I might as well be illiterate...
 

...because I know nothing about books. Every now and then I get lucky and find something good, but usually any book I find is so boring that I can't even finish it. I have good taste, I just don't know where to look. It's like going to Chicago and ordering Papa John's cause you don't know the numbers for any good pizza place. But I tried a little harder than usual this time and I picked these up at the library:

The Unbinding - Walter Kirn
Tough Luck - Jason Starr
Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
Post Office - Charles Bukowski

Good choices? I don't know; the last two I picked because I've heard good things about the authors, the first one because it was written by the same author as thumbsucker, and Touch Luck? Just picked it up, I have no clue about it. I hope though that if I just keep following the trail of good books (assuming I am close) I'll get more and more refined in my reading choices.

I don't recommend reading at all. Ruins your eyesite, and stupid boys are far sexier.

I see your point, but I already wear contacts, and it would take a lot more than going stupid to make me sexy :)

You're right. Add some highlights.

I guess since I wear contacts, I might as well get some blue eyes along with them...

On another note, you'll get a million responses, but it all depends on your personal taste. What kind of plotlines get you wet? Are you sci-fi, romance, 'post-modern' (I hate that term, for the record), fantasy, horror, biography, etc.?

Not that I can recommend anything. I maintain my vacuity and illiteracy. They are my only attractive features.

That's how you learned those fancy words.

Read the bible.

honestly though i do find it hard to read novels, but i am still trying

I don't know. I know I don't like sci-fi. Well, I don't like the typical sci-fi with tons of ships and aliens and stuff, but if it were closer to E.T. than Star Trek I could be more interested I guess. I just like a good novel, Catcher-In-The-Rye style. Coming of age stories? Maybe; I'm bad with labeling things. I do like non-fiction too. Especially stuff on psychology and stuff. I remember reading "Awakenings" a while back (only because I remember the movie from when I was little) and loved that. Also read a book about the history of the number zero, which was actually very interesting.

What a long winded way to say "I don't know."

I still don't feel like answering/recommending at length - mostly because I'm lazy - but you have inspired a thread.

Are you trying to force yourself to read classics? Picking up a different book by an author you've liked in the past is generally a good idea. Then look into who that author's contemporaries were, influences etc. and work your way back to classics at your own pace.

Just stick with the classics.
60's-70's, is my favorite era for literature.

I suggest checking out Anthony Burgess everything other than A Clockwork orange of his is under-rated. Fantastic writer.

Hey, nobody is here to make you do anything you don't want to do.

I don't know about FORCE myself, but I just want to find good stuff, and if that is where it is, by god I shall try.


I'll check that out fo' sho'.

Have you read Salinger's other stuff?

No, I thought about it, but I was going to try widening my range of authors first. But maybe I should stick with a few things I know first, couldn't hurt.

^ His short stories are underappreciated.

Not Kloriel, I mean, Salinger's. I have no idea if Kloriel can write well. Kloriel, do you write well?

Who are all these people? Where have I been?

Thanks for getting in the way of my arrow, assbag.

I also agree with Salinger's short stories.