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Well take this post for what it's worth as I haven't read all of these authors. I have Snow by Pamuk and that will be my first of his. Apparently Istanbul and My Name is Red are also very good. He did win the Nobel this year after all. For Rushdie his best is supposedly Midnight's Children...

Do you have a good foundation in the classics AquaBlue? What of Dickens? Tolstoy? Dostoevsky? Hardy? Dumas? Homer? Etc? Since we're making a long list of authors let's throw in Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, Orhan Pamuk, Salman Rushdie, Don Delillo, Italo Calvino and a personal...

Was in Toronto today so I picked up the Penguin Special Edition of Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon with cover art by Frank Miller. Really nice looking book. Decent binding, chop cut pages, great art. Every once in a while Penguin manages to put out a decent looking book. This is one of...

I don't want to name names, everyone has a right to their taste and all that, but you have multiple books by the same author repeatedly. Doesn't say much for variety. Plus it's not until book 57 that there's a 'space' available. Not much impetus to make a suggestion. "Hey I think the 57th...

I recommend you remove some of the cruft from your list.

AquaBlue, in the Author Thread there is a topic on Pynchon a few pages long discussing his books and which to read first. There's also a myriad of discussion elsewhere on the Web. For what it's worth I'm going to do them chronologically with a slight twist at the end. Starting V. soon.

:D I figured. Don't worry, I agree with you but still enjoy Joyce. :rolleyes:

Crap. How could I have left Nabokov out? My only excuse is that I was thinking more about the novelists I haven't yet tried. :o

My apologies if there was a misunderstanding. Good luck on finding others to discuss the Away. Write a compelling enough review and you may compel a few people to give it a read.

But first check out how the place works and how those before you have started conversations about books. Notice that the people who place a title of a book and a one-liner to follow it up get very little useful discussion. Please notice this. Almost no one else does.

Perhaps that thread should get cleaned of its requests for help and the subsequent posts of nonsense. Even with the refusals it will look like a place where help can be solicited.

There was one. I think it was deleted because it came across as a cry for homework help. KHartmann, it's not that people don't want to talk to you about this book but perhaps they haven't read it and have nothing to say about it.

I've been introduced to quite a few authors by coming here. Most have been successful meetings. Eco and Auster for example. Authors discovered in forums I still haven't explored include: Philip Roth Don Delillo Mark Danielewski Thomas Pynchon Haruki Murakami David Foster Wallace Who have...

Just curious if anyone has read this translation and what they think of it. Richard Pevear does a beautiful job on the Russian books when teamed with his wife. I've looked at it and it's a very nice looking edition.

It's not exclusive to Dumas. I've found this in most classics. A quick glance at my bookshelf here and I can't see a classic that does not have an introduction in which some plot element was given away. Most even have additional translators notes. Sometimes these introductions include...

See, here's wher you failed. This isn't an answering service. My intentions are completely clear. We're not here to offer crutches for lazy students. Starting a discussion thread about a book in a thread dedicated to helping students research books is not the best place to start a...

Fair enough, have you searched these forums? Chances are if it isn't mentioned you're not going to find many here who have read it. I haven't seen any discussion on that book which in itself doesn't mean a whole lot. I usually do notice when a Canadian author is mentioned though. My point...

And you want all of your homework done for you? Tell you what - paypal me $50USD and I'll write your essay for ya.

The first result in google!! Never lie about having searched! It's very easy to get caught fibbing.

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