Recommend me (or someone else) a book
 

I've got 25 bucks to spend at Chapters and have no clue what to buy.
I like books about:
doggies
drugs
crazy people
people with fucked up ideas
I'll think of more later.

You know the drill...

Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Plague by Albert Camus

those are my three favourite books, at the moment at least. I'm assuming you've read On the Road, but you need to if you havent.

Perfume BY Patrick Suskind is what i've been reading. The main character is pretty crazy

Diary of a Madman by Gogol (short story) about a crazy man and features a dog! And it's great.

I like the sound of these two the best :) Especially The Trial

I've heard this one is really good. Kurt wrote a song about it or something too? I can't remember which one at the moment hahah.

kurdt.

scentless apprentice

For Savage Drone?

http://www.amazon.com/Phil-Collins-O...e=UTF8&s=books

Tibor Fischer - The Thought Gang
Nicola Barker - Small Holdings
Evelyn Waugh - The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold

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Oh yeah, lots of crazy in those books!

Maldoror by Lautréamont... one of my favourite books, maybe my favourite... it probably features some dogs at some point...

Ahhh, you're right! Jeez I'm an idiot

The Trail isn't really a pleasure read though (neither is Dostoevsky or Camus (even if they are good books in other respects)))...I'd suggest something else...
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is where it's at, if I know you (which I probably don't). In fact, any of Thompson's novels.
Douglas Adam's for some fun. Maybe even a William Gibson novel.
Or get a non-fiction book on a musical genre or band.

well, yeah, but if you want something to think about, then go for those. The Trial is actually a really easy read, so is the Plague to an extent. Crime and Punishment is a little more difficult though.

Have you read On the Road emma?

You will love this book, Emmah. I did.

http://www.amazon.com/Drugs-Are-Nice.../dp/1932360948

I didn't think The Trail was that easy...at least grasping the meaning of it (which I fear I missed),

I love Fear and Loathing. I wanna read The Rum Diary but I'm not going to buy that cause my friend has it.

No, I haven't. I couldn't really understand the info I read on it though, what's it about?

I don't Ebay, momma works at a bank and sees too much fraud.

It's about this guy who hitch hikes and drives round the United States in the 40's looking for freedom and jazz and romantic shit like that. It's a classic of the beat generation and another of my favourite books. You'd really like it.

Well, easy in the sense that the literature flows well. The meaning I agree is very obscure, though I think there are hints of the author dealing with anti semitism, among other things. You know, he's being persecuted, but he doesn't know why, and when he tries to find out, the answers are impossible and just lead him further down this existentialist nightmare.

Man, what a great book.

Awesome, I may look into getting that :)

Why don't you get The Perks of being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, It was really a good read.

That does sound really good :)

It is about a kid coming of age, it is somewhat like The Catcher in the Rye, oh there is another one if you haven't read it.

I haven't, I also heard that that's really good as well.

Yeah, also if you haven't picked it up, read Confusion is Next: The Sonic Youth Stoy- By Alec Foege. It has cool picture, and some good insight on the No Wave scene as far as I read into this scene.

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Confusion Is Next is HORRIBLE.

I didn't think it was horrible, just really really average.

crime in punishment isnt a pleasure?
fuck that was one of the pleasurest books i read in awhile, highly recommended.

dont read the perks of being a wallflower PLEASE, read catcher in the rye if you must but avoid this book, about 99% of anything "coming of age" sucks ass.

id suggest "tropic of cancer" by henry miller.

Alright, hahaha I wont get The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Tropic of Cancer sounds pretty cool.

I'm going to have a hard time choosing a book cause a lot of the suggestions are really good.

I went to get Tropic of Cancer out from my local library and the clerk there insisted I had to be 18.

Good book.

get Burning Chrome or Neuromancer, both by William Gibson.

I listened to a couple of Kafka's short stories (on cd) during a drive home from montreal. wonderful, they were. One was about an ape who learned to drink, and does a lecture somewhere.. a school?

"junkie" by william burroughs

Great trippy book with amazing illustrations

if you haven t read jack kerrouak on the road read this .

perks of being a wallflower wasn't that great at all. it's one of those godamn young adult books that are predictable as hell.