letsee 1984 Crime and Punishment The Brothers Karamazov (reading this now - Dostoyevsky rocks :2thumbsup The Penitent - Isaac Bashavis Singer Neuromancer A Scanner Darkly - Philip K Dick Foundation The Jungle - Upton Sinclair Sputnik Sweetheart - Murakami All's Quiet on the Western Front
Till We Have Faces Anna Karenina Bag of Bones Fight Club Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Pride and Prejudice Breakfast at Tiffanys These are just a few off the top of my head that I've read over and over and over.
Oh my God, I'd forgotten about this book. Fabulous, fantastic, amazing book. And I'm with you, literature is a dirty word for me. :love: Meliai, have you read any of Amy Tan's stuff? I think you'd like it.
Currently re-reading George Orwell's 1984. The ideas the man had were amazing, considering the book was written yonks before that. It is a fantastic book.
[/FONT I am an avid reader, when time permits. Here is what I've read recently.. 1) The Quickie by James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge 2) Isle of Dogs by Patricia Cornwell 3) The Husband by Dean Koontz 4) From Potter's Field by Patricia Cornwell 5) Fatal Tide by Iris Johansen 6) At Risk by Patricia Cornwell 7) The Last Precinct by Patricia Cornwell As you can see, my favorite authors are: Patricia Cornwell; Dean Koontz and James Patterson. I'm trying to finish all my hard back books so I can start using my Kindle that my fiancee bought for me.
no order: the trial the castle amerika the stranger lolita this side of paradise infinite jest all mark twain naked lunch soft machine catcher in the rye sometimes a great notion all steinbeck, specifically, "the grapes of wrath" rabbit, run the same door to name a few
brothers karamazov anna karenina sirens of titan almost all melville everything by william faulkner had to throw those in there. and shit, all the above posts seem pretty damn entry level.
I'm a huge reader and have read many, many books, but The Lord Of The Rings is by far the best work of fiction of all time IMO. No other work compares to the beauty that is LOTR. The books are my bible and I can legitimately say they changed my life.
I really enjoy the majority of James Pattersons books. I have read a bunch of them. But as of now im really digging the Dexter series. The show is great but you need to read the books. The outcome is entirely different and just better.
One of my big favourites recently for dialogue has to be 'Confederacy of Dunces' by the tragic John Kennedy Toole. A great book, the character Ignatius J.Reilly, fat, pompous and an underachieveing layabout with lofty aspirations is truly superb.
No particular order As I lay Dying by William Faulkner The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky Journey to The End of The Night by Louis Ferdinand Celine I Am Legend by Richard Matheson Everything by H.P. Lovecraft
I'm not seeing any of Gary Jennings stuff on anyones list??? Check out Aztec Blood, Aztec Rage, Apocalypse 2012, and he has a few others that are really good. Any Stuart Woods, Michael Connelly, Robert Parker.
Haven't read much in years but recently, (Christmas) I obtained a Kindle and have been gobbling up books like a starving man. At present I'm working on reading the last two novels by Tony Hillerman written about two Navajo Tribal policemen, Jim Chee/Joe Leaphorn. The books are a quick read and contain an very accurate depiction of the Dineh, their history and cultural oddities and, of course, the vast reservation which cuts across state boundaries extending from The San Francisco Peaks in Flagstaff, AZ to Window Rock in NM and North to Lake Powell and Monument Valley. I lived in AZ for 9 years and got to travel to such places including Canyon de Chelly, the Grand Canyon, Lake Powell and have crisscrossed the "Res" en route to these scenic venues.
Any and all fiction is beautiful. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert The Hours by Michael Cunningham Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Anything Kurt Vonnegut's ever written Of course Harry Potter - my absolute favorite, I'm in the process of reading it out loud to my dad. Superb, I don't know if anyone can top it as far as imagination, entertainment and shock value. Also since I'm strapped for time these days I've been getting into short fiction: The New Yorker has some amazing stories, Welcome to the Monkey House and Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut are truly worth giving a go. Kafka. Dostoyevsky. And the master of masters, Edgar Allen Poe.