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ChibiSatan:
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--- Quote from: ChibiSatan ---I would recomment Battle Royale by Koushun Takami. It is kind of like a modern day Lord of the Flies with a japanese middle school.
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seen the movie of that, pretty cool ultra violent film.
i love world movies channel
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The book was so much better than the movie, the movie was good but nowhere near as good as the book.
Another book (its more of an essay than a book) that I would recommend is The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake.
Abattur:
--- Quote from: La Creme ---I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan
Satan is offered a chance back into heaven. Basically the whole book is just a running dialogue by Satan offering counterpoints to the bible and one mans (quite interesting) alternate interpretation of it.
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I also recommed this, it made me laugh almost as much as the hitchikers quide.
StupidityKills:
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--- Quote ---2) it's a picture book. Not a serious literary work.
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I'm perfectly fine with keeping GN's out of this, but keep it in your pants, alright? I own "picture books" that tell stories better than many prose books I've read. Thanks.
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Agreed. Picture, thousand words and all that.
Buuuut if you like thems wordses then I'd recommend;
Glen Duncan - I Lucifer
Chuck Palaniuk - Survivor (Yeah, he's popular now but Survivor is his best, IMO)
Douglas Coupland - Shampoo Planet. (Like Palahniuk, but not quite as gross out twisted, but more environmentally friendly)
Anne Rice - Vampire Chronicles (Exp. Memnoch, if you bother reading them all and can forget about the terrible queen of the damned movie)
Arabian Nights - is a total headfuck, stories within stories within stories, one ends and you're like, ohh right I'm still in that other story. Yeah, confusing.
Stephen Fry - Moab is my washpot (I dont usually like autobiographies, but Fry is fascinating)
shrimp:
I LIKED Memnoch, I loved the idea of the descent to hell, and the idea of an incompetent God and a "caring" devil, and the way the story makes you doubt what is actually happening and what is happening to L's sanity, in a world where you DON'T question that vampys exist! But Anne Rice's books are hardly what one could call "real writing", I do like them, its just she has no literary merit, she is a pop-author. :)
Wow, that was the book snob that lives on my left shoulder talking. Sorry!
dessa:
great book is "A Fine Balance" by rohinton mistry, if being nominated twice for the booker prize means anything to you it might be a good addition.
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