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The only thing I've read of Japanese literature is Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World which I really enjoyed. Quirky, twisted and very interesting, and generally I'm not the...

Well, I know there's a Nobel Peace Prize, and a Nobel Prize in Literature, but I've never heard of the two combined!

Does sound interesting though. Speaking of Nigerian writers, have you read...

Uh, come again?

Well Green Eggs and Ham by Dr Seuss was written after he made a bet with a friend that he could write a story wih no more than 50 words, but that's neither a book nor serious literature, although it...

I went on a bit of a spree when I came across a second hand shop near where I live... I can never resist those.

Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Hemingway...

Actually I just thought of something! Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One of These Days." The story features a dentist in a town dominated by the brutal dictatorship of a Mayor. This works on two levels...

Well Animal Farm would be perfect, but that's not a short story!

Hmmm... I'm sure there must be something.

Maybe "The Boarding House" by James Joyce? It features a mother who is the landlady of...

I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for but Ralph Ellison's "Battle Royal" certainly involves one group of people (whites) dominating and suppressing another (blacks), and the blacks are...

We are moving house today so yesterday we were throwing out all the junk that we didn't want to keep for the move, including all the masses of unread paperbacks we've accumulated over the years. I...

*cough* Hemingway?

I've only read As I Lay Dying a couple years ago. I'll admit I had to resort to SparkNotes cause just reading it on my own I couldn't make head or tail of it; I just thought it...

I got through a fair bit of that one a few years ago and wouldn't recommend it in this case. The writing style is quite archaic, LOTS of generals and people to remember (over 1,000 I believe) and is...

I'm going to Dublin tomorrow! I'll take my book along with me but I don't think I'll have time for much reading or observing how Joyce's portrait of Dublin relates to the modern day city, what with...

If you judged the merit of the work of an artist based on his life you'd end up disliking many of the world's masterpieces. A lot of great artists have personality issues. Take Miles Davis. I can and...

No it's the old thread, I bumped it.

For Whom the Bell Tolls is much better.

I find that the romance is incredibly poorly developed in A Farewell to Arms. I mean, pretty much the second time they ever meet Katherine asks Henry...

I don't think JK Rowling and Dan Brown really belong in this topic. Their writing is not serious literature, it's entertainment, and they don't claim to be writers in a literary sense. The prose...

I was going to say War and Peace as well. Although it's not satirical or humorous but pure realism. But I think one of the interesting things about War and Peace is that it was the first to really...

I'm fluent in English, Spanish, and French (though my French has been deteriorating a bit since I don't get the chance to practice it too much nowadays) and I read in all 3 languages. I think if you...

Holst - Venus, the Bringer of Peace

It seems that the more I read Hemingway the more I like and am amazed by him, so I'm gonna go with that.

I read Dubliners a year and a half ago but I don't remember it too well from then apart from the very basic plot. I've just finished Araby. I loved The Sisters and An Encounter. Is it just me or do I...

Well both of them seemed to enjoy whisky, so why not go with that. Sure, they can use the toilet. The contest goes on until one of them is incapable of drinking anymore.

You're forgetting, Hemingway did a fair bit of boxing in his time (no pun intended).

Between Hemingway and Bukowski?

Not the slightest clue.