Guest ShamRock Report post Posted November 16, 2002 I gotta do this book report for my English class.So what are some good novels out there? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest MrRant Report post Posted November 16, 2002 Does it have to be fiction or non-fiction? For non-fiction I would say pick up Donnie Brasco if you are into Mafia stuff. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Incandenza Report post Posted November 16, 2002 I gotta do this book report for my English class.So what are some good novels out there? This question is rather vague. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest ShamRock Report post Posted November 16, 2002 It doesn't matter if it's fiction or non-fiction. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Agent of Oblivion Report post Posted November 16, 2002 Read Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy E. Allison. It's horribly depressing, but an awesome read. There was a movie made of this, but I can't imagine it being as good as the book. Here's a link with more info. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Karnage Report post Posted November 16, 2002 Have A Nice Day: A Tale Of Blood & Sweatsocks or Foley Is Good & The Real World Is Faker Than Wrestling? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest ShamRock Report post Posted November 16, 2002 I really would like to do a report on a wrestling book,since,ya' know,I'm a wrestling fan. I should get Mick Foley's.I heard good things about.Which one is better though,Have a Nice Day or Foley is Good? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Agent of Oblivion Report post Posted November 16, 2002 I liked Have a Nice Day more personally, but they're both good reads. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest treble charged Report post Posted November 16, 2002 Foley Is Good is shorter, though, so it has that going for it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Flyboy Report post Posted November 16, 2002 I've seen the movie Bastard Out Of Carolina and it was damned good. I can only imagine how good the book is. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Agent of Oblivion Report post Posted November 16, 2002 I liked the chapter about the PTC vs. sex and violence in wrestling the best. Really interesting stuff. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest treble charged Report post Posted November 16, 2002 I liked the chapter about the PTC vs. sex and violence in wrestling the best. Really interesting stuff. Yeah, that was my favourite part of the book, as well. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Incandenza Report post Posted November 16, 2002 I'm being cheeky here, but Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Agent of Oblivion Report post Posted November 16, 2002 I've seen the movie Bastard Out Of Carolina and it was damned good. I can only imagine how good the book is. Oh my god, go read it now. It's seriously so disturbing that I'm not too keen on ever reading it again, but when I was reading it, I couldn't stop. The whole book has a great tone to it, and some of the descriptions of what she goes through are so brutal that they made me cringe. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Kinetic Report post Posted November 16, 2002 I don't know if any of you have ever read A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (I think). Really funny book that I'd say anyone could get into. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Incandenza Report post Posted November 16, 2002 I don't know if any of you have ever read A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (I think). Really funny book that I'd say anyone could get into. I've read it, and yes, it's funny shit. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest DrTom Report post Posted November 16, 2002 If you like spy thrillers, check out The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum. It was made into a movie earlier this year, but the book has so many important elements the movie just totally glossed over. There are more books in the Bourne series, and they're all good. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest phoenixrising Report post Posted November 16, 2002 If you like spy thrillers, check out The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum. It was made into a movie earlier this year, but the book has so many important elements the movie just totally glossed over. There are more books in the Bourne series, and they're all good. Thank God there are more. Cause it was a good book right until the ending, which was really disappointing for me. Now I understand why it ended the way it did. Novels...How about any Ellroy stuff? Though I think it's been a while since he's written anything, not sure...does anyone know if Ellroy has new books out? I vaguely remember one titled "The Cold Six Thousand" but haven't seen it. If you dig techno-thrillers, can't go wrong with Clancy. I'm waiting until Red Rabbit comes out in paperback to buy it. I'd personally recommend the earlier books...after Debt of Honor the books get a little too formulaic. Rainbow Six is a good read as well. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Kotzenjunge Report post Posted November 16, 2002 Player Piano, by Kurt Vonnegut. Written as a way of him to jab back at General Electric, who fired him in 1951, this book, although written in 1952, shows a LOT of foreshadowing of how corporate America is today. It's the simplest Vonnegut book to just pick up and read, sez I, since you don't really have to be familiar with his style as it was embryonic at this point. It also has a tremendous way of gradually easing you into its own world and leaving yours. Fo sheez, Kotzenjunge Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest goodhelmet Report post Posted November 16, 2002 johnny got his gun- dalton trumbo helter skelter- vincent bugliosi Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest EricMM Report post Posted November 16, 2002 Catch-22. Heller was on crack, sweet delicious crack. Best book evar! *EDIT* Mea Culpa *EDIT* Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Kotzenjunge Report post Posted November 16, 2002 It's just Heller, dude. Just Heller, no -man. So this dude doesn't find a dead end when he tries to look for it, as I'm normally not nitpicky like that. EricMM is right though, I'd have recommended that second, as it's in the Top 5 of the 20th century, to be sure. Fo sheez, Kotzenjunge Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest snuffbox Report post Posted November 16, 2002 Ken Kesey - Sometimes a Great Notion. Best book Ive ever read, its the American Homer...and its only 650 pages! For a shorter read...Kesey wrote something called 'One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest'...thats a pretty good lil book there too! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest ElectricRaccoon Report post Posted November 16, 2002 I'm on a total Neal Stephenson kick right now. Snow Crash is proabaly his most accessible work, and it's hilarious, to boot. The Diamond Age is good but weird (there's an ongoing children's story meshed with the narrative - it works a lot better in the book than it sounds like it does in the description). Cryptonomicon is the best-written, technically, of the three, but 1t over 900 pages it's probably kinda big to take on for an English essay. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest gthureson Report post Posted November 16, 2002 If you want to do an interesting book report... The Illuminatus Triology by Robert Anton Wilson. Just a wild read. Even just do the first book. It'll mess with you at the start, until you get a handle on how its being written, but after that, its just a nutty read. Only fun if you don't take conspiracy theories seriously, 'cause he isn't. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest goodhelmet Report post Posted November 17, 2002 might as well throw in a couple of tom wolfe books... electric kool-aid acid test bonfire of the vanities Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest MrRant Report post Posted November 17, 2002 The Oddessy and the Illiad goddamn it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest ShamRock Report post Posted November 17, 2002 I bought Foley is Good.It looks like a good novel. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest pinnacleofallthingsmanly Report post Posted November 17, 2002 My favorite book is The Great Train Robbery by Michael Chricton. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Incandenza Report post Posted November 17, 2002 I bought Foley is Good.It looks like a good novel. I'll tell you this now, since your English teacher is likely to later: That is not a novel. Novels are fiction. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
