CreateSpace is self-publishing, the author gets to set the price. I'm not sure all the reviews are legitimate.

Any themed fiction books about existential crisis?

I need to read more can't seem to find a book I like at the moment! Was looking for a book that made me laugh...nope! not a dam thing! so lets go the other way.

the moviegoer, the stranger, miss lonelyhearts

Cool. I have read The Stranger found it interesting.

Both of the other books you mention seem like things I would enjoy reading so

Some sort of joke, I presume, since it's available for free: http://zinelibrary.info/files/Blubbe...are%20book.pdf

There's a review from Dennis Lehane in yesterday's New York Times that's of particular interest for the way it describes the shape of Ellroy's career and his changes in writing style over the years.

Help. There was talk of a book in this thread I believe earlier this year. You all were gonna do a book thread on it. A read along. I can't recall the name but I remember wanting to add it to my list. Was a book about an older man and his life, kinda like a mad men type book ???? Sorry can't recall anymore. I remember there was a read along thread

Finished all the pretty horses. Liked it Kinda dragged in areas but I realize that's part of the story.


Currently reading Me talk pretty one day and the heart is a lonely hunter.

I'm pretty sure Id want to punch sedaris irl, but I like his WRiting.

Have you read Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins?

Found it. All that is for those curious

up next is David Mitchell's The Bone Clocks

very excite much popcorn

Two months ago I ordered, then read, Lessons of History, by Will and Ariel Durant. It is just 105 pages, and has the main lessons/insights from their multi-volume historic work from decades ago.

I ordered a used copy then just had to give it to a neighbor, so I ordered a new one to put on my table. I don't keep many books (like to pass the good ones on to others), but this book is a reminder of many things, so I will keep it nearby.

I'll refund anyone who buys it and doesn't think it is worth the $8 to $20. It is the type of book you will want to buy for friends (and even strangers). That is how strong it is.

If I could only read two books for the rest of my life, it would be Lessons of History, and Poor Charlie's Almanac...the Wit and Wisdom of Charlie Munger. If you have those, you are far far ahead of 99.9 percent of all humans.

Thnx I'll find that

Enjoying it so far

Plus 1 to all of Robbins. He is amazing.

I found Robbins to be unreadable. I've always thought of him as a poor man's Vonnegut.

You couldn't do better than these 3. I'm big on Walker Percy. I've read all his novels. And it's a shame West didn't write more.

I'm going to the talk Mitchell's giving this Friday in Toronto. In anticipation I read Black Swan Green last week, which I thought was terrific. A semi-autobiographic story, it is, unlike some of his novels, a straightforward narrative. It's the story of a boy in his thirteenth year having bad experiences in laddish small-town British culture. (He stammers, he writes poetry, but he longs to fit it.) Bigger ideas run underneath the coming-of-age story: the bullying resonates with the outbreak of the Falklands War, etc.

Now I'm about 50 pages into his Ghostwritten, nine interconnected stories ...

What was it?

All that is

Those recommended plus:
Poker: The Cincinnati Kid by Richard Jessup (substantially different conclusion than the movie);
Love/Obsession: The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain;
Anxiety: Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre;
Old Age: Man in the Holocene by Max Frisch;
Anomie: The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick by Peter Handke;
Poverty: Hunger by Knut Hamsun and
???/Everything: Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky trans. Pevear and Volokhonsky.

I'm reading The Dog, by some guy. It's set in Dubai and has a slightly American Psycho feel to it (minus the serial killing)

Black Swan green is terrific. Mr Mitchell can sure spin a good yarn iidssm.

Is he speaking on anything in particular? Its part of a book tour I'm assuming? Or as part of a bigger event? I'd like to hear more about it once you go. I've really enjoyed just about every interview/talk I've watched or read of his.

I feel this same way about Cormac McCarthy.

For other reasons, I feel Stevo King is easier to listen to on audiobook. You can let your mind wander, listen back in an hour later. Still waiting for something to happen or for the plot to finally go somewhere? No worries. Meditate some more. Eventually something will happen. Or perhaps the book will end. Either way, you have done some good thinking.

Need nonfiction rec for okc bombing

Thanks!

American Terrorist, the McVeigh bio