Quick! Recommend me a kickass book

summer · 05.30.2009, 03:00 AM

I'm going to the mall in the morning, and that means I will inevitably end up in a bookstore. The book can be about anything, all I ask is give the title of the book, the author, and a sentence or two about why it's worth my time. Thaaank you.

_slavo_ · 05.30.2009, 03:09 AM

this won't dissapoint you.

summer · 05.30.2009, 03:17 AM

Hmm. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle weren't favorites, but still decent books. What about A Wild Sleep Chase?

_slavo_ · 05.30.2009, 03:32 AM

A Wild Sheep Chase, you mean? That's another favourite of mine - if not Norwegian Wood, then this one. More surreal and haunted than the other one, but very, very good.
Afterdark is another one that's worth picking.

Death & the Maiden · 05.30.2009, 04:27 AM

Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground - Michael Moynihan and Didrik Søderlind
It's about black metal, but not really the music, more the controversies surrounding it.

phoenix · 05.30.2009, 04:29 AM

http://www.amazon.com/great-picture-.../2N2IYP4TANMZG
?

Lamont Cranston · 05.30.2009, 05:09 AM

The Wizard Knight by Gene Wolfe

atsonicpark · 05.30.2009, 07:23 AM

dylan sparrow - personal dept

Rob Instigator · 05.30.2009, 10:26 AM

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Originally Posted by _slavo_

this won't dissapoint you.

i second -slavo- and throw in murakami's other stuff toooo
wild sheepchase
wind up bird chronicle
kafka on the shore

_slavo_ · 05.30.2009, 10:31 AM

South of the Border, West of the Sun, too.

EVOLghost · 05.30.2009, 10:36 AM

The Trial by Kafka.

Inhuman · 05.30.2009, 10:43 AM

exploding plastic candle · 05.30.2009, 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by EVOLghost

The Trial by Kafka.

this

terminal pharmacy · 05.30.2009, 04:58 PM

_slavo_ · 05.30.2009, 05:31 PM

What did you end up buying, summer?

summer · 05.30.2009, 06:53 PM

I ended up buying a couple video games instead, because this mall's bookstore didn't have shit. The good stuff it did have was overpriced a bit, too. Now I remember why buying books online is so much better. I mean if I wanted to read Catch-22 I could get it for a much cheaper price. I couldn't find a single Murakami novel, you'd think you could at least find one of those. I was tempted to buy Bob Dylan's Chronicles, Vol. 1 the most, but I haven't actually heard most of his music so maybe it would have bored me. But yeah, the women working there bugged me too. They were talking amongst themselves and said they'd never read Stephen King. Now, while he isn't amazing, how could someone have never read one of his books? What do they read?

Oh and the sad part is how the more well-known books were the minority and under this small stack labeled "Literature", which seems a tad bit insulting, if you ask me. ._. Fuck Waldenbook's. It's kind of odd, actually, considering the place seems to be linked to Border's. If this is true, and they're both owned by the same people, why is it Border's is so much better?

ihateyouth · 05.30.2009, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by _slavo_

this won't dissapoint you.

the movie will :/

ihateyouth · 05.30.2009, 09:48 PM

London Fields by Martin Amis

ihateyouth · 05.30.2009, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by EVOLghost

The Trial by Kafka.

yes

joe11121 · 05.30.2009, 11:53 PM

Heh, only book I've read by him. It's great. I think I may re-read it.

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summer stalker Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 540	I'm going to the mall in the morning, and that means I will inevitably end up in a bookstore. The book can be about anything, all I ask is give the title of the book, the author, and a sentence or two about why it's worth my time. Thaaank you. __________________
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summer stalker Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 540	Hmm. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle weren't favorites, but still decent books. What about A Wild Sleep Chase? __________________
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_slavo_ invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Ðîññèÿ Posts: 10,886	A Wild Sheep Chase, you mean? That's another favourite of mine - if not Norwegian Wood, then this one. More surreal and haunted than the other one, but very, very good. Afterdark is another one that's worth picking. __________________ you're the boy that can enjoy invisibility
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summer stalker Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 540	I ended up buying a couple video games instead, because this mall's bookstore didn't have shit. The good stuff it did have was overpriced a bit, too. Now I remember why buying books online is so much better. I mean if I wanted to read Catch-22 I could get it for a much cheaper price. I couldn't find a single Murakami novel, you'd think you could at least find one of those. I was tempted to buy Bob Dylan's Chronicles, Vol. 1 the most, but I haven't actually heard most of his music so maybe it would have bored me. But yeah, the women working there bugged me too. They were talking amongst themselves and said they'd never read Stephen King. Now, while he isn't amazing, how could someone have never read one of his books? What do they read? Oh and the sad part is how the more well-known books were the minority and under this small stack labeled "Literature", which seems a tad bit insulting, if you ask me. ._. Fuck Waldenbook's. It's kind of odd, actually, considering the place seems to be linked to Border's. If this is true, and they're both owned by the same people, why is it Border's is so much better? __________________
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ihateyouth children of satan Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: in dreams Posts: 322	London Fields by Martin Amis __________________
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joe11121 expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Brantford, Canada Posts: 1,843	Heh, only book I've read by him. It's great. I think I may re-read it.
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