If there's anyone out there who cares what book we do next or whether we do one at all, this is for you:
I'm taking a break from the daily book reading for about a month or so (if you're new here, we've done Jane Eyre and East of Eden so far). I need to work on my own book for a while--a teen thriller/melodrama, of all things (and it needs all the attention it can get, as I'm sure you can imagine). In the meantime, I wouldn't say no to any suggestions you might have for our next read.
Cheers.
"...as I'm sure you can imagine." Indeed! Ha. I can barely keep up with a weekly news magazine myself, but if you want to do Brave New World or Catch 22 I'm sure I remember enough to make some comments here and there. I think I also read Brave New World Revisited, which is Huxley's essay about the book. It's at least on my shelf. I'll assume I read it. I've put a bit of a hiatus on 4 other books, but they are all non-fiction or essay based.
ReplyDeleteBrave New World -- check;
ReplyDeleteCatch 22 -- check.
I'll make sure they end up on the poll in a few weeks.
Thanks!
A well-earned break, too!
ReplyDelete"Catch-22" is great. Also, "The Grapes of Wrath", although we've done Steinbeck. And, although we've done some Joyce, "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" or "Finnegan's Wake" would be awesome, as I know that I'll never get through them without help, well at least the second one, haven't looked at the first yet. Also, we discussed maybe doing Eco, which would also be cool. Basically I'm game for anything.
I'm leaning [heavily] toward Eco, but Finnegan's Wake would be cool. We'd actually probably do Eco at the same time, as he had a lot to do with translations and Joyce theory regarding that particular book.
ReplyDeleteI would LOVE that. It would be a pretty big commitment, but I think that it would be a pretty awesome pay-off.
ReplyDeleteB-I-G commitment! We'd have to get it done before law school.
ReplyDeleteI'll throw Kazuo Ishiguro out there, just because I really enjoyed Never Let Me Go.
ReplyDeleteAlso, if short story collections can be considered, Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson, Olive Kittredge by Elizabeth Strout (won the Pulitzer a while ago), and Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich are all excellent and fairly contemporary. They're also all, in a way, novels told through stories.
Well, sarchapp, I'm woefully unfamiliar with most of what you mention, "knowing" only by vague recognition your listed authors' names. But I will bone up! Regardless, I am interested in doing, at least eventually, a short story collection that sort of work in tandem as a novel.
ReplyDeleteThanks!