make of it what you will.

[scottobear]

Recommended Reading

Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Slaughterhouse-5, Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
1984, George Orwell
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
The Chocolate War, Robert Cormier
The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
Siddhartha, Herman Hesse

Othello, William Shakespeare
Richard III, William Shakespeare
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Stranger, Albert Camus
Fear and Trembling, Soren Kierkegaard
The Complete Stories, Franz Kafka
Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges
The Last Temptation of Christ, Nikos Kazantzakis
Moby Dick, Herman Melville

Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
Black Dahlia, James Ellroy
Sewer, Gas and Electric, Matt Ruff
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, Hunter S. Thompson
Junky, William S. Burroughs
Messiah, Gore Vidal
Illusions, Richard Bach
Behold the Man, Michael Moorcock
Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco
The Essential Harlan Ellison, Harlan Ellison
In Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
The Crossing, Cormack McCarthy

The Chess Garden, Brooks Hansen
The Book of the Dun Cow, Walter Wangerin, Jr.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon
Kissing the Beehive, Jonathon Carroll
The Alienist, Caleb Carr
The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle
Unlocking the Air, Ursula K. LeGuin

E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962, e. e. cummings
Poems for the Millenium, Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris

The Watchmen, Alan Moore
Lankhmar: Tales of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, Fritz Leiber
Thieves' House: Tales of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, Fritz Leiber

Comments

[agent-orange.livejournal.com]

I have read:

Animal Farm, George Orwell
Lord of the Flies, , William Golding
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, , Hunter S. Thompson
The Last Unicorn, , Peter S. Beagle

mmmm... I love books.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

all filling and tasty to you, I hope! :)

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I'll check it out! :)

[laurak.livejournal.com]

cool :) I agree with almost all of that list! :)

I would have to add "Another Roadside Attraction" and "Jitterbug Perfume" by Tom Robbins, and "The Dharma Bums" by Jack Kerouac.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

All three of those are fine additions indeed!

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

an interesting addition, too!

[rejectomorph]

Isn't Wallace's book just Infinite Jest?

Ellroy's Black Dahlia is an interesting bit of speculation, isn't it? One of my aunts lived in the neighborhood where Elizabeth Short's (that was her name, wasn't it?) body was found. This aunt always claimed that she knew who the murderer was, but, as far as I know, never told anyone. She said that she was afraid to tell. Strange.

And, in further coincidence, I grew up in a neghborhood very near the one where Ellroy did, and where his mother was murdered. I think that the bar where she was last seen was quite near the first house I lived in.

[i.livejournal.com]

i've read 11 of them. guess i have some catching up to do.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Hey, I love all of these books! :) of course, your mileage may vary. :)

[lroberson.livejournal.com]

What? Not Upton Sinclair's The Jungle?

I'm currently off-reading Slaughterhouse five. It's like my alternate book, aside from whatever current mainstream book I'm reading. Sure, maybe it's neglectful of the book and its qualities, but pffbt. I do what I want. Anyways, I just wanted to point out that I'm reading it. Horay! Good list there.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

That, too, is a fine bit of bookage!

Thanks!

[sida-al-hurra.livejournal.com]

Good list, Scotto. I really liked "The Alienist" for recent reads.

"A Confederacy of Dunces" is a classic IMO.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

heh... I haven't read ACoD in ages. :) fun book.

[artemii.livejournal.com]

cat's eye by margaret atwood.
pigs in heaven by barbara kingsolver.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Great additions! I'll look into them!

[wordsmith9.livejournal.com]

Have you read any Barry Hannah? Just wondering. He was in town last night & did a reading at the university (he's an alum). He puts on quite a show!

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

No! I'll certainly look into his stuff, though.

[greenphan.livejournal.com]

i've conquered 17 of those

my additions, if i were to make any:
brother's karamazov by doestoevsky
the epic of gilgamesh
selected works of allen ginsberg, 1946-1994
the wasteland, t.s. eliot
the communist manifesto by marx and engels
candide by voltaire
and mother night by vonnegut