let’s kill the world

This page is under construction until I have the motivation to remember good things I’ve read in the last 4 months. I will probably get said motivation… never.
Reading good work inspires good work. It spawns intelligence and intelligent thought. A customer told me once that “you can get real smart in the bathroom.” Meaning that the Reader’s Digest you have sitting there on the bathroom counter can eventually serve a purpose.

So I came up with this idea today, sheer brilliance, to create a page that recommends to you, the reader, good works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Please keep in mind that since I have moved from the shithole that is Florida my whole library is not with me so what I am working with here at this point are books that I have read recently or have stuffed away somewhere in my room.

Fiction

I Know This Much Is True- Wally Lamb
The Stone Virgins- Yvonne Vera
Alligator- Lisa Moore
The Speed Queen- Stewart O’Nan
The True Sources of the Nile- Sarah Stone
Alice’s Adverntures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass- Lewis Carroll
Grab Onto Me Tightly As If I Knew The Way- Bryan Charles
Atomised- Michel Houellebecq
No God In Sight- Altaf Tyrewala
Notes From The Underground- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dogeaters- Jessica Hagedorn
Half Of A Yellow Sun- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Subterraneans- Jack Kerouac
Point Counter Point- Aldous Huxley
Let The Northern Lights Erase Your Name- Vendela Vida
Post Office- Charles Bukowski
Only Revolutions- Mark Z. Danielewski

Non-Fiction

Running With Scissors- Augusten Burroughs
Stuart: A Life Backwards- Alexander Masters
The Boy Who Fell Out Of The Sky- Ken Dornstien
Drinking: A Love Story- Caroline Knapp
Can’t Find My Way Home- Martin Torgoff
Rape of Nanking- Iris Chang
A Girl Named Zippy- Haven Kimmel
She Got Up Off The Couch- Haven Kimmel
Confessions Of An Amateur Believer- Patty Kirk
They Went Whistling- Barbara Holland
The Joke’s Over- Ralph Steadman

Poetry

Kicks- Jeremy Reed
Anything by Bukowski