Jeff Resnick
Buffalo's No. 1 Psychic Investigator
Currahee!
A tenner for this
Fucking hate On the Road with a passion. Self-indulgent tripe written by a massive twat (but enough about my posts).
Didn't much like on the road as a teenager, but could atleast get behind that spirit of pushing forward and fighting against time. Re-read it a year or two back and couldn't get over the fact that he left his wife and child to get cross country two or three times for a lark. Berk.
Walter Sobchak
over the line
Really hard one this, have been through phases of reading a lot of different stuff over the years. Going to look back at books which made an impact on me at the time. Like london fields would never be my top 5 desert island books but...
Martin Amis - London Fields. I remember on Mark Radcliffe's late night radio show they used to get folk on to read excerpts from novels, and this was one. It seemed like such a modern novel at the time I read it (was only 14 or 15 I think).
Kerouac - on the road. The energy popping off the page. I know some people hate it ( ), and I've not revisited it, but for the time in my life it was perfect. That gives rise to things like:
Jim Dodge - Not fade away. This is possibly my favourite novel, so much fun. A wild, weird ride.
Arthur Nersesian - the fuck up.
Alberto Moravia - Contempt
Albert Camus - The plague and L'etranger. Hard to separate for me, again they define a period in my life and i would say helped make me who I am today (a cretin). Can put in Nausea by Sartre as well. Probably nausea affected me most profoundly, was 16 and, well it is quite a negative book. Anyone read the devil and the good lord? Tremendous.
George Orwell - again hard to pick one book, as for me he is the master stylist, but will plump for down and out in paris and london.
Honourable mention for brett easton ellis, american psycho is superb, and remember being blown away (lol if you've read it amirite) by glamorama. Went through a period of reading everything by Milan Kundera, started with the unbearable lightness of being. It seems like such a cliche now, might need to go back and reread it to see if I rate him as highly.
Feel there should maybe be space for some scottish books in this thread though, maybe worth a thread on its own? From Welsh to Hogg, to Kelman.
Walter Sobchak
over the line
Zizou
Drunk Cretin & Hassle Magnet
I honestly think I have some sort of memory issue. Read so many books but if I had a gun to my head I couldn't tell you my favourite.
I'll go with
Trainspotting (special because it's my home)
1984
Phillip K Dick - The Man in the High castle
After that I'm not sure. I'm not a great fan of fiction and it feels like that is the best for this sort of thing. I will never read a book twice either so it depends where I read it in my life. Shree amazing books there though.
Mikey
Human Rights Respecter
Alex Fergusons autobiography
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Jeff Resnick
Buffalo's No. 1 Psychic Investigator
Mikey
Human Rights Respecter
Chris Benoit
Benoit for HOF 2024
I’ve had a new found love for Dr Seuss since I’ve had the kids. Think I only ever read the two Cat in the Hat books when I was a kid but bought a big box set when Maisie was little and they get pulled out all the time. The Things That You’ll Do is amazing, you could read it at any age and take something from it.
Dr. Colossus
Senior Member
Genuinely tough to pick 5
American Tabloid - James Ellroy
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
The Stranger - Albert Camus
Lucky Jim - Kingsley Anáis
Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
I’ll throw Watchmen in there as a comic book too
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