Thread: A Good Book

I don't like non-fiction.

My top-3 authors with the (so-far for me) top novels:
Douglas Coupland - "Hey Nostradamus!" but also "Eleanor Rigby", "Shampoo Planet", "Microserfs" and "Jpod". Basically everything non-fiction, but not that pretentious "Generation X"
Haruki Murakami - "The wind-up bird chronicle" followed closely by "Kafka on the shore"
Herman Brusselmans - "Uitgeverij Guggenheimer". By far. For anybody capable of reading Dutch and amused by his type of humor: must read.

Originally Posted by Hillie

Haruki Murakami - "The wind-up bird chronicle" followed closely by "Kafka on the shore"

How could I forget HM in MY list !!?? Fan-tastic writer. He'll win the Big Prize one day.

Originally Posted by Hillie

Herman Brusselmans - "Uitgeverij Guggenheimer". By far. For anybody capable of reading Dutch and amused by his type of humor: must read.

Wow !! Didn't know anybode outside of Flanders/Netherlands actually reads Brusselmans. Extremely rude sometimes

American History.... Love that stuff! Mark Twain Rocks! Rands Fountainhead. The Bible. Jack London, Fred Forsythe, Melvilles Moby Dick, Soldier by James Gibbore.

Let's not forget the bard ....Shakespeare's plays are right there with the King James version of the bible as the best of English literature ever written. I haven't read them all but King Lear, Macbeth, Hamlet and Richard the Third are my favorites.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

Let's not forget the bard ....Shakespeare's plays are right there with the King James version of the bible as the best of English literature ever written. I haven't read them all but King Lear, Macbeth, Hamlet and Richard the Third are my favorites.

Yup ! The Great Classics !! Only thing is, my English is not good enough to be able to read it without a dictionary. My favourite is Othello - Verdi version.

Originally Posted by Sirshavesalot

1. Renaldo Arenas "Before Night Falls" (not the movie)
2. Emile Zola "Germinal"
3. Thomas Pynchon " The Crying of Lot 49"


david

I should also add

William Gibson's "Neuromancer," & "Mona Lisa Overdrive"
Don Delilo's "White Noise"
Marcel Proust's "A la Recherche du temps perdue"

Originally Posted by decraew

Wow !! Didn't know anybode outside of Flanders/Netherlands actually reads Brusselmans. Extremely rude sometimes

Yes, but great, isn't it? "Neuzen".... brilliant!

By the way, I am from Holland, but have been living in Sweden for 2.5 years now. That'll likely end this Friday, but that's for another topic.

Gentlemen,

It's a hard choice, but here is my list, not in any particular order:

1. Earnest Hemingway: A Moveable Feast; The Sun Also Rises.
2. Raymond Chandler: Everything. What sparkling dialogue.
3. Lawrence Durrell: Alexandria Quartet.

Regards,

Obie

Originally Posted by decraew

Yup ! The Great Classics !! Only thing is, my English is not good enough to be able to read it without a dictionary. My favourite is Othello - Verdi version.

Don't worry, most Americans can't read Shakespeare even WITH a dictionary.

Ulysses by James Joyce
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

if it HAS to be three.