the last one i read was birdsong by sebastian faulkes. and i've also read a few plays recently too. but these don't count because it was related to college and not done out of enjoyment.

i used to read alot when i got bored but now i've realised i dont have any fucking books aside from ones i've read 20 times before, so i have nothing to read but old issues of heat magazine.

so, any reccomendations? a little description would be handy too.

i love chuck klosterman books.

they are pop culture-y if you're into that sort of thing. funny, laugh out loud funny books. but...smart funny.

killing yourself to live: it's about him traveling across the states for spin magazine going to places of famous deaths in rock and roll. and his adventures on the way.

sex, drugs, cocoa puffs- just a series of essays about random topics like...he starts playing sims and makes a sim him and tries to sort out his life that way, or an entire chapter about saved by the bell.

they are just interesting books, but they are sorta a required taste.

also...she's come undone by wally lamb, because it's a good book. if you haven't already any of these.

ugh i've read like.. one book this year.

my year of meat by ruth l. ozeki. it was good. oh and the petty details of so and so's life, by camilla gibb.

i've started like ten books though and not finished them. i've started JD Salinger's Franny and Zooey recently..

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i've just bought one. i was checking out your reccomendation K8, on amazon and amazon reccomended the perks of being a wallflower by stephen chbosky. so i ordered it because it had good user reviews and the synopsis was cool. it seems like a good story. chuck klosterman seems really cool. i think it's a type of book i'd be really intersted in because i like collections of essays. i'll probably purchase sex, drugs and cocoa pops in a little while - it's in my shopping basket.

i should probably check out some salinger books. like every other boring fucker, i've read the catcher in the rye but none of his other books.

i'd recommend for esme with love and squalor, it's short stories. i love it almost as much as catcher.

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the perks of being a wallflower is really good you will enjoy it! (i hope?! haha)

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i think there may be something on my head.

you can't read that on kr, it's pro fat people

raise high the roof beams carpenter, is also a good jd

seeing as i've discovered you have great lit taste i'll check out the two you recommended too.

ehhh i only recommend 'my year of meat'. the other was good but not amazing or anything. lol.

i didn't know franny and zooey was about fat people. i think i'll be more into it now. WOO

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atonement - ian mcewan

it's not really, but the high point goes "the fat woman is...", i'll say no more. iirc, of course

After a prolonged haitas from reading, there's nothing as effective as a truly interesting book to get you back into your flow, so continue influenced by heavily-recommended books by all means. I like to pick out books by myself that I've never heard of before, so that I don't get my expectations up, but alas the case is often that I haven't heard of them for a reason - they're not that great.

I am in a slightly different predicament to yourself, but like yourself I am disgusted at my lack of reading for enjoyment recently. I promised myself I would not read anything that wasn't school-related until my exams were over (similarly, I promised myself that I wouldn't post on KR until my exams finished - today!). I suppose mine being a concsious decision induces less self-disgust.

I've been eager to read Prozac Nation for a few months now, and I think I'll borrow it from the library to start off my post-exam reading spree. Has anyone read this? Can anyone give me an insight as to what this book is actually about? It's one of those books that everyone seems to have read bar myself, but no one can really describe the plot? Oh well, I guess I'll find out for myself soon enough.

oh god, since being forced to read 'enduring love' by mcewan for english and studying the book extensively, i've been truly put off him. maybve it was just 'ED' but i didn't like the style of writing. thanks for the reccomendation anyway, i feel a bit sheepish for turning it down...but he was the subject of my feelings of hate last year.

There was a huge Prozac Nation thread pre-hack...I don't know if there's been any talk since but it's worth a search.

Basically I had to force myself to read to the end...I found Elizabeth Wurtzel really irritating.

fair enough, school ruined a lot of books for me! the perks of being a wallflower is quite readable.