I just love the idea that Trollope is #1.
I, for one, wasn't looking forward to starting my day with a slaughter. Which, really, just goes to show how much I've grown
Anya ,'Sleeper'
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 - Jul 16, 2009 5:40:37 pm PDT #9611 of 28404
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Polter-Cow - Jul 16, 2009 5:42:09 pm PDT #9612 of 28404
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I've read Midnight's Children and Persepolis. I have been planning to read Frankenstein. There are some on that list that I've been vaguely interested in. Most, I think, I've never even heard of.
Hil R. - Jul 16, 2009 5:42:11 pm PDT #9613 of 28404
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Oooh, that is an interesting list.
megan walker - Jul 16, 2009 5:45:28 pm PDT #9614 of 28404
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I've only read Persepolis, Frankenstein, and Things Fall Apart.
I'm now thinking I want to read The Dark is Rising.
Polter-Cow - Jul 16, 2009 5:49:29 pm PDT #9615 of 28404
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Midnight's Children is pretty great, megan. I highly recommend it.
People have told me to read The Dark Is Rising.
Kat - Jul 16, 2009 5:51:31 pm PDT #9616 of 28404
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I loved Midnight's Children. And The Dark Is Rising great, but read Over Sea, Under Stone first to understand the whole set up.
Dana - Jul 16, 2009 5:52:43 pm PDT #9617 of 28404
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Hell, read all 5. They're short.
Hil R. - Jul 16, 2009 5:53:30 pm PDT #9618 of 28404
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
The Unsettling of America looks interesting. And I realize I've never read anything by Flannery O'Connor, and feel like I ought to. I have a copy of Frankenstein that I keep meaning to read. Maybe I'll get to it on vacation. I've liked some of what I've read by Phillip Roth, but I haven't read American Pastoral. I was supposed to read Things Fall Apart in high school, but never actually did. (Things got kind of rushed at the end of the year, and we were basically assigned to read that book over a weekend and discussed it one day in class.)
Kathy A - Jul 16, 2009 6:03:43 pm PDT #9619 of 28404
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
The only book on that list I've read was Frankenstein, which I read for my feminist lit class at Marquette (all SF/fantasy written by women--I got introduced to some great writers in that class, especially James Tiptree, Jr. [aka Alice Sheldon] and CL Moore, who is a terrific pre-WWII SF writer).
I've been meaning to pick up some more Twain; I've only read Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. Also, Dickens and Trollope would be good for some Victorian writers (I managed to avoid both of them in my Victorian class for some reason!).
megan walker - Jul 16, 2009 6:10:41 pm PDT #9620 of 28404
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Hell, read all 5. They're short.
Shit. I'm a completist, so this might be more commitment than I can handle. Is there a clear order?