How about.... books? (the sequel)

[opopopo]

yeah, i know this topic has been done before, but with summer comming up and big plans to lay about in the sun reading and reading, i must know: read any good books lately?

[dolemites_sister]

I'm currently reading Tolkien again..

If anyone has any good books, I like romance, suspense, comedy, sci-fi and fantasy! I"m waiting for your suggestions..
j

[spacehorse]

i'm-a reading gai-jin by james clavell which is ok but not incredible or anything. if i had to reccomend anything i would anti-reccomend the tarzan series of pulp fiction as it is humorously racist and boring. bawring!

[friend]

me and the orgone - orson bean
his accounts on the effects of orgone therapy.

[pepe]

I'm reading "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Very peotic, a lot happening in a few words, and really fun to read!

[dolemites_sister]

Hey Good choice! Marquez is a great author...

j

[ladylamentingonalawnchair]

I just finished China Mountain Zhang by Maureen McHugh. It was wonderful! (look in the scifi section of your library)

[norsu]

I'm very fond of Kafka at the moment. I'll soon read The Castle, which I'm looking forward to. Amerika is a very beautiful book, so is The Trial.

Another author I really love and admire is Robert Walser. He is somehow similar to Kafka, but more light-hearted maybe. He writes like a schoolboy, sometimes quite complicated and often getting very excited about simple things like a spoon.
I can't really tell why I'm so in love with his writings, but do try to find and read The Tanner Siblings or The Robber or any other of his novels or shorter texts.

Then there is Wolfgang Borchert, who wrote a play (The Man Outside) and short stories when returning from WWII already quite sick and dying soon afterwards. He wrote in a sort of race against death trying to finish as much writings as he could, so that they now fill one book, which is one of my favourite books ever. It also includes poems dealing with lanterns and lighthouses. It is most beautiful really, maybe not a light and sunny read for summer though. I found some english translations of his stories here http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~jade/poetry.html (scroll down a good bit, it is called The Sad Geranium) and here http://www.bsu.edu/classes/warner/resource/nachts.html

I have a very nice and warm feeling, just like summer, when rereading children's books, especially the ones by Astrid Lindgren.

[perfectbrokenmirror]

Jack Kerouac -On the Road and The Dharma Bums.
T.S. Eliot - The Wasteland
Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
Truman Capote - Other Voices, Other Rooms
Charles Baudlaire - Les Fleurs de Mal (The Flowers of Evil)


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