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I re-read The Great Gatsby,Great Expectations, and The Age of Innocence all at leat once a year. I find their styles and stories comforting, especially after wacky seminar assignments during the school year...
I agree with a lot of the suggestions made so far...
(you've got to know your Bible for reference, anyhow)
Here are some authors I think shouldn't be missed:
Homer, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dickens, Wilde, Conrad, Wharton, Joyce, Faulkner, Nabokov, Borges...
Yes... Irving. I felt like a jackass reading Owen Meany because I was laughing out loud half the time and bawling the other half. The Cider House Rules kept me crying almost from cover to cover. Also, earlier this year I re-read The Sound and the Fury and wept bitterly through all of...
I find that I enjoy Marquez's short stories, but his novels leave me cold. I've only read two novels (Cholera and Solitude) and have forgotten most of them. "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" though, is one of my all-time favorite short stories.
Also, my little brother borrowed Strange...
I just finished a seminar on Joyce...well, I'm writing my term paper...
Anyhow, I agree with the "everyman" suggestion. It's a reset edition from 1961 (I think) and is pretty close to the "original" 1922 publication. I would steer clear of the 1984 Gabler edition, which was a reset that...
"Get Fuzzy" page-a-day calendar sheets--they're stuck in every book I've read in the last two years. I'm glad I use them when I'm in class and not enjoying the discussion or the assigned reading...they're funny and keep me from staring at the clock. For at least a second or so...
I totally agree that Faulkner is a freak. My theory on his wacky syntax is that he wrote while extremely intoxicated and lucked out with his publishers...but even though he's a wildman, I really love his work. The Sound and the Fury, for my money, is one of the best books written in the...
I'm finally finished with my assigned reading for this semester! April went like this:
The Hamlet Faulkner
Go Down, Moses ""
Intruder in the Dust ""
Othello Shakesyourpee-er
Moby-Dick Melville
The Turn of the Screw James
The Fox Lawrence
...and, oh joy! I completed Ulysses-- which I've...
Have you already done the "classic" thirillers? I tend to enjoy them...they're usually short and you can blow through them in an hour over tea. My favorites are ...Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and The Turn of the Screw.
Let me know what you think when you're done w/ The Name of the Rose... I read it last summer and really enjoyed most of it, but thought it could have been done in fewer pages. I found myself getting bored in the middle and it was quite a push to get through what felt dull to get back to the fun...
I'm just going to toss this one out...William Faulkner's Go Down, Moses is pretty outdoorsey. The novel is a compilation of some of his previously published (and re-worked) stories, including "The Bear" and "Delta Autumn." The book focuses primarily on issues of race and environmental...
I've only noticed this type of thing lately-- I've been reading a lot of Faulkner. It got my attention because most of the time he doesn't use apostrophes in his contractions but does in possessives. That's what gets me. I understand the whole modernist notion of creating space in/through a...
Writing in books: I write in almost all of my books, which I know isn't an option if you're reading a borrowed text. I usually first read "quality paperbacks" and if I find I really have enjoyed something, then I'll upgrade to a clothbound copy. When I find a great passage in the cloth copy, I...
I think a bunch of Rice's stuff is great, and it has served its purpose in my reading life. I used to like to read her between big, challenging works (generally assignments) as a sort of palate cleanser. For the most part, I've found her novels easy to get into and easy to forget when I'm done...
Alternatively Ulysses or Finnegans Wake by James Joyce must classify as "weird". Not that I've even completed Finnegans Wake (has anyone?)!
Ulysses IS a trip...I get it-- Joyce is a genius and I am not.
I also find a lot of Kafka very odd...I don't like to read his work before bed. See "A...
The Odyssey (Homer)
Absalom, Absalom! (Faulkner)
Light in August (Faulkner)
The Inferno (Alighieri)
Tribute to Freud (H.D.)
Sanctuary (Faulkner)
Just So Stories (Kipling)
Exactly...I was reading Ulysses in the bathtub and left the copy in the bathroom. It ended up getting pushed around on the floor until one of my friends noticed it and gave me lip for keeping a copy of THE BEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN [...] I said that's where Joyce would have kept it because he'd...
I always use lighter fluid and razor blades to scrape off sticky stuff from books I buy second-hand because I want my books to be MY books--pretty and undamaged by the world. But then, I tend to write in my books...it's an odd possessorship thing I guess.