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[pbchainsaw]

book recommendations, please.

books that changed your life.
books that you like.
books that are not usual.
any books. i need books.

so put 'em here.

thanks.

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[hermes2]

Haruki Murakami's Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World, and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle also by Murakami.

Italo Calvino's If On A Winter's Night A Traveler... is good too.

[pbchainsaw]

ooh, murakami. i've only ever read his short stories. thanks!
i've read the Calvino. in italian. it was good.

[hermes2]

Added: Neither are "usual."

[jackiesadork]

Right now I am reading "The Boat in the Evening" by Tarjel Vesaas
It's really good. I am still half asleep though and cannot think of
anything else to recommend :P

[pbchainsaw]

thanks. :)

[00manticore00]

The Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald.

I know the last two are classics and thus probably 'usual', but I enjoyed them, and they're good.

The Alchemist by Paulo Choelo is also supposed to be good. I still have to read it.

[pbchainsaw]

thanks, mike!
i've read the life of pi. (i didn't like it that much.)
i've read the catcher in the rye, but not the great gatsby, but i already had someone recommend it to me, so it's in my amazon.co.uk basket.

[sitarsitar]

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
also anything by John Fante
:)

[pbchainsaw]

thanks a lot. knut. what a good name.

[mynona]

It means 'knot'

Also look at books written by Jostein Gaarder. My favorites are Sophie's world, The Christmas Mystery and The Solitaire Mystery.

[pbchainsaw]

i. love. jostein gaarder!
i've read all those already, and also Through a Glass, Darkly, which was my favourite.

[moonsafaris]

the watcher - james howe

[pbchainsaw]

thanks!