Book Recommendations

[denimdestroyedmylife]

really?

gladwell's tipping point annoyed me more than any book i've read in recent memory

[cheapmuthafukr]

breakfast of champions- kurt vonnegut

on the road-jack kerouac

skinny legs and all- tom robbins

[denimdestroyedmylife]

love vonnegut, but never got into tom robbins for whatever reason.

[seraphim]

Vurt and Needle In The Groove by Jeff Noon

Thin Skin and Cherries In The Snow by Emma Forrest (don't know if many men would like these though, or well-adjusted girls)

Paradise Lost

Hallucinating Foucault by Patricia Duncker

Anything by Foucault, Sartre or Barthes.

The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer.

Chekhov's short stories.

Any of Shakespeare's plays.

I could go on and on, really.

[Etz]

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

[bee hee]

skinny legs and all- tom robbins

Cosign on everything tom robbins.

the wind up bird chronicle by Haruki Murakami, and all of his other books too.

[Dick Danger]

How to Shit in the Woods

[superdupersang]

1. the day of the jackal

the original film, not the rehash with bruce willis, is one of my fav films

the level of detail

2. tom clancy raiiinbow seven also for detail heavy espionage SAS shit

3.the counte of monte christo and crime and punishment made me realise classics are classics for a reason

[docnbhd]

"Lunar Park" by Brett Easton Ellis - creepy as heck...

Working through "Why I am not a Christian" by Bertrand Russell

[fadingblue]

Antoine de Saint Exupery The Little Prince. Perfect. No other way to describe it.

my dad used to read me "el principito" when i was little

[derdankhund]

Aldous Huxley - Point/Counterpoint

Iain Pears - The Dream of Scipio

[djrajio]

[jake431]

Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson

[Guest jmatsu]

the new english dandy

[ericdw]

Lamb by Christopher Moore

Sex Drugs and Coco Puffs by Chuck Klosterman

IV by Chuck Klosterman

Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace

[kow]

King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild

Discusses the humanitarian crisis of the Belgian Congo in the late 19th century and pre-WW1 20th century. I suggest reading Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, first, to provide a short but direct point of reference for the setting of King Leopold's Ghost, which is a bit more autobiographical in nature.

I would suggest this simply because it's a topic a lot of people simply have no awareness of or familiarity with, and it's still relevant today, because the African continent is still in a horrible state. It wasn't even until 1984 that Belgium made public the few remaining documents it had on the atrocities of the early colonial era. This alone says a lot about why Africa, especially the central region, continues to be in the state that it's in, and the book itself offers substantially more perspective.

[roundhouse]

ive never been much of a reader.

suggest me some books that make you say "damn im so glad i read this book"

im looking for books that i will read now and in another 10 years time

[lilodxd]

depends what you like, but i will suggest fight club by chuck palaniuk. my favorite book and film of all time.

[bkforever]

depends what you like, but i will suggest fight club by chuck palaniuk. my favorite book and film of all time.

choke by chuck is also good

[NESK]

theres no point reading two palaniuk books. unless you read one the get amnesia, then read another. they are all the same book. read one, itll blow your mind, then move onto a more diverse author.

check these:

fortress of solitude - jonathen letham

cosmopolis - don delillo

glamorama - brett easton ellis

angry black whiteboy - adam mansbauch

[seraphim]

Needle In The Groove or Vurt by Jeff Noon, I actually want to bear his offspring.

although, his stuff has less of an impact on people who're unfamiliar with drug culture, or so I'm told. kind of like A Scanner Darkly, but English.

I'd say Rules of Attraction or Less Than Zero are good places to start with Ellis.

[angrypork]

Not a book but a short story. Google it and I'm sure you'll be able to find it.

To Build A Fire by Jack London

[Dick Danger]

anything you can find on industrial hygiene

[dino might]

its a picture book, but a fucking sweet picture book.

[fg0d]

House of Leaves

[Guest Goose25]

Read Neuromancer by William Gibson and find out who the Matrix really came from

[Charlie Delta]

And anything by Paolo Coelho.

[Brienneoftarth]

The Count Of Monte Christo!!!!!!

[mizanation]

started reading japanese manga. the "lone wolf and cub" series is awesome.

also, reading "the art of war" by sun tsu and finding it very, very good. i read it before when i was younger but i am getting a lot more out of it now.

[Guest Goose25]

I think ordo would agree with me here, read a visionary like Philip K Dick