I'm looking for more to read. I've got Douglass Adams' books, Flowers for Algernon, A Clockwork Orange and American Psycho under my belt, and I'm currently reading
Lolita
Beloved
Catch-22.
On an off-note, I brought this up to someone IRL and they reccomended Slaughterhouse 5 to me, saying it was a great read. I found Slaughterhouse 5 to be terribbly overrated. Anyone have anymore?
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Anonymous2009-02-22 15:44
im not sure what you mean by differently-written books
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Anonymous2009-02-22 16:44
all books in a particular language are written the same, with all the same letters??? I don't get what you're asking......
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Anonymous2009-02-22 17:00
Well, style-wise I mean. Theres a definite boundary, whatever you call it, that seperates American Psycho and A Clockwork Orange from, say, Of Mice and Men or 1984 (However good those last two may be).
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Anonymous2009-02-23 7:40
House of Leaves
The Dice Man
Fear and Loathing
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Anonymous2009-02-23 11:00
>>5
screw off with your boring overrated shit nobody cares about you nerd
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Anonymous2009-02-23 23:49
cloud atlas by David Mitchell has a cool style to it
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Anonymous2009-02-24 0:37
Nathaniel Mackey's books. Truth be told, I couldn't even finish the one I tried, Bass Cathedral. It was good, but it was dense. Really a delight to chew on though. I'll probably read it through sometime.
Currently reading Ultravioleta by Laura Moriarty. In her enchanting second novel, Moriarty (Cunning) goes for nothing less than the nature of time, space, life and art—literally creating a fictional universe. Stella Nemo, the most appealing sort of sophisticated naïf, plunges her paper ship, the Nautilus, into deepest, blackest space, crossing into the fraught domains of other planets and other minds, beaming requests for information to Ada Byron (a clone and psychic information scientist), and dreaming of the renaissance poet Thomas Wyatt (who exists as data). Stella's mission: to attempt to think and to write without being disturbed, derailed or killed—by competitor plots, space junk or malfunction.
And you could always go in for some Pynchon.
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Anonymous2009-02-24 19:58
Try Post Office by Bukowski. Or Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
>>10
For some reason I thought the text boards would be immune to this kind of posting.
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Anonymous2009-02-25 2:40
>>10
What does that even mean?? (I know almost nothing about Modest Mouse......)
Infinite Jest rules, Pynchon rules too
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Anonymous2009-02-25 23:24
anything by cormac mccarthy
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Anonymous2009-03-02 7:13
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
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Anonymous2009-03-02 22:26
House of leaves was worthless imho: engaging in form alone and bordering on masturbatory.
I second McCarthy, or you could just cut right to the source and dig up some Faulkner, especially if you dig on Morrison; try As I Lay Dying to start, or Absalom, Absalom (my personal favorite). If you end up liking Lolita be sure and check out Pale Fire and Speak, Memory.
House of Leaves
Gravity's Rainbow
Infinite Jest
The Road
I would recommend The Sound and The Fury but I found it so incredibly dull.
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Anonymous2009-03-03 18:20
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benjy's section at least rules tho, you have to admit, i mean it's a story of the american south told through the thoughts of a retard how can you go wrong
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Anonymous2009-03-03 18:44
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Yeah it's pretty intense.
I still found the majority of the book rather dull. Maybe I'll start reading it again.
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Anonymous2009-03-04 20:30
Check out some Harlan Ellison short stories and some J.D. Salinger short stories. They are both stylists of a high, high order. Deathbird Stories, by Ellison. Nine Stories, by Salinger. Mind you, they're very different writers. Ellison has this balls-out swaggering dangerous intellect, whereas Salinger surprises you by quietly turning his narratives inside out, and fucking with all of your expectations as a reader. Everything tale in Nine Stories is a damn mind-bender.
Faulkner said he wrote the other sections of Sound and the Fury because he didn't think Benjy's pov was clear enough on the plot. Which is true. You basically figure out the big picture through the other sections, but it's all in Benjy's. Just too mixed up to grasp.