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  1. Dan Brown

    Books like "Always Coming Home"?

    I know it's not a book, but somehow when I played Myst back in the day (as well as the sequels) I was reminded of this book. In both cases it was less about a plot and more about the culture, lore, and artifacts of the natives.
  2. Dan Brown

    The most famous you've never read

    Dan Brown. Seen a movie, but based on input from some friends, decided not to read the book.
  3. Dan Brown

    Stephen King: Misery

    Agreed. Other than trying to raise his reader's anxieties through pure torture or the promise of it, this book doesn't do much for me. The Shinning is much much better.
  4. Dan Brown

    Anyone else heavy reader of tech manuals - IT or otherwise...

    I like to try to fix things without reading the manual. Just shooting in the dark. Then, when I fail, I pay to replace them. I see this as money well spent, because I'd much rather pay it than read technical manuals.
  5. Dan Brown

    Autobiographies

    There are lots of good ones. I like Truman by David McCullough. Flows almost like a fiction book, yet very informative and well researched. Truman, as a boy, did not seem like someone who could ever become president of the US, or even get the girl he was desperately in love with, yet he did...
  6. Dan Brown

    Charles Dickens; American Notes

    I remember reading it many years ago. Dickens was not a fan. This was exacerbated by the fact that there were no copyright laws in America at the time, and he felt he was being robbed blind by American publishers, who made a fortune on his books but didn't pay him a dime.
  7. Dan Brown

    Who is the best short story writer?

    Hemingway. If fact, I don't even like his novels that much, but read his short stories a dozen times. I consider him the greatest short story writer, who also happened to dabble in novels.
  8. Dan Brown

    Richard Adams: Watership Down

    The book is very good, though I thought the movie (I'm talking about the 1977-8 animated version) is also excellent.
  9. Dan Brown

    William Golding: Lord Of The Flies

    Or until they know some suffering themselves as they grow up, and learn empathy. Great book, BTW, and if it's a little disturbing, the reason is that it makes us aware of the facts you mentioned above.
  10. Dan Brown

    For All of You Travel Addicts! What is Your Best Travel Novel and Why?

    I believe that the best -- and funniest -- travel novel is Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome. That the book is still in print after 120 years says a lot. Though old, it reads as if it was written today, with observations about human nature that ring as true today as they did back then.
  11. Dan Brown

    Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness Of Being

    Yes. In a weird way it reminded me of Three Men in a Boat, where Jerome also stops the narrative at almost every page to offer a philosophical thought. The difference is that Jerome's thoughts were humorous.
  12. Dan Brown

    Günter Grass: The Tin Drum

    Hmm. You say that the turning point is when Oskar chucks his drum into Mazereths grave and decides to start growing. Could be, but it seems like this occurs too much towards the end of the book for it to be a true turning point. Isn't it more likely that the turning point is when he decides to...
  13. Dan Brown

    Junot Diaz: The Brief And Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao

    I haven't read it, just couldn't help note the similarity between the title and Hemingway's short story: The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
  14. Dan Brown

    Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol

    I just wondered: we all saw the movie(s) again and again. Especially the one with Alistair Sim. But how many have taken the trouble to actually sit down and read the book? I'll go first and admit I haven't. I read several things from Dickens, but someone never felt I needed to read this one...
  15. Dan Brown

    Gabriel García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude

    It's a good read. Stay with it: it gets more interesting as time progresses (revolutions, etc). You'll see that in a weird way it talks about every family and its relation to the rest of humanity.
  16. Dan Brown

    Franz Kafka, The Castle

    Love Kafka but did not read this one yet. Are you saying it is not finished? Is it still worth the effort?
  17. Dan Brown

    F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby

    I do love the book. Its message should be heard loud and clear even today. Just look at one of the last lines: "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back to their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them...
  18. Dan Brown

    George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four

    Read both 1984 and Animal Farm. Both are masterpieces. I prefer Animal Farm, though, as it was less bleak. Not that it wasn't bleak, but nothing like the hopelessness of 1984. 1984 greatly depressed me while Animal Farm (which was based on the Soviet Union) did not. Maybe it's because the Soviet...
  19. Dan Brown

    Problems with Dickens book

    Agree with Meadow. The best example of this is "The Pickwick Papers", which meanders quite a lot as it was originally publish in dozens of installments over magazine pages. It is one of my favorites, however: an engaging, funny book that gives you a glimpse at the absurdities of Victorian...
  20. Dan Brown

    JRR Tolkien and Christopher Tolkien: The Fall of Arthur

    Thanks for the info Spark. I'll definitely give it a chance. Hope not to be disappointed (usually if an author chooses not to publish their work, there's good reason...
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