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Stefan - 07 September 2006 09:20 AM

Holy crap Kerouac sucks.  On the Road is the biggest bore.  In fact, I hate all the beat poets.  I respect what they did but reading their crap should be a crime.  It’s like minimalism.  I can appreciate the concept but don’t ask me to like the art.

The Sun Also Rises is a great book.  Highly recommend that one.  I recommend anything from Neil Gaiman especially Good Omens.  Lots of fun to read.

Amen.

Naked Lunch by William S. Borroughs may actually be the worst book I’ve ever read.

Eric Valentine - 08 September 2006 01:51 AM

Have to back the vote for Moorcock. I tend to judge a book by how well the writing hooks me. Sentence structure, concept. Tolkien doesn’t do it for me, reading LOTR is almost a chore, but Moorcock is a pleasure, every time and he’s dealing much more complex ideas. Shakespeare is less work than Tolkien for the most part. The BIBLE is less work half the time. Which isn’t to say Tolkien doesn’t deliver, but after twenty pages I just want to quit and read Douglas Adams.*

*This excludes the Hobbit. I can still read the Hobbit in an afternoon.

Tolikien was a linguist, and that makes his prose pretty thick at times.

If you like tight prose, I’m guessing you’re probably not a Faulkner fan, either....lol

I just started reading A Clockwork Orange.  I didn’t realize the entire book is written in the odd Alex speak.  Very interesting.

It’s pretty good.  It’s got a different ending than the movie.

thank u czar.
good stuff.fast food nation is a great book.

Demian--Hermann Hesse

Fantastic book

‘Man’s Search for Meaning’ by Victor Frankl
An amazing book.

The Curious Incedent of the Dog in the Night time by Mark Haddon. It’s fantastic. It’s told from the perspective of a 15 yr old autistic boy that lives in England.

Eric Valentine - 08 September 2006 01:51 AM

Have to back the vote for Moorcock. I tend to judge a book by how well the writing hooks me. Sentence structure, concept. Tolkien doesn’t do it for me, reading LOTR is almost a chore, but Moorcock is a pleasure, every time and he’s dealing much more complex ideas. Shakespeare is less work than Tolkien for the most part. The BIBLE is less work half the time. Which isn’t to say Tolkien doesn’t deliver, but after twenty pages I just want to quit and read Douglas Adams.*

*This excludes the Hobbit. I can still read the Hobbit in an afternoon.

Read Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock and then follow that up with The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold. Both deal with time travel and are both a lot of fun.