10 Favorite NOVELS?

[Dick Sirloin]

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

Chromatose, change of plans, we're moving in with Nate. Get your milkin' buckets ready.

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

Well... yah!

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

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.

I read Angels & Demons years ago, long before the Dan Brown/DaVinci Code overfluffing came about. Now THAT was as great book, or at least very entertaining.

I forgot to add Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and "Sun Also Rises." I loved both of those many moons ago.

 

[Nate The Great]

An excellent book is:

Why Do Men Have Nipples? Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...102-5586249-2752163?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

 

[snow2fall]

Not my 10 favs, but my Irving top 3:

John Irving - A Prayer For Owen Meany
John Irving - The World According To Garp
John Irving - A Widow For One Year


I love his characters and style full of irony.

 

[Ellestin]

that's another one I have here ... Name of the Rose got lumped into similar reviews with DaVinci Code.

Except where Dan Brown patches together esoteric fuss, Eco actually writes books, and his take on esoterics is allegedly a big joke. I hate this DaVinci Code, sorry

 

[Thanatopsis123]

I'm too lazy to think of 10. Here's two though.

Philip K. Dick - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
William Gibson - Neuromancer

 

[Chromatose]

Thomas Pynchon's appearance on The Simpsons...

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

hahah

oh man, i vaguely remember that

and wow that went so far over my head at the time, it's fuckin out there, man

 

[Mormagil]

John Irving - A Prayer For Owen Meany

Great book, almost mentioned it myself.

Xenia

...

 

[cthulufhtagn]

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

you forgot 4-foot bongs. but yeah, what i can actually do with a hispanic studies degree i may never find out

another excellent, and very forum-appropriate book:
zombie survival guide
read all 200-some pages in uh, one evening if memory serves. it's a fast read.

 

[Conspicuously Absent]

heh. My college is about sodomizing the students with tests and skills exams daily.

Seriously, today we got to learn about 45 commands (not including variants of the command for assorted protocols) surrounding a complex concept. We had a quiz on it 45 minutes after lecture and we have a skills exam tomorow morning.

edit: and thats just my afternoon class

 

[cthulufhtagn]

at least you're learning something relevant

something tells me in my first post-college interview they won't be asking me about the characteristics of regionalism in early-20th century latin american literature

 

[Conspicuously Absent]

true enough.

My job interviews will mostly be about my personality, they know that coming out of BCIT I know my shit backwards, forwards, upsidedown and while being sodomized by a giant blackman named John.

 

[neal]

no one said Shogun by James Clavell yet. read it, jerks. awesome story about how japs are crafty bastards that are always out to fuck everyone else over on their way to the top! they are very polite about it though.

 

[cthulufhtagn]

^i read that book when i was 12. just sayin. still a great book.

 

[Thanatopsis123]

no one said Shogun by James Clavell yet. read it, jerks. awesome story about how japs are crafty bastards that are always out to fuck everyone else over on their way to the top! they are very polite about it though.

I loved Shogun but his book Tai Pan was better.

 

[dorian gray]

@Mormagil: haha, whats so funny about my hometown? you dare mock the city of hospitality?

 

[Mormagil]

In short, yes.

 

[dorian gray]

arent you from urbana or some shit? i seem to remember some kind of ohio connection.

 

[Mormagil]

No, but I did live in Dayton for a little while.

 

[dorian gray]

i knew it was something like that.
dayton rulez.
ehh....not really but theres a cool disc golf park in kettering.