[Coincedence]

Great books include On the road, Howl, Dharma Bums, Animal Farm....... What do you think??? add your own favourites

[fishmonkey]

all brilliant

[James Blonde]

Full of diamonds includes James Blonde.

[jon boy]

crime and punishment, junky, fear and loathing, american psycho.

[Glice]

I'll say Crime and Punishment from the above, but I'd rather Flaubert (you like my little rhyme there?).

Bataille is love; love is Bataille (although he's horribly wrong). Sarah Kane is perfect, in the darkest way possible. I'm going to continue pushing her because she really is that important.

[k-krack]

I just bought On The Road, can't wait to read it.
I'm reading Life of Pi, and it's actually really, really good.

Anything and everything by George Orwell.

The Collected Works of Billy The Kid by Michael Ondaatje.

Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.

Naked Lunch by WSB.

Slaughterhouse-Five

[racehorse]

the only thing worse than a word is a book.

[racehorse]

Originally Posted by Glice

I'll say Crime and Punishment from the above, but I'd rather Flaubert (you like my little rhyme there?).

Bataille is love; love is Bataille (although he's horribly wrong). Sarah Kane is perfect, in the darkest way possible. I'm going to continue pushing her because she really is that important.

i was reading about bataille earlier today actually.
he seems like an interesting guy to say the least......
perhaps i shall get my hands on a book or two.

[porkmarras]

Originally Posted by Glice

I'll say Crime and Punishment from the above, but I'd rather Flaubert (you like my little rhyme there?).

Bataille is love; love is Bataille (although he's horribly wrong). Sarah Kane is perfect, in the darkest way possible. I'm going to continue pushing her because she really is that important.

Currently so in pain at not having received my copy of her complete works,i have been researching every single review,essay,quote that i can get my hands on about her.

[racehorse]

seems like flaubert's another i'll have to check out, based on this statement from wikipedia:
"This ruddy giant was secretly gnawed by misanthropy and disgust of life. His hatred of the bourgeois and their bêtise (wilful idiocy) began in his childhood and developed into a kind of monomania. He despised his fellow-men, their habits, their lack of intelligence, their contempt for beauty, with a passionate scorn which has been compared to that of an ascetic monk."

he's sounding like a gluttonous, french version of a character in a dostoevsky novel.

[Glice]

You can't go wrong with French writers, to my mind. I like a lot of English writers, but the French seem to have sensuous down like no others.

[porkmarras]

Glice,i wonder if you know(probably you do) and like Mark Ravenhill's work who was a friend of hers and whose play 'Shopping And Fucking' is one of my favourites alongside Patrick Marber's 'Closer'.

[atari 2600]

Originally Posted by Glice

You can't go wrong with French writers, to my mind.

Then you should read the existential war novel by Henri Barbusse, Under Fire.
I'm assuming you've gotten to Camus and Sartre already. I like your Flaubert mention. Madame Bovary is pretty great.

I'm loving the Crime And Punishment mentions!
Nineteenth century Russian writers are my favorites.

[Glice]

I assume the patronising tone was unintentional? I FUCKING hate Sartre.

I've not read Barbusse, perhaps I should? I generally dislike existentialism except for Kierkegaard. I like Camus a great deal, but more for his writing than his existentialism.

My love of French writing stems more from the contemporary French philosophical (anti-?) tradition, which, if I remember rightly, you despise by and large. Question mark.

[racehorse]

hmm... only french writers i have read are camus, satre and balzac...