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Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by Frank Black, May 8, 2001.

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  1. Steve_Francis_rules

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    Stay away from James Joyce, he's very boring.


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    Science Fiction-wise, people have already mentioned Tolkien, but I also recommend Frank Herbert and the whole Dune series. Sometimes it reads like a dictionary, because Frank Herbert had the largest vocabulary of anyone I have ever seen, but it is a mind-blowing book with some of the ideas it raises.

    Also, my favorite science fiction writer of all time would have to be Orson Scott Card. I can't get enough of his writing. But if you have to choose one book, read Ender's Game and the subsequent books in that series.

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    Cool! The first book that came to mind when I saw science fiction mentioned was <u>Enders's Game</u>. It was probably my favorite book that I read in high school. We even got to act out a scene from the book. Great call RR!

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    Some good ones that I've read lately...

    Saul Bellow: Ravelstein
    Malamud: The Assistant
    Arthur Miller: Incident at Vichy (play)
    Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita
    Cynthia Ozick: The Puttermesser Papers
    Chinoi Achebe: Things Fall Apart
    Ludmilla Ulitskaya: Sonechka and Other Tales
    Philip Roth: Goodbye, Columbus
    Isaac Babel - collected stories (best short stories I've ever read)
    Sholem Aleichem - Tevye the Dairyman
    Vladimir Nabokov: Glory

    My top 5 all time:

    1. Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
    2. Hermann Hesse - Narcissus & Goldmund
    3. Dostoevsky - Crime & Punishment
    4. Jane Austne - Pride & Prejudice
    5. Of Human Bondage - Somerste Maugham.



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