Favorite Reads

[Tannhauser]

My favourite books are quite often what I've just read, and they are all tied to particular times. I like a lot of American authors:

Sinclair Lewis Main Street, Babbitt
John Dos Passos USA
Joseph Heller Something Happened!
Phillip Roth American Pastoral
John Updike Rabbit series esp. Rabbit is Rich
Herman Melville Moby-Dick
Tom Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities

I also like the 19th and 20th century humourists and commentators:

George Orwell Coming up for air
Keith Waterhouse Billy Liar
HG Wells A History of Mr Polly, Tono-Bungay

And I'm a sucker for historical and fantasy fiction and magical realism:

Robert Graves Count Belisarius
T.H. White The Once and Future King
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in the Age of Cholera

But my very favourite - weirdly enough - is Augustan and Romantic-era fiction:

Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights
Jane Austen Emma, Mansfield Park
Charlotte Bronte Shirley
Henry Fielding Tom Jones

Certainly a lot of these are not everyone's cup of tea. Something Happened!, for example, is an incredibly boring, offensive book (but also a work of genius). There are dozens more, but that's enough.

[bruteforce]

Frank Herbert - Dune
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five
Joseph Heller - Catch 22
Tad Williams - Tailchaser's Song

[Fazc]

Originally Posted by bruteforce

Joseph Heller - Catch 22

Yeah that was a great read.

[Jen]

Originally Posted by bruteforce

Frank Herbert - Dune
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five
Joseph Heller - Catch 22Tad Williams - Tailchaser's Song

Yes!! Gonna have to check the other two out.

[5kgLifter]

De Winter van De Belgica Willy Schuyesmans
De Vierde Gestalte Pieter Aspe
Het Verhoor Norman Manea
De Afspraak Justine Levy
Het Wonder van De Blaskets Hans de Belder

[Jen]

Originally Posted by Tannhauser

My favourite books are quite often what I've just read, and they are all tied to particular times.

I find this to be true for me as well.

[Tannhauser]

Originally Posted by bruteforce

Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five

Oh yes. I really like his collection of essays Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons.

Also Cat's Cradle, I think. The one with Ice-9 in it. Oh, and Galapagos, I quite liked that.

Anybody read Heller's sort-of-sequel to Catch -22? Closing Time? I thought it depressing.

[Tannhauser]

Originally Posted by 5kgLifter

De Winter van De Belgica Willy Schuyesmans
De Vierde Gestalte Pieter Aspe
Het Verhoor Norman Manea
De Afspraak Justine Levy
Het Wonder van De Blaskets Hans de Belder

Wow, I don't know any of those writers. Dutch? Afrikaans?

[Jen]

I like depressing books. I'm odd that way.

[Jen]

Has anyone read 1Q84?