what book should i get my dad for fathers day?
he recently liked Hard Rain Falling and some Raymond Chandler books.
Did you buy a book for your dad?
Yeah, got him Imperial by Willy V.
Your dad may enjoy:
Raymond Carver's What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Obligatory Williams' Stoner - but if you don't like the academic setting then his Butcher's Crossing should be a better fit
For something more funny and psychopathic, Jim Thompson's Pop. 1280
The Odyssey.
>>8181298
not even going to try and force him to start with the greeks :/
>>8181260
My dad really liked Invisible Man by Ellison and I also got him Freedom by Franzen he likes that too.
>>8181260
maybe also Richard Yates /John Cheever stuff. Seconding Carver.
My father didn't read much of anything until about 10-15 years ago (he turns 60 this year). Since then, he's mostly read books like 7 Habitsof Highly Effective People, Who Moved My Cheese?, and biographies/autobiographies. In recent years he has read and enjoyed a couple of fictional works I gave him, including Siddhartha and The Screwtape Letters. About a month ago he expressed an interest in reading To Kill a Mockingbird, so I bought him a nice hardcover edition of that. Also got him a nice hardcover edition of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations as over the past few years he has begun to more deeply consider what a "good life" is and how to achieve it (he was always a workaholic perfectionist with horrible anger management issues), and I think that is something he will enjoy.
>>8181449
Sorry, forgot a recommendation for your dad.
I would suggest Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson.
>>8181260
I got my dad a book on rubs and sauces for smoking, it's one of the few things we have in common. I'm 26 and been butchering since I was 16, making specialty sausages and smoking meat at what's now my own business so we can bond over that. Last time he was hear he borrowed some Sartre and a collection of Sherlock Holmes so I got him being an nothingness and also a Doyle collection, and two cases of beer so we can put up up with my mother and sister and the remarks by them that I'm throwing my life away considering I have a degree in chemistry and doing my PhD but I love what I'm doing and the schooling has all been free through scholarship of my marks
Gave my dad some Chekhov
1 bump, if i may
>>8181282
I ended up getitng what we talk about carver with the neat hido cover,
and denis johnson novella jesus's son
thanks guys
mason and dixon
Your dad sounds like a cool dude OP
>>8181260
Scum manifesto.
The Complete Sylvia Plath
