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"Book blast!"

I read The Alchemist last night in a couple of hours and today I'm reading Animal Farm. That's the only way I can read books, none of this farting about with bookmarks and leaving it a week before you go back to it. That's why I can't read Lord of the rings - I have to be able to finish it a few hours after I start reading it, or I lose interest. Anway, I read the Alchemist and today I'm reading Animal Farm. What shortish books would you recommend for a quick book blast?

We seem to be on a sci-fi tip (a bit), so:

William Gibson - Neuromancer
Jeff Noon - Vurt

Also:

Douglas Coupland - All Families Are Psychotic
Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast Of Champions.

Not SHORT short like the Camus, but very easy to read.

Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
I Am Legend - Richard Mattheson
Ham on Rye - Charles Bukowski
The Antipope - Richard Rankin

I find the best Sci Fi books can be found in the
"Science Fiction Masterworks" series on Amazon

it's a collection of the best books from the past 100 years or so, and all of them that I purchased, bar one, were superb.

Notable examples :

I am Legend - Richard Matheson
A Scanner Darkly - Phillip K Díck
Gateway - Frederik Pohl
The Forever War - Joe Haldeman (reminds me of the halo story)

the one I thought was pants was The fifth head of cerberus by gene wolfe. drawn out and tedious.

maddmun wrote:

> That or Flowers For Algernon. Which Azul recommended.

i saw a very moving tv version of that. read the book if thats what you want to do, but i mightent add that you should find it on video afterwards and watch that. i very much doubt that it will disappoint

monkey_man wrote:
> I read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", because I
> like Blade Runner so much, and found it to be a totally different
> book to the film. Minority Report is a much better translation of PK
> (It won't let me say it!)'s humour.

my favourite PKD novel is A SCANNER DARKLY. deep, twisted, humorous, mind bending ... GREAT

I got minority report which came with a collection of short stories. all of them were damn good, he was a gifted writer (and serious drug taker)

The sagacious one wrote:
> I am Legend by Richard Matheson (I think). You can read that in a
> couple of sessions.

great book!

Hmmm, Sheepy said he read Animal Farm for his highers.

He got an A.

He say it's a good book. With symbolism. Which is good. So I might read it.

That or Flowers For Algernon. Which Azul recommended.

The "slow" group in our school read Animal Farm for their English Certificate of Achievement...

The Great Gatsby is pretty short, although I can't see the problem with popping a bookmark in overnight.

Animal Farm rules

Catcher in the Rye is pretty short.