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Books I should have read.
CookedHaggis:
--- Quote from: CmonMiracle on 22 Jun 2007, 21:56 ---So this is where you guys come in. What were some books you read as a youth that is considered essential reading for me? Remember, I've only read books like Animal Farm, The Great Gatsby...seriously, just books on the required reading list. HELP!
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A little more information about what styles/genres/authors you (dis)like would be nice if possible. It's kinda hard just to recommend books otherwise. I mean, just go out and buy a bunch of the Oxford world's classics if you want to read a lot of literary stuff of the sort that people should (and claim to) read but don't. I mean, are you asking for books that you think you should read (the canon) or books you think we think you'd like to read (anything from The Da Vinci Code upwards really)?
But just to back track and give a list of personal favourite anyway despite not knowing any of the above:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "trilogy" (Though personally I'd avoid Mostly Harmless, the fifth book, due to its general rubbishness)
Hamlet (I thought it was incredibly boring the first time I read it at 19, but it's just one of those that gets better every time you pick it up. And if nothing else, it's a good thing to have read given how ubiquitous elements of it are now)
Catch-22 (Someone has already mentioned this, but it's really, really good. I don't know anyone, even avid non-readers, who hasn't enjoyed it)
On the Road (Cars! Booze! Drugs! Sex! All connected with an ecstatically incessant rhythm any band would envy)
Money (Lots of people dislike Martin Amis's writing, up to and including his own father. Those people are wrong, up to and including Kingsley, even if Lucky Jim is great)
Misereatur:
--- Quote from: CookedHaggis on 04 Jul 2007, 08:55 ---On the Road (Cars! Booze! Drugs! Sex! All connected with an ecstatically incessant rhythm any band would envy)
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If we're recommending Kerouac, then I'd like to throw The Subterraneans in too. Basically, a dipiction of the San Farnsisco beat scene through the love affair of a writer and a black beatnik woman.
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