What Are Your Favorite Books? (Any Genre)

[dave]

These 3 are books I try to reread once a year. Fun and inspiring...

Absolute Beginners, by Colin Macinnes- Spoilers! (Mod, Jazz) Late 50s modern-jazz fan (predecessor of the Mods) struggles to keep his optimism and love of London during the Notting Hill race riots. The movie is fun cheeze, but not as good.

Slam, by Lewis Shiner- Dave get out of prison (tax evasion), starts hanging out w/ punks, ufo nuts, treasure hunters, and half the city of Surfside, all trying to get the house he lives in. Really funny!Read it online!

Doorways in the Sand, by Roger Zelazny- Fred Cassady is an undergrad, and has been for the past 12 years. As long as he stays in college he receives a stipend. But certain people want him to graduate. And there are aliens and thugs looking for his connection to the mysterious star-stone... Technically sci-fi, but it reads mainly like fiction/comedy. Read it online!

Years later, it hit me: the main thread throughout these books is that you should live your life as you want to, not as the world would have you live.

[sleazy]

I dig reading a lot, so I try to read as much as possible........I'm reading this one now:)

[dave]

Cool, is that a history of Hammer films?

sleazy said:

I dig reading a lot, so I try to read as much as possible........I'm reading this one now:)

[sleazy]

Yes, it's the latest on Hammer flix :)

dave said:

Cool, is that a history of Hammer films?

sleazy said:

I dig reading a lot, so I try to read as much as possible........I'm reading this one now:)

[sleazy]

I'm into the Moonalice Legend 2:)

 

[Pim Scheelings]

just got this book in the mail. It's about Puch mopeds and beat youth culture

[sleazy]

Everyone should be intoi Icke's books what with 2012 coming around trhe bend, hehehhehehehhe :):)

[Funhouse Skull]

Like bands favorite books tend to change as the years go by, but here are a few enduring selections:

The Ginger Man - J.P. DONLEAVEY

Voice Of The Fire - ALAN MOORE

Blood Meridian - CORMAC McCARTHY

Suttree - CORMAC McCARTHY

The Neon Wilderness - NELSON ALGREN

A Confederation Of Dunces - JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE

Catch 22 - JOSEPH HELLER

Starship Troopers - ROBERT HEINLIEN

Logan's Run - WILLIAM F. NOLAN & GEORGE CLAYTON JOHNSON

Everything That Rises Must Converge - FLANNERY O'CONNOR

A Clockwork Orange - ANTHONY BURGESS

Slaughterhouse 5 - KURT VONNEGUT

The Hippopotamus - STEPHEN FRY

London Fields - MARTIN AMIS

Angela's Ashes - FRANK McCOURT

Einstein's Monsters - MARTIN AMIS

The Onion Eaters - J.P. DONLEAVEY

I could probably go on indefinitely, but let me just point out that for me the subject matter is secondary to the author's ability to use language to convey a story. OH! I just thought of a couple more:

With The Old Breed - E.B. SLEDGE

The Naked & The Dead - NORMAN MAILER

[Pikini Death Ray]

Here are a few of my favourites (not really music related)

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Tales of Ordinary Madness - Charles Bukowski

Pimp - Iceberg Slim

Mama Black Widow - Iceberg Slim

Dopefiend - Donald Goines

Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh

On the Road - Jack Kerouac

If anybody has any suggestions for new reading material that would be great. Cheers.

[Last Night]

The HitchIker's guide to galaxy by Douglas Adams , my all time favorite !!

[Funhouse Skull]

I just finished an AMAZING book called "I, Lucifer" by Glen Duncan the premise of which is Lucifer is given an opportunity to rejoin the angelic host by living out life as a mortal. Naturally he pursues a lifestyle of epic debauchery...

Pikini Death Ray said:

Here are a few of my favourites (not really music related)

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Tales of Ordinary Madness - Charles Bukowski

Pimp - Iceberg Slim

Mama Black Widow - Iceberg Slim

Dopefiend - Donald Goines

Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh

On the Road - Jack Kerouac

If anybody has any suggestions for new reading material that would be great. Cheers.

[Pikini Death Ray]

Just read some reviews of I Lucifer online. Most people said it was an amazing read, some people whined that it was too whiny and overly laden with adjectives. I'm gonna give it a try. Thanks.

Funhouse Skull said:

I just finished an AMAZING book called "I, Lucifer" by Glen Duncan the premise of which is Lucifer is given an opportunity to rejoin the angelic host by living out life as a mortal. Naturally he pursues a lifestyle of epic debauchery...

Pikini Death Ray said:

Here are a few of my favourites (not really music related)

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Tales of Ordinary Madness - Charles Bukowski

Pimp - Iceberg Slim

Mama Black Widow - Iceberg Slim

Dopefiend - Donald Goines

Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh

On the Road - Jack Kerouac

If anybody has any suggestions for new reading material that would be great. Cheers.

[sleazy]

Real nice one :):)

Pat said:

The HitchIker's guide to galaxy by Douglas Adams , my all time favorite !!