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Posted by wendy b. on June 24, 2002, at 9:35:38
... I don't get a vote. But what about going to a book written by a female?
Marguerite Duras
Joyce Carol Oates
Jayne Anne Phillips
or a 19th-century female author like George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), who wrote Middlemarch, or Charlotte Bronte, who wrote Jane Eyre ?
I think books that have a psychological aspect to them, too, would be good for PBabble discussions...
Nosily yours,
Wendy
Posted by kiddo on June 24, 2002, at 12:41:58
In reply to Since I only lurk..., posted by wendy b. on June 24, 2002, at 9:35:38
Lurking isn't so bad :-)
Of course you can have a vote, why not? Besides, I don't consider that a vote, but a suggestion, and thanks for that, by the way :-)
You aren't a 'lurker' anymore because you've posted, so can we change you from 'poster' to reader? Any feedback as to why you don't read, (of course you don't have to answer that). I guess I'm just curious if it has something to do with the format or whatever....
Kiddo
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
Posted by kiddo on June 24, 2002, at 18:46:15
In reply to Re: Since I only lurk..., posted by Mr Beev on June 24, 2002, at 16:07:14
Wow, that's a long list of books! Most of them I haven't heard of because I read mostly horror/sci-fi...this is a complete turn around for me :-)
I'll check them out and post links to them later tonight...hubby and I are going to watch a movie together.
Kiddo
Posted by wendy b. on June 28, 2002, at 0:03:30
In reply to Re: Since I only lurk... » wendy b., posted by kiddo on June 24, 2002, at 12:41:58
> Lurking isn't so bad :-)
>
> Of course you can have a vote, why not? Besides, I don't consider that a vote, but a suggestion, and thanks for that, by the way :-)
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> You aren't a 'lurker' anymore because you've posted, so can we change you from 'poster' to reader? Any feedback as to why you don't read, (of course you don't have to answer that). I guess I'm just curious if it has something to do with the format or whatever....
>
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> KiddoHey, Kiddo,
Thank you for writing to me. Actually, my post was in part a kind of ploy... I know you are only adding to the discussion on the Book Club board. So I thought it would be the only way I could get to talk with you... (!)
Anyway, I knew that once I posted, I would magically change from lurker to reader. I guess I didn't join the "readers" because I have so many commitments right now, including a "real" book club that I just joined, and whose meeting I missed tonight, in fact... And because there are 30 or so books at my bedside and on my desk that are begging me to finish them. It had nothing to do with the format... I think you are all doing a fine job.
Maybe sometime I could suggest a film we could all rent (film was my major in college), and I could lead a discussion on it? that would be fun...
thanks again for doing a great job, hope you and Willow have a FABULOUS time!
Wendy
Posted by kiddo on June 28, 2002, at 0:31:37
In reply to Re: Since I only lurk... » kiddo, posted by wendy b. on June 28, 2002, at 0:03:30
I think you are a great candidate to help me co-lead over here, whatcha think? :D
What types of books are by your bedside, if I may so boldly ask....any good literature/fiction?
Do you read VC Andrews by chance? I just seem to love reading those kinds of books.I think I'd be ousted for suggesting Stephen King though.
Thanks for stopping in and chatting with me :-) I appreciate that a lot!
Til next time-Kiddo
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