Favorite books

[airfrogusmc]

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / James Joyce

The Godfather / Mario Puzo

The Illustrated Man / Ray Bradbury

The Grapes of Rath / John Steinbeck

O'Hara's Choice / Leon Uris

On The Beach / Nevil Shute

The Sun Also Rises / Ernest Hemingway

The Cather in the Rye / J.D. Salinger

A Rumor of War / Philip Caputo

King Rat / James Clavell

[Analyst]

Really enjoyed Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe and most anything by Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho, Glamorama), and Michael Lewis (Liar's Poker, Moneyball)

For non-fiction, Barbarians of the Gate, which details the largest leveraged buy-out at the time of RJR Nabisco by KKR. Excellent read of those interested in understanding the minute by minute decision making behind Wall Street's merchant banking business in the late '80s.

Also, the Smartest Guys in the Room, which discusses the rise and fall of Enron, and When Genius Fails: The Rise and Fall of LTCM.

[sybaritical]

Fiction? It's like asking what my favourite breath of air was. Easier to list authors I follow and enjoy.

Albert Camus

Douglas Coupland ( especially Generation X)

David Foster Wallace

Don Delillo

Kurt Vonnegut

Will Self

Charles Bukowski

Henry Miller

Anais Nin

Jack Kerouac

Haruki Murakami

[Whodinihimself]

Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer - Patrick Suskind

House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski

Haunted: A Novel - Chuck Palahniuk

Richard Adams - Shardik

Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

American Gods - Neil Gaiman

... and anything by Stephen King

[Analyst]

Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer - Patrick Suskind

House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski

Haunted: A Novel - Chuck Palahniuk

Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

American Gods - Neil Gaiman

... and anything by Stephen King

just started on Dark Tower series...currently on book 2: Drawing of the Three....wow...

[darkanimal]

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller - Funny Shit lmao

Choke - Chuck Pahlaniuk

[snugglepony]

anything by:

john fowles

andre dubus

mavis gallant

charles d'ambrosio

raymond carver

john cheever

most don delillo

most philip roth

jo ann beard's the boys of my youth

jonathan franzen's the corrections

roald dahl's adult stories (but the kid stuff is great, too)

harry potter forever.

[denimdestroyedmylife]

pirandello

dosteyevsky

andre gide

william gaddis

p.k. dick

borges

thomas pynchon

lautreamont

jean genet

second the:

delillo (esp. underworld)

franzen's Corrections and How to Be Alone

guilty pleasures:

pahlaniuk

brett easton ellis

[Whodinihimself]

just started on Dark Tower series...currently on book 2: Drawing of the Three....wow...

...the first 4 books of the Dark Tower series are incredible...the last 3 felt kind of rushed to me...but overall I'd say that collectively the Dark Tower series is one of the greatest epic stories out there today. If youre an avid King reader you'll find connections to the Tower in the majority of his other work

[keska]

pirandello

dosteyevsky

andre gide

william gaddis

p.k. dick

borges

thomas pynchon

lautreamont

jean genet

second the:

delillo (esp. underworld)

franzen's Corrections and How to Be Alone

guilty pleasures:

pahlaniuk

brett easton ellis

i am pretty serious about the walking around with a wooden stick and a beard now...

nice list =]

kite runner - da vinci code - the stand last book i read that was fiction was bad twin =]

mostly i read non fiction last i read were freakonomics - the world is flat - blink and some books by dean radin on parapsychology

[discolite]

Really enjoyed Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe and most anything by Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho, Glamorama), and Michael Lewis (Liar's Poker, Moneyball)

For non-fiction, Barbarians of the Gate, which details the largest leveraged buy-out at the time of RJR Nabisco by KKR. Excellent read of those interested in understanding the minute by minute decision making behind Wall Street's merchant banking business in the late '80s.

Also, the Smartest Guys in the Room, which discusses the rise and fall of Enron, and When Genius Fails: The Rise and Fall of LTCM.

Good Books. You must be in finance too.

[superdupersang]

the count of monte christo. alexandre dumas

why oh why does hollywood think nothing is sacred

[startmeup]

crime and punishment - fyodor dostoevsky

das kapital - karl marx

thank you for smoking - christopher buckley (i agree. hollywood thinks nothing is sacred)

as i lay dying - william faulkner

[denimdestroyedmylife]

^holy shit, you've got some serious good taste in lit; RESPECK!

my mother is a fish.

[cheapmuthafukr]

jack kerouac- on the road

tom robbins-skinny legs and all

kurt vonnegut- breakfast of champions

allen ginsburg- howl

[startmeup]

hey cheap, i dig that beatnik vibe, man... kerouac was an innovator.

[Chicken]

one the road -- classic. i read that before i moved to san francisco, once.

btw, thought i saw mighty dope for a second. must be too sober -- time to got get drunk.

[greentea]

last book i read was "hercules" back in 3rd grade.

[red]

damn. really good books. but i agree with sybaritical. theres just too many. does this include novellas? essays? ill list a few ive enjoyed:

war and peace

crime and punishment

notes from the underground

the stranger

the rebel

homage to catalonia

1984

brave new world

doors of perception

anthem

fountainhead

atlas shrugged

slaughter house 5

cats cradle

choke

for whom the bells toll

sun also rises

farewell to arms

old man and the sea

blah blah blah

great gatsby

catch-22

naked and the dead

executioners song

man in full

grapes of wrath

catcher in the rye

in cold blood

ulysses

portrait of an artist

and those are just on top of my head, so ill quit while i can. honestly, ive enjoyed just about all the books ive read. as you can tell, ive hardly had the time to read more modern works. and my list of "to reads" just keeps on getting longer and longer. damn.

[denimdestroyedmylife]

you read ULYSSES???

damn, had to give up on that one...

never finished V by Pynchon

failed to finish Maldoror

buh.

[red]

ya. i had to. right after reading portrait. those thick books are so threatening. but atlas shrugged, ulysses, and the like were all worth it. the naked and the dead is pretty long, hows that coming for you?

[denimdestroyedmylife]

i am about 500 pages into N&D-------i dig it; will be no problem. this is my first go at mailer, but i find him very easy to read, very salient writer. not one of those books where you get hung up on the language.

[Chicken]

Musashi, by Eiji Yoshikawa

Catcher in the Rye, by you-know-who

The Book of Tea, by Kakuzo Okakura

1984, George Orwell

The Unconsoled, by Kazuo Ishiguro

[Wala]

pale fire by nabokov

lolita by nabokov

ada, or ardor by nabokov

speak, memory by nabokov

house of leaves by danielewski

the sound and the fury by faulkner

ender's game by o. s. card

a portrait of the artist as a young man by joyce

the sirens of titan by vonnegut

childhood's end by a. c. clarke

I'm a huge Nabokov fanatic.

[viahelsinki]

dostoyevsky- the idiot

dostoyevsky- war&peace

orhan pamuk- istanbul

i haven't read crime&punishment, but i think i'll look that up soon..

[superdupersang]

back in the day, up to high school, i was like fuking matilda, reading everything in the local library.

but now, the only literature ir ead is newspapers, magazines, shite websites etc

thats why i think the tablet pc / orgaic screeens where one downloads a book will be the next big thing (after the previous next big thing)

the print media is dead

long live digital..

[Matay]

A Clockwork Orange

The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy

[denimdestroyedmylife]

dostoyevsky- war&peace

that was tolstoy.

read C&P already!

and Brothers K.

[red]

how do you pronounce dostevsky? ive never heard any body actually say it.

[way74]

Kurt Vonnegut-all good

Hermann Hesse-all good

Alan Sillitoe-have a collection of 9 short stories,all good

Albert Murray-The Omni-Americans

Douglas Adams-all good

John Muir-Travels in Alaska

Travel Guides

Paul Bowles-all good

John Irving-The World According to Garp

Scott Peterson-Native American Prophecies

Willie Drye-Storm of the Century

Edwin A. Abbott-Flatland

Olaf Stapledon-Last and First Men,Star Maker

W.Y. Evans-Wentz-Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines

Aldous Huxley-Brave New World,The Perennial Philosophy

Rick Curtis-The Backpacker's Field Manual

The Only Planet of Choice(Essential Briefings from Deep Space)

Swami Sri Yukteswar-The Holy Science

John Steinbeck-Travels with Charley

Joseph Heller-Catch-22

Dante-The Inferno

The Penguin Guide to Jazz

Michael Azerrad-Our Band Could be your Life

Audobon Field Guide to North American Birds- Eastern and Western Regions

Fyodor Dostoevsky-Notes from Underground

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