Though not exactly a book about a book, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka has many unmistakable allusions to The Metamorphoses by Ovid. How I forgot this, I have no idea - perhaps by how obvious the fact seems. :rolleyes:
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Though not exactly a book about a book, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka has many unmistakable allusions to The Metamorphoses by Ovid. How I forgot this, I have no idea - perhaps by how obvious the fact seems. :rolleyes:
The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard
The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl
The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte
The Tuesday Next Series by Jasper Fforde
The Case of the Missing Books by Ian Sansom
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
Of the adult books I have read and enjoyed, the above titles come to mind.
The Club Dumas, but I wouldn't recommend it.
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luis Borges; A lot of his stories are about books- fictional books.
humm Thanks:D
"The twelfth dialogue" - Tom Petsinis
"The Shadow of the Wind" - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
"The Book Thief" - Markus Zusak
Murder at the Abbey Theatre- Its a novel about the playboy of the western world and the riots it cause in the Abbey theatre in 1907
'Old School' by Tobias Wolff.
'Concrete' by Thomas Bernhard.
'Double or Nothing' by Raymond Federman.
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova, about the discovery of a book and its secrets.
A Wedding in December - Anita Shreve, has snippets of a book that one of the characters is writing.
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James, the entire story is being read out loud from a manuscript.
Oh God dont remind of that nightmare :sick: :cold: Ok Im sorry if you liked it alot of people did/do apparntly, but Im not onw of them... we read it in my book club ( well ok I gave up about 200 words in when they started "quoting" from the koran, and making things up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Toryssa
Other than that thanks everyone :D:nod:
I agree...I hated THE HISTORIAN....too ambitious for the writer I thought.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightshade
I also didn't like THE DANTE CLUB either...
Oh, don't bother reading it...it's terrible!!Quote:
Originally Posted by subterranean