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The Catcher in the Ryeby: J. Salinger August 04, 1994 Best Selling > Books > Cult Authors |
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This book has it all, humour, anger and brilliant observations of life and people, that all of us can identify with.
The book is written in such an amateur style (but salinger knows what he is doing)that one has to warm to the character immediately. Great Book. >>More Details |
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Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton : an Autobiographyby: J.G. Ballard September 01, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Cult Authors |
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l have never read a Ballard book,but found this auto-biography very enjoyable.His narrative is simple and direct,yet it delivers with vigour and zest.This is really two books.The first is the real feast for the reader,his growing up in China and all the English snobbery and meanness.Chinese starved to death,in front of the ex-pat communities, and brutally,tortured and killed by the Japanese.The second book is his life in England.An Englishman who had never been to England.His shock at how the arrogance of the ex-pats contrasted that with the listlessness and low quality of life in England.After the initial shock of finding Britain very different to ex-pat nostalgia,the book flattens out into a little more mundane expose of the rest of Ballards ... Read More:
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)by: Hunter S. Thompson April 04, 2005 Best Selling > Books > Cult Authors |
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Hunter S. Thompson is by far THE most entertaining writer in modern literature, it has to be said. His engrossing affilliation with substances that he swore he hadn't been taking during the writing of the major part of this novel, make this most probably the funniest piece of literature available. His quick wit and complete topsy-turvy sense of humour is only the beginning. As he travels through the desert with his attorney to "find the dark side of the American dream", they well and trully find it when they agree that any trip such as the one their making can only be made armed with a stupendous arsenal of drugs. And this they do. They engage in a completely twisted reality that is there's alone, and their journey, so infallible to their minds, leaps ... Read More:
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And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Penguin Classics)by: Jack Kerouac, William S Burroughs November 06, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Cult Authors |
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If, like me, you are a big fan of Burroughs and Kerouac's eh 'solo efforts'; if you have raced through 'On The Road' while pitifully short on gas, and shot up on 'Junk' when you knew you shouldn't; if you have searched through 'Cities of the Red Night';if you have broken down in 'Big Sur' and shifted your way through all those frozen moments of 'Naked Lunch' then you will probably want to buy this book. It is the heretofore unpublished collaboration from 1944 between these two greats of Twentieh Century Literature, written as alternating chapters, one by Burroughs followed by one by Kerouac and on like that, from the point of view of William Dennison and Mike Ryko respectively. It tells the story of a crime from the point of view of two mixed up in it. It ... Read More:
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Slaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade - A Duty-dance with Deathby: Kurt Vonnegut October 17, 1991 Best Selling > Books > Cult Authors |
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I have recently embarked on a quest to read the fifty great American novels. (I'm on book thirty one) Slaughtehouse 5 was in good company - Portnoy's Complaint, Rabbit Run, In Cold Blood, Bonfire of the Vanities, The New York Trilogy, The Secret History, to name a few - but it emerged as the standout novel. It is a wondrous piece of storytelling and I can't wait to finish my quest (nineteen to go) so that I can return to Kurt Vonnegut and read everything he has written. He's the one!
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On the Road (Penguin Modern Classics)by: Jack Kerouac August 13, 2007 Best Selling > Books > Cult Authors |
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I first read this book when I was 18 years old and as cliched as it may sound it changed my entire outlook on life. It illustrated to me that rebellion and individuality are the best of things and that even in a world as violent and corrupt as this one, love and friendship can still prosper. The visceral and profound honesty with which Kerouac writes takes the reader to the heart of the action and the unrelenting pace of the narrative propels one on and on, just like Sal and Dean themselves are propelled to "go go go". No literature fan can afford not to read this all time great, that Kerouac never really came close to matching. Simply beautiful.
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The Dice Manby: Luke Rhinehart December 15, 1999 Best Selling > Books > Cult Authors |
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To be honest, Budge Burgess has written the perfect review below, so I am simply adding my 5 stars here because I think The Diceman is one of the most original and brilliantly zany books that I've ever read. It's sequel, the search for the diceman, is very enjoyable too, though not quite as dark and off the wall as this one.
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The Necronomicon: The Best Weird Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft: Necronomicon (Gollancz S.F.)by: H.P. Lovecraft March 27, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Cult Authors |
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just got it will start reading soon :)
i got into a few lines and its quite addictive, niceee :D >>More Details |
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Crimeby: Irvine Welsh July 03, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Cult Authors |
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As an aspiring writer, I would be embarrassed if I wrote such drivel. In fact, I'm surprised anyone published it, except of course that Welsh's name sells rather better than his fingers type. The storyline was promising and it could have been good, if just a little more thought had gone into its creation. I wonder if Welsh ever edits his work? I did a little better than Al Stubbino and got to Page 111 before I threw it in the bin. (Okay it's here on my desk, but it's going in the bin in a mo.) If Welsh can't take the time to craft his work why should I waste mine reading it. Life is too short.
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Neuromancerby: William Gibson November 27, 1995 Best Selling > Books > Cult Authors |
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I find Gibson pretty much unreadable. I really struggled to finish this book as I just don't care about any of the characters. His style of writing seems much better suited to short stories, and he is an absolute master at invocation of mood and setting. I just find anything longer than a few pages intensely stodgy. Go and get burning chrome instead and tackle it in short chunks...
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