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Liz:
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Wayfaring Stranger:
I'm going to highly recommend that everyone read The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea.
It's really great historical fiction, taking place at the beginning of the Mexican revolution. The writing is simply beautiful and Urrea is seriously witty, without ever becoming trite or silly. It was researched over an almost twenty-year span, which is pretty apparent in its level of detail. Fantastic book.
TheFuriousWombat:
--- Quote from: n0t_r0bert_b0yle!! on 29 Nov 2007, 11:29 ---I found out yesterday that no one in my religion class, which has a lot of people who are in advanced English class, has read Jane Eyre.
Please, if you haven't read it, read it. It's the greatest piece 19th century gothic literature.
--- End quote ---
You, sir, are cruel. You're trying to trick poor, unsuspecting souls into reading that book. It just isn't nice of you.
My recommendation is: Primo Levi's "If Not Now, When?" It's a brilliant and bleak novel about a band of Jewish partisans fighting across Eastern Europe at the end of World War II with the ultimate goal of reaching Palestine through Italy. It's a dark, violent story but it is beautifully written and wholly engrossing. Check it out.
Wayfaring Stranger:
Yeah, I don't know if the praise is warranted or not, but you would expect advanced English students to have read it at least.
PatentAbsurdity:
I just finished reading Eric Flint's Philosophical Strangler.
That's not a typo. This is an excellently interesting book. Philosophy, violence, lesbians, quite a few laughs.
It may or may not be a sequel to something. I cannot figure this out. Flint keeps referencing backwards, but I can't tell if he's just being weird, or if this is the second book in a series. I hope it is. I'd love a sequel. It's a really entertaining book. Parodies and punning for Aspirin fans, if anyone is. This is a perfect book for Asprin fans/
Also, if there are any other Diana Wynne Jones fans out there, I've finished the new Chrestomanci book, and it's definitely worth reading, especially if you are interested in the way religion effects things.
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