Any good book recommendations? I just finished Nick Hornby’s “How to be Good”, which, I think is a classic book. It’s written from a woman’s perspective and he details the emotions that she goes through when she wants a divorce from her husband (she has an affair), and then changes her mind (typical…), when he becomes a good person. I do suggest this book. Sad but hilarious.
And don’t go by the movie High Fidelity that Hollywood made. As usual, they messed up a good book by releasing a mediocre movie on it, and they changed it completely (ie. moving the location from London to Chicago, which I thought was just stupid).
“Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee” by Dee Brown. This book is essential in really addressing what happened to the native americans. Also “Hitlers Willing Executioners” by William Goldhagen, makes you really wonder about the german people plus its one of the best history books ever written.
I would suggest doing yourself a favor and grabbing the whole “Sword Of Truth” series by Terry Goodkind. Yes, it’s fantasy, but it is much more along the lines of and epic adventure. Great characters that you can actually feel and relate to that grow more and more human and fleshlike with each successive book… the yearnings and fears and other emotions that triumph and challenge the human spirit… and most importantly, there is a good maxim for life that can be found in every book. So far the series is 9 books long and the author, Terry Goodkind, has said that there will only be two more books in the whoel series. Each book is generally 600-1100 pages long, so you get plenty of reading material. Great stuff. Go buy some. =)
First book is called “Wizard’s First Rule”… then followed by “Stone Of Tears”, “Blood Of The Fold”, “Temple Of The Winds” (my personal favorite), “Faith Of The Fallen”, “Soul Of Fire”, “Pillars Of Creation”, “Naked Empire” and finally “Chainfire”. The new books should be released within the next year or three.
I always recommend “This Side Of Paradise” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love his documents of the ‘roaring 20’s’. It’s an oldie, but a goodie. Sent me to the dictionary a couple of times the first time I read it!
havnt read High Fidelity, thought the movie wasnt bad, nothing spectactular,
lol… thought it was interesting to see a waxtrax! t-shirt pop up a few times, and a Pailhead reference. But that has nothing to do with the movie… lol.
Havnt really read anything great recently, some vomit-worthy reads with Poppy-Z Brite.
Kurt Vonnegut’s “Breakfast of Champions” in case everyone here hasn’t already read it. I don’t know how to even begin to describe it.
Also almost anything by the oft-mentioned Haruki Murakami is good.
Phillip K. Dick’s “The Man in the High Castle” is also worthwhile if you haven’t read it. It’s an alternate history, in which Japan and Germany won the Second World War and have split the United States among themselves.
Dude, read Lullaby and Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, The Traveling Vampire Show and One Rainy Night by Richard Laymon. Fucking awesome books by fucking awesome authors.
Dude, read Lullaby and Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, The Traveling Vampire Show and One Rainy Night by Richard Laymon. Fucking awesome books by fucking awesome authors.
The book of Fight Club is SOOOO much better than the movie. Really… I agree with that selection wholeheartedly. I haven’t read Chuck’s other work but I would love to…
Another good book (although kinda slim, being only 160 pages) that I just read that I recommend for pyschological thriller type stuff is “The Hole” by Guy Burt. Awesome stuff. It’s a bit in the vein of “Lord Of The Flies” but not quite as grand. =)
One of my faves is by Neil Peart from Rush - Ghost Rider. Came out around 2002. Deals with how Neil dealt with the loss of his daughter in a car wreck and then his wife just six months later to cancer. He took this huge bike ride on his BMW motorcycle from the Yukon all the way down to Mexico in order to purge his grief. Book also serves as a nice travel guide. Highest recommendation.
‘Lucifer Rising’ by Gavin Baddeley, it is about Satanism/occult influences in pop culture especially music. One of the guys from Venom has a dated quote in the book saying how Ministry was the only band with a Venom-esque attitude and sound.
I second the Miller recommendation. My friend Bruce swears by his works, how great they are… he thinks he’s better than Shakespeare.
The quality of Miller that I really enjoy is that he pulls absolutely no punches. His works are largely embellished autobiographical pieces. ‘Tropic of Cancer’ is about his life in Paris in the '30’s, when he himself was about 35 years of age. Unbelievable insight into human nature.
Comparing him to the Bard is like comparing apples and oranges. Shakespeare was a storyteller, Miller was a realist.
Harry Harrison - The Hammer and the Cross
It’s an alternate history of 9th century England and involves a lovely clash between Norse mythology and Christianity. Lots of gory torture scenes too![:P]