squeeze_me_tite ([info]squeeze_me_tite) wrote,
2037-12-29 02:18:00

need help

yeah, i need help.

i am so obsessed with harry potter now that i don't really know how my life will be when the series ends. i keep saying idiotic nerdy things like "shut up or i'll put a blast-ended skrewt on your ass," and i keep getting words like ACCIO! and EXPELLIARMUS! stuck in my head. my new favorite candy is jelly-belly's bertie botts every-flavor beans.


the worst part of all this is that i've really lost every motivation to read books that aren't about teenaged wizards. i swore to myself that i would seriously build up my reading repertoire (i spelled it wrong- eat me) this summer, but it looks like i've just screwed all chances of that happening.



so next paycheck i am going to the bookstore. this is where you guys come in.... PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE recommend some good books to me.



i know that with the threat of illiteracy looming over me i shouldn't be picky, but the reality is that i do have a few "rules" about what i like (and don't like) to read....

+ i don't like reading about wars. its cool if a story is set in a wartorn country, or during a political shift or something, but i do not like reading play-by-plays of battles and such.
+ i need the language to be "pretty." not flowery necessarily, just- i dont know- full of really really perfect word choice and pleasant to mouth out.
+ i don't like self-important authors. my brit lit professor definitely sold me on the whole "negative capability" idea and the notion that art should not be about the artist.
+ with the exception of harry potter, i don't like books that are pure plot.
+ i like america and thus am not interested in reading literature that assumes i hate my country.

any ideas?? please help!!

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[info]onlyabsolutes

July 14 2005, 14:28:29 UTC 6 years ago

i really love milan kundera's 'the unbearable lightness of being' and i think it fits all of those requiements. it's beautifully written.

[info]squeeze_me_tite

July 14 2005, 15:47:16 UTC 6 years ago

i checked this out on amazon.com and it looks like something i'd definitely like....much appreciated:)

[info]onlyabsolutes

July 14 2005, 18:41:49 UTC 6 years ago

no problem, i myself am completely out of things to read. i wandered around borders last night for an hour and couldn't find anything. it's all 'devil wears prada'-style chick lit (that was the worst book i've ever read, btw) or self-help books. where did regular books go? i might reread my suggestions myself.

Anonymous

July 14 2005, 15:31:37 UTC 6 years ago

*the poisonwood bible*, cherry, the liars club, life of pi, a heartfelt work of staggering genius, animal dreams, my sister's keeper, love in the time of cholera, high fidelity, how to be good

[info]squeeze_me_tite

July 14 2005, 15:46:50 UTC 6 years ago

thank you mr. anonymous poster!

[info]marjoram

July 14 2005, 18:30:24 UTC 6 years ago

THE LIAR'S CLUB by Mary karr is amazing as well.

[info]robot_vs_ninja

July 14 2005, 15:48:32 UTC 6 years ago

Days Between Stations- Steve Erickson

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates- Tom Robbins

Still Life with Woodpecker- Tom Robbins

All Quiet on the Western Front- Erich Remarque (it's not really about war....well, it is....but it isn't, y'know?)

Songbook- Nick Hornby

The Things They Carried- Tim O'Brien

Memoirs of a Geisha- Arthur Golden

Steppenwolf- Hermann Hesse

I can't imagine that you'd want to read about math, lol......so I guess that's all for now

[info]squeeze_me_tite

July 14 2005, 15:52:39 UTC 6 years ago

i orgasm to math lit

[info]robot_vs_ninja

July 14 2005, 17:36:27 UTC 6 years ago

as do i

[info]marjoram

July 14 2005, 18:26:48 UTC 6 years ago

YOU RECOMMENDED STEVE ERICKSON!!!!

(i totally second the recommendation, though, our ecstatic days is somewhat more memorable)

[info]marjoram

July 14 2005, 18:28:56 UTC 6 years ago

also:

LOLITA by nabokov
GEEK LOVE by katherine dunn
ECSTACIA by francesca lia block
ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT by jeanette winterson
CAVEDWELLER by dorothy allison

[info]robot_vs_ninja

July 15 2005, 05:38:15 UTC 6 years ago

that book rules. (Days Between, not Our Ecstatic...)

[info]onlyabsolutes

July 14 2005, 18:43:27 UTC 6 years ago

i <3 the things they carried

[info]robot_vs_ninja

July 15 2005, 05:38:45 UTC 6 years ago

i had to read it last summer for Berry

it's really good

[info]dani_girl

July 14 2005, 17:17:16 UTC 6 years ago

definitely kite runner

[info]in_so_deep

July 15 2005, 05:24:30 UTC 6 years ago

what about the new harry potter...it comes out this week i think
haha

[info]squeeze_me_tite

July 15 2005, 12:03:10 UTC 6 years ago

hahaha whoa really!?!?!

lol jk yeah you can bet your ass i'll be reading it

[info]footlonghebrew

July 15 2005, 07:32:34 UTC 6 years ago

I'd suggest books for the common reader which we all know are great books.

Anything by John Grisham, Michael Crichton, Robin Cook, James Patterson, Stephen King, Dan Brown even though I have realized his books are predictable...You better read the Dark Tower series. How about I put it this way. It would make me upset it you didn't even give it a try.

I think you can trust me, I read more than everyone woman. Even if it isn't Tom Robbins.....

[info]squeeze_me_tite

July 15 2005, 12:03:55 UTC 6 years ago

haha i love you


but these clan wars are killing me!

[info]footlonghebrew

July 15 2005, 07:34:10 UTC 6 years ago

All's Quiet is all war. It just so happens to follow this band of brothers and the trials and tribulations of their experience on enemy lines.

[info]footlonghebrew

July 15 2005, 07:39:49 UTC 6 years ago

Maybe I could also add in Jack Kourec or however you spell his name....lame i would not suggest reading his material. You better read the Dark Tower. As a matter of fact, I suggest anyone who likes epics should read it. It is better than Lord of the Rings. And it is not filled with as many made up names and places that throw you off and confuse you.
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