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JLM:
Ok.  So we have the "what are you reading" thread, but most of the time threads like that just sort of turn into lists where everyone is just trying to prove that they're literate, without paying attention to what other people are reading.

So here's the deal:

Recommend a book.  The person that takes up that recommendation will then recommend another book, and so forth.  When you're done reading, post a quick review/thoughts on the book you read.

A couple of rules:
1) No genre fiction.  I love the occassional sci-fi and mystery novel, but let's aim to raise the discourse.

2) No Graphic Novels.  I don't care how good it is.  In the end, it's a picture book.  Not a serious literary work.

3) No agenda non-fiction.  I'm not really worried about too much Sean Hannity, Michael Moore, Lyndon LaRouche et.al. popping up here, but I figured I'd say it anyways.

4) If you've already read the book, wait until someone posts something you haven't read.  Give other people an opportunity to enjoy the work.

Other than that, it should be pretty open ended.  Fiction is always, in my opinion, more interesting, but as long as you feel it's justifiably intriguing then post it.

I'll get the ball rolling:

The Doctor Is Sick by Anthony Burgess.

Any takers?

Vlishgnath:
Trying to get this straight here before I jump in.  Do we read the book being suggested, then post a reccomendation?


--- Quote ---1) No genre fiction.
--- End quote ---


This term is something I've been looking for a definition on for a while.  Isn't everything in one genre or another?


--- Quote ---2) it's a picture book. Not a serious literary work.
--- End quote ---


I'm perfectly fine with keeping GN's out of this, but keep it in your pants, alright?  I own "picture books" that tell stories better than many prose books I've read.  Thanks.

JLM:
no, you needn't actually read a book all the way through before making your own recommendation.  We'll just go on the honor system.

The "keep it in your pants" comment wasn't called for.  I've got a few graphic novels of my own and still read quite a few comics.  They generally don't win the booker prize, though, do they?   I was going to put a "no poetry" rule in there as well.

Genre fiction is fiction tailored to a specific format, i.e. Romance novels, Sci-Fi novels, Mystery Novels, Horror, etc.  Things that would primarily be classified in one of those sections were you to search for them in an average bookstore.

shrimp:
See, I would really like to take part in this type of thing, but seeing as I generally hate bestsellers and things that are "heartachingly wonderful" with "writing the flows off the page into your imagination" and tend to prefer genre books more than the usual pile of pretentious wank, I might start a genre thread with the same premise :)

dessa:
ok, ill start it off really good with a giant list...
"The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov
"Midnights children" and "The satanic verses" by salman rushdee
"One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"The Cossacks" and "Anna karenina" by Leo Tolstoy (don't read war and peace its a massive waste of time)
"The Heart of Darkness" by Joseph conrad (an absolute must read, a one nighter read too)
"Siddhartha" and "Steppenwolf" by Hermann Hesse (i think siddhartha is better)
theres so many i have read but can't remember at this moment.
if i can find a publisher for my story you should buy it...

i hate most bestsellers, when i see the best seller book as "The da vinci code" i just want to shoot all those idiots that rant on about how great it is (though it is terrible and completely ripped off another Non-fiction book called holy blood holy grail)

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