book recommendations

[michigancat]

need some...thanks in advance.

[Kat Kid]

what kind?

[steve dave]

reading Empire Falls currently.  Pretty decent.  

[Dr Rick Daris]

frankenstein

[michigancat]

what kind?

Let's start with classic American fiction.  (reading takes a long time)

[Kat Kid]

what kind?

Let's start with classic American fiction.  (reading takes a long time)

(don't be insulted if you've already read)


Grapes of Wrath
Johnny Get Your Gun
Old Man and the Sea (short)
(Hunter S. Thompson if you are open about "classic")

[michigancat]

what kind?

Let's start with classic American fiction.  (reading takes a long time)

(don't be insulted if you've already read)


Grapes of Wrath
Johnny Get Your Gun
Old Man and the Sea (short)
(Hunter S. Thompson if you are open about "classic")

not insulted at all.  There's just a lot of stuff I haven't read.  Hunter S. Thompson would count as classic to me.

[chum1]

The Sun Also Rises
The Catcher in the Rye

[_33]

Let me know when we get to the biography portion.  Just read a good one.

[PandaXpanda]

Jason Goodwin's Janissary Tree was really good.  It's fiction, but not American fiction.  

I dunno if travel books are your thing or not but here are a couple that I've really enjoyed.  Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger, Baghdad Without a Map and Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz are all great.

[mcmwcat]

just finished Roman Blood.  it's a historical novel based in ancient rome.  first of a series by Steven Saylor.  pretty good.

'classic' american lit?  hemingway?  anything else I can think of is boring as hell

[felix rex]

Ever read Umberto Eco? Name of the Rose is more well-known, but no less excellent for being so. Foucault's Pendulum is the best, IMO, but I also liked Baudolino.

[CNS]

Winter of our Discontent - Steinbeck

The Moon is Down - Steinbeck

East of Eden - Steinbeck

Tale of Two Cities - Dickens

[asava]

Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Big Sur - Jack Kerouac
The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles
Short Stories - Paul Bowles
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon (very long and complex)
Anything He's Ever Written - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Post Office - Charles Bukowski
Pulp - Charles Bukowski
Ham on Rye - Charles Bukowski

if you feel like venturing outside of America, just give the word. Some real incredible stuff out there in that big bad world.

[nicname]

http://artofmanliness.com/2009/06/02/the-essential-man%E2%80%99s-library-adventure-edition-part-one-fiction/

there is also a list including classic non-fiction works.

[michigancat]

i'll start w/ kk's list and go from there.

[sys]

just finished Roman Blood.  it's a historical novel based in ancient rome.  first of a series by Steven Saylor.  pretty good.

i read one of those.  about the catiline uprising.  it was ok i think.  or maybe i read two.  not positive.

[get_HIT]

OMFG!  BEST BOOK EVER!!!!  movie sucked, but the book was killer.

[CNS]

The Godfather

[mcmwcat]

just finished Roman Blood.  it's a historical novel based in ancient rome.  first of a series by Steven Saylor.  pretty good.

i read one of those.  about the catiline uprising.  it was ok i think.  or maybe i read two.  not positive.

Roman Blood is a crime mystery based on Cicero's first big case that gets him noticed.

[PandaXpanda]

The Godfather

Amazing book.

[asava]

i'll start w/ kk's list and go from there.

blatant post count discrimination.

[michigancat]

i'll start w/ kk's list and go from there.

blatant post count discrimination.

actually it was first to reply discrimination.  but whatevs.

[Dr Rick Daris]

i'll start w/ kk's list and go from there.

blatant post count discrimination.

actually it was first to reply discrimination.  but whatevs.

are you sure about that? seems like i offered up the best book ever written quite a while before kk threw up his list. probably just trying to get an invite to kk/wrff/chingon pak #2.

[Kat Kid]

i'll start w/ kk's list and go from there.

blatant post count discrimination.

You know what would've helped?  responding to his question, not your need to show off elite books you've read.  krusty is a simple man, he needs to be eased in, not raped by bourroghs and bowles.