Book suggestions

[pagerbear]

I want books to add to my amazon.com wish list. Hit me with your best shot.

[Richardo]

1. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Psst: Use bn.com :D

[faithnotgreed]

11. is it really that good? ive heard of it and am quite interested in

autism. have you read any of donna williams books

[Richardo]

12. It is *great*. I read it in one afternoon.

I have not read Donna Williams, and I don't know anything about autism, but I feel like you really get a glimpse into the thoughts and mind of an autistic child.

Funny, and poignant book. Among the best fiction I've read in years.

[faithnotgreed]

16. thank you. ive heard great things about it so ill have to check it out

just in case you should ever want or need to know about autism - and i hope you dont! - then do check out donna williams

i should also say that if there are people you just cant figure out - besides republicans of course - then it may just be they have some degree of autism. this happened to me with a dear friend who had a mild form but still there was something not right, and i tell you - the light went ON after reading donna williams "somebody somewhere"

people have an idea of what it means to be autistic but there is an entire spectrum of autism that most have no idea about until they have real reason to look into it.

anyway thanks for the recommendation. its by mark haddon i believe

[arcane1]

2. anything by Lewis Thomas

[AlCzervik]

3. America the book by The Daily Show

laughed until i cried reading that, hilarious.

[RubyDuby in GA]

4. His Excellency, George Washington

good stuff!


Oh and any book by Laurie Notaro (The Idiot Girls Action Adventure Club, Autobiography of a Fat Bride, and I Love Everybody (and other atrocious lies). She is hilarious!!!

[Catfight]

10. Is Laurie Notaro as funny as Jill Connor Brown of Sweet Potato Queens?nt

[RubyDuby in GA]

25. I'd say they compliment one another

Being a southerner, I can relate to the Sweet Potato Queens.
Being a young person, I have been in some of the situations that the Idiot Girls have been in.

I laughed out loud until I was crying with Laurie Notaro's books.

[notadmblnd]

5. The Sorrows of The Empire

by Chalmers Johnson

[motely36]

6. Running with Scissors

Augusten Burroughs

[bloodyjack]

7. The Elementary Particles

by Michel Houellebecq

[achtung_circus]

8. Possibly the funniest book IMHO in the English language

Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of ther dog)

by Jerome K. Jerome. Written 1901'ish about a trip 3 Englishmen and Montmerency the Fox Terrier take down the Thames river. Most of it is timeless.

[Rowdyboy]

9. Christopher Rice's first book "A Density of Souls" is fabulous

(I'm just now reading it). Set in New Orleans, gay central character, very dramatic and hard to put down. If you've managed to miss it so far, you'd love it!

[RevolutionaryActs]

13. What kind of books do you like?

:)

[Dzimbowicz]

14. The Story of B by Daniel Quinn

[Reverend_Smitty]

15. Is he the same guy who wrote...

Ishmael? I read it in high school and I loved it

[faithnotgreed]

17. thats the guy!

[Phentex]

19. I liked those books....

but his writing style really grated on my nerves. I don't need to be hit over the head with the same sentence three or four times to "get" it!

[Dzimbowicz]

24. Good book

but I agree with your statement about "being hit over the head..." to get it.

[WindRavenX]

18. If you haven't already checked these out...

-Life of Pi
-The Handmaid's Tale
-America: The Book
-Contact
-Walking to Martha's Vineyard (poetry, but so good I can't stop recommending it!)
-His Dark Materials Trilogy (Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass)

[Phentex]

20. I thought "Middlesex" was fascinating.

Really different from most other things I read.

[elehhhhna]

21. The Poisonwood Bible -- african colonialism, holy rollers, not pretty

but a beautiful book...

[elehhhhna]

23. also Once Were Warriors, and anything by Michael Ondaatje.

[JimmyJazz]

22. I like Christopher Moore - very funny writer:

Blood Sucking Fiends (hysterical)
Lamb, a novel - the Gospel Accourding to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Practical Demonkeeping

He's a bit off-beat - but I get tired of the same old stories anyway

[malmapus]

26. Ender's Game - Orsen Scott Card

Great Sci-Fi novel!!

[skygazer]

27. Anything by Neil Gaiman

particularly American Gods or Good Omens.

American Gods is a story that delves into what happens to the gods who were brought to this country by all the immigrants from around the world. The ones brought by early Vikings and French explorers and Haitians and African slaves and Europeans. It's a novel and the guy at the center of it all is just a regular guy who winds up involved with all these interesting characters. Really, really good and almost impossible to describe. Hard to put down as well.

Good Omens is the story of Armageddon. The very funny story of Armageddon which goes somewhat differently from what the Bible says and involves a hilarious cast of characters which includes a demon and an angel who are drinking buddies, the Four Motorcyclists of the Apocalypse, a Witchfinder Army consisting of two rather ineffective fellows and the Antichrist who is a fairly normal 11 year old English boy.

Gaiman is brilliant, one of the best writers to come along in a long time.

[MissMillie]

28. The Great Unraveling

by Paul Krugman