Suggest me a book

A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, The Human Factor but Graham Greene, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy if you want a good laugh (so much better then the movie)
 
What a shame; I had high hopes that people from around my area were at least making an effort to be intellectually sound.

 
red badge of courage by stephen crane

the brothers k by david james duncan

1968: the year that rocked the world by mark kurlansky (non-fiction)
 
personally i thought both cathcher in the rye and a seperate peace were godawful. but that's me

great gatsby

east of eden

beowulf (not similar to any of these but i thought it was great)

Heart of Darkness

 
judging but what you are bored by, i would suggest staying away from "a portrait of the artist as a young man", but you might like some other stuff by Joyce. Kerouac is great, i would try "on the road". i know you don't like some more off the wall shit, but Cuckoos Nest is amazing. Irvine Welsh: can't beat Scotish writers. try the classics as well: Beowulf, Iliad, Odyssey, aeneid, Gilgamesh, et c... and of course Walden by Thoreau, doesn't fall into your list of "similar" books, but still amazing.

for the lazy people who don't want to rad all the stuff i wrote:

Joyce, excluding portrait

Kerouac, on the road

Kesey, cuckoos nest

all epic poems

Walden
 
perks of being a wallflower by stephan chbosky is sick so is a guide to recognizing you saints by dito montiel is good too, i havent finished it but i saw the movie and it was AMAZING
 
the alchemist.

it will teach you a lot about life if you read about it with an open mind and look at things a little abstarctly.
 
Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy. That book was epic in every aspect.

That or UTOPIA. I forget the author, i could dig it out of my massive collection to find out... But yea, i fully and comepletely enjoyed those two books.
 
i can see it now. The NS Book Club seal of approval on thousands of best selling books.

and yes, rainbow six was a very good book
 
i suggest the anarchist cookbook. its not much of a read, but the information it contains is priceless. really tho, try reading a mans search for meaning, siddhartha, all quiet on the western front, and crime and punishment.
 
Go for it. I'll join.

To contribute: I'm not sure how much it relates to those two in terms of what you liked them for, but Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem is an amazing narrative, a little bit like Catcher in the Rye maybe. I'm not sure, I just started reading Catcher in the Rye and the style of narrative is all I've gotten from it so far. The story wan't that great, but I'm not too fond of crime/mystery books.
 
haven't read the rest of these suggestions so i don't know what's been said but...

Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote

and

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

(not the same genre but SO good)
 
sam, here's a few of my all-time favorite i think you'd like.

i read through the thread, but if i name one already listed- sorry.

the sun also rises -hemmingway

the bell jar -sylvia plath

last exit to brookyln -hubert selby jr.

bless me, ultima -rudolfo anaya

born on the fourth of july -ron kovic

journey to ixtlan : the lessons of don juan -carlos castaneda

hells angels -hunter s. thompson

farenheit 451 -ray bradbury

the doors of perception and heaven and hell -aldous huxley
 
I was thinkin walden too. people who enjoy Catcher also enjoy Walden..both searching for Meaning type books. BTW excellent list, not many mentions of the Epic of Gilgamesh on this site.
 
thsi doesnt fit the catcher in the rye mold, but read fear and loathign in las vegas.

it is so fucking good.

any other of Hunter S Thompson's short stories are excellant too.

 
666 is a crazy dope book. i dont member the author ... but i think i might go read it again.
 
ontop of a lot of the books that were already mentioned, i suggest "gravity's rainbow" by thomas pynchon

and i would also be down for ns books
 
Rich dad poor dad....it'll teach you about money and has already helped me in my life....
 
I think someone said it, but it's worth mentioning again, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is real good. Also, try You Shall Know Our Velocity, they're both pretty epic.
 
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