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[bizzyjenkins]

"I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn’t shake us awake with a blow on the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? So that it can make us happy, as you put it? Good God, we’d be just as happy if we had no books at all. . . . What we need are books that hit us like a most painful

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[paceyj]

Where to begin. If you've read any of these I apologize in advance.

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

That should be good for now. If you want anything more specific there's plenty more. Hollerrrrrrrr.

[paceyj]

Oh shit, and Les Misérables by Victor Hugo.

[bizzyjenkins]

Thank you kindly. I've only read Brave New World, so I have a bit of researching to do. Keep them coming.

[stepheileen]

UH DEF ONE HUNDRED YEARS

[paceyj]

On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Naked by David Sedaris
The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

This should hold you. Just do your research and see which ones appeal most, but honestly they're all good. Just look out for spoilers cause then there's no point in reading.

[bizzyjenkins]

there is more to reading than the plot line!!

[bizzyjenkins]

Eggers was in the periphery of the next 1-5. Kerouac's the man. I want to reread once I've knocked out 10-15 new ones.

[paceyj]

Haha. You should probably be enjoying college life a little bit more. 10-15 books is a little hermit-like for a college freshman in fall term. Slash that number in half and maybe go out a few nights a week.

[paceyj]

Plus, I just gave you ten awesome titles you haven't read yet. Catch up at your leisure so we can speak intelligently about being elite superbrains.

[bizzyjenkins]

Always down for the elitist robowoman megaintelligence superbrain conversation.

[bizzyjenkins]

maybe after we can discuss politics and feminism.

[endthekids]

Well it may not be as sophisticated as the millions jeff has recommended...but... Battle Royale is really good! And it has a lot of pain and death and suffering in it. Just my 2 cents.

[bizzyjenkins]

Thank you. Jeff knows nothing of sophistication.

[endthekids]

Oh lol Well i've never read any of those nor heard of them. The names just seemed more sophisticated than battle royale i suppose? anyway enjoy your reading!! haiiii!

[paceyj]

I never read the novel Battle Royal, but I've read through some of the manga inspired by it in tenth grade, and that shit was really good. I'm not sophisticated either. It's mode like divine intervention.