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Where do I start? Juan Rulfo and Carlos Fuentes - Mexico Miguel Angel Asturias - Guatemala Cortazar and Borges - Argentina Jorge Amado - Brazil Carpentier and Cabrera Infante - Cuba Peter Abrahams - South Africa (there is another author with the same name from somewhere else, so make sure you...

I'm really going to date myself here but, does anyone remember Manix (can't even remember the spelling), Mission Impossible - the series, not the films-, The Virginian? I even liked Skippy at the time (Yeah, I know).:o

Another book I didn't dare to post was "War in the land of Egypt", not because of the book itself but because of the name of the author, but he was around long before those murderers were and has nothing to do with them.

Wait, get him a beer and some valium first. Tie his hands so he doesn't tear his hair off. Hope you had a nice holiday. Happy reading!

You won't get a headache with that. I haven't made it to Ulysses or Finnegan's Wake either, but I mean to read them some day.

Dorian, take 'Dubliners' out of wherever you buried it. You will find nothing daunting there.

You used to be able to choose between a British and an American translation. That's happening less often now because publishing companies have merged or been taken over, so there is only one translation with slight adjustments.

Sometimes it's a question of choosing between translations. When I try to get Platonov's Foundation Pit, it was out of print and I was told the publisher was considering whether it would reprint it or not. It seemed the publisher had been thinking about it for a few years, so I looked for...

Welcome to the forum. I find it hard to choose a couple of favourite authors. Did Edward Said write any fiction? I only know him as a non-fiction writer.

Locos sounds a little like 'Characters in search of an author', although that is play, not a novel. Are there any connections between them?

I read Words and Blood, a collection of short stories he wrote when he was young. They are very poignant and satyric. His writing changed after his religious conversion, and his later works, which I have not read, have religious themes. It is a very interesting author.

Welcome to the forum, Dorian:)

I am not sure this is a good definition. I read mystery books but not usually horror books. I would say a mystery book becomes horror when it does not matter who committed the crimes and why and the focus is on the crimes themselves, usually very gory. But as I said, I don't really read horror...

Your mum is calling you for dinner. Go home quickly or you'll get grounded and stop playing with matches before you burn your fingers.

When I first saw this thread I felt so flattered. Illiterate was my username in another forum, so I thought he wanted to create a front to liberate me.:o Disappointed, jumps from the tallest building

I thought Wabbit would mention this one, Love in the Times of Cholera by Garcia Marquez.

Potemkin is one of my favourites too, as are many of Chaplin's. Another one is Fritz Lang's Metropolis.

I think one of the problems may be the first post in a thread. If the post says 'Has anyone read this' and nobody has, there will be no replies. We could have sticky threads by subject, where people could add books as they read them and others could look for suggestions.

What do you think of this?