Book Recommendation

Tim Robbins

Hi,
Would there be a book about a character who is very nuerotic and paranoid?
i.e on the lives of Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm or crazier?
Thanks.

silvine

Adrian Mole and Emma!

callmescratch

you could try Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris.
It's set in the offices of an American ad agency.
Full of neurotic characters.
I liked it a lot, very funny.

Shryke

Catch-22 fits the bill perfectly.

buck65

A confederacy of Dunces - say no more.

Tim Robbins

buck65 wrote: »

A confederacy of Dunces - say no more.

Thanks. I usually never ever read fiction as I find it boring. But I read a lot of fact. Occasionally, and I must it is occasionally I come across a fiction classic such as 'The Curious Incident about the Dog' in the night which I really enjoy.

So I suppose if I could find books where the characters are really interesting, Larry David for example is a very interesting character in CYE, I think I'd really enjoy them.

CelineLarr

Uhmmm ....Old School, by Leo Tolstoy was really quite good ...I only read last week.

The Secret History is also fantastic! I've a couple of other recommendations here: http://chicknamedhermia.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/leafing-through-the-options/

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Catherine
http://chicknamedhermia.wordpress.com/

Tim Robbins

CelineLarr wrote: »

Uhmmm ....Old School, by Leo Tolstoy was really quite good ...I only read last week.

The Secret History is also fantastic! I've a couple of other recommendations here: http://chicknamedhermia.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/leafing-through-the-options/

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Catherine
http://chicknamedhermia.wordpress.com/

Thanks I read between 25 - 50 books a year.
The two best books I read lasy year were
"Cool It" by Bjorn Lomborg and "Long Walk to Freedom" Mandela.

I usually cringe reading fiction, but I'll bear in mind all the suggestions.

Denerick

Tim Robbins wrote: »

Thanks I read between 25 - 50 books a year.
The two best books I read lasy year were
"Cool It" by Bjorn Lomborg and "Long Walk to Freedom" Mandela.

I usually cringe reading fiction, but I'll bear in mind all the suggestions.

I'm a bit like you, find it very hard to take fiction seriously. Though have softened in that aspect over the last year.

I heartily reccomend Catch 22, the best book I've ever read. Read it last week in three days. An unputdownable book.

I actually enjoyed Mandela's book, read it as an impressionable 17 year old. Though I got the feeling that he was writing it like 'Look at me, I'm a once in a generation national saviour - look at me I said!'. Still good though.

Tim Robbins

Denerick wrote: »

I'm a bit like you, find it very hard to take fiction seriously. Though have softened in that aspect over the last year.

I heartily reccomend Catch 22, the best book I've ever read. Read it last week in three days. An unputdownable book.

I actually enjoyed Mandela's book, read it as an impressionable 17 year old. Though I got the feeling that he was writing it like 'Look at me, I'm a once in a generation national saviour - look at me I said!'. Still good though.

All my friends told me to read 1984 and I thought it was over-hyped.

CelineLarr

I thought Catch-22 was kinda crap, despite all the hype.

callmescratch

CelineLarr wrote: »

I thought Catch-22 was kinda crap, despite all the hype.

Me too

Denerick

callmescratch wrote: »

Me too

Infidels, both of you!

pwd

something happened by joseph heller, the writer of catch-22. One of the most depressing books I've read.

Fight Club by Chuck Pahlaniuk. Most books by him in fact.

The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks

George Orwell's biography

Shryke

How did I forget! Crime and Punishment.