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Holy crap, someone who loves Philip Roth as much as I do... I've read Goodbye, Columbus; Portnoy's Complaint, The Ghost Writer, The Counterlife (my personal favorite), The Facts, Operation Shylock, Sabbath's Theater, American Pastoral, The Human Stain, and The Plot Against America -- and would...

I nominate Libra by Don DeLillo. Again, as my last three nominations were, chosen by the NYT panel as one of the greatest novels of the past twenty-five years.

Well, you're welcome to steal from my to-read list, stuff I've continually put off due to my busy school schedule. But Christmas break is finally just around the corner... 1. The Road by Cormac McCarthy 2. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami 3. Libra by Don DeLillo 4. Cloud Atlas by...

Really? All I've read of Beloved were the opening lines and those were immediately caught in my head. 124 was spiteful. Full of a baby's venom.

Philip Roth's The Counterlife, five separate and contradictory narratives with a postmodern tie in one of the chapters Operation Shylock: Philip Roth travels through Israel looking for his doppelganger and explores the nature of identity

Introductions have a nasty habit of nonchalantly mentioning essential plot elements. Then again, if Philip Roth wrote more introductions, I probably wouldn't mind them as much. :rolleyes:

I've actually had to buy two copies of Catch-22. The first started falling apart from re-reading it and lending it to all my friends. Have a nice hardcover version now.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6495816 Winner for fiction: The Echo Maker by Richard Powers Looks like an interesting read. I've added it to my list.

I haven't read any books from this year so far... I do have The Road and The Looming Tower sitting on my shelf for winter break. Then I have Black Swan Green; Everyman; Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman; and The Amalgamation Polka sitting on my Christmas list. And I'm rather interested in Special...

In imagining the series into a world in which actions have consequences and dismissing the former discrete romantization of violence, I have to say the film has a lot in common with Michael Mann's "Miami Vice" that came out earlier this year.

My favorite book: Catch-22. It may not be exactly what you're looking for (It could, with minor changes, rather easily take place during any other war.) but I'm afraid it does meet your criteria. If you're looking for movies, check out Army of Shadows, about the French resistance. After more...

While Kafka is completely worthy selection for this month (or, rather, because of it), I suggest that we instead look at "The Complete Stories," seen here: http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Stories-Franz-Kafka/dp/0805210555 I own the earlier-nominated work and was displeased with its...

I suggest Raymond Carver's Where I'm Calling From I'd also like to mention that this work was nominated as one of the best pieces of fiction within the last twenty-five years by a New York Times-selected panel.

Well, to get back to thread's original purpose... http://www.myspace.com/silent_sabotage

Hey, plenty of more renowned authors have taken the same tragic path. Ernest Hemingway, Jerzy Kosinski, Primo Levi, Sylvia Plath, Hunter S. Thompson, Virginia Woolf, John Kennedy Toole.

Blankets by Craig Thompson. So good... The Road is up next.

I think Gabriel García Márquez has a real knack for titles. Love in the Time of Cholera, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

At my local used, I came up with a bunch of old hardcover books the owner had misplaced long ago. So I was upset when he ended up taking William Golding's Darkness Visible away from me to price it more accurately, but at least now I can tell you there are such websites out there that will tell...

Wow, that's incredibly disappointing. I really wish those had come out just a year ago before I went and bought all the graphic novel collections. Speaking of high-brow comic collections seeing the light of day once again...

Anyone picked up Fragile Things yet? I know there are some diehard Gaiman fans in here...