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  1. lizalot

    "Long Ago A Moonboat"?

    I'm wondering about this book that I received as a kid, it's called--or rather it's the first sentence of the book, but it serves as a title--"Long Ago A Moonboat". It then continues on the cover with "was blown through the dark night toward a range of razor-sharp mountains". I don't know much...
  2. lizalot

    Overly Pompous and Luvvie Books. (What Critically loved books do you despise?)

    Things Fall Apart. Was anyone else forced to read this in highschool? I remember harboring a great animosity for it at the time, being that I couldn't understand why everyone else in the class was so enraptured by it. Even more perplexing to me was their disdain for The Giver and e. e...
  3. lizalot

    Suggestions for a melancholic

    I always like to listen to Flying Saucer Attack when I'm somewhat down. (It's a low-fi alternative to MBV, I think.) And read some Reinaldo Arenas. "Singing From The Well" and "Farewell To The Sea" are both enlightening reads.
  4. lizalot

    Holocaust Books

    I hear that "House of Dolls" by Ka-Tzetnik 135633 is worth a glance. I've never read it myself, but it comes highly reccommended by a friend of mine.
  5. lizalot

    Current Affairs, Recent History, and Politics

    Gee...hello, I'm quite new. Just a suggestion, but... For recent history, depending on the exact time frame you want, Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States"--or more specifically, "The Twentieth Century: A People's History, if you so choose--is quite thorough. It recquires...
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