*literature YOU'd recommend*

[Islander]

Hey! I wanted to be the one to mention "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" !!! Seriously though, one of my personal favourites is Ray Bradburry's "Fahrenheit 451", great book but sadly always current.

Also, some books in the same spirit are George Orwell's "1984" and Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World".

[WaWa]

Love the classics:
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Lord of the Flies - Wiliam Golding

[Flauta]

....Harry Potter 7, coming out in July 07....

books by Agatha Christie.....

[Books]

Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

Yeah, right :-top
also nice, but not mentioned in the the previous posts? of course "The classic novel of life and death in an american hospital" :-lesen

[LaTraviata]

Worth mentionig are also nearly all books written by Nick Hornby :-love
for example
*"about a boy"
*"how to be good"
*and also "fever pitch"

Also, but already mentioned, all stuff of calvin & hobbes.
What else? Yeah, one's still left, "A supposedly fun thing, I'll never do again" by David Foster Wallace. Great and I nearly fell about laughing... guess, it's the funniest statement about five star carribean cruises that ever appeared!

[hypnotel]

Worth mentionig are also nearly all books written by Nick Hornby :-love
for example
*"about a boy"
*"how to be good"
*and also "fever pitch"

hmm, you're right... but i'd personally turn in 'how to be good' for 'high fidelity'. I found Hornby employing a female lyrical I rather hard to devour.
Must be a gender-dependent effect still, all females I know enjoyed 'how to be good' a lot... :-nix


speaking of modern British authors, what can be said about Irvine Welsh..? Anybody read 'Filth Pig'?? :-)

[ledoell]

so...where's the point in mentioning irvine welsh but not mentioning "trainspotting"? :-) ....even though there's this great movie adaption, the book holds its very own and special fascination as thoughts and emotions are described more subtle and still more carefully ...

quite an experience of it's own...

[hypnotel]

full ack! the point is: I wanted you to mention it. :-)
This novel, and also the movie that made the breakthrough for Welsh and established him as one of the greatest and most cheered-for story tellers alive...

He really gave me the goosebumps in Filth Pig. It's the plain story of a corrupt, racist, sexist... cop. On reading, chance is you'll experience the affect to crawl inside the book and kick that sucker straight in the face. Absolutely thrilling, demanding lecture.
Welsh's probably most epic opus is called Glue or Klebstoff in German. It's addictive, read it and you won't let off easily. I found the German version very well adapted, too.
Haven't read Porn yet, but bet I will ;-)



Relinquishing junk. Stage one, preparation. For this you will need one room which you will not leave. Soothing music. Tomato soup, ten tins of. Mushroom soup, eight tins of, for consumption cold. Ice cream, vanilla, one large tub of. Magnesia, milk of, one bottle. Paracetamol, mouth wash, vitamins. Mineral water, Lucozade, pornography. One mattress. One bucket for urine, one for faeces and one for vomitus. One television and one bottle off Valium. Which I've already procured from my mother, who is, in her own domestic and socially acceptable way, also a drug addict.


Let me furthermore express my gladness about some of you mentioning Huxley, Orwell (and also Dickens). Those are must-reads, preferably the original versions of their respective main works, of course.

[Bille11]

what about "acid casuals" - nicholas blincoe :-) great read!

[hypnotel]

what about "acid casuals" - nicholas blincoe :-) great read!

never heard of, but I'm gonna check for that - thanks a lot for your contribution(s) :-)

[05deinin]

John Irving's "The Cider house rules" / "Gottes Werk &Teufels Beitrag"
Great Book!

[Kedar]

House of God and Mount Misery - Samuel Shem
The Cronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis

And my absolute favourite books: The Tomorrow series from John Mardsen, unfortunately only available in Australia, at least the last two books.

Most books are better in the original language. Not just english books..

[jule17]

Really love books of Mary Higgins Clark and Patricia Cornwell.
At the moment I read "Keeping you a secret" by Julie Peters. However, I'm not yet convinced.

[Jen76]

Hey, I'd like to recommend a book to you which is for all the people who like travelling abroad or those who want to work in the helath care system in England, France or the US. Of course, it will be interesting for the ones staying in Germany, too. My advice is to read this book:
„Andere Länder, andere Leiden" written by Lynn Payer.
You might think that it is a little bit old since it is from 1993. But I've been told by the one who gave it to me as a christmas present last year
that it is the best book to read if one wants to learn about the differences between english, french, american and german patients and doctors.
It showed me a new dimension about the countries, their habitants, their medical system and also about our german medicine. It was a lot of fun to hear about the different beliefs of being sick...

Have fun!

[Doctöse]

For those of you, who liked "The Catcher in the Rye" I've got another literary delicacy ;-)....
"The Buddha of Suburbia" by Hanif Kureishi. This novel tells the story of a youngster coping with some typical and a lot of absolutely weird problems. Very funny, emotional, loud and colourful. You won't miss a thing, sex-drugs-rock'n'roll-conflicts-colours-self-doubt-everything :-top

Besides....I wrote my final English test on a chapter of this novel and had to compare the protagonist Karim to Salinger's Holden Caulfield....it was a masterpiece because I just love these stories of weirdos and, well, I have a soft spot for these guys :-))

[hypnotel]

I've heard about that work of Kureishi's, but it's not read yet...
you're loved, Öse :-blush

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[Kackbratze]

All the Rankin-Novels (Ian Rankin) and the early works by Stephen King.
His latest stuff is just boring and without any fresh ideas.

And something everyone should read in english:
Edgar Allen Poe

[hypnotel]

Hey Jen, thanks for that contribution of yours!
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Or even better, are there some merg-able mods around? :-))

edit, one was. thanks!

[Evil]

Try H. P. Lovecraft... but don't blame me if you don't get any rest afterwards ;-)

EDIT: Jen's book tip has been joined

[Islander]

and the early works by Stephen King.
His latest stuff is just boring and without any fresh ideas.



Sad but true. However, he still manages now and then to come up with a "masterpiece" if I may use the term for a Stephen King book. My personal favorite is "Hearts in Atlantis", a relatively new book and a little out of King's genre.

Another recommendation is Chuck Palahniuk's "Fight Club", and -as always- the book was better than the movie