tommygun
08.18.13 | some shit i've dug recently:
cormac mccarthy - 'the road', 'no country for old men', 'blood meridian'
markus zusak - 'the book thief'
bret easton ellis - 'american psycho'
if you dig sports bios check 'open' by andre agassi, it's really great |
Rowan5215
08.18.13 | Damn gotta read 5. Check out Neverwhere, American Gods and Stardust by Neil Gaiman for some fucking good (non-childish) fantasy. Also the Demonata series by Darren Shan. |
BradMan
08.18.13 | A few of my personal favorites:
The Trial - Franz Kafka
The Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
The Icelandic Sagas (The standout ones are Egil's Saga and Burnt Njal)
The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick
Julius Caesar, Macbeth, & Hamlet - William Shakespeare
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
A Song of Ice and Fire series - George R. R. Martin (Much better than the TV series in my opinion)
The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli |
tommygun
08.18.13 | o yea and obv trainspotting is the best book ever made |
Winsomniac
08.18.13 | Brent Weeks - The Night Angel Trilogy
Do it. |
MO
08.18.13 | crime and punishment
amazing book |
mindleviticus
08.18.13 | oryx and crake - margaret atwood |
lyzakthellama
08.18.13 | clockwork orange faggot |
Oneironaut
08.18.13 | if you haven't read Orwell, he's super awesome (and super hyped at the mo too but fuck it.) Both Animal Farm and 1984 shred. I really like Haruki Murakami - personal fave of his is Kafka on the Shore. |
Riviere
08.18.13 | Flow My Tears The Policeman Said - Philip K. Dick |
liledman
08.18.13 | Laszlo Krasznahorkai
I mention his name in every book list on here for a reason. |
MaskAtTheMasquerade
08.18.13 | ive never read any PKD but i'm really interested in a lot "paranoid fiction" and scanner darkly definitely sounds pree sweet. maybe i'll buy it............... |
zakalwe
08.18.13 | Iain M Banks - Culture series
Daniel Keyes - Flowers For Algernon
Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird
Bryce Courtney - The Power Of One
George Orwell - 1984
David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas
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RadicalEd
08.18.13 | Crime and Punishment - Dostojewski (also Brothers Karamazov)
Great Epxectations - Dickens
Freedom and The Corrections - Franzen
1984 and Animal Farm - Orwell
Moby Dick(!!!) - Melville
Shogun - Clavell
Roots - Haley
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geasoftime
08.18.13 | I'm recing these based off of the list:
The Electric Acid Kool Aid Test and On the Road |
geasoftime
08.18.13 | You know how sometimes a book is so good that you don't want it to end? With fantasy/scifi series, you don't have to deal with that for months! These are all good, and if you were to read them all, you wouldn't have to make a list like this for another two years. (I listed them in order of my preference. Wheel of Time is the best, and Malazan Book of the Fallen is good, but all the rest are better.)
Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time
George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire
JRR Tolkein's Lord of the Rings (Obvious rec but who knows?)
Bernard Cornwell - The Saxon Series
Robin Hobb's Realm of the Elderling
Frank Herbert's Dune
Steven Erikson's The Malazan Book of the Fallen |
FreddieTheHorse
08.18.13 | Have you read the Illiad or the Odyssey by Homer?,these are amazing books. |
skeames1214
09.19.13 | Fuck yeah, love most of the books on that list. The Brothers Karamazov is hard to get through at points, but probably the most rewarding book I've read. Dave Eggers first book, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, is his best, I think.
If you want an awesome modern (presently living and writing) sci-fi author, you should check out Richard Morgan. Altered Carbon first. So good. |
