Ok, you know the drill. But try to explain why instead of just giving a list. Lists without explanations on a forum only serve the purpose of upping ones post count. Maybe we can get a discussion going if any of us like the same books.

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut.
- I talked a little about it in the Kurt Vonnegut thread but this book is just written really well. It's funny and satirical and makes serious points, and Vonnegut is a master of getting across that the world is insane.

From Wikipedia:
Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday is a 1973 novel by the American author Kurt Vonnegut, and is a prime example of Vonnegut's peculiar brand of deadpan satire. Set in the fictional town of Midland City, it is the story of "two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast". One of these men, Dwayne Hoover, is a normal-looking but deeply deranged Pontiac dealer who becomes obsessed with the writings of the other man, Kilgore Trout, taking them for literal truth. Trout, a largely unknown pulp science fiction writer who has appeared in several other Vonnegut novels, looks like a crazy old man but is in fact relatively sane. As the novel opens, Trout journeys toward Midland City to appear at a convention where, unbeknownst to him, he will meet Dwayne Hoover and unwittingly inspire him to run amok.
Vonnegut sprinkled plot descriptions for Trout's stories throughout the novel. He also filled the book with some of his own simple felt-tip pen drawings, intending to illustrate various aspects of life on Earth. These drawings include renderings of an anus, an American flag, the date 1492, a vagina, little girls' underpants, guns, trucks, cows and the hamburgers that are made from them, chickens and the Kentucky Fried Chicken that is made from them, an electric chair...

House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
-This book annoys me because it did some of the "gimmicky" things that I wanted to do. It's definitely an experimental book: some pages only have a few words (some are arranged in ways to mimic how the characters are feeling), there's long footnotes, sections that make you flip back and forth between pages, etc.

But as for the plot, it's basically this: A filmmaker records a video documenting his life living in a house that's bigger on the inside than the outside (it's a labyrinth). A blind writer writes a book (which is the "main" storyline here) about that video, in an academic matter. A junkie finds the manuscripts and edits them, adding his own footnotes to make yet another storyline that all mesh together.

Definitely a confusing book, you'll never figure it out. My theory is that it's impossible to figure out because it was written that way.




I guess that's good for now, I might add some later.

My favourite is...

The Shining by Stephen King

This is a sort of classic of King's, made into two movies and many, many spoofs. The plot begins with Jack Torrance, a former alchoholic who faced many problems after nearly beating a college student of his to death. He lost his job at the university, and took a job, instead, as the winter caretaker of the Overlook Hotel in Colorado. Danny Torrence, Jack's son, has the strange ability to see what is to come, among other things. The hotel itself seems to be alive, and its intent is to turn Jack against his family, as it had with the previous caretaker.
King breaks a lot of grammatical rules to suit his needs, and this actually makes the story better, for he is not restricted by these rules. The story progresses well, and there are a few twists that are rather unexpected. The element of terror is strong at parts, and weak at others, giving the story versatility. For the most part, it will keep readers interested. It's very unpredictable, as well. With most stories, you know the main characters live and everything ends alright for them. Not so here. One never knows how things will turn out. It is definitley worth reading.

I'm definitely into fictional, seemingly-animated books. Along the lines of Harry Potter, Eragon and Eldest, A Series of Unfortunate Events, the Artemis Fowl series, and a ton more that are sitting on the book shelf.

I like harry potter!

i agree considering i told butler about the bookand butler how many times do i have to tell you it was one movie only one with jack nicholson

I've never read the book. I'm actually painfully behind on Stephen King, since I've only read one book of short stories. But what grammatical rules does he break?

Read the shining...the book is incredible, movie is too, but the book is different

I'm trying to fit some King into my schedule but it hasn't been going well. I feel like I should read his Dark Tower series but I don't know if I'm ready to commit to a series.

But as just a one-off book, I really want to read Gerald's Game. Anybody actually read that? It sounds terrifying.
However, I will check out the Shining eventually. It's not at my bookstore so I'd have to order it online.

Stephen King likes to stop in the middle of a sentence, with no punctuation, write another paragraph, then finish that sentence on a third paragraph. Somethings he just finishes it on paragraph two. I doubt he uses MS Word for his first drafts, because Word likes to manipulate and limit whatever you write that does not conform to standard grammatical rules.

he wrote the book before word was out butler its pretty old