summer page turning.

Submitted by snoozer on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 10:02
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  • "the bell jar" sylvia plath
  • "the perks of being a wallflower" stephen chbosky
  • "n.p." banana yoshimoto
  • "brief interviews with hideous men" david foster wallace
  • "microserfs" douglas coupland
  • "shampoo planet" douglas coupland
  • "girlfriend in a coma" douglas coupland
  • "miss wyoming" douglas coupland
  • "slab rat" ted heller
  • "the yage letters" william s. burroughs and allen ginsberg
  • "on the road" jack kerouac
  • "about a boy" nick hornby
  • "into the wild" john kraukner (sp)
  • "farenheit 451" ray bradbury
  • "period" dennis cooper
  • "slaughter-house five" kurt vonnegut
Author Comments: 

these are books i've read since i came to athens in the middle of june.

i LOVED the bell jar and microserfs and on the road. any recommendations that anyone can provide along these lines, PLEASE do... i'm looking for more books to read...

Chagal07/29/2000

I have been wondering about "The Bell Jar". Can you give me a short overview without revealing too much about the plot? Thanks. -Chagal

snoozer07/30/2000

a dark and very captivating journal-esque account of the life of a post-college and mentally tortured female writer. it's haunting and beautiful and painfully real.

jenhowel07/31/2000

WOW! You've read Banana Yoshimoto! She is so cool. If you liked NP, by all means read Kitchen as well (if you haven't already.)
A surprisingly page-turning book (though a bit different than your other selections) is Thackeray's Vanity Fair. When I heard of it, the title just sounded so STODGY. But reading it was a wonderfully entertaining experience which would often cause me to laugh out loud. And I couldn't put this huge book down. Another long and involving book is I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb, about a pair of twins, one schizophrenic. If you're into memoirs at all, also check out any of the diaries (preferably the unedited ones of Anais Nin.)
Alright, who knows if you would like any of this stuff, but I like most of your stuff, so who knows?

snoozer07/31/2000

thank you for the enthusiastic recommendations which are about to be scrawled into my sketchbook and remembered! my friend read kitchen, she said it was weak-but didn't quite elaborate. she liked n.p. though. i think i'll read kitchen anyway.

i've heard about the anais nin stuff- tell me more? thanks!

softlikecat08/26/2001

hey, you should maybe read jesus' son by denis johnson, or bad behavior by mary gaitskill.

if you want to borrow them, i don't know if you have a library card or what, but i'd send them to you. i have too many books laying about.