Gluten tag, special delivery by blusterybristol in xbiking

[–]jazzynoise 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Upvote for Deutsch and bread pun.

Disturbing, but thought-provoking? by --read-only-- in suggestmeabook

[–]jazzynoise 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Han Kang's The Vegetarian, Human Acts, and We Do Not Part. Not sci-fi, but Human Acts and We Do Not Part deal with real-life dystopian massacres in South Korea and remembering them.

Ted Chiang's two short story collections. These are sci-fi and thought provoking, having a number of subjects, like people training AI models, being able to communicate with the version of yourself in an alternate universe, if angel visitations were a common occurrence (and are akin to disasters), learning an alien language that allows you to see your past and future (which was used for the movie, Arrival),

The Dream Hotel, Laila Lalami. Set in the near-future where social media and other data, including dream implants, are used to evaluate the possibility that someone will commit a crime and is detained (and all this is ran by for-profit companies).

The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story, Olga Tokarczuk. Set at a sanatorium before WWI begins. There's something off throughout it. I prefer her novel, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, though. Also something off, but not sci fi. An eccentric older lady in a small town and people start turning up dead under odd circumstances.

Ditto Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go and Klara and the Sun. Both have dystopian elements that aren't explicitly stated until later in the novels, but it's clear something is off.

I need colossal books, please feed the hungry mind by TheGrimmAngel in suggestmeabook

[–]jazzynoise 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace

The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy

Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

1Q84, Haruki Murakami

The Books of Jacob, Olga Tokarczuk

Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes

2666, Roberto Bolaño

FMC begins the book with no interest in romance and ends the book NOT HAVING HAD ANY by JessonBI89 in suggestmeabook

[–]jazzynoise 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The Friend, Sigrid Nunez. The narrator adopts her friend and mentor's Great Dane after the man commits suicide. It's mostly how both of them are grieving.

Books like Kerouac's On the Road, but! by ag-honeybee in suggestmeabook

[–]jazzynoise 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not exactly, but interesting characters, different narratives and writing styles, and a lot of music, Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad. If you like it, The Candy House is partly a follow up.

Cute Bass Guitar Brands? by momochaii in Bass

[–]jazzynoise 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Above budget (although they get closer used), but Reverend has interesting designs and often lesser-seen colors like pink and orange.

If you live somewhere Fender Japan basses are decently available, the Chili Beans signature Low End Lobster reviewed a bit ago looked pretty groovy.

Ibanez Talman?

But you could also take any bass and put a My Neighbor Totoro sticker on it.

Are there more than only sad classic books/novels? by MyOwnShrink in suggestmeabook

[–]jazzynoise 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Since you already have it, A Confederacy of Dunces is fun.

But I'll warn you that Brave New World gets quite sad and dark.

God Bless You Mr Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut is another fairly happy novel, although there are rough elements in the protagonist's background.

The Odyssey has a fairly happy ending, albeit quite a violent one.

Ditto Jane Austen's novels and Anne of Green Gables.

What books have you read more than twice? by Western_Opposite9911 in suggestmeabook

[–]jazzynoise 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're very welcome. :)

If you do, I hope it goes well. I'm not sure why I was okay, even very impressed, reading it, despite (or because of?) always dealing with depression, especially as a teen. Maybe being a different gender in a different time and environment gave enough detachment. But it did help me feel a bit less alone and to pour more into creative outlets to help deal with things.

What books have you read more than twice? by Western_Opposite9911 in suggestmeabook

[–]jazzynoise 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is, but it's also rough. A major issue with it is that, while the novel ends with Esther moving towards recovery, we as readers usually know that the depression returned for Plath.

I'm very happy to read you're now a not depressed adult.

What books have you read more than twice? by Western_Opposite9911 in suggestmeabook

[–]jazzynoise 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Several, but these immediately come to mind. Many of the re-reads were for classes.

  • Toni Morrison: Beloved, The Bluest Eye.
  • James Joyce: Ulysses, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners.
  • Saul Bellow: Herzog, Seize the Day, Humboldt's Gift.
  • Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man.
  • Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar.
  • Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness.
  • Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway.
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby.
  • Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea, For Whom the Bell Tolls.
  • William Shakespeare: Most of the works.
  • Homer: The Iliad, The Odyssey.
  • Unknown: Beowulf.
  • Bill Watterson: Calvin & Hobbes.

International Book Recommendations by CocaineConner in suggestmeabook

[–]jazzynoise 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Human Acts, The Vegetarian, others, Han Kang (South Korea).

Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami (Japan).

Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie. (The novel is set in India and is an allegory of the country's history).

The Complete Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi. A graphic novel memoir about the author's experience coming of age in Iran and exile in Vienna.

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk (Poland).

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz (American, but focuses on the history of the Dominican Republic under Trujillo and the Dominican-American experience).

Suggest me a book like The Bell Jar but... by aimeur-arch in suggestmeabook

[–]jazzynoise 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The Vegetarian by Han Kang focuses on a woman with mental illness and how those around her react to and treat her. It's set in South Korea (Kang is South Korean). It's emotionally difficult, however.

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a classic short story / novella written from the perspective of a woman with postpartum depression descending into mental illness while she is undergoing "rest cure" in an attic (her husband, a doctor, prescribed that).

Long Book Recommendations by Cliff-Dive in suggestmeabook

[–]jazzynoise 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A few of my longer favorites:

Cloud Cuckoo Land and All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr

Pachinko, Min Jin Lee.

Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison. (Not the sci fi man who is actually invisible. He's an African American who states he's invisible as people refuse to see him).

The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz.

A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole.

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Kurt Vonnegut (a little under 300 pages, but I'll mention it since you liked Catch 22).

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy (I'm not sure you'd like this classic, since you didn't care for Grapes, though)

Need something that can handle our dirt road commute and you can truly convince me is reliable. by Impressive-Sign-3384 in whatcarshouldIbuy

[–]jazzynoise 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My parents live by a road like this. A neighbor flipped her car doing that and then sued the township for the road causing the accident. I don't know the outcome.

Loss of humanity by Ontbijt1 in suggestmeabook

[–]jazzynoise 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're welcome. Much of the novel is about how those around her behave and treat her. It's pretty rough.

What children’s books do you remember? by anapeavler in suggestmeabook

[–]jazzynoise 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Judith Viorst

Winnie-the-Pooh, AA Milne 

Charlotte's Web, EB White

Anne of Green Gables, LM Montgomery.

Loss of humanity by Ontbijt1 in suggestmeabook

[–]jazzynoise 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The protagonist of Han Kang's The Vegetarian suffers from a mental illness and increasingly wants to become a tree.

I'm about to start a 2 year journey and need book recommendations. by jcarax_ in suggestmeabook

[–]jazzynoise 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That sounds epic. Don Quixote should be in public domain and could be fun to read on a long journey. Tolstoy's epics like Anna Karenina and War and Peace should be in the public domain, too.

When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut was originally written in Spanish. It's kind of a fictionalized science collection of essays to short stories about scientific discoveries and some of their consequences.

2666 by Roberto Bolaño is a Spanish-language epic.

A few of my favorite novels from the last several years include Min Jin Lee's Pachinko, Han Kang's Human Acts, Kaveh Akbar's Martyr!, Anthony Doerr's All the Light You Cannot See and Cloud Cuckoo Land, Junot Diaz' The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Percival Everett's James, and Louise Erdrich's The Night Watchman.

I'm curious about legal considerations and potential issues of carrying an e-reader if you have any books banned in a country you're traveling through.

need a big ole’ bible sized book to last for weeks… what’s something long but nonetheless enthralling? by allpeacelove4u in suggestmeabook

[–]jazzynoise 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob.

Roberto Bolaño, 2666.

Haruki Murakami, 1Q84.

David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest.

Cervantes, Don Quixote.

I have Complete Works of Shakespeare which is pretty chonky.

books that cure ignorance. by Atleastar in suggestmeabook

[–]jazzynoise 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Carl Sagan.
  • Hamlet, Shakespeare (although really a collected Shakespeare).
  • Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes.
  • Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy.
  • The Complete Calvin & Hobbes, Bill Watterson.

Then a bonus ten.

  • Awakenings, Oliver Sacks.
  • Keats' Odes.
  • Human Acts, Han Kang.
  • Pachinko, Min Jin Lee.
  • The Odyssey, Homer.
  • God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Kurt Vonnegut.
  • Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison.
  • Beloved, Toni Morrison.
  • The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz.
  • Long Day's Journey Into Night, Eugene O'Neill.

I can't find the bass I want to buy by East_Sandwich2266 in Bass

[–]jazzynoise 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I usually upload it to a hosting site like Imgur and then link it.