Lay Some Fiction on Me
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Re: Lay Some Fiction on Me
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by Fallible » Feb 15, 2012 11:25 pm
Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. And I cannot stress Brighton Rock enough.
I see what you did there.
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Re: Lay Some Fiction on Me
#22 by orpheus » Feb 15, 2012 11:30 pm
Fallible wrote:Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.
I've had this on my "to read" pile for some time.
Must give things their proper names.
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Re: Lay Some Fiction on Me
#23 by j.mills » Feb 16, 2012 12:08 am
That there Bulgakov isn't free on the kindle. I'm only buying books that are free at the moment. 
(Like Erewhon and Voyage of the Beagle (illustrated!), both of which I bunged on this evening. 
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Re: Lay Some Fiction on Me
#24 by Macdoc » Feb 16, 2012 2:12 am
Not fiction but reads like it - superb writing and it's free
any of John Muir's books but notably Travels in Alaska.....awestruck at both his casual exploits and his powers of observation and prose. His description of crossing a crevasse will leave you dumbfounded.
Highly highly recommended....
any of John Muir's books but notably Travels in Alaska.....awestruck at both his casual exploits and his powers of observation and prose. His description of crossing a crevasse will leave you dumbfounded.
Highly highly recommended....
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Re: Lay Some Fiction on Me
#25 by Wiðercora » Feb 16, 2012 5:31 pm
Blip wrote:Wiðercora, what interests you in general? It may help us tailor our suggestions to you.
Well, I'll give the first chapter of anything a go. Maybe the first few, if I'm feeling generous.
Oh, but no Romance. I don't like romance novels.
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Re: Lay Some Fiction on Me
#26 by j.mills » Feb 16, 2012 7:10 pm
Oh, stick this on yer list: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. Trust me. Have I ever lied to you? 
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Re: Lay Some Fiction on Me
#27 by j.mills » Feb 16, 2012 7:11 pm
Macdoc wrote:Not fiction but reads like it - superb writing and it's free
any of John Muir's books but notably Travels in Alaska.....awestruck at both his casual exploits and his powers of observation and prose. His description of crossing a crevasse will leave you dumbfounded.
Highly highly recommended....
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Re: Lay Some Fiction on Me
#28 by Blip » Feb 17, 2012 3:33 pm
I'd second the suggestion of The Master and Margarita. That also makes me think of Death and the Penguin. One of the best novels I've read in recent years is Life of Pi; Never Let Me Go is also an excellent work (given your proviso earlier, I need to advise you not to be misled by the title).
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Re: Lay Some Fiction on Me
#29 by GreatApe » Feb 22, 2012 6:06 am
Blip wrote: Ulysses: probably the most over-rated work in literature.
RUBBISH!, RUBBISH! Ten-thousand times, RUBBISH! ... absolute and unadulterated RUBBISH!
Okay, okay ... Blip is CERTAINLY allowed to have her opinion, and I even respect it (a little), but I maintain that to say Joyce is over-rated is to not understand Joyce. "Ulysses" is perhaps the world's best example of the idea of "Form Fits Function" in English Literature. That, in itself, is worth appreciating in "Ulysses." (Now climbing down off the soap-box). ::::::Thinks about climbing back up to scream "RUBBISH!" again ... finally rejects the idea::::::
Uh, where was I? Oh, books ... recommendations ...
I greatly appreciate Morrison's "Beloved"
Definitely "Lolita" if you have not already (at least three times).
Love John Updike's short stories.
Anything by Twain.
Nothing by Austen.
Still love Flannery O'Connor's short stories after all these years even though she was a Catholic.
Into non-fiction? How much power is in this "Kindle" thing you spoke about? Into 800 to 1000 page non-fiction historical books about GREAT SUFFERING, TERROR. Murder and Mayhem?
"Gulag: A History" by Anne Applebaum
"Mao: The Unknown Story"
For "Fun?" .... Beckett's "How It Is"
NEVER, NEVER, NEVER ... (ALWAYS say "NEVER!") to Gertrude Stein's "The Making of Americans"
That is all for now, though I promise to return ... like The Plague!
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Re: Lay Some Fiction on Me
#30 by Fallible » Feb 22, 2012 9:44 am
GreatApe wrote:Nothing by Austen.
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Re: Lay Some Fiction on Me
#32 by orpheus » Feb 22, 2012 9:05 pm
GreatApe wrote:Blip wrote: Ulysses: probably the most over-rated work in literature.
RUBBISH!, RUBBISH! Ten-thousand times, RUBBISH! ... absolute and unadulterated RUBBISH!
Okay, okay ... Blip is CERTAINLY allowed to have her opinion, and I even respect it (a little), but I maintain that to say Joyce is over-rated is to not understand Joyce. "Ulysses" is perhaps the world's best example of the idea of "Form Fits Function" in English Literature. That, in itself, is worth appreciating in "Ulysses."
I said I will
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Re: Lay Some Fiction on Me
#33 by GreatApe » Feb 23, 2012 6:12 am
Austen just KILLS ME! ... I cant do it any more! I tried and tried and studied and studied ... and I took a graduate course seminar on her novels when I was working on my M.A. in English Lit. I read nothing but her novels for 16 weeks ... I did fine in the course, but by the time it was over ... I WAS OVER Austen! To be fair to her ... she was ahead of her time in many, many ways ... a pre-cursor to Feminism as it existed decades ago and as it exists today. To be fair some more ... I actually enjoyed "Persuasion"!
To be honest, "Persuasion" is a short novel! To be MORE honest ... Austen's "style" is brutal and the word itself is a misnomer as far as most of her writing is concerned. To be ENTIRELY honest, please see Twain's comments about Austen and her writing. I have quoted them too many times to do so again.
(DISCLAIMER: I'm NOT an ASSHOLE! ... I'm the ENTIRE ASS!)
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Re: Lay Some Fiction on Me
#34 by Fallible » Feb 23, 2012 10:24 am
Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.
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Re: Lay Some Fiction on Me
#35 by trubble76 » Feb 23, 2012 12:11 pm
Wiðercora wrote:So, whilst idly browsing my Kindle this evening, I came to notice a severe dearth of fiction on my electronical-powered digitalised-book reading device.
I should very much like to remedy this situation.
Lay it on me B-Boys and B-Ladies.
Seriously. It's open season. No specific genre, just fire away. Great time to shamelessly self-promote, too.
My friends and I really enjoyed Conn Iggulden's Conqueror series.
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Re: Lay Some Fiction on Me
#36 by Wiðercora » Feb 23, 2012 3:53 pm
Thanks for all the recommendations chaps. I'm afraid, though, I've been rather sneaky and not actually purchased any. I'm studying English literature this cuadrimestre, so a lot of my time is taken up with Deor and Cædmon's Hym and Bede and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Dickens and Middlemarch and Updike and so on and so forth.
The kicker is that I went out of my way to buy the eBooks on the old Kindle, and the professors have only gone and put the relevant texts up on the university website for free! Cheek of it.
The kicker is that I went out of my way to buy the eBooks on the old Kindle, and the professors have only gone and put the relevant texts up on the university website for free! Cheek of it.
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Re: Lay Some Fiction on Me
#37 by j.mills » Feb 23, 2012 7:43 pm
I shoulda thought all but yer Updike were hanging around for free on gutenberg or somesuch anyway. 
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Re: Lay Some Fiction on Me
#38 by Wiðercora » Feb 24, 2012 9:12 pm
Sir Gawain is on there, in glorious Chaucerian English but no modern translations.
I forked out I think £5 for a digital copy (sorry, to rent a licence which allows me to read a digital copy which can be revoked at any time for any reason) off Amazon.
I forked out I think £5 for a digital copy (sorry, to rent a licence which allows me to read a digital copy which can be revoked at any time for any reason) off Amazon.
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