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January 26, 2004
Need book suggestions
I have a special dream. In this dream, I'm reading something fascinating approximately 500-800 pages thick. It has NOTHING to do with math or children, and it is read at about 35000 feet above the continental US, over the Pacific Ocean, and then on black sand beaches.
This dream book should be light enough for pausing, yet dense enough to be compelling. Something between Umberto Eco and Rowling. Magic realism is good, Grisham is evil. Sedaris is funny, Tolstoi is good.
I'm getting through these days by dreaming about this book.
Posted by G at January 26, 2004 09:49 PM
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Not to copy Oprah, but...have you tried "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Garcia Marquez?
Posted by: Greg at January 26, 2004 10:07 PM
Sounds like just about anything by James Mitchner...
Posted by: Frankenstein at January 26, 2004 10:21 PM
Read 100 years, seemed like 1000.
Mitchener is a little too much like a glacial epoch.
Posted by: Glennorama Brooklyn at January 26, 2004 10:44 PM
Not to be too populist or anything, but how 'bout that DaVinci Code? All the kids are reading it...
Posted by: Charlie at January 27, 2004 11:48 AM
"The Wind-up Bird Chronicles" by Haruki Murakami
Posted by: Greg at January 27, 2004 05:03 PM
i'm thinking about getting the davinci code too...hear wonderful things about it. i'm also about to read the chris rice book the snow garden.
Posted by: brian at January 27, 2004 11:41 PM
How bout DeLillo's Underworld?
Posted by: Todd at January 28, 2004 09:42 AM
Give WICKED a try. Seriously. If you want to escape with a fun, fun read while on vacation - try WICKED by Gregory MacGuire.
Have you ever read LIVES OF THE MONSTER DOGS by Kirsten Bakis? Check it out. It's creepy - like ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU creepy. (And you can lend it to Bonnie afterwards.)
Posted by: Danny at January 28, 2004 06:39 PM
"Wicked" is indeed superb. Another can't miss, if you haven't already read it, is "Running with Scissors" by Augusten Burroughs. I'd been hearing so much about this bestseller, but didn't pick it up until this past weekend. Talk about "a book you can't put down." I finished it over the weekend. It's is screamingly funny and terribly bizarre. A true story of a gay guy who grew up with the most outrageous and fucked-up family, etc. one could ever imagine. This is reality way too strange to ever be fiction. One of my favorite critical summaries says it's "John Waters meets Davis Sedaris."
Posted by: Greg at February 2, 2004 11:43 AM
The final results: I've added all of the books to my Amazon list. My trip books: Running with Scissors, DaVinci Code, and Fast Food Nation. The others will be for the break in April.
Golly, everybody really thinks I should read more...
Posted by: Glennorama Brooklyn at February 3, 2004 06:31 PM
I am looking for a summary of Kriten Bakis' book Lives of the Monster Dogs. Does anyone here know a place that i can get one that doesnt cost money? I just want a print out of something on the computer.
Posted by: Mayo at April 26, 2004 02:46 AM