Posted by fayeroe on March 30, 2003, at 11:03:36
In reply to books to read » NikkiT2, posted by beardedlady on March 30, 2003, at 10:23:18
> >Thats why I get so excited about finding a series of books.. so that I can look foward to "meeting" the characters again!
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> Me too, but I can only find them in serial killer novels and Harry Potter!
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> > Gonna look for some of the books you'ce reccomended at the book shop on tuesday :o) I really need a good book to restore my faith in authors again!! *lol*
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> I don't know what kind of fiction you like, but, even though this was an Oprah book, I really recommend that Andre Dubus book, The House of Sand and Fog. (I linked it above.) It's sad, maddening, disturbing, and creepy, so if you're looking for a happy book, fagetabowdit. For something more uplifting, though still very sad in its way, The Secret Life of Bees. For something totally silly and totally "men are idiots," The Frog King (about a guy who treats his girlfriend like dirt and deserves all the bad crap that happens to him), this will make you laugh.
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> But really, best book I've ever read, Middlesex, by the guy who wrote Virgin Suicides. It's huge--500 pages. But the writing--if you want to read a writer who can really write, who has an excellent vocabulary, who combines historical events with bizarre ideas and makes them come alive (this is, after all, about a hermaphrodite), this book's for you. I want everyone to read it. My mom's reading it now and can't believe how right I was (we have totally different taste, but she loved Sand and Fog as much as I did).
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> > Thanks for posting
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> Nikki, it's always a pleasure to read your posts. You have great spunk!
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> beardy : )>i'm jumping in again on books that i don't want to end...Armistead Maupin wrote a series of books about gay life in San Francisco...my bookseller in Taos handed me one that was actually in the middle of the series and i ran the battery down on my truck reading it. i was at an indian rodeo in Window Rock, Arizona and read in my camper til my lights went out and then read by flashlight. i could hear the stock producer's workers creeping around and whispering because they thought i was asleep!!! little did they know that i was in SF, living with all these characters and smelling the ocean and going up and down the hills and careening through their lives with them!! if you like series.......oh my Lord, you'll love these.
easy to read but totally engrossing. pat
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