Homerun_Homer's reading log

homerun_homer

Ok, I'll start from recently read and go backwards;

The Watchmen - Alan Moore (first graphic novel I've ever read, in anticipation for the film)

Rant – Chuck Palahniuk
I gave up on this ¾ of the way through because I just can’t stand the style of his books anymore. Too contrived, all the character quirks and traits. The formula worked with Fight Club and Survivor but he’s worn it thin. I read what happens on Wikipedia and I’m glad I stopped reading.

The Stranger – Albert Camus
Excellent book, I can see why so many songs were inspired by it. It’s on the list to re-read.

The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold

Harry Potter Books 6 & 7 – JK Rowling
Never read books 1-5 and didn’t like the 1st film when I saw it originally but I was made watch them and told how intricate the books were with the details and I finished the series off in book form. They were so good I wished I had read them from the start.

In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
Fantastic, even if he did make up/twist and contort some of what went on or was said by the towns people.

Lunar Park – Bret Easton Ellis
Love this book. It’s his easiest to read and most exciting novel.

Ham on Rye, Women, Factotum, Post Office – Charles Bukowski
Great books though Women wasn’t very interesting.

Can’t remember everything so some favoured books of mine;
Perfume – Patrick Suskind
1984, Animal Farm – George Orwell
American Psycho, Rules of Attraction, Less than Zero, Glamorama – Brett Easton Ellis
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
Survivor, Fight Club, Invisible Monsters – Chuck Palahniuk
Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
Come as You Are (The Biography of Nirvana) – Michael Azzerad
Heavier Than Heaven – Charles R Cross
Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides

Books that had potential but were just ok or just plain disappointing;
Dracula – Bram Stoker
On The Road – Jack Kerouac
Diary, Lullaby, Haunted – Chuck Palahniuk
Chemical Pink - Katie Arnoldi
Jennifer Government - Max Barry