Hockeynut! wrote:I can get so much real enjoyment out of life that those things won't give me. Those are just trappings that tie me down and prevent me from doing something more meaningful.
It sounds like you have it right, to me.

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Hockeynut! wrote:I can get so much real enjoyment out of life that those things won't give me. Those are just trappings that tie me down and prevent me from doing something more meaningful.
Godric wrote:Faulkner, Tolstoy, and A. Huxley are far and away my favorite authors on what I've read in the last couple years
Random, I know, but I was wondering if anyone could recommend someone
shafnutz05 wrote:Frank Herbert's Dune...amazing
MRandall25 wrote:Whatever you do, do not attempt to read The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne.
It's near impossible to follow. Supposed to read like an autobiography of sorts, but instead turns into a gigantic cluster**** because he can't stay on the story line for more than a page without having to digress and write 5 pages on why one little thing happened how it did.
Then there's an entire chapter devoted to why he has to digress. It's a mess.
Gaucho wrote:Not much is going on. Despite the racist undertones, I likeHeart if Darkness very much and I do think that Conrad is a great stylist. I'm not sure, however, if Conrad would agree with the reception by both the critics and the readers over the years. To an extent, the novel has become much more than it - or Conrad - ever intended it to be, but that's just how literature works sometimes, and it doesn't really matter if Conrad likes the interpretations or not. The novel is a bit like Kafka without trying to be Kafka.
Godric wrote:Faulkner, Tolstoy, and A. Huxley are far and away my favorite authors on what I've read in the last couple years
Random, I know, but I was wondering if anyone could recommend someone
jmh470 wrote:Having endured Dune recently, I say turn back. The world he created is interesting enough, but I found Herbert's characters too cliche and his writing too tedious. Not a Sci-fi classic for me.
Troy Loney wrote:Godric wrote:Faulkner, Tolstoy, and A. Huxley are far and away my favorite authors on what I've read in the last couple years
Random, I know, but I was wondering if anyone could recommend someone
I assume you've read Dosteovsky, but I would certainly suggest him for your taste. I've been reading all classics lately so I probably can't tell you anything you haven't heard before, but as for modern stuff, I highly recommend tackling Infinite Jest, and this book have been highly recommended by a friend of mine.
http://www.amazon.com/HHhH-Novel-Lauren ... 0374169918
Gaucho wrote:Troy Loney wrote:Godric wrote:Faulkner, Tolstoy, and A. Huxley are far and away my favorite authors on what I've read in the last couple years
Random, I know, but I was wondering if anyone could recommend someone
I assume you've read Dosteovsky, but I would certainly suggest him for your taste. I've been reading all classics lately so I probably can't tell you anything you haven't heard before, but as for modern stuff, I highly recommend tackling Infinite Jest, and this book have been highly recommended by a friend of mine.
http://www.amazon.com/HHhH-Novel-Lauren ... 0374169918
Infinite Jest has been sitting on my shelf like a brick for some time now. Literally. Since everything else by Wallace ranges from terrific to tedious I've been reluctant to tackle that monster. Next year maybe.
Gaucho wrote:Godric wrote:Faulkner, Tolstoy, and A. Huxley are far and away my favorite authors on what I've read in the last couple years
Random, I know, but I was wondering if anyone could recommend someone
Thomas Pynchon, Jonathan Lethem, Cormac McCarthy, Jorge Luis Borges, James Joyce, Thomas Mann, Graham Greene, Paul Auster, Samuel Beckett, Julian Barnes, Bruce Chatwin. You can thank me later.
Troy Loney wrote:Have you read any other Woolf? I read To the Lighthouse this year and had immense trouble following it....so I'm now interested in trying anything else from her...unless I learn that her other stuff is more accessible (nice way of putting easier)
canaan wrote:Troy Loney wrote:Have you read any other Woolf? I read To the Lighthouse this year and had immense trouble following it....so I'm now interested in trying anything else from her...unless I learn that her other stuff is more accessible (nice way of putting easier)
To the Lighthouse is a mediocre attempt at stream of consciousness--its not worth the effort, in my opinion. The Waves is okay but nothing fantastic.
The Years is probably my 2nd favorite behind Mrs. Dalloway.
At the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal. Hapless veterans of World War II, Archie and Samad and their families become agents of England’s irrevocable transformation. A second marriage to Clara Bowden, a beautiful, albeit tooth-challenged, Jamaican half his age, quite literally gives Archie a second lease on life, and produces Irie, a knowing child whose personality doesn’t quite match her name (Jamaican for “no problem”). Samad’s late-in-life arranged marriage (he had to wait for his bride to be born), produces twin sons whose separate paths confound Iqbal’s every effort to direct them, and a renewed, if selective, submission to his Islamic faith. Set against London’s racial and cultural tapestry, venturing across the former empire and into the past as it barrels toward the future, White Teeth revels in the ecstatic hodgepodge of modern life, flirting with disaster, confounding expectations, and embracing the comedy of daily existence.
eddysnake wrote:White Teeth by Zadie Smith. Good read
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