August '05 Nominations

[Scheherazade]

Please nominate the books you would like to read in August here.

[strategos]

The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay

[Taliesin]

Hard to Be God by Arkadi and Boriss Strugatski

[Scheherazade]

Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome

Let's read something light hearted in August! :)

[mister_noel_y2k]

microserfs by douglas coupland

:banana:

[Jack_Aubrey]

The Bonfire of the Vanities-Tom Wolfe

[papayahed]

Blindness - Jose saramago

[mister_noel_y2k]

i just finished reading bonfire of the vanities and all i can say is ERGH. i like wolfe's other two novels but this one was dull and pretentious. id recommend reading tom wolfe's latest novel charlotte simmons for a better read.

:banana:

[Morten]

I'm not a member of the book club, and I don't plan on becoming one, but I would love to make an excellent recommendation for your August reading.

The Fall of the King by Johannes V. Jensen

Johannes V. Jensen is one of the greatest and most celebrated Danish writers. In 1944, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. "The Fall of the King" (Kongens Fald) is regarded as one of the best Danish novels to ever have been written.

I recommend this book to you, not only because I am Dane myself, but because I feel it would a different reading experience for you all, introducing you to Danish literature and something which, to most of you, is unknown.

http://www.farsoe.dk/turist/sevaerdigheder/johs_v_museet/johs2.jpg

Buy the book via Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1880755068/qid=1119807598/sr=1-24/ref=sr_1_24/104-6359459-0393559?v=glance&s=books)

[Fango]

I second Scheherazade's Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel nomination.

[shortysweetp]

the wasp factory - Iain Banks

[Scheherazade]

The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay

Hard to Be God by Arkadi and Boriss Strugatski

Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome

The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe

Blindness by Jose Saramago

Microserfs by Douglas Coupland

The Fall of the King by Johannes V. Jensen

The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks


Last two nominations!