what is your all time favorite book/ or books, published since 1985?
what is your all time favorite book/ or books, published since 1985?
Amongst Women - John McGahern
The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Last edited by PeterL; 04-23-2008 at 05:18 PM.
Probably Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian
Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?
Any Human Heart by William Boyd.
Its hard to pick just one, so I'll post two of my favorites (although I don't know if they're necessarily my absolute favorites).
Fiction: A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving (1989)
Non-fiction: Citizen Soldiers - Stephen Ambrose (1998)
Christopher Unborn from Carlos Fuentes, (****1/2)
The Elementary Particles from a Michel Houellebecq the ones i can recall now.
And many good writers were active on 1985+ years.
John Barth, Michel Butor, Rushdie, Eco, Grillet, Grass, Llosa, Saramago ... Surely they have some.
"an artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it." paul valery
"The Name Of The Rose" by Umberto Eco.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe that they are free.
-Goethe
You are 2 years too late. or 5 years if we count the Italian as the dateOriginally Posted by amalia1985
That was published in 1980.
Last edited by PeterL; 04-24-2008 at 01:25 PM.
The first Italian edition came out in 1980. The first English edition in 1983.
The BC read this one last year if you would like to have a look at the discussion thread:
http://www.online-literature.com/for...ad.php?t=24399
Personally, I am not a fan of the book.
My favorite post-1985 books:
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Hours by Michael Cunningham
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
- Shipping News by Annie Proulx
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Or at least the ones I could think of at the moment.
Interesting; I thought I hadn't read many books written after 1985.
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Hellfire by Mia Gallagher
Bitterbynde saga by Cecilia Dart Thornton
Curious Incedent of the Dog in the night time by Mark Haddon
No.1 Ladies Detective agency series by Alexander Macall Smith (they're great!)
the boy in the striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
A Quiet Belief in Angels by R.J. Ellory
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
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The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy:
http://www.amazon.com/God-Small-Thin...9041581&sr=8-2
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time: by Mark Haddon
http://www.amazon.com/Curious-Incide...9038331&sr=8-1
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon:
http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Wind-Ca...9038404&sr=8-1
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly:
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Lost-Thin...9038511&sr=8-1
Non-fiction:
Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett by James Knowlson:
http://www.amazon.com/Damned-Fame-Li...9038671&sr=8-1
The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity by Tariq Ali:
http://www.amazon.com/Clash-Fundamen...9040551&sr=8-1
Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil by Alain Badiou:
http://www.amazon.com/Ethics-Essay-U...9041022&sr=8-2
"The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don’t want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my nose in the sh1t the more I am grateful to him..."
-- Harold Pinter on Samuel Beckett
Have you read the new one? Miracle at Speedy Motors? Its real good fun!No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency is terrific! Always puts a smile on my face.
Kafkas Cow: Did you really think Book of lost things was that good? I'll admit it was a good read and i enjoyed it, but i found it plagerised too many books.
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
my poems-please comment Forum Rules
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