But did you enjoy them?

Yes i did Dusty, they were fun but in the easy reading cat.

jesus' son by denis johnson.
it's a pretty quick but interesting read.
The unnamed narrator in Jesus' Son lives through a car wreck and a heroin overdose. Is he blessed? He cheats, lies, steals--but possesses a child's (or a mystic's) uncanny way of expressing the bare essence of things around him.

i'm a delilo fan and i'd recommend libra over white noise any day.
DeLillo's ninth novel takes its title from Lee Harvey Oswald's zodiac sign, the sign of "balance." The plot of the novel is history itselfand history, here, is a system of plots and conspiracies: the U.S. government has plotted to invade Cuba, and there are CIA agents who want retribution against President Kennedy for his halfhearted support of the Bay of Pigs operation; there are Cubans plotting revenge on JFK for the same reason and for, they fear, his plot to forge a rapprochement with Castro; there is a lone gunman, Oswald, who is conspired upon by history and circumstance, and who himself plots against the status quo. The novel bears dissection on many levels, but is, taken whole, a seamless, brilliant work of compelling fiction.

Oh, okay. You want something difficult? Try some Dante...not exactly drugs, but drugs were definitely involved. Definitely some underworldly characters.

Have you read any Raymond Chandler or Hammett yet?

Try these books by Irvine Welsh if you haven't already. Recommended.

have you read Acid House (or whatever its called)? Its $3 at the local used bookstore

Acid House and Stork Malibu Nightmares are also good choices.

in cold blood.

Cheers for the recommendations.

I ended up ordering porno by Irvine Welsh & Playing Off the Rail: A Pool Hustler's Journey by David McCumber.

Also Ghost riders by Richard Grant and John Peel: Margrave of the marshes.

Did you mean John Fante? Anyway, if you haven't read it, you should read Ask the Dust by John Fante. If you like Bukowski, you will like it. Also, I'm trying to tell every one in the world to read it soon, because I just found out that they made it into a movie with Colin fucking Farrell as the lead. It makes me want to vomit. So, everyone should read it before that dude's gargantuan eyebrows ruin the images I have in my mind about this very excellent book.

If you read enough Bukowski, he slips in a lot of good recomendations into his work. Along with Fante, I would check out Hunger by Knut Hamson and Journey to the Center of the Night by Celine