why did you like it?

*splooge* Wouldn't mind marrying would you?

I have yet to get through it, I might read that next. I have at least three boxes of books that I need to get through. Last time I counted them it was at least 100 or so.

haha I though I was bad with 4 books. How the hell do you get to that state!!

i didn't like lord of the flies either.

*high five* the group to overthrow over-rated books.

Go to salvation army or goodwill, when you are unemployed and buy their cheap used books.

The utter grit of it, I would imagine... And the fact that the plot actually exists and isn't just a fantasy of the writer still locked up somewhere in the nether regions of his mind. And Rorschach, the ultimate (almost) anti-hero...

watchmen or a secret history?

very interesting.

Read it before the pissing film comes out.

I don't know what I was replying to in the first part.

Watchmen was one of the best comic books ever.

it's been about 18 years since I last read it though.

A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn

That's dissenting...

I absolutely love Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami... Brilliant story, brilliant characters, and the sense of surreal and dense atmosphere is palpable, and yet it still remains witty and heartfelt. Amazing writer, amazing book.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Mayakovsky

patrick suskinds "parfum" is my absolute favorite novel. clive barker has some good ones as well. on my list to read right now is Survivor, though I am trapped under a mountain of ethiopian history books right now. damn historian's fancy.

i tried to read welsh's if you liked school, you'll love work. bah.

i'm reading the historian. vampire story, but i really like it.

the most notable book to me i've read lately was devil in the white city. telling the story of "dr holmes" (sometimes referred to as america's first serial killer and had been suspected of being jack the ripper - but isn't) and the world's fair of 1893. SO GOOD.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^
this is viral marketing.

This is a novel of substance and meaning.. Characters facing the realities of the mystery and pain of love.. Characters of Evil hating love out of jealous spite. Practical messianic characters who realize to be a "hero" is to love all of life and sacrifice themselves to hope.. Bewilderingly surreal fantasy. Staggeringly devastating horror..

It is a complex yet subtle morality play.

Truly Barker at his best, merging the culmination of decades of his own literary devices, imagery, and symbolism to tell the fullness of the story of the entire human experience in the same way the Bible speaks as literature.

Three thumbs up, a must read and you can skip the first two and go straight into this one :)

I'm always looking for good book reccomends. I've read about 10 books this year and I feel like I should have read more. Some really great reads I've read are "Drood" and "Carrion Comfort" both by Dan Simmons. I read "The Godfather" finally. I'm currently finishing up "One Hundred Years in Solitude". I want to finish it by tomorrow, so I can start something new at the start of the year. I currently don't have my next book picked yet. So I'm open to ideas.

Kockroach by Tyler Knox

http://kockroach.com/content/index.asp

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke


Probably the best book of the '00s.

Good for fans of anything from Dickens and Austin to Tolkien.

Camus

I wandered around every major bookshop in London trying to find this bastard the other day, to no avail