book_recommendations Freak In_the_heart_of_the_fire black_and_blue A_child_called_it I_know_this_much_is_true shes_come_undone The incarnation series by Piers Anthony 021003 ... Freak I need a new book to read! 021003 ... kingsuperspecial lovely bones is pretty good so far. I found myself crying in a cafe at 7:00 this morning. weird. if you like poetry, buy "Sailing Alone Around The World". if you like funny randomness, buy anything from Richard Brautigan Irvine Welsh is pretty good, too. 021003 ... sweetheart of the song tra bong "The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things" if you feel like being beautifully disturbed 021003 ... screwing for virginity the farseer series from Hobb (the first book is Assassins Quest, which is not the crappy not plot story it sounds like going by the title.) The Hitch-hiker trilogy (which is 5 books long) and Shogun (to paraphrase a review: it is horribly long, a pain to read because of it, but worth every word.) and Clockwork Orange (darker than the movie.) 021003 ... screwing for virginity i ment "plotless story" 021003 ... silentbob fools_die mario puzo 021003 ... devalis Good Omens Neil Gaiman and Terry Prachett American Gods Neil Gaiman The Song of the Lioness quartet Tamora Pierce My Soul to Keep Tanandarev Due The Glass Bead Game Herman Hesse The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold 021003 ... Freak I read The Lovely Bones. I thought it was a good book until the end when she went into that other chicks body just because of the fact that the story was believable until then. And if you haven't read it then you still should. I didn't ruin the story by saying that one part. Thats just the only part of the book that sucks. 021005 ... Freak Another good set of books is the geodyssey (suppossed to be)triology (consist of 4 books) by Piers Anthony. 021005 ... gay gizmo Brave New World ~Aldous Huxley 021006 ... bethany fucker you stole that from me i'm NEVER talkignto you again throwing my cell phone AWAY 021006 ... kx21 The Bitch in the House... 021006 ... kx21 Woman_nag? 021006 ... Freak the_perks_of_being_a_wallflower has to be one of the best (if not the best) book I have ever read. I highly recommend it!!! 021009 ... Freak there is a blather page for this book. perks_of_being_a_wallflower but if you want to find the book to read the title has "the" at the beginning. 021009 ... Freak Geek_Love by Katherine Dunn 021115 ... Freak Speak by laurie halse anderson 021121 ... Lilac A classic To_Kill_A_Mockingbird 030225 ... birdmad One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 030225 ... phil The Death Gate Cycle - fantasy adventure written by Margaret Wies and Tracy Hickman 7 book series 030225 ... jane cat's cradle by kurt vonnegut jr 030225 ... delial House of Leaves 030225 ... delial House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski ( house_of_leaves ) 030225 ... blown cherry The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde for anyone who's ever thought they saw beauty in life, or art 030226 ... cube If you're into Sci-fi, anything by Orson Scott Card is great. His 'Ender's Game' is a must read... ³ 030226 ... blue star the book of revelation by rupert thompson. Johnny got his gun by Dalton Trumbo 030226 ... birdmad The Alienist / The Angel of Darkness - Caleb Carr 030226 ... frAnk british fiction, preferably booker prize winners, always concise but engrossing like a conversation with some fucking smart cat whose unpretentious. 030226 ... jane stranger in a strange land by robert heinlein 030226 ... jane i hope i spelled his name right 030226 ... celestias_shadow Orson Scott Card- just anything, they're all amazing His Dark MAterials trilogy- Philip Pullman...FUCKING amazing, possibly some of the best I've ever read! The Darkangel- oh god, can't remember who wrote it- oh wait! Meredith Ann Pierce, that's it! If you like spacey fantasy that's just COOL, and you like vampires, you MUST read this book! And its sequels.... 030226 ... screwing for virginity the fountainhead great book it points out that people are fake, and many dont really exist, they are just compolations of pop culture and other people. only downside: you must wade through 200 pages of crap before it gets good 030227 ... Alden Tad Williams' Otherland Series Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time Series 030227 ... User24 blather_book_club 030508 ... Toxic_Kisses Odd Girl Out by Rachel Simmons I recomend EVERYONE read this book especialy parents and teenagers for more info on the book go to http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=2THP5BRJ29&isbn=0151006040&itm=1 ~ or ~ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0156027348/qid=1052503499/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/002-6354651-6160025 030509 ... smurfus rex To Reign in Hell by Steven Brust It's gooooood. 030509 ... splinken the autobiography of alice b. toklas -- gertrude stein. a severed head -- iris murdoch 030509 ... shivers then again- sorry cant remember who wrote it, kinda nerotic buti luved it uncomfartably numb - sharon english 030805 ... rc did you mean necrotic, necrosis, or neurotic? 030805 ... misstree BWAAAAH! Yes, yes, read to reign in hell. In fact, read everything brust has ever written. Absolutely brilliant fantasy author, far far away from cliches and such a touch with how people would really react... To Reign In Hell is recently re-released, an interesting view on the origins of the universe and the war in heaven. I searched for that book for 10 very very long years. And it was worth every day of it. 030805 ... jane flow_my_tears_the_policeman_said by philip k. dick 030805 ... silentbob i also reccomend house of leaves 030805 ... delial House of leaves is one of my favorite books. The "writing style" of Johnny reminded me of Holden Caulfield[from another book I love], the maze of storylines and memories and instances and letters, photos and facts left my mind reeling, but out of joy. It made me think. It gave me nightmares. It went to show that sometimes the most horrifying place lies inside of yourself. Oh, and my nickname is from the book, obviously. [to those who've read it, heh] 030805 ... silentbob are you familiar with the poe cd? 030805 ... Fire&Roses Every favorite book of mine is already listed with two exceptions... High_Fidelity by Nick Hornby & Farenheight 451 by Ray Bradbury also not one of my favorites but good books none the less... The Patron Saint of Unmarried Women - Karl Ackerman The Last Time They Met - Anita Shreve Starship Titanic - Terry Jones Golden Globe - John Varley ect., ect., ect. 030805 ... celestias shadow fight club- chuck palahniuk me talk pretty one day- david sedaris, it's very funny feed- m. t. anderson, kinda 1984 but not so depressing, actually now that i think about it it's much more like a clockwork orange, which incidentally was also a fabulous book 030805 ... delial To answer your question, yes. I have heard the album, and I've listened to it quite often. Haunted is great. It's amazing to me that they [annie / poe and mark z danielewski ] are brother and sister...and that she'd do a soundtrack for the book. It's a great idea though, and the songs go well with the story. Poe is one of my favorite artists lately.. I find it strange how the tracklisting goes along with events that have happened in my life over the past few years, as well. Coincidences are funny things. such a talented family. oh yes, and to keep on topic, other books I'd recommend: memoirs of a geisha east of eden lolita their eyes were watching god the house on mango street catcher in the rye to kill a mockingbird yap 030805 ... User24 non-fiction, but a great read: Political Ideologies - Andrew Heywood 0-333-96178-1 030806 ... User24 Susan Cooper, The Dark Is Rising (it's a sequence of five books); Over Sea, Under Stone The Dark Is Rising Greenwitch The Grey King The Silver On the Tree If you like Arthurian legend, Harry Potter, and good v evil magic and mystery, you'll love these books. (I only mention Harry Potter due to the similar target audience) 031011 ... girl_jane the_giving_tree It's short, but a classic. 031012 ... User24 indeed it is, never read it before, thanks for giving a signpost :) 031012 ... girl_jane You're welcome. 031013 ... swamp thing any thing and everything by bret easton ellis in this order: Less than zero, the rules of attraction, the informers, glamorama. also read comic books. i recomend watchmen by alan moore. the movie the should have made. 031014 ... god the davinci code by dan brown 031015 ... User24 alan moore lives in my town 031015 ... oldephebe i shouldn't be suprised that there's an andy sidaris referance here..yeah sidaris is hilarious..and uh..his succes hasn't blunted his oh so original quirky voice/muse.. oh ah anything by don dillilo (sp) or Samuel Baldwin..I've read giovanni's room countless times..and it tears me into sorrow every time.. 031015 ... realistic optimist dude, where's my country? by michael moore 040115 ... zeke Dhalgren, Nova - Samuel R. Delaney Vurt - Jeff Noon Ulysses - James Joyce Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Leguin Neuromancer - William Gibson Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood The Shockwave Rider, The Sheep Look Up, Stand On Zanzabar - John Brunner Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs The Thin Man - Dashell Hammett 040116 ... silentlybroken The Great Gatsby, a little simple in places, but strangely mystical in others. The last page appeals to me in a way that no literary work ever has. You'll see what I mean. Songbird is also one of my favourites. 040131 ... smurfus rex try "the devil's apocrypha" by jon de vito. especially you, misstree. :) 040131 ... u24 invitation to the game -monica hughes 040131 ... cocoon i cannot believe no-one has mentioned pg wodehouse. jeeves and wooster are so amazingly funny. the humour is more in the language and way he describes things, but they definetely deserve to be read by everyone. 040203 ... zeke Dream of Glass by Jean Mark Gawron 040204 ... zeke Floating Worlds by Celia Holland 040204 ... zeke Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin 040204 ... zeke Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K Dick 040204 ... Witchesrequiem Lost souls, Drawing blood and Wormwood. by Poppy Z Brite. Also the short stories books Love in vain. Various writers. Can't forget Ann Rice For Occult: The secret teachings of all ages Manley P Hall Anything Delawrence wrote. High and low magic Mary Onidia Toops 040204 ... falling_alone i love francesca lia block. anything from her. there have been many on here that are favorites. user24, i love you for mentioning Harry Potter. if u haven't the books yet, what are you waiting for?! they're not just for kids 040205 ... zeke Ridley Walker by Russell Hoban A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M Miller Jr 040205 ... zeke Blue Highways by William Least-Heat Moon 040205 ... zeke The Epic of Gilgamesh 040207 ... whitechocolatewalrus Drowning Ruth - Christina Scharwz Born Blue - Han Nolan Orfe - Cynthia Voight (an others by her too) Separate Peace - John Knowles Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck Lisa Bright and Dark - John Neufeld Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath America - E. R. Frank 040207 ... bobthebumb moew 040326 ... lou_la_belle to anyone looking into historical fiction, The Other Boylen(spelling?)Girl is wonderful. For something a bit lighter, yet makes me store up kleenex for those heart-rending moments, i would definatly suggest to all the romantics The Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon. (Its also historical fiction). I also reccomend The Mists of Avalon for those interested in the tales of King Arthur, by Marion Zimmer Bradley. 040601 ... puredream Mirabilis by Susan Cokal 040601 ... lizzy Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocolypse by Robert Rankin....... or ya know what.... anything he ever wrote for that matter..... Enchantment By Orson Scott Card 040602 ... lizzy oh and a short classic Jonathan Livingston Seagull ~brainfart~ can't recall who wrote it, and SO not about to try and find my copy.... 040602 ... LavenderTraces The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon How To Breathe Underwater Julie Orringer 040602 ... pete have you got to any that i recommended meg? dont worry if you havent, the list only keeps growing... *smiles* celestine prophecies tao te ching bhagavad-gita the book of ecclessastes (or however it is spelt) the book of job calculating god factoring humanity hominids humans the white plague dune, ect enders game enders shadow shadow of the hegemon between the rivers the great war: american front a coast of trees sumerian vistas hubbert's peak the symposium of plato the republic of plato (oh the sarcasm of socrates! i love it!) that hideous strength the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe, ect homecoming (a pentology) the upanisads the medea the bacchae the antigone the orestia (agamennom, libatition bearers, eumynedies) the odyssey the iliad the gita-govinda the song of songs and so many more, but my mind just went blank so i dont remember ohhh! yes, i have a few more the parade of ants, from some purana the buddhachatria (or however its spelt) the rg veda, esp 10:40 (i like that one) wheel of time, but only if you have a lot of time on your hands and like someone who talks around sex ad nasueom... well thats a good start *smiles* 040603 ... pete i forgot: siddharta, the hobbit, the simarillion, the lord of the rings, the book of lost tales, and ya.. ill just stop now, again 040603 ... Leland im reading BLood and gold by anne rice.. it's good :) 040707 ... Leland im reading BLood and gold by anne rice.. it's good :) 040707 ... u24 "a series of unfortunate events" lemony snicket non-fiction: "Witches and Wizards" Anton and Mina Adams 040708 ... rubydee anything mcsweeney's 040708 ... Raina The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene. The laws included therein can be used for both positive and negative results. It's broken the monotony on my mundane job... My favorite one is Law number 18: "Do not build fortresses to protect yourself-isolation is dangerous...." For me, this is a true challenge. The one that has created the most pleasant chaos is number 12: "Use selective honesty and generosity to disarm your victim..." The author usues parables, and historical references. Very good and useful read. 040708 ... z [has any one actually chosen a book to read because of this page? i must admit that i have not.] see: book_reviews 040708 ... hsg a_course_in_miracles 050724 ... anne-girl the power of now by eckhart tolle (i probably misspelt that horribly...) interesting read 050724 ... andru235 _flatlands_ by edwin a. abbott 050724 ... pete all the dune books, by frank or brian herbert 050724 ... anne-girl the unbearable lightness of being by milan kundera 051203 ... u24 hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world. - haruki murakami a most excellent postmodernist narrative. 051214 ... neesh after the quake by murakami too. mind-blowingly brilliant set of short stories. 051214 ... neesh adam phillips - "on kissing, tickling and being bored", "on flirtation". amazing insights into rather interesting areas of psychology, and a profound understanding of what psychotherapy can be. 061026 ... unhinged kafka on the shore --- haruki murakami (i was kind of ambivalent about murakami but i think it's because japanese culture baffles me) white oleander --- janet fitch (i'm reselling a lot of the books i've bought in the past year; only good for a read-through. i'm going to keep this one though.) prague --- arthur phillips (the narrative style is pretty interesting and it's about two of my favorite cities, budapest and prague in the days right after communism was banished.) 061026 ... high viscosity the_hunger_artist by KAFKA 061026 ... unhinged i have some kafka and dostoevsky in the 'read next' pile on the table near my bed rather than in the bookself on the opposite wall, but i have to be in the right mood for those. i don't find myself in that mood much anymore. 061026 ... nom can anyone tell me where the bookswap blathe is? the one where i offered to mail books around 061026 ... oren Island_In_The_Sea_Of_Time 061026 ... endless desire someone from blather mailed me the_perks_of_being_a_wallflower one winter and it literally changed my life forever--as well as my family's. 061026 ... endless desire nomme: here you go: blather_book_swap 061026 ... epitome of incomprehensibility The Assault Written by Henry Mulisch, it's the story of a boy living in Holland whose family is killed in World War 2... Only the first quarter or so deals with the actual event, the rest takes place at various later dates. It's not too depressing, or too optimistic; it's an interesting psychological study of the character, and exciting too (in my opinion). Now something a bit more familiar: Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf. I'm not finished reading it yet. To the Lighthouse is also great, though perhaps a bit more demanding in spots. 061027 ... nom thankyou endless! 061027 ... jane i dont think i saw catcher in the rye in there... but i would also say choke by chuck_palahniuk 061028 ... Ouroboros infinite_jest 061029 ... pete watership down 061029 ... endless desire no problem nomme :) it was a great idea. that's how i initially read the_perks_of_being_a_wallflower. 061029 ... Ouroboros the revolt of the cockroach people, oscar zeta acosta 070906 ... jane in the penal colony and metamorphosis by kafka 070907 ... pete fitzpatrick's war a sense of place, a sense of time 070907 ... delial white_oleander "Now I wished she'd never broken any of her rules. I understood why she held to them so hard. Once you broke the first one, they all broke, one by one, like firecrackers exploding in your face in a parking lot on the Fourth of July." 070907 ... rubydee special_topics_in_calamity_physics by marisha pessl 080101 ... pSyche Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman. the Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde. 080101 ... lucyford dharma punx by noah levine 080101 ... jane welcome_to_the_monkey_house 080625 ... (z) (oryx & crake - margaret atwood) 120928 ... pobodys nerfect "Lottery" ~ Patricia Wood 120928 what's it to you? who go blather from