Jonesy on 2/11/2006 at 20:58
Quote Posted by lomondtaffer
I know I've been inconspicuous by my absence of comments, but like others I've just had nothing new to add. I just wanted to say to whoever put
'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay' forward (too lazy to look it up) Hey, that's a great book, and I'm really enjoying it. I'm loving the book club just for bringing books to my attention that I'd never have chosen by myself.
That was me, and I'm resubmitting it for January's book talk.
'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay' is one good book.
Gorgonseye on 2/11/2006 at 21:02
I am resubmitting The Damnation Game. The book is too good to go unread.
Fingernail on 2/11/2006 at 21:04
Carter Beats the Devil by
Glen David GoldI reckon lots of you would enjoy it, it's a good read, with events based on fact but by far fictionalised and highly entertaining, set in the golden age of stage magic. It's also been a while since I read it so I'd definitely want to read it again.
but don't take my word for it:
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Carter-Beats-Devil-David-Gold/dp/0340794992)
Paz on 2/11/2006 at 22:36
Totally submitting Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Murder! Memory! Metaphysics!
Scots Taffer on 2/11/2006 at 23:52
Quote Posted by Fingernail
Carter Beats the Devil by
Glen David GoldI know both myself and Stitch have read this. I read it back in 2002 and it was a brilliant book then, albeit with minor flaws, but I didn't read it with a literary hat on. I second this submission, as it's probably worth a rereading.
Tonamel on 3/11/2006 at 02:27
While a bit late for the ghostly season, I submit Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House"
Jan on 3/11/2006 at 16:51
Ok, so I have been a goddamn lurking slacker, but will try to come out of my shell more.
I submit "Never let me go" by Kazuo Ishiguro, an amazing book I've read before but wouldn't mind at all reading again.
"Time Magazine named it the best fiction novel of 2005 and included it in All-TIME 100 Greatest Novels. While it contains many tropes generally associated with science fiction, it was marketed as mainstream literature." from
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Let_Me_Go)
CAREFUL though, lots of spoilers on that site, and the book is best when knowing very little about it, watching the story und its horrors unfold.
Jennie&Tim on 4/11/2006 at 18:22
I don't know if it's literary enough or not, but I'd submit The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency for January. It's a cheerful book and an easy read, without being sugary-sweet. It has a splash of interest from the setting, Botswana, and a lot of humanity.
I've put a hold on Motherless Brooklyn at my library, and hope to join the discussion in December.
Stitch on 8/11/2006 at 20:41
Just started Motherless Brooklyn last night. Any book that kicks off with a guy calming his tourettes through the consumption of White Castle sliders is already a win in my book.
More importantly, I'm going to hold the floor open one more day for January submissions. 24 hours left to get in your candidate, peeps, and then it's off to the polls :cool:
Aja on 9/11/2006 at 02:21
This'll never get voted for, but I'll throw it in anyway. I read D.H. Lawrence's Women In Love for a class this year, and enjoyed it thoroughly.
Here's a better description than I could give:
Quote:
Women In Love, the book Lawrence considered his best, was written during World War I, and while that conflict is never mentioned in the novel, a sense of background danger, of lurking catastrophe, continually informs its drama of two couples dynamically engaged in a struggle with themselves, with each other, and with life's intractable limitations. Lawrence was a powerful, prophetic writer, but in addition he brought such delicacy to his treatment of the human and natural worlds that E. M. Forster's claim that he was the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation does him too little justice rather than too much.
Lawrence's writing style is unlike any I've read, and his portrayal of human consciousness is remarkably complex and interesting. The novel is heavily philisophical, and difficult in parts, but overall it's a fascinating insight into human behaviour.
