Bina
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Post by Bina on Aug 24, 2007 6:38:44 GMT -5
I like most suggestions: The red tent, middlesex, bel canto, amazing adventures of kavalier and clay, a great and terrible beauty. Murakami is fine, too. Or something by John Irving?
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karin
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Post by karin on Aug 25, 2007 3:43:32 GMT -5
I prefer: a great and terrible beauty or something by John Irving
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Post by Dominique on Aug 26, 2007 0:51:56 GMT -5
My favourite suggestions are Middlesex (because I loved The Virgin Suicides so much) and something by Haruki Murakami because I've been wanting to read him for ages. I've heard The Wind Up Bird Chronicle is a good Murakami to start with.
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Post by tahlia on Aug 26, 2007 20:03:33 GMT -5
I didnt realize the author of the virgin suicides also wrote middlesex. in that case, i want to read middlesex even more.
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Post by hookedonphonics on Aug 28, 2007 0:39:04 GMT -5
What about "Haroun and the Sea of Stories" by Salman Rushdie? It's a great book with lots of references to the beatles and other pop culture. It's great because of what it stands for and the political turmoil surrounded Salman Rushdie after the publication of "The Satanic Verses"
Other than that I would like to suggest Persepolis. It's a graphic novel, but not at all what you think of when you think of graphic novels.
If you want something a little more uhh... serious "Snow" by Orhan Pamuk is great too.
I'm new to the forum here so it's possible these books have already been chosen.
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Isa
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Post by Isa on Aug 28, 2007 7:49:17 GMT -5
Oooh, I'd love to read something by Salman Rushdie, and that book's got pretty good reviews on Amazon...
Welcome to the club, by the way!
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sagedautumn
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Post by sagedautumn on Aug 28, 2007 9:14:55 GMT -5
WELCOME!!!
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Lu
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Post by Lu on Aug 29, 2007 2:45:11 GMT -5
Welcome hookedonphonics
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Post by bookaddict on Oct 12, 2007 23:29:59 GMT -5
Does anyone think we should start suggesting some books for next book club pick?
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Post by Dominique on Oct 13, 2007 2:40:48 GMT -5
Yeah I was thinking that today, this time we're up to a classic/modern classic. Anyone have any ideas? There are a lot of classics I haven't read but would like to, maybe something by Dickens, I have a collected works of Virginia Woolf I haven't read yet so something by her could be good.
Ummm or maybe one of the lesser read Bronte's that less people have read like Shirely or Villette and compare it to their others.
Other things I wouldn't mind reading: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne one of Edith Warton's books something by Italo Calvino Tender is the Night by F.Scott Fitzgerald One Hundred Years of Solitude by Marquez The Trial by Kafka On The Road by Kerouac A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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Isa
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Post by Isa on Oct 13, 2007 8:59:12 GMT -5
Here are some classics I've got at home and haven't had a chance to read yet:
1984 by George Orwell Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Carther Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolfe Howard's End by EM Forster Summer by Edith Wharton
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Bina
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Post by Bina on Oct 13, 2007 11:01:36 GMT -5
Something by Virginia Woolf would be great because I haven´t read anything by her yet. I´m a big Edith Wharton fan so yay to that suggestion And On The Road and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn are on my tbr pile anyway.
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Post by bookaddict on Oct 13, 2007 13:38:45 GMT -5
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is on my TBR list as well. The Scarlett Letter A Moon is Down by Steinbeck The House of Mirth by Wharton Shirley by Bronte Maybe Sylvia Plath's short stories. "Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams."
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Post by zeldafitzgerald on Oct 13, 2007 18:25:57 GMT -5
I would love to read Middlemarch by George Eliot, but it's really long, so probably not so good for us.
I would also like to read Ethan Frome or The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton.
I've also been wanting to read The Scarlett Letter too.
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