Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Chabon
White Noise by DeLillo
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Murakami
New York Trilogy by Auster
Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon
Pastoralia by Saunders
Collected Fictions by Borges (this is probably cheating)
The Loser by Bernhard
Frog by Dixon
Cloud Atlas by Mitchell
Motherless Brooklyn by Lethem
Why do I find these lists so impossible?!
These are completely random ...
The Unbearable Lightness of Being -- Milan Kundera
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay -- Michael Chabon
The Poisonwood Bible -- Barbara Kingsolver
The Shipping News -- Annie Proulx
High Fidelity -- Nick Hornby
Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang -- Joyce Carol Oates
She's Come Undone -- Wally Lamb
The Time Traveler's Wife -- Audrey Niffenegger
Anna Karenina -- Leo Tolstoy
Catcher in the Rye -- J.D. Salinger
The Brothers Karamazov -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Honorable mention: Gone With the Wind, and nearly anything by Dickens.
My favorite books when I was growing up were Where The Red Fern Grows and Indian in the Cupboard.
Non Fiction
Ball Four - Jim Bouton
The Fifties - Halbersam
The Reckoning - Halberstam
Desert Solitaire - Edward Abbey
Europe - Norman Davies
The Cosmic Trigger - Robert Anton Wilson
Myths to Live By - Joseph Campbell
Bill James Historical Abstract
The Joy of Cooking
I've been struggling with Pynchon's new one off and on for a few months now. Usually I would say that The Crying of Lot 49 is my favorite Pynchon, but I have been on a long book kick lately. It started with finally getting around to Infinite Jest.
Chabon's new one, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, comes out on May 1st and they are currently filming a movie of Mysteries of Pittsburgh, so there is lots of Chabon goodness to look forward to.
Love Mysteries of Pittsburgh. Didn't know they were making a movie. That's cool. edit: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0768218/fullcredits#cast
looks like they cut out Arthur Lecomte. I like the casting of Peter Saarsgard as Cleveland though. My cats' name is Cleveland, partly in honor of this character.
I really liked the Crying of Lot 49 too.
Looking forward to the new Chabon.
Last edited by pedro; 02-27-2007 at 04:07 PM.
School's out. What did you expect?
Honestly, I like every book that I finish. If it's not well written, or if the story doesn't enthrall me in some way then the books gets returned. But this is the nature of my professional life- a librarian needs to read very widely in order to be good at their job. So favorites? That's too hard to do for me.
But I have a long list of books that I've only gotten fifty pages into.
Speaking of which, here is one of the best reviews of the Da Vinci Code, ever.
Next Reds manager, second shooter. --Confirmed on Redszone.
re: Mysteries of Pittsburgh -
Looks like they changed the story line a bit.
During his first summer after graduating from the University of Pittsburgh, Art Bechstein (Foster) falls into a romance with a married couple.
School's out. What did you expect?
I read that the screenwriter combined the characters of Arthur and Cleveland into one character. I don't have high hopes for this one as I can't see the writer/director of Dodgeball being able to pull off this material. Peter Sarsgaard is an excellent choice for Cleveland, but I can't picture Mena Suvari as Phlox.
Speaking of adaptations, John Krasinski (The Office) is adapting David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men and Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers are working on Where the Wild Things Are. I'm pretty excited about both of those.
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