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04-15-2006, 01:19 PM
|  | syntax free | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: murray street
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| | | the book recommendation thread
i need new stuff to read, as the semester is closing and i am super happy to be done with this womens lit class i took.
so recommend me stuff that hasnt been harped on about a million times over.
ie. no bell jar, no palahniuk, no wurtzel.
ive read them all.
no virginia woolf either please, my professor was in love with her. and i think id die if i ever have to read another of her works.
my recommendation for you is: sex, drugs and cocoa puffs by chuck klosterman.
essays on pop culture basically (he writes for spin, im not sure if he still does, i think so)
go. |
04-15-2006, 01:51 PM
|  | I am half sick of shadows | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Camelot
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| | | Flowers of Evil -Charles Baudelaire (great poetry)
Berlin Stories - Christopher Isherwood (or anything else by him!)
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Stranger - Albert Camus
i have more...but I dont know what you've read and what's been "over-harped" besides what you've listed...except Valley of the Dolls...which I havent read myself... |
04-18-2006, 06:40 PM
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| | | wysteria-wierd thing just happend, i didn't read you're whole post and was just like...sex drugs and cocoa puffs, everybody should read it. but...hehe. that was your recommendation. hmmm...so now all i can think of is she's come undone by wally lamb, but that's a played out book too.
have you read killing yourself to live by klosterman? it's only in hardcover at my local bookstore...but...i'm not sure if i want to spend 40 bucks on it. |
04-19-2006, 11:43 AM
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| | | anything by paul auster - start with the new york trilogy
also craig clevenger - the contortionist's handbook
those are the two books i recommend religiously
recent stuff i've been recommended and loved are and the ass saw the angel by nick cave and hey nostradamus by douglas copeland
it appears i only read books written by men, hmm... |
04-19-2006, 12:01 PM
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| | | mister god htis is anna by fynn.
the sexual life of catherne m by catherine millet.
the secret life of bees. |
04-19-2006, 01:20 PM
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| | | Shanghai Baby-Wei Hui
Out-Natsuo Kirino |
04-19-2006, 10:54 PM
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| | Quote: |
Originally Posted by wysteria
my recommendation for you is: sex, drugs and cocoa puffs by chuck klosterman.
essays on pop culture basically (he writes for spin, im not sure if he still does, i think so)
| i was thinking chuck before i even opened this thread. i recommend "killing yourself to live" it's and easy read without being stupid. |
04-19-2006, 10:59 PM
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| | | Nausea by Sartre
Confessions of a shoppaholic&Shoppaholic takes manhattan |
04-19-2006, 11:03 PM
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Originally Posted by un*touchable Nausea by Sartre
Confessions of a shoppaholic&Shoppaholic takes manhattan | Oh, i checked out Nausea once and never got a chance to even read it... and recently I checked out this Existentialism book (three essays) and one essay had many quotes from Nausea and I loved all the quotes. i really need to find some time and read that book.
and that shopaholic book is like the only book my 16 year old sister will read. She's probably read it half a dozen times.  |
04-19-2006, 11:43 PM
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| | | Candy
It's about 2 Heroin Addicts. In love. Trying to stay alive, and still maintaining a job for junk. Really really good. |
04-20-2006, 12:08 AM
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| | | house of leaves - mark z danielewski
probably better to borrow it from a library if you can, because it costs a fortune (my copy was about $60-70, and it's not even the full colour version). but it's absolutely crazy, and creepy, and just unreal. nothing else like it has ever been written.
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04-20-2006, 02:21 PM
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| | | Junkie Love by Phil Shoenfelt
about two junkies in love. it's pretty short, but good anyways. |
04-20-2006, 02:22 PM
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| | | Exquiste Corpse by Poppy Z Brite.....creepy, but i loved it. |
04-20-2006, 03:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Lady_Violet house of leaves - mark z danielewski
probably better to borrow it from a library if you can, because it costs a fortune (my copy was about $60-70, and it's not even the full colour version). but it's absolutely crazy, and creepy, and just unreal. nothing else like it has ever been written. | i first read house of leaves maybe 4 yrs ago.
so wonderful. i had forgotten about this, need to read it again. |
04-20-2006, 03:58 PM
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| | | The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster |
04-20-2006, 06:17 PM
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| | | Bad Dirt and Close Range by Annie Proulx.
They're both collections of Wymoming stories. She's a brilliant writer and has a way making the weirdest stuff seem totally normal. And the whole Wyoming culture is really interesting too. |
04-20-2006, 06:34 PM
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| | | Sometimes A Great Notion - Ken Kesey,
the much less known second novel of the author of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, it's a masterpiece, much better than his famous novel. A real literary classic. |
04-20-2006, 09:05 PM
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Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe Oh, i checked out Nausea once and never got a chance to even read it... and recently I checked out this Existentialism book (three essays) and one essay had many quotes from Nausea and I loved all the quotes. i really need to find some time and read that book.
and that shopaholic book is like the only book my 16 year old sister will read. She's probably read it half a dozen times. | Shoppaholic is great trust me, It's pure humor, Becky, the character is so attaching, I never got this attached to a book character.
as for the nausea it is the best philosophical book I've ever read. I think EVERYONE should read that book. I've read the original french version, so I just hope the english one will be as good and as full. He just sums up all my thoughts in that one book. |
04-20-2006, 09:25 PM
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| | | Richard Hawke//Speak Of The Devil |
04-20-2006, 10:28 PM
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Originally Posted by wysteria i first read house of leaves maybe 4 yrs ago.
so wonderful. i had forgotten about this, need to read it again. | haha of course i would recommend a book you've already read.
have you read "the life of pi"? i can't remember who wrote it right now. it's very good. a little weird, but definitely worth a read.
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