Advice??

[bazarov]

I need help...You see, now when I've read almost every Russian book, I need new books and new writers, and I don't expect to find new Dostoevsky :D . So, I never really read something written by Americans or British writers, but whatever you suggest is OK(almost everything). Please; King, Koontz, Brown, Daniele Steel and those ''bestsellers''... :confused: Rather no...Thanks!!!

[Mark F.]

I'm a big Dostoevsky fan myself, if you haven't read anything by Hemingway or Faulkner give them a try; "A Farewell to Arms" is my favourite novel, try "Light in August" as well. Joyce is another great author; "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" is probably the best place to start.

For more modern authors, I like Hunter S. Thompson ("Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" or "The Rum Diary", Bukowski ("Post Office") and Paul Auster (the New York trilogy).

[mono]

I could recommend quite a few, but hardly know where to begin! :D
If you really like that narrative style of Fyodor Dostoevsky, I would promote some works by Charles Dickens (who many consider the kind of narratives), Thomas Hardy (especially Jude The Obscure), D.H. Lawrence, John Steinbeck, Henry David Thoreau, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, or the Brontë sisters (especially Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë).
Out of all of those authors, no doubt, you will find some enjoyment. Good luck!

[Suzieq47]

Follow up all those Russians with a 20th century Russian: Vladimir Nabakov. His early books were written in Russian, beautifuly translated into English by his son; He moved with his wife, Vera, to the U.S., taught at Wellesley, among other places, and retired to and died in Switzerland. His later books, including Lolita and Ada and Pale Fire, were written in English. Beautiful, layered, provocative, and quintessentially "Russian".

Suzie

[Sabo]

A few days ago I began reading D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love. I've read 100 p or so and it has been an amusing and a perplexing experience. I recommend it warmly! I should warn you that I do have a strange sense of humor, my dear brother (that is Bazarov)! :D

[bazarov]

A few days ago I began reading D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love. I've read 100 p or so and it has been an amusing and a perplexing experience. I recommend it warmly! I should warn you that I do have a strange sense of humor, my dear brother (that is Bazarov)! :D
It's in our blood, we're helpless!! :lol: :lol: Brother!

[NoviceSeer]

You could always look towards these:

Jack Kerouac
Edgar Allan Poe
Robert Frost
William Blake
George Orwell
J.D Salinger
Oscar Wilde

[cruciverbalist]

It's difficult to recommend just a few, but I'll try to limit my suggestions.
If you haven't read much British or American literature, you could try writers that employ straightforward narratives and writing styles, such as Dickens and Maugham.
You could also look towards writings by Orwell, Swift, William Golding, Aldous Huxley and Jack London, among others.
I would also recommend James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner, but their writing styles, the use of stream of consciousness and a lot of symbolism, can prove daunting at first.
Mark Twain is incomparable for his witty rendering style. Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Steinbeck are also must-reads. (The Great Gatsby, The Old Man & The Sea and The Grapes of Wrath are among my favourite works.)
Of course, Shakespeare remains a perennial favourite. :)

[MikeK]

You should read the greatest American novel ever written:

"Moby Dick"

To me, it's the only American novel that I've read that compares to the best of Russian literature.

For short stories, as was mentioned above, read Edgar Allen Poe. He's very Dostoevskian.

Read Dickens, as was also mentioned above. Judging from some of your other posts, the Dickens novel that might interest you the most would probably be

"Bleak House".

And if you want to try another American, maybe you should give James Fenimore Cooper a shot. I know that Dostoevsky really liked "The Last of the Mohicans." (He referenced it in "The Brothers Karamazov".)
You might also enjoy some Nathaniel Hawthorne.

[Asa Adams]

ah baz, how about some Mordicai Richler? hahah oh canadian check him out
cheers

[subterranean]

How about Hesse's?