dear god! this exists?

Has anyone read The Photography Book? it's not a novel or anything. it's just a book compiled of a bunch of photographer's work. it's my fav book in the world. My photography teacher used to have a copy hidden in her closet in class, and i used to take her keys and steal it. I would sit in the darkroom looking at that book all period. Now i have my own copy! Pocket size.

Depends what you're into, really. You apparently like "To Kill A Mockingbird" and "The Photography Book". Heh, that's a pretty big range. I'll give some of my favorites that I think are pretty easy to like while still unusual.

Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" - Good book, very decadent and visual, but it will be a bit dragging at times if you don't love detail.

Franz Kafka - Anything by him. Generally they just sell compilations of short stories, since he only wrote a few books and they aren't as good. "The Complete Short Stories" would be your best best. He's very bizzare, but realistic at the same time. Extremely hard to explain, which is why they invented the word "kafkaesque". But I think almost anyone would like it.

Ayn Rand's "Anthem" - She writes a lot of long philosophical tedious books, but this one is under 100 pages. Extremely engaging, kind of like "The Giver" or "1984" if you've read those.

Dante's "Inferno" - You probably know what it is. You gotta get a good translation, though. Older ones are extremely hard to follow. It's only part 1 of his "Divine Comedy".

As far as the photography books, most of the time when I buy a book I just find something I like, like that, or something I want to learn, go to Amazon.com and find a well-rated book on it, and buy it. You know, look for another book on photography, learn to juggle, whatever.

yes, it's a good one. most of the books i'm suggesting are books that everyone's read.
how about heavier than heaven by charles cross?
it's a kurt cobain biography, a very good one

Speaking of which, SY's biography, by Alec Foege, is pretty good. Not even for SY, just for the post-punk progression in general.

no i haven't read heavier than heaven. I've read who killed kurt cobain though. i did a book report on it in 10th grade. I don't like reading about kurt cobain anymore. there's not much more to know....and reading about him is kind of depressing.

Since I'm a geek, I'm gonna recommend reading the Dune series by Frank Herbert, they're amazing. Or you could read some William Gibson. The suggestion about reading the SY biography was a good idea as well.

yeah i've been looking for an sy biography. i didn't know one existed. I knew there were books by and about sy, but not a biography. I don't think i'm going to read that any time soon cause my library doesn't have it and i can't find a book store that does either.

Catch-22 is one of my favorite books as well. Very entertaining and pretty funny.

Schizo - You didn't like Galapagos? I really enjoyed it. I thought the idea of the book was enjoyable, but I guess that's just me.

She's probably mentioned in the book.

i'll jump on the bandwagon and back dharma bums and The Picture of Dorian Gray. I also think My Name is Asher Lev is a fantastic book, probably less so if you aren't artistically inclined.

and you're probably mentioned in this book

Duh, I wrote it.

i thought so

You fucking twat! I'll kill you! Our methlabs are UNMATCHED!

Oh that post got screwed up.

I'm planning on reading those this summer. I love the Lynch film and I've been eyeing the books at my local library for quite some time. And I'd like to find a copy of the SY bio, seems like a good read. What else is there to do this summer but read sci-fi, play videogames, and watch anime, eh?

here is a picture from the photobook by nick knight....this is my fav pic in the whole book!

I'm not much of an anime fan, but I'm with you on the video games and sci-fi books.

Summer reading is what you want well here's the book: The Air Conditioned Nightmare by Henry Miller. Perhaps you will find some wisdom in the pages.

you are clearly out of your skull.

acousticrock87 has good taste in books, and i'll second the anthem recommendation for a quick read (i finished it in one sitting). if you ever get some time on your hands you really should try to get through atlas shrugged and/or the fountainhead . . . even if you don't entirely agree with them they will get you to see things in an entirely different light.

also, if i may, gilgamesh is a surprisingly good read for being so damn old (as in, sumerian). looking at my bookshelf, here are my choices for shorter works:

camus's the stranger
faulkner's as i lay dying
huxley's brave new world
voltaire's candide
beowulf
wells's the war of the worlds
kesey's one flew over the cuckoo's nest
potok's the chosen
steinbeck's of mice and men (which you've probably already read)
shelley's frankenstein

also, if you're up for slightly longer works try the following:

dostoevsky's the idiot
wright's native son
stoker's dracula
sinclair's the jungle (i hate the ideas in the book but it's still a good read)
tolkien's the lord of the rings
(i was about to recommend the koran but i don't think there's any danger of that book being foreign to you . . .)

i also second the recommendations for the picture of dorian gray, catch-22, and dante's inferno. (as you can see i'm big on "heavy" reads . . . :))

oh i've read that kegmama, it was good. the only probablem i had with it was that there were some part to the book that were made up. I think there was some controversey over the book, or maybe i'm thinking of another one, so now i don't know what i can believe about frances farmer.

kurt vonnegut - breakfast of champions
charles bukowski - post office
chuck palahniuk - choke
douglas coupland - generation x

one more thing, it's always a good idea to read the classics when you're young.. you just can't find the time to read them later on in your life..

Vogue magazine

The Crying Of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Only 127 pages, but a story that spans centuries, involves aerospace contractors, the US postal service, assasins disguised as Native Americans, LSD, underaged marriages, a Nazi doctor, a rock band called the Paranoids, a secret society called W.A.S.T.E, wonderful imagery, strong prose and excellent characterization; not something you'll forget in a hurry.

Oh yeah, A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley is good too... And Salman Rushdie's Haroun And The Sea Of Stories... Wonderfully beautiful

I suggest you
god bless you mr. rosewater

or

sirens of titan

both by the genius Kurt Vonnegut.
the first is a novel that describes the life of eliot rosewater, a millionaire who turns to a hamlet/st. francis
the second one is hallucinatory science fiction... some themes are incredible, like mercury's animals, robot aliens, war Mars vs. Earth, new religions...

yeah i read that too kegmama cause i did a project on her last year. I don't know what to believe regaurding her having a lombotomy or not. Have you seen the movie Frances? what do you really think happened? i know that's kind of a silly question cause you only have read about it in books and stuff, but i'm curious to know what you think.