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Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright The Plague by Albert Camus The Fall by Albert Camus Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy Libra by Don DeLillo Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov The Known World by Edward P. Jones Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami The Master...

Hey everybody! Thanks. I don't venture from the book discussions too often, but this thread's presence on the front page just happened to catch my eye. Just wanted to say I appreciated it.

This one was on my to-read list, but I believe it just went up a few notches.

Well, now that the thread has been resurrected, how about Cormac McCarthy's new book The Road?

I like Murakami a lot, having read The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Sputnik Sweetheart. He's seems a bit more of a "pop" novelist, and I wouldn't put him in the company of the aforementioned writers, but he does have an uncanny talent for rendering marvelous symbolism. I'm pulling for my...

The Communist Manifesto is a nice summary to Marx's philosophy as well as a useful recruiting tool, but, of all the Marx works I've read, it's definitely the least philosophically intricate. If you're really looking to delve into Marx's viewpoint, I'd go with the German Ideology or the Economic...

I hope you enjoy it. Its selection finally encouraged me to read it, and it catapaulted itself onto the list of my favorite books immediately.

I think it's interesting that both Roth (who is usally rather verbose) and McCarthy, two of America's best living novelists still working today, have both written sparse, bleak novellas this year. Perhaps they're just attempting to make up for Pynchon's inevitable hunk of a book.

Oh, I still see those around. I picked up One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Master and the Margarita.

Crabwalk and The Tin Drum by Günter Grass are supposedly excellent.

Yes, but by all accounts it wasn't very good.

The Human Stain by Philip Roth

I've got 36 waiting on my shelf... Here's some highlights, including a few that I gave a start and couldn't get into immediately... got to give 'em a second chance. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy Libra by Don DeLillo Lolita...

Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami ... School's started again...

Sounds damn good.

Ooh, I read a work compiled and edited by Zillah Eisenstein last year for a report on socialist feminism. "The Case for Socialist Feminism," I believe it was called. I suppose some more mainstream names would be Nancy Chodorow and bell hooks.

I've actually left bookstores only to travel to another bookstore to pick up a copy of the same book I was looking at just because it wasn't in the most pristine condition.

Foremost, I recommend Going After Cacciato, as its written by Tim O' Brien, and you seem to like his work. Secondly, I'd recommend my favorite novel, Catch-22, an amazing work that captures the absurdity of war perfectly while satirizing bureaucracy. Also, try Meditations in Green by Stephen...

Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami

I don't think I've read enough to participate, but I'd just like to mention Gabriel García Márquez, Kurt Vonnegut, and Philip Roth as prolific and acclaimed 20th century authors.