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[UknowsI]

[PatrickBateman]

'Lunar Park'

Bret Easton Ellis

It helps a bit if you know a little about the author before reading.

[tatertot]

I've started reading Shantaram and I'm really liking it so far.

[toadkillerdog]

Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian. Quite possibly one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Brilliantly researched, written and edited historical novels about the British Navy during the Napoleonic Wars.

[Sus]

Sherman Alexie. He does excellent poetry and short stories. He also writes novels, but his poetry is awesome.

well known for "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven"

[komerican]

"I Don't Believe In Atheists" by Chris Hedges. Basically makes the case that both camps have their elitist fundamentalists. When you think about it what is the point of getting rid of an ecclesiastic priesthood only to replace them with another self-appointed atheist priesthood who have placed themselves, unsurprisingly, at the top of another ahistorical and phony hierarchy.

[rollo]

Clemens -Mark Twain ,read all of his short stuff it still holds up. His observations on Europe, anti-semitism are also interesting.

[pedrotaves]

[komerican]

Science and reason have always been used to justify all sorts of behavior by countries and individuals, usually as a cover to hide the real motives, i.e. greed or power. It's a bit childish to believe that science or reason can ever control human behavior.

And it's always about hierarchy, just look at the secular ideologies of the past that supported, slavery, colonialism, fascism, and communism. Given human nature being what it is I really don't see that changing. The times, they are NOT a-changin�.

[PenguinSoup]

[kilakilakila]

[The Floating World]

You know when sometimes you want some high end literature but something completely unlike anything you have read before?

That my friends is when you need

'The Quantity Theory of Insanity' by Will Self

and

'Vermillion Sands' by J.G Ballard.

Prepare for your mind to be blown up. Both excellent, original and mind twisting colcections of novellas / short stories.

I have to agree with Kormerrycan, Eastern cultures accept the whole of man's nature, good and bad etc, Western powers project this calvinist ideal of the rightious and pure and then go off doing the exact opposite whilst convincing themselves they are not and criticising the rest of the world for doing the same thing.

Got to admit one thing though; best bit of spin ever carried out.

'The smartest thing the Devil ever did was convincing the world he didn't exist.'

Sometimes that quote pretty much sums up the hypocracy of it for me.

Then again, I am also reminded of a scene from one of my favorite shows 'Northern Exposure.'

Black guy, brother of Local ex-con local radio dee-jay Chrish Stephens, calls Maurice a racist and a bigot. Maurice gets all upset and says 'hell why is it I say things like that it's biggoted but if a black person says it it's okay'

Black guy replies

'Oh you are bigotted, but it's no biggie. You know I used to hate being around white people. Then I learned that white people by no means have the monopoly on racism and bigotry and I learned to relax.'

At the moment whitey is just more succesful is all.