Posted by Mr Beev on June 24, 2002, at 16:07:14
In reply to Since I only lurk..., posted by wendy b. on June 24, 2002, at 9:35:38
Since I, too, only lurk, I shall put my foot in it and suggest a few titles, if I may. (I
can be only a semi-lurker for the moment, as I am currently in the midst of several
reading projects.)I favour novels that evoke other times effectively; large, sprawling works which one can
really chew on (this helps distract me quite a bit when I am in a depressed state);
elegiac, touching stories; and psychological novels too, as Wendy suggested. So here is a
wildly varied list of some fiction books I have enjoyed:Alessandro Baricco, Silk
Louis de Bernieres, Corelli's Mandolin (infinitely better than the film)
Doestoyevsky, Brothers Karamazov
Flaubert, A Sentimental Education
Romesh Gunesekera, Reef
Hesse, Siddhartha; Steppenwolf
Yasunari Kawabata, Beauty and Sadness
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
Hermann Melville, Pierre
Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase
V.S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas
John Cowper Powys, A Glastonbury Romance
Proust, In Search of Lost Time
Francisco Rebolledo, Rasero
Joseph Roth, The Radetzky March; Job, The Story of a Simple Man
Trevanian, The Summer of Katya
Turgenev, The Torrents of Spring; Fathers and Sons
Elie Wiesel, The Town Beyond the Wall
Regards,
Mr Beev
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