I imagine that many of you only needed something like this to firmly attribute the label of "loser" to my name. Perhaps you didn't even need this...
Whatever your opinion of me and of my blog, I now call upon all of you to assist me.
I have come to the end of my reading list. This list was constructed just after I finished my degree at Uni. It consisted of such literary beauties as The Satanic Verses, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, and When We Were Gods. Having completed all 45 of the books on this list, I now need a new one.
Here's where you can help me:
Please submit, by commenting on this post, your top three books of all time. (To comment, you need either a gmail or hotmail email address.) After a period of no longer than 3 weeks, I shall review all comments, and construct my new Reading List.
Please suggest any books - forget what you think I might enjoy or not enjoy, I want a cross section of literature/non-literature on this list - mixing it up a bit.
Thank you for your time.
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8 comments:
1. Magician (Raymond E. Feist) His series is fantastic. Their is over 30 books but once you have read the first 3 the rest jut get better and better. If you love fantasy this is top 10. Voted in the top 100 books of all time (Modern).
2. River God - Wilbur Smith - these 3 books will make you laugh, cry and make your draw drop. Also has some steamy sex scenes which is great. Typical Wilbur Smith.
3. George R R Martin - A song of Ice and Fire Series - Great Fantasy - A game of Throwns, clash of kings, storm of swords, feast for crows. ..... amazing...
Other books that made it close for me that I did not put in top 3.
Shadow Diver - a group of Scuba Divers discover a Japanese U-BOat.. if you like diving great.
Power of One, Harry Potter Books, Lord of the Rings.
BTW - Great idea and bizarrely on a long ago reccomendation from you I started the Satanic Verses this morning..
1. Any Douglas Coupland, but Girlfriend In a Coma was a book that literally changed the way I looked at my relationships with the people and the world around me - and the book I have read the most, last count was around the 30th time, like re-visiting an old friend.
2. ALL of Jodi Picoults books - slightly veering towards chick lit but with twists in the tale that make you gasp out loud. Diverse subject matter too - from a child having God as an invisble friend, teenage suicide/murder, dead babies in an Armish community to witchcraft in Salem!! Best one - My Sisters Keeper, I cried so much at the end of the book that Neil thought I had had bad news over the phone.
3. Donna Tartt's The Secret History. One of the most beautifully written books I have ever read, amazing story of power and obsession.
Hard to think of anymore - too many to count - as you know me I am averaging around 3 books a week at the moment!
oh 'bazza', how can i resist?
three? THREE? forget it, just read all of these; it's a long life, you've got time.
1) dostoyevsky, either notes from underground or crime and punishment. both as close to perfection as you'll get. crime and punishment is a classic, the way he gets in the mind of a murderer racked with guilt is amazing. notes is far shorter, and basically how can you resist a book that starts 'i am a spiteful man'?
2)stick with those russians and do master and margarita by bulgakov. funny, mind-blowing and surreal, again you know you're onto a winner with a start like this - satan running loose in post-ww1 moscow and causing chaos...accompanied by a giant cat. naturally.
3) at the risk of being called a ponce, do james joyce ulysses. fucking amazing. don't try and understand it all and don't re-read sections to work them out. just read it and get caught up in it. the most daring,experimental and influential novel you could read.
4) bret easton ellis, american psycho. if you've got a sick mind...and, bazza, you have a sick mind, you'll love this. yes it's pornogrpahic and sickeningly violent, but it's also unfairly overlooked as a truly disturbing, intelligent book. the inner workings of a psychopath's mind...with nothing censored.
5) saul bellow - herzog
6) john fante - ask the dust
7) murakami - windup bird chronicle...you got to got to read this
8) hardy - tess of the d'urbevilles
9) please kill me, an oral punk history (if you're sick of the fiction and are in to this kind of thing)
you can also have a first draft on the future bestseller, dead dom, in about...one month.
get reading
dan
Contribution from Trina by correspondence:
1. Death and the a Maiden - by Ariel Dorfman. He wrote it back in the
1980's when he was in exile from Chile under the rule of general Pinochet.
It relates to a woman that re-lives torture sessions when the man she
believes raped and tortured her is in her home. Really really well worth
reaeding.
2. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, f*#k*ng brilliant! No more coments to
make just read it because it pisses all over the film.
3. I'll get back to you it's too close a call
I'm going with humour b/c you'll have to take a break from the proper meaningful literature at some point!
Tommyland - Tommy Lee. The sections written by his penis are quite entertaining. We all know they have a mind of their own... but a voice?
The Dirt - Motley Crue. Sex, drugs, sex, alcohol, sex. Debauchery at its finest. What's not to like.
Bitter is the New Black - Jen Lancaster. This chic went from being super successful and rich to absolutely nothing. I love her sarcasm.
Eats Shoots & Leaves - Lynne Truss. Classic.
He Died with a Felafel in His Hand - John Birmingham. Nuff said.
i have to agree with the first person on the george r r martin series. they're fucking fantastic.
and i have to agree with the master and margarita. apparently its the book that stones song (i can't remember the damn name but it was in Interview with a Vampire) was based on
i'd have said george r r, the dark tower series, perfume, and matt ruff "set this house in order". also one called "dr neruda's cure for evil" - another frigging fantastic one
wait
did you want reasons?
oh and I forgot... Sushi for Beginners - Marian Keyes
slapstick or lonesome no more - kurt vonnegut
lunar park - bret easton ellis
a connecticut yankk in king arthur's court - mark twain.
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