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*

[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?

[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.

[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. :<

[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*

[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~