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The book I almost compulsively recommend is Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany.

and I'm sorry I haven't figured out italics yet...

I just responed (sort of) to a post about Arthuriana, and was suprised that no one has mentioned Steinbeck's The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights. I had never enjoyed reading Steinbeck until I was assigned this book, which I thought was great. I especially liked Steinbeck's attention...

I did an Arthurian Lit. class last semester...what archetypes are you looking for? Christ figures? The witch? The seer?

What gets me down isn't the "jealous reader," but folks who NEVER read what you recommend. And, bless their hearts, they're always the ones who are telling you what to read...I guess I'm just looking for some recommend-reciprocity. I mean, I gave Salinger another shot and read the whole LotR...

Unfortunately, all I read was for school... The Ego and the Id (Freud) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce) Dubliners (Joyce) Flags in the Dust (Faulkner) The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner) As I Lay Dying (Faulkner) Selected Short Stories of William Faulkner The Scandal of...

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I'm starting to work on a term paper for a psychoanalytic theory course, and my topic is the doppelganger/double/monstrous "I" in literature. I'm trying to read as many pieces as I can on the subject and so far I've got "William Wilson" (Poe), The Stepford Wives, Fight Club, some Borges...

I have seen the opening lines of Lolita and One Hundred Years of Solitude mentioned and agree completely that they're two of the best. I'd add the first sentences of The Great Gatsby and (my translation anyhow) of The House of Spirits.

I read David Copperfield over Christmas break and found myself really identifying with Steerforth (maybe I was feeling subconsciously guilty about something)...and I was upset when he turned out to be such a cad...most of the time though, I tend to be more like Wooster to my little sister's Jeeves.

The only Cather I've read is Death Comes for the Archbishop, and I found it very dull...so I wouldn't recommend using that title.

I enjoy children's lit., and think it's nice to keep in touch with the books that put up with me learning to read and write-- the books that set me on the path to loving to read as an adult. Some lose a bit when re-visited as a grown-up, but a lot of the books I read as a kid hold up well. My...

The thing about the LotR is that we need some sort of reading guide for it...I read Fellowship and swore never to touch the other two books-- I thought the first was mostly awful (short folk, big feet, Tom Bombadill--I don't want to read this stuff...). I loved Two Towers and Return, and was...

I'm doing a Faulkner seminar this semester, and just finished S&F myself. I'd forgotten how amazing that book is...Caddy just breaks your heart. If I were to recommend a place to start w/ Faulkner, I'd agree that Light in August or maybe his collected short stories are good jumping-off points.

Try Johhny Got His Gun...I don't remember the author's name off the top of my head, but it was a horrible war book...banned for a while after its publication.