book recommendationrahrahhaganahMarch 8 2005, 21:58:19 UTC
It may not be the style of book you usually read -- actually what am i talking about, i have no idea what you read other than i think you like dave eggers-- but "As A Driven Leaf" by Milton Steinberg really changed my life. It is from the era of the Talmud and it is about the rabbi who renounced God and got excommunicated and all. Really great, and it changed my view on religion and the universe.
Well, this isn't Emma but it's in the spirit of Emmaemmalicous44March 9 2005, 00:05:45 UTC
This is Jonah, a smaller, more concise Furman. I propose to you an author: Chuck Palahniuk... He's the best in the world he's the ish to me forget the other authors. Seriuosly. He wrote Fight Club, Choke, Survivor, Lullaby, Invisible Monsters, and probly some other stuff. I've read Fight Club and I'm reading Survivor and they are seriously the most creative books/storylines/writing style I've ever witnessed. Goodday.
Re: Well, this isn't Emma but it's in the spirit of EmmarudedmcMarch 9 2005, 02:49:52 UTC
NOt that I disagree with your assessment of the book, but with my infinite knowledge of DVD commentary I learned that Edward Norton and the rest of the crew associated with the movie fight club were concerned it would not get good reviews or be a good movie because the concept of having two characters being one character is supposedly one of the oldest character-tricks in the book.
I havent ever seen it before and fight club rocks.
As far as books, I'm reading Brown by Richard Rodriguez which may be interesting to read as you live in California. But for more of a California tinge, I plan on re-reading Grapes of Wrath soon. Why? It rocksmysocks13.
Re: Well, this isn't Emma but it's in the spirit of Emmadirtyhippy13March 9 2005, 03:09:28 UTC
jonah, im way ahead of you. i read and reread chuck p. a long time ago. thanks for your suggestion though. i wish i could recommend something to you that was in the same genre but no one is quite as creatively twisted as he is. he sent my friend steve a necklace with his own hair braided into it.
If you're sick of reading perspectives of the east, read the fictional perspective of an eastman! Everyone (not really) knows about Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses--you may want to try Midnight's Children, which is probably a slightly less magical realist account of India and Islam.
And, as long as you're asking for recommendations, I may as well selfishly recommend my favorite author, Neal Stephenson. He's written a variety of fiction and science fiction, which are basically really exciting and intuitive books, but his latest series "The Baroque Cycle" is a historical fiction three-part novel on the late 17th/early 18th centuries. Incorporates fictional characters with the real (e.g. Newton, King Louis XIV), and basically discusses as thoroughly as a fictional series might the political and religious landscape of the time. But, being told through the storylines of a number of characters involved in the landscape, you're not really thinking about that. Everything is so amazingly-beautifully tied together. One of the wittiest
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thanks for the suggestions. i'll have to check out rushdie, ive recently become a big fan of the whole magical realism thing thanks to reading a few gabriel garcia marquez books. also im not usually a big fan of the fictional historical books unless the writings is unusally good but this stephenson seems interesting. he has quite the flashy self-promotional website. as for isherwood, im fairly certain i started reading that book but i cant remember if i finished/liked it. but i usually like travel journal stuff so i can only imagine that i did actually like the guy. i might just have to borrow it.
Re: Try the classicsdirtyhippy13March 9 2005, 21:43:57 UTC
i like your new icon! also, started the time travelers wife but didnt like it when you all were reading it last year in csatle's class. but i did forget until just now that i have the sisterhood of the traveling pants to read so ill start in on that. anything else youve read good lately?
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I havent ever seen it before and fight club rocks.
As far as books, I'm reading Brown by Richard Rodriguez which may be interesting to read as you live in California. But for more of a California tinge, I plan on re-reading Grapes of Wrath soon. Why? It rocksmysocks13.
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I've seen the necklace.
It's still creepy he made steve a necklace though.
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And, as long as you're asking for recommendations, I may as well selfishly recommend my favorite author, Neal Stephenson. He's written a variety of fiction and science fiction, which are basically really exciting and intuitive books, but his latest series "The Baroque Cycle" is a historical fiction three-part novel on the late 17th/early 18th centuries. Incorporates fictional characters with the real (e.g. Newton, King Louis XIV), and basically discusses as thoroughly as a fictional series might the political and religious landscape of the time. But, being told through the storylines of a number of characters involved in the landscape, you're not really thinking about that. Everything is so amazingly-beautifully tied together. One of the wittiest ( ... )
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