Must Reads - Printable Version

Must Reads - Printable Version

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- Lizard King - 10-05-2005

Here's a few Ive read and enjoyed. I didn't "enjoy" American Psycho per se, but it was quite the read. My friend encouraged me to read it after I saw the movie and Im glad I did, its alot better, but disturbing as hell. Personally I like History books and the odd biography.

-American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
-Marching As To War by Pierre Burton
-Riders On The Storm by John Densmore
-No One Here Gets Out Alive by Danny Sugerman
-Lord Of The Rings Trilogy by J.R.R Tolkien
-The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer

and pretty much anything by Hugh MacLennan, in fact most of his books are dirt cheap on amazon.ca if anyone is interested, one is even a penny!

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- Stephen Dame - 10-05-2005

Fiction:

The Watch by Hugh (I think the band will revoke your fandom if you haven't read it)

Green Grass Running Water by Thomas King

The Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munroe

Gatsby

Non-Fiction:

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

Fights Of Our Lives by John Duffy

Terry Fox: His Story by Leslie Schrivner

Shake Hands With The Devil by Romeo D'Allaire

Reflections of a Siamese Twin by John Ralston-Saul

Planet Simpson by Chris Turner

- chicagoblackhawks77 - 10-05-2005

Watch is certainly a classic. Two Solitudes rocks too.

Classics:

Frankenstein
Wuthering Heights
The Jungle
Fountain Head
Great Gatsby
King Lear (1985 Japanese Movie RAN; Great adaptation!)
Brideshead by Evelyn Waugh

Contemporary:

My Life in Dog Years by Gary Paulsen
Devil in the White City
Slaughterhouse 5
Things they Carried, Tim O'Brien

- mikeysaint - 10-05-2005

My selections are more basic

Haunted and/or Fear -Chuck Palahniuk
(Stories for the demented)

Last night of the Yankee Dynasty- Buster Olney
(Must for current Yankee Fans)

Ballad of the Wiskey Robber-Julian Rubenstein
(a great story of a transylvanian washed up goalie who moonlights as a bank robber)

So you want to be a rock star- Jacob Slister
(The "Closing time" band drummer)

Tales of ordinary Madness- Charles Bukowski

- sean.bonner - 10-05-2005

Each Man's Son ~ Hugh MacLennan

- skippy the wonder dog - 10-05-2005

In no particular order:

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson, because everything you need to know about writing creative non-fiction is in these pages.

92 in the Shade by Thomas McGuane, just because.

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck and The Sun Also Rises or The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway, because these are serious stylistic tours de force that few other writers could hope to approach.

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr or Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan. If you don't know why, read them.

Hon. mentions to early Richard Ford, late Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, and Alice Munro.

Oh, and The Little World of Don Camillo, by Giovanni Guareschi.

- Stephen Dame - 10-05-2005

Oh, and given the time of year, W.P. Kinsella's Shoeless Joe/Field of Dreams. If you've still got your father, you'll call him. If you don't, you'll miss him more than ever.

- The Darkest Canuck - 10-05-2005

how coudl i forget!?!?!?!

Of Mice And Men!

also Red Dragon, if you liked the movie, you won't be able to put the book down.

- Lizard King - 10-05-2005

I really enjoyed Of Mice and Men too. But I liked To Kill a Mockingbird better.

Thank you grade 11 English.

- Stephen Dame - 10-05-2005

LizardKing51 Wrote:I really enjoyed Of Mice and Men too. But I liked To Kill a Mockingbird better.

Thank you grade 11 English.

Word. I read those in grade 11 too. Good ole Ontario ciriculum. I miss Rae days Sad

- farmerdan - 10-05-2005

Stephen Dame Wrote:
LizardKing51 Wrote:I really enjoyed Of Mice and Men too. But I liked To Kill a Mockingbird better.

Thank you grade 11 English.

Word. I read those in grade 11 too. Good ole Ontario ciriculum. I miss Rae days

what the hell, i'm in ontario and the only book i got to read in grade 11 was the joy luck club!! :x

- Lizard King - 10-05-2005

Stephen Dame Wrote:
LizardKing51 Wrote:I really enjoyed Of Mice and Men too. But I liked To Kill a Mockingbird better.

Thank you grade 11 English.

Word. I read those in grade 11 too. Good ole Ontario ciriculum. I miss Rae days

You and me both. :wink:

- j-monster - 10-05-2005

Stephen Dame Wrote:The Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munroe

Good call Stephen... reading that book was the only useful thing that came out of my first-year university English class... suffice to say that I did not choose to major in English afterwards.