Anti Books

Does anyone have any suggestions about books i can read along the lines of rejection of life/society?
kinda along the lines of fight club???

Try "The Outsiders" by Colin Wilson

. . .or the Outsiders by SE Hinton.

On the Road by Kerouac? The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe? Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut?

Those might not exactly be what yr looking for, though.

you mean transgressional fiction?

Is the outsiders the book drew barrymoore is talking about in donnie darko? thanks for the suggestions people.

crisp. thanx for the link lots of info on there!

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

She talks about two books. The one yr probably thinking about is the short story The Destructors by Graham Greene. She also talks about Watership Down.

Notes from Underground, by Dostoevsky; Ghost World, the graphic novel by Daniel Clowes; The Immoralist, by Andre Gide; The Stranger, by Camus; The Catcher in the Rye, by Salinger.

Iiiick. . .

That book. actually anything by Ellis. stirred me.

also, Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard

Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
1984 by George Orwell
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Blindness by Jose Saramago

im reading catcher in the rye at the moment, i have just recently discovered the joy of reading, i have read trainspotting and 1984 and most of chuck phalnuick's (spelling) books, but i want to make sure that i dont get soured by a shit book so i am making sure that i get good recomendations.

thanx people i will prob get hells angel's next as i have had that recomended that to me b4 then mabe the outsiders.

I second Trainspotting.

If you enjoyed those books, then I really recommend Tom Robbins... Still Life with Woodpecker would probably be right up your alley, although it's a bit... sillier than the rest.

Bartleby the Scrivener by Melville for total rejection of life.

Also, I second Shalome's recommendation of Robbins.

Seriously, a lot of novels fall into the "man against society" theme/plot structure, it's one of the oldest in literature. Even Don Quixote could be considered a part (and the start) of that tradition.


Some others that I like a lot:
Hunger--Knut Hamsun
Crime & Punishment--Dostoevsky
The Horse's Mouth--Joyce Cary
These aren't really like Fight Club, but they're a good deal deeper and better.

Next up, Ayn Rand, Sartre and Nietzsche.....