Absolutely, Button I saw Josh put down Animal Farm and thought---I REALLY need to read that one again.

La Celestina
Grapes of Wrath

Glass Slide...I'm sure most here have read quite a few books at one time or another. And when a question like this pops up its also amazing how much you forget.

Anything by Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens

By Ellroy, the whole LA Quartet. Especially "White Jazz" but also "LA Confidential" and "Big Nowhere".

"...no longer shall you trudge 'cross my peaceful mind."

I am a huge Dostoyevski fan and think the Idiot and Bros. Karamatzov are both better than Crime and Punishment.

The Fountainhead was just a dry run for the much superior Atlas Shrugged.

Don't "rush" through Ulysses the first time, just don't worry about not "getting" what's going on. You have to remember there's no background or context for what's going on. You need to read it at least twice. I've probably read it 6 or 7 times.

No one's mentioned Tolstoy. War and Peace is in the top three of all time.

Also love Thomas Wolfe. Look Homeward Angel is the greatest first novel of any author.

I also loved Hemingway's For Whom The Bell Tolls. I'm overdue for a re-read on that.

Just remembered another one I really loved--Tom Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities.



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The Three Muskateers - Alexandre Dumas
Cider House Rules - John Irving
Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde. - So many quotes, so little time - and that's just the first two pages.

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Catcher in the rye
On the Road
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

AURG!! I forgot about Fear and Loathing! What a great book!
Another great one is a non fiction Ten Days that Shook the World by Jonh Reed (Warren Betty in Reds) Great historical account of the Russian Revolution.

THE SHELTERING SKY - Paul Bowles

1984 - George Orwell

CATCHER IN THE RYE - J.D. Salinger

A tale of two cities.

"Vinter i paradiset" by swedish rocklegend Ulf Lundell

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the great gatsby-fitzgerald
fear and loathing in las vegas-thompson
horse latitudes-ferrigno
the honourable schoolboy-le carre
lord of the flies-golding

i'm still trying to make my way through gravity's rainbow by pynchon..

Catch 22- Joseph Heller
A Confederacy of Dunces- John Kennedy Toole

Cien Años de Soledad.- Garcia Marquez

This is almost impossible since naming titles automatically means excluding others. Anyway, some book and writers I keep returning to:

Anything by Kafka (novels, stories, diaries, letters)
Dostoevsky - amazing to see him mentioned so many times - is in my DNA (finished my academic studies on him). I prefer the subjective quality of Crime and Punishment and Notes from Underground above the multi voiced symphonies like the Brothes Karamazov, The Devils.
Italo Svevo - Confessions of Zeno, stories. Probably the 1st writer to meticulously take his own character apart. Self-mockery of the highest order!
John Updike - Rabbit cyclus, The Centaur
My fav contemporay writer is probably Nicholson Baker. Wonderful, brilliant musings on everyday and family life. Completely plotless but wild and very funny - especially if you're caught up in it yourself, I might add.

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"Music is the frozen tapioca in the ice chest of history."

"Shit!... No shit, awright!"



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The Bible
To Kill A Mockingbird
Up And Down With The Rolling Stones
Green Eggs And Ham

Oveinvain Wrote:
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> "Vinter i paradiset" by swedish rocklegend Ulf
> Lundell

Not bad, not bad at all.

Forty Niks Wrote:
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> > "Père Goriot" - Honore de Balzac
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> i love the whole human comedy, erik, but c'mon,
> lost illusions kicks poor ole goirot's "cont" any
> day of the week!


Mybe, but mentioning 1 or 2 books will just be scratching the surface anyway.



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Baboon Bro Wrote:
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> Not bad, not bad at all.



It's a fantastic story that takes place in my neighbourhoods.
I don't know if it's translated to any other language, norweigan maybe.

"....there is nothing more depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge..."

Hunter S. Tompson...

Fear And Loathing may be my 2nd favourite book! That one is just damn amazing.

josh.
np: "chasing cars" - snow patrol

Watership Down by Richard Adams

HelterSkelter Wrote:
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i just read this last year... really incredible book...

Anything from Dostoyevski

Catcher in the rye- JD Salinger

The misfortunes of virtue- Marquis de Sade

The monk-Matthew Lewis

Anything about Greek mythology

Most of L.F.Celine

Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
The Stand - Stephen King
Call of the Wild - Jack London

Barbapapa.

A Man In Full - Tom Wolfe
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
probably others I am not thinking about at the moment. Lots of good ones above

While Europe Slept - scary!