books
if you could recommend like 2 or 3 books to somone right now, what would they be?
- Cunt, Inga Muscio (for everyone who has one or knows someone who does)
- Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (both as an economics text and a social commentary)
- Real Live Nude Girl, Carol Queen (this is my number one sex text. theory-bound yet still yummy)
also The Ethical Slut, Dossie Easton - but i can't recommend that as i haven't read it yet myself. but it's on my Imminent Reading list, which means as soon as i crawl out from under the semester it will be mine. as will Gender Outlaw, Kate Bornstein - i'm so excited about reading this book i can barely tell you.
other new reading list items: The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation, Dora Zames Fletcher (heard about it last night). Autobiography of a Face, Lucy Grealy - not new, but i shall read it over break. and i shall cry.
for people who need a beautiful love story: Still Life With Woodpecker or Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins. (if you want to know Carre's spirit animal - Villa Incognito, the first section at least, also by Robbins)
for people who need a bittersweet love story: By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept, Paulo Coelho.
for people who need to be reminded to follow their paths in life: The Alchemist, Coelho.
if you need a good cry: Paula, Isabel Allende.
anytime you need a careful, well-crafted story: Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko or The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy.
i could continue, but there's an even 15 to get you started. (only 4 of which i haven't read. hmm. don't worry, my list of books to read is much longer than this.)
posted by Sarah @ 3:29 PM
2 Comments:
was this a prompt for the audience to give recommendations as well? i'm going to assume so:
1) if you want proof that nothing you think to be real could possibly be so, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Emanuel Kant
and
2) if you want to read the original foundations of The Matrix aka extreme doubt of all instinctual corporeal distinctions (without all the leather and frowning faces), accompanied by a nice proof of God's existence, Meditations on First Philosophy by Descartes
OR
3) skip the books and play 16 player Halo 2 until you start murmuring about heat seaking rockets in your sleep.
If I had to reccomend a book, I would have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed the autobiography of Malcolm X, as told to alex Haley, or the 9-11 Commission report...but that's just cause I'm a freak.
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