Are you only looking for fiction?
Not necessarily (I'm reading Two Years Before the Mast for this month), but that is mostly what we focus on.
That's my girl, large and in-charge. Okay, teensy-weensy and in charge.
Gunn ,'Just Rewards (2)'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
megan walker - Oct 31, 2010 6:17:09 pm PDT #12805 of 28290
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
dcp - Oct 31, 2010 6:22:48 pm PDT #12806 of 28290
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
For the War theme, how about The Forever War and The Killer Angels?
Also: any of the historical fiction by C. S. Forester, Patrick O'Brian, Bernard Cornwell, or Kenneth Roberts.
-t - Oct 31, 2010 6:23:01 pm PDT #12807 of 28290
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
In that case, I'l throw in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test for California Dreamin'
megan walker - Oct 31, 2010 6:25:29 pm PDT #12808 of 28290
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Also: any of the historical fiction by C. S. Forester, Patrick O'Brian, Bernard Cornwell, or Kenneth Roberts.
I didn't add the first two because they are on the "Water, Water" list, but I'll look into the others.
Sue - Oct 31, 2010 6:27:52 pm PDT #12809 of 28290
hip deep in pie
You could go with with Emily of New Moon instead.
For Colonialism, The Siege of Krishnpur, JG Farrell, The Quiet American or The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene, A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. ETA: Sorry, I see you already have those Graham Greene books.
For California, you could include a lot of Didion novels, but I would pick Play it As it Lays. Also, I would include The Crying of Lot 49 by Pynchon, Day of the Locust, by Nathaniel West.
I find this harder to do with books than movies or music.
Sue - Oct 31, 2010 6:33:09 pm PDT #12810 of 28290
hip deep in pie
colonialism: Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
Sue - Oct 31, 2010 6:39:11 pm PDT #12811 of 28290
hip deep in pie
Non-fiction book for religious figures and settings is The CHeese and the Worms by Carlo Ginzburg
OMG, Warner Herzog is turning that book into a film. I think that will break my brain.
dcp - Oct 31, 2010 7:36:44 pm PDT #12812 of 28290
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
For Books -- Booked to Die and The Bookman's Wake, by John Dunning
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Oct 31, 2010 11:07:11 pm PDT #12813 of 28290
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
I'd put The Handmaid's Tale in Religious. Would John Wyndham's The Chrysalids fit?
Deena - Nov 01, 2010 3:51:06 am PDT #12814 of 28290
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Windfollower by Carole McDonnell would fit in either religious or colonialism.