Favorite Book

thatpfunk · #1 02-17-2005, 02:05 AM

What is yours?

I think I have to go with One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest by Kesey, although there are several Hemingway and Ellis books whichI feel very strongly about.

tdarko · #2 02-17-2005, 02:08 AM

Survivor-Chuck Palahniuk
American Psycho-Bret Easton Ellis
The Idiot-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Doors of Perception-Aldous Huxley
Jesus' Son-Denis Johnson
Last Exit to Brooklyn-Hubert Selby Jr.

thats just a few off the top of my head.

istewart · #3 02-17-2005, 02:09 AM

Choke - Chuck Palahniuk is up there.

tdarko · #4 02-17-2005, 02:13 AM

anything palahniuk is waaaay up there. i guess i should give my palahniuk list:
Survivor
Invisible Monsters
Fight Club
Choke
Lullaby
Diary
Stranger than Fiction
Travel Book

Haunted will be on this list later this spring, i have a bad feeling though...read some parts and its just ok.

nothumb · #5 02-17-2005, 02:15 AM

Fiction?

The World According to Garp - John Irving
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Good News from Outer Space - John Kessel
Notes from Underground - Dostoevsky

But I'm really more of a non-fiction reader, with some poetry thrown in.

Howl and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg (probably one of those rare oft-mentioned poems that is actually truly amazing.)
Bukowski - anything, recently Open All Night
Collected works of T.S. Eliot (mostly early poems)

Anarchy and Order - Herbert Read
In Defense of Anarchy - Robert Paul Wolff
Totalitarianism - Hannah Arendt
The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon
Anything by Nietzsche, esp. "Thus Spoke Zarathustra," "The Antichrist," "Twilight of the Idols."
The Division of Labor in Society - Emile Durkheim
Seeing Like A State - James C. Scott

I'll stop there, rambling.

NT

Thythe · #6 02-17-2005, 02:18 AM

Fiction:
1984

jesusarenque · #7 02-17-2005, 02:19 AM

Don Quijote--Cervantes
Fiesta (The Sun Also Rises)--Hemingway

tdarko · #8 02-17-2005, 02:20 AM

great f'ing reads man, especially: slaughterhouse and of course anything bukowski.
whats your favorite bukowski? my favorite is Women [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

JaBlue · #9 02-17-2005, 02:20 AM

Palahniuk is way overhyped. Survivor was pretty decent, but Choke just sucked.

Favorite book: Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Favorite play (yeah, I know it wasn't asked): Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman

thatpfunk · #10 02-17-2005, 02:20 AM

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Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut

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This might be one of my least fav Vonnegut's.

Siren's of Titan used to be my favorite, but it has been a while, so I refrain from calling it my favorite.