Favorite book?

[fenrir]

I reread the Wolf Hall trilogy every so often as well as "Imaginary Qualities of Actual Things" by Gilbert Sorrentino.

And, of course, "Gate Crashers" by Rick Tomlinson makes me laugh and cry in all the right places, child.

 

[Mc.Faggot]

kafka read pretty good

 

[Raymond]

I got into Cormac Mccarthy this year. Read The Road and Blood Meridian. I liked The Road better but they were both very good.

I read Blood Meridian as an ESL faggot this year. Never took me this long to get through a book of such moderate size. Vocabulary is broodal. And you already feel kind of smart for just understanding what's basically going on.

"Imaginary Qualities of Actual Things" by Gilbert Sorrentino.

That seems like something for faggots. I put it on my reading list.

 

[Punished Dan Mullen]

Have you read Wind-up Bird?

not read but listened to the audio book, his books are always a good listen cause they are easy to understand, very intense and take your mind off while doing other chores


i dont remember wind up bird much other than the dude was creeping on some teenage girl. the opening was great cause some dumb cunt called him up while he was cooking spaghetti, he used this same idea on a short story before and its still hilarious, gotta relisten to it sometime

 

[Punished Dan Mullen]

kafka read pretty good

kafka on the shore? wwaw the johnny walker

 

[Opesterino]

The Running man book itself, the movie is completely different. Both are amazing, I just recently read the book and I honestly couldn't put it down.

 

[Patrick O'Neal]

I liked Dicken's "A Christmas Carol", though I can't help thinking it could be improved upon.

 

[ThePepsiColaRapist]

not read but listened to the audio book, his books are always a good listen cause they are easy to understand, very intense and take your mind off while doing other chores


i dont remember wind up bird much other than the dude was creeping on some teenage girl. the opening was great cause some dumb cunt called him up while he was cooking spaghetti, he used this same idea on a short story before and its still hilarious, gotta relisten to it sometime

I want to punch you.

 

[guest]

The Running man book itself, the movie is completely different. Both are amazing, I just recently read the book and I honestly couldn't put it down.

I can’t believe they haven’t remade the running man movie yet. What are they waiting for?

 

[Opesterino]

I can’t believe they haven’t remade the running man movie yet. What are they waiting for?

if they do remake it I really hope they do it justice. total recall was meh at best in my opinion.

 

[guest]

if they do remake it I really hope they do it justice. total recall was meh at best in my opinion.

Oh I’m sure it will be horrible commie propaganda but I’m still surprised they haven’t done it

 

[Maybe even kiss you]

 

[Monk]

With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa by EB Sledge is a great war diary.

The descriptions of what Okinawa was like are fucking brutal. Don't know how any of the men who fought there or in similar battles came out of it with any shred of their sanity intact.

 

[ShutYourCakeHorn]

 

[guest]

I've probably read Slaughterhouse-Five several dozen times since high school. Its a book you can pick up and read in one sitting and it never seems to get old.
Others off the top of my head,

Frankenstein
Revolutionary Road
Raymond Carver short stories
Pet Semetery
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Blood Meridian
In Cold Blood
The Naked and The Dead
North Dallas Forty

This has turned into a Cormac McCarthy appreciation Thread and I’m not complaining.

 

[guest]

Unironically infinite jest
Dfw was a really smart autistic fag

 

[guest]

With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa by EB Sledge is a great war diary.

The descriptions of what Okinawa was like are fucking brutal. Don't know how any of the men who fought there or in similar battles came out of it with any shred of their sanity intact.

Fuck’s sake...

 

[guest]

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There’s no way the hilarious gentleman that made this book cover didn’t know about photoshop.

 

[Punished Dan Mullen]

I want to punch you.

If you don't understand with an explanation you won't understand with one

 

[guest]

I'm only mentioning this book because you seem really smart.

I’m blushing. And gay.