Adultery for Beginners

[shereads]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness

Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the 80's

Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream

The Rum Diary

~ all by Hunter S. Thompson. Rest free of fear, beloved lunatic.






Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Marcia Marquez

 

[shereads]

Best chapter title (from Al Franken's "Oh, the Things I Know," an advice book for the graduate.)

Oh, the Assholes You'll Work For

 

[Guest]

 

[AppleBiter]

I recently bought a book called "The Fuck-Up." Couldn't go wrong w/a title like that.

 

[Liar]

Two books I bought because of the title:

The Discovery of Slowness by Sten Nadolny
Gun, With Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem

They were...ok, I guess.

 

[thebullet]

Tom Robbins' Still Life with Woodpeckers - Great title, lousy book

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig (my wife swears by this book)

 

[thebullet]

And if Shereads missed this one:

Lies and the Lying Liars that Tell Them by Al Franken

 

[McKenna]

All of these titles are great! I can't believe the variety. Makes me wish I could peruse the back covers to see if the plot is as interesting as the title!


Here are a few more from a favorite comedic novelist, Pat McManus:

Never Sniff a Gift Fish

They Shoot Canoes, Don't They?

The Good Samaritan Strikes Again

Real Ponies Don't Go Oink!

Fine and Pleasant Misery

 

[shereads]

Tom Robbins' Still Life with Woodpeckers - Great title, lousy book

Depends on what you were smoking and how much actual reading you were doing at the time. I don't remember anything about the plot, but it seemed brilliant. I bought it for the cover art.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig (my wife swears by this book)

The Tao of Pooh is pretty good.

 

[shereads]

Tim Cahill (not Tom Cahill who wrote "How the Irish Saved Civilization,") is a travel writer whose books always have great titles:

A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg

Jaguars Ripped My Flesh

Pecked To Death By Ducks

 

[impressive]

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

Lovely Bones

 

[Guest]

 

[shereads]

And if Shereads missed this one:

Lies and the Lying Liars that Tell Them by Al Franken

A personal favorite, along with Molly Ivans' Bushwhacked.

 

[shereads]

The Beans of Egypt, Maine

 

[Guest]

 

[SeaCat]

Sex lives of Cannibals (Adrift in the equatorial Pacific)
J. Maarten Troost

The title grabbed my eye for some strange reason, the book kept my interest.

Cat

 

[Guest]

 

[cicciolinaicrm]

The Historian, good vampire/history fiction, about 1/2 done with, love it so far.