OOT, help me pick out some books

[kioshk]

Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections".

[Cancuk]

Not taking into consideration what you've said, a great books i've read recently is Shantaram. Unreal.

[ScottyP431]

I second Jesus Son, also

American Gods- Neil Gaiman
The Long Goodbye- Raymond Chandler
Women-Bukowski
Glamorama- Bret Easton Ellis
The Prestige- Christopher Priest

[moorobot]

I can 2nd Prop's recommendation of "Growing Public" (see my post in the monarchy/democracy thread on it)...

Since you like both politics and history, you probably would like "The Great Transformation" by Polanyi a lot.

[Insp. Clue!So?]

The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman

Any anthology of short stories by Borges

[scraggs]

"God Loves Fa.ggots, Too" by Debra Self

[EYEWHITES]

i have read pretty much every beatnik book there is, along with most of my friends, there is one book most of them have not read i keep giving to them and it blows there mind. William burroughs wrote the foreword to it, said it basically made him want to be that....

you cant win by jack black

the most outstanding book, about a hobo wandering theif, train hopping .... its everybodys faviorte book after they read it, and the only one he wrote.

chinease takeout, dogrun & the fu@k up by authur nesserian (SP?)
Perks of being a wallflower by stephen chobsky

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the game - neil strauss

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I second this. This is an excellent book and I'm surprised it's not recommended in OOT more often.

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Because it's the equivalent of Ace on the River for pickup?

It's entertaining - but calling it "an excellent book" is retarded.

Atlas Shrugged is an Excellent Book.

[dietpunk]

The Fat Man in History - Peter Carey
The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
Love is a Dog from Hell/The Most Beautiful Woman in Town and other stories - Charles Bukowski

[Grifter]

Anything by Phillip Roth ("The Human Stain" is my fav.)

"Consider the Lobster" by David Foster Wallace is the best book I've read this year, but it is essays, not fiction.