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    catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    Kotov Syndrome wrote:
    sgossard3 wrote:
    my top 3 would be kurt vonnegut, chuck palahniuk, and hunter s. thompson

    love them all for their dark wit and creativity... just very real... something poetic in that

    anyone know of any more obscure writers with a similar style? looking for something new to read
    I love vonnegut and HST, who's the other guy?

    sweet jesus. palahnuik wrote fight club among other books. :P :mrgreen:
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    Kilgore_TroutKilgore_Trout Posts: 7,334
    Kotov Syndrome wrote:
    sgossard3 wrote:
    my top 3 would be kurt vonnegut, chuck palahniuk, and hunter s. thompson

    love them all for their dark wit and creativity... just very real... something poetic in that

    anyone know of any more obscure writers with a similar style? looking for something new to read
    I love vonnegut and HST, who's the other guy?
    if you like vonnegut and HST then you GOTTA check out palahniuk... i would consider him a more mondern, more extreme version of vonnegut... fight club, choke, lullaby, survivor, oral biography of rant casey, invisible monsters... all great!
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    catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    sgossard3 wrote:
    Kotov Syndrome wrote:
    sgossard3 wrote:
    my top 3 would be kurt vonnegut, chuck palahniuk, and hunter s. thompson

    love them all for their dark wit and creativity... just very real... something poetic in that

    anyone know of any more obscure writers with a similar style? looking for something new to read
    I love vonnegut and HST, who's the other guy?
    if you like vonnegut and HST then you GOTTA check out palahniuk... i would consider him a more mondern, more extreme version of vonnegut... fight club, choke, lullaby, survivor, oral biography of rant casey, invisible monsters... all great!

    i think my homicidal little mind likes lullaby best.
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    AbookamongstthemanyAbookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    Burroughs, Robbins, Hunter S Thompson, London, Kerouac, Orwell, Thoreau, Zinn, Chomsky, McKenna, Emma Goldman

    I really need to start getting into more modern writers. I was a late bloomer in ways...loved to read in middle school and early high school but then got disinterested as life got more interesting to experience first hand. Started getting back into reading in my mid 20s and am kicking myself at all the reading I missed out on and all the catching up I have on my plate now.
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    CHANGEinWAVESCHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    Right now.... Steinbeck.
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    catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    ... and am kicking myself at all the reading I missed out...

    you didnt miss out on it. its all still there. i think tis best to come to writers on ones own than be expected to read them when one is 'suppose to'
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    Kilgore_TroutKilgore_Trout Posts: 7,334
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    catefrances wrote:
    i think my homicidal little mind likes lullaby best.
    ha... i loved that one too... great characters... really weird, voodoo shit

    my favorite is probably rant casey though... really different format, but just a GREAT story

    still have yet to read haunted and snuff... probably the next books im gonna read... and damn... as i was typing this i just discovered he released a book earlier this month... im out of the loop!

    AND it looks like invisible monsters is gonna be a movie next year! should be cool... if its as good an adaptation as fight club was... never saw the movie version of choke
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    AbookamongstthemanyAbookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    catefrances wrote:
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    ... and am kicking myself at all the reading I missed out...

    you didnt miss out on it. its all still there. i think tis best to come to writers on ones own than be expected to read them when one is 'suppose to'


    That's a great way to view it...this way my reading choices become more of an enhancement along the way of my own personal journey. :)
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    catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    sgossard3 wrote:
    catefrances wrote:
    i think my homicidal little mind likes lullaby best.
    ha... i loved that one too... great characters... really weird, voodoo shit

    my favorite is probably rant casey though... really different format, but just a GREAT story

    still have yet to read haunted and snuff... probably the next books im gonna read... and damn... as i was typing this i just discovered he released a book earlier this month... im out of the loop!

    have you read non fiction??
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    Kilgore_TroutKilgore_Trout Posts: 7,334
    catefrances wrote:
    have you read non fiction??
    is that a book title? or do you mean the genre? i read lots of biographys and (art) history stuff if ya mean the latter
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    catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    sgossard3 wrote:
    catefrances wrote:
    have you read non fiction??
    is that a book title? or do you mean the genre? i read lots of biographys and (art) history stuff if ya mean the latter

    hahaha its a palahniuk book. :mrgreen:
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    YieldedYielded Posts: 839
    Chuck Palahniuk
    Charles Bukowski
    Franz Kafka
    Kurt Vonnegut
    Michel Houellebecq
    Bertolt Brecht
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    Kilgore_TroutKilgore_Trout Posts: 7,334
    catefrances wrote:
    sgossard3 wrote:
    catefrances wrote:
    have you read non fiction??
    is that a book title? or do you mean the genre? i read lots of biographys and (art) history stuff if ya mean the latter

    hahaha its a palahniuk book. :mrgreen:
    hmm never heard of it... tried looking online before i asked that so i didnt look stupid, but didnt see it... you recommend?
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    heidihiheidihi Posts: 114
    Dickens, Thomas Hardy and Orwell at the moment!

    ...... used to love Shakespeare but being an English teacher and trying to inspire teens to enjoy is kind of killing it for me at the moment. Perhaps now it is work, the pleasure is slighty removed???? (maybe I am just frustrated by my yr 12 class and Hamlet at this point of time!!!) ;)
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    catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    sgossard3 wrote:
    catefrances wrote:
    sgossard3 wrote:
    is that a book title? or do you mean the genre? i read lots of biographys and (art) history stuff if ya mean the latter

    hahaha its a palahniuk book. :mrgreen:
    hmm never heard of it... tried looking online before i asked that so i didnt look stupid, but didnt see it... you recommend?

    well id recommend anything palahniuk writes. along with douglas coupland and james baldwin. faulkners light in august is another recommended reading imo. henry miller, selby, and camus.
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    Kilgore_TroutKilgore_Trout Posts: 7,334
    catefrances wrote:
    well id recommend anything palahniuk writes. along with douglas coupland and james baldwin. faulkners light in august is another recommended reading imo. henry miller, selby, and camus.
    thanks cate! lots of good suggestions there... i should be busy for the rest of summer :D
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    catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    sgossard3 wrote:
    catefrances wrote:
    well id recommend anything palahniuk writes. along with douglas coupland and james baldwin. faulkners light in august is another recommended reading imo. henry miller, selby, and camus.
    thanks cate! lots of good suggestions there... i should be busy for the rest of summer :D

    youll be busy til next summer. :mrgreen:
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    YetAnotherFiascoYetAnotherFiasco Posts: 158
    PJ73 wrote:
    Has anyone here read Haruki Murakami? I've read only Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but he has several others that many of my friends have liked.

    I'm curious if EV read Hard-Boiled. One of the themes of the books was a person's shadow being their soul and how it follows you everywhere (I can't really explain it well w/o giving away any of the plot). I kept thinking of this when I hear Far Behind b/c the imagery was very similar to me.

    Give him a chance - its very surreal storytelling.

    I've read A Wild Sheep Chase, Dance Dance Dance, Sputnik Sweetheart, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, South of the Border West of the Sun, Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, After Dark and Kafka on the Shore. I'm now reading cool book about Murakami by Jay Rubin, one of his translators called "Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words"which is turning out to be very interesting. Along with Vonnegut and Tom Perrotta he is my favorite. And Chuck Palahniuk.
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    Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,727
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    nuffingmannuffingman Posts: 3,014
    Sebastian Faulks
    Carlos Ruis Zafon
    Cormac McCarthy
    Khaled Hosseini

    Bill Bryson
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    Ms. HaikuMs. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,250
    Louise Erdrich - her writing is poetry, the metaphors used, and lusciousness of the words are beautiful. At the same time, the stories are interesting, so interesting that they would captivate a fireside audience. She really knows how to tell a story. It's rare to write literature and tell a story anyone would be interested in at the same time. It's probably a reflection of the way she paces a story besides the word choices, and metaphors used. The Last Report on the Miracle at Little No Horse is the novel I've read the most in my life.
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    he still standshe still stands Posts: 2,835
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    Burroughs, Robbins, Hunter S Thompson, London, Kerouac, Orwell, Thoreau, Zinn, Chomsky, McKenna, Emma Goldman

    I really need to start getting into more modern writers. I was a late bloomer in ways...loved to read in middle school and early high school but then got disinterested as life got more interesting to experience first hand. Started getting back into reading in my mid 20s and am kicking myself at all the reading I missed out on and all the catching up I have on my plate now.

    Great list. Have you read "Food of the Gods" by McKenna? My dad picked up that book up off my shelf the other day while visiting... I think he may call child protective services on me!

    I'd add to that list Christopher Moore, Vonnegut and Steinbeck (mostly because of Grapes of Wrath).

    Also, I just read my FIRST and LAST book on spirituality/self-help/etc. "Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment." If you like themes of McKenna you'd like this one. Oh I lied, the other book I read on that subject (long time ago) was BE HERE NOW.

    Chomsky's "Hegemony or Survival" just made more disillusioned about the world... but it was good.

    Orwell's great book turned me from a republican to an anarchist way back in the day. No shit!

    And I just finished the 9th and final book by TRobbins -- B is for Beer. meh. But he is my favorite of all time so he deserves one misfire. Jitterbug Perfume and Another Roadside Attraction are easily two of the best works of "post-modern" fiction ever.

    I still haven't picked up Zinn yet (even with Ed's proselytization of his work). Which one should I grab first?
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