I’m almost done with The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami, which I love and recommend to everyone ready for some heavy duty reading. In a matter of a day or two, I will be without extracurricular reading material. This is bad because I spend all day reading Internet stuff, comment sections included, and that can make me hate the world. I’m asking for your help before I start talking to myself about the decline of civility and spelling in the U.S.
Suggest a book for me to read in the comments. Any book. If I haven’t read it, I will hunt it down at the LA Public Library and read it. If I’ve already read it, I will go and read it again. I’ll write a book report or everything I read.
Here’s the criteria:
– Fiction will be read first because I deal with too much non-fiction for work.
– Any suggestions of 50 Shades of whatever will be ignored. I heard Gilbert Gottfried’s reading. That’s enough.
– Comic book suggestions are welcome, but I’m backed up on comics I’m reading. I typically read one book with pictures and one without pictures at the same time.
If you want an idea of my tastes, here’s a list of books I love.
– Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
– Catch-22
– The Handmaid’s Tale
– Pride & Prejudice
– The Picture of Dorian Gray
– Middlesex
– The Great Gatsby
There you go. Help out a bookworm today.
Anything by Vernor Vinge.
Noted. I will pick one at random.
Have you read Oryx & Crake and The Year of the Flood by Atwood? Quite good. Also, I would recommend Neal Stephenson’s Reamde. I think it may be his best one yet. It’s quite a long read, but it’s an action packed page turner. Also, anything by Neil Gaiman.
I haven’t read either of the Atwood books you mentioned. Neil Gaiman is one of my favorite authors. I haven’t read American Gods, though, so I think I’ll pick that up soon.
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
It’s on the list now!
The Wind Up Girl – Paolo Bacigalupi
Cannery Row – Steinbeck
Suttree – Cormac McCarthy (the language…my God)
You’re the second person to mention The Windup Girl, so that’s going towards the top of the list.
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