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Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell.

The Norton Anthology of English Literature is pretty great. Also, not sure that it will apply since it pertains to American English but The American Language by H.L. Mencken is very popular. I just...

I'm dreadfully under-read when it comes to plays but ironically one of my favorite reads is Death of a Salesmen. I own The Crucible but have never gotten to it for some reason, but will try to now...

Haven't posted in a long time on these forums but this thread has riled me up a bit. I'm sorry but this post doesn't hold very strong to analysis. I get your point, but if you've had your book...

I agree with the aforementioned DeLillo, and also wasn't able to finish Underworld; got halfway through:
White Noise -- My favorite
Mao II -- been wanting to re-read this for awhile but new book...

Tenth of December by George Saunders because I love CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, and because it was by the register.

The Sirens of Titan because Vonnegut is my girlfriend's favorite other and yet...

You know, it might be because it's a novelty (I got the dictionary for Christmas) but I really do enjoy it, and for some reason I seem to retain more when I check the word with a physical dictionary...

My current routine is that I read during my hour train ride to work, then I read another hour or so during my lunch break, another hour on the train ride home, and then sometimes I'll read for fours...

First year in awhile I didn't get a bunch of books but I did get the New Oxford American Dictionary which I'm extremely happy with.

Thanks for the kind words!

House of Leaves. I started it about a week ago and so far it's equal bits interesting and tedium, seems often to be odd just for the novelty.

I'm a customer support consultant for a software company that deals with energy futures. Pretty tedious work that doesn't leave as much time as I'd like for reading, and even less for writing. But...

I finished the book about a week or two ago and really enjoyed it, though I am 22, and I think it's fair to consider that this book is likely more enjoyable to younger readers. Perhaps the most...

Seems like you just have a personal issue with Hemingway. I don't see how Hemingway's military history factors into the issue, and to be picky, he was near-fatally injured. Not encountering...

Somehow got 14/15 even though I haven't read half or so of those titles. Not sure what to make of that.

While I certainly agree with your main claim, that the Nobel is largely political, I think Hemingway was certainly deserving of the award (though so were the many writers you mentioned that were left...

I think"Hands" is one of the most well-crafted short stories I've ever read. It's perfectly succinct, every detail matters, and I've never been able to see so clearly how a story becomes powerful....

Tender is the Night
The Savage Detectives
Blood Meridian
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Hemingway and DeLillo immediately come to mind, but are polar opposites. Gaddis is extremely tiresome for me. Creating dialogue that literally translates how we talk in person is dull reading,...

The Judge from Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, without a doubt.

The Yellow Birds is a really good first novel from an Iraq war veteran who studied poetry at the Michener Center. Perhaps a bit overwritten but a great first book in my opinion.

Redundant much?...

Yeah, I meant I was reading 5-6 books at any given time, each class had the workload that you described. I definitely agree with JBI that a good amount of the classes are relatively worthless...

Honestly I didn't do a whole lot of my own reading during semesters because I generally had 5-6 books assigned from all my classes. But still, if you want to make time for those things you always...

I read Musa for class and thought it was great. From my understanding, his translation uses very modern english and seeks to translate the text as literally as possible, plus the notes are extremely ...

JR by William Gaddis definitely seemed the longest for me, and could actually be the longest I've read (close to a thousand pages?), but I just finished 2666 by Roberto Bolano which is just short of...