favourite fiction books...

[monkeylove]

Too many to list but here are a few ...

Story of O by Pauline Reage

Silk by Alessandro Baricco

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

In Praise of Older Women by Stephen Vizinczey

A Time to Love and a Time to Die and Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque

Embers by Sandor Marai

The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

 

[Chivas Regal]

It took a lot of scrolling to finally find someone that I concur with!

Paul, nailed it to the...of never mind,

The Bible, Author Unknown

Chivas Regal.

 

[wrong hole]

Re: Too many to list but here are a few ...

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

...I preferred 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting' by Kundera better....

....I enjoyed 'Blade Runner' too....Dick's short stories has been adopted into alot of movies....

 

[shiftee]

I think I might get burned for this but I enjoyed most of the Henry Miller books I have read. Except for those moments when he gets all smooshie about his new friend of the day. Tropic of Capricorn and The Air Conditioned Nightmare are 2 of my favorites.

 

[What A Wookie]

Wow, a lot of great reads being suggsted here.

One of my favorite fiction writers is James Ellroy.

He's probably best recognized for L.A. Confidential, which was made into a movie a few years ago with Russell Crowe, Kevin Spacey, Kim Basinger and Danny Devito.

 

[someone]

I think Vonnegut is totally overrated.

I think he is inconsistent. I really liked some of his early stuff like Sirens of Titan but I think some of his later works like Breakfast of Champions just sucked.

 

[Quickdraw]

Joseph Conrad, especially Victory. The compelling struggle of good versus evil.

 

[gar]

Yes, I agree with quickdraw. Anything by Conrad, my favorites: Chance and Lord Jim--just love Marlow as the narrator.

 

[Bill the Pirate]

missed

One of the greatest books of all time............... The three muskateers by Aleandre Dumas.

followed by The count of monte cristo

some good more modern reads..... Greg Isles The Dead Sleep. Ken Folletts the pillars of earth, Wilbur Smiths the seveth scroll.

 

[submissivedave]

Heinrich Heine

Does anyone have a copy of selections from Heinrich Heine's works?

Or a book called "Twenty German Poets" trans. by W. Kaufman?

I have looked everywhere in used bookstores downtown and can not find the.

If anyone has any of the above and you'd like to sell it ... please sell it to me ...

Thanks

 

[syn]

A terb member recently recommended "The Raptor" by Gary Jennings to me. I loved it ... though maybe it didn't have to be 900 pages.

Syn

 

[fernie]

Recent read

The Twenty Seventh City by Jonathan Franzen.

Fernie

 

[root11]

I have not seen one of the scarriest books... The Exorcist - by William Peter Blatty. blows the movie away.....

 

[syn]

Re: Recent read

The Twenty Seventh City by Jonathan Franzen.

Fernie

i've heard great things about "the corrections" by franzen, but i just can't bring myself to read the book after his pretentiousness during the whole oprah book of month debacle.

syn

 

[Play[er]boy]

Leo Tolstoy
Chekhov
Nabokov
Solghenitzin
Hemingway
Remarque
Orwell
Vonnegut
Pelevin

Dostoevsky is also very good, but not that easy to read.

 

[Alucard]

heir to the empire series was good
as well as the jedi academy series.. if you like that kind of stuff