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Good novel suggestions?

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Has anybody got any ideas about what a good novel to read would be?

I want something modern, an interesting read with not too much unnecessary talk in it.

Something a bluelighter would enjoy.
 
Dont know what your into, this is a fun one though...

The Legend of Altazar: A Fragment of the True History of Planet Earth
By: Hermit of the Crystal Mountain [Solara]
amazon link

Kinda on the metaphysical side of things, very good read IMO.
 
I last read Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas and Diary - A Novel by chuck Palahnuk (the author of Fight Club)

The Gonzo style of writing seems to be interesting. Reminds me of how I used to write back when I was younger.
 
I just finished reading this book I borrowed from a friend:
Glass, Paper, Beans : Revelations on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things
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This is one of those books that resonates with me yearsafter having read it. The book's starting point is the author sitting in a cafe drinking coffee in a glass mug, reading a paper. She realizes that she has no idea where the stuff she is surrounded by comes from. This book answers the question in the beautiful prose I have come to expect from this gifted writer. The story of each item is told from historic and personal viewpoints. This is an essential book!
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Very very good book I am going to buy my own copy now. =D
 
Ximot said:
Chuck Palahniuk - "Lullaby".

Just amazing.
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I love Chuck Palahniuk. Fugitives and Refugees made me want to go to Portland, Oregon. He even has a trip report in it, where he notes well that acid and lisurgic acid diethylamide are the same thing. :D
 
The Rules of Attraction - Bret Easton Ellis

I really enjoyed this one, it's told through the eyes of several different characters, but the less I say about the better. It's heavy on the sex, drugs and University. How can you go wrong?
 
some great suggestions here. i've read both perfume and the rules of attraction and they're both excellent books.

from elsewhere:

my favourite book of all time was 'the bridge' by iain banks until i discovered 'and the ass saw the angel' by nick cave (yes, that nick cave).

if you want a truly beautiful read, try 'written on the body' by jeanette winterson.

if you are looking for something a little off the wall, read 'only forward' by michael m. smith

'carter beats the devil' is simply brilliant.

have you read 'the alchemist' by paulo coelho? it's a short but very inspiring read.

alasdair
 
^I thoroughly enjoyed The Alchemist. I'd recommend Life of Pi by Yann Martel as a great companion to the aforementioned novel.
 
have you read 'the alchemist' by paulo coelho? it's a short but very inspiring read.
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I love the Alchemist, its the very first Coehlo book I owned. I also love Veronika decides to Die and By the River Piedra I sat down and Wept.
I also want to recommend Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in a Time of Cholera and 100 Years of Solitude ......both excellent novels well worth your time and pleasure (his is the sort of prose you want to reread over and over again).
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If you want a drug novel that you will not forget anytime soon I recommend Candy by Luke Davies....purportedly fiction but we all know better than that. I've read my copy more than ten times, it never gets old .
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It's not quite a novel, but I'm certain it will win the hearts of most 'bluelight' types. Short-attention spanners take note: this shit is hilarious, and you can read it on the john!

The golden calf of pretentious, "postmodern" leaning creative writing students the world over ... Donald Barthelme!

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(Sixty Stories)
 
A thousand little peices - James Frey

Its been on oprahs book list.. Am reading it at the moment, its about a 23 year old guy who gets himself pretty fucked up on drugs and gets checked into rehab.
Interesing reading and not too hard to understand, its not for the faint harted tho
 
atlas said:
... Thats awfully broad. I'll just go ahead and reccomend some Philip. K Dick, because he's inventive, interesting, and accessable.

Try VALIS, or The Man in the High Castle.
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I'd go for something even more accessible and say A Scanner Darkly. It's basically like the 60s California drug scene (lots of amphetamines and acid) projected into the future. So there are some sci-fi elements, but it's based firmly on reality. PKD doesn't go in for heavy dialogue, so it should be quite easy to read.

But really, if you want recommendations, it would help if you tell us a bit more about what you like :)

I mean, "something a Bluelighter would like"? There's an awful lot of us. Some with advanced English Lit degrees. At least two of us loved 'Infinite Jest' so much that we took our usernames from it (it's an 1100 page novel that doesn't actually have an ending, or make much sense). Our tastes vary so much, it would help to know more about what you like :)
 
Just rented out Fight Club(the novel), everybody is talking about the movie, I havn't seen it yet so i'm deciding that it would be good to start off reading the novel first then the video.
 
Ｎｏｔ　another one of these threads....;) I would recom,mend you read anything my Salman Rushdie, or the Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver , or any old school shit by Franz Kafka, Camu,s , Umberto Ecco or seriously read `And the ass saw the angel` by Nick Cave....awepsoome
 
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