Here are some books I've liked/disliked....Recommend me some new ones - Page 2

asofel · #11 01-01-2006, 05:36 PM

hehe...i ordered some books today based on all these threads...blood meridian and confederacy of dunces...looking forward to them...

MyTurn2Raise · #12 01-01-2006, 05:43 PM

I think you would really like most Elmore Leonard books

Paluka · #13 01-01-2006, 06:05 PM

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Anything by Dan Brown
Anything by John Grisham

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These books are extremely popular and mainstream. If this is what you like you could probably just go over the books on bestseller lists and get plenty of ideas.

gumpzilla · #14 01-01-2006, 06:09 PM

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Anything by Dan Brown
Anything by John Grisham

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These books are extremely popular and mainstream. If this is what you like you could probably just go over the books on bestseller lists and get plenty of ideas.

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There's a tone here that makes me think that you think stuff like Catch-22 and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is obscure, underground literature.

Paluka · #15 01-01-2006, 06:35 PM

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Anything by Dan Brown
Anything by John Grisham

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These books are extremely popular and mainstream. If this is what you like you could probably just go over the books on bestseller lists and get plenty of ideas.

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There's a tone here that makes me think that you think stuff like Catch-22 and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is obscure, underground literature.

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Okay, I have a few issues with this.

1) I was actually giving honest advice. I think looking through the amazon.com top 100 list would probably be a pretty good idea for this person because his tastes seem to coincide with a lot of other people. If he told me he really liked something weird or obscure I would have given other advice.

2) I don't think Catch 22 and Cuckoo's Nest are obscure or underground or something. They happen to be classics that a lot of people don't enjoy. For example, based on the OP's description of what he likes, I don't think he would enjoy them. The movie The Seven Samurai is neither obscure or underground, but I woudl not recommend it to someone who said "Recommend some movies for me, I really enjoyed Titanic and Old School but I don't enjoy movies that are slow paced".

Rachel · #16 01-01-2006, 06:41 PM

If you like Brown and Grisham, you will probably love Greg Iles. He is most famous for The Quiet Game, but Dead Sleep and Bloodprints are excellent as well.

surfinillini · #17 01-01-2006, 06:52 PM

books I just read:

Dali Lama - Art of Happiness

The Master Cleanser

goofball · #18 01-01-2006, 06:53 PM

Any hemingway (since you hate long windedness or something)
Catch-22 Catcher in the Rye (since you like confederacy of dunces)
Animal Farm (since it's a good book)

gumpzilla · #19 01-01-2006, 06:59 PM

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1) I was actually giving honest advice. I think looking through the amazon.com top 100 list would probably be a pretty good idea for this person because his tastes seem to coincide with a lot of other people. If he told me he really liked something weird or obscure I would have given other advice.

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I don't doubt that you were giving honest advice, and I actually agree with the advice you're giving (though I'll point out there are plenty of books that make bestseller lists - I'm thinking things like Middlesex, Curious Incident, etc. - that while "mainstream and popular" are nothing like Grisham or Brown)

Do you agree or disagree that there is a difference in tone between:

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These books are extremely popular and mainstream. If this is what you like you could probably just go over the books on bestseller lists and get plenty of ideas.

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If this is what you like you could probably just go over the books on bestseller lists and get plenty of ideas.

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As mentioned in my original post, the tone is really all I was commenting on. I think I'm more attuned to it thanks to Bruiser's post which was more openly snobby earlier in the thread.

Paluka · #20 01-01-2006, 07:05 PM

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1) I was actually giving honest advice. I think looking through the amazon.com top 100 list would probably be a pretty good idea for this person because his tastes seem to coincide with a lot of other people. If he told me he really liked something weird or obscure I would have given other advice.

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I don't doubt that you were giving honest advice, and I actually agree with the advice you're giving (though I'll point out there are plenty of books that make bestseller lists - I'm thinking things like Middlesex, Curious Incident, etc. - that while "mainstream and popular" are nothing like Grisham or Brown)

Do you agree or disagree that there is a difference in tone between:

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These books are extremely popular and mainstream. If this is what you like you could probably just go over the books on bestseller lists and get plenty of ideas.

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and

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If this is what you like you could probably just go over the books on bestseller lists and get plenty of ideas.

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As mentioned in my original post, the tone is really all I was commenting on. I think I'm more attuned to it thanks to Bruiser's post which was more openly snobby earlier in the thread.

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Yeah I guess the way I wrote it sounds strange, especially if you say it out loud. I will come clean and say I don't really read books like that, so maybe my inner snobbiness was shining through.