Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin. His best, I think, nice long book.
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Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin. His best, I think, nice long book.
Is it better than A Soldier of the Great War? That novel was godawfully bad, yet highly praised - is his style in that one better? I hear he is interested in magical realism in that text, yet his style in A Soldier was so bad, that I am skeptical about getting Winter's Tale.Quote:
Originally Posted by wron
The Great Gatsby by F. Scot Fitzgerald
Looking for something funny Lamb or The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller...one of the funniest books out there
OR
A Separate Peace by John Knowles...though I'm not sure it hits the 300-page mark
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser.
John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
mark twain's "The adventureds of huckleberry finn" was pretty good.
V. by Thomas Pynchon. It's about alligators in the New York sewers. You'll love it!