books to read

[smokecrack]

Just finished

this just came out this year, right? the last Daniel Clowes i read was this



The Death Ray. it was so enjoyable. how's Wilson?

[Smell Good]

Wilson can make you laugh and feel depressed.

A good read. It's more a collection of self-contained vignettes, but they're laid out sequentially so there's a bigger picture/story.

[Mackattack]

Just finished

From the art and reviews i read, this seems to be right up my alley. Ordered that hoe.

[FrenchFriedClownFingers]

Anything H.P. Lovecraft, William Burroughs, Ken Kesey, Clive Barker. On a random note, Marilyn Manson's autobiography was cool. It really allows you to see that he exaggerated  a lot of shit in his life, or just over complicated shit. You expect him to of had a fucked up life but in reality it was just a weird childhood combined with evangelist christian beliefs forced upon him in school, which he rejected by the only way he knew how,  forming a homo erotic super group of dopefiends.

Ray bradburys something wicked this way comes is tight.

[acider]

just ordered these two on amazon:



im sure half of american's interested in books are reading this right now, but whatever the review in the economist sold it for me and i am psyched on it.  seeing him on the cover of time kind of bummed me out though



i was kind of weary of buying a book written by a gang member cause most of the ones ive seen rely more on how shocking gang life is rather than skillful prose or interesting insight.  however, i read some of this on the google books preview and needed it right away.  he is an excellent story teller and makes some interesting comparisons between gang wars and actual wars, but ill admit that being comletely detached from what he is talking about is one of the main reasons i am so interested in the stories.

[Tom Bombadil]

Although I haven't perused this entire thread, I would assume Kurt Vonnegut's  Slaughterhouse Five has been recommended, and if it has so indeed, I re-recommend it. Brilliant little novel. Absolutely hilarious, absurd, and not to mention thought-provoking. And don't forget to read Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. Although it's hard to catch all his zings in Middle English, they are abundant nonetheless.

[Smell Good]

I'll just read this fine piece of late 19th century realist literature on that grassy patch by the tree over there in my wool cardigan while maintaining a look of detachment. Watch in awe gentlemen as the fine females of the French Literature department come crawling over to bandy for my attention and perhaps the opportunity to suckle on my cock.

My intellectual pursuits has paid off well.


PS

This chocolate milk makes me really gassy. Been farting for hours now.

[Smell Good]

I plan on reading all of Dashiell Hammet's novels sequentially.

[David]

[Mackattack]

Women by Bukowski and Tropic of Cancer by Miller

I lent my copy of Women to my friend and he went and lost it

[3.14]

[Hobochilli]

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Women by Bukowski and Tropic of Cancer by Miller

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I lent my copy of Women to my friend and he went and lost it

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That is a damn shame.  that book is excellent.

It sure is, i am on my 4th copy now, i always keeps giving em away.
I enjoy most of Bukowskis books thought

[Hobochilli]

i did that once, my ex was on this site, you could leave a book at some place and then put it on the site and others who would want the book could go there and get it, i left a Bukowskibook out once.
Cant remember the website for my life unfortunally

[Hobochilli]

yes, it?s universal.
Last time i was on there was 2005 so i dont know if its still there.
I?ll PM you if i remember the name of it

[VictoriousOG]

I got the book "All The Pretty Horses".

[brent]

funny

[camel filters]

Women by Bukowski and Tropic of Cancer by Miller

this book gave me countless boners.

[StabMasterArson]

I just finished "breakfast of champions" and I bought "helter skelter" at an estate sale last week for a dollar, I'll read that next.

[Inanimate Object]

Just finished:


About 2/3 through:



About to start:

[David]

The Sound and The Fury is one of my favorites.

[mcpeepants]

I'm about 2/3's of the way thru it and I'm enjoying it so far. I like that the main character is a smartass, because he reminds me a lot of myself.

[Smell Good]

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I plan on reading all of Dashiell Hammet's novels sequentially.

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tell me more!  this looks awesome!

Whoa dude, you've never read Hammett? That's like a rite of passage for all humans with a Y-chromosome. If you like slow talking, chain smoking and hard drinking tough guys, dangerous dames and light gun play, this is it. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler are the godfathers of this kind of detective fiction. Granted, I've read more of Chandler's stuff than Hammett's.

[smokecrack]

went to the library today (haven't gone in months) and found some keepers. couldn't find any burroughs or crowley, but i did get





picked up these graphic novels too













i really like that it's getting colder in california. i love to read when it's all chilly & shit. get some cocoa/coffee, smoke some trees and crack open a book. i'm psyched

[mcpeepants]

I'm about 2/3's of the way thru it and I'm enjoying it so far. I like that the main character is a smartass, because he reminds me a lot of myself.

Couldn't sleep tonight so I finished the book. Definitely one of my new favorites.

[Inbred Jed]

I recently read Factotum and by the end was bored. I really like Ham on Rye. Factotum was just more of the same. Then, I read Junkie by William Burroughs which was even worse. What a dull ass dude.

[sven thorkel]

don't read the soft machine. it's the biggest waste of time

[crunk juice]

I recently read Factotum and by the end was bored. I really like Ham on Rye. Factotum was just more of the same. Then, I read Junkie by William Burroughs which was even worse. What a dull ass dude.

ham on rye is by far his best novel.  i liked factotum but it's a lot like ham on rye.  i read women, hollywood, and post office in between, so by the time i got to factotum i wanted more ham on ryeness.  try post office.  william burroughs is a weirdo.

[kilgore.]

burroughs is the fucking man.

[Nosferatu]

don't read the soft machine. it's the biggest waste of time

I've never really "got" his cut up narrative stuff.  I can never remember who's who or whether I'm supposed to or what the hell's going on.  But I do remember enjoying The Soft Machine just for the images and page by page even though I didn't get any bigger picture or probably even finish it.

I'm reading Don Quixote for a class and it's great. 

I probably already recommended this but seriously dudes, Sometimes A Great Notion is the shit.  I dare you not to love it.

[VictoriousOG]

Just reached Part II of this. Cormac McCarthy writes so damn good.