What's a good book I might enjoy?

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I dunno, the last couple of books I picked up recently ("Scar Vegas and other stories" by Tom Paine and "Wide open" by Nicola Barker), I didn't even finish. Any recommendations?

― Michael B, Saturday, 8 February 2003 22:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Give me some clues as to what kind of thing you do like, and I'll give it a shot.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 8 February 2003 22:27 (twenty-three years ago)

ok then...I like "The wasp factory" by Iain Banks, "Catch-22", "The dead school" by Pat McCabe, "A rabbit omnibus" by John Updike, "Cold snap" by Thom Jones, "Trainspotting", John Steinbeck, "The book of evidence" by John Banville, Douglas Coupland, Elmore Leonard, "Always outnumbered, always outgunned" by Walter Mosley, Roddy Doyle, "The football factory", Albert Camus....also love books about music too.

― Michael B, Saturday, 8 February 2003 22:37 (twenty-three years ago)

spider by patrick mcgrath, which is like the wasp factory but a hundred times better. soon to be a film by david cronenberg I just found out last week when I saw the trailer.

― kyle, Saturday, 8 February 2003 23:27 (twenty-three years ago)

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― Curtis Stephens, Saturday, 8 February 2003 23:34 (twenty-three years ago)

You are one of those people with diverse tastes who is therefore difficult to predict easily. I don't know what to suggest. Sorry!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 8 February 2003 23:36 (twenty-three years ago)

there's always David Cavanagh's The Creation Records Story: My Magpie Eyes are Hungry for the Prize. i've been reading it on and off, and i'm quite enjoying it---it's REAAAAAAALLLLLLYYYYY exhaustive. if you've any interest in any of the bands who were on Creation, it's interesting reading. :)

― janni (janni), Saturday, 8 February 2003 23:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks janni, I read that book recently and yeah I loved it.

― Michael B, Sunday, 9 February 2003 00:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Something by Cormac McCarthy, "Locos" by Felipe Alfau, "Walls Rise Up" by George Sessions Perry, "Cows" by Matthew Stokoe, "Ironweed" by William Kennedy, "Memoirs Found In A Bathtub" by Stanislaw Lem...

Music-related books: Something by Camden Joy, "A House in Bali" (I forget the author), "Lexicon Devil" (Darby Crash bio)...

― Ryan McKay (Ryan McKay), Sunday, 9 February 2003 01:21 (twenty-three years ago)

stalin bios + doctor glas by hjalmar soderberg/it's supported by "the view" but fuck it. "glamorama" bret easton ellis + "the secret agent" by joseph conrad./

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Sunday, 9 February 2003 01:26 (twenty-three years ago)

everyone in the world has read more novels than me, so you perhaps have already read my current book (as in, the one I am reading, not my latest authored book), "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Attwood. It presents a nightmare vision of a USA rule by people like Dick Cheney.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Sunday, 9 February 2003 01:35 (twenty-three years ago)

attwood != lockwood? Muhawha!

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Sunday, 9 February 2003 01:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I read Cormac McCarthy's "All the pretty horses" and I didn't even finsh it. I've always been meaning to get round to reading one of B.E.Ellis' books but I always got the impression he was a smug arse. Nope i haven't read "The handmaids tale"...wasn't there a movie of that...summat about women being held captive to give birth to the kids of rich fuXors?

― Michael B, Sunday, 9 February 2003 01:46 (twenty-three years ago)

surely evrything's irrelevant due to "O in dat H"/seriously, i wd recommend "glamorama" if yr into ppl bein playful.

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Sunday, 9 February 2003 01:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Michael, James Kelman?

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Sunday, 9 February 2003 07:59 (twenty-three years ago)

"You are one of those people with diverse tastes who is therefore difficult to predict easily."
Isn't that ALWAYS the case? That said: BARTHES! Read BARTHES! BARTHES! :-)

― nathalie (nathalie), Sunday, 9 February 2003 09:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Hunger - Knut Hamsun

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 9 February 2003 10:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Nathanial West is good, if you can find his stuff anywhere. Banana Yoshimoto; the book that splits all ILE book discussions: Confederacy of Dunces (john kenedy toole); murakami; death and the pengiun (andrey kurkov). They're the books I've enjoyed lately.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 9 February 2003 10:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Is no one going to point out that Curtis has suggested one of the greatest books of all time? "The Monster At The End Of This Book" was probably my introduction to the joys of metatextualism. It is still one of my all-time favorites -- it fills me with delight, especially reading it aloud to someone (whether to a child or adult).

The sequel -- sigh -- is horrible, however; it's the same idea, but this time it's Grover and Elmo, and Elmo is a complete drag, and the schtick feels forced and joyless.

― Chris P (Chris P), Sunday, 9 February 2003 10:36 (twenty-three years ago)

you should get a choose your own adventure book becuz they are fun.

― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 9 February 2003 10:38 (twenty-three years ago)

STRAIGHT LIFE - Art and Laurie Pepper. More junkie business than music, but an absorbing read nevertheless.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Sunday, 9 February 2003 10:42 (twenty-three years ago)

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