recommend me a book.
 

i need to read a few books over the rest of the summer. any suggestions for a good quick read?

What type are you looking for?

fiction. maybe 60s 70s era.

Cuckoo's Nest was pretty good.
Do some Vonnegut. I liked Cat's Cradle
Umm I know no more. My mind is tired.

i have already read those. but thanks anyways

Valley of the Dolls- I've heard is good.
In Cold Blood- Capote
The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath(Higly Recomended)

thankyou thankyou

Try Now Wait For Last Year by Phillip K Dick. It's science fiction that came out around that timeframe, but if you like mind-alter(ed)(ing) books about drugs, it's hard to beat. First Dick book I read, and still my favorite even over Valis.

Dead-Air, I've been meaning to get into P.K.D. any suggestions on where I should start?

Heh. See above. Seriously, Now Wait for Last Year is brilliant.

Valis is considered by many his masterwork, but I would start with a few easier reads (not that you couldn't handle it, just that it pays to get to know him first.) Keep in mind that he wrote a lot of books on speed to pay the bills, so he reused a few plots at times. Still though many of those books are flawed, they still have great paranoid bits of altered reality making them worthwhile.

His other most critically acclaimed book is The Man in the High Castle, which is a more "traditional" read. It's an alternate history where we lost WWII, which was a lot more of an original idea when he wrote the book than it might seem today.

I've actually never read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, out of fear Bladerunner might ruin it for me. Still, it's supposed to be quite good.

Ubik is another good weird, druggy, SF book about the nature of consciousness.

D-A, I've not seen Blade Runner, but Androids is one of my favourite books of all-time. I never tire of 'pimping' it haha.

Actually 1959 I think, but a must read anyway:

Try some Thomas Pynchon. He's pretty great.

Well.. it's probably trendy, but one of my all time favorite books is the Nova Express.. simultaneously hilarious and frightening, I think it's Burroughs's best work.. he takes me to a whole new world with it... it's amazing.. it's really short but infinitely readable with new feelings and textures expressed every time you read it.. depending on my mood, it feels like a completely different book every time.. yeah..

the professor and the madman.....DO IT!!!!

Richard Brautigan's The Abortion.

'siddarta' by herman hess for a quick read

My favorite read this year by far.

so i took your advice and read this over the weekend. i really did enjoy it. the way her insanity is so casually described sort of justifies it.

anyways i'm working towards reading some of everyone's recommendations. they all seem fantastic.

Yes it was really well written. I am thinking of buying a book of short stories of hers that I saw recently on the bookstore.

do it! then tell me about it and convince me to read it

more book recommendations, please?!

What are you looking for?

not sci-fi. and don't give me something that reads like subculture cliche (i.e. tom robbins)

Trainspotting. Not 60's 70's but I can't recommend it enough then after you've read that read the sequel 'Porno'. Do it. Do it now.

Try Other Voices Other Rooms By Capote.
To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee.
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall, (although it might fall a little bit into sci-fi but not much.)

That is all I can think right now.

Ignore this guy above

The book is a dollar TO BUY

http://http://www.amazon.com/Trainsp...1008380&sr=1-2

Actually, if you haven't to kill a mockingbird then read that too.

i'm unfortunately not.

really... trainspotting is good? i wasn't a big fan of the movie...and it's always weird to read a book post-movie. maybe?

capote is a good idea. i've never read any.

This had me laughing through my cigarette-induced coughing fits...
by Christopher Buckley...
:)

i know it's unamerican, but i never liked it. i had to read it a few times in high school. maybe i never enjoyed it because it was a forced read?

Trust me, the book is soooo much better than the film. I saw the film before hand too but it doesn;t spoil it. Watch out though, it's in dialect but once you've get used to it then you'll love it.

Yeah I think if it's a forced read then you enjoy it a hell of a lot less. Take Shakespeare for example. Everybody hates him at school, but if you read it on you're own accord then you learn to appreciate his use of language and stuff. Sorry if that reads really snobby.

books are generally soooo much better than the films. thank you very much for the recommendation!!

but i loved a lot of the other forced reads: of mice and men... scarlet letter... crucible... and even shakespeare. something about mockingbird... i dunno.

I found mice of men a bore actually.

No problem and when (not if) you get through it tell me if you enjoyed it or not.

And to sell it even more have a gander

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

wow... i always liked it.

i just finished a secret history. anyone read that?

Hmm I guess it just wasn't something you enjoyed. I was the same with Lord of the Flies for me. It was alright I guess.

Hey SynthethicalY, have you read grapes of wrath? If so what did you think?