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[Jim Daniels]

Hello,

I've recently given up on the drug of the nation and have been reading a lot instead.
Authors I like include Paul Auster, Douglas Coupland, Haruki Murakami.

I just finished Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones which was heartbreaking but truly beautiful too.

Any recommendations for other books.
A similar thread last year introduced me to Mr Murakami ( for which I am eternally grateful)

Ta
JC

 

[madouva]

Hanif Kureishi.
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[Latex lizzie]

..the buddah of suburbia.by the afore mentioned
..shampoo planet.douglas copeland
..anything by henry miller.
..anything by douglas adams.
45 by bill drummond.
bad wisdom by bill drummond.
..anything by primo levi.

..that'l learn ya.

 

[Knacker]

The Bible... it's popular

At Swim-Two-Birds is essential reading. As is Catch 22. But they're really obvious. But then again, I'm not one for readin' or thinkin' or nuttin'

 

[silo]

"wedding cakes and cultural history" by simon charsley. great nutbag sociology buke. got it for 2 europes in connolly books, the commie bookshop. herv has first dibs on it after i've finished it though.

bizarrely, amazon are doing it for fifty seven pounds fifty.

 

[silo]

oh yeah, the link.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos...98815&tag=thumpedcom0e-21?tag=thumpedcom0e-21

 

[Jim Daniels]

Looking good......thanks

 

[snap-apple]

Originally posted by Knacker
The Bible... it's popular

At Swim-Two-Birds is essential reading. As is Catch 22. But they're really obvious. But then again, I'm not one for readin' or thinkin' or nuttin'

catch22 is funnneeee in an oddball sorta way. a confederacy of dunces by john kennedy o'toole also ahilarious but more straight forward. the master and margarita by bulgakov is good as is one hundered years of solitude by gabriel garcia marquez - both good magic realism type stuff. but again maybe these are really obvious. i've read some murakami (wild sheep chase) and copeland (girlfriend in a coma) but our coraline is more of an expert in that sort of stuff. you'd prolly really like anything by graham greene. if you wanna risk some sensible sci-fi iain m banks is your man. player of games and look to windward are particular favourites. he doesn't get lost in the techie side of things as often as most sci-fi writers.

 

[the66electric]

The BFG

All you need to know about life, death, love, loss and fear in one book.

 

[minka]

did i enthuse about rohinton mistry in the last thumped bookstravaganza?

even if i did, let me enthuse some more. he has written three novels and a book of short stories, all set in india, and all absolutely brilliant. "family matters" is the most recent one, but i liked "a fine balance" best.

 

[steve albino]

Levi, yeah...especially "other people's trades"
Gabriel Garcia Màrquez "Love in the time of Cholera"
Umberto Eco "Foucault's Pendulum"
Ian McEwan "The Cement Garden", "beneath the Sheets"
Kurt Vonnegut - anything
Phillip K Dick - anything

books rock yer ma like a good thing....

 

[nlgbbbblth]

just finished Paul Auster's Tales of American Life
Grand book

 

[MDR]

any short John Steinbeck Book; the Sportswriter by Richard Ford; One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey; factotum by Charles Buckowski; the Shipping News by Annie proulx.

I am going on holiday in April and Plan to bring a couple of earnest hemmingway books with me.

I have read hardly anything for the past 3months coz I am absolutely exhausted, but there's tons of stuff I'd like to find out about.

 

[eclectichoney]

100 years of solitude...although it was ages ago i read it
the secret history - donna tartt
the whole paul auster back catalogue (i read 4 of his books in a week)
catch 22
steppenwolf - hermann hesse
bonfire of the vanities - tom wolfe
underworld - don delillo

 

[spiritualtramp]

ben okri is an amazing writer from nigeria.
he won the booker prize for "the famished road".
I advise you to read everything by him.

 

[binky]

dee not john

knut hamsun: 'mysteries'
hermann hesse: 'the glass bead game' (slow starter but well-worth it)
someone mentioned philip k. dick .... go directly to 'valis' and feel yr brain melting
carson mc cullers: 'the heart is a lonely hunter'
benjamin hoff: 'the tao of pooh'
franz kafka: anything
vonnegut
lovecraft
camus
blah
etc...

 

[Anthony]

The Dirt by Motley Crue


seriously, like. It's amazing.

 

[eclectichoney]

Re: dee not john

Originally posted by binky
knut hamsun: 'mysteries'
hermann hesse: 'the glass bead game' (slow starter but well-worth it)
someone mentioned philip k. dick .... go directly to 'valis' and feel yr brain melting
carson mc cullers: 'the heart is a lonely hunter'
benjamin hoff: 'the tao of pooh'
franz kafka: anything
vonnegut
lovecraft
camus
blah
etc...

i just finished reading hamsun's hunger about 2 weeks ago. highly recommended.

and my franz kafka obsession has been embodied in my current 'band' name.

 

[Rimbaud]

Recommendations?
Gogols - Dead Souls
Hunter S. Thompson - Rum Diary/Fear & loathing
Burroughs - Junky
Kinski - Uncut bio.
Octve Mirbeau - Torture Gardem
Milan Kundera - Unbearable Ligtness of being
A. Rimbaud - A Season In Hell

 

[Knacker]

Oh! Damon Runyan.... well worth it.... all about gangsters in 20's and 30's New York