[ilikesound93]

Has anyone read the Naked Lunch before? I've just started it and the drug lingo occasionally confuses the fuck out of me...but other than that I'm really liking it.

[Hamburglar]

Hiaasen's latest thriller is his funniest and sharpest novel to date. Set in a south Florida swarming with ripoff artists, crooked cops, nude sunbathers and corrupt politicians, it features a Mafia-connected plastic surgeon with butterfingers, a bitchy Hollywood starlet, a remarkably inept hit man and a pompous TV journalist "nationally famous for getting beaten up on camera." Retired state investigator Mick Stranahan, the hero, kills an intruder in his seaside house on stilts by impaling him with a trophy spearfish. Then one of his five ex-wives is found drowned. Due to an unresolved missing-person case, someone wants Stranahan eliminated, and his efforts to flush out the mixed bag of bad guys let Hiaasen display his manic sense of humor at every turn. The cynical sleuth has just the right mix of sour and smarts to get a fix on a mad world. This wickedly amusing story is the work of a keen satirist who off-handedly exposes the moral rot at every level of society.

[miken3714]

Life of Pi is a great book

[rising_tied]

I coulda sworn I posted here before but

Green Eggs And Ham
Hop On Pop
The Foot Book
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now?
Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?
all by the great Dr. Seuss

[RunInTheFront]

tropic of cancer by henry miller. i recommend everyone read it.

[i_am_sexy]

perks of being a wallflower and its kind of a funny story

[Maiaophilia]

The Stranger - Camus
The Metamorphosis - Kafka
Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck
1984 - Orwell
Great Expectations - Dickens
Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
Anything Chuck Palahnuick has written
Cat's Cradle / Slaughter House five - Vonnegut
To Kill a Mockingbird - Lee

[Maiaophilia]

Originally Posted by i_am_sexy

perks of being a wallflower and its kind of a funny story

I really dug both of these too. -

[ShimmerAndSpill]

All of Orson Scott Card's Ender series books, reading Xenocide right now.

[CstSnow]

Originally Posted by ShimmerAndSpill

All of Orson Scott Card's Ender series books, reading Xenocide right now.

The Shadow series seems to get more attention, but the EG/Speaker/Xenocide/Children of the Mind arc is so fantastic and quite a bit better IMO.

[ShimmerAndSpill]

Originally Posted by CstSnow

The Shadow series seems to get more attention, but the EG/Speaker/Xenocide/Children of the Mind arc is so fantastic and quite a bit better IMO.

I still haven't read the shadow series, but I hear that Ender's Shadow is one of the better books that Card has written. I plan on Reading Children of the Mind right after Xenocide. If you haven't already you should read Ender In Exile, it's great.

[Animalhill]

Just finished, 'War and Peace' by Tolstoy- which is incredible. Working on Anna Karenina right now, which is also amazing so far.

[zion the lion]

Go Dog Go....it will always have my heart

[Asshole AL]

Reading The Walk right now by Richard Paul Evans, great book!!

[saofan_315]

The Great Gatsby
Invisible Man
Civil Disobedience
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Harry Potter series