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They provide free copies of the NYT at my university, so I'm taking advantage of that as much as I can during my stay here.

William Golding wrote a trilogy of seafaring books. You probably can't go too wrong with him. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_the_Ends_of_the_Earth

"I am not dying," said Rumfoord. "I am merely taking my leave of the solar system. And I am not even doing that. In the grand, in the timeless, in the chronosynclastic infundibulated way of looking at things. I shall always be here. I shall always be wherever I've been. "Whatever we've said...

A Very Long Engagement by Sebastian Japrisot uses World War I as a background.

Probably shouldn't take offense. I think there is somewhat of a cultural notion, at least within the United States, that atheists are at least less likely to be moral than other groups. Here's an interesting article...

Twilight of the Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg American Gods by Neil Gaiman Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but there's always Hero and House of Flying Daggers by Zhang Yimou.

I just picked up Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem, and Modest Mouse. And Andrew Bird is on the to-pick up list.

Now here is a book worthy of dissection. Mostly, I'm curious as to the ways the stories more subtly intertwined (rather than the comet and the story-within-a-story stuff). For example: Swannekke is both a tribe mentioned in Swoosha's Crossin' (according to the Prescient, at least) and the...

Black Swan Green by David Mitchell Arthur & George by Julian Barnes The People's Act of Love by James Meek The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich The March by E.L. Doctorow The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco

Winslet is the best actress of her generation, and I'm warming up to DiCaprio. More importantly, who's directing?

The problem with fair use is it is so ambiguous. You may use a good part of one work and be fine, then use one line of a song or poem and find yourself with a lawsuit on your hands. However, this is the courts' reasoning: as long as your use does not have an impact on the commercial viability...

I was about to make the same remark.

New authors? I wouldn't say Palahniuk or Moore are new by any stretch.

I disliked 300 to the point at which I thought it was necessary to create a blog to share my feelings about it. To be succinct, not a fan.

It's not fictional, to be fair, but I hear you can't go too wrong with James Ellroy.

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. Not simply my favorite "classic" but my favorite book, period.

If you guys don't know who I picked, I might as well stop posting here. Bellow is dead as well. And I was also struck by the conspicuous absence of Joyce Carol Oates.

I'm not sure whether this post was made to start a flame war or was simply well-intentioned but thoroughly misguided. Language is a shared knowledge of symbols; as far I know, one's racial composition does not make one more or less adept in the communication of such symbols, even if he or she...

I nominate Enduring Love by Ian McEwan.