[princesslinzo]

I don't usually like to read but I like books by henry rollins, american psycho, a clockwork orange, bukowski things like that.. does anyone have any good books?

[Wondergirl]

Books you might like are:

Jack Kerouac's On the Road
Norman Mailer's Executioner's Song
Alan Ginsberg's Howl
Arthur Rimbaud's poetry (Keanu Reeves' favorite poet)
Vincent Bugliosi's Helter Skelter
Truman Capote's In Cold Blood

[vingogly]

Given your taste in literature, you might want to take a look at:

William Burroughs: Naked Lunch, Soft Machine, Nova Express, Cities of the Red Night, Wild Boys

Jack Kerouac: Dharma Bums (in addition to On the Road)

Thomas Pynchon: Crying of Lot 49, V, Gravity's Rainbow, Mason & Dixon, Against the Day

William Gibson: All Tomorrow's Parties, Pattern Recognition, Spook Country

J. G. Ballard: Crash, Concrete Island, The Crystal World

Tom Wolfe: Electric Acid Kool-Aid Test, Kandy Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby, Pump House Gang

[KBC]

Well the Illinois people are chiming in so,, here are my favorites.

I am a sci-fi fantasy freak,

The Golden Globe(John Varley)

The whole series of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever by Stephen Donaldson.

The whole series of Into the Gap(Donaldson also)

Any book by David Gemmel

The entire series of The Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind.

Jack Mcdevitt has a few good ones, sci-fi.

Ken Hood

Piers Anthony

Mercedes Lackey

Larry Dixon,

Should I continue?

OK only if you respond to these.

KBC

[Couchcarrot]

"The Shoemaker, The Anatomy of a Psychotic," by Flora Rheta Schreiber

"And Then You Die," by Iris Johansen

"The Best Laid Plans," by Sidney Sheldon

"The Parasite," by Ramsey Campbell

[Alty]

My all time favorite!

"Swan Song" by Robert McCammon.

It's got everything, tears, laughter, amazement. Absolutely everything! :)

[vingogly]

I am a sci-fi fantasy freak,

Ahh, so it's SF & fantasy lists we want... :)

Here's a few more from me, then; some old favorites, many recent favorites:

John Crowley: Little, Big; the Aegypt (tetralogy)
Gene Wolfe: Fifth Head of Cerberus; Book of the New/Long/Short Sun (seven novels)
M. John Harrison: Viriconium, Light
John C. Wright: The Golden Age; The Phoenix Exultant; The Golden Transcendence
China Mieville: Perdido Street Station; The Scar
Hal Duncan: Vellum; Ink
Alistair Reynolds: Revelation Space; Redemption Ark; Absolution Gap; Chasm City
Iain Banks: The Algebraist; Consider Phlebas; Look to Windward; Matter
Stanislaw Lem: The Cyberiad; Solaris
Cordwainer Smith: The Rediscovery of Man (collected stories)
R. Scott Bakker: The Prince of Nothing (trilogy)
Susanna Clarke: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Ian MacLeod: The Light Ages; The House of Storms

... only a partial list of my favorite authors, and there are no doubt hundreds out there still waiting for me to read them. :)

[Alty]

Any kids out there?

I have a children's book that will hopefully be published by next year, I'm still working on the illustrations.

So, for the kids, next year, my favorite book will be.

"The adventures of Starduck" by Altenweg ;)

[KBC]

Any kids out there?

I have a children's book that will hopefully be published by next year, I'm still working on the illustrations.

So, for the kids, next year, my favorite book will be.

"The adventures of Starduck" by Altenweg ;)

ROFLMAO

You are not going there,are you?

[Alty]

It's true KBC, I have written a children's book, all about Starduck aka Starbuck and her adventures as a chubby duck in a castle.

Hey, I have to promote my book somewhere, right? ;)