Recommend a Good Book

I need something good to read. Hopefully something in paperback to keep the cost down. Nothing in the style of Jane Austin either. I can't stant those kind of books. Other than that, anything goes.

I might be able to help but I would need a little more to go on other than not Jane Austin.

Some of my books include:
Dune (all 6)
The Exorcist
Good Omens
The Godfather
Red Dragon
Fight Club
Lord Of The Rings
The Last Don

well, there is THE Good Book. Or, if you want a tome about your native Kansas, check out Prairy Erth by William Least-Heat-Moon. Political? Nothing's better than A Peoples History of the United States by Howard Zinn (or is it Ziff?) Get away from it all by reading a travel book. It's the next best thing to being there.

I finally read To Kill a Mockingbird, and it was unbeleivable.

Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
Porno- Irvine Welsk
A Confereracy of Dunces- John Kennedy Toole
The Fountainhead- Ayn Rand
The Rum Diary- Hunter S Thompson
Requiem for a Dream- Hubert Selby Jr

Anything by Neal Stephenson, William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.
that's about all i can think of for now

Anything by Terry Pratchett

Still Life With Woodpecker - Tom Robbins

confessions of a yakuza
neuromancer
american gods


plus anything by Gandhi or MLK

It is kind of academic, but you might like "A Brave, New World" by Aldous Huxley. Also, if you have read the LOTR trilogy, you should read the prequel, called "The Hobbit," if you haven't already. :-)

geek love : katherine dunn

Steve Erickson- Arc D'X

Hearts in Atlantis. A very unusual and unpredictable Steven King book. The movie was based on the first section only.

deadeye dick-vonnegut.
your shit will be duly blown. word.

Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison an american classic.

hitchikers guide books .. other than that almost all the best ones have been said

NAKED LUNCH... william S. Burroughs

Junky.... Williams S Burroughs

I'm gonna have to print out this entire thread and tack it into Barnes & Noblt this weekend. Keep 'em coming.

Seconded.

Thirded. Plus "Crow Road" by Iain Banks and "Lost Girls" by Andrew Pyper.

The funniest book you'll ever read, the most addictive and damn long too:

Youth In Revolt: the journals of Nick Twisp

Good Omens - Terry pratchett and Neil gaiman
do androids dream of electric sheep? - Phillip K Dick

Novel - Kissing in Manhattan by David Schickler. Fantastic read.

Nonfiction - Six Degrees by Duncan Watts. It's a mathematical/sociological look at the "six degrees of separation" theory. It looks at how it could actually be proven in real life, and proposes how it may be. I had the pleasure of taking Prof Watts' class on the subject in college, a little before the book was published. Rest assured, it does not require complex math skills - he explains everything very simply and it really is downright fascinating.