10 Favorite NOVELS?

[Nate The Great]

If I would have know Dick Sirloin was BWD, I would have posted here a long time ago. Are you still majoring in English, Dick.

I really can't put together a list of my top 10. In college I was really into Hemingway and a bunch of that type of stuff that they teach you in classes. But now I pretty much read whatever I feel like. I read Dan Simmons a while ago. I read some non-fiction stuff. I mostly just look for something that interests me. But I just can't stand bad writing. I started reading The Historian a while ago (based on all kinds of good press), and I about VOMITED. That author SUCKS!

Anyway . . .

I like character based novels.

 

[lizard]

yes...I just enjoy good stories. Sometimes someone is not a good writer, but a good storyteller. And sometimes someone can be both, or neither.

on the nonfiction side I'm still a sucker for WWII eastern front stuff, archaeology, diving, etc.

 

[dorian gray]

i dont know how you guys can have the wherewithall to even pick up a book, much less read it. apparently, unlike myself, you are maintaining your intelligence.
a good quote from my brother when he was my age: "i used to be pretty smart but now i pick up a book i read, in say, kindergarten, and im like, 'uuhhhhh....' "
maybe it's genetic.

 

[Dick Sirloin]

If I would have know Dick Sirloin was BWD, I would have posted here a long time ago. Are you still majoring in English, Dick.

Absolutely, hombre. And tack on a creative writing minor!

And no, I don't ever plan on getting a job...

 

[dorian gray]

And no, I don't ever plan on getting a job...

haha. shit! my friend has a MASTERS in english and ended up working in a bookstore for a whole three months before she started having babies. now her husband is stuck with the school loans of a very expensive school. haha, i think thats shitty.
bookstore for fucks sake.

 

[Dick Sirloin]

I'll just have to write the defining masterpiece of the 21st century...


or just whore myself and write crappy suspense novels...

 

[lizard]

my grandfather graduated from the Colorado School of Mines and then became a stockbroker.

my dad went to Harvard, got a degree in Psychology, and then joined the army for 26 years, before getting his masters and then JD.

I have a poli sci degree from UNH and work for the Dept of Defense.

it's like a family tradition!!

 

[Dick Sirloin]

And I'll have an english degree and sit around in a doublewide eating Beenie Weenies.

 

[Chromatose]

awesome, can I visit?

 

[dorian gray]

my wifes whole family went to and taught at harvard, MIT, and other high-brow schools. i am a Xenia redneck who commuted to wright state. i fit right in.

 

[Dick Sirloin]

CHROMATOSE: Sure. And we'll eat some shrooms and read passages from FW. Naked.

 

[Chromatose]

and the reason I'm getting a culinary arts degree is so that in our post-apocalyptic future I'll have a good idea of what parts of the radioactive mutant horses to prepare in a most tasty way

 

[lizard]

dude, you can always write hard boiled detective novels like Dan Simmons does when he's not turning out landmark scifi fantasy stuff like Hyperion.

 

[Chromatose]

Naked.

I'm so there

 

[Dick Sirloin]

That's so po-mo...

 

[Dick Sirloin]

Thomas Pynchon's appearance on The Simpsons...

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/TRP_simpsons.html

 

[Dick Sirloin]

dude, you can always write hard boiled detective novels like Dan Simmons does when he's not turning out landmark scifi fantasy stuff like Hyperion.

Huhhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhhuhhhuhhhuhuhuhuhuh....


"nails".

 

[dorian gray]

Dan Brown.
on a cross-atlantic flight my wife read the davinci code. i remeber her saying each chapter got progressively worse.
we land back in the states and all i hear is, "man, you GOTTA read the davinci code. it based on TRUFTH!" man, Americans can grate on you after awhile.

 

[Chromatose]

That's so po-mo...

we're a silver gleaming death machine

 

[Nate The Great]

I have a degree in Creative Writing, and I'm a farmer.

College is about women, beer, and women drunk on beer.