Re: questions...
J J R (jrovira@juno.com)
Mon, 01 Jun 1998 13:33:52 -0400 (EDT)
You're gonna be swamped with response to this one. I like particularly
imaginative and/or passionate Stuff--magical realism, etc.--so my
suggestions are guided by those prefences.
Italo Calvino--Cosmicomics or Mr. Palomar (this guy is a born short story
writer)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez--One Hundred Years of Solitude or Love in the Time
of Cholera (if you pick one, pick the latter. Passionate AND imaginative)
Walter Wangerin--The Book of the Dun Cow (takes a book that should be
children's literature and elevates it to a heroic epic)
CS Lewis--Till We Have Faces (retelling of the Psyche myth, the author's
personal favorite of all his works)
Annie Dillard--Holy the Firm
John Irving--A Prayer for Owen Meaney (closer to mass market fiction than
the above works, a much easier read than any of them, but it deserves
attention. One of those you have to have read at least once).
for poetry...
Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, Galway Kinnell, Seamus Heaney...eh, there's
more, but my mind is slipping.
Good luck :)
Jim
On Mon, 01 Jun 1998 11:36:54 -0400 (EDT) Prufrock33@aol.com writes:
>I have only read Franny and Zooey and Catcher in the Rye. Both books I
>found
>to be very conversational and easy to read.
>
>But this is somewhat off the topic I am trying to discuss here. I am a
>student
>attending the University of Kentucky with a declared major in English.
>I
>assume that most of the people on this list have other favorite
>authors/books.
>I would love for anyone to give me a few ideas of things to read
>during this
>sometimes slow summer break. If you could, give me also some reasons
>why you
>like that specific author or work. (I am also a BIG poetry fan and
>would love
>to open up my mind to some new poets.)
>
>
>Angie
>
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