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Book Recommendations (pg. 4)
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| brunette |
Maugham 'Far Eastern tales'
Ondaatje 'The English Patient'
Palin 'Sahara'
Golden 'Memoirs of geisha'
by the same author of 'The Beach' - 'The Tesseract'
Saramago 'Blindness'
Hermann Hesse 'Siddhartha'
Camus 'The Fall' ("have you noticed that Amsterdam's concentric canals resemble the circles of hell?")
Eco 'The name of the rose'
Coupland 'Microserfs'
Symmes 'Chasing Che'
Cunninghame 'Mogreb-el-Acksa'
(not all travel books)... I can't think of any more at the moment |
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| KLINGKLANG77 |
| quote: | Originally posted by DiS
p.s. it still escapes me how Salinger got on that list. |
how could you say that^^^^? |
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| Eu4ea_18 |
thanks heaps everybody, though I've read most of these I have a good list of things to get from border tonight. But damn I wish books weren't so expensive! Please keep more coming.
Esp. anything written by british authors. |
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| emono |
By a British author, although already mentioned before:
'Point Counter Point' by Aldous Huxley,
even more sadisitic than 'Brave New World', if that's possible
'Don't Read this Book if You're Stupid', by Tibor Fischer
otherwise, if you like their style:
'Lullaby', 'Choke', 'Survivor' by Chuck Palahniuk (author of 'Fight Club')
other favorites:
'Prozac Nation' by Elizabeth Wurtzel (made into a movie this year)
It's like an extreme, modern-day J.D. Sallinger novel, with a lot more technicality to it-
'Requiem for a Dream' by Hubert Selby Jr. - tragedy at its best.
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - The matriarchal section of Latin American culture, amongst other customs, portrayed in a pessimistic, tragic manner.
Also, anything that relates to forensic medicine; Patricia Cornwell, Jeffrey Deaver.
I dig pessimism. |
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| emono |
davinox, those are a bunch of classics...
including american literature, and just plain historical classics
nice selections, i would recommend those reads, although not all amongst my favorites. |
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| Ortemy |
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Perfume by Patrick Süskind
Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque
Everything is quiet on Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Alchemist - by Paulo Cuelho
Clock Work Orange - Anthony Berdges |
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| djSlain |
| clockwork orange. SCARY |
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| The Highroller |
| quote: | Originally posted by djnaeblis
YAH! SERIOUSLY! WOW! Not only the best book. But the best movie ever................ :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: |
did you read the book cause i know the movie sucked but the book was damn good |
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| DJ Chrono |
HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
not a bad book. a little crazy, very short, but worth a read. |
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| Endlesswave |
Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman - Dragonlance Chronicles Series (First 3)
Click HERE for information (keep in mind look at the Chronicles Trilogy ONLY as some of the other numerous books are good, just not in the same calibre IMO) |
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| Ortemy |
| quote: | Originally posted by djSlain
clockwork orange. SCARY |
The movie "Natural Born Killers" is also scary, nevertheless it's really good. Same goes for Clock Work Orange (both movie and the book). |
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