"Wise Blood" by Flannery O'Connor is short...try that one.
"Wise Blood" by Flannery O'Connor is short...try that one.
Just read the longer ones in staqes. My list, off the top of my head:
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
Robert Lowell, For the Union Dead
Ted Hughes, Crow
Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch
John McPhee, Levels of the Game
Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
Don Delillo, End Zone
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
All but Hardy, Rushdie & Twain are under 300 pp., BTW
Kim
I like all the books in your list, especially Mrs. Dalloway and Arcadia (brilliant writing!). Are you a fan of Auster as well? He's a great storyteller even if he's often telling the same story in my opinion.A well-balanced list should include theater, poetry and science. I'm not a big fan of non-fiction in general, but I enjoyed Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh (US edition) a while back and The Nothing That Is (Robert Kaplan), a book about the history of zero.This summer, I will probably go back to science and mystery novels. Agatha Christie perhaps? It's summer after all.
Happy in Kansas wrote:
Just read the longer ones in staqes. My list, off the top of my head:
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
Robert Lowell, For the Union Dead
Ted Hughes, Crow
Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch
John McPhee, Levels of the Game
Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
Don Delillo, End Zone
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
All but Hardy, Rushdie & Twain are under 300 pp., BTW
Ox Bow Incident (Walter Van Tilburg Clark) is the best western ever, IMHO. Not a bad movie, either.
The Late Mattia Pascal which is an Italian classic. It has similar significance to the Great Gatsby in the USA.
Hilarious. I just saw this thread and thought, "cool, I could use a new book recommendation."
Then I realize that it is ten years old and I am actually the OP.
Not sure why I was going by "Osco" back then.
I'd probably change 8 books on my list if I redid it now.
frank drebin wrote:
Hilarious. I just saw this thread and thought, "cool, I could use a new book recommendation."
Then I realize that it is ten years old and I am actually the OP.
Not sure why I was going by "Osco" back then.
I'd probably change 8 books on my list if I redid it now.
Well hell, now that we're here, what are your changes?
Take on a flight:
MacCarthys Bar
Any Elmore Leonard book.
And select ones by John McPhee.
educate me wrote:
hm, 10? i'll give you one of them
The Great Gatsby
His best, by far, is "tender is the night".
I'd say...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Neuromancer
Ubik
Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth
A Confederacy of Dunces
Catcher in the Rye
Darkness at Noon
The Big Sleep
The Hobbit
All Quiet on the Western Front
tadpole wrote:
educate me wrote:hm, 10? i'll give you one of them
The Great Gatsby
His best, by far, is "tender is the night".
When did you read Gatsby? You have to read it when you're 29 for best effect.
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