Recommend Me A Book?

[Hate Is Art]

I'ma bout to start re-reading lord of the rings (for the umpeteenth time) and i don't feel like reading it right now, so i need a new book to read!!! It has to be something a smallish library is likely to have, i'm up for re-reading anything at all.

I would like a book with a point, a novel, preferably but maybe something political i dunno im open to suggestions?

[Wenty]

fences and windows by naomi klein

[ComradeRed]

Tolstoy or Dostoevsky are really good,
but read DON QUIXOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It is EXECELLENT, a little long though.

[Take the Power back]

They are not political, but if you are into it, Stephen King novels are usually a good place to go for a long story. Besides political books, King books are my next favroite reading material.

[canikickit]

Try checking out a book of Chekov's short stories.
There's one called "Tales of Russian Life" which was released in some sort of "classics" series under another name, just "Short Stories" I believe. Great stuff though, what a writer.

[Nickademus]

i'm currently reading lg romeo dellaire's book "Shake Hands with the Devil: the failure of humanity in rwanda". excellent book, although quite graphic at times.

[MysticArcher]

I don't know how easy it is to find anymore, but I recommend Villains by Necessity by Eve Forward

great book, all about the whole good/evil morality thing, so very subtly political and set in a kind of stereotypical fantasy world

[atlanticche]

Fear and Loaving in Las Vegas
by (i cant actually remember)
even if you have seen the film it is brilliant

also if you want a detective story find Gorky Park, and the other following three books
again i cant remember the writter, but those are some fucking excellent books

[Wenty]

fear and loathing... is by hunter s thompson. All his books are good esp. Hells Angels and The Rum Diary.

by the way, canikickit, i'm reading some chekov at the mo.

[Mr. White]

you must read El alquimista, by Paulo Coehlo, greates book ever written.

........and yeah.......Lord ofthe Rings is horrable :lol:

[The Feral Underclass]

this is a good book...

Anarchism - Sean Sheehan (http://www.che-lives.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=23050)

[mysticofthewest]

try the Metamorphisis by Franz Kaffka

[mysticofthewest]

try the Metamorphisis by Franz Kaffka

[toastedmonkey]

Faust (Parts 1 + 2) by Goethe

[The Feral Underclass]

Originally posted by [email protected] 27 2004, 09:06 PM
try the Metamorphisis by Franz Kaffka
I bought this book...its in a collection of short stories...i still havent read it...i picked it up about to read, but then i decided to read another book instead....i shall read it now you have mentioned it.

[pandora]

Farhenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, there's a new interview with him in the back of the paperback, about the idioticy of television.
Also Reading Lolita in Tehran is excellent and was a best seller last year, she really revitalizes interest in the Russian classics, and speaks directly about social justice and education.

[ComradeRed]

Faust (Parts 1 + 2) by Goethe I recently read this for a book report at school, it is really, really deep, it has a poor beggining imho too.

[FatFreeMilk]

Like the other kid said, go with Don Quixote . It was actually pretty interesting today, my teacher compared the US to DQ.

Or read the crying of lot 49 , or moby dick , The awakening ,or dr. jeckyl and mr.hyde. All books that I need to finish for english btw. I read that the awakening was actually banned back in the late 1800's!

[Kurai Tsuki]

Kurai Tsuki's Reccomended reading (http://www.che-lives.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=23145&hl=)

If you are still in the mood for fantasies after reading Lord of the Rings then i woudld reccomend some of the Forogotten Realms novels.

I've recently started reading The Exorcist.

[Ziggy]

books that i would recomend:
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
- the Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
- Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
- the Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys by Chris Fuhrman
- the Drifters by James A. Michener

I'm reading the Drifters right now and its turning out to be one of my favourite books. When I finished Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys i cried so badly. Fight Club, Zen, and Cuckoo's Nest are all brilliant books as well. Cuckoo's Nest is also a tear jerker. Drifters is also long, 728 pages of small print- not sure if you want a quick read or a long one.

[Louis Pio]

Go for some Gorki IMO he is brilliant. You could also try Herman Hesse "Der Steppenwolf" (dunno what it's called in USA).
Or if you want some easy reading try Hunter S Thompson as people suggested, he is brilliant!
Other easy reading would be Charles Bukowski.
I would love to suggest you alot of new danish books (fucking exellent books) but they are unfortunately not translated.

[mysticofthewest]

frankenstein my mary shelly is a good read man

[Cobber]

I take it if you have read The Lord of the Rings, you have read the Hobbit also.

Killing Hope - William Blum (political)
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
The Sicilian - Mario Puzo
The Great and Secret Show - Clive Barker
Everville - Clive Barker

[The Feral Underclass]

'The Outsider' - Albert Camus

[Mano Dayak]

Ulysses, by James Joyce. If you keep reading it, you won't need to buy another book for years. (I got stuck somewhere at page 300).
Plus "The Outsider" by Camus, as Anarchist Tension recommended, or anything by Emile Zola or Dostoyevsky (particularly Crime and Punishment)

[mentalbunny]

Catch 22 - Joseph heller (great satire about war)
Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre (great satire about America, the american media and the death penalty)
No Logo - Naomi Klein (excellent book about multinational corporations and globalisation, an essential read)
Globalisation and its discontents- Joseph Stiglitz 9quite heavy though)

[whereisdrew.com]

what is it your looking for? anything good?

Life of pi - yann martel
a short history of nearly everything - bill bryson

[hawarameen]

Angela's ashes by frank mcourt

Ti's by frank mcourt

John Lennon's last interview by David Sheff

Che's motorcycle diaries

Political ideologies by Andrew Haywood

Mr nice by Howard Marks



The first two books by frank mcourt are biographies, it takes you through Frank's life growing up in Ireland in the middle of the famine when life was really bad. It gives you an insight into how terrible life was at the time. Through these bad times the author finds humor as well as despair its actually quite funny and is a Pulitzer prize winner.
Ti's takes you through his emigration to America and how he started from nothing working here and there until he found his job as an English teacher. Both very good books.

John Lennon - Theres a thread about this book in music, an excellent book

Motorcycle Diaries - again a brilliant book taking you through the adventures of Che during his travels through south America with his motorbike and a friend. It is through these travels that many believe led him to socialism.

Political ideologies - a brilliant introduction to the core concepts of almost every political ideology you can think of. It starts at the beginning where it all began and takes you through modern political systems.

Mr nice - this is the story of one of the worlds biggest drug dealers. Marks grew up in the welsh valleys and graduated from Cambridge university. He soon found that there was more money in drugs than education. It takes you through his trials and tribulations of smuggling in cannabis into Europe, America and Asia with all the tactics he used and the officials he had working for him. An excellent book.

[Hate Is Art]

I have a copy of Angela's Ashes somewhere, I think I will dig it up and give it a read.

If people can give a brief overview of their books it would help as I don't know what most of them are about.

[mysticofthewest]

try Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guan Zhong