2009 Book Thread

Re: 2009 Book Thread

feeds@yuku.com (Lila Fowler) — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:03:16 GMT

Smacks, I sent a test PM reply, did you get it???

You may have already seen the movie, but Saramago's Blindness was excellent.

Re: 2009 Book Thread

feeds@yuku.com (khnum) — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:01:22 GMT

omg yay books

Re: 2009 Book Thread

feeds@yuku.com (Smack) — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:57:23 GMT

Lila Fowler wrote:
If you want like bittersweet sad -
you could read Jose Saramago: All the Names or Banana Yoshimoto: Kitchen
These two are also the best magic realism writers around.

Ooh, I love magical realism but I don't want to read anything sad right now. Can you make a suggestion, Lila? Have you ever read Fool's Crow or Siddhartha? I love those two.

Re: 2009 Book Thread

feeds@yuku.com (sadllama) — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:56:24 GMT

my lila is so well read <3

Re: 2009 Book Thread

feeds@yuku.com (Lila Fowler) — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:50:28 GMT

OH, PIE!!!

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feeds@yuku.com (pie123452001) — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:43:06 GMT

I think my IQ points just went up by reading above.

I'm gonna take my shiney new yellow book and start making out the big boy words.

kthxbye.

Re: 2009 Book Thread

feeds@yuku.com (Lila Fowler) — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:37:38 GMT

If you want world-weary sad-
You could read Coetzee's coming of age trilogy: Boyhood, Youth, Summertime

If you want nihilism, sex, drugs and sad -
You could read Michel Houellebecq: The Elementary Particles or The Possibility of an Island

If you want like bittersweet sad -
you could read Jose Saramago: All the Names or Banana Yoshimoto: Kitchen
These two are also the best magic realism writers around.

Re: 2009 Book Thread

feeds@yuku.com (khnum) — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:31:12 GMT

Pick one for me Lila. I like sad books.

Re: 2009 Book Thread

feeds@yuku.com (Lila Fowler) — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:30:01 GMT

I ADORE J.M. Coetzee. Let's chitchat, yes???

Read Youth. Not a happy ending per se but less nihilistic than others.

Re: 2009 Book Thread

feeds@yuku.com (blockhose) — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:28:28 GMT

Who's read Coetzee?

I just finished Disgrace and Life & Times of Andrew K. His books seem pretty somber, yet his writing just moves the story along really well. I wonder if he's ever written anything with a happy ending?

Re: 2009 Book Thread

feeds@yuku.com (pie123452001) — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:19:05 GMT

Just picked up:

Velocity by Dean Koontz.

I like the bright yellow cover.

Re: 2009 Book Thread

feeds@yuku.com (Hamdingers) — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:37:51 GMT

Yeah, same here. First two were pretty good, but didn't really sustain my interest after that. Not sure I even finished "Well of Lost Plots".

Re: 2009 Book Thread

feeds@yuku.com (Anne Boleyn) — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:49:20 GMT

graperthanthese wrote:
Has anyone besides me read any Jasper Fforde? Extremely smart but goofy fun. The Eyre Affair is the first in the main series he writes. It's as if Douglas Adams were an English major as opposed to being more into science.

I liked the Eyre Affair a lot. Not so much his later books.

Re: 2009 Book Thread

feeds@yuku.com (Anne Boleyn) — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:48:07 GMT

Charlaine Harris.

Re: 2009 Book Thread

feeds@yuku.com (lilnubber) — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:44:31 GMT

Who is the author of the Sookie Stackhouse series?

Re: 2009 Book Thread

feeds@yuku.com (Hamdingers) — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:53:06 GMT

The Angel's Game by Zafon, The Great Perhaps by Joe Meno and The Thief and the Dancer by Antonio Skarmeta. Loved Thief, I think Angel's Game is actually a lot better than the overrated Shadow of the Wind, and the Great Perhaps is pretty funny...but I'm only halfway through that one.

Re: 2009 Book Thread

feeds@yuku.com (Anne Boleyn) — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:49:40 GMT

Blind Eye, Stuart MacBride. Gory and funny and set in Aberdeen.

Re: 2009 Book Thread

feeds@yuku.com (superguppie) — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:39:34 GMT

Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton, Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada and Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghose. One will start getting read tonight.

Forgotten Garden was meh. Cutting for Stone was wonderful.

Re: 2009 Book Thread

feeds@yuku.com (Je Fa) — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:11:26 GMT

That what my ninth grade classmate who recommended it said, except for the Michener part.

Re: 2009 Book Thread

feeds@yuku.com (khnum) — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:10:46 GMT

I read Aztec when I was like 12. I loved it; it was so epic.

2009 Book Thread

feeds@yuku.com (superguppie) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:42:47 GMT

Anyone reading anything good?

I had a jackpot November/December, with a string of terrific books (in no particular order)

1. In the Woods by Tana French. It's a good thriller.
2. The second half of the Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver. The cleverness of the book sets in, but it takes awhile to get there.
3. What is the What by Dave Eggers. Covers a lot about what happened in the Sudan. Not a cheerful book by any stretch.
4. The Hour I First Believed...