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I haven't read much of this author, but I have read a short story by her titled 'Roman Fever' which was a great read.

So I'm on summer break and am going at a rate of reading more than one book at once. This was this month's result.

-Demons by Dostoevsky
-Eugene Onegin by Pushkin (both this and Demons...

definitely! He was a goofball bohemian turned anarchist.



Not even that, the fact that he was pardoned at the last moment had a deep psychological turn on him that is found in his books,...

I don't understand how Moby-Dick is a historical fiction.

As a recommendation, check out Virginia Woolf's Orlando, if that is, you like the unconventional, boarder line 'sci-fi' in literature.

If you love Nabokov, check out one of his favorite books called Petersberg by Andrei Bely. That's what I plan on reading this summer!

Now now, I did not recommend Proust but your point is clear and understandable. How can one tell? With that said, I admit I did recommend a bit of Dostoevsky, which as he is the forum's reigning hero...

Speak for yourself and only yourself, when I was at the start pointing of delving into literature, I wish I had writers with as much scope as Faulkner and Dostoevsky have, hell, even such as Proust....

I'll recommend the works of Conrad, Nabokov, Dostoevsky, and potentially Faulkner if you're feeling ready for something new.

Well, I know of tons of 'post-modern' literature that has a bit of the crude and rude aspects of language. It's interesting that some of these books (Delillo, Pynchon, even some of Joyce and the...

Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon could be what you're looking for!

Most of William Faulkner's characters like Jason Compson and most of the Bundrens are such horrible people. The ability to create such a rotten character is an incredible skill, which is why I like...

I'd say Odysseus and with that Leopold Bloom. Horatio is a great character as well.

I would say the famous As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner or Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

Due to the varying styles of the English language in the Oxen and the Sun episode, I could see how it could be difficult. Just read slowly...For me the hardest episode would have to be Aeolus, so it...

Second. First book I thought of when I read the title. I actually just read it yesterday and was very impressed. Also, I'd like to add Jorge Luis Borges' short story 'La biblioteca de Babel' (The...

hehe yes, Uriah Heep is a great name.

I am in love with Joyce as he is my favorite writer and am certainly biased in regarding him as one of the best writers to ever live. Of course he's not. If someone asked me who are I'd suggest...

Obviously read both authors very carefully and slowly. Make sure you understand the fundamental works of the philosophers and philosophies Nietzsche criticizes (or praises).

I don't know about that, the two collected works of Borges I spy are the proof and not to mention a delightful Santa Clause (?)..

Miss Haze most definitely choose the right decision not going with Humbert anywhere at the end of the novel. With this rejection, the reflection propounded onto the read is simply tragic, which I...

There are very interesting choices this month. I voted for Borges seeing how I'm reading it now and am very fond of his style of writing. But I'd be very interested to read Eco or Pynchon's The...

Hey for any fans, check out this documentary on J.L. Borges on youtube, it may answer questions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVCAjzn4BEI&feature=related

I just started Ficciones and I am really enjoying his writing style and his ideas. That was a great review, by the way, Drkshadow, it made things more clear once I started reading the book, which I...

A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce.
It lead me to literature, as elementary as that.

Lots of sex in One Hundred Years of Solitude though!