JB wrote:EVERYBODY should read Travelling Mercies, by Anne Lamott. I adore her "fucked up for Jesus" approach to faith. my personal spiritual anti-hero.
and for those of you who aren't "into" the faith thing, pick this one up anyway. she's a great writer and has plenty of non-religous/non-faith thoughts and stories in there.. and she's hilarious. it's pretty well broken up, too, so that you can pick it up and read twenty pages here or there and not get all turned around.. and she's hilarious
good call jb
and great loves will one day have to part -smashing pumpkins
Danny - Hemingway has a short story that is really good - "Hills Like White Elephants" or something to that effect and if you can find it, there was a novel of his called "Garden of Eden" also which was really good - it was published in the 80s. It was an unfinished manuscript that was found after he died. It's a little twisted depending on your stance on things. Has a little of everything....love, hate, sex, threesomes, mental illness....cool setting and imagery. Check it out.
Anyone who is into reading short stories....Raymond Carver and Ann Beattie are my number one recs. Ann Beattie has a collection called Burning House and another called Where You'll Find Me that are great and Carver has a couple: Where I'm Calling From, What We Talk ABout WHen We Talk ABout Love and Call If You Need Me Beattie's story specifically called "Burning House" is really interesting look at Men and Women and how people are connected to one another.
"I enjoyed a Guinness after I got back home from Palm Sunday Mass." - Captain Static
"Listen, you heard what I said. Do you want me to donate or not charlie. Suck it up and procreate." - Andrew
just finished "steppenwolf" by herman hesse. it's been something of a build up for me to read: i've picked it up and put it down several times before. now, though, i have to say it's an excellent book through the first hundred seventy pages and good through the last forty. all in all, just another must-read hesse book. careful, though: the first hundred or so pages can drag you down.. way down.
has anyone read "the glass bead game"? i'm wondering what it's like. i've heard it's pretty autobiographical.. any thoughts?
and great loves will one day have to part -smashing pumpkins
Just finished reading Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian for the second time. Along with Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, it's one of the best American novels I've read. Absolutely stunning.
