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Comment by Daniel Ridgeway on November 1, 2009 at 10:48am

I don't know why but I have this strange fascination with drugs or anything that has to do with drugs. The last three novels I read were Alice in Wonderland (not necessarily about drugs), Go Ask Alice, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. All except the second one are excellent books.

Comment by Zombie Messiah on September 8, 2009 at 4:47am

Dr. Lightning, I loved Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? I own the movie based on that novel, Blade Runner. Of the many versionsof Blade Runner I own The Ridley Scott-approved (1992, 116 minutes) Director's Cut. The novel is far superior.
Don't feel bad about not reading 1984, I haven't read it either. I still have Fahrenheit 451 buried under piles of unhelpful computer books.

I regret not living up to my name and enjoying the novel World War Z. I love Zombie media, but the book was throwing vague social issue metaphors at a moving target and hope it scored a head shot.

I mostly like to read funny novels. These include the autobiographies of Gene Simmons (Kiss and Make Up), Artie Lange (Too Fat to Fish), and Mark Twain's 1889 "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court".

Comment by Doctor Lightning on September 6, 2009 at 12:10pm

But on the plus side, in July in just four days I read Lolita, which, of course, is now one of my top 5 favorite books ever. Perfect.

Comment by Doctor Lightning on September 6, 2009 at 12:09pm

Reading on and off Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. I also got Good Omens from my library but haven't started it yet. That's on top of other books I've quasi-abandoned (finished most of but not all of) which include 1984 (yes, friggin 1984, how bad am I) Crime and Punishment, Dark Tower Drawing of the Three, and a Hitchcock book called Life in Darness and Light

Comment by Lord Tzeentch on September 5, 2009 at 8:49am

Currently reading Palace of the Plague lord, by CL.Werner, Quite a good fantasy novel. http://www.blacklibrary.com/product.asp?prod=60100281034&type=Book

Comment by Zombie Messiah on September 5, 2009 at 12:32am

Welcome new members and fans of reading books!
The pic for this group is from my all time favorite novel the hilarious, A Confederacy of Dunces!

I love A Confederacy of Dunces because it has Jacques Reilly, a clueless 'genius' Harvard graduate, a man who lives by values of scholastic philosophy of the Middle Ages and hates today's society and it's lack of 'theology and geometry'. To top all that up he has no job, lives with mother, and his masturbatory fantasies that lead in strange directions. To top the top, the story is set in New Orleans during 1960s.

FACT: Ignatius J. Reilly is literature's first and greatest Troll!

The novel's publication also is worth an entire novel.

From the Wikipedia page for A Confederacy of Dunces.

A Confederacy of Dunces is a picaresque novel written by John Kennedy Toole, published in 1980, 11 years after the author's suicide. The book was published through the efforts of writer Walker Percy (who also contributed a revealing foreword) and Toole's mother Thelma Toole.

Toole posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981. It is an important part of the 'modern canon' of Southern literature.

READ a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederacy_of_Dunces" target="_blank">A Confederacy of Dunces to look into the mind of all those Internet Trolls who posts controversial, inflammatory, irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community.

May Fortuna's wheel of luck spin upwards for us all!


What is your all time favorite novel and why?