Raoul Duke

thanks everyone, I will update everyone on what I think about all these as soon as i knock them out.

I really liked Henry Miller's Quiet Days In Clichy. It is a real quick read (barely 150 pages) and I read half of his Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (can't even remember why I stopped) but I will let you know what I think when I knock the other two out.

Hello everyone, I'm having trouble deciding which to read next in my stack. I've started a few of them only to look over and see a different one that I decide to give a shot. Maybe you guys can help! Another Roadside Attraction- Tom Robbins Atlas Shrugged Roughing It- Mark Twain Sometimes A Great Notion- Ken Kesey In Patagonia- Bruce Chatwin Tropic of Cancer- Henry Miller The Air-Conditioned Nightmare- Henry Miller Brave New World- Aldous Huxley Big Sur- Kerouac The Savage Detectives- Roberto Bolano Islands In The Stream- Hemingway Thanks to all!

There is actually a great book called The Outsider by Colin Wilson that is all about outsiders in literature. He sites many different works and goes into great detail about what it means to be an outsider.

Mine would have to be The Fountainhead. For the same reasons as others with Atlas Shrugged.

You guessed right! I really enjoyed his book The Great Shark Hunt, which is really just collections from his magazine articles, but it is really great stuff. Also, Hells's Angels and his Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail are both very interesting reads.

I started out with Factotum, and then read Post Office, Women, Ham on Rye and Pulp in that order. If you do read Pulp, be sure to make it last. He finished writing it just months before he died.

one of my favorite quotes from any book is from Hunter Thompson's The Rum Diary. "it was the tension between these two poles- a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other- that kept me going".

oh, I was just seeing if anyone here enjoys reading Charles Bukowski. So sorry if this is the wrong place for this.

just checking in to see if there are any others that can't stop laughing at the misadventures of Henry Chinaski or any of bukowski's other works.