i need a good book to get sunk into and i'd love to hear from the lovely hipforumers. i've read these books: -Lord Of The Flies (meh, some things were interesting but overall it was alright) -Notes From The Underground (frickin LOVED this book) -Crime & Punishment (frickin LOVED this book too. i love dostoyevsky) -Memoirs of a Geisha (great) -half of 1984 (very good, a surprising page-turner. lost the book midway through) -Great Gatsby (i found it overrated, and a lil boring) -Fahrenheit 451 (great book. loved it) -Now Is The Hour by Tom Spanbauer (fav book ever. found it outstanding) -The Man Who Fell In Love With The Moon by Tom Spanbauer (as great or better than Now Is The Hour) -Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk (LOVED this book. wonderfully entertaining) The books i'm thinking about reading are: -the rest of Catcher In The Rye. i read some of it and found it somewhat intriguing. -Rant by Chuck Palahniuk -Of Mice & Men. found the synopsis interesting. -The Idiot by Dostoyevsky. i have the book already but its so big im just reluctant to start it. -The Castle or Amerika or Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka any suggestions? i like unique fictions with a sense of self-struggle, maybe existentialism, with some quirkyness, and with good brain food for consciousness. with non-fiction, it'd be a lil more difficult to find a real engrossing situation, but bring on the suggestions
i just finished a book by new up and coming underground author named cameron pierce. the book is 'lost in cat brain land'... one hell of a very, very, very strange book! i just started on a another of his books entitled, 'ass goblins of auchwitz.' so far, ass goblins is every bit as strange as was cat brain land. I JUST LOVE TO NO END THE SHIT THIS GUY TURNS OUT!:cheers2:
i just :rofl: my ass off this time of year when a christmas carol is shown on television here in the u.s.a. all the "capitalist christans" whom love this true tale of christmas to no end! i just love the look of horror on their faces, when i tell them, this is a story that dickens wrote, that is anti-capitalist and is pro christian socialist. the look on their faces is just priceless!
I loved the book "A Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood. You may also want to read Oryx and Crake also from the same author. They're both dystopian literature so it is an entertaining and rather scary experience.
OK, first read anything by Dean Koontz. Stephen King is better than good; but imo his older stuff is better. I LOVE John Grisham - whose books are interesting, informative and written with keen wit. You're well on you're way now.
-Find the 2nd half of 1984! I loved the ending. -Have you read any Murakami? I recommend both Sputnik Sweetheart and Kafka on the Shore. The 2nd book isn't actually about THE Kafka, btw.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is an amazing read! Philosophical with a super engaging story line. Also, The Book by Alan Watts is really interesting. Not so much a story book as much as a book about life with hints of Zen. This was a change your perspective on life kind of book. I guess neither of these are fictional but they are incredibly engaging.
As someone with similar interests in books, I would say 1)The other half of 1984, first half is good, but mostly just outlines and explains the society, the second half is one of those things that if you read a chapter a night in the first half, and then you get to the second half and suddenly you finished reading. Its one of my favorites 2)I always advise everyone who asks to read House of Leaves. I think its a really cool book, with several amazing storyline told in extremely unique ways. It is the book that has made me re-think and re-re-think everything as big as what is identity, to something as small as what is on the other side of my closet door.
