book list

[Prince Atom]

I second almost every book here, except for the ones I haven't read

I would add:

Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, T. S. Eliot
A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
The Warrior's Apprentice, Lois McMaster Bujold
The Black Company, Glenn Cook
Anything at all by Diane Duane
Anything at all by Diane Carey


And the list goes on....

TWK

 

[Jamdin]

Some of my favorite "classic" books include:
1) "Of Mice And Men" by John Steinbeck
2) "The Odyssey" by Homer
3) "The Time Machine" by HG Wells
4) "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson
5) "The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling

 

[tleilaxu]

for those of you that have name dropped dick

If you like PK Dick than IMHO the best ones i've read are

Ubik
Do androids dream of electric sheep
the three stigmata of palmer eldritch

although almost everything by him has moments of genius (and crap )

gotta love the crap artist

 

[tleilaxu]

for those of you that have name dropped dick

If you like PK Dick than IMHO the best ones i've read are

Ubik
Do androids dream of electric sheep
the three stigmata of palmer eldritch

although almost everything by him has moments of genius (and crap )

gotta love the crap artist

 

[Mallus]

Curse you...

...Kajamba Lion, for beating me to Nabakov, Bulgakov, and Garcia-Marquez {though I'd probably replace "Cholera" w/100 Years of Solitude}. And curses on NoOne for beating me to Stoppard.

OK, books.

Classic classics:

Dubliners by James Joyce
Billy Budd by Herman Melville {which I swear to God is hillarious}
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
the poetry of e.e. cummings
and Dylan Thomas {Go not sober, into that good night!}
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde {really, anything by Wilde...}
The Stranger by Albert Camus {I liked the newer American translation}
The History of Westen Philosophy by Betrand Russel
[edit oops, forgot the poetry of Philip Larkin...

More contemporary stuff...

Self-Help by Lorrie Moore
Like Life {ditto}
Anagrams {ditto}

Jesus's Son by Denis Johnson
Valis by Philip K. Dick
White Noise by Dom Delillo
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
[edit ...and the poetry of James Tate {bascially The Worshipful Company of Fletchers}

That's enough for now...

 

[Claude Raines]

Where I'm calling From by Raymond Carver

Fraud by David Rakoff

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

The Myth series by Rober Asprin

Native Son by Richard Wright

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving

The Unbearable Lightness Of Being by Milan Kundera

The Exorcist by William Blatty

Expendable by James Alan Gardner

Centennial by James Mitchner