the book recommendation thread

I have a few recommendations that I really really hope you guys enjoy absorbing as much as I did.

Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk


Survivor is my favorite book that Palahniuk has ever written. In fact, it's my favorite book, period. It's the story of the lone survivor of a religious cult that commits mass suicide and starts the book relating the story into the blackbox of a plane that he has just hijacked and is about to fly into the side of a mountain. The story is related in flashbacks and satirizes everything from pop culture to organized religion. Definitely one you all should read.

The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis


While most of you may actually know Lewis from his Chronicles of Narnia books, not a lot of you may have read his books pertaining to his more allegorial religiously themed material. The book is written as a series of letters from an old devil (Screwtape) to his nephew (Wormwood) who is currently busy trying to capture the soul of a young man during WW II. I don't consider myself the most "spiritual" person on the planet, but Screwtape's commentaries on humans are piercingly painful and beautifully written. Definitely not just for the religious crowd.

Thanks to Minion for recommending this book and thanks to Alice who finally saw that I would have ignored Minion on his recommendation and force-fed sent it to me.

How ya doing, buddy?