Midnight's Children is pretty great, megan. I highly recommend it.
People have told me to read The Dark Is Rising.
Zoe: So you two were kissin'? Book: Well. Isn't that... special?
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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."
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!
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?
Dana - Jul 16, 2009 6:14:51 pm PDT #9621 of 28404
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Is there a clear order?
Very clear. Over Sea, Under Stone; The Dark is Rising; Greenwitch; The Gray King; Silver on the Tree.
You can actually read The Dark is Rising first, if you want. Over Sea, Under Stone introduces characters that don't join in until the third book.
megan walker - Jul 16, 2009 6:31:10 pm PDT #9622 of 28404
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Oh no no no, I'm not German, but order must be maintained.
sj - Jul 16, 2009 6:56:38 pm PDT #9623 of 28404
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I've read Things Fall Apart and Midnight's children, as well as parts of some of the others.
Has anyone read anything by Roberto Bolano? I started 2666 tonight, and so far I'm intrigued.
Polter-Cow - Jul 16, 2009 7:07:10 pm PDT #9624 of 28404
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Oh no no no, I'm not German, but order must be maintained.
Hee, I completely understand.