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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (22341)	8/26/2005 12:50:26 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

I find that buying books from my local library is an excellent (too excellent) source of books for me- and when I find an author I love, I then go check out all their books. I can highly recommend Coetzee. I think I praised Disgrace on some thread on SI- and then I read some other books, and liked those just as well. I do not like Jelinek at all. I love Naipul- and the Mystic Masseur was made in to quite a nice little movie. Grass is fantastic- I think you'd like the Tin Drum if you haven't read it. His other books are fine too, but i like the tin Drum. I own many of Saramago's books- Rambi and I read Blindness together a few years ago. He's an amazing author. I tried to read Nip the Buds Shoot the Kids by Oe, but I just couldn't get in to it. I think I just gave the book away to someone else. It did not work for me. I always wonder if that's a translation problem, or a cultural problem, when I read an author from another culture who is supposed to be great, and they just seem flat, or horrible, to me. Gordimer is fantastic. I've got so many of her books- and I've even read most of them :-) As opposed to all those other books I have that I'm avoiding reading (mostly the non-fiction ones, that I think I "should" read). I've only read a few books by Mahfouz, but I've been meaning to get back to him. I liked Midaq Alley, Palace Walk, Palace of Desire and Sugar Street. Marquez is one of my favorite writers. I'm a huge fan of magic realism. Have you read him? I think, if stranded on a desert island, and allowed only 10 books, 100 Years of Solitude would be one of the books I would want. I'm trying to think what the others would be- maybe I could count the collected works of Jane Austen as choice number 2 (or is that cheating?). And then number 3 could be the collected works of Dickens :-) Books are the companions of my dreams. I love them like family members (although I most certainly do love my real family intensely, I do not think I would be as happy and alive for them as I am, without the constant recharging I get from books.)