ANYTHING by Nick Hornby. Read one of his books and you'll wanna read 'em all. I especially recommend "High Fidelity", "How To Be Good" and "Songbook".

Who Moved My Cheese?

Da Bible. By God.

So, if we can post ANYTHING BY posts, then I would like to recoomend three writers.

First I already mentioned; Jonathan Carroll.

Second on the list; anything by Douglas Coupland. His stories are lovingly psychotic and filled with flawed characters. Later on in history they will look at these stories as we now do at Dickens. From All Families Are Psychotic (hence my choice of words)'s back flip; "In a cheap motel room an hour from Cape Canaveral, Janet Drummond looks at the clock- 7.03 a.m., pill o'clock- takes her capsules, and does a rapid tally of the whereabouts of her three children. Wade has spent the night in jail; suicidal Bryan is due to arrive any moment with his vowel-free girlfriend, Shw and then there is Sarah, 'a bolt of lightning frozen in midflash'- here in Orlando to be the star of Friday's shuttle mission."

Amazon says; The most disastrous family reunion in the history of fiction.

The Drummond family, reunited for the first time in years, has gathered near Cape Canaveral to watch the launch into space of their beloved daughter and sister, Sarah. Against the Technicolor unreality of Florida's finest tourist attractions, the Drummonds stumble into every illicit activity under the tropical sun-kidnapping, blackmail, gunplay, and black market negotiations, to name a few. But even as the Drummonds' lives spin out of control, Coupland reminds us of their humanity at every turn, hammering out a hilarious masterpiece with the keen eye of a cultural critic and the heart and soul of a gifted storyteller. He tells not only the characters' stories but also the story of our times--thalidomide, AIDS, born-again Christianity, drugs, divorce, the Internet-all bound together with the familiar glue of family love and madness.

Third is Chuck Palahniuk. The man gave us Fight Club (book = better) and his other books are amazingly direct. Especially check out Lullaby, an unsettling story about a lullaby that kills everybody that hears it..... and the person that tries to hunt down all copies as to stop it from killing.

Amazon says; Ever heard of a culling song? It’s a lullaby sung in Africa to give a painless death to the old or infirm. The lyrics of a culling song kill, whether spoken or even just thought. You can find one on page 27 of Poems and Rhymes from Around the World, an anthology that is sitting on the shelves of libraries across the country, waiting to be picked up by unsuspecting readers.

Reporter Carl Streator discovers the song’s lethal nature while researching Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, and before he knows it, he’s reciting the poem to anyone who bothers him. As the body count rises, Streator glimpses the potential catastrophe if someone truly malicious finds out about the song. The only answer is to find and destroy every copy of the book in the country. Accompanied by a shady real-estate agent, her Wiccan assistant, and the assistant’s truly annoying ecoterrorist boyfriend, Streator begins a desperate cross-country quest to put the culling song to rest.
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The Celestine Prophecy.....James Redfield.

ReturnOfDOOK said:

I know you are not SERIOUS!