there is a great book called "painting the mona lisa" that i love
a good book im reading at the moment is called "once I was a princess" about an australian woman
"A lesser evil" is good too
"the Alchemist" is a quick read but nice
As you can see i cant think of a single author as i am at work...
Originally posted by indigodreamHow about anything Vonnegut? 🙂
thank you everyone for your suggestions; i will post some of my favorites as well --- i didn't want to bias the responses though with posting my favorites first 😉
House of Leaves - I still haven't finished it!! Mark Z. Danielewski
Devil in The White City for nonfiction - Erik Larson
As you can see I recalled all of those authors from memory. 😛
My favs [with smart alec annotations] are:
'Manhattan Transfer' by John Dos Pasos [if you like cubism]
'Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard' by Kiran Desai [if you like India]
'White Noise' by Don DeLillo [if America scares you]
'Fools Crow' by James Welch [if you like Native Americans]
'The Wind in the Willows' by Kenneth Grahame [if you're a kid at heart]
'Heart of Darkness' by Joseph Conrad [if you killed your inner kid]
'Going After Cacciato' by Tim O'Brien [if you wonder why the Vietnam War was lost]
'A High Wind in Jamaica' by Richard Hughes [if you like inept pirates]
'Red Mars', 'Green Mars' & 'Blue Mars' by Kim Stanley Robinson [if you like Mars - alot]
'Neuromancer' by William Gibson [if you liked Blade Runner]
'The Castle' by Franz Kafka [if you want chicks to think you're smart]
'Madame Bovary' by Gustave Flaubert [if you want to chicks to know you're smart]
'Where I'm Calling From' by Raymond Carver [if you're middle class]
'War and Peace' by Leo Tolstoy [if you're awake - sorry 'more guiness']
'Dune' by Frank Herbert [if you're still awake]
🙂
Originally posted by indigodreamYou're reading them qucikly if you need to bump it to get more!
i;'m just posting on this thread so it will be bumped up; hence other people will see it and add to it😏
I'll break the fiction trend:
The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
Bill Bryson - Any book by him really, pick the one you like the sound of the most. I have enjoyed all I have read by him. One thing though A Short History of Nearly Everything is a very good general interest book outlining science, but a few weeks after reading it I picked up an old national geographic and then it made me realise that almost everything in it is copied/adapted from other publications as he has no real science background still a good book but some bits feel copied and pasted. Although if I was going to write a science book that is how I would go about it. I have never heard anyone else complain or any accusations of plagiarism, I think they are all referenced and he admits it so it is ok.
And into fiction
1984 George Orwell
and something that blurs the lines, Spike Milligan War Memoirs.
Haven't read them for quite a while but I still remember a lot of the amusing anecdotes from them such as a game they played in the army that consisted of running through the woods in the night hitting trees with sticks making a lot of noise and trying not to get caught. It might be my memory adding to it but I think this was all done naked.
All Quiet on the Western Front, The Non-Existent Knight and Cloven Viscount, 100 Years of Solitude, Crime and Punishment, Death on the Installment Plan, The Castle, The Short Stories of Kafka, The Last Temptation of Christ, Catch-22, The Corrections, Disgrace, any Bukowski, Naked Lunch, Madame Bovary, Waiting for the Barbarians, Lolita, White Noise, Moby Dick, The Tin Drum, The Sound and the Fury...
Those are the books that come to mind but there are hundreds more that are good
Originally posted by LundosHm, I wonder what that's in German. I can't think of any work by Thomas Mann fitting that title.
I read some Thomas Mann when I was younger. I especially liked his The Tables of the Law.
I love "Doktor Faustus". I read it for the first time when I was 15 or so and found it very difficult, but also very fascinating. Every time I read in it again, I discover something new.