• LAVA Moderator: Shinji Ikari

Recommended Reading List (RRL)

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^Just started reading ulysses. fuck it's kinda hard to follow. i really have to be in the mood. i'm considering not even bothering anymore...


anyhow check out The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart. AWESOME book.
 
i discovered some time ago that if i have to work at reading something then i am not interested in reading it for pleasure. if that makes me an ignant prole then so be it :D

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"ignant"?

OK, me give serious recommendations:

Anything by David Simon - Homicide or The Corner. Awesome investigative journalism, the stories of a whole year spent (respectively) with the Baltimore Homicide unit and on a Baltimore street corner where drug dealers gather. Simply brilliant. The guy went on to write the TV series Homicide - Life on the Streets and The Wire.
 
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
I know he has already been mentioned in this thread but they didn't list the best book he's written. ;) But seriously, if you like CyberPunk and haven't read this, you can't really call yourself a CyberPunk fan. The actual book moves quickly, keeps the elements of science and intellectual-based plot outlines as is with the laws of Sci-Fi yet achieves the very difficult task of developing characters that the reader cares about. Trust me. It's a good book. ;)

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The Left Hand of Darkness (LHOD) - Ursula K. Le Guin
Mix together the absence of gender, with a mysterious planet bursting with Wintery imagery, moments of intense man vs. nature, and a confusing geo-political war and you get LHOD (sort of). This is by far one of my favorite Science Fiction books because it takes on (and achieves) a perspective rarely presented throughout the Sci-Fi I've read: complete equality between men and women. Even if you're not a feminist, even if you hate feminism it's still strictly sci-fi and completely enjoyable.

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I'll be back for some more...
 
Shimon said:
"ignant"?

sorry, it means 'ignorant'. as in:

/affected generic black american accent

'you ignant, man!'

Dr Seuss..... I looove the Unbearable Lightness of Being.

yeah, i just keep coming back to it. i like it more than most of his other stuff, but i haven't read 'identity' yet.

Ximot, great call on Ben Okri's 'The Famished Road'. i've just started it - my girlfriend loves his work and has everything he's written.

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dr seuss said:
Ximot, great call on Ben Okri's 'The Famished Road'. i've just started it - my girlfriend loves his work and has everything he's written.

I haven't read them all but I wrote about a couple for my degree at university. "Stars of the New Curfew" is a collection of short stories of his that really blew me away, and "Incidents at the Shrine" also has a couple of incredibly powerful stories in it (though perhaps that's because I only read "The Famished Road" afterwards). I love magical realism, and it was through Okri that I discovered it.
 
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