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okay, yes, i've spent the last two months reading and re-reading modern and classical fiction.
and, no, i dont like Kerouac. and i would normally refuse to have any sort of relation with any sort of mention of Grisham, especially a positive one; it's just a prejudice of mine. but there have been some good mentions in here and i'll go with that.
read mostly all of Douglas Coupland's stuff recently, except for Hey, Nostradamus!:
Life After God
Shampoo Planet
Microserfs
All Families Are Psychotic
Polaroids From the Dead
Generation X
all genius.
Read mostly all of Irinve Welsh's stuff recently as well, except for Filth and The Acid House which i just haven't been able to find.
Trainspotting
Glue
Ecstasy
Porno
Marabou Stork Nightmares (quite crap, this one)
highly recommend those two authors.
then, recently, i started reading in reverse chronology, starting with
1984 by Orwell, then on to some Aldous Huxley, Dostoevsky, currently Nathaniel Hawthorne and i plan to get as far back as the Etruscans someday.
love a lot of the stuff mentioned in this thread, including Palahniuk and Catcher In The Rye
Palahniuk has a new book out next month, by the way. Stranger Than Fiction, which is a collection of short stories and other non-fictional writing he's done over the years. it might include Guts which was the short-story that he read out on his Diary readings and made people pass out constantly.
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http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/bibl...62-0385504489-0
aside from the already mentioned, i would recommend
Don't Read This Book If You're Stupid by Tibor Fischer. british writer, dark british humour and dark british outlook on society overall. short stories. find it.
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