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

[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~?