ITT great books are recommended

[inkybmistro]

 

[minxnim]

"journey to the end of the night" by l.f. celine

 

[avi]

I am reading nothing but "how to" books lately, almost all concerning starting a business, being an entrepreneur, etc.

 

[xfer]

blah blah vladimir nabokov blah blah

 

[inkybmistro]

let's hear the bla bla...

 

[deadair]

"phantasties" - by gorge macdonald.

 

[xfer]

i've recommended them here so much i don't want to sound like a broken unoriginal record!

"pale fire", "lolita", "pnin", "invitation to a beheading", "glory", in that order. all the rest too!

 

[inkybmistro]

i've never heard you talk about him on this forum...
but awesome.
and hey - come to think of it, i think pale fire is the book i saw firedwarf reading the other day? so i assume you recommended it.

 

[xfer]

haha yeah i did!

also read dostoevsky (brothers karamazov, idiot, crime and punishment) if you haven't, and gogol's dead souls.

russell hoban's "riddley walker", heh

i really liked michael chabon's "amazing adventures of kavalier and clay" although i'm assuming its popularity means that everyone else on the internet hates it. it's very very readable, though.

walker percy books..."the moviegoer", "the thanatos syndrome"

umberto eco's "foucault's pendulum"

neal stephenson's "snow crash" and "cryptonomicon"

etc!

 

[FalseTodd]

fuck snow crash ;P

I just finished "There Are No Electrons" by Kenn Amdahl, which is an entertaining beginning electronics book.

 

[Josh Seipp]

awesome fantasy:

neil gaiman's American Gods and Neverwhere

 

[inkybmistro]

i'll mark this thread and come back to it whenever i need a new book. i'm looking into nabokov ay-sap.

 

[deadair]

josh, you should check out that book i listed up there... i think you would love it.

 

[0sm0se]

If you're looking for lighter reading and are a fantasy dork, might I recommend the canon of David Eddings? Beginning with the Pawn of Prophecy?

 

[gekko]

For Fantasy just can't beat Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time Series, another of my favorites is Elizabeth Haydon's Symphony of Ages beginning with Rhapsody

Amazing Memoir: The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz

 

[Firedwarf]

Hey Osmose/Gekko, have either of you read George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series? It's my favorite.

 

[Reanna]

Books by Poppy Z. Brite
Drawing Blood
Lost Souls
Exquisite Corpse
The Lazarus Heart
Liquor

A book by Aldous Huxley
Brave New World

Books by Neil Gaiman
Neverwhere
Stardust


F. Scott Fitzgerald "The Great Gatsby"

The 'Anita Blake' Series by Laurell K. Hamilton
1. Laughing Corpse
2.Guilty Pleasures
3. Lunatic Cafe
4. Circus of the Damned
5. Bloody Bones
6. Killing Dance
7. Blue Moon
8. Burnt Offerings
9. Obsidian Butterfly
10. Narcissus in Chains
11. Cerulean Sins
(i still havent read the new one)

The 'Sword of Truth' Series by Terry Goodkind
1. Wizard's First Rule
2. Stone of Tears
3. Blood of the Fold
4. Temple of the Winds
5. Soul of the Fire
6. Faith of the Fallen
7. Pillars of Creation
8. Naked Empire
(i still haven't read 7 and 8)

Any book in the ''In Death" series by JD Robb

 

[gekko]

Reanna: don't bother reading 7 and 8, I was a big fan of that series but the most recent two suck major ass

 

[The Dope]

William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" you bitchez.

 

[TrevJ]

I'm only around 200 pages into it at this point, but Hofstadter's "Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" has been really interesting, and pretty educational to boot.