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Re: favorite books?
Tue, August 21, 2007 - 4:36 PMthis stemmed from this thread
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trying to get all the books stuff on one thread- here is what shayde wrote in the other thread
Tue, August 21, 2007 - 5:03 PMRead Geek Love and a Confedracy of Dunces, great picks.
I'll add :
"A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" - Dave Eggers
"The Almighty Ones" - Mary Brown
"The Mists of Avalon" - Marion Zimmer Bradley (yeah yeah I know everyone's read it but still...)
"Said the Shotgun to the Head" - Saul Williams (fucking LOVE that book!)
"No One Belongs Here More Than You" - Miranda July
and anything by Pablo Neruda....but only if you want to tear your heart out and drink it soaked in cabernet. -
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rebecca said...
Tue, August 21, 2007 - 5:03 PMAnyone have any good suggestions? Geek Love, Confederacy of Dunces, Baron in trhe Trees, Love is a Dog from Hell, and the World According to Garp are the first faves of mine that come to mind for an idea of what I like. -
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Re: rebecca said...
Tue, August 21, 2007 - 5:07 PMThanks, Faern! Right now I"m reading the Osamu Tezuka "Buddha" manga series. I'm loving it and realizing I haven't read an actual novel in almost a year!
I'm open to suggestions. I might check out the Saul Williams Shadye suggested. -
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Re: rebecca said...
Tue, August 21, 2007 - 5:09 PMFrom my profile:
Man's Search for Meaning, The Dictionary, Love is a Dog from Hell (anything by Bukowski), Mankiller: A Chief and Her People, Geek Love, Confederacy of Dunces, Baron in the Trees, The Souls of Black Folk, In Cold Blood, Body (or anything by Harry Crews), Norton Anthology of African-American Literature, Dictionary of American Slang, Primate Adaptation and Evolution, The Dhammapada, Speak Bird Speak Again: An Anthology of Palestinian-Arab folktales, John Irving, Iceberg Slim, Donald Goines, Chester Himes, Dorothy Allison, Jerzy Kosinski, Poe, Dickinson, Folktales, Myths and Legends, especially Celtic, Nordic or Native American, Sylvia Plath...
So, any suggestions based on my likings would be great! Or anything way off even better.
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i still think you should try
Tue, August 21, 2007 - 5:11 PM'the love of vishnu'
by manil suri
but i have to think before i make this list for real... -
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Re: i still think you should try
Tue, August 21, 2007 - 11:06 PMI will check that out for sure. -
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Wed, August 22, 2007 - 2:07 PMI just picked up "The Death of Vishnu" and "Until I find You" by John Irving. Couldn't find the Saul Williams. I'm just into the first 20 pages of Vishnu and already enjoying it greatly. Thanks, Faern!
Also, I just got a Oakland Library card today. Yay! I have one for Berkeley, but the OPL is right next to my work. Hello lunch hour! -
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Wed, August 22, 2007 - 2:25 PMoh geezuz i wrote love instead of death- ha, it weirdly applies to the book!
all he libraries have been closed for renovations that are near me for so so so long i am not even sure where they are...
i think one opened recently... -
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from the other thread
Fri, September 7, 2007 - 2:28 PMJohn Irvin's "Hotel New Hampshire" is another great read. Twisted like Garp.
If you want heavy but interesting and compelling, I got a good read out of "Middlesex" buy Jeffrey... (last name slips my mind - same guy that wrote "The Virgin Suicides").
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and yes, i was a littlew too lazy to combine them in one entry...
Fri, September 7, 2007 - 2:29 PMJeffery Eugenides I think...ha, There...
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faern's book list { in no particular order }
Fri, September 7, 2007 - 5:05 PMTHE BELL JAR sylvia plath
DHARMA BUMS jack kerouac
SOUTH OF THE PUMPHOUSE les claypool
THE FIRST THIRD neal cassady
ANIMAL DREAMS barbara kingsolver
LONESOME TRAVELER jack kerouac
CANE jean toomer
THE BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE carson mccullers
WISE BLOOD flannery o'connor
JUNKY willam s. burroughs
THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD zora neale hurston
THE RAG DOLL PLAGUES alejandro morales
CEREMONY leslie marmon silko
A CONEY ISLAND OF THE MIND lawrence ferlinghetti
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE roxanna robinson
BELOVED toni morrison
more another time.... -
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Sat, September 8, 2007 - 10:11 AMhmmm I don't get much time to read. Teaching English takes the joy out of reading sometimes as I'm always looking for hidden meanings, hidden metaphors ... and I find it hard to enjoy books. I'm always pulling passages apart for the kids, showing them where the author has used punctuation 'for effect'. Drives me freakin' insane!
I've just started reading Margaret Atwood books, I know I know, behind everyone else! But I do like her stuff. I tend to read more non-fiction now ... or biographies. I've just finished one on Lewis Carroll, which was quite interesting but slightly disturbing in places. -
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Hot Fresh Authors....chexxx 'em outtie!
Sat, September 8, 2007 - 10:40 AM"Sic" by Brin Friesen
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"Cappuccino Cowboy" by Dustin Lincoln Wells
are two recent reads by young authors. Madame gifts zem each four pawls uppinks.
Fun, rollllicking rides through ze minds ov authors to watch. More More More from them I exxxpectorate in ze future. You can be among ze first tou discover 'em.
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Sat, September 8, 2007 - 11:58 AMoh *Polstar that is a great response!
i do that when i read, pick it apart- but i like doing that- i take notes in books and underline things too (well, the last few i didn't- actually i havn't done that in a long while)
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Re: faern's book list { in no particular order }
Mon, September 24, 2007 - 1:35 PMTO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
THE DAY THAT PIGS WILL DIE
HEALING WITH WHOLE FOODS
MATERIAL WORLD -
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Re: faern's book list { in no particular order }
Mon, September 24, 2007 - 3:05 PMInteresting. My favorite book is To Kill a Mockingbird. I also have in my library:
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), Silas Marner
Dickens, Great Expectations
Poe, Murder in the Rogue Morgue (I know it's a short story! :P)
Asimov, Foundation trilogy
Heinlein, Stranger in a strange land,
Bradbury, Something Wicked this way comes
Tolkein, Lord of the Rings trilogy
Donaldson, first chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever
Zelazny, Lord of Light
Greene, The power and the glory (I reread this every few years)
kierkegaard, Diary of a Seducer
Other weird stuff.
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Mon, September 24, 2007 - 3:08 PMsomething wicked this way comes
really rings a bell... -
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Mon, September 24, 2007 - 3:27 PMFair movie, great book :) I actually enjoyed the movie but it only had a little of the magic of the book.. definitely worth a read.
Just to add to my nutiness... also
Gaiman, Coraline... I know it's a kid's book! :)
Gaman and Pratchett, Good Omens (wicked funny) -
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Mon, September 24, 2007 - 10:21 PMI'm REALLY loving "The Death of Vishnu". Fucking beautiful. Thanks for the recommendation, Faern. It will be in my favorite books list now. Mr. Jalal. Hee hee! -
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Tue, September 25, 2007 - 10:14 AMyour welcome!
have you finished it yet? -
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Tue, September 25, 2007 - 1:10 PMNope. Just about twenty pages left!! I'm about to finish it on my lunch break. I'm sad for it to be coming to an end. That's the sign of a great book! -
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Re: faern's book list { in no particular order }
Wed, September 26, 2007 - 9:16 AMlet me know when you do, i am curious -
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Re: faern's book list { in no particular order }
Sun, November 4, 2007 - 8:56 AM(I just stumbled upon this tribe, and this thread was too fun not to revive)
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger is my favorite book ever. I've read it 6 times and it never fails to impress. A beautiful treatise on longing and loss and the workings of time....
I just finished reading Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides and I loved it! Anyone read the Virgin Suicides? It's next on my list I think.
If you're looking for something lighthearted and fun, Stardust by Neil Gaiman is a quick and captivating read.
I'd also recommend His Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman. It's supposedly a series for children, but he explores all sorts of issues (particularly religion) and the story is richly imaginative and fun.
Other favorites:
Posession by AS Byatt
The Mists of Avalaon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susannah Clark
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk -
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Re: faern's book list { in no particular order }
Sun, November 4, 2007 - 1:00 PMYa, I mentioned Middlesex way up there somewhere. What a heavy topic and well explored and developed story. It's sad but it's got an uplifting side to it for sure. Funny that after I read it I was exposed to the topic of transgendered living in my social life. I was so glad that I had read it so that I wasn't completely baffled and dumbfounded (only mildly so).
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