please to help, i need things to read.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 19 October 2007 01:22 (eighteen years ago)
fiction or non-fiction?
― max, Friday, 19 October 2007 01:43 (eighteen years ago)
fiction preferably, but i will not scoff at nonfic.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 19 October 2007 01:44 (eighteen years ago)
ok these are all books that i really liked and that based on what i know about you i think might interest you? the danger obv is that youve read them....
edward p. jones's the known world orhan pamuk's snow lydia davis's samuel johnson is indignant colson whitehead's the intuitionist chris kraus's i love dick
― max, Friday, 19 October 2007 01:54 (eighteen years ago)
on a popular nonfiction tip i just read bill buford's heat and really enjoyed it. and i know u like "theory," so i highly recommend giorgio agamben's "homo sacer" and "state of exception."
― max, Friday, 19 October 2007 01:55 (eighteen years ago)
I've seen the Agamben's books around and heard good things, will have to pick em up.
Outside of "The Known World" I haven't heard of any of those, will have to give them a look.
thx dude
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 19 October 2007 02:05 (eighteen years ago)
anyone else?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 19 October 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)
all of David Mitchell's books but especially Ghostwritten and Cloud Atlas, probably my favorite "new" fiction writer though with four novels he's not particularly new anymore
― n/a, Friday, 19 October 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)
These are all pretty predictable National Book Award-type novels that I've liked:
Michael Cunningham, The Hours Don DeLillo, Underworld Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex Jonathan Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude Zadie Smith, White Teeth
― jaymc, Friday, 19 October 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)
Here's five, a mix of fiction and non-fiction:
Roberto Bolano - By Night in Chile W.G. Sebald - Austerlitz Peter Carey - True History of the Kelly Gang Rory Stewart - The Places In Between Mark Bowen - Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World's Highest Mountains
― o. nate, Saturday, 20 October 2007 18:09 (eighteen years ago)
Luther Blissett - Q
― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 20 October 2007 18:18 (eighteen years ago)
Don DeLillo, Underworld
Seconded. Does drag a teeny bit in the middle but it's brilliant nonetheless.
Talking about National Book Award (finalist), I'm probably the only one here that liked Barzun's From Dawn to Decadence.
― stevienixed, Saturday, 20 October 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)
Drop City - T.C. Boyle Any fiction by George Saunders Veronica - Mary Gaitskill Home Land - Sam Lipsyte The Collected Fiction of Leonard Michaels
― Mr. Que, Saturday, 20 October 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)
seconded on the Lydia Davis, Colson Whitehead, Cloud Atlas, Underworld, Middlesex, White Teeth
― Mr. Que, Saturday, 20 October 2007 20:13 (eighteen years ago)
this is cheating a little on your timespan, but a book first published in english in the last 10 years is embers, sandor marai. (actually written in 1942.) a pretty quick read, but a really great book (in an admittedly sort of heartbreaking way).
― tipsy mothra, Saturday, 20 October 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)
Robert Charles Wilson - Chronoliths
― Jeff, Saturday, 20 October 2007 20:39 (eighteen years ago)
hurry while 'underworld' is still within the last ten years.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Saturday, 20 October 2007 20:47 (eighteen years ago)
I def need to read "Falling Man" too.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 20 October 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)