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A Moveable Feast- Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises- Hemingway

Old Man and the Sea- Hemingway

Catcher in the Rye- Salinger

Choke- Palahniuk

1984- Orwell

Down and Out in Paris and London- Orwell

Night- Weisel

Slaughterhouse Five- Vonnegut

Cats Cradle- Vonnegut

Blow- Porter

Trainspotting- Welsh

Hemingway is by far my favorite author.

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the cruel sea - nicholas montserrat

decline & fall - evelyn waugh

american psycho - brett easton ellis

the scarlett letter - nathaniel hawthorne

hey whipple, squeeze this - luke sullivan

the big nowhere - james elroy

any flashman book - george macdonald frazer

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About any thing by Clive Barker, that man writes some awesome books, the later works are the best: Weaveworld, Everville, The Great and Secret Show, (that one with 1k pages, but I can never rememeber the name)

He writes in a way that makes you taste and fell what's goig on without boring you (Like Stephen King does)

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stranger in a strange land- heilen

fucking amazing

a tale of two cities- dickens

and the greatest book ever written. The Little Prince - atoine st. exupre ( i fogot his name but its somehting like that)

i began it thinking wow this is the longest childrens book i ever read

and once i finished it, it had begun the expansion of my mind if you will. it was one of the first books that really made me think.

oh and fahrenheit 451

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stranger in a strange land- heilen

fucking amazing

a tale of two cities- dickens

and the greatest book ever written. The Little Prince - atoine st. exupre ( i fogot his name but its somehting like that)

i began it thinking wow this is the longest childrens book i ever read

and once i finished it, it had begun the expansion of my mind if you will. it was one of the first books that really made me think.

oh and fahrenheit 451

Little Prince is my avatar on the fashion spot :-) It will be the first book my daughter will read on her own.

Agreed on F451 also - excellent book.

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^ Little Prince is definitely a classic. If you like it, you might also enjoy The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.

Disclaimier: nothing personal, before I start flaming Coehlo, but...

I really don't like him, for better or worse. I guess I can see him having a place as a gateway to serious literature, but honestly, he is talentless, and The Alchemist was so cliche and full of banalities. I mean, how many times have we heard a story about fulfilling your destiny and just letting things happen as they come? From Buddhism, to the Bible, through folklore, to Don Quixote, to Voltaire's Candide, and much more. Even Lord of the Rings is about that.

Anyway, the reason I'm sore on him is that I'm tired of hearing from people who've read five books in their lives how Coehlo is so great. I feel sad that our culture has disintegrated to such a level. They sell his books in supermarkets in Sweden, next to the Sun, and that's where he belongs in my humble literary opinion.

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some of my favorite novelists, essayists, playwrights and overall literary maniacs:

Jorge Luis Borges (complete works of, specifically the South, The Sect of the Thirty)

Michel Foucault (Madness and Civilization, Discipline and Punishment, History of Sexuality)

Nabokov (Mary, Lolita, The Gift)

James Joyce (Dubliners, Ulysses, Finnegan's Wake)

Tolstoy (The Raid, Ivan the Fool ;I've read parts of War and Peace)

Richard Wright (Black Boy)

James Baldwin (Go Tell it on the Mountain)

William Faulkner (As I Lay Dying)

Vargas-Llosa (the Storyteller)

Ralph Ellison (Invisible Man)

Kafka (the Metamorphosis, the Trial)

Schopenhauer (the motherfuckin World as Will and Representation!) I suggest you read him to fully understand alot of Nietzsche, and Wagner/Mahler for that matter...

Nietzsche (Thus Spoke Zarathustra)

Schnitzler (Anatol)

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Graphic Novels:

Frank Miller (Batman: the Dark Knight Returns, Sin City)

Neil Gaiman (The Sandman)

Alan Moore (The Watchmen)

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im going to lighten it up in here.

the books ive most enjoyed (not necessarily the best-but of course some are)

haunted- chuck palahniuk.

dkr-miller and jansen and varley

fahrenheit 451- bradbury

the collected bradbury(esp "there will come soft rains")

dark tower book 2- king

in cold blood- capote

american psycho-ellis

year one-miller and mazzucchelli and lewis

to kill a mockingbird- lee

twillight eyes-koontz (pure trash)

lunar park- ellis (if you are a dad you should def read this. (or if you have one:) cried like a baby)

love in the time of cholera- marquez

choke- palahniuk.

house of leaves- danielowski

the adventures of kavalier and clay- chabon

skeleton crew (esp "the mist")- king

the long walk- king

marvels- busiek and ross

kingdom come -waid and ross

it- king

lotr esp fellowship- tolkien

the stand (stephen king was one of the first adult authors i read at far too young an age)

mrs frisby and the rats of nihm- o'brien

do andriods dream of electric sheep? p.k.dick

understanding comics- mccloud

scanner darkly- dick

ghost world- clowes

harry potter

peepshow- joe matt

1984 -orwell

fight club- palahniuk.

black hole- charles burns

the metamorphasis- kafka (older translation-gregor samsa awoke from uneasy dreams to find he had been transformed...)

spirit of '69- marshall

watchmen- moore and gibbons

the adventures of huck finn-twain

survivor- palahniuk.

harrison bergeron- vonnegut

childhood's end- clarke

snakepit- ben snakepit

thats all i can think of right now

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I've just finished Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk. It's one of the most disgusting books that I've read - especially the first chapter "Guts" with the bit about the "snake" - you'll know what i mean if you've read it. Urgh:eek: . I've just started Beneath The Underdog, Charles Mingus' autoboigraphy. I'm about five chapters in, and I'd seriously recommend it. I'm not a huge jazz or Mingus fan, but he was a clever guy with an interesting life - he spent time as a pimp and in an institution, as well as being an amazing musician, band leader, and sleeping with 23 women in one night. The book's well written too.

All time favourites:

Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5

Alexander Solzhenitsyn - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Knut Hamsun - Hunger

James Ellroy - The Black Dahlia

Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

John Fante - Ask The Dust

Graham Greene - The Quiet American

William Burroughs - Junky

Alexander Trocchi - Cain's Book

and more recently Michel Houellebecq - Atomised

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I've just finished Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk. It's one of the most disgusting books that I've read - especially the first chapter "Guts" with the bit about the "snake" - you'll know what i mean if you've read it. Urgh:eek: . I've just started Beneath The Underdog, Charles Mingus' autoboigraphy. I'm about five chapters in, and I'd seriously recommend it. I'm not a huge jazz or Mingus fan, but he was a clever guy with an interesting life - he spent time as a pimp and in an institution, as well as being an amazing musician, band leader, and sleeping with 23 women in one night. The book's well written too.

All time favourites:

Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5

Alexander Solzhenitsyn - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Knut Hamsun - Hunger

James Ellroy - The Black Dahlia

Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

John Fante - Ask The Dust

Graham Greene - The Quiet American

William Burroughs - Junky

Alexander Trocchi - Cain's Book

and more recently Michel Houellebecq - Atomised

I heard/saw him read that part at Columbia - two people had siezure - I don't know if it was just a prank, but it was freaky.

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swisloc

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The Trial - Kafka

Don Quixote - (edith grossman translation) Cervantes

Henderson the Rain King - Bellow

Mythologies - Barthes

Illuminations - Benjamin

The Wind Up Bird Chronicle - Murakami

Canary Row - Steinbeck

Moby Dick - Melville

Ulyses - Joyce

anybody who found Don Quixote to be too daunting a task the first time should try the new translation. it's so much better...

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What I can think of off the top of my head, in no particular order:

I, Claudius - Robert Graves

The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Alex Haley

Dracula - Bram Stoker

Moby Dick - Herman Melville

The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Magician - Raymond Feist

Dune - Frank Herbert

Catcher In The Rye - J.D. Saligner

LOTR - Tolkein

... etc.

I wish I had more time to read; give me a good book and/or a good album over television anyday.

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i'm reading kerouac (after a long while of meaning to read kerouac) now, and while i don't pretend to understand it i enjoy it immensely. tristessa - i shall head for on the road after i'm done with this.

some "forever young" favourites include

a passage to india e.m. forster

the mayor of casterbridge thomas hardy

armadillo william boyd

under milk wood dylan thomas (a play more than a book)

death of a salesman arthur miller

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short stories by saki, ernest hemingway, john updike, and sherlock holmes stories by sir arthur conan doyle

to echo what red said on the first page - it's amazing what happens after you finish a book - someone points out another similar book, or you chance upon something that sounds completely different from what you've just read, or you just simply pick something up...stopping the reading is quite out of the question.

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and another book i forgot from above - Heart of Darkness - Conrad.

i love conrad. it's the darkness in his writing that draws me in.

i planned to start reading some philosophy, but i can't stop doing novels. it's just...i dunno, addictive.

just to get a clue, who are the "classic" american playwrights?

arthur miller, tennessee williams...edward albee? who else?

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