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J-Rock
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Jack London's short stories.
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Horatio Felacio
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Post by Horatio Felacio »

the jungle books
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meetVA
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Post by meetVA »

Zspider wrote:You liked Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea? Even though he won the big one for it, I wasn't very impressed with it.
Yup. I loved the amount he could say in so few words. It was one of those first "Oh wow!" moments I had with a book.

Marathonmedic, didn't want to give the story away to other folks so I responded in a pm.

And another I just thought of, but have forgotten the author's name
-Of Mice and Men

and
-The Grapes of Wrath
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maine
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Post by maine »

that would be john steinbeck, meetVA

I just finished The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini it was excellent but painful to read. It tells the story of two boys growing up in modern Afganistan.

Next on the list is One Hundred Years of Solitude.

My favorites . . .ummm too many to name all but a couple are
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and Captain Correlli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres (BTW the movie sucked!)
Zspider
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Post by Zspider »

J-Rock wrote:Jack London's short stories.
Ah! To Build a Fire is a classic! Stephen Crane wrote in a similar vein. Open Boat is better than The Blue Hotel. His short novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, is an unflinching look at the tragic life of a young girl growing up at the turn of the 19th century in the Bowery, a bad neighborhood in New York City. It's a classic example of the pessimistic determinism of the American Naturalists.

Melville wrote some good short stories, also.

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meetVA wrote: And another I just thought of, but have forgotten the author's name
-Of Mice and Men

and
-The Grapes of Wrath
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Both by Steinbeck. I liked Of Mice and Men, but couldn't make it through The Grapes of Wrath. Too much extolling the wonderful world of socialism. I'm a firm believer in separation between fiction and essay. I thought Gant's ridiculously long speech at the end of Atlas Shrugged was way beyond the capacity of the novel.

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Horatio Felacio wrote:the jungle books
Ah! The white man's burden!

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charlie
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Post by charlie »

maine wrote:Next on the list is One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Such a kick ass book.
ZSpider wrote:....I thought Gant's ridiculously long speech at the end of Atlas Shrugged was way beyond the capacity of the novel.
....along with all the other tirades in the book. Although I kinda like her theories in a weird way Rand is such a mediocre writer. I'm still kinda pissed I finished Atlas. It got recommended to me so many times I kept reading it long after I should have dropped it. Try John Dos Passos The Big Money, USA Trilogy if you're interested in these kinds of novels. He's a writer.

Also dug Maggie and am a big Hemingway fan.

Is no one reading any Kingsolver?
Meadows
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Post by Meadows »

skibum wrote:john irving...widow for one year(5stars),a prayer for owen meany, the fourth hand.
I read all those last Spring ... the first two are not as good as his older stuff but A Prayer was one of the best novels I've read. The character reminded me of Ho for some reason.
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maine wrote:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
My second favorite book of all times! First: GWTW.
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