Transgressive Fiction discussion

I'm planning on including the following next year:

Irvine Welsh Trainspotting
Mark Z Danielewski House of Leaves
Paul Neilan Apathy
Ken Kessey One Flew Over The Cuckoo's...
John Updike Rabbit, Run
Chuck Palahniuk Survivor
Craig Clevenger The Contortionist's Handbook

I'd be interested to see what the groups vast and proactive members are planning on reading next year!!!

I'm not sure if all of these would count as transgressive but anyway,

Bought, but not read yet:

Hubert Selby Jr - Last Exit to Brooklyn
Craig Clevenger - Dermaphoria
Helen Walsh - Brass
Andrew H Vacchs - Shella
Will Christopher Baer - Kiss Me, Judas
Luke Rhinehart - The Search for the Dice Man
Joseph Heller - Catch-22
Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar

Started reading, then saw a squirrel, then read something else, need to start again:

Will Self - My Idea of Fun
Irvine Welsh - Glue
Irvine Welsh - Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs
Louis-Ferdinand Celine - Journey to the End of the Night
Jack Kerouac - On The Road
Steven Hall - The Raw Shark Texts

:)

I wish those were links to make it easier to check out the books everyone is mentioning...

Gertie wrote: "I wish those were links to make it easier to check out the books everyone is mentioning..."

Gertie, a lot of them are already on the bookshelf, the ones that aren't I'll add on. That is if I get a chance as I'm on holiday!!!

It's just not the same. I'm lazy. :-P

My To Read list is way too long. Seriously. Anyhoo, my book choices are usually about ridiculous scenarios (sci-fi or paranormal slant, dystopias, or post-apocalyptic worlds), like the one below about a zombie baby. Some maybes for next year:

Survivor, mentioned by Redroc above.
Out of the Deep Woods
The Gargoyle
The Declaration
Raising Stony Mayhall
I Who Have Never Known Men
1Q84
When She Woke

Good books that you want to read my friends! I've rated some of them in my list.

My mind has been clouded lately so it has been hard to concentrate on a good book however I am definitely going to pick up Punk Land by Carlton Mellick III and I have just started Geek Love! Yay!

Geek Love... Super Yay!!!

Apathy and other small victories by Paul Neilan:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97...

Burges's Clockwork Orange, a classic TG:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11...
An a book I loved, English Slacker by Chris Morton:

I will be join you ( Redroc ) in reading Trainspotting this year I also plan on getting to :

A Happy Death by Albert Camus
Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
The WASP Factory by Iain M. Banks

and, don't know if it counts but, I've never read Catcher in the Rye ( really. never ) So this is the year.

Redroc wrote: "Geek Love... Super Yay!!!"



One of my top 5 favorite books ,, ENJOY !!!!

I'm finishing up Brave New World by Aldous Huxley right now before getting to the pile of books I'll start this year:

-The Color of Night by Madison Smartt Bell
-Women by Charles Bukowski
-House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski
-Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh (...I read Filth first, but now I'm going back to take the chronological trail...glad to see many others are reading this now as well)

Trainspotting is excellent, however you have to read it out loud to understand the phonetic Scottish lol!

When I first read Trainspotting it was in an omnibus which had the 1st 3 books: Trainspotting, The Acid House and Marabou Stork Nightmares, well worth picking up.

I'm not 100% but I think the 3 stories in Ecstasy were stand alone, as are most if not all of the short stories in The Acid House (although that also contains the novella 'A Smart Cunt' which does have known characters cropping up, I think).

To get the most out of references and stuff I think these ones should be in order (certainly Trainspotting before Porno and Filth before Crime I think): Trainspotting -> The Acid House (A Smart Cunt) -> Marabou Stork Nightmares -> Glue -> Filth -> Porno -> Crime

Also apparently Skagboys is a Trainspotting prequel, out 2012, looking forward to that :)

Oh 'Apathy and Other small victories' by Paul Neilan is fantastic too. Very trans and very funny!

Steve wrote: "When I first read Trainspotting it was in an omnibus which had the 1st 3 books: Trainspotting, The Acid House and Marabou Stork Nightmares, well worth picking up.

I'm not 100% but I think the 3 st..."

Totally looking forward to Skagboys.

Just got Ham on Rye. Post Office was a quick read so I'll squeeze it in Ham after Trainspotting.

I hope to make a dent in the works of Hubert Selby Jnr, Charles Bukowski, Irvine Welsh & Chuck Palahniuk this year. I also have a mass of Kurt Vonnegut to get through. Although not TG he has a humorous irreverence towards the establishment that I love.

I've got to read more J.G. Ballard. I've read Crash and The Atrocity Exhibition, but not enough of the rest.

Jonny wrote: "Trainspotting is excellent, however you have to read it out loud to understand the phonetic Scottish lol!"

Just started, I see what you mean. I'm understaning about a third of it at at the moment!