xp mookie: richard russo is my comfort food - i love straight man
i always end up recommending The Secret History but i think it's bcz i cant think of other books
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 26 November 2016 20:36 (seven years ago) link
i've also gone into that sci-fi black hole and 95% of everyone doesn't want to hear about that stuff.
― scott seward, Saturday, 26 November 2016 20:42 (seven years ago) link
Would recommend Ferrante in a 'believe the hype' way because I can't imagine anyone I would be recommending books to would not have heard of her.
― quis gropes ipsos gropiuses? (ledge), Saturday, 26 November 2016 20:47 (seven years ago) link
i recommend the man who was thursday sometimes cuz it's short and trippy and people haven't heard of it unless they are big deus ex fans. other than that i mostly just tell people not to believe anyone who says a bad word about moby-dick. will still push dostoevsky's demons p hard in some company (like ilx) but iirc it didn't work out w aimless :(
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 27 November 2016 20:55 (seven years ago) link
iirc, I finished Demons, so it wasn't a failure. It was just not a rip-roaring success, due to my lack of affinity with Dostoevsky.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Sunday, 27 November 2016 21:01 (seven years ago) link
Masters of Atlantis by Charles Portis
― Chris L, Monday, 28 November 2016 07:42 (seven years ago) link
Books I can remember recommending more than once: Doug Coupland Life After God, Murakami Haruki A Wild Sheep Chase, Iain Banks The Wasp Factory, Ramachandran and Blakeslee Phantoms in the Brain, DFW A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again.
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Monday, 28 November 2016 08:34 (seven years ago) link