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I think Michael Bulgakov's Master and Margarita is excellent. I lived in Russia for many years and many a Fellow Russian told me that that was the best book ever written in Russian. A few other Lit books I would recoment: Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavic Silence by Shusako Endo Both of the above being historical.... Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man is a beauty as well and gets a bit pychonesque at times.. Nadine Gordimer is a great writer but I find her slow in bits... A great book that won the Booker in the 70's is Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee ....short sweet and deep...... Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury classic lit...but start with the 4th part otherwise it will drive you crazy.. so read Part IV, Then I, II, and III just a few...but not sure if that helps.... |
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02-13-2010, 12:43 AM | #17 |
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Excellent. It sure does. I'll admit the a bit of guilt at the Coetzee reference - he's long been on my list to buy, and with him as a new-ish and fellow Aussie I should've made it there by now (not that nationality should drive my reading, but rather that my local awareness should have driven it into place quicker ).
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I reckon Coetzee is Brilliant. Read him first time in 1991..He has a bit of Steinbeck in him...Mostly short sweet and deep... |
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I wanted to thank everyone for their replies and discussion though. It's much appreciated. I did decide to pick up Inherent Vice, and elitists be damned, I'm going to read it on the plane! |
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02-13-2010, 01:03 PM | #23 |
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I've only made it about half-way through The Sound and the Fury after a couple of decades.....maybe I'll try the backwards way...
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