Hi /book/
Recommend me something, please.
I want a bright, positive book that is highly entertaining, from a higly talented author. What say you?
(Wow goddamn, I don't even have to attach a picture to post here, oh ho, FABULOUS.)
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Anonymous2008-03-05 12:46
Dune - Frank Herbert
Battle Royale- Koushin Takami
Homeland- R.A. Salvatore
not nessasarily positive at all times...or at all. But good books.
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Anonymous2008-03-05 15:59
You best be joking, Anon. I asked for bright, positive reading, and you give me Dune and Battle Royale. I ask for a highly talented author, and you give me Salvatore, goddamn Anon. Are you trolling or something?
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Anonymous2008-03-05 17:22
It would seem to me that Terry Pratchett would be an obvious choice.
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Anonymous2008-03-05 17:44
The Game - Neil Strauss
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Anonymous2008-03-05 20:21
The Once and Future King by T.H. White fits your criteria.
And while not bright and positive, I just finished reading The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by Saramago and highly recommend it. If you want a highly talented author, look no further as Saramago won the Nobel Prize in 1998.
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Anonymous2008-03-06 8:28
To hell with Pratchett, he's witty, certainly, but parody style is cheap in itlesf, so I read him sparingly.
As for "The Once and Future King" by T.H. White and later recommendation by the same Anon, definitely am going to read that right now. Thanks, Anony!
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Anonymous2008-03-06 8:43
>The Game - Neil Strauss
Oh God. I checked wht this is, and it seems to be the ugliest piece of garbage to have ever been written. Oh god that shit enrages me. It seriously is book that takes picking up women as a form of art, and tkes that shit seriously? Fucking shit on a piece of stick.
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Of course I'm not female. I gather, you ACTUALLY have to be female to like that kind of garbage. You have to be some kind of a sex-crazed retard that also is a fucking loser to take interest in a movement dedicated to having sex. Everyone and their dog are having sex for free, without any need for some special art or retarded lifestyle. Goddam fucking shit, dammit.
And making art out of sex is simply retardation. Only a weak-minded person could think that having sex is the best thing a motherfucking homo sapiens could ever acheive. Next thing would be learning to breath, eat, drink, piss and shit artfully, I gather.
Second. A friend of mine started that book. She's already half way through it. I took that as a recommendation.
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Anonymous2008-03-13 13:00
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Well, when did she start it? Yesterday? A month ago?
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Anonymous2008-03-13 20:27
Exactly yesterday, in fact.
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Anonymous2008-03-14 6:43
>>18
Those are always dark times. I'm past puberty, I gather, so bright and positive is how I like my art nowadays.
Anyway, are there so few good, quality books by talented authors that are happy? Is everything either fucking grimdark or atrociously kiddie (perhaps, mixed with grimdark; see Potter novels) in literature these days? That might be the sign of horrible decline in modern cultures, I say.
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Anonymous2008-03-15 16:39
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I don't know about modern authors, but it sounds like you're talking about Kurt Vonnegut.
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Anonymous2008-03-16 7:21
Neverwhere and Anansi Boys are pretty lighthearted. Looking at my bookcase, Im not seeing a whole lot else. Strange & Norrell? Narnia? I guess happy doesn't sell well.
The fiction at East of the Web (http://eastoftheweb.com) is pretty bright and uplifting, if you keep away from the horror section, and the authors are rather good as well.
If you want _weird_ but uplifting, might I suggest you thumb through an issue of Asimov's Science Fiction or a copy of Weird Tales?