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

mostly philosphical stories

• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
• The Stranger by Albert Camus
• Paradise Lost by John Milton
• Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger
• Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Tideland by Mitch Cullin
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Fight Club by Chuck Palahnuik
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
• '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

mostly 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
• Carrie by Stephen King
• Dreamcatcher by Stephen King
• Pet Sematary by Stephen King
• 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King
• Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger
• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

[edit] The Ugly

the mediocore

• Ring (Suzuki novel) (the American movie: The Ring is much better)
• The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
• 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
• IT by Stephen King
• The Dark Tower by Stephen King
• The Dark Half by Stephen King
• The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien