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 MR14
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Re: humorous books [Re: MR14]
#9434752 - 12/15/08 04:46 AM (4 years, 5 months ago) |
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I don't know if I'd say copious amounts of laughter, but Skipping Towards Gomorrah, by Dan Savage, an unconventional sex-advice columnist, had me chuckling along throughout most of the book.
Dan vows to challenge right-wing, "professional virtuecrats" like William J. Bennett, Pat Robertson, and Bill O'Reilly: he decides to pursue the seven deadly sins -- greed, lust, gluttony, sloth, envy, pride, and anger -- in modern day America and detail the outcome.
He visits a town completely overshadowed by casino gambling and ... gambles, meeting some interesting people in the process.
He attends a "pro-obesity" convention in San Fransisco and stuffs his face, simultaneously addressing issues of human worth and intrinsic value.
He talks about his experiences with pot and the push for legalization. (This was probably my favorite chapter for all of the nifty factoids he threw in.)
And so on. It's a great book, written with plenty of wit and sure to induce more than a few laughs.
Recommended! 
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Re: humorous books [Re: MR14]
#9439794 - 12/15/08 10:39 PM (4 years, 5 months ago) |
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there r some funny ones in this list, google them to find out
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Rum Diaries by Hunter S. Thompson
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
I read "Catfish and Mandala" in Viet Nam and found it fantastic. The writter was bicycling in the same places I was traveling and it was very funny.
The Sacred Willow is a wonderful history of Vietnam, in novel form. It is extremely well researched, I was both engrossed and educated.
"The Girl in the Picture" is very sad, but good war history.
"Vietnam in the Absence of War" by Thomas Rampton is a good account of two bicycling trips through Vietnam. It is not about the war, but biking down Highway 1.
"Laos" by Judy Rantala is a wonderful account by the wife of an American industrial arts teacher in Laos--prior to the communist take over.
'Mai Pen Rai" is the story of a State Department wife living in Bangkok, I belive in the early 1970's--very entertaining.
I am sorry that I don't have the names of most of the writters because I pass most books on after I read them, but I think I bought all of them at Amazon.
As for "Off the Rails in Phnom Penh," that one I bought in the Bangkok Airport and as a female reader I found it absolutely sickeningly repulsive and sad, I have no idea if the ending redeems the rest of the book because even though I tried several times I could never get more than half way through th
'private dancer' is impossible to put down till the twist-in-the-tail conclusion, its the story of a bar girl and her customer/boyfriend, told in the first person, from both perspectives - should be mandatory reading for all single males arriving in TH
The Scribe by David Young.
is The Lotus Kingdom by Alastair Shearer
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Fear and Loathing by Hunter S. Thompson
Slaughter House by Kurt Vonnegut
Junkie by William S. Burroughs
Michowel
Sacred Vine of Spirits: Ayahuasca edited by Ralph Metzner
Cant Find My Way Home: America In the Great Stoned Age
You Must Set Forth At Dawn
by Wole Soyinka
Ketamine: Dreams and Realities
Blackfoot physics: a journey into the native american universe by f. david peat
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Breaking Open the Head.
Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake
Wizard of the Upper Amazon: The Story of Manuel Cordova-Rios
Back From the Void by Zoe 7.
A Star called Henry by Roddy Doyle.
fierce invalids home from hot climates" by tom robbins
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Siddartha by Hermann Hesse
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 1968
Strangely B. Stranger:
Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
(My license plate reads "Dr Nut"!)
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
The Road Less Travelled by M. Scott Peck
Leah:
Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac
Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg - Carolyn Cassady
The Plays of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov (Paul Schmidt trans.)
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
Under the Volcano, Malcom Lowry
The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles
Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco
Leaving Las Vegas, John O'Brien
The Razor's Edge, Somerset Maughham
Cosmos, Carl Sagan
A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway
Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac
Scratching the Beat Surface by Michael McClure
Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
The Informers by Bret Easton-Ellis
Books Of Blood vol. 1-3 by Clive Barker
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut (tie)
Little, Big by John Crowley
The best American magic-realist novel ever
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
Deceptive simplicity
Texasville by Larry McMurtry
Pure pleasure; the most fun I've ever had reading a book
All We Need of Hell by Harry Crews
Last Resort by Scott Sommer
A 25 year old loser goes home to his family's decaying seaside house; fun and true
Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac
Strange Wine by Harlan Ellison
Would be perfect book with the addition of The Deathbird and a few other Ellison classics
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Richard:
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Apocalypse by D.H. Lawrence
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Ask the Dust by John Fante
Road to Los Angeles by John Fante
Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
Sense of Beauty by George Santayana
Ulysses by James Joyce
Christina C:
Ahhhh Ti Jean...in my eyes you're best
Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
Zany and great
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
The First Third by Neal Cassady
Oh the man behind the curtain....how interesting
Kerouac: A Biography by Ann Charters
Off the Road by Carolyn Cassady
SMUT (aka Trashy Romances) by certain authors
Always have to have a no brainer here and there
The Hungry Ocean by Linda Greenlaw
Living in Downeast Maine...Fishing is a part of life
Little:
Complete Fiction by Bruno Schulz
Cages by Dave McKean
The safety of illusions, the golden cage of lost hopes. McKean is the Stanley Kubrick of his medium.
Dr.Sax by Jack Kerouac
Kerouac´s highest high.
Beneath the Wheel by Hermann Hesse
Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard
) The Nature of Time by G.J. Whitrow
El Aleph by Jorge Louis Borges
"I can´t see Borges anywhere!" (Donald Cammell)
Dreams and Dead Ends by Jack Shadoian
The American Gangster/Crime genre from Shadoian´s POV: Poetic, essential, passionate.
London Fields by Martin Amis
Panegyric by Guy Debord
The society of the spectacle couldn't make it here!
Hammond Guthrie:
The I-Ching (original translation)
The Tibetan Book of the Dead (original translation)
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Scripture of the Golden Eternity by Jack Kerouac
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by Buckminster Fuller
The Rosy Crucifixion = Sexus, Plexus and Nexus by Henry Miller
Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
Ulysses/Finnegans Wake (as a 2 Vol. entry) by James Joyce
The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot
The Elements of Style by Richard Strunk
Jean-Marie S.:
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Vanity of Duluoz by Jack Kerouac
Ask the Dust by John Fante
Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll
Ninety-two in the Shade by Thomas Mc Guane
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
Michael:
The Arabian Nightmare by Robert Irwin
Film As A Subversive Art by Amos Vogel
Franz Kafka by Max Brod
The Air Conditioned Nighmare by Henry Miller
Demian by Herman Hesse
Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley by Lawrence Sutin
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Catcher In the Rye by J.D. Salinger
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
All My Friends Are Going To be Strangers by Larry McMurtry
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingwaay
Ask The Dust by John Fante
Sixty-Seven Poems for Downtrodden Saints
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac
White Trash
Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs
It Catches My Heart In Its Hands by Charles Bukowski
Tristessa by Jack Kerouac
Junky by William S. Burroughs
More Junk...Junk Sick..Junk....
Factotum by Charles Bukowski
& yes, by the sweat of your brow....
Down & Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Really the Blues by Mezz Mezzrow
take a rapid ride on the jazz train to.....
Be a writer...The Gamble for a Lifetime...
-10. (Let's Break The Rules) (Books by some new ones....)
Rope Burns by F.X. Toole...Get this book.
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America by Barbara Ehrenreich...Get this book.
Doghouse Flowers by Steve Earle
A Scanner Darkly by Phillip K Dick.
Using his own drug experience in the 60s. Dick builds a sci-fi novel that will capture you from the begining.
London Fields by Martin Amis.
Amis goes deeper than what Wolfe and Ellis went in Bonfire of the Vanities and American Psycho.
The Psychedelic Prayers by Tim Leary.
Burning Chrome by William Gibson.
Bobok by Dostoevsky.
Dark tale about a drunk and the voice that he hears in the cemetery.
Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami.
Jim Camp:
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Tropic Of Cancer by Henry Miller
Tropic Of Capricorn by Henry Miller
The Thief's Journal by Jean Genet
Journey To The End Of The Night by Celine
Death On The Installment Plan by Celine
Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac
Last Exit To Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
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
Allison M.:
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
Maggie Cassady by Jack Kerouac
Demian by Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
The Beach by Alex Garland
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The Book of Five Rings
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