sometimes I wish I knew more stuff...

[makemoretrouble]

Every once in a while I wish I listened more when people talk about this book or that book, because then when I am perusing the library catalog, I'd know what to order.

So if you could, please. Just tell me a few of your favorite books. Fiction and non-fiction are both welcome. But please include at least one fiction or creative non-fiction, since

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[eloe]

That always happens to me at the library, too. You could always just get a bunch of Christopher Pike books!

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Written on the Body by Jeannette Winterson

[makemoretrouble]

you know, I've never read Lolita. I've seen both versions of the movie... I should really correct that.

and you're right about Christopher Pike! Except that I read all of them already!

[herglacialspeed]

Devil in the White City - Erik Larson (non-fiction)
The Wind Up Bird Chronicles - Murakami (fiction)
Sex Drugs and Cocopuffs - Chuck Klosterman (non-fiction)
Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters (fiction)
Candy Girl - Diablo Cody (non-fiction)*

* Don't take this the wrong way but I think you'd LOVE this book!!!

[makemoretrouble]

why would I take that the wrong way?! You have every reason to think I'd love that book!

[herglacialspeed]

Good. I figured you'd be okay with. Frankly I loved that book!!! Knowing that people strip to the pixies makes me feel all warm inside!!!

[josefblind]

I haven't read it but try...
Astrid & Veronika, everyone I work with has been raving about it.

[makemoretrouble]

it looks really good!

[fivefifthsdead]

books are my crack. i've read at least thirty books since i moved. so if YOU have suggestions for ME, let me know. i'm desperate. but anyway...John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces is one of my favorite books, so you should totally read that.

and i just read Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez...it was wonderful, and a quick read. i pretty much like anything by him.

also, off the top of my head...

- blood and guts in high school - kathy acker
- cat's cradle - kurt vonnegut
- the autobiography of alice b. toklas - gertrude stein
- bare: the naked truth about stripping - elisabeth eaves
- every chuck palahniuk book ever(...but you knew that.)

[herglacialspeed]

hey! are you gonna call me back chump??

[makemoretrouble]

ugh. I'm so bad at this.

Sorry! I'll call, I promise!