11/12/2008 12:14:55 PM EST

Book lists

posted by bobbiej

This site would be an amazing place to generate a book list from

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As I was just filling out my preferences the favorite book part was the hardest, I have about ten. It would be amazing to have a list of books generated from this community. Here are mine.

Disgrace (J.M. Coetzee)

The sixth Extinction (E. Leakey, Roger Lewin)

The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bugakov)

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabril Garcia Marquez)

In The City OF Shy Hunters (Tom Spanbauer)

The Echo Maker (Richard Powers)

Supercapitalism (Robert B. Reich)

Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)

Cats Eye (Margaret Atwood)

The Shipping News (E. Annie Proulx)

White Teeth (Zadie Smith)

The One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)

To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)

O.K. I went over Ten...

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two fantastic novels (none / 0)

By Rohinton Mistry:

A Fine Balance

Family Matters

 

by desertpear on 11/12/2008 04:18:44 PM EST

The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck) (none / 0)
Are we just doing fiction here?  Because most of what I read (that isn't comics) is non-fiction.  I'd have a lot to contribute in that vein.

by Spencer on 11/12/2008 04:24:22 PM EST

Oh duh. (none / 0)
I guess I should have actually read your whole list.  I see some non-fiction in there.  I'll be back with a little list.

by Spencer on 11/12/2008 04:25:25 PM EST

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Here's a few... (none / 0)

A People's History of the United States (Howard Zinn)

FDR (Jean Edward Smith)

The Lucifer Principle (Howard Bloom)

Global Brain (Howard Bloom)

Chasing Ghosts (Paul Rieckhoff)

Pistol (Mark Kriegel)

Homicide (David Simon)

The Corner (David Simon)

Shock Jock (Rory O'Connor) (mostly notable for Cenk being interviewed in it)

The Denial of Death (Ernest Becker)

F.U.B.A.R. (Sam Seder and Steven Sherrill)

All of the Al Franken books are great.

Any book by Joe Conason.

I could go on for days (and probably will once I get home tonight to peruse my shelves).

by Spencer on 11/12/2008 04:38:27 PM EST

TwoHitKill (none / 0)
Most of what I read is pulp trash, and I like it that way.  But I will offer this:

UNDERRATED:
Reefer Madness by Eric Schlosser

OVERRATED:
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

by OneHitKill on 11/13/2008 09:20:55 AM EST

Indeed (none / 0)

Reefer Madness is great.  And, overrated though it may be, I liked Kavalier and Clay as well.

by Spencer on 11/13/2008 03:28:38 PM EST

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allright... (none / 0)
here we go:

Classics:

Fables (Jean De La Fontaine) - Something to read to your kids, but mostly to yourself

Faust (Goethe) - Make sure to read parts I and II

The Hunbchback of Notre Dame (Vitor Hugo) - A book like a cathedral

In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust) - the World, explained by a genius Parisian, hypochondriac snob. I know it has about 4,000 pages, but if you give it a chance, it's gonna sensitize your senses like you never thought it would be possible.

The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann) - After Proust, its 1,100 pages are going to seem to you like a Superman comic

Kafka - anything of him....

Night Flight (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) - great little stroy about people who do not accept frontiers

recent:

Night Work: A Novel (Thomas Glavinic) - Disturbing....

The Elementary Particles (Michel Houellebecq) - controversial, great

Dead Famous (Ben Elton) - just something to laugh your behinds off

by grebrim on 11/13/2008 01:35:11 PM EST

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