Recommend & Review

[Katherine]

It is confusing...I mean the change of narrators and pov freaked me out the first time I read it.

I won't say it's a brilliant book - but I do adore it and think it's amazing for the plot line...I don't know what I'm saying really...

[Kari]

Well, you say that you love it, because you love dark and twisted people, especially when they are in dark and twisted relationships

[java_junkie]

there is something very captivating, and indeed, sublime about the gothic novels. i think it's just the mere fact that it freaks us out and challenges and questions our rationality that makes it so captivating to us. and there's something about the brooding "villain" (got to love the byronic hero!), and how we can sort of identify with him/her, and at the same time, we distance ourselves from him/her. it's as if we're all byronic heroes in our own ways, whether we are actually conscious of it or not.

i just read Frankenstein for the very first time a couple of weeks ago and i thought it was fabulous!

[channingonfire]

I'm trying to make a list of books/authors I should read. Right now I'm reading Chuck Palahnuik's book "Lullaby", and after that I plan of reading "Fear And Loathing In las Vegas". I'm trying to get my friend to let me borrow his collection of Charles Bukowski.

I'm also working my way through 3 philosophy books ("Classical Philosophical Questions: Edition 2", "Philosophy Of Law" and "Philosophy Of God And Religion") all three being compilations of different beliefs.

Any recommendations that I should consider?

[OC-Lover]

i'm reading lullaby right now, too. Oo

well, here a list of my favorites.
they're all great.

j.d. salinger - the Catcher In The Rye
stephen chbosky - the Perks Of Being A Wallflower
patrick süskind - Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer
and if you like fantasy (vampire stories & such), this is an AWESOME trilogy:
sergej lukanienko - the Watch trilogy (Night Watch; Day Watch; Twilight Watch)

[B.Davis]

yay for reading lullaby! no really, I love him.

if you havent already you should check out his other books
Invisible Monster
Survivor
Fight Club

all by Chuck Palahniuk.

[channingonfire]

I've read Fight Club and Choke.

And I ABSOLUTELY HATED A Catcher In the Rye.

I'm not a big fantasy fan but I did/have been reading Laurell K Hamilton's "Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter" series. But I'll be honest, it was for the sex. lol.

[OC-Lover]

i don't understand how people can hate that book.

to me, it's one of the most amazing things ever written.

[channingonfire]

I didn't like it because when I put it down, I could still here that boy talking in my head. That annoying, jabbering, never-ending constantly-thinking main character drove me up the wall.

[OC-Lover]

it's what i liked...

[oclover24]

What genres do you read? I mostly read chick lit, so I can help you there.

[seth_is_my_baby]

^

Yeah, me to. Love chick lit. It's the best!

Try Sarah Dessen, any one of her books, Melina Marchetta's "Looking For Alibrandi" or "Saving Francesca" or the Harry Potter series by JK Rowling.

Also "The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants" series is awesome!

[oclover24]

^ Agreed about the Traveling Pants series! Gossip Girl as well, for a light read.

[OTH man]

I second the suggestion of "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" its awsome

[oclover24]

^ I've always wanted to read that, but I haven't yet.