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The Master and Margarita

I 2nd "A Prayer For Owen Meany" ~ John Irving. I am re-reading it right now - awesome.

I tried to get into "A farewell to Arms" last week by Hemingway....blah.

Blood Meridian.
Suttree.

They are about as gripping as books can get. Both by Cormac McCarthy.

Here's a variety...

Dracula (Bram Stoker)
The Worst Journey in the World (Apsley Cherry-Garrard)
Post Office (Charles Bukowski)
The White Spider (Heinrich Harrer)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)
Journey to the Center of the Earth & 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne)

Fear and Loathing is probably the funniest book I have ever read, if you enjoy that one then try The Rum Diary as well, classic.

Slaughterhouse- Five
Welcome to the Monkey House
Fahrenheit 451
A Confederacy of Dunces
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Not meeting the 20 year criterion but still damn good:

The Road
Blood Meridian
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Plus a bit of nonfiction:

A Short History of Nearly Everything
A People's History of the United States

pigsteak wrote:I tried to get into "A farewell to Arms" last week by Hemingway....blah.

That's kind of how I felt about the few Hemingway books I read. I'm glad I'm not the only person who doesn't know how to appreciate fine literature. Of course I think I liked some of them too, but I just can't remember them as they don't stand out to me.

I almost forgot, I also thought "Dune" was a great book. I own "A Prayer for Owen Meany" too if you want to borrow it since a few folks have mentioned it.

pigsteak wrote:I tried to get into "A farewell to Arms" last week by Hemingway....blah.

i don't know what to say pigsteak.

try again. imagine you were trying to tell someone about your life. really. what would you say? where would you start?

blah?

Edit-
i can't find my copy, but dug up this opening line...
"In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains."

definitely blah.
the river. the plain.

the mountains

rhunt wrote:I 2nd A Prayer For Owen Meany ~ John Irving. I am re-reading it right now - awesome.

I 3rd that one - I've read all of John Irving's novels and love most of his work.