User:ARBlackwood
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Books. You'd be surprised at the kind of crap that gets published. Also, I'm more than happy to discuss with you why I like/dislike any of the listed books. Just drop an angry message on my userpage and the debates shall begin.
[edit] The Good
philosphical stories
- Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger
- Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- Fight Club by Chuck Palahnuik
- 'Caveman's Valentine' by George Dawes Green
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
- Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Watterson
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luó Guànzhōng
- 'said the shotgun to the head' by Saul Williams
- Interview with the Vampire by Ann Rice
- 'Alchemical Studies' by Carl Gustav Jung
[edit] The Bad
coming of age stories
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbra Kingsolver
- The Bean Trees by Barbra Kingsolver
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- Eragon by Chris Paolini
- The Harry Potter Series by J K Rowling
- Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Hurtson
- 'Lone Ranger and Tanto Fistfight in Heaven' by Sherman Alexie.
- The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
- Bag of Bones by Stephen King
- Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger
- Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
[edit] The Ugly
the mediocore
- The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
- Jack Faust by Michael Swanwick
- The Dark Tower by Stephen King
- The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
