I'm joining a book club and soon I'll have to choose a book. Demographic is mostly late 20s early 30s guys (and one or two girls), smart, a bit stoner/slackerish. The last book was Revolutionary Road. Current book is Paul Auster's New York Trilogy (which I've already read) and next is The Moviegoer (which I've also read). I was thinking maybe Blood Meridian or The Road. Or maybe Indecision by Benjamin Kunkel. Any suggestions?
― Hurting 2, Sunday, 8 July 2007 03:59 (eighteen years ago)
The Dud Avocado By Elaine Dundy
― pinkmoose, Sunday, 8 July 2007 08:19 (eighteen years ago)
jesus' son by denis johnson. short stories about the life of a junkie/alcoholic/petty criminal. fantastic, and way better than the movie.
― Rubyred, Monday, 9 July 2007 01:26 (eighteen years ago)
Yeah actually I was thinking about that one.
― Hurting 2, Monday, 9 July 2007 13:56 (eighteen years ago)
do you only do fiction?
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Monday, 9 July 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)
I'd recommend Ninety-two in the Shade by Thomas McGuane. It's about a guy who drops out of a biology degree program and moves back home to Key West and decides to become a fishing guide - other than that, it's kind of hard to summarize. Eccentric characters, prose that frequently reaches for a kind of sunburnt beat poetry and often grasps it - it can be darkly comic, political without being didactic, wise, funny and sad.
― o. nate, Monday, 9 July 2007 21:31 (eighteen years ago)
I think it's only fiction - I'm joining late and it sounds like so far they've only done fiction.
― Hurting 2, Monday, 9 July 2007 23:46 (eighteen years ago)
The Testament of Gideon Mack. Priest has doubts, runs a marathon, screws mate's wife, meets Satan. Jolly entertaining and chock full of early thirties male angst (you know the kind I mean).
― Matt, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)
The first two chapter of The Dud Avocado are pretty good.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Saturday, 14 July 2007 19:21 (eighteen years ago)
The Dud Avocado is fantastic, because it has such a light touch.
― pinkmoose, Wednesday, 18 July 2007 07:09 (eighteen years ago)
My hope is that it has one.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 10:51 (fifteen years ago)
What??!! I didn't mean to post that here. See my other thread.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 10:52 (fifteen years ago)