Suggestions for a 42 year-old?

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muskrat

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Something with lots of swearing and degenerate sex. Violent. Drug usage. Nihilistic characters who treat each other terribly. A dim view of authority figures and a middle finger to polite society. A rambling, speed-induced prose style that spans hundreds of pages. People getting eaten by wild hogs, maybe, or switchblade slinging motorcycle reform schools for wayward girls run by one-eyed, sadistic crones. Corpse-grinding cannibal cults catching contagious cat viruses. Harold Robbins. Blood-n-thunder shudder pulps and bodice-busting Penny dreadfulls. Severed-head sword-n-sorcery served by suicidal southerners.

Sometimes I just a want a book to punch me in the face and treat me like a bad, bad doggie.
 

GNTLGNT

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Something with lots of swearing and degenerate sex. Violent. Drug usage. Nihilistic characters who treat each other terribly. A dim view of authority figures and a middle finger to polite society. A rambling, speed-induced prose style that spans hundreds of pages. People getting eaten by wild hogs, maybe, or switchblade slinging motorcycle reform schools for wayward girls run by one-eyed, sadistic crones. Corpse-grinding cannibal cults catching contagious cat viruses. Harold Robbins. Blood-n-thunder shudder pulps and bodice-busting Penny dreadfulls. Severed-head sword-n-sorcery served by suicidal southerners.

Sometimes I just a want a book to punch me in the face and treat me like a bad, bad doggie.
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...I believe these three should satisfy some of your demanding criteria....
 

not_nadine

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Something with lots of swearing and degenerate sex. Violent. Drug usage. Nihilistic characters who treat each other terribly. A dim view of authority figures and a middle finger to polite society. A rambling, speed-induced prose style that spans hundreds of pages. People getting eaten by wild hogs, maybe, or switchblade slinging motorcycle reform schools for wayward girls run by one-eyed, sadistic crones. Corpse-grinding cannibal cults catching contagious cat viruses. Harold Robbins. Blood-n-thunder shudder pulps and bodice-busting Penny dreadfulls. Severed-head sword-n-sorcery served by suicidal southerners.

Sometimes I just a want a book to punch me in the face and treat me like a bad, bad doggie.

:laugh: Oh, rat. Satire be thy name. :love_heart:

I recommend ' Horton Hatches the Egg' Suess, 1940.

Cross breeding, torture, angst, travel, rain, birds, humiliation
Love and hate, forgiveness and a mutant at the end. !!

It has parades. And jungle travel.



Still better than Twilight.
 

not_nadine

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Nov 19, 2011
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Something with lots of swearing and degenerate sex. Violent. Drug usage. Nihilistic characters who treat each other terribly. A dim view of authority figures and a middle finger to polite society. A rambling, speed-induced prose style that spans hundreds of pages. People getting eaten by wild hogs, maybe, or switchblade slinging motorcycle reform schools for wayward girls run by one-eyed, sadistic crones. Corpse-grinding cannibal cults catching contagious cat viruses. Harold Robbins. Blood-n-thunder shudder pulps and bodice-busting Penny dreadfulls. Severed-head sword-n-sorcery served by suicidal southerners.

Sometimes I just a want a book to punch me in the face and treat me like a bad, bad doggie.


Write the book.
 

Walter Oobleck

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In no particular order:
In the Rogue Blood, James Carlos Blake
The Drop Edge of Yonder, Rudolph Wurlitzer
Butcher's Crossing, John Edward Williams

In addition to Charles Willeford...who wrote the "Whip Hand" pictured above by Scott Giant...Giant Scott...(saw Carrot Top this weekend...he was grrrr-eat! His name is Scott, too) where was I?
ummmm...Daniel Woodrell...Harry Crews...William Gay...Donald Ray Pollock, this last...read a few from him, one I enjoyed, one...meh.

Check out John D MacDonald...his A Tan & Sandy Silence, one of his McGee stories, need not be read in line before or aft of the others in that series, but this story has a bad guy that gives me the heebie jeebies...there's a scene in this one that will make your teeth ache and your flesh crawl. Cinnamon Skin is another good one in the series.

And Cormac McCarthy...anything he has on the shelf, pull it down and read it. Child of God...Blood Meridian...the works.
If you read any of these and wonder why in the world I'd recommend any of them, well, I guess that is better than no read at all, right? We've lived long enough to know some like "less filling" and some like "tastes great"...and some, lo and behold, like to get the two of them together and see what mixes.
 

muskrat

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Nov 8, 2010
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Under your bed
In no particular order:
In the Rogue Blood, James Carlos Blake
The Drop Edge of Yonder, Rudolph Wurlitzer
Butcher's Crossing, John Edward Williams

In addition to Charles Willeford...who wrote the "Whip Hand" pictured above by Scott Giant...Giant Scott...(saw Carrot Top this weekend...he was grrrr-eat! His name is Scott, too) where was I?
ummmm...Daniel Woodrell...Harry Crews...William Gay...Donald Ray Pollock, this last...read a few from him, one I enjoyed, one...meh.

Check out John D MacDonald...his A Tan & Sandy Silence, one of his McGee stories, need not be read in line before or aft of the others in that series, but this story has a bad guy that gives me the heebie jeebies...there's a scene in this one that will make your teeth ache and your flesh crawl. Cinnamon Skin is another good one in the series.

And Cormac McCarthy...anything he has on the shelf, pull it down and read it. Child of God...Blood Meridian...the works.
If you read any of these and wonder why in the world I'd recommend any of them, well, I guess that is better than no read at all, right? We've lived long enough to know some like "less filling" and some like "tastes great"...and some, lo and behold, like to get the two of them together and see what mixes.

Knock Em Stiff, Ooom Papa.