erm... well... it's a book club... for the sixth form... at my sixth form college...
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erm... well... it's a book club... for the sixth form... at my sixth form college...
thank you Raven. That makes things MUCH more clear.
Catch-22 is now one of my fav books ever.
This book is so darn crazy...:D :D. Does anyone know what other books who got the same theme, genre as this. I really like to dig them out. Thanks
Heller's other books, Catch as Cat Can, Something Happened, Good as Gold, Closing Time, God Knows
Hey RAven what did you think of the Lovely Bones? It didn't fit my tastes at all.
My mother read the Lovely Bones. She really liked it. Which probably means I wouldn't. She read me a couple of exerpts and it sounded sort of... I don't know, Jr.-High-School-girl style of writing. Using the same adjectives and verbs over and over, but not for any deliberate effect. That kind of thing. That's all I remember.
Perhaps you would like Kurt Vonnegut as well? Slaughterhouse five is one of my favorites. I´m not really sure if it´s the same genre, but they have the same way of showing how absurd life (and people) can be.Quote:
Originally posted by subterranean
Catch-22 is now one of my fav books ever.
This book is so darn crazy...:D :D. Does anyone know what other books who got the same theme, genre as this. I really like to dig them out. Thanks
Exactly what I though emily: jr. highish. Maybe like someone trying to be innovative and fialing miserably.
very disturbing. The rape at the beginning? The author was raped - its based on real experience ((as is her novel 'Lucky')). I don't think I liked it, but I didn't dislike it either. It was very strange, and we had a lot to discuss. Don't forget that it was written from the perspective of a high school student, so that would be why it was high schooly - I'm not sure of her reasoning for that...
Who was your fave char? mine was Ruth
I didn't really have a favorite character, but Ruth was the one that stood out to me the most in memory.
'The Lovely Bones' is flakey but teenage girls like it and 'The Five People You Meet in Heaven' by a fellow called Albom. 'The L-Shaped Room' and 'The Writing on The Wall' by Banks 'The Millstone' by Margaret Drabble. Either of Donna Tart's two novels. Louis Sachar's 'Holes' is a clever piece of work. I guess Austen if you haven't read her already. Georgette Heyer wrote a lot of clever Romantic novels.
Oh and there's 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' by Spark, 'The Gowk Storm' by Nancy Brysson Morrison (A Canongate text). Margaret Foster, 'Lady's Maid' and 'Georgy Girl'. Andrei Makine 'A Hero's Daughter'.
There's Miles Franklin's 'My Brilliant Career' - written when she was sixteen. There's Cliff Hanley's novel 'The Taste of Too Much'. Frayn's 'Spies' - clever and funny. Patchett's 'Bel Canto'. Pym's 'Excellent Women' - a smashing decent writer. Tan's 'The Joy Luck Club'. Widdicombe's 'An Act of Treachery' - excellent. I think most of what I have listed there are relatively short focussed works of fiction. There's lots of good non-fiction that an intelligent young woman would like, particularly autobiography but I think I should leave that to yourself.
Subterranean a book a bit like 'Catch 22' is 'Castle Keep' by William Eastlake. You might also like Wharton's 'A Midnight Clear' or James Jones', 'The Thin Red Line'
Life Expectancy and Odd Thomas are great books by Dean Koontz; they are simultaneously hilarious and philosophical. I've read both of them several times, and now that I think about it, I'm due for another re-read soon! :)
Why people like to dig out ol' threads? :D :D... Cheers to ennison who brought the thread back to live.
My list of good books has expanded so long that I don't know where to start. O yes, Siddharta by Hermann Hesse.