MOAR Books

[kageisuke]

So, you guys kinda remember my book list I had, right?

Well. I do love my co-workers. People are so much more well read than me. =D;;;; So I asked and received a book list. The long one at the end of a bajillion books came from Matt. I'm still open to more ideas. I'm blowing through John Sandford and Sydney Sheldon, so I'm mixing in the others as I go.

THE LIST
• Alex Cross novels [Along Came a Spider]
• The Lovely Bones by Sebold
• Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King
• The Green Mile by Stephen King
• Talking With Serial Killers by Christopher Berry-Dee
• The Vesuvius Club by Mark Gatiss
• The Surgeon by Gerritsen
• Lost Souls by Poppy Z Brite
• American Psycho by Brett Easton-Ellis

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, Tom Robbins
Skinny Legs and All, Tom Robbins
Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
The World According to Garp, John Irving
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (The Whole Series), Douglas Adams

Same vain, more advanced

Journey to the End of the Night, Celine
Ham on Rye, Charles Bukowski
Women, Charles Bukowski
Lolita, Nabokov

Same vain, more depressing

The Trial, Franz Kafka
The Stranger, Camus

Classics that you should have read in school but may not have because your school sucked…

The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger
The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway

Amusingly. My school did not suck. I never read Catcher in the Rye or nine Stories. Red Badge of Courage was... in elementary school. And Sun Also Rises I never even heard of. Woooooo~!

And I'm still working on a response to Kris' post. It may be epic... or full of incomprehensible fail. We'll see.

MOAR

Victoria Nelson books by Tanya Huff

Comments

It's 'vein' dear, like a vein in the body?

[abandonreality.livejournal.com]

The wouldn't let you guys read Red Badge of Courage? I went to a rural hick school and we read that. Hell, we even read Madame Bovary... SHOCKING!

American Psycho is really good, yes, I like 'Choke' too, the one they just made a movie out of? Somehow I just don't think it'll be done right.

Holy shit, I went to sleep in the middle of Kafka.. *snoooooooooore*

=_= I just copy pasta'd what he wrote in the e-mail.

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

Too late XD I read it years and years ago.

XD I'll see when I read them. I want a varied list and so I hit up people. Matt's a weirdo, just better at hiding it then I am, so 8D

[akuni.livejournal.com]

- The World According to Garp, John Irving
Loved this one as a teenager.

- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (The Whole Series), Douglas Adams
A classic that simply must be read. :)

- The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
I fail for having read this as a kid but not remembering a single thing about it.

Have you read Neil Gaiman's 'American Gods' yet?

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

Haha. Same with me for Red Badge of Courage.

Nope! I can add it to my list though XD

Odds are, if you ask, I haven't read it, unless it was required HS reading. I read a lot, but... fanfiction and OS's don't count, exactly. And manga. Lots of manga. And the stuff I'm reading now. Sandford and Sheldon. Robin Hobb.

[akuni.livejournal.com]

I didn't care for Robin Hobb's 'Farseer' tril. One endless wangstfest, without any bright spots to redeem it. It was exhausting, and by the end I didn't give a damn about any of the characters bc no one was ever going to be anything but miserable, so I disconnected. Bleah. Not my thing, though YMMV ofc. When I want satisfying wangst, I'll read Raymond Feist's 'Krondor' books, thanks!

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, I really enjoyed the Farseer Trilogy! Fitz journey was one 'OMG... How the hell are you still ALIVE XD DX XD' experience. I just....... couldn't stop laughing at it. I have a high tolerance for angst in the fact that I don't recognize all the WWOOOOEEE BAAAWWW as angst until someone points it out to me. I just think, 'Oops. Sucks to me you =o='

[akuni.livejournal.com]

Well that's good if that's what you like. :) I just got really tired of trying to connect with the chars, and Fitz's 'adventures' stopped being interesting after a while.

It definitely sucked to be him, lol!

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

I guess I don't TRY to connect. I just do? I just like to see what happens, whether they deserve it or not. Whether I like them or not. I like to make peanut gallery comments of 'Oh snap!' and 'Ahah failtastic~' and 'Srsly? No. SRSLY?!' Or 'Hmmmm.... I seeeee' or even 'Christ. Just stick it in. D<' on ocassion.

[akuni.livejournal.com]

'Christ. Just stick it in. D<'

*dying laughing*

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

Happens more than you think |D~?

[nayanroo.livejournal.com]

I see a depressing lack of E.M. Forster's A Passage to India, which was one of the few books we read senior year that I could stand.

Also Endless Love by Ian McEwan.

And one I just finished myself-- Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton. It's been published too as The Thirteenth Warrior.

Anything by Ursula K. LeGuin is good too. Particularly The Lathe of Heaven and The Left Hand of Darkness.

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

I'm missing a lot of books. XD You guys are going to give me reading material for years, I bet. Exactly what I wanted 8D Nfufufu

[wizard-knight.livejournal.com]

Good Omens by Terry Prachet and Neil Gaiman. However they're spelled.

And I don't suppose you've read 1984? I could never finish it. :<

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

I shall try \o/

I don't think so...

[rapidfix.livejournal.com]

I need to finish the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series... I really liked the first one. And the movie lawlz

My school did not suck; I read Catcher in the Rye last year. It...meh =/ No Red Badge of Courage, though; we surpassed that for The Scarlet Letter. Yay. ¬_¬

*reminds self to read Catch-22 someday*

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

I haven't read or seen any of it. =D Wooooo /o/

I read Red Badge of Courage in... elementary school. So I don't remember any of it anyway.

Tohoho, you and me both.

[rapidfix.livejournal.com]

Haha. In elementary school I read books like The Egypt Game, A Wrinkle in Time, and The Giver. (I actually read The Giver again in middle school and everyone was like "HOW DID YOU READ THIS IN FOURTH GRADE WITHOUT NIGHTMARES?! DDD:" Oh those silly sixth graders.) So I guess my elementary/middle schools were fail? =/

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

Umm... I think I read that. I remember nothing.

I read 'Where the Red Fern Grows' and 'Watership Down' and... I realize I was a freaky kid, reading that shit. But... I was in the advanced program and I needed to devour SOMETHING. Back when reading 500 pages a month was A BIG DEAL. I can swallow 500 pages in a day now... >_>

RP account. Because I'm lazy.

[stepfordsmiler.livejournal.com]

I think my classmates were upset by the "btw we're randomly killing people who we deem unfit to survive have a nice day &hearts" bit.

Oh yeah, I read Where the Red Fern Grows in fifth grade =/ I don't remember it though, other than that the damn dog dies LIKE IN EVERY BOOK WITH A DOG EVER.

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

Stepford smiler? Oh god I just imagined him as a wife with an apron feeding aizen and the chibi!arrancar cookies. Oh wtf imagination. WTF.

Oh yeaaah! Wait. No. I still don't remember. If I know myself, my reaction was probably. 'Ooh... well, not such a bad idea but... >_>'

Haha. Both of them. And I cried. Like a bitch. That shit was fucking SAD.

[stepfordsmiler.livejournal.com]

WTF, KAGE'S IMAGINATION. I got "Stepford Smiler" from TVTropes.org. He's listed as an example XD

I don't think I fully caught onto it the first time around past "oh...they killed him?". But the second time around it's like "OH WAIT THEY'RE DOING THIS TO EVERYONE LULZ" or something like that. IDK whatever, I love The Giver.

I barely even remember it >_

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of that movie 'Stepford Wives'.

I can't remember anything about it. I obviously need to reread it XD

I only remember the really traumatizing shit from books that kids try to forget.

[rapidfix.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I figured XD

While you're at it, read the two sequels...! I think they're called Gathering Blue and The Messenger.

Naturally. It's that kind of stuff that sticks in our minds best ¬_¬

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

Sequels? Damn. Never knew that. 8D Slow Kage... so totally slow.

[rapidfix.livejournal.com]

I don't blame you, it's not like they were advertised or anything. Man, I haven't read them in foreeeeveeeeer...

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

Reminiscing tiems~

[rapidfix.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, delicious nostalgia.

[gogo-ergo-sum.livejournal.com]

Have you read American Gods by Neil Gaiman? If not, do at that to the list!! Thought provoking, but not depressing.

Also, ya gotta read Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terri Pratchett. Such a good book and fun, fun, fun.

Holla when you read The Sun Also Rises and The Guest. Gogo loved those~

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

=D I think those first two akuni recommended~ Definitely the first, but I haven't added them to the list yet.

I shall! I think I'll go through the list in some random manner because going straight through might kill me 8D