I'm not an addict, its cool, I feel alive

[plural]

so
I read
"master and commander"
this morning

yes the entire thing

which sucks
cause I really liked it
and
its over

so
in my continual quest
to keep up
with my book addiction

how about yall recommend to me
a book or two

Comments

[atillathehung.livejournal.com]

Do you have any particular genres you like to read? Do you keep it pretty serious or do you enjoymore light-hearted reading?

I think we've discussed Umberto Ecco before, and you seemed to like his stuff...that would fall under the more serious side.

[thawaltzingfool.livejournal.com]

I hate it when a good book ends, to me it feels like a relative died.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. I finished this book while sitting on my then front porch last summer. I closed the book, pressed it to my chest and sat moved and in awe. Read this book!

Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell. One of the most complete make characters ever written. This book is funny, disgusting, shocking and emotional. It paints the most detailed pictures. Oh, and its an Oprah Book Club book, but dont allow that to turn you off, its not even close to being a "chick" book or anything you may think.

[thawaltzingfool.livejournal.com]

grr...

*MALE characters ever written...

[ignote.livejournal.com]

The Magus by John Fowles.

I can't do the book justice with praise.

Patrick O'Brien Sucks

[consume.livejournal.com]

Horatio Hornblower series - C.S. Forester(way better than O'Brien)

Norwegian Wood - Haruki Marukami

Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller

[ex-hotlavamo352.livejournal.com]

memoirs of hadrian by marguerite yourcenar

stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers by mary roach

[eleven-eleven.livejournal.com]

a tragic sense of life by miguel de unamano...i think i spelled that right.

[plural.livejournal.com]

by nature of my voracious appetite
I tend to read most anything

recently I have been trending mostly toward historical fiction/non-fiction

and yes I adore ecco

but I also enjoy lighter reading like stuart woods or the like

generally I like to have three books going at the same time, one non-fiction, one serious fiction, one light hearted fiction.

helps me balance to my mood, and by switching off between books makes them seem to last a little longer

finishing a good book always feels so tragic to me

[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

There are 19 other books by the same author that follow the same two characters.

I'm on #13. They're all good, so far.

Re: Patrick O'Brien Sucks

[plural.livejournal.com]

heh

actually read one of the horatio hornblower books
in my youth and I recall really liking it

will have to pick up a few of em

as for henry miller

I have tried to read that specific book
at least four times

and god damn as a liar if I ever got
past past halfway

quite frankly it bored me to tears
the final straw however
was when he spent a page and a half
with a pathetic attempt of a poetic description
of a parisian nickel whores twat

[plural.livejournal.com]

good lord

I noticed in the back
there wasa sequel
but 19 of them

yazooks

guess I will have to look into em

[saucylaur.livejournal.com]

Niebla or Myst by Unamuno as well.

[saucylaur.livejournal.com]

Written on the Body - by Jeanette Winterson
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman - Angela Carter
Autumn of the Patriarch - García Marquez
Compassion - Benito Perez Galdos
I, the Supreme - A.A. Roa Bastos

[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

Yep, 20 in the series. He pumped out one a year until he died.

[plural.livejournal.com]

"I, the Supreme"

now that sounds like an appropriate book for me
*mischevious grin*

[plural.livejournal.com]

prolific indeed

[saucylaur.livejournal.com]

Heh... perhaps if you are a dead and entombed Latinamerican dictator... that mopes around and has homosexual urges towards his also ghost compadre... then yes.

If you can read it in Spanish, I suggest it. Much better. Very complicated work.

[rdg.livejournal.com]

lost in translation -- eva hoffman
[nothing to do with the film]

under the volcano -- malcolm lowry
white teeth - zadie smith
the denial of death -- ernest becker

[witsbeginning.livejournal.com]

diggin the k's choice lyric ;)

class--paul fussell

the secret life of salvador dali--by the bastard himself

[zaiah.livejournal.com]

Really? Serious?? I've never been able to take Ecco seriously.. and the books just melt through my fingers and are done.

[atillathehung.livejournal.com]

I've only read Focault's Pendulum, and I thought his style was a little ponderous...but I like his characters and plot.

And contemplating ancient mysteries and whacky ass Masonic plots is on the hefty side. When I think light reading, I think of Lawrence Shames, Carl Hiassen and Tim Dorsey!

[zaiah.livejournal.com]

*grins* Mickey Mouse as the Messiah and Minnie Mouse as Magdalene has always been highly amusing to me. ;)

Light reading to me has always meant indulging into the fantasy and science fiction section.. I always feel most silly. ;)

Hey Plural Baby..
Howabout Aztec By Gary Jennings

[luv2ride.livejournal.com]

In addition to the above Marquez book, I'd recommend Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude.

The Illuminatus! Trilogy by R.A. Wilson

Do you read Sci Fi/Fantasy?

[atillathehung.livejournal.com]

*grins* Mickey Mouse as the Messiah and Minnie Mouse as Magdalene has always been highly amusing to me. ;)

You seem like the type of person who'd like Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore. One of the funniest books ever, but also pretty thought-provoking.