what should i read?

ok, tomorrow is my bi-weekly "buy a book" day... and theres a crap load i want to read and cant decide, so i ask you, whats a good book?

i like weird twisted dramatic type books... fiction!

so yeah, anyone wanna help a girl out?

throat sprockets - tim lucas

SOPHIE'S WORLD- Jostien Gaarder (sp??)

because its the greatest book ever!

*edited because my image wouldn't work

[Edited on Oct 07, 2004 by oXh]

oOo yay, i havent read any of those yet... and im so in need of checking out new authors

choke- also by chuck palahniuk

(and i was going to suggest this book before i saw Cedar's post, weirdness )

our band could be your life

Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon.

That oughta keep you busy for the next twelve to eighteen months.

I second both Choke and Invisble Monster.. I also up the ante with Lullaby by the same man. Make it a Chuck P. day, it can never go wrong

And to go along with it, there's the Illustrated Gravity's Rainbow. Super cool.

40 stories by donald barthelme

that was my book of the week two weeks ago

dice man, life of pi or dylan's chronciles.

Running with Scissors,
non-fiction, but crazier than any fiction

"That Hideous Strength" is a very weird C.S. Lewis book.

But then, it is the third one in a sort of connected trilogy.

And of course it has loads of Christianity thrown into it.

If you like psychology/twisted stuff at all, you will LOVE this book. I've read it three times. It starts off a wee bit slow, but it really picks up and grabs you a few chapters into it. It's a very easy read, even if you aren't familiar with psychological terms or either psychoanalyst.

I don't believe the patient in the story was a real patient of theirs. I believe this falls under historical fiction.

[Edited on Oct 07, 2004 by Sorcha]

Stiff, the secrets lives of human cadavers.

a great read!!!!

gun, with occasional music

I'm liking The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien.

I recommend Experience, Martin Amis' memoir. It's great in every way a book can be great, and seeing as you like Oates and Vonnegut I think you'll dig Amis.

If you're feeling more like fiction, then anything by Peter Carey is great. My favourite is probably Oscar and Lucinda, though I'm a huge of his short stories and have read the collection of them several times over.

[Edited on Oct 07, 2004 by Dogslife]

The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte

VERY smart mystery

Lamb, The Gospel According to Biff,Christ’s Childhood Pal
by
Christopher Moore

Once upon a time, I read
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks.
It fucked me up for life. The end.