"Call me by your name" & other good books

[CottonCandyKiss]

Hi everyone!
How are you <3 I have been on here on and off. Thank you so much for all the great posts!!
Lately I've come across this book call "Call me by your name" by Andre Aciman. The book is SO wonderful. It is VERY well worth the money I spent.

At the end of the book, I cried.

The book is about a boy and a guest at his parents house. Traditionally, every year, a new grad, a prof, etc. would come and live with their family as a part of their research. This year, once our boy meets the new guest, this event has changed his life forever. The deeper you go into the story, the more heart breaking it is.

So if you want to try a new book for the new year, "Call me by your name" is definitely a must by. And im not here to advertise =S I just hope someone can read it and we can talk about it?

If you want some other good titles, Im more than happy to oblige

Happy New Year, guys!

BTW, this is a good book too:

If you really love a book, try stalk them author on Facebook. Chances are, theyre there

 

[ERICOOL85]

last book i read was, the vampire lestat, if you love vampire novels, you will definately love this one ^^
thank you for your suggestion i will look at it once i can

 

[XMan101]

Thanks CCK -and a good idea for a thread !

 

[CottonCandyKiss]

Theres this book called "Hush Hush". Ive got it but havent read it. Its "straight" lol. An angel was sent down to earth to destroy this girl but he fell in love with her and has become her guaridan angel since then. People say if we like Vampire stuff, we would like it. I dont know why =S. And I will look into it.

Theres also a book by Christopher Rice called "A density of Souls". Meredith, Brandon, Stephen and Greg. They were friends during childhood. And when they all go to highschool, Brandon and Greg tag together as those "jock boys" while Steph is the "fag". Little do people know that one of the jocks has been in denial. Until someone dies, a murder has been revealed and a string of events happened, they find their lives intertwine with each other.

Thats one of the books thats also very good. Have you ever thought two boys that share the same father can fall in love? hehe <3

 

[ritsuka]

I actually picked up Andre Aciman's Call Me By Your Name from the library a while ago. I've heard good things about it, and perhaps I will look at it before the due date.

 

[slimjim]

A Fine Balance by by Rohinton Mistry.




This was recommended to me a couple of years back and I thouroughly recommend it onwards.. here are some reader reviews from Amazon:

This is a truly great book. It chronicles the story of 4 individuals from very different sectors of the Indian Caste system.
Not only does it accurately portray the political and social situation in India in the 1970s,it reflects the predudices within the upper castes and the fatalistic attitude of the lower castes, formed from their religious beliefs that suffering is their destiny and the reward will be in the afterlife.
This story is overwhelmingly sad and also shocking as the reader can identify the ethical question of human suffering for a possibly laudable goal (in this case it is population control). However, the novel is also uplifting in a peculiar way; that individuals who struggle so hard to exist in appalling conditions can find joy in their lives is humbling. It also allows the reader to identify with the predudices and to see a situation from another side. Maybe at the end of the book, the reader feels that they have grown a little in spirit and have the capacity to be a 'better' person as a result.
For me, the mark of a great book is one that remains with you long after the back page is read. This is such a book.
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This novel is really fabulous. Mistry is a spectacular storyteller with a wonderful way of writing about the minutiae of daily life and weaving it into a wider picture of what was happening in India in the mid 1970s. The story is incredibly depressing - I kept turning the page in the hope that things wouldn't get any worse, but they inevitably did - but the ending provides some sort of closure and a sense of the main characters gaining some happiness in their lives. I cannot recommend this novel highly enough. Please read it!




See also

 

[slimjim]

Here is storytelling on a grand scale--the stuff of which a classic is made. Weaveworld begins with a rug--a wondrous, magnificent rug--into which a world has been woven. It is the world of the Seerkind, a people more ancient than man, who possesses raptures--the power to make magic. In the last century they were hunted down by an unspeakable horror known as the Scourge, and, threatened with annihilation, they worked their strongest raptures to weave themselves and their culture into a rug for safekeeping. Since then, the rug has been guarded by human caretakers.
The last of the caretakers has just died.


Vying for possession of the rug is a spectrum of unforgettable characters: Suzanna, granddaughter of the last caretaker, who feels the pull of the Weaveworld long before she knows the extent of her own powers; Calhoun Mooney, a pigeon-raising clerk who finds the world he's always dreamed of in a fleeting glimpse of the rug; Immacolata, an exiled Seerkind witch intent on destroying her race even if it means calling back the Scourge; and her sidekick, Shadwell, the Salesman, who will sell the Weaveworld to the highest bidder.

In the course of the novel the rug is unwoven, and we travel deep into the glorious raptures of the Weaveworld before we witness the final, cataclysmic struggle for its possession.​

Barker takes us to places where we have seldom been in fiction--places terrifying and miraculous, humorous, and profound. With keen psychological insight and prodigious invention, his trademark graphic vision balanced by a spirit of transcendent promise, Barker explores the darkness and the light, the magical and the monstrous, and celebrates the triumph of the imagination.​

 

[slimjim]

Quite Ugly One Morning.. Christopher Brookmyer


The great debut novel and first appearance of Jack Parlabane.. (dont be put of if you say the BBC adaptation)

Yeah, yeah, the usual. A crime. A corpse. A killer. Heard it. Except this stiff happens to be a Ponsonby, scion of a venerable Edinburgh medical clan, and the manner of his death speaks of unspeakable things. Why is the body displayed like a slice of beef? How come his hands are digitally challenged? And if it's not the corpse, what is that awful smell? A post-Thatcherite nightmare of frightening plausibility, QUITE UGLY ONE MORNING is a wickedly entertaining and vivacious thriller, full of acerbic wit, cracking dialogue and villains both reputed and shell-suited. 'Very violent, very funny. A comedy with political edge, which you take gleefully in one gulp' LITERARY REVIEW
'The dialogue is a joy throughout and the plot crackles along with confident gusto and intelligence...an assured debut by a talented writer' THE TIMES

soon followed by other cracking reads

 

[slimjim]

New Boy - William Sutcliffe



Amazon Review

The New Boy of William Sutcliffe's hilariously touching debut novel causes a bit of a stir when he arrives at Mark's posh private school. For a start, Barry is devastatingly handsome and causes girls and boys to buckle at the knees. Mark is more than a little jealous, considering himself to be much less attractive. But he spots an ally in Barry and the two quickly become friends though Mark's feelings for Barry are often confused. For a start, he finds himself lusting after the boy in the showers but refuses to think it's because he is gay. Meanwhile, Barry is getting busy with most of the female population within a 50-mile radius, including an affair with one of his own teachers. Mark quickly realises that if he is ever going to be a hit with the opposite sex, he needs Barry's help. But he learns that Barry is hiding a few secrets of his own. This wonderfully funny and engaging novel is a fast and captivating read, as Sutcliffe hits so many marks about the clichés of school life. The neurotic teachers, the geeky pupils and the rites of passage will all strike a chord within most readers, and the characters are effectively and warmly drawn. Mark and Barry's relationship is so wonderfully captured; their brief conversations are mainly populated with swearwords and degenerate into arguments by their end. There are examinations of both religion and, more importantly, homosexuality, and it's a comfort to see these issues treated with a respectful sense of humour. In the end though, New Boy isn't so much a novel about being gay, more about being who you want to be. --Jonathan Weir

NEW BOY is a dark modern comedy about the hormonal angst of a Jewish lad growing up in north-west London's bagel belt.
"Sutcliffe has managed to pull off a worthy British companion to Portnoy's Complaint" Jay Rayner,Observer
"Well-written,clever and very funny" Literary Review
"Smart,entertaining stuff...somewhere between Adrian Mole and Holden Caulfield" Philip Hensher,Mail on Sunday

Are You Experienced - William Sutcliffe


Amazon Review
For anyone with the slightest curiosity about travelling, or even if you've been, William Sutcliffe's tremendously funny book will have you in stitches. The protagonist is Dave, a 19-year-old Londoner on a gap year before starting university. He had no intention of leaving Europe, until his best mate James, who's about to go on a trek through the Himalayas, challenges him. "Do you want to learn Fwench David? Something pwactical for your CV?" he taunts when he hears Dave is going to be a waiter at a Swiss ski resort.
Admitting his fears, ("Suffering, danger and poverty are all fine by me, but dirt and disease are two things I happen to hate") Dave is determined to prove he's not a coward and accepts an invitation to go to India with James's girlfriend Liz (in anticipation of consummating their burgeoning relationship). But by the time they get on the plane it all goes downhill. Bickering constantly, their adaption to India couldn't be more different. Liz embraces it--hugging beggars and wearing saris, while Dave's dry-humoured rants, scepticism and fear of the unknown eventually drive her away in search of her "centre".
The characters the pair meet along the way draw upon all the old hippy-traveller stereotypes, but there's also a few new ones in keeping with the times. There's Ranj--a British-born Indian who hates Indians; Jez--a public-school-educated undergraduate whose travels are being funded by daddy; and Caz and Fee who experience the side-effects of "Intimate Yoga". While this story is ultimately a funny piece of fiction, it also addresses more serious considerations, such as cultural stereotypes, peer pressures and making life-changing decisions. This book is irresistible and seasoned travellers will empathise with the situations Dave finds himself in, (his graphic description of a bout of Dehli-belly is guaranteed to make you feel sorry for him, and nauseous too). Be prepared to laugh out loud. A devastatingly funny satire on the whole idea of student travel,and particularly the India back-pack trail--Angela Boodoo



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[XMan101]

I saw the stage play of New Boy , probably just after he'd published it, back in 2001. It was at one of those great fringe theatres, The Pleasance Theatre, somewhere in North London. Very enjoyable (& nice eye candy too )
If I had the time I'd read the novel. Added to my mile long list !!

 

[slimjim]

Well if you didn't spend so much time listening to that OLD music you would !!! ) )

 

[XMan101]

Well if you didn't spend so much time listening to that OLD music you would !!! ) )

I'm going to whip you - for a long time )

 

[CottonCandyKiss]

Here's a list of gay novels from Amazon.

I have read all by Mark A. Roeder, Christopher Rice, Marc Acito, Alex Sanchez, Lanchey, and a few more i cant remember on top of my head.


http://anonym.to/?http://www.amazon.com/Fav-Gay-Novels/lm/25L1CE7JQ44TX

 

[CottonCandyKiss]

Lol thanks Jim, I was fixing the links and you were fixing it at the same time so I was like.. what the hell lol

Most of the modern gay novels I've read always have a bit erotica in them, which is a nice bonus Ive been reading those novels by J. L. Langley. "The Tin Star", "My fair captain". Tin star is a novel about a young cowboy getting kicked out of the house after coming out to his parents. His older brother is supportive. His older brother's best friend is even more so. waaay more! Of course, there are always bigots and others who hate them and try to destroy what little happiness the little cowboy has. Its nothing heavy, but its fun to read and it gives you hope that somewhere out there, theres still love blooming.





My fair captain is about a prince on a planet that is under the control of kings married to each other and a captain of a space ship who ran away from his past. This one has a bit "rough sex scene" in it.

And lately Ive picked up those novels about...gay werewolves (?? Team Jacob? ) "Without Reservation" by J. L. Langley and "Marked"by Joely Skye. No, theres no animal sex in it The key is the basics on how werewolves are attracted to each other: scents marked for each other, how werewolves heal, their magnificent physique, etc. Lots of hot scenes





And for those with kinky sides, this book called "Taboo" by Sean Wolfe has it all. And I mean it. That book will satisfy, I think, most of your fantasies from having sex with the mechanic's son when the father is fixing your car, or how two brothers pown each other every night, or "confession time" at church, to fucking your sister's groom the night before the wedding.



I know I enjoyed it

I hope those give you more options <3

xoxo

 

[CottonCandyKiss]

And here's the Top 50 gay novels of all time selected by readers. They give you abit of description on the books too, for the top 10 i think. You will see some of my fav there


http://anonym.to/?http://www.afterelton.com/print/2008/11/bestgaybooks

 

[slimjim]

From Publishers Weekly

Aided and abetted by a dysfunctionally cool cast of Londoners and a slick, accelerated plot, Hawes's debut crosses British post-Thatcher class warfare with the all-American bank-job crime novel. Our nameless "Lower M.C." (Lower Middle Class) narrator is 28, a university graduate and utterly without prospects. His despair over achieving Middle Class Heaven drives him to concoct a baroquely risky scheme (always referred to as the "Plan") to rob a film mogul's "private bank," using the titular white Merc for the getaway car. The Plan casts Suzy, a Scot hedonist, as the dame and driver; the Spanish immigrant Chicho as the muscle; and Brady, an Irish Quentin Tarantino groupie, in a diversionary role. In the spaces between send-ups of English class stratification, Reservoir Dogs fans, the "Friends of Mrs. King" (gay opera insiders) and the psychopathically patriotic IRA (all of whom play crucial, if diverse roles in the Plan), Hawes makes a small point about disaffected individuals via the hero's mouthing-off monologues. Although also meant partly as hip social satire (with such smart-arsed lines as "Crime is just Nature's way of rightsizing economic differentials"), the dominant tone is that of an amoral, foul-tongued, intelligent comedy.

 

[slimjim]

From Amazon:

It took Vonnegut more than 20 years to put his Dresden experiences into words. He explained, "there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again." Slaughterhouse Five is a powerful novel incorporating a number of genres. Only those who have fought in wars can say whether it represents the experience well. However, what the novel does do is invite the reader to look at the absurdity of war. Human versus human, hedonist politicians pressing buttons and ordering millions to their deaths all for ideologies many cannot even comprehend. Flicking between the US, 1940's Germany and Tralfamadore, Vonnegut's semi- autobiographical protagonist Billy Pilgrim finds himself very lost. One minute he is being viewed as a specimen in a Tralfamadorian Zoo, the next he is wandering a post-apocalyptic city looking for corpses. Slaughterhouse Five-Or The Children's Crusade A Duty-Dance with Death is a remarkable blend of black humour, irony, the truth and the absurd. The author regards his work a "failure", millions of readers do not. Released the same time bombs were falling on South East Asia, this title caused controversy and awakening. Essential reading for all. So it goes

 

[bloop2]

I'm going to whip you - for a long time )

"well if you didnt listen to old music you would"

rofl these two comments made me laugh!

 

[bloop2]

I've read the following:
A book based on American culture that involves high consumption of fast food and behind the scenes facts that no one would have ever thought could happen during the process of meat for burgers in fast food joints, unfair treatments and unhygienic situations (my friend can no longer eat fast food after reading this lol, and it really makes you conscious of what you put in your mouth when your in any fast food joints.. I second think things all the time now o.o) AWESOME BOOK

Read all series of Harry Potter, a young man and his adventures throughout his school years in hogwarts.

Series of mysteries placed on Robert Langdon to solve before its too late

A book similar to Schindler's List this was sad (a short read)

A book based on the popular chefs experience also has his own tv shows on the foodnetwork(far left) when he was a young cook and seeing the little things that the public doesn't know about restaurants either good or bad! Very captivating

I really like angels and demons book from Dan Brown but I HIGHLY RECOMMEND:
If I were to recommend any book it would be this one. This book has topped off all other books I have read by far.. I was never able to put it down and the ending of the book was even better. Everyone I have recommended it to have LOVED IT and said it was the best thing they have read!

A Similar book but Kite runner beats it but if you are interested to a somewhat similar plot:

Reading the following:
An adventure book based on a young mans experienced being stranded in the middle of the sea and his determination to try and survive.. by the way did I mention he is stranded with a tiger in the boat? :O YEAH THATS RIGHT A TIGER!! lol pretty good book so far almost done..cool book, would make me giggle or smile in the subway by myself.. and I would feel embarassed cuz I know the person across from me is watching me o.o laugh by myself

Will be reading next (Excited):

A book based on a young woman sold into slavery and the hardship she had endured throughout the years

Yay! My first post with pictures too bad I don't know how to re adjust size, I did know how to do it a while a go but its been years since I had to use HTML. Wow posting a post with pictures takes a long time.. :S.. maybe cuz im slow.. but the size is good so atleast you guys can see the books cover

 

[XMan101]

Some interesting books to think about there , Bloop

If I ever get through the two I'm currently reading and have been for ages! (Only really read on the train these days)