Bret Easton Ellis is a must, and if you like him check out James Frey, he is also excellent if you like that whole Cather In The Rye feel. Stephen King rocks, too.

Just actor/director/doomedrock star/nazi biographies.

Oh and if you like terry Pratchett you must read Good Omen, a non-disc world book that is simply fantastic.

Gerpander - read Frank Skinners biog.

thx tesko, mark that one for my library to do list.

I love Oscar Wilde. If you haven't read it, read The Picture of Dorian Gray... one of my all-time favorites. Also, I love Dumas' "The Count of Monte Cristo." The complete version, not abridged (which clocks in at about 1200 pages.. haha) I read "The Three Musketeers" as well but didn't like it anywhere near as much.

The fantasy geek in me will also devour anything, well, fantasy. <3 Tamora Pierce, Diana Wynne Jones, and all those other authors (although sadly I'm a little too old for them now).

At the moment I'm trying to read more classics (Catcher in the Rye, Atlas Shrugged, etc..), although those have been put on hold until I finish reading my summer assignments for AP US history. Goddamn you, Stephen Ambrose!

Three Musketeers and The Two Dianas are good adventures. Better than the Potter filth spread nowadays.

Im reading Stiff right now. Its about cadivers.

I'm starting on Memoirs of a Geisha at the moment.

I've been meaning to read that... how is it so far?

I've read some sections of Stiff that looked cool. It was pretty interesting...but non fiction just doesn't make me feel as good as a good, made up story.

I'm not a big fan of "classics" unless they're really good. I liked the Grapes of Wrath, and Rebecca, and Watership Down and a couple of others but I would probably never be able to finish Pride and Prejudice and a Tale of Two Cities that we had to read for English wasn't all that great either.

margo-it's pretty good so far. I wasn't really sure about it at first, but the story is told in a very interesting way. I would suggest picking it up. I heard they are making it into a film as well.

I loathe reading classics for school... and there are some classics I just can't deal with, no matter how good they're supposed to be. I need to read Rebecca, too. I know a lot of people that liked it..

Treasure Island is a classic classic

OJR - yeah I heard about them making it into a movie

There's a book written By JESUS!!!! It's called the bible!!!!

OMG

Everyone knows the Bible was written by aliens.

Jesus is an Alien. CONSPIRACY!!!

Michael Crichton and Chuck Palahniuk....
Hemingway is always good though, heh.

*gag* I dispise Hemingway.

Chuck Palahniuk... man he wrote a short story that really DID make me *gag*, it was about a dude who decided to jerk off in his swimming pool and...and I just can't repeat it.

Favorite Books: Interview With The Vampire, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, A Clockwork Orange, Harry Potter ( the whole series), The Gashlycrumb, and Goosebumps (all of them).

Author: I dont have a favorite, yet.

Don't get me started on Anne Rice. Her books were okay at first...I kind of liked Interview With the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat. And then it just got so terrible. If I'm lucky I could get through the first half of a book but I can't ever finish another one again.

I love Chuck Palahniuk, Vonnegut, and Neal Stephenson. Phillip Pullman's "His Dark Material's" was really good, too.

tesko, don't go on, my friend read it and told me about it and i was just like oh gosh. No doubt though, I love his writing. My favorites are Chuck Palahniuk's Lullaby, and Daniel Wallace's Ray in reverse.

mad.rhetoric - I adore "His Dark Materials"... so good.

Haha

http://www.noops.org/guts.html

"His Dark Materials" book one was good.
Book two was excellent.
Book three might as well have been ghost written or left out altogether.
Bleh.
brokennightmare: what's your favourite King?

MoniqueH: What a story. I especially loved the end bit about Tiny Mix Tapes. I actually went ahead and read a few mix tape requests.

My favorite King book is probably Misery, just because the sawing off of Paul's leg was the first scene in a book I remember actually feeling sick about. Brillant. Or possibly On Writing, since I've read that about ten times...but that's mainly for motivational values.

My favorite is "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

I really love Jonathan Safran Foer... Oh yeah, and his writing too

Sarah Vowell
is a
genius.
the
end.

My favourite book EVER is Sushi Central by Alasdair Duncan (also known as Dance, Recover, Repeat).
I like Misery by Stephen King. And Journey To The Centre Of The Earth by Jules Verne.

Fight Club and Survivor by Palahniuk are my favorites. Haunted was pretty good, but not quite up to snuff with those two.

Meh, I'm not a huge reader. If you can't pull me in within the first chapter or description, I'm moving on.

Charles Bukowski. Reading that stuff makes one's life seem pretty uneventful and blogging.

Sorry I meant boring.

Haha, freudian typo!

Douglas Adams, William Gibson, Isaac Asimov, Neal Stephenson, Jon Courtenay Grimwood and Neil Gaiman to name a few greats.

bucowski indeed kicks my wimpy ass...

i know everyone has pretty much consumed their share of this book by now, but whoever hasnt needs to: house of leaves. im a sucker for the concept, the infinite abyss locked within your own home....

i'm currently reading house of leaVES,its nicely creepy
if you click on me name you'll see i asked a book question a while ago,if you find anything there of help go for it.

tesko: yeah chuck palahniuk's haunted is way out there with the short story about the kid going "pearl diving" and ends up wishing he had teeth for ass. that'll teach you to jerk off in a pool... can't wait to see what happens to the rest of the characters in the book

jiibob:the story your on about is guts.

my mum loved it!

I don't have time to read anymore. I think the last thing I read was a Stephen Ambrose book. Well to be fair, I read Imperial Networks which is a history of the rise of racism in South Africa and the other British Imperial colonies. But I HAD to read that.

heavy stuff there mrdomino.

Back in my more literate days I mixed it up more. For example, the Art of Sexual Ecstacy by Margaret Anand is a good read.