Hailie
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I assume most have read Welsh, but to those who have limited themselves to Trainspotting, here are some other of his great books :
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Books you think everyone should read before they die...
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Pander Bear
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4 books by the same author... and its welsh? 8)
Stranger in a Strange Land- Robert A. Heinlein
Breakfast of Champions- Kurt Vonnegut
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest- Ken Kesey
Forests of the Heart- Charles de Lint
Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Bill The Galactic Hero- Harry Harrison
Better than Sex- Hunter S. Thompson
Chronicles of the Black Company- Glen Cook
Fight Club- Chuck Palahniuk
Behold the Man- Michael Moorcock
Breakfast of Champions- Kurt Vonnegut
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest- Ken Kesey
Forests of the Heart- Charles de Lint
Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Bill The Galactic Hero- Harry Harrison
Better than Sex- Hunter S. Thompson
Chronicles of the Black Company- Glen Cook
Fight Club- Chuck Palahniuk
Behold the Man- Michael Moorcock
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Infinite Jest
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And none of them is Maribou Stork Nightmares?
Honestly, if I had four hours to live, and a copy of Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs and nothing else to do, I think I'd either meditate, or try to hasten my death by eating the book. I sure as hell wouldn't read it (and I like most of his stuff).
Pander Bear
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mariacallas
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Heuristic
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Hmmm... pretty tall order.
Moby-Dick. Greatest novel in existence.
Huckleberry Finn. Second greatest novel in existence.
The Border Trilogy, Cormac McCarthy
Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin
Shakespeare. All of it.
Nothing by Henry James (that's not the title of a novel).
Agents of Innocence, David Ignatius (a light read)
A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway
The Gate, Bizot (remarkable autobiographical account of a Frenchman in Cambodia as the Khmer took power)
Nothing by any existentialist, with the exception of The Brothers Karamazov (the third greatest novel in existence).
Essence of Decision, Graham Allison (analysis of Cuban Missile Crisis, but a great general and fascinating introduction to political analysis)
Principles of Neural Science, Kandel et al
On Liberty, JS Mill
Theory of Justice, John Rawls
Anything by Gordon Wood or Bernard Baylin.
In Retrospect, Robert McNamara
The Sweet Science, A.J. Liebling
Strategy, B.H. Liddell Hart
Blindness, Saramago
At least one introductory textbook each on macroeconomics and microeconomics
I should stop... I guess perhaps some of Richard Rorty's papers, though I forget the titles at the moment.
Moby-Dick. Greatest novel in existence.
Huckleberry Finn. Second greatest novel in existence.
The Border Trilogy, Cormac McCarthy
Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin
Shakespeare. All of it.
Nothing by Henry James (that's not the title of a novel).
Agents of Innocence, David Ignatius (a light read)
A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway
The Gate, Bizot (remarkable autobiographical account of a Frenchman in Cambodia as the Khmer took power)
Nothing by any existentialist, with the exception of The Brothers Karamazov (the third greatest novel in existence).
Essence of Decision, Graham Allison (analysis of Cuban Missile Crisis, but a great general and fascinating introduction to political analysis)
Principles of Neural Science, Kandel et al
On Liberty, JS Mill
Theory of Justice, John Rawls
Anything by Gordon Wood or Bernard Baylin.
In Retrospect, Robert McNamara
The Sweet Science, A.J. Liebling
Strategy, B.H. Liddell Hart
Blindness, Saramago
At least one introductory textbook each on macroeconomics and microeconomics
I should stop... I guess perhaps some of Richard Rorty's papers, though I forget the titles at the moment.
An Iz
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I've been a huge reader my whole life, I mean theres like 13 books in this thread I haven't read.
In my professional opinion, a book that everyone should read before they die does not exist.
In my professional opinion, a book that everyone should read before they die does not exist.
Jamshyd
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^ For you, I recommend...
Coming to Terms with Your Mania by Seeyour Doctornow.
8).
Coming to Terms with Your Mania by Seeyour Doctornow.
8).
Jamshyd
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Btw I must recommend my newest favourite book, something I think every social-scientist has to read...
A History/Geography double-threat delight :D.
A History/Geography double-threat delight :D.
ebola?
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jamshyd said:
Omigod, you're deliciously horrible.
ebola
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The Miraculous Journey Of Edward Tullane- A children's book about our capacity to love. Fucking brilliant
GIG- A book of typed out interviews of American people talking about their jobs; everything from drug dealers to CEO's
A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a boy soldier in Africa
A Clockwork Orange- Classic...durrr
Saying Yes, In Defense of Drug Use- The book that people should use to school their friends. Up to date drug statistics, facts, studies, as well as histories of drug use, great arguments for legalization, etc.
Nickel ans Dimed- Great boo about the working poor in America
The Game: Penetrating The Secret Society of Pick Up Artists- Very interesting book about the psychology of sex, romance, and pick up (in the form of a memoir, but you actually learn a lot)
GIG- A book of typed out interviews of American people talking about their jobs; everything from drug dealers to CEO's
A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a boy soldier in Africa
A Clockwork Orange- Classic...durrr
Saying Yes, In Defense of Drug Use- The book that people should use to school their friends. Up to date drug statistics, facts, studies, as well as histories of drug use, great arguments for legalization, etc.
Nickel ans Dimed- Great boo about the working poor in America
The Game: Penetrating The Secret Society of Pick Up Artists- Very interesting book about the psychology of sex, romance, and pick up (in the form of a memoir, but you actually learn a lot)
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Mr. God, This is Anna - By Fynn
The innocence and brilliance of children, priceless.
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Favorite book evar! I named my daughter Cosette.
Beautiful Joe - Margaret Saunders
Wonderful story about animal cruelty...
The innocence and brilliance of children, priceless.
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Favorite book evar! I named my daughter Cosette.
Beautiful Joe - Margaret Saunders
Wonderful story about animal cruelty...
mrs_mia_wallace
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Novels & Short Fiction:
The Sun Also Rises- Ernest Hemingway
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway- Ernest Hemingway
As I Lay Dying- William Faulkner
The Sound & The Fury- William Faulkner
Trainspotting- Irvine Welsh
The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful & Damned- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nine Stories- JD Salinger
Requiem For A Dream- Hubert Selby Jr.
Last Exit To Brooklyn- Hubert Selby Jr.
Poetry:
anything by Ezra Pound
anything by Gertrude Stein
Plays:
Arcadia- Tom Stoppard
August: Osage County- Tracy Letts
Equus- Peter Shaffer
Red Light Winter- Adam Rapp
The Crucible- Arthur Miller
The Seagull- Anton Chekhov
Zoo Story, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?- Edward Albee
Closer- Patrick Marber
& anything at all, really, by Tennessee Williams, Paula Vogel, Neil Labute, & David Mamet...
The Sun Also Rises- Ernest Hemingway
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway- Ernest Hemingway
As I Lay Dying- William Faulkner
The Sound & The Fury- William Faulkner
Trainspotting- Irvine Welsh
The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful & Damned- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nine Stories- JD Salinger
Requiem For A Dream- Hubert Selby Jr.
Last Exit To Brooklyn- Hubert Selby Jr.
Poetry:
anything by Ezra Pound
anything by Gertrude Stein
Plays:
Arcadia- Tom Stoppard
August: Osage County- Tracy Letts
Equus- Peter Shaffer
Red Light Winter- Adam Rapp
The Crucible- Arthur Miller
The Seagull- Anton Chekhov
Zoo Story, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?- Edward Albee
Closer- Patrick Marber
& anything at all, really, by Tennessee Williams, Paula Vogel, Neil Labute, & David Mamet...
spork
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Moving to Words.
artaxerxes
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The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macauley. Just stunning, but you have to have a bit of tolerance for Evelyn Waugh style wit. Sometimes that too-clever, too-educated English style can put people off.
Nevertheless, this book has camels in England, crazy Anglicans "Crashing the Curtain" (sneaking into the USSR during the Cold War.), Islamic/Western relations, very masterful, ambiguous treatment of gender, and psychedelic potions from an old medicine man in Anatolia. The psychedelic potions are the only medicine of the protagonist while she's deep in fever. She's blessed with repeated visions of The Byzantine Empire at its height: with performing kangaroos, slinky dancers, glitter and jewels, smoky visions of elephants and the slave boys who control them...
It's also a deeply moving drama that treats with the dynamics of adultery and love. Highly recommended. NYRB re-released it a few years ago. So beautiful. Please read it.
Nevertheless, this book has camels in England, crazy Anglicans "Crashing the Curtain" (sneaking into the USSR during the Cold War.), Islamic/Western relations, very masterful, ambiguous treatment of gender, and psychedelic potions from an old medicine man in Anatolia. The psychedelic potions are the only medicine of the protagonist while she's deep in fever. She's blessed with repeated visions of The Byzantine Empire at its height: with performing kangaroos, slinky dancers, glitter and jewels, smoky visions of elephants and the slave boys who control them...
It's also a deeply moving drama that treats with the dynamics of adultery and love. Highly recommended. NYRB re-released it a few years ago. So beautiful. Please read it.
L O V E L I F E
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"How To NEVER Die" by LOVELIFE.
AmorRoark
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^ lol