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 Wasteland
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 Looking for a few good books to read 
#12048343 - 02/17/10 03:16 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'm a fan of Kurt Vonnegut, Philip K. Dick, Aldous Huxley (I haven't read much of his work, but Brave New World is a classic that I can reread and enjoy every time) and Chuck Palahniuk.
There's a certain strange style these authors seem to share, they all design stories packed with irony and wit that are very close to the world we know, but usually set in a twisted and amplified version of it. Demonstrating morals and lessons with these extremes as tools.
That's exactly what I'd like to see more of, but I've pretty much burned through what seems to me the best works of these authors (with the exception of Aldous, who I would like to read more works of, but haven't really seen one that strikes me as equal to or better than Brave New World, and once I've read one authors "finest" (IMHO), I seem to lose interest in their other works that don't live up to the other material.
Well, I went to Gnod.net and it suggested Feodor Dostoyevsky, and Notes From The Underground seems like a good read. My library system only carries cliff notes and study guides for Dostroyevsky...
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Re: Looking for a few good books to read [Re: Wasteland]
#12050391 - 02/17/10 07:49 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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read huxley's doors of perception. amazing book
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Re: Looking for a few good books to read [Re: nootropic]
#12052822 - 02/18/10 08:46 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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"Sophie's World" by Gaardner is an awesome book. It teaches you about the history of philosophy while painting a great tripping story for you to fall into it. One of the coolest books I've ever read.
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Re: Looking for a few good books to read [Re: Rocker232]
#12061001 - 02/19/10 03:51 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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are you experienced by William Sutcliffe
The THOUGHT GANG
by Tibor Fischer
Throwim Way Leg
By TIM FLANNERY
Voyage to the End of the Room: A Novel
by Tibor Fischer
The Collector Collector:
by Tibor Fischer
Cosmic Banditos by A. C. Weisbecker
Tapping the Source by Kem Nunn
The Dogs of Winter by Kem Nunn
Tijuana Straits: A Novel by Kem Nunn
Caught Inside by Daniel Duane
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
Lush Life: A Novel by Richard Price
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
American Gods: A Novel by Neil Gaiman
Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania by Andy Behrman
Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
by David Sheff
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greate... by Mark Bowden
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Ma... by Chuck Klosterman
Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines
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Leaving Dirty Jersey: A Crystal Meth Memoir by James Salant
In Search of Captain Zero: A Surfer's Road Trip Beyond the End of the Road by Allan Weisbecker
The Western Limit of the World:
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2182 kHz by David Masiel
Arctic Dreams
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Catfish and Mandala
The Sacred Willow
The Girl in the Picture
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Vietnam in the Absence of War
Laos
The Damage Done: Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison
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The Fruit Palace: An Odyssey Through Colombia's Cocaine Underworld
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Among the Thugs by Bill Buford
Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
Paul Theroux
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
The Gringo Trail
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Snowblind: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade by Robert Sabbag
Solaris
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The Demolished Man
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Ringworld
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Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System
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Necroscope: The Lost Years
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Fishing Up North: Stories of Luck and Loss in Alaskan Waters
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Perdido Street Station
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Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone
Close Quarters: A Novel by Larry Heinemann
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Savages by Joe Kane
Smokescreen: A True Adventure by Robert Sabbag
Dog Soldiers
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Deliverance by James Dickey
Highliners: The Classic Novel about the Commercial Fishermen of Alaska by William McCloskey
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Alaska Blues: A Season of Fishing the Inside Passage
Paris Trout by Pete Dexter
The Elementary Particles
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The 13th Valley by John M. Del Vecchio
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The Dark Fields
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Outerbridge Reach by Robert Stone
Platform by Michel Houellebecq
Short Timers by Gustav Hasford
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Hunger by Knut Hamsun
The Scribe by David Young.
is The Lotus Kingdom by Alastair Shearer
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Sacred Vine of Spirits: Ayahuasca edited by Ralph Metzner
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You Must Set Forth At Dawn
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American Nomads: Travels with Lost Conquistadors, Mountain Men, Cowboys, Indians, Hoboes, Truckers, and Bullriders
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The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams
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Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
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The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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Cosmos, Carl Sagan
A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway
Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac
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Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
The Informers by Bret Easton-Ellis
Little, Big by John Crowley
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
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Road to Los Angeles by John Fante
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Sense of Beauty by George Santayana
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Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
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Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Journey to the End of the Night by Celine
The Razor's Edge by Somerset Maugham
On Writing by Stephen King
The Drunken Tourist
by Hadrian Santana
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Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
Maggie Cassady by Jack Kerouac
Demian by Hermann Hesse
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Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes L... by Dan Millman
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
The Beach by Alex Garland
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Miyamoto Musashi
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The Book of Five Rings
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Re: Looking for a few good books to read [Re: Wasteland]
#12061601 - 02/19/10 05:41 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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I think you will definitely dig Notes From the Underground.
I just finished Journey to the End of the Night by Celine, and I think you'll enjoy that as well; just read a synopsis.
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Re: Looking for a few good books to read [Re: Mnboardin]
#12063703 - 02/20/10 12:46 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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You'll probably love anything Tom Robbins. I was into basically same authors as you, started reading Vonnegut and loved it then Palahniuk. Acutally, it's kind of odd, as those are all the authors I first started reading when I really got into reading.
Tom Robbins is the shit. Check him out for sure. And read both of Tony Vigorito's books,Just a Couple of Days and Nine Kinds of Naked. After that, try and tackle the illuminatus trilogy.
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