Books

[destinie21]

There was a thread on this not to long ago but I can't find it so I'm launching a new one out into cyberspace. I'm looking for good books to read. Prior to last night I'd been reading nothing but beach trash novels for ages. I try to read two books a week generally I manage closer to 3 or 4 as I don't really watch television. In any case I read The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and it was great. I'm half done with another book by the aforementioned authour called Poor Folks. When I done I will need other good books to read and I'm opening the door for your reccomendations any genre is fine.

Thanks in advance The Mrs

 

[Icingsugar]

I bumped up my old thread (Junkie...) on the matter. Some really good recommendations there.

Currently reading Nyaga by Peter Nilson. Really good science fiction with a heavy philosophical twist. Complicated mathematical calculations that starts altering reality, that sort of things...

But it seems to be pretty hard to get hold of. Yer in the US, right?

 

[Chicklet]

there was a thread that i started, too, but i am way too lazy to find it for you.

read the da vinci code by dan brown

or ender´s shadow by orson scott card

 

[ffreak]

I'm a fan of Peter Høeg of Denmark.
Try Smilla's Sense of Snow or The Woman and the Ape, or Borderliners.

-FF (going at about 1/2 your rate of reading)

 

[Guest]

I'm a fan of Peter Høeg of Denmark.

I thoroughly enjoyed "Smilla". I still recall one of the most erotic scenes wherein the narrator (I believe) describes her fucking the eye of her lover's cock with her swollen clit. Now that was a fuck.

Perdita

 

[Jenny _S]

Des,
Anything by James Joyce or the russian classics.

(Secret obsession: Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald... Love the image of Gatsby standing alone on the patio looking across the bay at the partys where he knows his lost love is attending.)

 

[The_Fool]

Rereading Hemingway...

Always good with rum, a cigar and a fuckit attitude.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

*beating MG to it and recommending Terry Pratchett's novels*

Sorry, MG - the pupil outsmarts her teacher!

 

[Guest]

Sorry, MG - the pupil outsmarts her teacher!

Tell the truth, Flicka. You're not really sorry are you?

 

[Svenskaflicka]

I posted in here two minutes ago. I remember it clearly. I was wearing the same outfit I am now. I read in the list in AH that perdita has answered this thread after me. I click on the thread - and I can't read neither perdita's nor my post!

Who's eating Lit posts?

 

[Svenskaflicka]

After posting the last post, I can see my post, and Perdy's. I go to AH, visit another thread, come back to this one - and the list of posts end with The Fool's post about Hemingway.

Wazefugg is going on here???????????

 

[deliciously_naughty]

I never would've read it, but my reading circle assigned "The Red Tent" and it was one of the best written books I've come across in awhile.

Other than "The Red Tent", I'd recommend
"Common Ground" by Lukas (about the boston bussing crisis of the 70's)
"Living History" by Hilary Clinton
"Mists of Avalon" by bradley it's an oldie but a goodie
"The Handmaid's Tale" by Atwood is great
"Where the girls are: growing up female with the mass media" by Susan Douglas
"Parlor Politics" by Catherine Allgor
"Magic's Pawn" by Mercedes Lackey
"The Cat Who..." books by Lillian Jackson Braun
"The Callahan Chronicles" by Spider Robinson

 

[Jenny _S]

For amusement there is alway "Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams. A little dated but the humor still comes through clearly.

For more heady laughter I love Mailers, "Army's of the Night". The idea of writing a 700 page novel while taking a piss in the men's room at the Watergate somehow tickles me.

 

[MathGirl]

My star student!

Originally posted by Svenskaflicka *beating MG to it and recommending Terry Pratchett's novels*Sorry, MG - the pupil outsmarts her teacher!

Dear Svenska,
That's okay. You make me proud.
MG
Ps. I'm currently reading some of Don Westlake's novels from the seventies. Very entertaining and witty. His Dortumunder is a great character. A fairly competent burglar and thief surrounded by total incompetents.

 

[Guest]

After posting the last post, I can see my post, and Perdy's. I go to AH, visit another thread, come back to this one - and the list of posts end with The Fool's post about Hemingway.

Wazefugg is going on here???????????

It could have something to do with the caching of webpages on your browser. Perhaps, when you first viewed the thread you saw a later cache, then you viewed it again, your browser got confused and displayed an earlier cache, hence the posts appeared to have disappeared. When, in fact, they were still there, but you were viewing an earlier 'snapshot' of the thread (this could also have to do with Lit. using multiple servers.) It does seem, from what I've seen from other posts from you, that you are having a problem with IE. Whatever the reason, it must be bloody annoying.

Lou

 

[snooper]

It could have something to do with the caching of webpages on your browser.

Since WH hasn't picked this one up, I'll try.

Sv'a, if it is your browser, and you are using Internet Explorer, click on Tools, then Internet Options, then under Temporary Internet Files click Settings, then check in the little round box to the left of Every Visit to the Page to see if there is a little black dot. If there is, I can't help. If there isn't, click it until there is, then click OK as many times as you need to get rid of the drop-downs and try that.

 

[English Lady]

Here's a recommedation for a book i really wouldn't have read if it had not been recommended to me! Iti s infact an Oprah's book club recomendation! And it really is an amazing ,not able to put down read of a book!


Here i've written a review on it so if you want to check it out have a look at :


Tawni O'Dell Back Roads review



As you can see I am on about the book back roads by Tawni O'dell and it's a fantastic read.....becareful though....it's unputdownable!

 

[destinie21]

Thanks Jen I'll look into that
ps: I loved The Great Gatsby, also partial to Tender Is the Night both of which depict disillusion with the American dream of self-betterment, wealth, and success through hard work and perseverance. Plus the short fiction collected in Flappers and Philosophers and Tales of the Jazz Age, and his second novel The Beautiful and the Damned which read almost like a sophmoric Great Gatsby was great too. The prose wasn't as swift or concise but still good. I'll check out James Joyce or the russian classics.

If memory serves didn't J. Joyce write A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man if so I love his work. I" especially like the idea of the baby's pov.


I've also read Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy as well as Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea Time of Soul, along with Prostitute in the Family Tree: Discovering Humor and Irony in the Bible. All written by Douglas E. Adams

MG and Svenska I've read a lot of T. Prqatchett's stuff
Feet of Clay, Hogfather, Night Watch, Monstrous Regiment (Unabridged) ,Men At Arms, Soul Music,Small Gods,Lords and Ladies,The Wee Free Men,The Last Hero ,Witches Abroad
Reaper Man,Thief of Time , The Fifth Elephant and The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents along with Maskerade. I'll get more T. Pratchett books though thanks.


Dita and Eff Thank you I will definatly look into Peter Høeg

DN I love Margaret Atwood Handmaid's Tale was good also liked
The Blind Assassin, Cat's Eye, Edible Woman, also read Mists of Avalon may times over but many thanks for the other suggestions.


Thanks to all