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**AnIInWon** · 10-09-2006, 08:00 AM

my humble recommendations....

(1)Franny and Zooey
-will make you realise that there are people who think like you

(2)Autumn of the Patriarch - Marquez-
if One hundred.... is his tour de force in magic realism what do you call this? Half way through I got so submerged in the intense "magic realism"
that for a week or so i was thinking like the Patriarch...

(3) To Build a Fire and other stories - Jack London, just when I was wondering if any author rather than taking you into his world to explain his ideas , would sit with you and explain the brutality of existence, I read this book.
Extremely short stories, deep impact....

(4) Anna Karenina - this book is life , down-to-earth life and all its forms and emotions
it takes a month to wade through this book....

(5) The Book of Laughter and Forgetting -
In my opinion, Kundera's most intricate book, So many concepts, so many images.... I think this book has least of Kundera's normal self-obsessed rambling....

5 is all I have now.....

10-09-2006, 08:00 AM	#40
AnIInWon Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 556 Senior Member	my humble recommendations.... (1)Franny and Zooey -will make you realise that there are people who think like you (2)Autumn of the Patriarch - Marquez- if One hundred.... is his tour de force in magic realism what do you call this? Half way through I got so submerged in the intense "magic realism" that for a week or so i was thinking like the Patriarch... (3) To Build a Fire and other stories - Jack London, just when I was wondering if any author rather than taking you into his world to explain his ideas , would sit with you and explain the brutality of existence, I read this book. Extremely short stories, deep impact.... (4) Anna Karenina - this book is life , down-to-earth life and all its forms and emotions it takes a month to wade through this book.... (5) The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - In my opinion, Kundera's most intricate book, So many concepts, so many images.... I think this book has least of Kundera's normal self-obsessed rambling.... 5 is all I have now.....
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