Book Recommendation Thread

[Dionysus]

This is just a thread for book recommendations; doesn’t matter if you are giving or asking them.

After reading about Lenny Bruce, I get the burning desire to know more. Would any of you recommend reading his book "How to talk dirty and influence people”?

[Dfg]

Confession of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins. Must Read
Lord of the Rings Trilogy. J.R.R Tolkien
Eragorn (3x books) By Christopher Paolini
Darkly Dreaming Dexter (3x books) by Jeff Lindsay
Loilita by Vladimir Nabokov
1984 by George Orwell
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams for lulz only.

[kfc v lot]

Confession of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins. Must Read
Lord of the Rings Trilogy. J.R.R Tolkien]
1984 by George Orwell
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams for lulz only.

Also if you liked Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy check out Dirk Gently both books!

[dirtyangelswithfaces]

This is just a thread for book recommendations; doesn’t matter if you are giving or asking them.

After reading about Lenny Bruce, I get the burning desire to know more. Would any of you recommend reading his book "How to talk dirty and influence people”?

You need to read Underworld by Don DeLillo. It's his attempt at the Great American Novel and has Lenny Bruce as a guest star.
The story spans about 50 years and a whole continent and the basic plot is one guy looking for a special baseball.

[5150]

i think i heard a shot...


On the Road by Jack Kerouac
are you experienced by William Sutcliffe

Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Rum Diaries by Hunter S. Thompson
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

Catfish and Mandala

The Sacred Willow

The Girl in the Picture

Vietnam in the Absence of War

Laos

Mai Pen Rai

Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson

Solaris
by Stanislaw Lem

The Demolished Man
by Alfred Bester- first novel to win the Hugo award

Ringworld
by Larry Niven

Necroscope: The Lost Years
by Brian Lumley

Perdido Street Station

by
China Miéville

Gorgoroth - Krig

Marcel Proust -

# Remembrance of Things Past

* Swann's Way
* Within a Budding Grove
* The Guermantes Way
* Cities of the Plain
* The Captive Image:75%.png
* The Sweet Cheat Gone
* Time Regained

Snow Crash-Neal Stephenson




American Gods
by Neil Gaiman





Off the Rails in Phnom Penh

private dancer

The Scribe by David Young.

is The Lotus Kingdom by Alastair Shearer

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Fear and Loathing by Hunter S. Thompson
Slaughter House by Kurt Vonnegut
Junkie by William S. Burroughs
Michowel
Sacred Vine of Spirits: Ayahuasca edited by Ralph Metzner
Cant Find My Way Home: America In the Great Stoned Age
You Must Set Forth At Dawn
by Wole Soyinka
Ketamine: Dreams and Realities
Blackfoot physics: a journey into the native american universe by f. david peat
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Breaking Open the Head.
Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake
Wizard of the Upper Amazon: The Story of Manuel Cordova-Rios
Back From the Void by Zoe 7.

A Star called Henry by Roddy Doyle.
fierce invalids home from hot climates" by tom robbins
God's Middle Finger: Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre Richard Grant

American Nomads: Travels with Lost Conquistadors, Mountain Men, Cowboys, Indians, Hoboes, Truckers, and Bullriders

Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
Siddartha by Hermann Hesse
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley




Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 1968
Strangely B. Stranger:

Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole


Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
The Road Less Travelled by M. Scott Peck
Leah:
Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac
Big Sur by Jack Kerouac

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg - Carolyn Cassady
The Plays of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov (Paul Schmidt trans.)
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie

Under the Volcano, Malcom Lowry
The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles
Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco
Leaving Las Vegas, John O'Brien

The Razor's Edge, Somerset Maughham
Cosmos, Carl Sagan
A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway

Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac
Scratching the Beat Surface by Michael McClure


Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
The Informers by Bret Easton-Ellis
Books Of Blood vol. 1-3 by Clive Barker
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut (tie)


Little, Big by John Crowley
The best American magic-realist novel ever
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany


Deceptive simplicity
Texasville by Larry McMurtry

All We Need of Hell by Harry Crews

Last Resort by Scott Sommer

Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac
Strange Wine by Harlan Ellison
Would be perfect book with the addition of The Deathbird and a few other Ellison classics
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Richard:
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Apocalypse by D.H. Lawrence
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Ask the Dust by John Fante
Road to Los Angeles by John Fante
Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
Sense of Beauty by George Santayana
Ulysses by James Joyce
Christina C:

Ahhhh Ti Jean...in my eyes you're best
Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
Zany and great
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran


Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

The First Third by Neal Cassady
Oh the man behind the curtain....how interesting
Kerouac: A Biography by Ann Charters

Off the Road by Carolyn Cassady

SMUT (aka Trashy Romances) by certain authors
Always have to have a no brainer here and there
The Hungry Ocean by Linda Greenlaw
Living in Downeast Maine...Fishing is a part of life
Little:
Complete Fiction by Bruno Schulz

Cages by Dave McKean
The safety of illusions, the golden cage of lost hopes. McKean is the Stanley Kubrick of his medium.
Dr.Sax by Jack Kerouac

Beneath the Wheel by Hermann Hesse

Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard
) The Nature of Time by G.J. Whitrow

El Aleph by Jorge Louis Borges
"I can´t see Borges anywhere!" (Donald Cammell)
Dreams and Dead Ends by Jack Shadoian
The American Gangster/Crime genre from Shadoian´s POV: Poetic, essential, passionate.
London Fields by Martin Amis

Panegyric by Guy Debord
The society of the spectacle couldn't make it here!
Hammond Guthrie:
The I-Ching (original translation)
The Tibetan Book of the Dead (original translation)
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Scripture of the Golden Eternity by Jack Kerouac
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by Buckminster Fuller
The Rosy Crucifixion = Sexus, Plexus and Nexus by Henry Miller
Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
Ulysses/Finnegans Wake (as a 2 Vol. entry) by James Joyce
The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot
The Elements of Style by Richard Strunk
Jean-Marie S.:
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Vanity of Duluoz by Jack Kerouac

Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll

Ninety-two in the Shade by Thomas Mc Guane
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
Michael:
The Arabian Nightmare by Robert Irwin
Film As A Subversive Art by Amos Vogel
Franz Kafka by Max Brod
The Air Conditioned Nighmare by Henry Miller
Demian by Herman Hesse
Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley by Lawrence Sutin


Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Catcher In the Rye by J.D. Salinger
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey



All My Friends Are Going To be Strangers by Larry McMurtry



Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingwaay
Ask The Dust by John Fante
Sixty-Seven Poems for Downtrodden Saints
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac
White Trash
Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs
It Catches My Heart In Its Hands by Charles Bukowski


Tristessa by Jack Kerouac

Junky by William S. Burroughs
More Junk...Junk Sick..Junk....
Factotum by Charles Bukowski
& yes, by the sweat of your brow....
Down & Out in Paris and London by George Orwell

Really the Blues by Mezz Mezzrow
take a rapid ride on the jazz train to.....

Be a writer...The Gamble for a Lifetime...
-10. (Let's Break The Rules) (Books by some new ones....)
Rope Burns by F.X. Toole...Get this book.
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America by Barbara Ehrenreich...Get this book.
Doghouse Flowers by Steve Earle

A Scanner Darkly by Phillip K Dick.

London Fields by Martin Amis.
Amis goes deeper than what Wolfe and Ellis went in Bonfire of the Vanities and American Psycho.
The Psychedelic Prayers by Tim Leary.

Burning Chrome by William Gibson.

Bobok by Dostoevsky.

Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami.


Jim Camp:
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Tropic Of Cancer by Henry Miller

Tropic Of Capricorn by Henry Miller
The Thief's Journal by Jean Genet

Journey To The End Of The Night by Celine
Death On The Installment Plan by Celine
Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac
Last Exit To Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.



Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Journey to the End of the Night by Celine

The Razor's Edge by Somerset Maugham


Allison M.:
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
Maggie Cassady by Jack Kerouac
Demian by Hermann Hesse

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Working on the Edge: Surviving In the World's Most Dangerous Profession: King Crab Fishing on Alaska's HighSeas by Spike Walker


Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
The Beach by Alex Garland

[ComradeAsh]

Oi, 5150, you missed The Picture of Dorian Gray.

I get the impression that I'm repeating myself now, but I enjoyed it thoroughly.

[Spam Man Sam]

I like the works of Mark Bowden (I've read Black Hawk Down and Guests of the Ayatollah) and Jon Krakauer. PJ O'rourke also holds a place dear to my heart.

I need a new book to read, preferably one of some literary significance. Any suggestions?

[illuminatikiller]

Stranger in a Strange Land

Island of Dr. Moreau

anything written by Ray Bradbury