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Favorite books
Farmall:
Anything written by James Patterson is marvelous. He writes mostly thrillers. I am a huge fan of nearly all of them. He also wrote a decent amount of romance novels too, and they were pretty good too, if you like that sort of thing.
BlahBlah:
Most of my favourite books have already been mentioned, but I'll try and get a few others in here.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers: Possibly my favourite book. Incredibly moving and quite sad, but also very funny in places. If you haven't read it already then you definitely should.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson: Actually, I'm not sure if I prefer this or The Great Shark Hunt.
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving: I was only going to post a crying emoticon here, until I realised there wasn't one. The ending blew me away completely, and no book has been as good since.
Uncle Tungsten - Oliver Sacks: Sacks' accounts of growing up in England and the chemistry experiments he used to carry out. Informative and interesting.
I'm sure there's others but I can't think of them just now. Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy are great and so are most of Bill Bryson's books, but I'm not sure if they would be in my favourites list.
tuna ketchup x:
How about some graphic novel recommendations? (Just because most of what I'd probably mention has already been mentioned, the author if not the book, and I don't wanna be a repeater.)
Epileptic by David B. -- Totally heartbreaking autobiography of growing up with a severely epileptic older brother, in a family that flitted from cult to cult in order to find a cure for his illness and also for their own spiritual maladies. The art is amazing. The story is fragmented a bit much, but that sort of calls back to the epilepsy in a way. Highly recommended.
Scott Pilgrim series by Bryan Lee O'Malley -- Scott Pilgrim has a totally sweet life, except for one thing: in order to date the woman he loves, he has to fight his way through her seven evil exes. Canadian fake-manga style, four of six volumes released (WHY does it take him so LONG to write these!!), extremely awesome. If you like video games or indie music or things that don't suck, then read this series. I think most of the QC forum would like this series.
Doom Patrol series by Grant Morrison and various illustrators -- Like Murakami/Dick/Borges/other reality warping authors? Then you may like reading the tales of "the world's strangest superheroes." I usually don't care for superhero comics but this? This rules. So disturbing. Their main enemy is the Brotherhood of Dada. Fish.
American Elf (and others) by James Kochalka -- This is Kochalka's visual diary kept for ten years and serialized both in books and on the web. I enjoy reading people's journals, slice of life kind of stuff, and I like Kochalka's art (his style inspired my style and I doubt I'd be drawing if not for him), so yeah, this is rad. Not much of a "story," so you probably won't like it unless you like reading journals, but for a certain kind of reader this is killer. He is the guest of honor at the Small Press Expo next month and I'm totally psyched.
Tom:
Scott Pilgrim Movie
RedLion:
--- Quote from: zerodrone on 09 Aug 2008, 15:39 ---After re-reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle it's not as good as I had thought. It made me think of Tom Robbins on Prozac.
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I've heard that kind of comment a lot by people who read Murakami, and I can relate. Whenever I read one of his books for the first time, I think it's genius. When I go back to it much later, I find myself thinking "Is this it? This really isn't all that great..." Don't get me wrong, even Murakami's worst books is better than 9/10 of the trite shit being published nowadays, but he's not quite the literary god people make him out to be.
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