I'm in a real bad need for a good book. Any suggestions? Doesn't matter what type...fantasy, fiction, how to, myster and or any other genre you can think of. As long as it's good.
Good books...man there's so many...Try David Eddings, any Orson Scott Card and Ray Bradbury is good too.
The Off Season I strongly recommend Jack Cady's The Off Season, a slightly spoiler review of which can be found here. His last collection of short stories is excellent, too: Ghosts of Yesterday. A very short excerpt of the first story from that volume can be found here. Jack Cady was a rare breed of writer, compared diversely in praise to James Joyce, Raymond Carver, and Mark Twain, and earning the critical respect of Joyce Carol Oates. America's loss in his passing will not be fathomed for at least twenty years. His star still shines. (Above all, enjoy.)
Read 1984 by Goerge Orwell. Also if you happen to be able to understand spanish, read: Don Quichotte by Miguel Cervantes. :m:
They say it's mush better in Spanish (obviously Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!) I, for one, am gonna learn spanish (hopefully soon) before I read it. :m:
Aye, sure. Ain't nothing like reading a book in the language it was written in. But, one cannot really learn so many languages as books written in them ...
Vernon God Little. by uh... don't remember. But my god its amazing. Its really a dark dark dark comedy, and further more one that is well done (now that's something you don't see too often these days.)
are you in the mood for "fun and simple" or "complex and meaty" (or somewhere in-between)? If you're like me, when I get a book craving the genre doesn't usually matter as much as the weight of the material. so, any preference in that area?
Two suggestions: A Confederacy Of Dunces, by J. K. Toole The Man Who Was Thursday, by G. K. Chesterton Or anything by Kafka, Huxley,Twain, García Márquez, Grass ... Oh boy, Bruce. I hope you learn a rather archaic brand of Spanish for that one! Otherwise, you won't understand half of it anyway.
