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Originally Posted by angelyne
Wow, thanks for all the good recommendations. I went to get The Road. Hope it won't be too depressing  I'll look into all the other excellent suggestions.
My literary tastes are rather underdeveloped. I've been restricting myself too much. I have have evolved over the years, but my literary tastes have not followed suit. Now I am at the point where I crave good books, and I find it difficult to put up with badly written books, whereas when I was younger, I didn't even notice. I think at this point quality is more important than subject. But I will probably always have a weakness for fantasy and sci fi. |
I think I'm probably like you, in the way you described your growth as a reader. I still love fantasy: Amidst all my drooling over "Literature," I still read fantasy. I still read Sax Rohmer -- just for old-fashioned story-telling.
I do think that the way your reading habits have changed is ALL about growth. The fact that you want to experiment with different authors -- and hey! you're not expected to like everything you read -- is indicative of wanting to branch out.
I have yet to read
The Road, but I'm already a fan of
Cormac McCarthy, having already read 4 or 5 of his books. I also know his history as a writer; I'm a person who keeps up with information like that.
Even if
The Road is depressing, and even if you do or do not like it, it was judged by a committe of writers to be the best of last year's books, having won the Pulizter
Prize.
I look forward to the
Nobel Prize in Literature (I think in Sept.), and keeping my fingers crossed on
Vargas Llossa.
Don