Been trying to up my reading lately and open up the aperature on my pinhole view of literature to a larger field of vision. Basically, I prefer non-fiction, but am open to just about anything. I am currently reading Catcher in the Rye, though I pretty much loathe the thing, but feel like I was missing something, so wanted to see what the fuss was about. Now I know. Interested to know what others would suggest.

My list won't be as engaged as some of yours, but it's a start.

(in no particular order)

Of Mice and Men: John Steinbeck
The Right Stuff: Tom Wolfe
Casino: Nicholas Pileggi
Fast Food Nation: Eric Schossler
Walking in the Wind: John Lewis
(story of the civil rights movement - get this one)

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*Effasig*

if beale street could talk
giovanni's room
the spook who sat by the door
hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
bad omens

...

maybe top ten

catch 22
ishmael (janey hates this book and i find that facinating)
slaughterhouse five
soul on ice
manchild in the promise land
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madagascar titties- (c) phontiggalo the rap jiggalo

I would never, ever hit a woman....but i'll beat a bitch (c) wifey

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Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America - - by Nathan McCall

Bullwhip Days: The Slaves Remember: An Oral History - - by James Mellon

White Butterfly - - by Walter Mosley

Native Son - - by Richard A. Wright

"I'm one of the world's great survivors. I'll always survive because I've got the right combination of wit, grit and bullshit."

© Don King

top 3 must read

invisible man
lolita
ulysses (though i never finished it)

>lolita

i'm only a few pages in, but i've already been wowed a few times

yeh, that book'll take you on a journey of emotions.

we read it in a class here called "controversial literature" and the class was gettin' heated pretty frequently.

nabokov is an incredible writer.

oh yeh, crime and punishment is up there too for me.

going to add that to my list...saw the movie, but I'm sure the book is much better.

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*Effasig*

The wind up bird chronicles by haruki murakami
guns germs and steel
me talk pretty one day
soledad brother
running with scisors

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i think those books are useful reference points when you're talking about stuff in general

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Why do you choose to mimic these wack MCs?
Why do you choose to listen to R&B?

"There are obviously many things which we do not understand, and may never be able to." Leela

*puts emceeing in a box*

but I'm taking 21 credits this semester, so it's gonna have to wait until May.

"Poor man wanna be rich, rich men want to be king, and the king ain't satisfied 'til he rules everything" -Bruce Springsteen

"Life is more than what your hands can grasp." -Mos Def

it looks like the syllabus for my English class in ninth grade

I agree, that is a nice five

very unique and full of ideas and radical political thoughts

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Why do you choose to mimic these wack MCs?
Why do you choose to listen to R&B?

"There are obviously many things which we do not understand, and may never be able to." Leela

*puts emceeing in a box*

Grapes of Wrath
1984
The Great Gatsby
Huck Finn
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

"Poor man wanna be rich, rich men want to be king, and the king ain't satisfied 'til he rules everything" -Bruce Springsteen

"Life is more than what your hands can grasp." -Mos Def

The Spook That Sat By The Door - Sam Greenlee
Rosa Lee - Leon Dash
The Dark Knight Returns - Frank Miller




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*Effasig*

Definently one of my faves

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Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegutt
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
American Gods - Neil Gaiman

I left off the gritty crime novel stuff, 'cause it didn't seem to fit.

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we read it in 10th grade and revolted against it.

it was (at the time) the most boring thing i had ever read.

we revolted and made our teacher move ove with the class. we went to native son early becasue we hated steinbeck....smh
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madagascar titties- (c) phontiggalo the rap jiggalo

I would never, ever hit a woman....but i'll beat a bitch (c) wifey

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I read it when I was 23, and loved the language and sparseness of the language.

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i read it again after college and was so amazed.
it was so good i couldnt read anything for months. i woudl start something and stop becasue it wan't as well written. baldwin poisoned me for months!

great book.

i keep passing it and asking about it. but i don't get it.

can someone explain what's good about it?

it's basically this dudes encounters with the personifications of mythological gods as american immigrants.

but look it up, it's much more than i can do justice really.

Unbearable Lightness of Being
Mother Night
A Farewell To Arms
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 (nonfiction)

--Maurice

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--JS

>Unbearable Lightness of Being

i loved this, but after reading the Book of Laughter and Forgetting, it really paled in comparison. the Book...is almost exactly like Unbearable, but a bit better and condensed into about half the space.

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- Gunter Eich

I've been trying to figure out which of his books has the business about conversation being one person saying "I...." and the other person saying, "Oh, yeah, me too, I...." and the first person saying, "Exactly! I....."

And I'm lost.

If you don't know I may have to re-read all of Kundera.
After I re-read Harlot's Ghost because I have lost one of my favorite quotes of all time and I know it's in that thousand pages someplace.

I think that's the one

but I've looked through it like five times without finding it. I'll have to just SIT the fuck DOWN and READ it again, lol.

East of Eden - John Steinbeck
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
The Corner - David Simon and Ed Burns
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
The Miracle of Castel Di Sangro - Joe McGinnis

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Come back for one more, Troy.

Le Grand Meaulnes - Henri Alain-Fournier
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion
A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present - Howard Zinn

I don't read books.

NICE TRY KOWALSKI

In Rotation-
quality music all the time.

that's my #1.

2. The Education of Little Tree
3. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Klay
4. Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold - all fans of Kavalier & Klay really ought to read this.
5. probably A Confederacy of Dunces

not just a kids books either. I gave it to a good friend of mine as a college graduation gift and he really dug it.

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I check for: Serengeti, Zeroh, Open Mike Eagle, Jeremiah Jae, Moka Only.

Pale Fire
Cloud Atlas
Samaritan
The Long Goodbye
American Tabloid

tough to leave off Kavalier and Klay, Middlesex, The White Boy Shuffle, and I'm also staring at my book case right now so I may be forgetting a few favorites that I don't own yet.

Also, these are really just top-5 favorite or "best," I dunno that I would say they're all must-reads, they're just all books that I think are really good.

1. 100 years of solitude. gabriel garcia marquez
2. as i lay dying. william faulkner.
3. ariel. sylvia plath. (sylvia's version & ted's version)
4. jane eyre. charlotte bronte.
5. the known world. edward p. jones.

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran
A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore

The Godfather
Where the Sidewalk Ends
The Lorax
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Animal Farm

>Where the Sidewalk Ends

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Roots by Alex Haley
A Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

FICTION

An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
Journey To The End Of The Night - Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Ragazzi - Pier Paolo Pasolini

NON FICTION

My Life - Leon Trotsky
The American Cinema: Directors And Directions, 1929-1968 - Andrew Sarris
H.L. Mencken's Smart Set Criticism - H.L. Mencken
Ten Days That Shook The World - John Reed
On Native Grounds - Alfred Kazin


POETS

William Butler Yeats
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Andre Breton
Constantine Cavafy
Ezra Pound
Vladimir Mayakovsky

and like a hundred more in each category

Dude fucking comes back to life....talk about a total cop out by King James.

I don't know that this is an all-time list; more of a here and now list.

Fiction

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain
A Confederacy of Dunces, Toole
Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck
The Hobbit, Tolkien
Master and Margarita, Bulgakov

Non-fiction

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Hofstadter
The Problems of Philosophy, Russell
The Worldly Philosophers, Heilbroner
Betraying Spinoza..., Goldstein

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A seal walks into a club.

was an awesome book. I wish Peter Jackson had done that before the lord of the rings trilogy.

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past 10 years?

s/he - saul williams
cloud atlas - dave mitchell
the woman who died in her sleep - linda gregerson
augustine: a new biography - james o'donnell
something by arundhati roy...i can't pick

though even on these i'm suppressing a strong urge to waffle

Autobiography of Malcolm X: as told to Alex Haley
Cane: Jean Toomer
Roots: Alex Haley
There Eyes Were Watching God: Zora Neale Hurston

<--- Blame this lady for Nutty.

5??

1. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K. Dick
2. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
3. The Watchemn - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
4. Catch 22- Joesph Heller
5. Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut

--Maurice

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Bonding over sutures is what's hot in Oh-Nine.
--JS

Last Exit to Brooklyn
Collected Fiction of Jorge Luis Borges
The Third Policeman
Democracy Matters (NF)
The Stranger

Invisible Man - Ellison
A.H.W.O.S.G. - Eggers
Native Son - Wright
The Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway
Jelly Roll (poems) - Young


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myself is sculptor of
your body’s idiom:
the musician of your wrists;
the poet who is afraid
only to mistranslate
a rhythm in your hair...
-E.E. Cummings

not really all time - just what comes off my head now

Invisible Man - Ellison
Middlesex - Eugenides
American Pastoral - Roth
Autobiography of Malcolm X
Norwegian Wood - Murukami


PEACE

"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." - Kundera

smh
looks like everybody looked up their old AP English summer reading list and just copied and pasted it in here

not that surprised to see it not on the lists of modern readers
most people probably don't understand it's influentialness either

i read it when i was at school btw

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Why do you choose to mimic these wack MCs?
Why do you choose to listen to R&B?

"There are obviously many things which we do not understand, and may never be able to." Leela

*puts emceeing in a box*

i agree with every point u just made. that just doesnt happen on okp. that is one of those books at the bottom of my collection with Orient Express.

Couldn't really appreciate it then (bonus was we got to was Apocalypse Now). Probably look at it quite differently now though.

but non-fiction is much harder. For me, it's like, best non-fiction in *what subject*?

That said, there's this: http://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=6&topic_id=180847&mesg_id=180847&listing_type=search


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I zealously ponder this matter with thought-provoking inquisitiveness.
(c) the scary salon leader

1984, brave new world, animal farm, if beale street could talk, the great gatsby

XBOX 360 - THE GEEK IS DOWN
it's deep game and all in the pimpin'!

"The Construction of Orthodoxy and Heresy: Neo-Confucian, Islamic, Jewish, and Early Christian Patterns" by John B. Henderson

"Confessions" by St. Augustine

"Infinity and Perspective" by Karsten Harries

"Don Quijote" by Miguel Cervantes

"Ulysses" by James Joyce

Out of the two originally published in a different language, I only have a translation preference for the former (Chadwick's, for what it's worth) but my Latin still isn't good enough to really have an opinion which of the several translations is the most accurate. Though my Spanish is slightly better than my Latin, it doesn't matter because I've only read one translation of Don Quijote anyhow.

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--Walleye's Dad

1. The Plague - Camus
2. Heart of Darkness - Conrad
3. 100 Years of Solitude - Garcia Marquez
4. Steppenwolf - Hesse
5. Crime & Punishment - Dostoyevsky

The list is wrong, I don't feel right about it at all. But at least it puts the ideas out there--maybe #2 should actually be #1, I'm not sure (not for entertainment's sake, but just thinking about it--damn, that book is amazing).

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i cant count

fic:
roald dahl - the wonderful story of henry sugar and six more
chinua achebe - things fall apart
milan kundera - the book of laughter and forgetting
jack kerouac - dharma bums
v.s. naipaul - a house for mr. biswas
hermann hesse- siddhartha
j.d. salinger - nine stories
kahlil gibran - broken wings
oscar wilde - the picture of dorian gray
joyce - a portrait of the artist as a young man
(emily bronte - wuthering heights)

poetry:

pablo neruda - twenty love poems and a song of despair
kahlil gibran - the prophet


non fic:
charles mingus - beneath the underdog
quincy troupe - miles and me
eldridge cleaver - soul on ice
c.l.r. james - the black jacobins

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- Gunter Eich

All are nonfiction narratives for the most part, except for House of God which is fiction

Mountains Beyond Mountains - Tracy Kidder
Paul Farmer's autobiography. If you know someone in medicine and think they could use an ethical/moral/spiritual pick me up, get them this. They'll thank you. Unless they're a surgeon in which case they'll mock you.

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down - Anne Fadiman
Great book highlighting the perils of Western medicine trying to treat people from cultures very different from our own. And you get a little bit of history on the Hmong people of Vietnam on the side.

The House of God - Samuel Shem
Hilarious, hospital satire in the vein of Catch 22. It feels a little outdated 30 years later, but then medicine has changed a great deal in 30 years.

The Coming Plague - Laurie Garett
I first read this when I was in high school and it scared the shit out of me. I was sure the entire world would be over run with Ebola or Lassa or Marburg in 15 years and we'd all be dead. I've got about 5 years left on that theory and we're looking okay. Fascinating book if you're curious about emerging diseases. It's like the Hot Zone but it cuts a much wider path.

Stiff - Mary Roach
Roach has a real gift for taking what should be a disgusting or at least moribund topic and making it amusing. If you've ever wondered what happens to dead bodies or what it's like to be in a medical school anatomy class, this is for you.

Residents - David Ewing Duncan
The book that comes closest to encapsulating what modern medical education is like in this country. It doesn't really tackle medical school, what most people figure is where you learn medicine. You learn the foundation there, but you really hone and perfect it in residency. Duncan is a journalist whose wife went back to medical school after they were married and had a couple kids. So he has a real passion for trying to understand the arachaic nature of residency training in the US.

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All you see is crime in the source code.

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so tell.

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The 4th Annual Residency Encampment: Where do we go from here?

All you see is crime in the source code.

The very first time that Shimmy visited SF, we met up with a bunch of people at a restaurant in the Haight. At one point she and I went outside to smoke, and there was this guy selling prints of his art. "Homeless", yes, but you know, making it.

So we admired his art and had a great conversation with him.

Then I ran into him several times in the intervening years.

Then one day a little less than a year ago, I ran into him in the Union Square area of SF. I was like, dude, aren't you usually in the Haight?

We got to talking, and I *finally* bought one of his prints. Talk talk talk, about all kinds of things, and then I said, "Are you going to be here a minute?" Because I was just heading into the Borders there and because of our talk I thought he would really like Mountains Beyond Mountains.

So he agreed to hang out for a bit, and I came back and gave him the book. He was really touched, but you know me, it's not that unusual for me to give people books, lol.

So then the last time Shim was visiting, we were walking on Haight, and I said, "You remember that guy who was selling his art outside Cha Cha Cha the first time you visited? Well...." and I tell her the story.

And right THEN, that very MOMENT, we came across him on the sidewalk. I was like, DUDE! and it took him a second, but then he said, "Whoa that book was GREAT! I read it and then I gave it to my sister and she's going to give it to my father to read."

Then he said, "Did you ever frame that print?" I haven't. I admit it.


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It is painful in the extreme to live with questions rather than with answers, but that is the only honorable intellectual course. (c) Norman Mailer

And a bit sad that I'm never gonna make it back there to live.

SF has the best 'homeless' people in the world. If I tried to give a book to a homeless dude in Chicago, they'd just throw it away... or back at you.

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that book jumpstarted my love for reading

miseducation of the negro- carter g woodson
family- j.california cooper
rich dad, poor dad- robert kiyosaki
waiting in vain- colin channer
black man of the nile- Yosef Ben-Jochannan

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-Carter G. Woodson

yooooooooooooo

loved that book! walter dean myerswas the shit.
scorpions was dope.

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Inherit the Wind (it's a play, but still. . . )
The Dharma Bums
Collected Poems: Allen Ginsberg
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (had to change my Vonnegut pick)
The Tao Te Ching (Stephen Mitchell Translation)

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"This (and every, actually) conversation needs more Chesterton and less Mike Francesa." - Walleye

I don't read nearly enough but here's my five

Brave New World
People's History of the United State of America
A Separate Peace
Holy the Firm
Angels in America (Read it, never actually seen it performed)

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It lives and dies on the strength of those effects.

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There was a documentary on him that made the rounds recently. And my pal & I are going to see him talk in a few weeks. I totally idolize that man. I thought Caroline or Change was one of the best plays I have ever seen.


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Those are my two essentials.

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