Please Recommend Me Some Authors

Yeah, i know, he's a pretty good read

But, God who'd want to be

God who'd wanna be

Such an Asshole?

Just sort of going on the fact you mentioned HST.

Jack Kerouac

William S. Boroughs

Everbody should read Infinite Jest by David Wallace.

Check out some Thomas Pynchon as well.

kurt vonnegut

chuck palahniuk

bret easton ellis

ali smith

irvine welsh

matt haig

matt ruff

hunter s thompson

lee henshaw

dbc pierre

jeremy dyson (his novel is dark)

mark z danielewski

roald dahl's adult stuff

and the dice man by luke rhinehart

reading a bunch of douglas coupland atm, pretty good stuff. i like his easy style and the way he brings up interesting questions in a natural way.

jim woodring. word.

d.f. wallace seconded so hard. infinite jest, short stories, essays, every damn thing. 'cept maybe broom of the system.

the power of now is a pretty amazing book. made my life better, ruined it, and then made it better again.

murakami.

  A/D said:

murakami.

I have read this author's books exclusively since January. Highly recommended.

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  chimera slot mom said:

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  Zephyr_Nova said:

  A/D said:

murakami.

 

I have read this author's books exclusively since January. Highly recommended.

I wouldn't take reading recommendations from someone who's only read one author since January.

  A/D said:

the power of now is a pretty amazing book. made my life better, ruined it, and then made it better again.

is this really worth reading? To put it simply, would subscribing to Tolle's belief system still allow me to screw hookers?

As much as I'm curious about say, Buddhism, I can't get very engaged in anything that advocates detachment. Not sure if Tolle does...

R J Hunter

  lumpenprol said:

  A/D said:

the power of now is a pretty amazing book. made my life better, ruined it, and then made it better again.

 

is this really worth reading? To put it simply, would subscribing to Tolle's belief system still allow me to screw hookers?

 

As much as I'm curious about say, Buddhism, I can't get very engaged in anything that advocates detachment. Not sure if Tolle does...

i was kidding about him, but maybe it is actually good? looks like new age drivel to me...

some real recommendations :

dfw - brief interviews with hideous men

paul auster - the new york trilogy

yasunori kawabata - snow country or palm of the hand stories

david mitchell - ghostwritten

harlan ellison - basically any short story collection

george saunders - civilwarland in bad decline

richard ford - the bascombe novels

James Joyce, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, Robert Pirsig (well just the one book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance).

If you enjoy science/biology/psychology/philosphy, I would also recommend:

Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Steven Pinker, Jared Diamond

  Iain C said:

  Zephyr_Nova said:

  A/D said:

murakami.

 

I have read this author's books exclusively since January. Highly recommended.

 

I wouldn't take reading recommendations from someone who's only read one author since January.

+1 for murakami. A_Wild_Sheep_Chase deeply moved me

michael ende

joseph heller

kurt vonnegut, jr.

jorge luis borges

bret easton ellis

thomas pynchon

china miéville

william gibson

also try some comics:

the sandman by neil gaiman

the maxx by sam kieth

kabuki by david mack

cerebus by dave sim

Kurt Vonnegut

also everyone should read the count of monte cristo by alexandre dumas, père

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everything there was to know about life was in The Brothers Karamazov, by Feodor Dostoevsky

this is from kurt vonnegut's slaughterhouse-five but i don't know if i agree with it

  lumpenprol said:

  A/D said:

the power of now is a pretty amazing book. made my life better, ruined it, and then made it better again.

 

is this really worth reading? To put it simply, would subscribing to Tolle's belief system still allow me to screw hookers?

 

As much as I'm curious about say, Buddhism, I can't get very engaged in anything that advocates detachment. Not sure if Tolle does...

the basic premise of the book is that you can find peace by being aware in the moment. he doesn't really go into things you should or shouldn't do, which i like. in a way he advocates detachment - i.e., not getting caught up in your patterns of thinking - but in a way it's also the opposite of detachment, a harmony of observation and action. it's totally new agey and it totally works for me. your mileage may vary.

sorry to hijack thread, there are some great recommendations in here. you didn't like Lila, quixote? it was pretty weird, but worth reading imo!

I really can't recommend Libra by Don DeLillo enough. That book has been haunting me for several months now.

Also, I guess this is my first post. Hi everyone.

sup

Chillin. yuze?

Yo dude.

hey

hey guys

  zaphod said:

some real recommendations :

 

dfw - brief interviews with hideous men

paul auster - the new york trilogy

yasunori kawabata - snow country or palm of the hand stories

david mitchell - ghostwritten

harlan ellison - basically any short story collection

george saunders - civilwarland in bad decline

richard ford - the bascombe novels

I reallyy liked the new york trilogy as well

Whats with you and trilogies? A few weeks back you said you were in love with Shadow Country. I saw it at the bookstore last night and was flipping through it. Cant grasp how you got attached to read it.