATIC, Amy Goodman/ David Goodman
WATER WARS, Vandana Shiva
BACKLASH, Susan Faludi
hope it helps.... |
04-11-2008, 03:28 PM
| | Blessed are the forgetful | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: New York
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Originally Posted by zapatafan These are my classics:
Fiction:
PUSH by Sapphire
THE ROAD, Cormac MCarthy
INVISIBLE MAN, Ralph Ellison
BRAVE NEW WORLD, Aldous Huxley
DHARMA BUMS, Jack Kerouac
THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA, Ernest Hemingway
HOPSCOTCH, Julio Cortazar
NAKED LUNCH, William Burroughs
BLONDE, Joyce Carol Oates
LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN, Hubert Selby Jr.
NonFiction/ Memoirs:
THE SPIRIT CATCHES YOU AND YOU FALL DOWN, Ann Fadiman
WHAT IS THE WHAT, and A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS BY Dave Eggers
VALENCIA, Michelle Tea
FRIDA (Biography of Frida Kahlo), Hayden Herrera
STATIC, Amy Goodman/ David Goodman
WATER WARS, Vandana Shiva
BACKLASH, Susan Faludi
hope it helps.... | did you google these books or somthing 
I hate Old Man and The Sea
and your selection is extremely random. |
04-11-2008, 05:26 PM
| | NO TENGO MIEDO | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: San Francisco, cA.
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| | | lol |
04-11-2008, 05:26 PM
| | NO TENGO MIEDO | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: San Francisco, cA.
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| | | so, who the fuck cares? they're my favorite books from when i started to appreciate literature to the present, 15 years or so. why would i go to the trouble of googling a book list for a fucking discussion thread? some of us have more than one square centimeter of brains and can appreciate all sorts of genres of literature. |
04-11-2008, 06:36 PM
| | Blessed are the forgetful | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: New York
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Originally Posted by zapatafan so, who the fuck cares? they're my favorite books from when i started to appreciate literature to the present, 15 years or so. why would i go to the trouble of googling a book list for a fucking discussion thread? some of us have more than one square centimeter of brains and can appreciate all sorts of genres of literature. | lol it was more of the way it was typed out and everything. Maybe it's just that I'm not organized, I don't know haha, and my appreciation ranges to extremes when it comes to all types of media so I'm not putting that down. |
04-11-2008, 08:51 PM
| | Blessed are the forgetful | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: New York
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| | whoever negative repped me, that was pretty low.
Sorry if I've never heard of anyone reading that book, must make me some terrible person...and who cares if what I posted to read here was "cliche" in your opinion, I read alot of the books on zapatafan's list anyway.  |
04-11-2008, 09:23 PM
|  | oh. that's ghey. | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Meraland
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| | | Although it's a play Angels in America is a pretty good read
as is The Glass Menagerie
Hocus Pocus from Kurt Vonnegut
Largo Desolato Vaclav Haval
The Nova Trilogy from Burroughs is wonderful as well |
04-12-2008, 03:23 AM
|  | Registered Member | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
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| | | I have to admit when i read The Old Man and the Sea i didn't see what all the fuss about Hemingway was about. When i read For Whom The Bell Tolls i found him one of the best writers i've ever read. |
04-12-2008, 03:38 AM
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