[Which from my TRL?]

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

[Which from my TRL?]

I'd suggest either of your Henry Millers, because I'm dying to know what his writing is like - I asked a couple of times on here but it appears nobody has read him!

 

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.

[Which from my TRL?]

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!

[Outsiders in Literature]

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.

[The unread book that you've owned longest]

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

[Quotes from Books]

I had an inkling that you might be a Thompson fan. I am one also. But so far I've only read The Rum Diary and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I have others on my TBR pile though.

 

 

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.

[Any Bukowski Fans Here?]

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.

[Quotes from Books]

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".

[Any Bukowski Fans Here?]

oh, I was just seeing if anyone here enjoys reading Charles Bukowski.

 

So sorry if this is the wrong place for this.

[Any Bukowski Fans Here?]

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.