Potential reading list

[Torque’sHeadBump]

Going to get a book tomorrow and would like to find a copy of Blood Meridian, Lewis and Clark’s Journals, or another work from McCarthy.

The objective is to find something that I’d not normally read. I am a big fan of Hemingway and classics like Melville, but I need to find something new and get my thinkin’ meats working again.

I’d be happy if any of the brothamen have tips on their favorite reads. I’d like something western if possible and some cool violent shit.

 

[guest]

I mentioned it before but Lonesome Dove is really worth reading.

 

[ShutYourCakeHorn]

 

[Torque’sHeadBump]

I mentioned it before but Lonesome Dove is really worth reading.

That’s one of McCarthy’s right?

 

[guest]

That’s one of McCarthy’s right?

No it’s not McCarthy, it’s by Larry McMurtry. I think if you like epic westerns with great character development you’ll enjoy it.

 

[Torque’sHeadBump]

No it’s not McCarthy, it’s by Larry McMurtry. I think if you like epic westerns with great character development you’ll enjoy it.

Sweet. Sorry about that man. I’ve never really read many westerns so it’s all fawkin’ terra incognita to me

 

[Turk February]

I strongly recommend The Last American Night by Fidel Cruz

Last American Night : Cruz Jr, Fidel Richard: Amazon.ca: Books

Last American Night : Cruz Jr, Fidel Richard: Amazon.ca: Books

www.amazon.ca

(I bought it as a joke, and my girlfriend has never forgiven me for it)

 

[Torque’sHeadBump]

“Ask the Dust” by John Fante.

One of the cornerstones of 20th century subversive fiction that paved the way for Bukowski since he essentially copies Fante’s style to the letter.

Fawk! Looks cool!

 

[Princess Alena 2]

The Fifth Business by Robertson Davies.

It’s the first book in a trilogy but makes a great standalone. The third book, World of Wonders, is also fawkin great.

 

[Turk February]

Nothing like a gritty crime thriller like Last American Night, boys, and at only 444 pages long, you will have enough time left over to imagine what it would look like as a really cool crime thriller film.

 

[guest]

Nothing like a gritty crime thriller like Last American Night, boys, and at only 444 pages long, you will have enough time left over to imagine what it would look like as a really cool crime thriller film.

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Nice thumb, stupid!

 

[Turk February]

Nice thumb, stupid!

 

[Prince Bvstin]

Walden is a book I think everyone should read. That's about all I could recommend if your targeting stuff like blood meridian. I like reading absolute shite. I read Golf is a Game of Confidence recently. I have no interest in golf whatsoever I found it in one of those bins at the supermarket exit.

 

[Torque’sHeadBump]

Walden is a book I think everyone should read. That's about all I could recommend if your targeting stuff like blood meridian. I like reading absolute shite. I read Golf is a Game of Confidence recently. I have no interest in golf whatsoever I found it in one of those bins at the supermarket exit.

I read Walden and it was pretty good, but quite dense. Blood Meridian is the same? I kind of want something that has savages scalping one another and adventure

 

[Lamont & Tonelli]

The Spire by William Goldman, same guy wrote Lord of the Flies.
Foucault's Pendulum and The Name of the Rose by Umberto Ecco
First three Dark Tower books, can't recommend the rest in good conscience.
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle, pretty much same-same as the cartoon.
Edgar Rice Burroughs' Mars books for some rip-roarin adventure, C.S. Lewis' Space trilogy for more thoughtful allegorical scifi.
James Joyce, if you enjoy Dubliners give Finnegans Wake a shot. It takes effort to read, but once you pick up the flow it's really worthwhile.
Trainspotting is better than the excellent movie, and the book will teach you how to do a passable Scotch brogue.

 

[Prince Bvstin]

I read Walden and it was pretty good, but quite dense. Blood Meridian is the same? I kind of want something that has savages scalping one another and adventure

Blood meridian reads like a war report. It's very impersonal. I found his books to have very great ideas and fascinating settings but a bit lacking with the whole character thing. I think of him as writing the opposite of chic lit. All action with no romance or deep dialogue. And call me gay but if I'm reading a story I'd like a bit of that in there so I have something to relate to.

If blood meridian is your bag you might actually like Stephen King's books. They're good stories, big ideas and aren't attempting anything pretentious. You can pick them up for next to nothing. James Herbert who I think is like the Brit Stephen King writes similar books but is really really good at amping up the tension. He writes a pretty good page turner.

 

[Torque’sHeadBump]

The Spire by William Goldman, same guy wrote Lord of the Flies.
Foucault's Pendulum and The Name of the Rose by Umberto Ecco
First three Dark Tower books, can't recommend the rest in good conscience.
The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle, pretty much same-same as the cartoon.
Edgar Rice Burroughs' Mars books for some rip-roarin adventure, C.S. Lewis' Space trilogy for more thoughtful allegorical scifi.
James Joyce, if you enjoy Dubliners give Finnegans Wake a shot. It takes effort to read, but once you pick up the flow it's really worthwhile.
Trainspotting is better than the excellent movie, and the book will teach you how to do a passable Scotch brogue.

TYFYS sir

 

[Torque’sHeadBump]

Blood meridian reads like a war report. It's very impersonal. I found his books to have very great ideas and fascinating settings but a bit lacking with the whole character thing. I think of him as writing the opposite of chic lit. All action with no romance or deep dialogue. And call me gay but if I'm reading a story I'd like a bit of that in there so I have something to relate to.

If blood meridian is your bag you might actually like Stephen King's books. They're good stories, big ideas and aren't attempting anything pretentious. You can pick them up for next to nothing. James Herbert who I think is like the Brit Stephen King writes similar books but is really really good at amping up the tension. He writes a pretty good page turner.

A great response, @Prince Bvstin thank you

 

[Torque’sHeadBump]

chic lit.

You mean like the fawkin’ chew in’ gum or somethhin’ ?! Tsss

 

[Former Prez Gerald Ford]

I know a lot of the brothermen have read it already because I’ve seen discussions on it here before but A Confederacy of Dunces will always be one of my favorites.