Discussion Favorite books/authors

[Gainax]

So what are your favourite books besides the Peaceful Pill Handbook?

 

[VanHeineken]

I love books and I used to read a lot. But now I read very little. I can't concentrate.

 

[Zaynaldeen]

I don't really read a lot of books, school made me hate them. I just watch videos now instead, though I don't mind reading huge articles online.

 

[Lra888]

Maldoror by Lautremont
Crash by Ballard
Notes from Underground by Dostoyevsky
Cities of the Red Night by Burroughs


I used to read constantly but cannot concentrate or retain info anymore.

 

[RM5998]

I like Saki's short stories, especially those surrounding Clovis. My favorites are almost entirely from Beasts and Super-Beasts. And I always try to qualitatively express the amount of random information in my head by saying that I remember that Editha Clubberly's birthday is on the 12th of October.

I love Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus trilogy. Hilarious take on a hard magic system involving summoning. Bartimaeus is the most hilarious character I've ever seen. From what little I've seen and been told of Harry Potter (by Potterheads), it isn't half as satirical and medium-bending as this.

 

[Sayo]

My favourite authors based on ouevre are José Saramago and Yukio Mishima.

My favourite books individually are Saramago's Death with Interruptions, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, Kafka's The Metamorphosis, and Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits. I'm too tired to talk about them, sorry.

 

[Voldmort]

My favorite author is Sidney Sheldon, but the books I most like are Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire/the Order of the Phoenix, Dante Allighieri's Inferno and the chronicles of ice and fire.

 

[Red star]

The Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris

 

[agreement]

So what are your favourite books besides the Peaceful Pill Handbook?

Like your questions

 

[agreement]

Off the top of my head...

Authors names:

Kafka

Borges

Emily Dickinson

Douglas Adams

Daniel C. Dennet

Hofstadter

Pirandello

Edoardo Boncinelli

Bukowski

 

[VanHeineken]

Now I remember my favourite book, I read it like 20 years ago. It's called "The Name of the Rose" by Umberto Eco.

 

[ParamitePie]

Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes.

Edit: And my favorite play is Coriolanus by William Shakespeare.

 

[Makoto Naegi]

The Long Walk by Stephen King (Richard Bachman) is amazing. Really deep and relevant to the reason we're on this site.
Also Six of Crows (Leigh Bardugo) and The Picture of Doran Grey (Oscar Wilde)

 

[Lra888]

Others:
Sun and Steel by Mishima
Our Lady of the Flowers by Genet
Trial by Kafka
Confessions of a Mask by Mishima
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Selby

 

[VanHeineken]

Maldoror by Lautremont
Crash by Ballard
Notes from Underground by Dostoyevsky
Cities of the Red Night by Burroughs


I used to read constantly but cannot concentrate or retain info anymore.

I have also read Burroughs. Long time ago. It was called "Queer".

 

[VanHeineken]

Others:
Sun and Steel by Mishima
Our Lady of the Flowers by Genet
Trial by Kafka
Confessions of a Mask by Mishima
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Selby

I have also read "Last Exit to Brooklyn" by Hubert Selby Jr.

 

[AndyCurious]

Others:
Sun and Steel by Mishima
Our Lady of the Flowers by Genet
Trial by Kafka
Confessions of a Mask by Mishima
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Selby

Mine is My way to hangmans tree
Very shortly written.. Not published yet
Author - Me

 

[VanHeineken]

Off the top of my head...

Authors names:

Kafka

Borges

Emily Dickinson

Douglas Adams

Daniel C. Dennet

Hofstadter

Pirandello

Edoardo Boncinelli

Bukowski

I have also read Duglas Adams "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" and "Ham on Rye" by Bukowski.

Douglas Adams also wrote some books about Dirk Gently, I have at least read one of them. Don't remember the title.

 

[VanHeineken]

Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes.

Edit: And my favorite play is Coriolanus by William Shakespeare.

Once I started to read "Don Quixote" but never finished it. This was around the time I started to have problems concentrate.

 

[wxtyubidi7y]

Burroughs is awesome. I also like 'Speed' by his short-lived son William Burroughs Jr who drank himself to death at age 33.

 

[VanHeineken]

I really like the play "Ghosts" by Henrik Ibsen.

 

[ParamitePie]

Once I started to read "Don Quixote" but never finished it. This was around the time I started to have problems concentrate.

It is a lengthy work, but well worth reading. I'd say the same about Coriolanus, but then again I feel an indelible kinship with the two protagonists.

 

[VanHeineken]

Burroughs is awesome. I also like 'Speed' by his short-lived son William Burroughs Jr who drank himself to death at age 33.

Burroughs is one of the beat-poets. Another beat-poet I have read is Jack Kerouac's "On the Road". Great book!

 

[VanHeineken]

I also like the play "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Becket. I think people on this forum should see that play. It's a comment on life.

 

[Lra888]

Burroughs is awesome. I also like 'Speed' by his short-lived son William Burroughs Jr who drank himself to death at age 33.

Yes Speed is excellent. Such a depressing and tragic life. There's a very good biography written about Burroughs Jr called "Cursed from Birth" - very fitting title.

 

[Lra888]

Burroughs is one of the beat-poets. Another beat-poet I have read is Jack Kerouac's "On the Road". Great book!

I love Tristessa by Kerouac - it's about a his relationship with an impoverished addict. Very touching and tragic.

 

[Duqu]

I'm soooo excited the last book of one of my favourite series is coming out tomorrow. Can't. WAIT! Sarah J. Maas - the assassin's guild/throne of glass series. OMG so good. I can't Waaaaaait!

 

[ignominia]

Maldoror by Lautremont

Cool, nice to see that someone of here likes him.

Hyperion by Hölderlin
The Demons by Dostoievski
Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil
The Book of the Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire

 

[Dog Food]

Immortality by Milan kundera
The wind up bird Chronicles by haruki murakami
Cats cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
White noise by Don delillo

 

[RM5998]

Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes.

Edit: And my favorite play is Coriolanus by William Shakespeare.

Yeah, Don Quixote was a hilarious read.

I've wanted to read Coriolanus, the same way I've wanted to read the Iliad, but haven't gotten around to either. The Aeneid and Julius Caesar took long enough, and neither was exactly rewarding as far as I'm concerned.