Reading List.

After many years of not reading, I have really started to enjoy it over the last couple years. My library was slowly and steadily growing for a while but has now become stagnant. I have been on the look-out for one particular book ever since 2008 when I was out at Dalhousie. A friend of mine, Ross Jacobs, used to always read excerpts from a book called "The Average American Male" by Chad Kultgen, and they were always hilarious. Clearly it has been a bit of a fruitless, haphazard goose-chase searching for this book seeing as it has taken me over 2 years.

At work, I have recently gone from last in seniority to second and received my raise for making it to 6 months! This means a couple of things, a) I can pick and choose shifts a little more and work it around my training a lot better and b) I'm going to have a lot more money. With this increase of income I have decided to continue the now stale growth of my library. So yesterday in my boredom at work I decided to do a little research and create a book-wish-list. I went online and explored the "books" tab on Google. It was really neat, they have loads of books on there and you can even search to see if what you are looking for is in a library near you. When you do the library search, they also give you lots of books that other readers enjoyed. A lot of the books even have a "preview this item" option where you can read a good portion of the first chapter of the book. After a couple hours of getting paid $14.58 to look for books I comprised a list of 9 books that I thought looked interesting.

The Average American Male by Chad Kultgen
I Just Want my Pants Back by David J Rosen
Goodbye Lemon by Adam Davies
Not That you Asked: Rants, Exploits, Obsessions by Steve Almond
Apathy and Other Small Victories by Paul Neilman
The Fuck-up by Arthur Nersesian
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max
The Contortionist's Handbook by Craig Clevenger

I seem to enjoy quasi-realistic fiction books. A lot of these books are kind of "a-in-the-life" style where there is one main character that is narrating or being documented. The stories are a bit out there sometimes, but are ones that could and do happen in real-life.

If anyone has read any of these books please let me know how they were. I'd also like any suggestions for good books you have read, send me anything and everything you've enjoyed.