books.

[wataridori]

I keep going to Borders and not finishing the books I've started. Silly me. I need to make a list!!

books I started but never finished-Flowers for Algernon

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[hetlir]

I just finished Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick and will probably read Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami

[hetlir]

or I'll stick with the whole cyberpunk thing and read Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson next. Although I hear Hardboiled Wonderland is supposed to be pretty cyberpunk

then again, someone once told me to read Dostoyevsky when I asked for cyberpunk books

[wataridori]

Aaaah! So many books!!

[ninjaswiftblade]

If you're looking for cyberpunk...I heard that "Neuromancer" by William Gibson is really good. I've just started it, actually, but I'm not sure if cyberpunk is really my thing.... but that could just be my taste.

[ninjaswiftblade]

Books that *I* would recommend?

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

[wataridori]

Thanks for the recs! What are they about/what genre?

I'm lazy....

[ninjaswiftblade]

Rebecca

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. . . With these words the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone manse on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. For in every corner of every room in the immense, foreboding estate were phantoms of a time dead but not forgotten - a past devotedly preserved by the sinister housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers: a suite immaculate and untouched, clothing laid out and ready to be worn, but not by any of the great house's current occupants. And with an eerie presentiment of evil tightening her heart, the second Mrs. de Winter walked in the shadow of her mysterious predecessor, determined to uncover the darkest secrets and shattering truths about Maxim's first wife - the late and hauntingly beautiful Rebecca. [ First published in 1938, this classic gothic novel is such a compelling read that it won the Anthony Award for Best Novel of the Century.]

Re: I'm lazy....

[ninjaswiftblade]

Wuthering Heights

An intriguing tale of revenge in which the main characters are controlled by consuming passions. This novel was once considered such a risk by its publishers that Emily Bronte had to defray the cost of publication until a sufficient number of copies had been sold.

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In nineteenth-century Yorkshire, the passionate attachment between a headstrong young girl and a foundling boy brought up by her father causes disaster for them and many others, even in the next generation.

I guess...this is considered another gothic romance.
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By the way....I saw you mention Nabokov...are you referring to Vladimir Nabokov? I read his Lolita...and it was one hell of an unforgettable book.

[spookster_z]

hiya. you don't know me, but I found you randomly, so hi. I definitely reccomend finishing The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, first of all! :) and ANYTHING else by Douglas Adams (especially Hitchhiker's, and also Long Dark Teatime of the Soul). he's awesome. always great for a laugh. and, as for the others, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is really good, as is anything by J.D. Salinger.
I would reccomend more to you but I don't know you so I don't know what you're into. :P personally, I'm reading The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky at the moment, and it's really good so far. I finished From the Dust Returned by Ray Bradbury recently, that was an awesome one... hmm... That's all I can think of. :)

/end random poster

[wataridori]

Lol. I actually do know you. Aubrey, right? This is yotarou, haha. Hello! Nice seeing you around the internets :P

Yeaaah, J.D. Salinger's a pretty good author. I read only 1 1/2 of his books -- Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zooey. First one I liked but the time frame confused me, and the second was just... confusing, all of it, heh.

And... SKDLFJsD:LKFJWE!1111 I LOVE PERKS. x1000000, seriously. The main character is soooo sweeeeet.. and it's so cute... and sad and inspiring all at the same time!! Omg. :D I ♥ it!

Ray Bradbury is awesome. I read part of this big fat red book of collected stories, Illustrated Man, and another that I forgot. Do you read any of Kurt Vonnegut? Because I love him. Very, very much. And Augusten Burroughs.

[spookster_z]

OH, haha! hey!! how funny. good to see you around again.

Ray Bradbury is indeed awesome. I saw him when I went to a comic convention in San Diego last year. :D AND, YES! WOO! Kurt Vonnegut is DEFINITELY one of my favorite authors... he's freakin' awesome. Never heard of Augusten Burroughs though.. shall check him out. ^_^

[wataridori]

WTF! Not fair! I am so jealous now! Ahhhhhhh.... *falls into pit of envy* Did you get a signature??

Augusten Burroughs is a gay man who writes memoirs, and they are so hilarious. I'd recommend Running With Scissors or Magical Thinking. Also, his brother, William S. Burroughs, was one of the uh... Lost Generation people or something. I've forgotten but he's famous for his abstract-ness, I think, and his works definitely are worth taking look at, even if you can't understand some or all of it [like me :P].