|
|
|
|
#1
10-24-2005, 02:23 PM
|
|||
|
|||
Re: Needing a New Book To Read
I've read some good Latin American literature and recommend:
The House of the Spirits- Isabel Allende The Death of Artemio Cruz- Carlos Fuentes Love in the Time of Cholera- Gabriel Garcia Marquez. 
|
|
#3
10-24-2005, 03:53 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Re: Needing a New Book To Read
As far as satire goes a favorite of mine has always been Voltaire's "Candide"
|
|
#4
10-24-2005, 04:09 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Re: Needing a New Book To Read
For something a bit different and I don't think that well read these days (but I really don't have any idea), there's not exactly satirical, but scathing (but with some empathy too) of the human condition: Vanity Fair?
|
|
#6
10-24-2005, 04:48 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Re: Needing a New Book To Read
[ QUOTE ]
Jared Diamond, Guns Germs and Steel. This thread is over. Someone lock it. [/ QUOTE ] Definitely a good book, but I don't know if a thread ender. Have you read his new book - Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed? I was thinking about getting it, but wondering if it lived up to its predecessor.
|
|
#9
10-24-2005, 04:19 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Re: Needing a New Book To Read
I just finished "Me talk pretty one day" by David Sedaris. Its a collection of short stories/essays. Quick read and extremely funny. None of the stories are over 10 pages, so it should ease you back into reading non-***** books.
|
|
#10
11-01-2005, 11:51 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Re: Needing a New Book To Read
[ QUOTE ]
I just finished "Me talk pretty one day" by David Sedaris. Its a collection of short stories/essays. Quick read and extremely funny. None of the stories are over 10 pages, so it should ease you back into reading non-***** books. [/ QUOTE ] I agree (but I think just a few of them are a little over 10, could be wrong). Anything by David Sedaris (Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family...) or Chuck Palahnuik (Fight Club, Choke) are good reads.
|
 |
|
|
Hybrid Mode
