Need a couple book recommendations

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I highly recommend this...

 

maybe some smarty-pants stuff...

[TAMER]

This book was by my 9th grade english teacher. She was a pushover.

[Cool Water]

when i was younger i watched the film called The Hurricane about a boxer named Rubin Carter who gets put in jail for a crime he didnt commit. Anyway he writes a book whilst hes in jail and at the end of the film i realised it was based on a true story and ive always wanted to read the book. have you ever read it?

[Drunkfux]

I just finished these, both good reads

 

Stuart: A Life Backwards

This is the biography of a person you've never heard of - a strange but compelling idea. Alexander Masters takes as his subject career criminal Stuart Shorter, and traces his development from grave to cradle, so to speak. In the process he highlights some of the ways that criminality escalates and proliferates: Stuart, a sometime heroin addict and surging muddle of violence, is a chaotic and difficult person, with serious convictions to his name (five years for raiding a post office, for example), but he emerges as a victim of the inadequate criminal justice system, of childhood trauma and of a neglectful educational system. In fact, Stuart, whom Masters paints warts and all, is oddly likeable. This makes the story of his ill-directed life a tragic one, and it's a powerful and timely story too. Moreover, Masters writes in a distinctive and intelligent way; he's not afraid to say things that fly in the face of political correctness, and he's not afraid to show his occasional disgust with Stuart's excesses, but this is a poignant and compassionate book, which deserves to reach a wide audience.

 

and...

Urban Grimshaw and the shed crew

Your Dad's long gone, your mum's on heroin and your role model is a borderline alcoholic. Let's face it, your life is pretty screwed up. But none of this is your fault, at least not according to Bernard Hare; you see this is the fault of Society, which has failed you and your whole community. Naturally you want to show your true inner creative side by sniffing glue, impregnating, fighting, or just stealing the property of someone who has worked their whole lives to accumulate a few possessions which you take in an hour, sell, and then drink, smoke or inject the proceeds. When the schools try to teach you, the police try to arrest you, or charities try to house you they are trying to Control you. Resist, before you are subsumed and brainwashed by their evil control mechanisms; it's much better for you to play a few games of chess, shoplift and then fight/impregnate/joyride your way through the rest of the day, all ultimately at the taxpayers expense. Anyone who reads this and starts a bout of hand-wringing about the state of society needs their head examining; the rest of us will just demand the demolition of the Welfare State or the introduction of compulsary sterilisation.

[holy roller.]

read steinbeck, or dostoevsky, or vonegut, camus, or any of the other 'classic' modern authors. they're much more interesting.

 

 

Orwell, Huxley

 

I also enjoy Tom Robbins

[SteveAustin]

The Dark Tower series by Stephen King

[Schnitzel]

good recommendation drunkfux going to go pick them up tonight hopefully.

[RHDS]

1776

Huck Fin

Slaughterhouse Five

[CELT]

DRY is a decent book .