Flaminia Ferina
from Umbria is reading stuffMarch 29, 2012 - 9:28am
it's a good day for LitRs-related new words. Fylh --> DanielSoul77 --> Utahnize.
Keep them comin!
Sorry, got no top ten yet.
taralara
from Minneapolis is reading We Need New Names by NoViolet BulawayoMarch 29, 2012 - 10:56am
1. The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
2. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? - Carver
3. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Hurston
4. Sirens of Titan - Vonnegut
5. The Awakening - Chopin
6. Invisible Monsters - Palahniuk
7. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Albee
8. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Kundera
9. The Bell Jar - Plath
10. Franny and Zooey - Salinger
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersMarch 29, 2012 - 10:59am
"Franny and Zooey - Salinger"
Internet high five!!
Typewriter Demigod
from London is reading "White Noise" by DeLilo, "Moby-Dick" by Hermann Mellivile and "Uylsses" by JoyceMarch 29, 2012 - 12:04pm
cloud atlas, a clockwork orange, fight club, what i was, the white crow, the naked lunch, battle royale, elfen leid (a manga, I know), beserk, (also a manga), the Brief and Wonderous life of oscar wao and the rules of attraction. no particular order/
Limbless K9
from Oregon is reading WraeththuMarch 29, 2012 - 12:16pm
Oh I MUST add The Phantom Tollbooth. That is probably one of my favorite books of all time. It's just magical.
Typewriter Demigod
from London is reading "White Noise" by DeLilo, "Moby-Dick" by Hermann Mellivile and "Uylsses" by JoyceMarch 29, 2012 - 12:25pm
omg I love that book, but not as much as the secret of platform 13
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazMarch 29, 2012 - 12:27pm
@Bill: China rocks. Genrebuster.
Limbless K9
from Oregon is reading WraeththuMarch 29, 2012 - 12:35pm
I've never read The Secret of Platform 13. Phantom is definitely the book that made my imagination what it is today.
Arturo Bandini
from Denver, CO is reading Beautiful RuinsMarch 29, 2012 - 12:54pm
Revolutionary Road
Requiem For A Dream
White Noise
Where I'm Calling From
High Fidelity
Fight Club
Blood Meridian
A Confederacy Of Dunces
Lunar Park
The Great Gatsby
....I think. No real order other than the first one.
EDITED to add #11 (so what) - Ask The Dust
XyZy
from New York City is reading Seveneves and Animal MoneyMarch 29, 2012 - 12:53pm
Yeah, I could never just pick ten books as better than all of the others either... So here's the top ten books of the ones I had to crawl over to get out of bed today... in order of appearance:
Infinite Jest - DFW
American Gods - Gaiman
And Then We Came to the End - Joshua Ferris
How Fiction Works - James Wood
The Princess Bride - William Goldman
Baudolino - Eco
A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens
Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men - Rousseau
Special Topics in Calamity Physics - Marisha Pessl
Tonal Harmony: With An Introduction To Twentieth-Century Music - Kostka/Payne
Americantypo
from Philadelphia is reading The Bone ClocksMarch 29, 2012 - 1:55pm
@chester. China makes me want to give up writing and take up goat farming.
Chester Pane
from Portland, Oregon is reading The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DiazMarch 29, 2012 - 2:15pm
@Bill: Ha! No shit. Imagine trying to guess his War submissions.
@Arturo: Word on the Cubby. I also have that Hornby sitting on the shelf waiting to be cracked.
@Clint: I have been wanting to read Infinite Jest forever.
I wish I was a faster reader.
PandaMask
from Los Angeles is reading More Than HumanMarch 29, 2012 - 2:17pm
@Chester
I wish I was a fast reader too.
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.March 29, 2012 - 2:33pm
I hate when books take 50 pages or more to get to the point.
PandaMask
from Los Angeles is reading More Than HumanMarch 29, 2012 - 2:37pm
That too.
Bradley Sands
from Boston is reading Greil Marcus's The History of Rock 'N' Roll in Ten SongsMarch 29, 2012 - 9:24pm
Harry Crews died.
Covewriter
from Nashville, Tennessee is reading & SonsMarch 29, 2012 - 9:40pm
I love these kind of lists. I surprised I'm so late responding to this one. Here you go in no certain order:
1. Grapes of Wrath
2. Anything else by Steinbeck
3. Great Santini
4. Anyting else by Pat Conroy
5. Them
6. Almost anything else by Joyce Carol Oates, there are a few that wouldn't make the list.
7. Let The Great World Spin ( this is a recent addition.)
8. Forty Acres and A Goat (Will Campbell, try it!)
9. The Stand
10. All the Rabbit Books by John Updike
Wow my list could go on and on. I forgot The Giver, by Lois Lowrey, one of the best YA books ever.
Covewriter
from Nashville, Tennessee is reading & SonsMarch 29, 2012 - 9:40pm
I love these kind of lists. I surprised I'm so late responding to this one. Here you go in no certain order:
1. Grapes of Wrath
2. Anything else by Steinbeck
3. Great Santini
4. Anyting else by Pat Conroy
5. Them
6. Almost anything else by Joyce Carol Oates, there are a few that wouldn't make the list.
7. Let The Great World Spin ( this is a recent addition.)
8. Forty Acres and A Goat (Will Campbell, try it!)
9. The Stand
10. All the Rabbit Books by John Updike
Wow my list could go on and on. I forgot The Giver, by Lois Lowrey, one of the best YA books ever.
PandaMask
from Los Angeles is reading More Than HumanMarch 29, 2012 - 10:02pm
Great list Cove.
I'll check some of those out. The Stand is def. one on my list.
Bradley Sands
from Boston is reading Greil Marcus's The History of Rock 'N' Roll in Ten SongsMarch 29, 2012 - 10:20pm
1. Inland Empire
2. Once Upon a Time in America
3. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
4. Brick
5. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Crap. It happened again.
R.Moon
from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's DigestMarch 29, 2012 - 10:26pm
No particular order...
1. Rules of Attraction: Bret Easton Ellis
2. Fight Club: Chuck
3. Get Shorty: Elmore Leonard
4. Carrie: Stephen King
5. A Long Way Down: Nick Hornby
6. The Exorcist: William Peter Blatty
7. Money Shot: Christa Faust
8. Fifty-to-Once: Charles Ardai
9. This Side of Paradise: F. Scott Fitzgerald
10. The Brooklyn Follies: Paul Auster
11. Forever: Pete Hamill
Okay, like Spinal Tap, I had to crank it to 11.
Covewriter
from Nashville, Tennessee is reading & SonsMarch 29, 2012 - 10:52pm
Ohh i forgot The Exorcist. My Mom wouldn't let me read it, but she did. I snuck her copy, which made it all the better. Also how about Marjorie Morningstar, and Atlas Shrugged! Too many to put in top 10.
R.Moon
from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's DigestMarch 30, 2012 - 3:15am
Catch 22
The Game
The Shining
I could go on as well.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersMarch 30, 2012 - 4:50am
@Cove - Pat Conroy, solid choice. I love his writing. Beautifully Southern.
jyh
from VA is reading whatever he feels likeApril 3, 2012 - 8:35am
Limited to novels, in no order. As I don't reread very often a few are books I haven't read in 10+ years. These all made a great impression --
The Sybil by Par Lagerkvist
The Fall by Albert Camus
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Maggie, Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane
The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa
Independent People by Halldor Laxness
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr
EDIT - I originally wrote "Giovanni" instead of "Giuseppe." I have hired a midget to kick me in the shins later this week.
Pete
from Detroit is reading Red DragonMarch 30, 2012 - 11:09am
You like The Fall over The Stranger by Camus?
Fylh
from from from is reading is from is reading is reading is reading reading is readingMarch 30, 2012 - 11:10am
I do, too. I found it a much better book.
Moderator
Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryMarch 30, 2012 - 1:02pm
No particular order:
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon
The Last Good Kiss, James Crumley
The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
The first five books Stephen King wrote, plus the Dark Tower series minus the final 20 pages
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
Hyperion, Dan Simmons
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
L.A. Confidential, James Ellroy
jyh
from VA is reading whatever he feels likeMarch 30, 2012 - 2:24pm
Yay, lists. Again, in no order --
Non-ficiton
1. The Imagination of an Insurrection: Dublin, Easter 1916 by William Irwin Thopson
2. The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall
3. Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti by Maya Deren
4. The Flight of the Wild Gander by Joseph Campbell
5. The Future as Nightmare: H.G. Wells and the Anti-Utopians by Mark R. Hillegas
Stories
1. Dubliners by James Joyce
2. Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
3. The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane by Robert E. Howard
4. The Mabinogion
5. Selected Stories by H.G. Wells
Covewriter
from Nashville, Tennessee is reading & SonsMarch 30, 2012 - 3:52pm
Oh guys, Nathan Englander's What We Talk About WhenWe Talk About Ann Frank is awesome.
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.March 30, 2012 - 3:59pm
The Stranger is very overrated. Existential despair. Blah.
Pete
from Detroit is reading Red DragonMarch 30, 2012 - 4:00pm
Honestly, it's been so long since I read both of those Camus books... I can't remember why I liked The Stranger more than The Fall.
Still haven't read The Plague though.
jyh
from VA is reading whatever he feels likeMarch 30, 2012 - 4:27pm
RE: your earlier question, Pete -- I've read The Fall, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, Resistance Rebellion and Death, Caligula and other Plays, A Happy Death but I never actually read The Stranger. I can only speculate why. I guess I figured I'd get around to it but didn't.
wickedvoodoo
from Mansfield, England is reading stuff.March 30, 2012 - 6:19pm
I keep meaning to read more Camus. I have a translation titled The Outsider rather than The Stranger.
I thought most versions were titled Outsider? Was surprised to see you guys calling it The Stranger. (estranger doesn't actually directly translate as stranger does it? I thought it was closer to foreigner, hence the Outsider title? Maybe I'm wrong) It was a pretty good read, can see how he influenced a lot of the authors I like. People keep recommending The Plague, I must rememeber to pick it up at some point.
Bradley Sands
from Boston is reading Greil Marcus's The History of Rock 'N' Roll in Ten SongsMarch 31, 2012 - 11:43am
Throughout the years:
1: Jeff Noon's Vurt
2: Simon Black's The Book of Frank
3: Tom Robbin's Another Roadside Attraction
4: The Illuminatus! Trilogy (Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea)
5: Philip K. Dick's Valis
6: Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions
7: Mark Leyner's The Tetherballs of Bougainville
8: Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye
9: Kelly Link's Magic for Beginners
9. Thomas Ligotti's The Nightmare Factory
10: Russell Edson's The Tunnel
Alex Kane
from west-central Illinois is reading Dark OrbitApril 2, 2012 - 7:00pm
Horns by Joe Hill
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Ragamuffin by Tobias S. Buckell
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
The Stand by Stephen King
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Neuromancer by William Gibson
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Covewriter
from Nashville, Tennessee is reading & SonsApril 2, 2012 - 8:03pm
@taralara said Bell Jar. One of the best books ever. Loved it. Seriously, it made a big impression on me.
@Utah said Kavalier and Clay. Yea, one of the best also. What a great story.
@Alex said Neuromancer, totally NOT my genre but i read it to find out about the genre and really liked it.
We are lucky to have literature in our lives. What would we do without it?
Boone Spaulding
from Coldwater, Michigan, U.S.A. is reading Solarcide Presents: Nova ParadeApril 3, 2012 - 5:22am
We are lucky to have literature in our lives. What would we do without it?"
Fight, f*ck, tell lies, die young.
Norbit
April 3, 2012 - 7:12am
That Annie Proust book of short stories which included Brokeback Mountain.
bryanhowie
from FW, ID is reading East of Eden. Steinbeck is FUCKING AMAZING.April 3, 2012 - 8:05am
Boone, can I just tell lies about fighting, fucking, and dying? Because that might be easier.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersApril 3, 2012 - 8:07am
"can I just tell lies about fighting, fucking, and dying?"
Isn't that what writing is? Or I've been doing it wrong.
bryanhowie
from FW, ID is reading East of Eden. Steinbeck is FUCKING AMAZING.April 3, 2012 - 8:16am
Someone famous said every story is about love or loss or both. (I'd put it 'fucking or dying' but I'm crass). I think we need more fucking.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersApril 3, 2012 - 9:12am
^ Exactly.
bryanhowie
from FW, ID is reading East of Eden. Steinbeck is FUCKING AMAZING.April 3, 2012 - 9:30am
^ Exactly.
Limbless K9
from Oregon is reading WraeththuApril 3, 2012 - 1:25pm
^Exactly.
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.April 3, 2012 - 3:07pm
Brokeback Mountain was hot.
David Shepherd
from shepherdsville, KY is reading Idoru by William GibbsonApril 3, 2012 - 3:18pm
1. The watchmen
2. Misery
3. Treasure island
4. The hobbit
5. Trainspotting
6. Never trust a naked car salesman
7. Lord brocktree
8. Dreamcatcher
9. The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
10. Sin city
Boone Spaulding
from Coldwater, Michigan, U.S.A. is reading Solarcide Presents: Nova ParadeApril 3, 2012 - 6:55pm
Neill D. Hicks (screenwriter) said that all good writing has either "sex and violence" or "passion and tension." Stuck with me...where is the passion? Where is the tension? In other words, why do I care about this thing I'm reading?
Chris Davis
from Indiana is reading A Feast of Snakes by Harry CrewsApril 5, 2012 - 8:53am
1. Transmetropolitan – Warren Ellis
2. Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut
3. Lullaby – Chuck Palahniuk
4. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
5. Mere Christianity – C.S. Lewis
6. Florida Frenzy – Harry Crews
7. The Great Shark Hunt – Hunter S. Thompson
8. Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter – Seth Grahame-Smith
9. Grimm Fairy Tales – The Brothers Grimm
10. Crooked Little Vein – Warren Ellis
Bracchos
from Albuquerque is reading Translated WomanApril 5, 2012 - 3:16pm
it's a good day for LitRs-related new words. Fylh --> DanielSoul77 --> Utahnize.
Keep them comin!
Sorry, got no top ten yet.
1. The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
2. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? - Carver
3. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Hurston
4. Sirens of Titan - Vonnegut
5. The Awakening - Chopin
6. Invisible Monsters - Palahniuk
7. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Albee
8. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Kundera
9. The Bell Jar - Plath
10. Franny and Zooey - Salinger
"Franny and Zooey - Salinger"
Internet high five!!
cloud atlas, a clockwork orange, fight club, what i was, the white crow, the naked lunch, battle royale, elfen leid (a manga, I know), beserk, (also a manga), the Brief and Wonderous life of oscar wao and the rules of attraction. no particular order/
Oh I MUST add The Phantom Tollbooth. That is probably one of my favorite books of all time. It's just magical.
omg I love that book, but not as much as the secret of platform 13
@Bill: China rocks. Genrebuster.
I've never read The Secret of Platform 13. Phantom is definitely the book that made my imagination what it is today.
Revolutionary Road
Requiem For A Dream
White Noise
Where I'm Calling From
High Fidelity
Fight Club
Blood Meridian
A Confederacy Of Dunces
Lunar Park
The Great Gatsby
....I think. No real order other than the first one.
EDITED to add #11 (so what) - Ask The Dust
Yeah, I could never just pick ten books as better than all of the others either... So here's the top ten books of the ones I had to crawl over to get out of bed today... in order of appearance:
Infinite Jest - DFW
American Gods - Gaiman
And Then We Came to the End - Joshua Ferris
How Fiction Works - James Wood
The Princess Bride - William Goldman
Baudolino - Eco
A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens
Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men - Rousseau
Special Topics in Calamity Physics - Marisha Pessl
Tonal Harmony: With An Introduction To Twentieth-Century Music - Kostka/Payne
@chester. China makes me want to give up writing and take up goat farming.
@Bill: Ha! No shit. Imagine trying to guess his War submissions.
@Arturo: Word on the Cubby. I also have that Hornby sitting on the shelf waiting to be cracked.
@Clint: I have been wanting to read Infinite Jest forever.
I wish I was a faster reader.
@Chester
I wish I was a fast reader too.
I hate when books take 50 pages or more to get to the point.
That too.
Harry Crews died.
I love these kind of lists. I surprised I'm so late responding to this one. Here you go in no certain order:
1. Grapes of Wrath
2. Anything else by Steinbeck
3. Great Santini
4. Anyting else by Pat Conroy
5. Them
6. Almost anything else by Joyce Carol Oates, there are a few that wouldn't make the list.
7. Let The Great World Spin ( this is a recent addition.)
8. Forty Acres and A Goat (Will Campbell, try it!)
9. The Stand
10. All the Rabbit Books by John Updike
Wow my list could go on and on. I forgot The Giver, by Lois Lowrey, one of the best YA books ever.
I love these kind of lists. I surprised I'm so late responding to this one. Here you go in no certain order:
1. Grapes of Wrath
2. Anything else by Steinbeck
3. Great Santini
4. Anyting else by Pat Conroy
5. Them
6. Almost anything else by Joyce Carol Oates, there are a few that wouldn't make the list.
7. Let The Great World Spin ( this is a recent addition.)
8. Forty Acres and A Goat (Will Campbell, try it!)
9. The Stand
10. All the Rabbit Books by John Updike
Wow my list could go on and on. I forgot The Giver, by Lois Lowrey, one of the best YA books ever.
Great list Cove.
I'll check some of those out. The Stand is def. one on my list.
1. Inland Empire
2. Once Upon a Time in America
3. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
4. Brick
5. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Crap. It happened again.
No particular order...
1. Rules of Attraction: Bret Easton Ellis
2. Fight Club: Chuck
3. Get Shorty: Elmore Leonard
4. Carrie: Stephen King
5. A Long Way Down: Nick Hornby
6. The Exorcist: William Peter Blatty
7. Money Shot: Christa Faust
8. Fifty-to-Once: Charles Ardai
9. This Side of Paradise: F. Scott Fitzgerald
10. The Brooklyn Follies: Paul Auster
11. Forever: Pete Hamill
Okay, like Spinal Tap, I had to crank it to 11.
Ohh i forgot The Exorcist. My Mom wouldn't let me read it, but she did. I snuck her copy, which made it all the better. Also how about Marjorie Morningstar, and Atlas Shrugged! Too many to put in top 10.
Catch 22
The Game
The Shining
I could go on as well.
@Cove - Pat Conroy, solid choice. I love his writing. Beautifully Southern.
Limited to novels, in no order. As I don't reread very often a few are books I haven't read in 10+ years. These all made a great impression --
The Sybil by Par Lagerkvist
The Fall by Albert Camus
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Maggie, Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane
The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa
Independent People by Halldor Laxness
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr
EDIT - I originally wrote "Giovanni" instead of "Giuseppe." I have hired a midget to kick me in the shins later this week.
You like The Fall over The Stranger by Camus?
I do, too. I found it a much better book.
No particular order:
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon
The Last Good Kiss, James Crumley
The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
The first five books Stephen King wrote, plus the Dark Tower series minus the final 20 pages
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
Hyperion, Dan Simmons
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
L.A. Confidential, James Ellroy
Yay, lists. Again, in no order --
Non-ficiton
1. The Imagination of an Insurrection: Dublin, Easter 1916 by William Irwin Thopson
2. The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall
3. Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti by Maya Deren
4. The Flight of the Wild Gander by Joseph Campbell
5. The Future as Nightmare: H.G. Wells and the Anti-Utopians by Mark R. Hillegas
Stories
1. Dubliners by James Joyce
2. Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
3. The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane by Robert E. Howard
4. The Mabinogion
5. Selected Stories by H.G. Wells
Oh guys, Nathan Englander's What We Talk About WhenWe Talk About Ann Frank is awesome.
The Stranger is very overrated. Existential despair. Blah.
Honestly, it's been so long since I read both of those Camus books... I can't remember why I liked The Stranger more than The Fall.
Still haven't read The Plague though.
RE: your earlier question, Pete -- I've read The Fall, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, Resistance Rebellion and Death, Caligula and other Plays, A Happy Death but I never actually read The Stranger. I can only speculate why. I guess I figured I'd get around to it but didn't.
I keep meaning to read more Camus. I have a translation titled The Outsider rather than The Stranger.
I thought most versions were titled Outsider? Was surprised to see you guys calling it The Stranger. (estranger doesn't actually directly translate as stranger does it? I thought it was closer to foreigner, hence the Outsider title? Maybe I'm wrong) It was a pretty good read, can see how he influenced a lot of the authors I like. People keep recommending The Plague, I must rememeber to pick it up at some point.
Throughout the years:
1: Jeff Noon's Vurt
2: Simon Black's The Book of Frank
3: Tom Robbin's Another Roadside Attraction
4: The Illuminatus! Trilogy (Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea)
5: Philip K. Dick's Valis
6: Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions
7: Mark Leyner's The Tetherballs of Bougainville
8: Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye
9: Kelly Link's Magic for Beginners
9. Thomas Ligotti's The Nightmare Factory
10: Russell Edson's The Tunnel
@taralara said Bell Jar. One of the best books ever. Loved it. Seriously, it made a big impression on me.
@Utah said Kavalier and Clay. Yea, one of the best also. What a great story.
@Alex said Neuromancer, totally NOT my genre but i read it to find out about the genre and really liked it.
We are lucky to have literature in our lives. What would we do without it?
Fight, f*ck, tell lies, die young.
That Annie Proust book of short stories which included Brokeback Mountain.
Boone, can I just tell lies about fighting, fucking, and dying? Because that might be easier.
"can I just tell lies about fighting, fucking, and dying?"
Isn't that what writing is? Or I've been doing it wrong.
Someone famous said every story is about love or loss or both. (I'd put it 'fucking or dying' but I'm crass). I think we need more fucking.
^ Exactly.
^ Exactly.
^Exactly.
Brokeback Mountain was hot.
1. The watchmen
2. Misery
3. Treasure island
4. The hobbit
5. Trainspotting
6. Never trust a naked car salesman
7. Lord brocktree
8. Dreamcatcher
9. The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
10. Sin city
Neill D. Hicks (screenwriter) said that all good writing has either "sex and violence" or "passion and tension." Stuck with me...where is the passion? Where is the tension? In other words, why do I care about this thing I'm reading?
1. Transmetropolitan – Warren Ellis
2. Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut
3. Lullaby – Chuck Palahniuk
4. American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
5. Mere Christianity – C.S. Lewis
6. Florida Frenzy – Harry Crews
7. The Great Shark Hunt – Hunter S. Thompson
8. Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter – Seth Grahame-Smith
9. Grimm Fairy Tales – The Brothers Grimm
10. Crooked Little Vein – Warren Ellis
1. Blood Meridian
2. Name of the Wind
3. Ceremony
4. Let the Right One In
5. The Hobbit
6. Silver Chair
7. A Game of Thrones
8. At the Mountains of Madness
9. Eye of the World
10. Don Quixote