Sunday, August 13, 2006

It's been almost six months without reading a novel - by no choice of mine, mainly I think because I read like thirty-two plays - and so I have decided that I am going to start reading novels again. I've already started, in fact, but I discovered that I don't know what authors I should be looking for, which makes sifting through the pulp a challenge. As such, I hereby seek literature recommendations, specifically for authors of novels. Bear in mind that even if I don't think it's good, I'll probably still enjoy it, becaue I'm weird like that.

7 Comments:

Blogger Brendan McKendy said...

I'm not Jiayi but I'll probably recommend the Gambler. Or else Moneyball.

15 August, 2006 20:58  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Authors who write books that are cool (or kewl):

David Mitchell (start with Cloud Atlas - it's hipper than Black Swan Green), Neil Gaiman (specifically American Gods and Neverwhere), Neal Stephenson (though I really only liked Snow Crash), Nick Hornby (or just A Long Way Down), Edward Carey, Arundhati Roy (or really just God of Small Things), Zadie Smith, and Haruki Murakami is always good in tight stretch. And I'm going to assume you know Orson Scott Card and Frank Herbert.

Cheerio,
flock of mice with wings.

17 August, 2006 23:35  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Having read one book by Dostoevsky, I recommend him unreservedly. Also, Joseph Heller. And Faulkner, but he can be a trudge, so only go to him if you want prose that eats like a meal.

18 August, 2006 10:20  
Blogger Brendan McKendy said...

Number two, are you talking about bats?
And number three, trudge as a noun.

19 August, 2006 23:32  
Blogger Anonymous said...

I was under the impression that Joseph Heller wrote but one worth reading, and I know that one very very well. Thanks for all your suggestions - those sound very worth reading. And less trudgerous than, oh I don't know, ineluctable modality of the visible.

20 August, 2006 01:37  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That Joseph Heller only wrote one book worth reading is crap. See "Something Happened," in particular.

Trudgitudinally,

That guy.

22 August, 2006 00:20  
Blogger Unknown said...

I recommend "The World Acording to Garp" by John Irving. I raved about it a bit in my blog.

04 September, 2006 10:15  

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