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imapiratearg:

--- Quote from: Oli on 07 Jun 2008, 17:56 ---The Naked Lunch by William Burroughs

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I kind of really want to read this now that I am halfway through On the Road by Jack Kerouac, and loving it.

Boro_Bandito:
I honestly don't think I could ever make it through A Song of Ice and Fire again just on its own merits, but I definitely want to read A Dance With Dragons pretty badly.

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is amazing Oli, and Ikrik, The Grapes of Wrath should be on the top of your list, it'll go quickly since its not all that long and you won't be able to put it down anyway.

I would love to find some good fiction to read over the summer, but I really don't want anything "serious" of "of substance." I guess I should plow through the Recommendations thread to see if there's any Fantasy/ sci-fi in there that I haven't read yet.

TheFuriousWombat:
Already read:
Waiting for Barbarians by Coetzee
Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut
The Savage Detectives by Balano
The Crying of Lot 49 by Pynchon

To read:
Don Quixote
V by Pynchon

Hopefully a lot more.

De_El:
It's really funny when people read On the Road for the first time and they're so excited like it's totally changed their life. It's basically the same thing as when a 14 year old first hears Zeppelin or Sabbath.

I've read a good bit of Dick, but as you say, he was quite prolific. Of those on the list, I've read Flow My Tears, VALIS, and A Scanner Darkly. I actually just found out a week ago that there was more to VALIS than just VALIS, I guess it's a trilogy of sorts? My gateway to Dick was of course, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. The books I've already asked to borrow are Radio Free Albemuth, The Man in the High Castle,  Ubik and The Divine Invasion.

Whew. Aside from enjoying lots of Dick this summer, I also plan to read a lot of Harlan Ellison. Especially I plan to try and track down copies of his novels, as I never even knew he wrote anything but short stories (and screenplays and scripts and things).

Finaly: Oh man, Oli, I would totally read a book about post-punk 1978-1984. I have to make a note of that title somewhere.

Edit: Cat's Cradle is my favorite book by Vonnegut!

Tom:
 After I finish reading Dracula, I'll move onto the large Poe anthology and the slightly smaller Wilde anthology I got last year. I might start reading Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus if I can be bothered.

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