What books do you love?

I love to read. What books do you all love?

On Writing by Stephen King
The Stranger by Albert Camus (Vintage edtion)
Crash by J.G Ballard
The Pearl by Ernest Hemmingway
The Fox by by DH Lawrence
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
Siddhartha by Hermen Hesse
Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Black Feathers by Cecilia Tan
The Burning Pen, Sex Writers on Sex Writing edited by M. Christian
Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave
Solipsist by Henry Rollins
Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou
Love Poem by Nikki Giovanni


Ok I'll stop now. There's more. Wanna know why just ask. Now your turn. :)

The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe
Anne Rice- The Vampire Chronicles v1
The Complete Works of Plato
Dante-The Divine Comedy

Many more just can't think at the moment, although these are the ones I seem to come back to and read again and again...

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Originally Posted by Pzychotic

The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe
Anne Rice- The Vampire Chronicles v1
The Complete Works of Plato
Dante-The Divine Comedy

Many more just can't think at the moment, although these are the ones I seem to come back to and read again and again...

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Have you read any Baudelaire? Fuck I'm tired I might have spelled that wrong. If you like Dante you'd probably like him too.

just a few here :

Elizebeth Bathory dairy /biography
any Timothy Leary text
the Cassic, Inteview w/a vampire&
of course Nosforatu(damn thats hard to spell sorry, haha)
few other i can't think of at the moment well.probally quite a few i can't think of(just got back from work....)

Bukowski is cool for "alternate viewpoint" stuff.
Palahniuk is really interesting.

I tend to read just fantasy junk though.
Rice, Eddings, Jordan, Goodkind, Whyte, etc...

HP Lovecraft...

Some Examples:

Most books by Tolkien, or Salvatore, or the Black Library.

The Hobbit is among the best books that were ever written!

I WANT THE LIBER CHAOTICA!

The Divine Comedy By Dante Alighieri,
Paradise Lost and Paradise regained by Jhon Milton,
and any of the Pippi Longstocking Books by Astrid Lindgreen because theyre the ones that got me interested in reading at a young age

House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
The Dark Tower series by Stephen King
Heavier Than Heaven by Charles Cross

The Myth Adventures of Skeeve and Aahz by Robert Asperin (and now Jodie Nye).
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Anything by Talbot Mundy - (King of the Kyber Rifles)
Much of Robert E. Howard- one would have no idea of his talent from the stupid Conan movies..P.

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Originally Posted by Nudemuse

Have you read any Baudelaire? Fuck I'm tired I might have spelled that wrong. If you like Dante you'd probably like him too.

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No I haven't gonna have to write that one down and look for it... Souns like an excuse to hit Borders again... :1orglaugh :thumb:

c palahniuk used to rock but his latest stuff is kinda bad. in my opinion.

Well since I love you in a biblical sense Nudie, thought I would throw my list into the ring. And plus...well I LOVE to read and acquire books. There are so many more than this. This is just what I can remember off the top of my dome.

The Decameron by Boccacio
Candle Bay by Tamara Thorne
Franco American Dreams by Julie Taylor
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Thorn Birds by Colleen McCollough
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Eighteen Straight Whiskeys by Michael Easton
Survior by Chuck Palhniuk
The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde edited by Ralph Keyes
Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake edited by David Erdman
Wild Girls Club by Anka Radakovich
Open All Night by Charles Bukowski
Story of my Life by (something) McInerny
Maniac McGee by Jerry Spinelli
Anything by Brett Easton Ellis
Anything by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Anything by Tama Janowitz
The Norton Anthology of Post Modern American Poetry
Making Faces and Face Forward by Kevyn Aucion (if they count)

Helena- you mentioned post modern poetry- --
I wonder if you or anybody has ever read Jory Graham-- hard to get into but very good once you can..She won the Pulitizer - as did Robert Pinsky (also the poet laurete at one point)--P.

I haven't read any Jory Graham but now that you mention her, I will see if I can find her. I have read Robert Pinsky before. I honestly can't remember if it was in an anthology or not. Thanks for the recommends though, always looking for new stuff. I used to do poetry performance and was thinking of getting back into it. New material, always good. :)

I am a cat, Grendal, Stephen Hawking's: the universe, a child called "it", world philosophy in religion, the way things work, the lore of flight, and other various technical books and others that I can't remember.

Vonnegut is on my list and highly recommended by friends, but I haven't gotten around to him yet.

My faves:

Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima
Spadework by Timothy Findley
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (although American Gods kicks a substantial amount of ass as well imho)
The Eagle's Gift by Carlos Castaneda

and innumerable nonfiction titles dealing with eastern philosophy & art.

If you haven't read any of Neal Stephenson's books (Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon, etc.), check them out, he's great.

SHIT! I forgot Vonnegut on my list!

Vonnegut rules! I have all his books.
Some are better than others, but if you have never read any of his stuff,
I would suggest "Breakfast of Champions" as your introduction...

hmmm *ponders*
interview with the vampire, the vampire lestat, queen of the damned, the vampire armand, blood and gold..all by anne rice,
dracula,
frankenstein,
dr jekyll and mr hyde,
prozac nation by elizabeth wurtzel,
and the da vinci code by dan brown....
i have yet to check if the da vinci code is actually correct (my friend says it is) but apparently in da vinci's painting of the last supper the person on one side of jesus is mary magdalene and there's lots of iconography to prove jesus and mary magdalene were married and had a child....

Vampire Chronicles - Anne Rice
Het Parfum (The parfume) - Patrick Süskind
Lords of chaos - ????

I'm currently reading Fool's Fate by Robin Hobb. It's the last book in this series. Very very good.

Other favourites
The Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett
DaVinchi Code by Dan Brown
Dead Boys, Dead Girls, Dead Things by Richard Calder
My Tiny Life by Julian Dibbell
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Most of Anne Rice's books
All the old Hans Christian Anderson or Grimm Brothers Fairy Tales

About a zillion more which won't come to mind at the moment. I've loved to read my whole life. I've fallen in love with so many books over the years that I've completely lost count.

Book of the Law Aleister Crowley
The Confessions of Aleister: An Autobiography Aleister Crowley
Book Four Aleister Crowley
Magick Without Tears Aleister Crowley
Magickal Diaries Of Aleister Crowley Tunisia 1923 Aleister Crowley
The Basement Kate Millet
Death Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
How We Die Sherwin B. Nuland
Ghosts: True Encounters With The World Beyond Hans Holzer
The Devil's Notebook Anton Szandor LaVey
Hollywood Babylon Kenneth Anger
Psychopathia Sexualis Richard von Krafft-Ebing
Hammer Of The Gods Stephen Davis
Death Scenes Katherine Dunn
Evidence Luc Sante

I have an extensive True-Crime, Occult and Psychology library in my home so, I could go on forever.

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I haven't read any Jory Graham but now that you mention her, I will see if I can find her. I have read Robert Pinsky before. I honestly can't remember if it was in an anthology or not. Thanks for the recommends though, always looking for new stuff. I used to do poetry performance and was thinking of getting back into it. New material, always good. :)

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Actually I think that's Jorey Graham-- Yes, Pinsky used to be on McNeil Lehrer News Hour doing readings..his daughter is/was manager of one of the local Borders books here in LA- P.

More I forgot:

Vonnegut of course.
And Henry Miller, I'm rereading Tropic of Cancer.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez 100 years of Solitaire is one of my favorites. Makes me wish I could read Spanish to read it as it originally was.

More books I want more books dammit.

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Originally Posted by Nudemuse

More I forgot:

Vonnegut of course.
And Henry Miller, I'm rereading Tropic of Cancer.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez 100 years of Solitaire is one of my favorites. Makes me wish I could read Spanish to read it as it originally was.

More books I want more books dammit.

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Oh yes 100 Years of Solititude- where all the characters begin to blend into each other..
You might like Borges as well- very trippy stuff..P.

Thank you Pedar I will write that down. Or add it to my Amazon wishlist if I can ever log back into it. Grrrrrrrrr....

Lizard Music ~ D.Manus Pinkwater
Lost Souls ~ Poppy Brite (only one of her books I can stand)
Cold Fire Trilogy ~ C.S. Freidman
Caterpiller's Question ~ Peirs Anthony and Phillip Jose Farmer
Sins of Rachel Ellis ~ Philip Caveney
True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle ~ Avi
Phule's Company serise ~ Robert Asperin
American Gods ~ Neil Gaiman
Good Omens ~ Terry Prachett and Neil Gaiman
Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy serise ~ Douglas Adams

I think that's everything.
K

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Thank you Pedar I will write that down. Or add it to my Amazon wishlist if I can ever log back into it. Grrrrrrrrr....

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Welcome--And that reminds me - there is a character called Borges in one of the great books of the 20th Cent.- 'The Name Of The Rose'--by Umberto Eco- it's like the entire history of the Western Mind disguised as a detective story..
P.

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Welcome--And that reminds me - there is a character called Borges in one of the great books of the 20th Cent.- 'The Name Of The Rose'--by Umberto Eco- it's like the entire history of the Western Mind disguised as a detective story..
P.

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See...I knew I liked you for a reason. Name of the Rose is a wonderful book. I haven't read it in years but because of you reminding me, I found my copy tonight. Thanks. :O)

Okay since this is a books thread, I am going to take it slightly OT if that is okay with my esteemed friend, Nudie. I have a friend recommend a few books to me, just curious if anyone else had read them and maybe could tell me what they thought?

Cabinet of Curiousities by Douglas Preston
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
A Massive Swelling by Cintra Wilson (not sure on that one, my handwriting is hard to read on that)
House of Leaves by Mark Danelewski
The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte

Again, I wrote these all fast and I might have messed up authors at the very least. Anyone happen to peruse any of these titles?

I just read two excellent books in jail a few months ago:

The Gold Coast - Nelson Demille
Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe

Read them together as they are set in the same time/place

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See...I knew I liked you for a reason. Name of the Rose is a wonderful book. I haven't read it in years but because of you reminding me, I found my copy tonight. Thanks. :O)

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Glad at least a few people like my ancient ass--
Um actually like most people I haven't read Rose all the way through..but I have recently picked it up and read certain passages..
We can talk abt it more later.
P.

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I just read two excellent books in jail a few months ago:

The Gold Coast - Nelson Demille
Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe

Read them together as they are set in the same time/place

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We're you in Arkham Asylum? Who was your cellmate?
P.

i was in there with the joker, fun at first but after a week his material gets really lame

I'll add a trio I like...

Frederic Tuten "Tin Tin in the New World"

Victor Segalen "Rene Leys"

Banana Yoshimoto "Kitchen"

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i was in there with the joker, fun at first but after a week his material gets really lame

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So you are Harley Quinn?
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all, I have way too many to list a few favorites. The written word is one of my greatest indulgences :)

what a question to ask ther are so many but the big one that stands out is biography of a grizzley by earnest t. seatton

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Originally Posted by HelenaHotpants

Okay since this is a books thread, I am going to take it slightly OT if that is okay with my esteemed friend, Nudie. I have a friend recommend a few books to me, just curious if anyone else had read them and maybe could tell me what they thought?

Cabinet of Curiousities by Douglas Preston
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
A Massive Swelling by Cintra Wilson (not sure on that one, my handwriting is hard to read on that)
House of Leaves by Mark Danelewski
The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte
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I tried to read House of Leaves awhile back and couldn't really get into it. Same thing with Me Talk pretty One Day. I have to be in the mood although I've heard it's a great book.

I just finished reading Bag of Bones by King and it reminded me a great deal of why I have enjoyed his writing so much over the years.

I just started reading Serpico and so far it's really good.

Hmmm might have to start a recommend books thread.

Prozac Nation
The Bell Jar
Watership Down
Alice in Wonderland
Heavier than heaven (Kurt Cobain biography)
Tim Burton's The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy

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