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Books you read because of B&R

saliotthomas

saliotthomas

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Since first i came to the forum,there as been a good few book i read because of the forum,or the simply made the top of the pile.By reading post you can more or less know in which water some of the menbers navigate,and they often get you interested in testing them.

my last is John Wyndham - Day of the Triffid
and before
Motherless brooklyn-Lethem
Falling man -delillo
john Banville-the sea
I'm sure there is more,just came get them out now.

the one i reading now henry david thoreau - Walden

So many thanks to all,and i still have a good bit ahead
 
I have gotten into serious reading the past 3 years. Being in this forum has made me look up more older novels to get into. I like historical fiction but now I want to do some reading that makes me want to read a book over and over. As soon as I finish the books I have recently bought, I plan to read the 100 year old books I have , starting off with " A Fair God " by Lew Wallace:)
 
I am embarrassed to say I bought The Pesthouse by Jim Crace after Stewart mentioned it. I have not read it yet but I plan to fairly soon.
 
joderu95 said:
I am embarrassed to say I bought The Pesthouse by Jim Crace after Stewart mentioned it. I have not read it yet but I plan to fairly soon.
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It is a very good book.A bit like the road in the story line but lighter in tone.
I also got the scifi you mention,but as i started with Hamilton-Pandora stars , i give them a go later on.
 
saliotthomas said:
It is a very good book.A bit like the road in the story line but lighter in tone.
I also got the scifi you mention,but as i started with Hamilton-Pandora stars , i give them a go later on.
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Good choice with Pandora's Star. I read that a year or two ago and liked it pretty well.
 
Good question, saliotthomas.

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

I got interested in sea-faring novels because of discussion on this forum at a time when I was looking for something different.

There are books in my tbr stack that came from forum discusions, including Dreams of My Russians Summers by Andrei Makine, Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett, and The First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

Madame Bovary was moved to the top of the pile.
 
I have to credit this forum with a few good gems that I otherwise would've ignored. Lolita is the most prominent one that comes to mind. I tried to read it once during college and got bored with Humbert's first marraige, so I put it down. The world's greatest BOTM discussion then got started and the rest is history. I read a lot more Steinbeck as a result of this forum as well.
 
I've recently bought 'American Pastoral' by Philip Roth after seeing it recommended as one of his best on here, I'm also planning to read 'Lolita' after seeing what lively discussion it provoked on here!
 
I've gotten a few book recommendations here. I can't remember them specifically, though. I think I gave Laurell K. Hamiliton a second try after talking to folks here.
 
lots, just a few that come to mind

im legend
everything is illuminated
blindness
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
 
I've bought some of the Laura Joh Rowland Sano Ichiro novels and have some fantasy series I'm watching at eBay as a result of reading some of these threads. And Collapse came off the "to read" pile and is being read.
 
I could be here all day listing books I've read because BAR members recommended them. I was looking at some of my yearly reading lists before I joined this rag-tag bunch of literary survivalists, and it was amazing (to me anyway) to see the growth and change.
 
That list would be quite long. After I joined in 2004, I quit reading all the harlequin-type novels I used to read and really began stretching out into other genres and have never been able to read another on of those again (thank goodness).

To name a few of the most memorable:
Stanislaw Lem- Solaris
Jose Saramago- Blindness
Umberto Eco- Foucault's Pendulum
Italo Calvino- If on a Winter's Night
Richard Matheson- I am Legend
Gabriel Garcia Marquez- One Hundred Years of Solitude
Annie Proulx- Brokeback Mountain
Jonathan Safran Foer- Everything is Illuminated
Elizabeth Kostova- The Historian

And that's just in the first two years I was a member. My To Read book list is also over 300 titles long, thanks to this place as well.
 
cajunmama said:
. My To Read book list is also over 300 titles long, thanks to this place as well.
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Oh well...I have this three ring binder..ok, I have two three ring binders...one is for my Olympic Challenge stuff and the other is for lists of books that I want to get to some day...then there's my Amazon wishlist...:p
 
I have several Amazon wishlists, according to genre, and my trusty little notebook.

I feel I must add that even when I get a book whose title I didn't get directly from B&R, this forum has helped my tastes in reading change to such a degree that it influences my choices in reading material in general.
 
cajunmama said:
I have several Amazon wishlists, according to genre, and my trusty little notebook.

I feel I must add that even when I get a book whose title I didn't get directly from B&R, this forum has helped my tastes in reading change to such a degree that it influences my choices in reading material in general.
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Absolutely. I'll spot some book and think, "I bet Stewart, Pontalba, Peder, KennyShovel, etc.. would like this..."

Or I'll see the book, and remember who gave it rave reviews.. the influences are just there.
 
im quite new so none yet

but im hoping that my harping on about the pellinor books by alison croggon will persuade a few people to read them,they really are exelent books,and two of the current three in the seiries are in my top three!
 
A couple come to mind, even though I haven't read them, but due to the site I have become aware of them. The books that I became aware of where Revolutionary Road (I think it was book of the month selection) and A Confederacy of Dunces.
 
I am very interested in reading The First Circle (May book of the month)

I have been fascinated by literature about Soviet Russia. Maybe because I studied Russia in History as a subject.
 
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