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reading suggestions
    #5596593 - 05/06/06 12:35 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

I'm looking for something to read.

Something along the lines of a Hiaasen or a Christopher Moore. I picked my way through Tim O' Brien's "Tomcat in Love" and decided that I liked his other stuff better (more along the lines of "The Things they Carried"). I've read Palahnuik, so don't even bother.

I've tried to get into the Sci-Fi/Fantasy genre, but I'm very particular about what I enjoy. Stephen Donaldson falls into the category, as does Terry Pratchett.

I guess I'm looking for something a bit obscure, humorous and quirky. If you've read something lately that fits into that, then post it here.

I'm open to all suggestions.


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Re: reading suggestions [Re: barto]
    #5596615 - 05/06/06 12:45 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

It's not really obscure, but it's very humorous and quirky, have you tried Mikhail Bulgakov's Master and Margarita?

What about J.G. Ballard? I have yet to read one of his books that wasn't excellent and worthwhile.

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Re: reading suggestions [Re: BioBunny]
    #5596674 - 05/06/06 01:09 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Waiting for gadot, anything by ayn rand, and true hallucinations.....

Sam Beckett is certainly funny and thought provolking.


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Re: reading suggestions [Re: barto]
    #5596769 - 05/06/06 01:50 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

Kill Two Birds and Get Stoned

As far as I know no one really reads it, very humorous, and quite quirky

It may seem short at first, but it turns out it's the perfect length


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Re: reading suggestions [Re: barto]
    #5597351 - 05/06/06 10:04 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

It sounds like you might like Philip K. Dick, if you have not already read his stuff. The Simulacra and Time Out Of Joint are two great ones, but there are many more to choose from. If you want humour, obscurity, quirkiness, and sci-fi, then you may want Philip K. Dick.


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Re: reading suggestions [Re: barto]
    #5597365 - 05/06/06 10:09 AM (17 years, 8 months ago)

I recommend picking up the literary magazine, All-Story. In 1997, Francis Ford Coppola launched a magazine devoted to supporting the brightest young voices in fiction. In its short history, Zoetrope: All-Story has received every major short fiction award, including the National Magazine Award for Fiction. Zoetrope is also an art magazine, inviting a different contemporary artist to illustrate and design each issue. Past guest designers include Julian Schnabel, Mary Ellen Mark, Helmut Newton, David Bowie, Laurie Anderson, Jeff Koons, Peter Greenaway, and David Byrne.


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Re: reading suggestions [Re: barto]
    #5597874 - 05/06/06 02:37 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

What, you've run out of Terry Pratchett to read? :what:

I've been getting into sci-fi/fantasy over the past few months as well. Highlights so far: Changing Planes by Ursula K. Le Guin, Forests of the Heart by Charles de Lint and Contact by good ol' stoner Carl Sagan. Everything else I came upon was somewhat crap :grin:

As to everything else, definately check out The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. It's absolutely amazing :craven: Besides now is *the* time to (re)read it - just before the moon turns full this month :wink:

Other than that - The Magus by John Fowles, pretty much anything by Umberto Eco, Tove Jansson, ugh, so many books, so little time... :smirk:


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Re: reading suggestions [Re: ivi]
    #5598519 - 05/06/06 06:34 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

"liquid conspiracy JFK, LSD, the CIA, Area 51, and UFOs"

good read...


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Re: reading suggestions [Re: habitat0789]
    #5598586 - 05/06/06 07:01 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

i am really enjoying the reading that ive been asigned in my transcendentalism class this past semester. while we aren't actually focusing on american transcendentalism we have been focusing on acting on desires, and really expanding our views on what a meaningful life entails, and whether or not you have to look outside of society for an admirable life. the works that i recommend are:

the unbarable lightness of being by milan kundera (i hear there is a movie based on this book but have not seen it, and apparently the movie was very risque at its creation because it was very sexual. the book deals a lot with relationships, sexual and other wise in which something very unconventional is happening. which is really the theme of transcendentalism, the search for correctness from oneself and not from the mold of society)

the stranger by albert camus (maybe not for everyone, but is a short almost novelelette, that focuses on living desires and not worrying about consequences, and then the consequences of those actions)

a heartbreaking tale of staggering genious by david eggers (what happens when you get to start over and do anything you could possibly want to do. also lots of theology on parenting and whether or not you have responisbility to raise a child a certian way. interesting stuff, makes for great discussion)


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