sex, drugs and cocco puffs. Anything by Chuck klosterman. Or Kafka. They are a natural progression. Then Gravity\'s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. For some light reading afterwards, you can\'t go wrong with Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Ulysses or Finnegans Wake
Ok, most people wont be able to handle anything on that list except the first one. Just stick with Klosterman
Well that was not a very nice or humble thing to say Paul.
Alli... If you aren\'t intimidated by a long read, try Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. I am perpetually suggesting it to people and no one ever reads it because it is long and has several storylines going at once that don\'t connect until you are a couple hundred pages in. It seems confusing, but it all comes together incredibly. It is hilarious, bizarre, and brilliant.
From Wikipedia:
Infinite Jest (1996) is a novel written by David Foster Wallace. This lengthy and complex work takes place in a semi-parodic future version of North America. The novel touches on the topics of tennis; substance addiction and recovery programs; depression; child abuse; family relationships; advertising and popular entertainment; film theory; and Quebec separatism...
...The book\'s plot centers on a lost film cartridge, titled Infinite Jest by its creator James Incandenza, and referred to in the novel as "the Entertainment" or "the samizdat". The film is so "entertaining" to its unwitting viewers that they become lifeless, losing all interest in anything other than endless viewings of the film. In the novel\'s future world, North America is one unified state composed of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, known as the Organization of North American Nations (O.N.A.N.). Corporations purchase naming rights to each calendar year, eliminating traditional numerical designations; e.g., "The Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment", "The Year of Dairy Products from the American Heartland". Much of what used to be the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada has become a massive hazardous waste dumping site known as "The Great Concavity"/"The Great Convexity".
