Book Recommendations...
 

I'm going to the bookstore tonight and I need a fairly quick read.

I want it to be interesting.

Nothing too girly.

I'm open to pretty mcuh any genre.

Any ideas? I know the description is pretty vague, but I need it for a test next week and I'd like to read mutiple books.

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Disturbing, blackly comic and riveting.

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One of my favorite books ever.

Interesting...

And you've read it?

What is Running With Scissors about?

A kid who grew up in a very eccentric therapist's house, figures out he's ***, and just grows up, meanwhile his phsycotic mother's condition just gets worse.

There are some really graphic sex depictions in it, but it's so well written that you can get past that.

have you read his book 'dry'.... he refers to his childhood a few times... pretty good read i think. i havent read the other but plan on it.

I've been looking for Dry all over, and can't find it anywhere!

That was a really good movie too. I didn't realize it was a book first. :o

And try Running Man by Stephen King (so much better than the movie) or Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. They're both small, but thick, which averages out to a not too long read.

I have Running Man around here somewhere...

The Running Man was published in a quartet entitled 'The Bachman Books'. I remember 'The Long Walk' being a great story. I am not the biggest Stephen King fan. I much prefer his pseudonym work and his short stories

I have a hard time staying committed to Stephen King novels.

I lose the gist, eventually, and get bored.

And I'm an avid reader, not many books affect me that way.

The Regulators is the best Bachman book. Not sure if it's in the series you're reffering. It's seconded only to Children of the Corn for my favorite Stephen King book.

I hate Stephen King novels. I'm sorry.

I read "Dry" and liked it I got it off Amazon. If you like it read anything by Bret Easton Ellis.

atlas shrugged

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/\ Two of my favourite, more recent reads there. Couldn't recommend them enough to anyone who's never come across them

Bachman's books are pretty good. They weren't as supernatural as King's books were (though Thinner was still pretty supernatural). And I think Stephen King is a great writer. One of the only- if not the only- authors I'll read continuously. But I don't read that often I guess.

Really?

I'll definitely look into it.

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Just finished How To Be Good a couple days ago. It was pretty great.

^_^ Mhm.

Does Burroughs have any books besides Running With Scissors and Dry?

I'm going to use this thread for reccomendation's in general for books.

Okay so I really like biographies/autobiographies of people I've heard of who are very eccentric or suffered through major physical/emotional problems growing up. Dealing with sexuality, unloving parents etc. etc. appeal to me, and it can be fiction as long as it's well written, any ideas?

Hum.

Heavy Metal Books
 

I want to get some books on the subject of Heavy Metal music, got any good recommendations.

I got nothing in the way of heavy metal books, but two years late lemme just say Burroughs is the most noxious, annoying writer I've ever read anything by

Non-Fiction, you mean?

This might be completely out of the spectrum of what you're looking for, but you might like Heart-Shaped Box, by Joe Hill. It's a fiction horror/thriller about a famous semi-retired metal musician who buys a dead man's suit and is then haunted by the previous owner of the suit. It's a very good read. Hill also has two other books I've yet to read, 20th Century Ghosts (a collection of short stories) and Horns.

I haven't read in so long.
When I go to the bookstore, I always read a part of Nikki Sixx's "Heroin Diaries" and I think it's really interesting.
Try it out.
The entries are short so it keeps me reading.

Get the Running with Scissors, you really might like it

I need some books, just tell me some favourites of yours. I'm desperate.

you should read Memoirs of an Invisible Man by H.F. Saint.
it's surprising brilliant considering the banality of the subject matter.
fun too :)

Cool, i'll keep my eye out.
I actually got quite alot of books today so i'll be set for a little while.

dunno if you do the whole ebook thing but i've got it if you need it :)

I'm no good with new books.
I'm reading Catcher in the Rye again.

What would be a good Bukowski book to follow up Post Office? I read it like two years ago and Bukowski has has always been a name I forget to look up when I"m at the bookstore or library.

oh man, such a good book. i recommend this wholeheartedly. also get starter for ten, or if you want to be really cool then buy all of the roald dahl books and read them back to front, YES.