# Book recommendations please

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 29, 2010, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-recommendations-please/537692 "2010-04-29T00:57:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-recommendations-please/537692/1 "2010-04-29T00:57:45Z")

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Looking for books written in first person style. Books like these:

Fight Club (and most Palahniuk)  
Catcher In The Rye  
The Cheese Monkeys

I didn’t like Moby Dick or The Great Gatsby so much.

Thanks in advance,  
Jain

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**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-recommendations-please/537692/2 "2010-04-29T02:14:45Z")

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[The Magus, by John Fowles](http://www.amazon.com/Magus-John-Fowles/dp/0440351626#noop)  
(Amazon link)

Description from Amazon:

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> A man trapped in a millionare’s deadly game of political and sexual betrayal.
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> Filled with shocks and chilling surprises, The Magus is a masterwork of contemporary literature. In it, a young Englishman, Nicholas Urfe, accepts a teaching position on a Greek island where his friendship with the owner of the islands most magnificent estate leads him into a nightmare. As reality and fantasy are deliberately confused by staged deaths, erotic encounters, and terrifying violence, Urfe becomes a desperate man fighting for his sanity and his life. A work rich with symbols, conundrums and labrinthine twists of event, The Magus is as thought-provoking as it is entertaining, a work that ranks with the best novels of modern times.

Fascinating, weird and a book that plays on the insecurity we all have when we stop and think about our own hypocrisies and search for ourselves. When you get into it, it is quite gripping. And written in the first person, per the OP.