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Merou posted:I don't really know what genre what I'm looking for falls under. Its sort of introspective and hosed up. I'm looking for books similar to The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq, or The Stranger by Albert Camus, or to an extent American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. Introspective and hosed up: Try The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato, and maybe Farabeuf by Salvador Elizondo. Introspective and self-lacerating: Youth by J.M. Coetzee and Season of Migration to the North by Tayib Salih. Introspective and just plain mean: The Loser or Old Masters by Thomas Bernhard.
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Philthy posted:Two requests: You should look at the rest of Rolvaag's trilogy to see if you like it. Also, O Pioneers!, My Antonia, and The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather; Angle of Repose and Wolf Willow by Wallace Stegner. For the Dust Bowl period, you could look at The Bones of Plenty by Lois Hudson. Peace Shall Destroy Many by Rudy Wiebe is set on the Canadian prairie during World War II, but it is about Mennonites, and preserves the grittiness that you'd associate with pioneer-type novels.
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Jun 17, 2009 05:15
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Supreme Allah posted:Wilderness survival stories or books? You could try Endurance by Alfred Lansing, or Young Men and Fire by Norman MacLean.
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Jun 17, 2009 19:14
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LooseChanj posted:America sucks because you're... You're going for social(ist) realism or naturalism here, a great deal of which chronicles the upheavals of modernity. Sucks to be a poor immigrant, non-fiction version: How the Other Half Lives Sucks to be Black: Blood on the Forge Sucks to be working class: U.S.A. Trilogy Sucks to be an Okie: The Grapes of Wrath Sucks to be in a small town: Main Street Sucks to be old rich: The Magnificent Ambersons etc.
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Jun 18, 2009 01:54
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CloseFriend posted:I've been wanting to learn more about magical realism and what it "is" in literature. The big name I keep hearing is Gabriel García Márquez; one of my colleagues recommended Italo Calvino as well. Are there any specific books of theirs or anybody else that particularly stand out or are good starting points? Would the Jeff Noon and Haruki Murakami books mentioned earlier be good starting points? Magic realism is often associated with the Latin American Boom" If that's your interest, you could check out A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, or work by Isabel Allende, Julio Cortazar, or Asturias' Men of Maize. If you're willing to branch out, I'd also recommend Midnight's Children or The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie. I'd add, in case you don't like it, that it's OK not to like it.
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Jun 20, 2009 04:47
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FAT-N-GAY-4-PAY posted:A friend of mine recently had stroke (at the age of 24). She had surgery last week and is bed ridden for a month.. I would really like to buy her a book that she will enjoy. The main problem is that she is one of the smartest people I know and I have no idea what book to get her... Here are a few of her favorite books and authors: Since she's going to be laid up for awhile, get The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann. I'm not really qualified to recommend good analogs to the more recent stuff, since I dislike most of the newer material on her list. However, where older stuff is concerned, you might consider some of the following: Sentimental Education by Flaubert; Daniel Deronda by George Elliot; or Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Goethe.
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Jun 30, 2009 17:16
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TraderStav posted:I'm looking for some good books that tackle Union Negotiations. Historical stories of successful or failed ones, business-school primers on the topic, fiction, etc. Anything that can help me get more situational awareness on the topic. My end goal is to help provide some strategic insight into my company COOs approach to his Union strategy. Instead, how about you don't participate in union-busting?
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Jun 30, 2009 22:49
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Hello Pity posted:Are any of the other authors who worked on the Wire worth investigating? David Simons' Homicide is quite good.
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Jul 24, 2009 16:39
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Ballsworthy posted:Looking for some WWI fiction. I just finished Dan Simmons' Lovedeath (one of the best goddamned things I've read all year, btw), and the last novella in it, The Great Lover, got me hungry for more. Already familiar with the Hemingway, and Remarque is next on my list. Take a look at Ernst Jünger's Storm of Steel and Stratis Myriveles' Life in the Tomb. Dos Passos' U.S.A. Trilogy is not just World War I, but is a lot better than Hemingway in my opinion.
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Jul 25, 2009 01:43
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ShutteredIn posted:Not totally sure what you want here, but Donald Barthelme's 60 and 40 Stories collections contain very short surrealist/absurd/post-modern stories that are really easy to get through. The dude asks for minimalism so you recommend Barthelme? 
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Jul 31, 2009 16:46
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Destroy My Sweater posted:I believe that BEE cited Play It as It Lays as one of his major influences for Less Than Zero. I'd recommend The Informers, although you may be trying to branch out towards different authors. What I've read so far is similar to Less Than Zero, yet I don't feel it's nearly as good. Be warned that Play It as It Lays is an almost uniquely unpleasant book to read.
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Tumble posted:I want some books about psychopaths. People who have NO moral values and the destruction that causes. Oh, also some books about modern-day assassins. If the books combine these two things, even better! Have a look at Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time and Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho.
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