The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham

The Day of the Triffids is John Wyndham's most famous book. It is unsettling and vivid. After reading the book you may decide to put your house plants outside at night with the cat!

When Bill Masen wakes up in his hospital bed, he has reason to be grateful for the bandages that covered his eyes the night before. For he finds a population rendered helpless by the blindness that followed the spectacular display of bright green lights that filled the night sky; a population at the mercy of the Triffids. Once, with their ability to move and their carnivorous habits, the Triffids were just botanical curiosities. But now, with humans so vulnerable, they are a potent threat to humanity's survival. It is up to people like Bill, the few who can still see, to carve out a future.

Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse

In the novel, Siddhartha, a young man leaves his family for a life with the Samanas, who are followers of Buddha. He becomes restless and leaves the Samanas. He pursues a life of the flesh. He conceives a son but still he is restless. Consumed the lust and greed he has indulged in he leaves his town to continue what he has not yet realized is his personal journey to enlightenment. Hesse has given us a tale of one mans spiritual journey that will bring the reader closer to the spiritual truths in us all.

Perv - A Love Story, Jerry Stahl

A great story... Perv - A Love Story tells the tail of Bobby Stark a boy becoming a man in the Early 70's . The book is filled with sex, drugs, and ... Well more sex and drugs. The book reveals a darker side of of the flower power era. Stahl has created an absurd masterpiece of black comedy that has become a cult classic.

Tailchaser's Song, Tad Williams

If you have cats you will enjoy this book. Williams has created a world that truly believable if you undrestand cats. In his world cats are dominant. They have there own language and theorys, including human creation. Tailchaser's Song takes us into that world and on a jurney to save it! I read this book when I was younger and later read it as an adult and recommend it to cat lovers of all ages.

Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

Brave New World is more than science fiction. It is a warning. Huxley gives us a glimps into the not so distant future. In a world where science has made everything perfect including the human race one man, Bernard Marx, isn't happy. Bernard has a strong desire to break free from this artificial world and to find fulfillment in the imperfect. Brave New World is a good read.

Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Written in Vonnegut's Typical pseudo-science fiction style the book takes us on a quest to find out what the creator of the A-bomb, Dr. Felix Hoenikker, was doing on the day it was dropped on Hiroshima. Instead of revealing the secrets of that day, the book shows us in detail how the world ended. A very good novel to read.

Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

This book has been called one of the greatest anti war books ever written. The book centers around the firebombing of Dersden. Vonnegut gives us a glimps into the fragmented life of Billy Pilgram a veteran of World War II and survivor of the Dresden bombing. Pilgram has become unstuck in time and we travle with him throughout his life to his death and back and forth in a mixed up time line. The book is sadly funny and if it wern't funny we wouldn't want to read it. The fact that it is funny is the most important thing about it, because everyone should read it.