Mein Kampf

The Hebrew edition.

Books... check em out

Ham on Rye.

Yes

I'm an English major, so yes I am a faggot and yes I do read quite a bit. Patrick Bateman is up there with my favorite characters of all time. I love the one opening to a chapter where he talks bluntly about how he's started drinking his urine for anti-aging effects. Dude is hateable but just as loveable, too.

My suggestion to you is Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy if you want more poetic prose while reading about bloodbaths of gore. Definitely Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr. if you want more gritty writing about transsexuals, closeted homosexuality, gang rapes, and growing up in an abusive household. Also, The Room by Hubert Selby Jr. has some of the most disgusting things I've ever read in it. Takes a lot to read.

Second blood meridian, it's fucking brutal. The Road's great too and terrifying.

Also No Country for Old Men is really great. Both the movie and the book, really, are wonderful. I've read the book a few times and it is a subtle shade darker than the film. Anything by Cormac is going to have some great descriptive language.

This discussion is getting me thinking and along the lines of American Psycho and Last Exit, I would also give Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City a try if you like your fiction fueled by the Bolivian marching powder.

Last exit to brooklyn is fucking amazing, that book is brutal. Your right though the room had parts that were really difficult to read, it made Naked lunch seem tame

Last Exit to Brooklyn is a great book. Requiem for a Dream is one of the darkest books I've ever read. Hubert is the real deal. You can't fake that kind of existential pain, no matter how good of a writer you are. I have The Room but haven't read it yet.

I just finished Freakonomics but wasn't very impressed by it. Up next I'm going to dive into either The Bad Seed by William March (I believe it's the inspiration for the name of Nick Cave's band, The Bad Seeds), or "V" by Thomas Pynchon.

If you want a tamer, more classic novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Marquez is in my top three novels.

Ya know, I read that about a year ago and recognize that it is well-written and a good book, but I found it kind of boring.

Survivor by chuck phalaniuk, you might like that.

Plebs

Second this, Chuck's best book in my opinion.

Came here to suggest palahniuk because just about anything by him is good, but I don't remember if I read this or not.

Have you ever read the short story called Guts? Im pretty sure thats what it was called. But its about some kid getting his asshole suctioned out threw a pool drain lol. It also talks about some dude putting a metal rod down his cock everytime he jacks off. Seems like something this sub would like. Chuck is a strange dude

I don't read a lot of fiction, but in terms of recent stuff I would recommend Michael Chabon especially The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay or The Yiddish Policeman's Union. Other good contemporary fiction authors for me are Junot Diaz and Jeffrey Eugenides.

My Struggle by ummm Andrew Hitmeer.

The Coloring Book by CQ. It was pretty funny.

Is it an actual colouring book?

We're thinking you'd be better suited in the afternoons.

Is hentia books.

Infinite Jest is great check it oot

The Turner Diaries.

Is it the day of the rope for liberals and mudsharks yet?

John le carre has written amazing books over the years. The naked and the dead by mailer. Neal Stephenson is fucking awesome: seveneves, anathem, reamde, diamond age, cryptonomicon. Papillon.

Fiction is for faggots and housewives. Origin of Species is a great read

Origin of the Species is a great book, surprisingly. Mine came with the Beagle Diary, which I enjoyed even more. Darwin was an engaging writer that used plain language.

I like the dark tower books by Stephen King. The fear and loathing book is also pretty good.

I'm illiterate. :(

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That's a great book. The part that stood out most is when he stabs the kids neck at the zoo then pretends he's a doctor and tries to help the kid.

Recently also read Bram Stoker's Dracula, it's really fucking good. The most interesting to me is their medical knowledge and practice at the time. They do blood transfusions by just sticking a hose in their arm and into the patients arm. At least 3 people drained their blood into this one girl because Dracula kept feeding off her.

The kid in the zoo is so fuckin dark and twisted

The bit that got me was where he was fantasising about hooking a kidnapped woman up to a dialysis machine and swapping her blood with a Labradors amd watch her die. What a kook!

Wow I don't actually remember that part.. maybe I was to busy furiously masterbating

High-Rise by J.G. Ballard.

It's like Lord of the Flies with grown-ups.

Is the movie worth checking out do you know?

Not sure, haven't seen it. Let me know if you do.

Green eggs and ham

The Devil in the White City

Looks like we get ourselves a reader.

Slaughterhouse Five is a good fiction book so is All Quiet on the Western Front. The Stand is long as hell, but is worth the read.

Being and Nothingness by Satre

just look up non-fiction crime books about actual serial rapists/killers on amazon

The Alienist by Caleb Carr

Check out Whatever by Michel Houellebecq. It's about this depressed, antisocial IT guy going about his life in France. Doesn't sound like much, but I think anyone who frequents this sub would dig it and be able to relate to some of the ideas Houellebecq is playing around with in this novel.

Bukowski is great

Women Factotum and Ham on Rye are all amazing

I'm finally getting around to A Confederacy of Dunces

Hey now, no need to call us names ha ha!

I read American Psycho a long time ago. Loved it. I remember I loaned it to this chick like 10 years ago and she was horrified by it.

She horrified and I'm jerking off to scenes where's he's shoving PVC pipe up a chicks twat, jamming cheese in there and letting rats go up there.

My fav books of all time. THE STAND by Stephen King. The Count of Monte cristo by Alexandra Dumas.

I jerked off at least twice reading that book...I don't think my dick has ever been harder than when he's describing cutting her vagina open so he can get the rat inside her..

Bookmarked this thread so i can lie to myself about checking these books out "later".

I am an intellectual.

Check out Dan Fante. Not very popular but very good. A modern Bukowski. If you want to read some good non-fiction get Evan Wright's books. "Hella Nation" and "American Desperado" are great. George Saunders is one of the best short-story writers out there.

Look up john fante, dans father. Hes amazing, bukowski also cites him as his biggest inspiration next to Celine

I love John Fante. Read pretty much all his books. Like most people, I found Fante through Bukowski's recommendations. John is ultimately a better writer than Dan, but Dan's stuff is a little more current and relateable, specifically the Bruno Dante novels. One of the darkest books I've ever read is "Journey to the End of the Night" by Celine.

Celine is fucking nuts i just finished Castle to Castle lol. Journey to the End of the Night is so fucking good, i love the way Celine writes, so fucking angry and manic. Thats another book i found through ol hank chinaski. Ive been wanting to read dan fantes books for a while. Whats a good one to start with?

Yeah, Celine is very angry and manic. No matter where he goes in "Journey..." he's overwhelmed by human stupidity and suffering. Absolutely glorious.

You'd probably love Dan Fante's "Bruno Dante" novels. There are 4 of them. You don't really have to read them in order, either. I'd say start with "Chump Change" but they're all good. I've never read a more manly man type of guy write about doing gay stuff while black out drunk. I'm also big into guys like David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, Jonathan Lethem, that kind of stuff.

Possibly the best rock n' roll bio I've read: "Hellfire" by Nick Tosches. (about Jerry Lee Lewis)

Nice ill check that out, ive been looking for something new to read, ive been on a grant morrison binge. I like some of the beat writers, mostly Borroughs. But Hubert Selby jr is my dude. That shit is like someone puked it on to the page. I have a strange attachment to his writing. Its honest to the point where it gets horrifically ugly, but none of it seem like exploitation, you know it all comes from a sincere place. Plus Hubert seemed like a really fucking cool dude who had an insane life

I was introduced to his books through Jerry Stahl, the author of the hilarious memoir, "Permanent Midnight" (the movie kinda sucks). He's a junkie writer and Hubert mentored him. I believe he dedicates Permanent Midnight to him. There's a decent Hubert doc you can find on YouTube, "It'll be Better Tomorrow" if you haven't already seen that.

Funny that you mention Frank Zappa. I only recently discovered him even though I've been a musician for 20 years. I'm fucking obsessed with Zappa now! His book is on my list but haven't read it yet.

One recommendation I'll make: "The Rings of Saturn" by W.G. Sebald. It's part memoir, fiction, travelogue. It's the best book I've read in a while.

That documentary was great. Everyone spoke so highly of hubert, its crazy how such a gentle person could write something as vicious as The Room. From what ive heard Zappas book is supposed to be awesome, his childhood was really fucking bizarre, plus im also obsessed with his music. I looked up "The Rings of Saturn" sounds kinda like The Stranger by Camus. Ill check it out

Yeah, Hubert is such a gentle, soft-spoken kinda guy. Amazing what he put on the page.

"The Rings of Saturn" is not like The Stranger at all. It's tough to describe. His books are unclassifiable. They meld fiction and non-fiction. The narrator is essentially himself, yet not. There are lots of creepy photos with no captions. The main theme of the book is decay. Decay of memory, empires, cities, etc. I'm looking forward to watching the new Zappa doc, "Eat That Question".

Frank zappas autobiography is also supposed to be great.

John is an incredible writer. I liked bukowski more in my late teens. I didnt realize how good john fante was untill i was around 21, hes way more honest than bukowski in my opinion. I also think arturo bandini is much more similar to john, than hank is to bukowski

Louie! Beans! You read John?

If you like really boring old shit I would recommend Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad. It starts off a little slow but the story is about an English kid working in the South Pacific in the 1800's who takes the fall for abandoning a sinking ship full of Muslim pilgrims.

Graduating from college with a degree in English has made me a faggot who reads boring shit like that but I really would recommend this book to anyone looking for a good story. Its by the same guy who wrote heart of darkness, the book Apocalypse Now was based off of

American Psycho is a great, weird book. Lol @ the part where he's shoving brie and broken glass up a dying girls pussy out of boredom.

'The Stand' and The Dark Tower series by Stephen King are good, easy (albeit long) reads. If you like horror, 'Ghost Story' by Peter Straub is impeccable modern gothic, and his Blue Rose trilogy is some of the best literary / thriller crossover reading you can get.

A lot of people here are pushing Bukowski, but his poetry is immeasurably better than his prose. Last Night Of The Earth is a great starting point.

anything by cormac mccarthy

Reading is for rich people and prisoners

no

It's a great book. Go with Notes From the Underground (Dostoyevsky) next -- it heavily influenced Ellis. Do it, fag. You won't regret it.

Do you count podcasts as books? because in that case I read tons of boosk.

120 days of Sodom.

The picture of Dorian Gray or Man & Superman by George Bernard Shaw.

Or A confederacy of dunces, CQ was a big fan.

The Rules of Attraction is a very similar book.

Rules of Attraction was alright. I liked Less than Zero way more

Oh yeah? Whats your occupation, character?

There's a book called Happy Endings by some guy

John Barleycorn by Jack London for all you alcoholics

Apathy and Other Small Victories has a similar sense of humor, but it's not nearly as sick and twisted.

I've been on the first book of game of thrones for like a year

I have American Psycho, couldn't get into it.

The only books I've read all the way through are the catcher in the rye, the great gatsby, and Ted Bundy: The Stranger Beside Me.

Killer Fiction by Gerard Schaeffer. He was like a fat Ted Bundy and his short stories were pretty much accounts of what he did to people. In the intro they say reading the book is like getting "halitosis of the soul". So needless to say...hilarious.

Pretty edgy thread we got going here.

NO BOOKS ARE FOR FAGG- uh..

Looks like we get ourselves a reader.

Last Exit to Brooklyn by hubert selby jr is the best/most fucked up book ive ever read, you should check that out if your interested in prostitution and broom stick rape, its ten times more realistic than american psycho.Junky by William Burroughs is good to. Also check out Less Than Zero if you liked american psycho

If you like American Psycho, hunt down "Geek Love" by Katherine Dunn. Its about a couple who inherit a circus and breed their own freakshow. One of their freak kids, a flipper baby, starts a cult. Its fucking hilarious.

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I read a lot of Kurt Vonnegut when I was in in-school suspension because there was nothing else to do. I ended up getting a tattoo of his asshole symbol lol. But since then no, reading is gay

Pricks on Ice.

Reading gulag archipelago by solzhenitsyin. His account of gulag life and soviet society is harrowing and he does it with a kind of universal disdain and pity.

I listened to Rogan's podcast too! I'm a few chapters in.

Blood Meridian is a really good book by Cormac McCarthy.

Anything by James Ellroy. Elmore Leonard is great too.

You READ, Dtzjohn?!

The evolution of a Cro-Magnon is a pretty solid book. It is an autobiography of John Joseph McGowan. He was the lead singer of a hardcore punk band called the cro-mags that was popular in the 1980s. This book has some really interesting stories. They are so interesting that they might not even be real but still it's a fun book to read.

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As for things that haven't been said, Elmore Leonard is brilliant. Does dialogue like no one else. If you liked Jackie Brown (best adaptation of his work), Out of Sight, 3:10 to Yuma, etc. you can't go wrong, jus pick anything he is written.

Harry Crews - fascinating author. Gritty, disturbing, layered. I'd start with "Feast of Snakes"

William S Burroughs- Naked Lunch or Junkie

Anthony Bourdain - Kitchen Confidential

"I heard you paint houses" - by someone was great and will be a Scorsese movie soon.

If you haven't read Hitchhikers Guide, it's still amazing.

Anything Vonnegut

Packing for Mars -- by Mary Roach is great if you are interested in NASA/space flight during the early years. Lots of talk about shitting in space. Spoiler- it sucks... well now days it literally sucks, but not enough.

Anything Hunter S Thompson

Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, the poems of Philip Larkin

All I can think of at the moment.

No I'm a fag but not THAT kind of fag

Only women and children read fiction. What kind of faggot would actually take the time to sit down and read some other faggot's imaginary story?

The funniest is when people say you can "learn" from fiction. False. Fiction is not restricted by the patterns and logic of reality. In fiction, the truth is whatever the author wants it to be. A fictional book can "teach" you that the nice guy gets the girl in the end, or the good guy wins against the tough bad guy, whereas in reality these things literally never happen.

Read a book called Might is Right by Ragnar Redbeard, it will change your life and is absolutely necessary to read if you are a male. The PDF is free if you google it. Read it now, cunt.

Allright Dwight schrute

You just described bad writing. And that book sounds like some proud boy shit.

Second blood meridian, it's fucking brutal. The Road's great too and terrifying.

Is it an actual colouring book?

Last exit to brooklyn is fucking amazing, that book is brutal. Your right though the room had parts that were really difficult to read, it made Naked lunch seem tame

Last Exit to Brooklyn is a great book. Requiem for a Dream is one of the darkest books I've ever read. Hubert is the real deal. You can't fake that kind of existential pain, no matter how good of a writer you are. I have The Room but haven't read it yet.

I just finished Freakonomics but wasn't very impressed by it. Up next I'm going to dive into either The Bad Seed by William March (I believe it's the inspiration for the name of Nick Cave's band, The Bad Seeds), or "V" by Thomas Pynchon.