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]

This one is considered by many as the new absolute Bible of Heavy Metal today :):)!!!!

 

 

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Cover of the book above:)

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Nooooo joke :):):):)

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[Allerleirauh]

South of No North - Charles Bukowski

Under the Roofs of Paris- Henry Miller

In Watermelon Sugar- Richard Brautigan

Push -Sapphire

The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

Are what come to mind first.  Not including children's books and comics.

[Glenn Armstrong]

 

Mark Leyner's new title The Sugar Frosted Nutsack is kind of hard to encapsulate but it parodies celebrities, pop culture trends and contains a lot of book-within-a-book type metafiction. Anything by Leyner is great.

The Killer Inside Me by pulp master Jim Thompson set the standard for psychokiller/interior monologue type stuff.

Just to pick one of Philip K Dick's genre bending novels I will mention The Man in the High Castle. It ponders the US after a WWII victory by the Axis powers. It was written with the aid of the prognosticating I Ching and was published way before any of the alternative history novels to follow.

[Glenn Armstrong]

I saw David Icke here in Atlanta a few years ago. He had this tremendous slide show and was able to connect quite a convoluted series of dots. Not sure I believe in the shape shifting reptiles but very engrossing presentation.
sleazy said:

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

[sleazy]

I'm getting "experienced" now:):):)

Glenn Armstrong said:

I saw David Icke here in Atlanta a few years ago. He had this tremendous slide show and was able to connect quite a convoluted series of dots. Not sure I believe in the shape shifting reptiles but very engrossing presentation.
sleazy said:

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

[sleazy]

Re-discovered this beautie some time ago....I had read it in high school some moons ago and after talking to some pals at the local, I found out that there is also Vol II (which I have not found yet:()...so in the meantime, I dusted it off and I must say it still tickles my fancy.....it has nothing to do with the supernatural or occult, but with nature at its best. A must:):)!!!

[sleazy]

This is also one of my classic faves:)

[Glenn Armstrong]

 

South of No North is the best collection of Bukowski short stories! I have a Black Sparrow Press edition. Black Sparrrow also used to publish authors such as John Fante and so on. I may attempt to read Henry Miller again but found him a bit misogynistic. Kerouac leans in this direction slightly sometimes but I give him a pass because the whole mother complex thing that he had probably tempers it a bit. Don't think Bukowski was a misogynist despite what some of his critics said. He was more of an equal-opportunity apartment court Casanova in my estimation.  Any opinions on this thematic riff? 
Allerleirauh said:

South of No North - Charles Bukowski

Under the Roofs of Paris- Henry Miller

In Watermelon Sugar- Richard Brautigan

Push -Sapphire

The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

Are what come to mind first.  Not including children's books and comics.