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Lindsay's Literary Wank List.
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This page is under construction its a bit crap right now and the links don't work as yet but I promise it will get better very soon | and I will add more books as time goes by. I intend to point students towards books they ought to be reading, and coax them into it by mentioning sex. Of course anyone can pick up a Jackie Collins book or an unmentionable mag. but while satisfying your perversness you can also broaden your mind with these books. The reviews of books are very general, I am not a book reviewer or critic. 1. The Black Album. Hanif Kureshi This novel is set in 1980's London, a young Asian has just gone to a crappy university where he meets lots of scary fundamentalists, takes drugs and has kinky sex with his lecturer. Also read his other novel The Buddha of Suburbia. 2. 1984. George Orwell. Orwell's vision of the future is frightening, Winston lives in a world where your basic human rights have been taken away, such as freedom of speech, the vote etc. Winston meets a girl who also opposes this system and they have a steamy affair. 3. Crash.J.G.Ballard Okay you all know the story due to the film, sick people get off on having sex with car crash victims. Its definately a one handed read. 4. A Clockwork Orange. Anthony Burgess. Due to limited time for reading I have not yet read this one but I hear its good. A review will appear soon when I get around to reading it, or you could send me one. 5. On The Road. Jack Kerouac. So it doesn't really have any detailed sex scenes but this book should inspire you, here Sal and his pal Dean Moriarty travel around America in the 50's getting girls, taking drugs, visiting Mexican whorehouses, falling in love, breaking hearts, talking philosophy, writing and generally having a good time. Read it or die. Cock and Bull. Will Self. Carol like the rest of us at university has lots of crap sex until she meets Dan who just by chance gives her her first and only orgasm so she marries him. This was a mistake as he becomes an alcoholic, gets even worse in bed and makes Carol feel like shit. Carol discovers masturbation and is blissfully happy for 2 weeks until she discovers that she is growing a penis. She gets over the shock and likes the idea and then rapes her husband. In Bull a man discovers that he has grown a vagina on the back of his knee, consequently he is seduced by his male doctor. Strange stuff. If you have any suggestions as to what to add to the list feel free to e-mail me,you can probably tell that this is new to me and I need more books on my lists.
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Essential Beat Reading.
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This is meant as an introduction for those not familiar with the whole | Beat Generation thing. A quick summary then-disillusioned students in the 1950's experiment with drugs, talk philosophy, they are intellectuals, they write they travel they experience as much as they possibly can from drugs, to sex anything-they can not stay still they just spin, spin, spin. Here are a few books to get you started before you can decide for yourselves which books are worth reading. 1. On The Road. Jack Kerouac. See above, essential because this is the "Beat Bible" written by the "King of the Beats." You should read as much of his other work as possible, especially recommended are The Dharma Bums, Dr.Sax and Visions of Cody. 2. Poetry by Allen Ginsberg such as Howl and other poems or Selected Poems (Penguin) Ginsberg was king of Beat poetry writing about his Beat companions including Kerouac and Neal Cassady who he was in love with. Howl and Kaddish are said to be his masterpieces and Howl was banned when it first came out as it was deemed to obscene to be published 3. Junky. William S. Burroughs. Not a Beat as such but an inspiration to them. He appears as Old Bull Lee in Kerouac's and Ginsberg's work. Junky is his autobiography about his drug addiction. It must be read before attempting to read his more famous novel Naked Lunch. 4. The First Third. Neal Cassady. This is his autobiography, unfinished due to his sudden death. This offers an insight into the Beat icon, he was the muse of Kerouac and Ginsberg appearing as Dean Moriarty in On The Road and Cody Pomeray in Visions of Cody and in many poems by Ginsberg. Other writers linked with the Beats but not necessarily a part of the Beat Generation include: John Clellon Holmes. Gary Snyder. Herbert Huncke. Charles Bukowski.
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Popular Student Writers.
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If you are a student who likes to read you have probably noticed that most | other students like the same books as you do. Here are a few authors who I have found to be popular among students. 1. Tom Robbins. Even Cowgirls get the Blues. Perhaps his most famous novel, about Sissy Hankshaw and her enormous thumbs which she uses to hitchhike around America,trying to discover more about her indian ancestry and becoming a model for feminine hygiene products and stopping off at the all woman Rubber Rose ranch while she's at it. I love this book, try his other ones too like Jitterbug Perfume and Skinny Legs and All. 2. Tom Wolfe. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. The story of the "Merry Pranksters" and their bus "furthur" they include the author Ken Kesey (One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest) and a "getting on a bit" Neal Cassady. (Yes him again) Coming after the Beats in a time when hippies were appearing and psychedelic love abounded this is about a group disillusioned with everything who drop out and experiment with drugs while travelling around.The events in the book really happened. 3. Douglas Adams. The Hitch Hikers guide to the Galaxy et al. I never would have read this book if it wsn't for all my friends going on about it, but once I did pick it up I couldn't put it down. It is the story of Arthur and how he is picked up by aliens seconds before the earth is destroyed, we follow him as he hitch hikes around the galaxy discovering the meaning of life and stuff. 4. Anne Rice. Interview with the Vampire et al. Again I would not have bothered but all my friends seemed to be reading one of the books in this series and I felt left out. You know the story from the film which isn't as good as the book. Apparently the first book is the best of them all.
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