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Reading is nice..

I’m looking for book recommendations..

Please.., please help..

I like..

Old, rich hearty things, like fallow fields, crunchy gravel, ‘having a fire’, Heathcliff, walking between towns.. Think Dutch realistic painting meets pretty girls meets a storyline. All on the ground. Not too much murder, supernatural elements, or abstraction, let me do all that in my own mind. Faulkner and Toni Morrison are not linear enough for me. I love the simple cornbread and slave labor of Zora Neale Hurston. I love the detail of Raymond Carver, but he can be a little on the emotionally always-harsh side for me.

I love F. Scott Fitzgerald’s world, the way he describes girls, and drinking, and dancing, and swimming, winning and losing, what we want so bad, or what I want so bad. 

I love the modern, psychedelic, fruit-of-the-fruit-of-the-fruit realism of Bret Easton Ellis and Tamra Janowitz, ie- we’re so fucking rich. We go to boarding school, we shop in London, our dad’s the president, we take mushrooms and have sex, on our boats, or maybe we just walk around Manhattan, tortured, listening to our I-Pod’s, thinking about about the pretty girl in the wool coat, with the chestnut brown hair, who doesn’t like us the way we want; noticing the brilliance in every detail in the world..

Give me my modern day Holden Caulfield, or something..

I love outdoor stories, travel writing about hitchhiking, hut life in the 3rd world. I love hut life!! Give me half dressed boys in canoes in Brazil who hunt for their food everyday, and when it rains.., well.., they just get wet…

I love all the rungs and corners of the socio-demographic planet, Richard Scarry on acid.

Give me all that attention to detail, close-up, and realistic.

Don’t be shy, tell me some titles, even possible matches, maybe I’ve read them and maybe I haven’t. Maybe you know something that I absulotely have to read that doesn’t even fit my bill.

Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!

     -Chris   

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