Does anyone know a website where it list good books, you know, different books that just make you go "wow" or you could just tell me one.
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A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole.
I'm reading that now
Finding it hard to get into, but persevering.
It's worth sticking with. I started it three times before I managed to get past the first 50-odd pages.
funniest book evah
I'll tell you about books that make you go "WOW"
Anything by Philip Roth and Umberto Eco, Douglas Copeland's "Girlfriend in a Coma" and maybe his latest, "JPod".
Last book I read was Danny Wallace's "Yesman" and it was very very funny.
douglas copeland is shit. get The Plot Against America by Philip Roth, though.
...
Douglas Copelands JPod makes me go "Oh, that's sooo clever" in a really sarcastic way. Especially the part where he writes himself in, marvels at the completely idiotic situation and says "this is like something out of a Doug Copeland novel". It's really, really clever....
See, that's why I can't be arsed with Copeland
Screw him and his po-mo wankery. Think up an actual plot you lazy git.
...
Here's a plot: Douglas Copeland enters a large portacabin. In the portacabin are Julie Birchill, Razorlight, Kubb, Tara Palmer Tompkinson, Helen Fielding, Jerry Bruckheimer, Michael Bay, Sean Penn, Madonna, William Rees Mogg, anyone who has ever said "No Blood For Oil" or "War Is Not My Voice", David Beckham, Victoria Beckham, and The Royal Family. Then someone chucks a couple of granades in and then everyone is dead. The End.
awesome.
this
http://www.jessamyn.com/journal/june00b.html
http://www.brautigan.net/brautigan/
The Good Soldier Svejk
by Jaroslav Hasek.
AND
The Bad Bohemian by Cecil parrott
kathy acker
blood and guts in high school
just for her drawing of her own genitalia with 'my red cunt ugh' written underneath.
oh how i love the books on my degree
my war gone by, i miss it so
by anthony loyd about a junkie who goes over to bosnia and becomes a war correspondent.
or something by primo levi.
Very different but both immense
For Whom The Bell Tolls - Hemingway
Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureshi
that is amazing
but dispatches is equally great.
The Da Vinci Code by Tom Hanks
no
don't waste your time or braincells by reading this awfully written, factually inaccurate rubbish.
You know that was a joke, right Jamie?
yes
i actually think its the most stunning piece of literary genius probably in the history of the world ever.
oh
ignore my last post. i read yours as 'that was a joke right jamie?' as in you were asking whether mine was, because you actually like the da vinci code...i have since reread your post and realise that you were actually asking me whether i'd registered trumpet's sarcasm, which i obviously hadn't. okay so before this gets more convoluted i'll just stop, and ask you to ignore me for the rest of this thread.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggars
average
:)
It depends what you like obviously
I'd recommend reading some Christopher Brookmyre though. Any of his books'll do although I think "Quite Ugly One Morning", "A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away" and "A Tale Etched in Blood And Pencil" are all good places to start.
Most of Chuck Pahlaniuk's stuff is great too especially "Survivor" and "Haunted".
Maybe some Kurt Vonnegut ("Slaughterhouse 5" is a good place to start).
I'm gonna defend Douglas Coupland from the comments earlier in the thread. "Girlfriend in a Coma" is great as is "Life Without God" and I like most of his books. I would steer clear of "Generation X", "Shampoo Planet" and "Microserfs" though.
I don't rate
"Haunted" too much.
The bit with the Swimming Pool and the sex-dolls was rather funny but the rest is a bit crap.
http://www.drownedinsound.com/content/view/946738
i just read Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
not incredible or big or very clever, but great fun to read. recommended and ting.
now reading Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy. it is big and clever.
this one
http://www.thievesjargon.com/press/content/yott.php
I liked Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka, it's quite a short read though.
the trial
by kafka is worthy of mention. and grapes of wrath by steinbeck. and the outsider by camus.
ooooh and
100 years of solitude by gabriel garcia marquez.most amazing book i read in ages.