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If you like the Moviegoer, Walker Percy has some other intriguing novels. Did I already mention The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles a couple hundred times? I was very impressed.
 
I'll second the recommendations of Calvino (I rather liked Invisible Cities , myself) and Murakami's Wind-Up Bird Chronicles and virtually anything by Borges.
I'd also be interested to hear your reaction to The Moviegoer.
 
funes said:
I'll second the recommendations of Calvino (I rather liked Invisible Cities , myself) and Murakami's Wind-Up Bird Chronicles and virtually anything by Borges.
I'd also be interested to hear your reaction to The Moviegoer.
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Sure, I'd be glad to discuss thoughts on it as soon as I get some time to crack it open. I think I might be able to start it up tonight, i just got home from the Cubs game and everyone is to tired to do anything, so book time it is. Although I have to sit in an awkward position as I am severely burnt to a crisp right now.
 
Funes I thank you very much for your recommendation of the Moviegoer!!! I greatly enjoyed the book and in particular Percy's way of seeing the world. In recently finish books I wrote a brief feeling of the book but I would be happy to talk about it with you or whoever has read it, and would like to.

On another note, I NEED A NEW BOOK!!! So I'm once again, open to suggestions :)
 
I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed The Moviegoer. I was intrigued by Binx' awareness that somehow life is never quite as aesthetically perfect as the movies. I very nearly wrote my honors thesis in college on the way in which certain books dramatize this dichotomy between American myth and American reality.
At any rate, by all means try some Calvino, or Borges, or Murakami.
Have you read any Conrad?
I usually do best making recommendations along a theme.
 
I've read Borges before. Calvino it seems I'll probably be getting at in the near future. I ended up picking up Vonnegut's SlaughterHouse Five. I got up this morning and started it and it seems I might just read it straight through I have about 60 pages left.

Any particular book by Calvino you find the most intriguing, or a brief idea what certain of his books are about, since I heard they vary from one book to the next?
 
I honestly don't know. I've only ever read Invisible Cities. But, that book is so nearly impossible to describe to others. I thought the book very forcefully, if nothing else, conveyed a sense of melancholy (you know, "Look on my works, ye mighty etc. . .). Perhaps because there isn't a plot, it is the kind of book which has to be absorbed as a whole.
 
i cant go by a day without reccomending terry goodkind, but in case thats not up your alley, i reccomend the very easy, yet good piece of literature, "fire bringer" by clement-davis. some other good books would be "aztec" but thats definitely not short... so i guess the master and commander series is pretty good, not to mention isabell allende's "city of the beast's" which is incredible!
 
What did you think of Slaughterhouse-5? I loved it myself, as I did Galapagos.

Are you on a Vonnegut-binge? Good for you, he's brilliant.

Cheers
 
I definately am enjoying Vonnegut, although Galapagos much more than Slaughter House Five suprisingly. I had heard so much about SH5 I figured it would be one of his best books. Of course I've only read two, but I immediately fell for his writing style. I should finish up Galapagos tonight, and I believe I have decided that Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino will be my next book.

But at this rate I"m going through a few a week, so keep em coming...Was is actually on my near future list as well.
 
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