David Kronenbourg
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List ten books day
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Alright, for the day that's in it, here's a list of 10 books that have stayed with me my throughout my life. I wouldn't say this is my definitive top 10 because the list could change on any given day depending on my mood, and there's millions of books that I haven't read yet and that have yet to be written that could end up on there, but here you go:
1. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
2. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
3. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
4. At Swim - Two Birds - Flann O'Brien
5. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
6. Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
7. The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles
8. Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor
9. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
10. Underworld - Don DeLillo
Hmmm, mostly American, mostly dark and weird as hell. He didn't make it on my list but special mention for James Ellroy whose LA Quartet, along with Blue Velvet, kick started my fascination with the dark side of American fiction, and for Denis Johnson who's my favourite writer working today.
I've read the ones in bold, love Blood Meridian, At Swim-Two Birds and Lord of the Flies. Naked Lunch I find to be hugely overrated and Underworld was a snoozefest. I've tried a few times with Burroughs (Soft Machine and have Junky on the shelf) and DeLillo (about 3-4 books) and think they're just not for me. Largely superficial pretension in both cases. The only DeLillo I kind of liked was the 9/11 one (Falling Man?) which everyone else seems to hate.1. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
2. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
3. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
4. At Swim - Two Birds - Flann O'Brien
5. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
6. Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
7. The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles
8. Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor
9. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
10. Underworld - Don DeLillo
Eisenberg's New Yorker pieces are excruciatingly bad.
Actors writing novels and the like, has anyone read any of the Jesse Eisenberg or Ethan Hawke (or James Franco for that matter) books?
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Eisenberg's New Yorker pieces are excruciatingly bad.
COMEDY.Read part of the mermaid one, is there a point to these things I'm missing? Dreadful stuff.
you, i supposeI sort of feel there's probably someone more worthy of this award.
I've written a book about gamergate told from the perspective of the games themselves.you, i suppose
#generationEntitlement
I thought it was the onion for a bit then realised it was serious.Good grief that's depressing
What would a woman know about things that she could express in written words?I know men like this. Not the book club bit, but the fact that they never read female writers. Wouldn't even dawn on them to do so.
A workmate once picked up a Margaret Atwood book I was reading. The conversation went something like this.
Him: I've never read a book by a female writer
Me: What? Never? Really? Why not?
Him: Ahgh... wouldn't be into it.
Me: What? Why not?
Him: Ahgh, ye know yourself
Me:???!!!
same! i really only read on public transport these days : (I find it increasingly difficult to sit and read a book without getting distracted. Need to work on that.
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