Quick! Recommend me a kickass book
 

I'm going to the mall in the morning, and that means I will inevitably end up in a bookstore. The book can be about anything, all I ask is give the title of the book, the author, and a sentence or two about why it's worth my time. Thaaank you.

this won't dissapoint you.

Hmm. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle weren't favorites, but still decent books. What about A Wild Sleep Chase?

A Wild Sheep Chase, you mean? That's another favourite of mine - if not Norwegian Wood, then this one. More surreal and haunted than the other one, but very, very good.
Afterdark is another one that's worth picking.

Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground - Michael Moynihan and Didrik Søderlind
It's about black metal, but not really the music, more the controversies surrounding it.

http://www.amazon.com/great-picture-.../2N2IYP4TANMZG
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The Wizard Knight by Gene Wolfe

dylan sparrow - personal dept

i second -slavo- and throw in murakami's other stuff toooo
wild sheepchase
wind up bird chronicle
kafka on the shore

South of the Border, West of the Sun, too.

The Trial by Kafka.

this

What did you end up buying, summer?

I ended up buying a couple video games instead, because this mall's bookstore didn't have shit. The good stuff it did have was overpriced a bit, too. Now I remember why buying books online is so much better. I mean if I wanted to read Catch-22 I could get it for a much cheaper price. I couldn't find a single Murakami novel, you'd think you could at least find one of those. I was tempted to buy Bob Dylan's Chronicles, Vol. 1 the most, but I haven't actually heard most of his music so maybe it would have bored me. But yeah, the women working there bugged me too. They were talking amongst themselves and said they'd never read Stephen King. Now, while he isn't amazing, how could someone have never read one of his books? What do they read?

Oh and the sad part is how the more well-known books were the minority and under this small stack labeled "Literature", which seems a tad bit insulting, if you ask me. ._. Fuck Waldenbook's. It's kind of odd, actually, considering the place seems to be linked to Border's. If this is true, and they're both owned by the same people, why is it Border's is so much better?

the movie will :/

London Fields by Martin Amis

yes

Heh, only book I've read by him. It's great. I think I may re-read it.

really i WONDER WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO READ SUCH A THING

Hhaa! I know, cliche, but whatever its still a good book.

so what'd you get? can it be the new sy gossip book club book?
i need somethign to read after this proust business

Again:

I haven't been to a Waldenbooks in forever. I'm surprised they are still around. I remember when CrownBooks tried to become a megastore and opened up a few SuperCrowns, but they were no match for the Borders' and Barnes & Nobles' of the world. I still love browsing bookstores. Its the same with recordstores. That's the bad thing about internet sites like Amazon, they are shutting down bookstores and record stores and taking away the pleasure of the browse.

My kick ass reccomendation is "The Drifters" by James A Michener

Waldenbooks is a substore of Borders now...and has been for a while I guess. I really love Borders.

Recommendation:
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov