I like Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Bukowski, Chuck Palahniuk, and Jackson Tippett McCrae. What are some real gritty books to read?
2006-08-18 09:52:15 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I second Burroughs and Vonnegut and add Boris Vian, Denton Welch, B.S. Johnson's Christie Malry's Own Double Entry, Emile Zola, Michel Tournier, André Gide....
2006-08-18 10:27:34 · answer #1 · answered by msmiligan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Exterminator by William Burroughs
The Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
2006-08-18 16:59:27 · answer #2 · answered by Lumas 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I got your GRITT!
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer's book is easily the best of the more than one hundred true crime books I've ever read. The story of Gary Gilmore & Nicole Baker reads like a warped American Romeo & Juliet at times.
I would recommend anything by Mailer if you like your grit gritty and you coffee dry.
2006-08-18 18:36:53 · answer #3 · answered by Ralph 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
After the quake & Dance,dance,dance by Haruki Murakami
The camp of the saints by Jean Raspail
2006-08-18 23:02:59 · answer #4 · answered by اري 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋