Looking for some new authors...

Goat · #1 (**permalink**) May 27, 04

I've been looking around the last little while for something new to read. Something a little out there, fiction preferably, that doesn't always have the ' problem, character developement, climax, happy ending' routine.

suggestions?

ebbomega · #2 (**permalink**) May 27, 04

Well, Palahniuk comes to mind.

-ff- · #3 (**permalink**) May 27, 04

John Brunner (the sheep look up, in particular)
William Burroughs

no happy endings here

Goat · #4 (**permalink**) May 27, 04

i've read half his books, a little psychotic but he's alright.
looking for something else.

Douglas Coupland is a great author, local too.

Quin600 · #5 (**permalink**) May 27, 04

Harlan Ellison and H.P. Lovecraft. Short stories for the most part, and Lovecraft can be hard to read at times, but all good.

crookedking · #6 (**permalink**) May 28, 04

hey bud! post this in "the bookworm" section. this is about gamers and movie goers.

BOOKS SUCK!

.anya · #7 (**permalink**) May 28, 04

Max, wanna go used-book shopping with me sometime very soon?
our tastes in literature differ, but i'd like to romp around in van and look for books. mmm :)

<3

Goat · #8 (**permalink**) May 28, 04

Tim- eat pole cretin.
ff - i'll check those out for sure. thanks.
Anya - next paycheck, for sure.

miss.myra · #9 (**permalink**) May 28, 04

read any ayn rand ?

Goat · #10 (**permalink**) May 28, 04

^no. what's sort of material is it?

miss.myra · #11 (**permalink**) May 28, 04

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.
— Ayn Rand, Appendix to Atlas Shrugged

Go pick up Atlas Shrugged, Anthem and The Fountainhead. Read Anthem first (a quick read) and then spend the rest of your summer becoming reaaallly familiar with objectivism (like philisophical selfishness) ]

If you're more into non fiction try The Virtue of Selfishness and Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal.

Orrr if you hate objectivism and want to read a really sad, but beautiful story about Communist Russia, try We The Living.

bob · #12 (**permalink**) May 28, 04

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Originally Posted by Goat

Something a little out there, fiction preferably, that doesn't always have the ' problem, character developement, climax, happy ending' routine.

all my books are like that, you know where they are if you wanna dig through them and borrow a few...

crookedking · #13 (**permalink**) May 28, 04

Quote:

Originally Posted by Goat

Tim- eat pole cretin.
ff - i'll check those out for sure. thanks.
Anya - next paycheck, for sure.

was that supposed to be an insult?

cause if it was i didn't understand it :(