suggestions...lilaznbananaJuly 7 2005, 19:36:47 UTC
madame bovary (don't know who it's by, but everyone says i should read it) stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers by mary roach (reading it right now. fantastic!) in the name of salome by julia alvarez (read it for my mothers and daughters in lit class... SO GOOD) anything by evelina galang, my creative writing prof from this past semester... i think she only has short stories out right now, but she's good. and also, her novel is coming... all's fair: love, war, and running for president by james carville and mary matalin
and i don't know, i was actually walking around the upper west wide with my friend mia and we stopped by a book vendor on the street. i picked 'the sound and the fury' out for her to read, and she's almost done. i only read a few short stories by him a long time ago, so maybe i should borrow it from her. i'll put it on the list.
I'm with you on Staggering Genius, but if you want a good read pick up Mcsweeney's Issue #15. The first story in there is probably one of the most haunting, beautiful short stories I have ever read.
1. Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude is a masterpiece, Andrew. My favorite book, in fact. (Which was a hard choice with my debilitating indecisiveness.) Though, if you're to read it soon, you might want to avoid my second-to-last Live Journal post.
2. Steve Martin's first novella, Shopgirl, is brilliant, as are many of his plays.
3. And (this I tell you with hesitation because it's my favorite obscure, pretentious Canadian novel) Michael Turner's The Pornographer's Poem should jump up to the top of that there list. It's... absolutely riveting.
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stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers by mary roach (reading it right now. fantastic!)
in the name of salome by julia alvarez (read it for my mothers and daughters in lit class... SO GOOD)
anything by evelina galang, my creative writing prof from this past semester... i think she only has short stories out right now, but she's good. and also, her novel is coming...
all's fair: love, war, and running for president by james carville and mary matalin
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And where is Faulkner?
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and i don't know, i was actually walking around the upper west wide with my friend mia and we stopped by a book vendor on the street. i picked 'the sound and the fury' out for her to read, and she's almost done. i only read a few short stories by him a long time ago, so maybe i should borrow it from her. i'll put it on the list.
thanks!
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By the way, that interjection is only an "ugh" because the book is so disgustingly grand.
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a heartbreaking work of staggering genius by dave eggers
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and what's the toole about?
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2. Steve Martin's first novella, Shopgirl, is brilliant, as are many of his plays.
3. And (this I tell you with hesitation because it's my favorite obscure, pretentious Canadian novel) Michael Turner's The Pornographer's Poem should jump up to the top of that there list. It's... absolutely riveting.
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