Good books?

[RipTide]

Can someone recommend me some good books? Cant seem to find anything atm...

[coinoperatedboy]

The Game by Neil Strauss? ;)

[Schwindlig]

What kind of genres do you like to read?

[Mat Payne]

Money by Martin Amis

[BillieT]

Catch 22

[benw]

bright lights big city jay mcinerney
dress your family in corduorys and denim david sedaris
william boyd any human heart
generation x douglas coupland
bret easton ellis lunar park
cocaine nights jg ballard

[FUDGE]

The God Dellusion

Citizen One

The Hobbit

Currently reading "Inconceivable" by Ben Elton, bit old for me, though

[Brom Town]

all the david gemmel books

[Santero]

The Shadow Of The Wind
Shantaram
Our Man in Havana
Erasure/Fuck

[RipTide]

Schwindlig Wrote:What kind of genres do you like to read?

well i really like addict-recovery stuff like Tweak/A Million Little Pieces, but also John Irving, Bret Easton Ellis, and of course music-related books, be it (auto)biographies or stuff like High Fidelity

but then again, i'm open to anything really

Santero Wrote:Shantaram

that's indeed an amazing book, read it when i was actually in Mumbai, so that added to it

[side]

The Man Who Was Thursday - G. K. Chesterton (!!!!)
Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami ( I've read Dance Dance Dance as well, but i much prefer NW )
Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
On the Road - Jack Kerouac

anything by J. D. Salinger
anything by Orwell

few others i can't think of.

Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon is the next one on my list, I've heard it's brilliant

[jonnydonmar]

junk- william burroughs
life of pi
shalimar the clown
any early irvine welsh (up to porno)
powder

[ChrisS]

High Society - Ben Elton

[beateater]

the bible and the koran are good books.a bit far fetched...but i like a good fiction

[aidan_h]

william faulkner - as i lay dying
dave eggers - what is the what
michael chabon - the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay

big up santero mentioning graham greene :D any of his books are worth a read, though omih is probably the easiest/lightest

[fogg]

Anything by Haruki Murakami. Kafka on the Shore is a good start.

[Matt Plastik]

BillieT Wrote:Catch 22

i vomitted on my friend's copy of Catch 22 last night

[4NR]

of grammatology

trumps everything else mentioned

[theholyromanempire]

coinoperatedboy Wrote:The Game by Neil Strauss? ;)

+1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Even if i havnt had the balls to try any of that stuff. but like that think of a number between one and 10, actually works alot.

[caswell]

You need this book.

[deloco]

The Leopard

Fathers and Sons

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Anything by Jeff Noon

[Claude Perdu]

J. M. Coetzee - Disgrace

[Fifstar]

Andrej Kurkov - Death and the Penguin

It's about a struggling writer who lives with his penguin. Has a surreal touch and is really well written. If you like Murakami's stuff I'd highly recommend it.

[bellyscratch]

The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein


The Enemy of Nature by Joel Kovel

[rickman]

The Outsider by Albert Camus, must read.