I'm about halfway through The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters and am finding it hard to put down. I'm leaving for London tomorrow and am NOT going to take it with me.

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The Fortress of Solitude, Jonathan Lethem
Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
Delta of Venus, Anais Nin
VALIS, Philip K Dick
Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu
The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula Le Guin
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
Only Forward, ( Read more... )

Do you recommend his/her best or less than best? When I was in college a friend got me Leave it to Psmith, which I think is Wodehouse's best book--but since the first book of his that I ever read was the best, every other Wodehouse book has been a disappointment. If you recommend an author's best book, and the recommend-ee reads it, he/she won't ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I had one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._G._Sebald

I just finished Rings of Saturn, which a friend recommended, and it was beautiful.

It strikes me as peculiar that nothing online about him has any information about his personal life, and as far as I can tell the two most readily available books about him aren't really biographical.

Is there a book about female military commanders? I just asked a friend and she said 'you mean like Honor Harrington?' No, I mean real ones.

http://www.amazon.com/100-Must-Read-Books-The-Essential-Man-s-Library-Part-I/lm/RCN3MKLVVPRXV/ref=cm_lm_byauthor_title_fullRead more... )

So the "first" review of The Original of Laura came out recently, and I've been fuming about the whole damn issue all over again. Something about a son ignoring his father's wishes and thus allowing a sensational writing reputation to be rounded off on such a flat note of public "disappointment" is, in my opinion, quite disrespectful. Certainly, ( Read more... )

The Soul Thief-Charles Baxter The Picture of Dorian Grey-Oscar Wilde Villette-Charlotte Bronte Middlemarch-George Elliot Folly-Laurie R. King The Story of O-Pauline Reage The Prophet- Kahlil Gibran Moby Dick-Herman Melville Doomsday Book-Connie Willis Dreams of Terror and Death: The Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraft-HP Lovecraft Lolita- Vladimir ( Read more... )