adolescentasimba
Bluelighter
Choke - by Chuck Palahniuk
anything by Kurt Vonnegut
anything by Kurt Vonnegut
Originally posted by Dagny:
--the Dark Tower series, by Stephen King
Ohh I forgot about this... do you know when the next book comes out?
Naseau by Jean-Paul Sartre....for all those with existential yearnings out there........
Well yes, but it's actually Nausea. Good call though, but not as good a read as his Roads to Freedom trilogy: The Age Of Reason, The Reprieve and Iron In The Soul. Philosophy, history, genius.
By way of contrast, some of the greatest short stories ever written can be found in the collection published as Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges. Trippier than LSD!
Originally posted by alasdairm:
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
i'm a big fan of iain banks. few of my US friends have heard of him - does anybody here know his work? not really a fan of his alter ego iain m. banks.
my favourite book of all is 'The Bridge'.
alasdair
Oh god yes. That's Iain's best IMHO though Walking on Glass and Complicity are good too. But TWF has some of the darkest of dark humour in it. There is one moment in the book that truly freaked me out - the scene with the brother and the baby at the hospital (no spoiler sorry). If you've read it, you know the scene. Very unsettling. And the ending is well worth the wait.
Also Mario Puzo - The Godfather. There's a ton of stuff not in the movies. Brilliant.