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[balonie]

Please tell me about your favourite books. I am desparate for a good read.

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[cerulean_eyes]

'Gormenghast' by Mervyn Peake.
'Amber Chronicles' by Roger Zelazny.
'The Book of Saladin' by Tariq Ali
'Gloriana' by Michael Moorcock.
'Behold the Man' by Michael Moorcock.
'Bring me the head of Prince Charming' by Roger Zelazny and Robert Sheckley.
'Neuromancer' by William Gibson.
'Ender's Game' by Jason Scott Card.
'Seducer's Diary' by Søren Kierkegaard.
'The Left Hand of Darkness' by Ursula K. Le Guin.
'The Stain on the Snow' by Georges Simenon.

:)

[balonie]

Oh my gosh. Thank you sooooooooo much. I haven't read a single one of these which probably means I have been living in a cave for the past decade or so(which is true).

Re: :)

[cerulean_eyes]

You're very welcome. ;) You know, I envy you if you haven't read these! I'd like to read them without knowing what happens next again. Alas, I've read them all at least 15 times. ;)

[erjika]

;_; Nina has good taste in books and I have nothing to add but fluff. Wah!

[of_doom]

- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon (though it might be more of a summer book than a winter book)
- The Confessions of Max Tivoli and The Path of Minor Planets by Andrew Sean Greer
- Anthropology of an American Girl, by H.T. Hamann (YOU WOULD ADORE THIS I THINK)

♥!

[balonie]

Anthropology of an American Girl is one tough cookie to crack. In the end, I found I could only read it inparts and could never make a whole.

P.S. I could really use a bite of summer.

This is probably not very helpful . . .

[loftily]

Bend Sinister by Nabokov was hard but rewarding.

Mrs. Dalloway was better.

No one is as good as Jeanette Winterson.

I loved The Time Traveler's Wife.

I just finished The Namesake for class and liked it very much. Linmark's Rolling the R's was far more interesting, however. And speaking of Asian American literature, I am very much intrigued by what I'm reading of Kimiko Hahn right now.

I want to read more Haruki Murakami. Until I do, here is something.

You should find a way to read the short story "Snow" by Ann Beattie, if you haven't read it.

You have probably already read The God of Small Things, one of my all time favorite books.

Have you read At Swim, Two Boys?

Subscribe to Bookmarks! It is a fantastic magazine. If only I had the money to buy all the books I see in there and want to read.

Re: This is probably not very helpful . . .

[balonie]

You have serious literary taste which I have always admired, but you know, I tend to shy away from classics. I go for obscure, plain little modern books, gathering dust on shelves, waiting for me to discover them.

That said I am going to try everything on this list. Thanks so much for the recs love.

[tombflower]

Dance Dance Dance and Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami;
Echo and Witch Baby by Francesca Lia Block;
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides;
Snow by Maxence Fermine.

*winks*

[balonie]

Equal parts naughty and nice.

[wonderlessalice]

I second Echo and the Time Traveler's Wife.

Also:
Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman, House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende, Winter's Taleby Mark Helprin, The Cave by Jose Saramago, One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman.

You might like The City, Not Long After.

I've recently fallen in love with poems by Anna Akhmatova - she understands my soul.

[balonie]

South American literature is a particular favourite of mine. I am fascinated by the way these writers think, their perosnal mythology and family histories, and the way these are morphed into their stories.

Thank you for the recs. <3