good books

read any good books lately? title/author/description......

Black Betty by Walter Mosley...vaguely existential, noir detective fiction

oh yeah, mine...Raymond E. Feist...good fantasy books, blerg...

[Edited on Nov 04, 2004 by ROCKADIVA]

It looks like we are wearing almost the same sweater in our profile pics. Cool. Yeah, I need sleep.

gunter grass the tin drum. hermann hesse's siddhatha. anything daniel quinn. _julie_ is the one to ask.

hemmingway is cool, by the way. fuck what anyone else says.

Also, Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things and Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Saffron Foer.

Everyone on earth should read Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link. Weird, weird fantasy short stories. I mean, like contemporary fantasy. She has possibly my favorite writing style of anyone on the planet. Her stories are brilliant, but above all, fucking weird. I've read some of the stories in that book literally dozens of times and still enjoy them as much as when I first read them. The Specialist's Hat, The Girl Detective...god, those are so brilliant.

Anyway, yeah. Read Kelly Link.

I think the last book I read for fun was Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. Also fucking weird fantasy, this time sort of a steampunk novel that focuses on setting as much or more than plot, in a similar fashion to Mervyn Peake's wonderful Gormenghast series. A good story, although I think the setting was so well-written and imaginative that it's what I remember more than the plot, which in any other hands would be good, but about 100 pages shorter. I'm told that The Scar, which is set in the same world, is a better mix. Either way, read Perdido Street Station if you like vivid, imaginative, and above all gritty worlds where absolutely anything is possible. It's really cool.

Running Dog, Don Delillo...satirical, secret government agenncies eccentric art dealers and underground reporters in search of Nazi porn film of Hitler & Eva and others in the bunker, just before the suicides as the Russian's dropped shells.

Murder of Angels by Caitlin R. Kiernan

the silmarillion by tolkien

the creation of middle earth and the war the noldor elves waged against morgoth, the god to whom sauron was a servant.

fucking awesome book. dark atmospere (kinda) and not one of those endings where the good guys always win.

the histories of middle earth are good too

... yah i love tolkien

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (you can buy it for a 1p on amazon.co.uk)

In Oscar Wilde's famous novel, Dorian Gray is tempted by Henry Wotton to sell his soul in order to hold on to beauty and youth .
After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent.

can't beat a classic!

Anything by Tibor Fischer, especially "The Collector Collector".