What should I read if I had nothing to read?

[Janine]

Haha, Janine, you got me there! Now I'm embarrassed.

Nico, no, don't be. I think that many people mix these two authors up, which is understandable - their names are so similar. I just know 'my Lawrence' and his work and wondered how I missed that book, so I looked it up in Wiki. Now I know more about what 'Lawrence of Arabia', wrote so I am grateful to you. I have always been fascinated with his life story. I would like to read that book "Seven Pillars of Wisdom". It has my curiosity. So I thank you for pointing it out.

If you have not read DH Lawrence I highly recommend him to you. His books are great. I just finishing up "Sons and Lovers" for the second time and I loved it! It is a very good read.

[LadyWentworth]

Lady Wenthworth, I do want to read "The Last Man", but so far have not found it anywhere. I will look on Amazon tonight. It seems sort of rare.

It is on Amazon. I know it is! It isn't too much of a shock if a library doesn't have it. I just think it is kind of unbelievable that no stores carry it. I know this is a fact because I haven't honestly seen it in a store since I bought it! That was, I'd say, about 15 years ago now. Maybe I bought the last known copy of The Last Man that physically existed in a store anywhere!!

[Janine]

It is on Amazon. I know it is! It isn't too much of a shock if a library doesn't have it. I just think it is kind of unbelievable that no stores carry it. I know this is a fact because I haven't honestly seen it in a store since I bought it! That was, I'd say, about 15 years ago now. Maybe I bought the last known copy of The Last Man that physically existed in a store anywhere!!

Hi LW, I will go and check. I know what you mean about bookstores and rare! I get totally frustrated but there always is my beloved Amazon! I am totally addicted to that - you know it! If it is there I will locate it. I just forgot to look earlier when I was on the site. My 'to read' list is 100 miles long!

PS: you did get my email reply? no rush.

[s.santa]

Thanks everyone for your suggestions and forgive me for my absence!!!
I don't remember who told me to walk in a bookstore and pick books at random (?) but I DID IT! and I bought a kinda good collection of Poems by Prevèrt..."Poems about Love and Freedom"...it sounds sooo bohemian (has anyone seen "The Moulin Rouge"?)!!!
Anyway I think I'll read Lawrence first and maybe Forster....then again I'm almost obsessed with Oriana Fallaci ryt now so I think I'll buy something by her too...btw can anyone tell me if Goethe's "Werther" is a good book??
thanks guys!!!

[Etienne]

btw can anyone tell me if Goethe's "Werther" is a good book??
thanks guys!!!

It's very good.

[bazarov]

Agree!

[baibai]

It depends on your mood ,right?

[samg3008]

oh definately Life of Pi - Yan martel, it's brilliant! read it!
oh and heart of darkness - joseph conrad, takes a while to get into and is a bit miserable but once into it, its pretty good. Look to references to sexuality, it comes up a lot but not unless your looking for it.
x

[spookymulder93]

Ham on Rye

[Propter W.]

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Dee Brown
Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
The Dogs of Winter - Kem Nunn
The Book of Illusions - Paul Auster
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov

[breathtest]

Any book by cormac mccarthy. If you want a quick entertaining read, 'No Country For Old Men', if you want a longer deeper one 'Suttree'.

[Alexander III]

I must say read Hugo's Les Miserables !

As Rimbaud said "there is a novel which is not a novel, it is a long poem, poesy from start to finish, the greatest poem of our times"