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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    soulsinging wrote:
    someone mentioned 'confederacy of dunces.' i have to say, i really wanted to like that book, but just found it annoying. maybe i need to re-read it. i just found it absurd, and not in the good way like joseph heller... in the slapstick way like adam sandler.

    I read it last year and liked it, but not as much as most people seem to. I did find the main character to be annoying for the majority of the book.
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • BinFrog
    BinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    Wilds wrote:
    Try American Gods: A Novel by Neil Gaiman


    One of my favorites.

    "Neverwhere" was even better.
    Bright eyed kid: "Wow Typo Man, you're the best!"
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  • Enkidu
    Enkidu So Cal Posts: 2,996
    I just finished Duma Key. Loads of fun and scary as hell if you're in the mood for that.

    Or The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland.
  • PJ_Saluki
    PJ_Saluki Posts: 1,006
    If you're looking for some light fiction with snappy dialogue, anything by Elmore Leonard is a great choice.

    For something more substantial, try "The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power" by Daniel Yergin. It's a very readable history of oil in the U.S. and the world.
    "Almost all those politicians took money from Enron, and there they are holding hearings. That's like O.J. Simpson getting in the Rae Carruth jury pool." -- Charles Barkley
  • mole1985
    mole1985 Posts: 1,119
    The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Its the same author who wrote 'No Country for Old Men'. I came upon this by accident but the reviews were not your usual 'must read'. Only half way through but it is VERY powerful. It's aldo being made into a movie this year. Here's some reviews on a handy website

    http://www.metacritic.com/books/authors/mccarthycormac/road?q=the%20road
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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    PJ_Saluki wrote:
    If you're looking for some light fiction with snappy dialogue, anything by Elmore Leonard is a great choice.

    For something more substantial, try "The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power" by Daniel Yergin. It's a very readable history of oil in the U.S. and the world.

    i've only read one elmore leonard novel. i tend more to the hard-boiled end of the spectrum. chandler, hammett. i was kinda disappointed by dennis lehane's first novel, but it's kinda in the same vein as leonard, only not as smooth.
  • QuarterToTen
    QuarterToTen Cincinnati, Ohio Posts: 3,652
    anything by Chuck Klosterman.
    Nice shirt.
  • inmyrvm
    inmyrvm Posts: 1,058
    Collin wrote:
    Rant - Chuck Palahniuk
    get his new one when it comes out. it's about a gangbang.
    "Fuck the talkin' let's start rockin" - Eddie Vedder 9-5-00 Pittsburgh
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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    NuclearTreeFrog wrote:
    what should I get

    Luke Rhinehardt - 'The Dice Man'
  • NYbenben
    NYbenben Posts: 1,020
    Indifference wrote:
    If you want some great laughs:

    http://www.amazon.com/Hope-They-Serve-Beer-Hell/dp/0806527285

    If your PC sensitive stay away - far away.


    this book is absolutly AMAZING... some of the funniest and raunchiest shit you'll ever read (besides Penthouse Letters)... it is like a Harliquen Romance Novel... for MEN!
    4/12/92, 8/11/92, 9/28/96, 9/11/98, 8/23/00, 8/24/00, 7/9/03, 4/30/03, 10/1/04, 10/3/05, 12/9/05, 5/12/06, 5/17/06, 5/28/06, 6/3/06, 12/9/06, EV LA 4/12-4/13/08, 6/12/08, 6,19,08, 6,20,08, 6/24/08, 6/25/08, 7/1/08

    and still jonesing for another show....
    "the waiting drove me mad..."
  • the wolf
    the wolf Posts: 7,027
    bedface cooper. wrote:
    because both of them have already been mentioned - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's "Good Omens". I love to read that one over and over again :D
    Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere" is a good read as well.
    can't think of a lot more now, I also adore Poppy Z Brite's way of writing, but then I don't know if you like "that kinda stuff".

    Poppy Z. is one of my favs. Lost Souls is a great book. that is if you can get past all the bi sexual vampire sex. : ) my boy dog is named Zillah !!

    also The concrete blonde by Michael Connley good mystry.

    The Dogs of Babel by...........shit i forget Parkhurst maybe. anyway a fav of mine
    Peace, Love.

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    to not question your government is unpatriotic."
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  • pjl44
    pjl44 Posts: 10,692
    QuarterToTen wrote:
    anything by Chuck Klosterman.

    I second this. Start with Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs.

    Currently, I'm elbow-deep in my 2008 Baseball America Prospect Handbook...
  • GreenTeaDisease
    GreenTeaDisease Posts: 3,359
    NuclearTreeFrog wrote:
    what should I get

    do you like fiction or non? I can't help you with fiction.
  • duggro
    duggro Posts: 1,343
    i just finished pullman's dark materials trilogy which is awesome if you are into that stuff

    other than that, if you want some damn funny crime/thriller fiction read anything by christopher brookmyre
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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    mole1985 wrote:
    The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Its the same author who wrote 'No Country for Old Men'. I came upon this by accident but the reviews were not your usual 'must read'. Only half way through but it is VERY powerful. It's aldo being made into a movie this year. Here's some reviews on a handy website

    http://www.metacritic.com/books/authors/mccarthycormac/road?q=the%20road

    i suspect i'm the only person in the world who didn't like 'the road.' he's clearly got serious talent as a writer and that carries the book. but in 300 pages, nothing happened. not a thing. it suffered from the same problem i had with margaret atwood's 'handmaiden's tale' and don delillo's 'white noise.' great style and atmosphere, a fascinating premise, but it lacked characters or background. one i could forgive, but not both. but the characters had no motive, no story, no humanity to make the book worthwhile. and the most fascinating part of the concept- how things came to be this way- is never touched upon.
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    GreenTeaDisease wrote:
    do you like fiction or non? I can't help you with fiction.

    somehow, this doesn't surprise me.
  • mrwalkerb
    mrwalkerb Posts: 1,015
    just because nobody has said it yet and it is teh best book every written, I'd say go for the count of monte cristo
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  • GreenTeaDisease
    GreenTeaDisease Posts: 3,359
    soulsinging wrote:
    somehow, this doesn't surprise me.

    oh soulsinging, you've got me all figured out...
  • vital5
    vital5 Posts: 5,486
    Buy Ames vs Pearl Jam Limited Edition.... just don't hit the BUY button too many times ;)
  • redmosquito10
    redmosquito10 Posts: 568
    In the spirit of the ongoing primaries, Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama. Not in any way political, just a very interesting account of self-discovery.
    "Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH..."

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