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Tom:
--- Quote from: Johnny C on 02 Dec 2007, 14:17 ---Man. If the only books from the last thirty years that anybody reads a hundred years from now are from horror, fantasy or thriller writers, the fury from my rage will awaken my frozen brain from its cryogenically-induced slumber and I will make my robot-slave body start beating the shit out of people reading books from the Wheel Of Time series.
YET THIS IS THE EXACT DIRECTION THIS THREAD SEEMS TO BE GOING
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Don't worry, no one has a) enough time to read all 13/14 b) a long enough attention span or c) society will be so mentaly devestated by TV that they will be too mindless to be able to read anymore.
Dimmukane:
--- Quote from: Dark Flame on 02 Dec 2007, 21:28 ---
You are wrong. Seriously.
Here are books you need to read. Promptly.
Nicholson Baker - The Fermata
Martin Amis - Money
Don DeLillo - White Noise
Colson Whitehead - The Intuistionist (I guess this could be sort of maybe argued as a science-fiction-ish thing though)
David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas (Parts of it are definitely science-fiction, so it would make a good stepping stone, maybe)
All of those should be books which you can get in to, since they have decent fantastical moments, and don't come across as narratives of everyday life at all.
After that, or before that, or whenever, read The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields. If you have learned to appreciate things which are worth reading, you will love this.
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The key words in my statement were A LOT. Not trying to be a bastard, but you've listed 5 and a 6th. That's not a lot. But I will look for them at the library when I get a chance. As it is right now, I don't have a lot of time to read because I've been doing a lot of school/work/homework which will probably continue on until summer.
Joseph:
I listed books that I felt might be accessible to you based on what you described your likes as being. I did so in a rather restrained fashion, with hope that the list wouldn't seem overwhelming and you might go pick up one or two, and have your viewpoint changed sufficiently to delve deeper into general fiction and modern literature. If I wanted to list a lot of books, I could likely do so, and I'm sure there are many people on this forum who could list more.
And how posting a reply might it so that you were born of parents out of wedlock is beyond me.
Johnny C:
Dude read Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley.
In fact, all of you read it. The literature that survives is what we make survive.
Wayfaring Stranger:
Dark Flame, Martin Amis is a great call. The work I've read by him seems really timeless and brilliant.
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