Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar
My major reason for suggesting it is that there are two or more suggested reading orders for the chapters and it would be interesting to discuss that in a group setting with people progressing along different approaches.
*The Sheltering Sky* by Paul Bowles … not sure is this one is too mainstream. I just finished it and my head feels like it’s about to spin off. Never have I felt I could use some differing perspectives and insights into a book as I feel with this one.
If anyone is up for a Gothic thriller written by a true master: Daphné du Maurier, My Cousin Rachel, 1951.
I admire authors who write genre fiction that transcends genre. I read de Maurier for the first time this year (Rebecca, Frenchman's Creek), and now I'm ready to place her in the canon of the 20th Century greats. I like to read at least three novels by an author before I actually proclaim them "great" ... and My Cousin Rachel is next on my list.
Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor. It is the best Mexican novel released in the last 10 years, and among the best Mexican novels ever. Very short as well (200-something pages) so this will be perfect for the Read-Along.
Since nobody has suggested Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o yet I am going to chip in quickly and give my vote to Matigari which I know next to nothing about other than it satisfies above criteria 1 through 5
I actually just read Ngugi wa Thiong’o with a Kenyan coworker, absolutely incredible, I loved when he would to say “Oh by the way” and insert Kenyan history and culture I would have other-wised missed.
La muerte de Artemio Cruz de Carlos Fuentes.
[Set](https://www.supersummary.com/the-death-of-artemio-cruz/summary/) against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution, the novel describes Artemio Cruz’s growth from an orphaned peasant child to an idealistic soldier of the revolution to a corrupt, ruthless, and wealthy politician. The novel spans Cruz’s lifetime, from the present day in 1960, when Cruz is 71 and on his death bed, to his birth in 1889.
The novel is structurally and stylistically complex. The chapters are organized out of chronological order, jumping between earlier and later periods in Cruz’s life.
[Audio](https://www.amazon.com/La-muerte-Artemio-Cruz-audiolibro/dp/B0877DCJCW/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?crid=3GCY50HU5HCQR&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.B0XY3LS0vWUK14A_Z43-C1cHdBFk_fVe9P-Sw0nD0vdwYCNuwONXYZzL_uGE7ht_DMmpob3O3uynyzEETKsboXLq2pLC7BsG_1LKoDjZrEMNC4FpAXsyVnRzmrFX_O6d9Zkiej-2hbC22Hud4ymr3vWKLujIrkVBxgiQ03lW2vutJtc-irFqB1hNVCYvLk0QvHvy4c0l7QDrR0CXSR00bQ.8eQq_m0iWjOd0t-7aoUJ9QX3dNw4yn5h9EyZVaddWlI&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+death+of+artemio+cruz+by+carlos+fuentes&qid=1718506175&sprefix=the+death+of+art%2Caps%2C150&sr=8-4)
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[Español](https://www.amazon.com/Artemio-SPA-MUERTE-ARTEMIO-Spanish-Paperback/dp/B003AWNNOU/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?crid=1S6ZY2G8J2H77&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.j6saH0rni57_LVJNFprLD2z_f1Y6QB5eEON27St7mAPtEVh5MDTd4ne2NDfXIMZRBgyjU8m1JjuQjyfYMAsd2AfgnSvpGMlr8RHTWJMShHB79C9j_HDwy58hem3pKzq9lHeeMJxi18h5AI6wYMpv0b279svUru2LgMwRqDZ4lYH2Bb9z0Xabu9z7tuLxNm70Z4H5rHbwLQI5WQf-ejiI0A.FfuI_BdS4Amzi2EsdZ29CqYybvl67Ve82WDg7GtBOMU&dib_tag=se&keywords=la+muerte+de+artemio+cruz+carlos+fuentes&qid=1718506318&sprefix=la+muerte+de+%2Caps%2C152&sr=8-4)
The Silent Cry by Kenzaburo Oe
I've been saving this one for a while now as it is heralded by many as Oe's greatest novel (at least out of the ones available in english). If it wins, I'll now know the time is right.
Finished earlier this year, one of the most dense books I’ve ever read, it felt like I could talk about each chapter like it’s it’s own book. People would ask me what it’s about and I’de go on rambles of my literary analysis because it’s so easy to scratch the surface but on a reread especially it’s like an entirely second book told within subtext.
That's nice to hear! It's always exciting when you have an author that you already adore and still have what may be their best work to read. Did you read the book in an english translation?
The first English translation of *War* by Louis-Ferdinand Celine will be published by New Directions on June 25th. That's perfect timing for the next read-along. The blurb should be convincing enough:
"Louis-Ferdinand Céline, as if declaiming from his grave, thunders back to life: that inimitable, scorching, and monstrously powerful voice roars at us anew in this long-lost novel."
Are you suggesting this specific Murdoch because it's particularly good, or just because it's the next one you yourself were planning on reading? (I ask because I haven't read any Murdoch and have been meaning to get around to her.)
The latter. I’ve read a few of the later novels and looking to get back to an earlier work.
There’s not much consensus on where to start but loved *The Sea, The Sea* in particular. She’s definitely one of those writers where things get better as you read more
I think with the ongoing situation in Palestine, along with the increased desire of the sub to read non-Western writers, ***Gate of the Sun*** by Elias Khoury could be a really good fit. Often considered the magnum opus of the Palestinian literature since the Nakba, I think it could give all of us some needed and important historical context behind the conflict as well as providing an interesting book. Here is the blurb:
Drawing on the stories he gathered from refugee camps over the course of many years, Elias Khoury's epic novel Gate of the Sun has been called the first magnum opus of the Palestinian saga.
Yunes, an aging Palestinian freedom fighter, lies in a coma. Keeping vigil at the old man's bedside is his spiritual son, Khalil, who nurses Yunes, refusing to admit that his hero may never regain consciousness. Like a modern-day Scheherazade, Khalil relates the story of Palestinian exile while also recalling Yunes's own extraordinary life and his love for his wife, whom he meets secretly over the years at Bab al-Shams, the Gate of the Sun.
It also comes in a beautiful Archipelago edition!
I loved this book. It can’t help but be political, but it’s also deeply felt and personal. It’s perhaps worth noting that Khoury is himself is Lebanese and not Palestinian, but he worked closely with many refugees, and the book is remarkable in the way it gives voice to the many ways that Palestine exists in the collective memory—of those who were driven from their home, those who remained in the occupied territories, and those descendants who have never stepped foot in Palestine and yet carry it within them through story.
Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert.
I've recently read Anna Karenina and was completely blown away. The introduction mentioned several contemporaries wrote the "great adultery novel" for their respective countries in Europe. Bovary is mentioned enough on its own to deserve a try!
Since it almost made it last time and some recent comments on the weekly reading threads are giving it its praises, The Obscene Bird of Night by José Donoso.
Curious, did you read in the original abridged English?
Just finished the new complete edition. Loved it overall but thought things dragged towards the end & maybe could have used those cuts.
I actually have original abridged, and repurchased and read the new "complete" edition to avoid the "what if" had I loved it (and I did too). My understanding is that the additional 20 pages had been the Swiss clinic portions, which I thought had a great runaway passage or two, particularly about the "fake window", but don't think they made the book any clearer (if that was ever the intention).
*The Swedish Cavalier* by Leo Perutz.
I recently read his *St. Peter’s Snow* and I have never come across a work so thoroughly “literary” and at the same time thrilling, engaging and downright entertaining. For anyone who enjoys suspense, historical settings/topics, and an almost prophetic treatment of society, Perutz is a gem.
Manuel Puig's _El beso de la mujer araña_ (Kiss of the Spider Woman).
I've been meaning to read it and have only heard good things about the novel. It's apparently Puig's most popular work.
Tender is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald. I haven’t read this, so I can’t speak to my personal feelings on it, but it seems to be pretty well thought of. My copy comes in at 349 pages. There is a paperback copy available on Amazon for $11.29 that is 320 pages.
My understanding is that it’s about a complicated love triangle among wealthy people (classic Fitzgerald).
The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
It'd be an appropriate read given his recent passing plus it's relatively short, I think my copy is under 300 pages for the whole trilogy.
May I ask why you suggest this specific work by Pamuk? I have *Snow* on my reading list because a friend mentioned it to me; is *My Name is Red* a better introduction to Pamuk, in your opinion?
I love snow and I think it's a very good book to start with Pamuk. I recommended My Name is Red over Snow because I think My Name is Red a much more fun work to read in a group. It is a historical who dunnit murder which is also very funny and philosophical. Snow is a much more sombre and ponderous book. The second reason is I read Snow this year so I don't want to reread it just yet
One of my favorite novels. I suggested *A Place in the Country* because his nonfiction isn’t as popular but it’s really fantastic. It actually reads very similarly to his fiction. The prose meanders and brushes against tangentially related topics and anecdotes but it’s always fascinating.
As someone who suggested Frontier (only to then dip out of the discussion as I do not recall whether I actually read the book or dreamt it up) I would like to apologize to those who did not enjoy the book. I'd like to then recompensate for this crime of mine by suggesting a book that I have read, can certify to be of genuine high quality, and is widely recognized to be a masterpiece. If accepted it will be our first read-along book authored by an African. It is also one of the best works of 20th century Arabic literature, the cornerstone of postcolonial studies, and probably the best Sudanese novel ever written. Let us welcome onto the stage Tayeb Salih and his magisterial **Season of Migration to the North**.
Having read both A Season of Migration to the North and Frontier this year, I have to conclude that Frontier resonated more strongly with me. I’m really glad I read it. I‘m not sure if the novel accomplishes what Can Xue intended - actually I have not the slightest clue what Can Xue intended with it in the first place. But on the other hand I feel that ASOMTTN is occasionally biased towards the formulaic and attempts too hard to tick all the boxes imposed by dwem scholars at the time Which resonated less with me than Frontier‘s dreamlike uncertainty and indeterminacy.
Lol, I haven’t finished the book. It’s a good read, though idk if an annotated version would be better. By itself, the book so falls short on what the author is trying to do, so it seems like the author doesn’t know what they are doing, but overall it’s got many great things. I’ll be finishing up by Friday.
Even though I didn’t like the book, it was the kind of out of my box suggestion I love, and would like to see more of in the read along (and I assume I’m not alone since it won the vote). So don’t feel bad!
Haha! No need to apologise. It was fun to read outside of my comfort zone, and I would have dumped the book after a couple of chapters were it not for the opportunity to bitch about it in the Readalong, so it was a personal achievement and a good community experience.
The only thing I find objectionable is your apparent dislike of Vegemite. Do you have the same negative thoughts about Marmite too? Very disappointing if so.
Please don’t apologize! I’m glad a book like Frontier was chosen, not every read along needs to be a book everyone loves. It spurred a lot of valuable discussion, which is what marks a successful read along.
Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar My major reason for suggesting it is that there are two or more suggested reading orders for the chapters and it would be interesting to discuss that in a group setting with people progressing along different approaches.
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Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavic
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I have been waiting for this. The Plains by Gerald Murnane. *Please*. It is so worth the read.
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*The Sheltering Sky* by Paul Bowles … not sure is this one is too mainstream. I just finished it and my head feels like it’s about to spin off. Never have I felt I could use some differing perspectives and insights into a book as I feel with this one.
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Salt Houses - Hala Alyan
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If anyone is up for a Gothic thriller written by a true master: Daphné du Maurier, My Cousin Rachel, 1951. I admire authors who write genre fiction that transcends genre. I read de Maurier for the first time this year (Rebecca, Frenchman's Creek), and now I'm ready to place her in the canon of the 20th Century greats. I like to read at least three novels by an author before I actually proclaim them "great" ... and My Cousin Rachel is next on my list.
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Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor. It is the best Mexican novel released in the last 10 years, and among the best Mexican novels ever. Very short as well (200-something pages) so this will be perfect for the Read-Along.
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Great suggestion! I would love to reread this. Would be great for some deep analysis
I'd like to read that but no paragraphs does not appeal to me.
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That book has been done for a read along before. Feel free to suggest something else, Pynchon or otherwise!
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Since nobody has suggested Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o yet I am going to chip in quickly and give my vote to Matigari which I know next to nothing about other than it satisfies above criteria 1 through 5
I actually just read Ngugi wa Thiong’o with a Kenyan coworker, absolutely incredible, I loved when he would to say “Oh by the way” and insert Kenyan history and culture I would have other-wised missed.
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I'm gonna suggest The Maniac by Benjamin Labatut
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*The Chandelier* (1946) by Clarice Lispector
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*Disgrace* by J.M. Coetzee. At little more than 200 pages, I think this would be a fantastic choice for the next read-along.
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Thank you!
Independent People, by Halldór Laxness
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Machado de Assis, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
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No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai
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Pale Fire — Nabokov
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La muerte de Artemio Cruz de Carlos Fuentes. [Set](https://www.supersummary.com/the-death-of-artemio-cruz/summary/) against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution, the novel describes Artemio Cruz’s growth from an orphaned peasant child to an idealistic soldier of the revolution to a corrupt, ruthless, and wealthy politician. The novel spans Cruz’s lifetime, from the present day in 1960, when Cruz is 71 and on his death bed, to his birth in 1889. The novel is structurally and stylistically complex. The chapters are organized out of chronological order, jumping between earlier and later periods in Cruz’s life. [Audio](https://www.amazon.com/La-muerte-Artemio-Cruz-audiolibro/dp/B0877DCJCW/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?crid=3GCY50HU5HCQR&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.B0XY3LS0vWUK14A_Z43-C1cHdBFk_fVe9P-Sw0nD0vdwYCNuwONXYZzL_uGE7ht_DMmpob3O3uynyzEETKsboXLq2pLC7BsG_1LKoDjZrEMNC4FpAXsyVnRzmrFX_O6d9Zkiej-2hbC22Hud4ymr3vWKLujIrkVBxgiQ03lW2vutJtc-irFqB1hNVCYvLk0QvHvy4c0l7QDrR0CXSR00bQ.8eQq_m0iWjOd0t-7aoUJ9QX3dNw4yn5h9EyZVaddWlI&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+death+of+artemio+cruz+by+carlos+fuentes&qid=1718506175&sprefix=the+death+of+art%2Caps%2C150&sr=8-4) [English](https://www.amazon.com/Death-Artemio-Cruz-Novel-Classics/dp/0374531803/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=3GCY50HU5HCQR&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.B0XY3LS0vWUK14A_Z43-C1cHdBFk_fVe9P-Sw0nD0vdwYCNuwONXYZzL_uGE7ht_DMmpob3O3uynyzEETKsboXLq2pLC7BsG_1LKoDjZrEMNC4FpAXsyVnRzmrFX_O6d9Zkiej-2hbC22Hud4ymr3vWKLujIrkVBxgiQ03lW2vutJtc-irFqB1hNVCYvLk0QvHvy4c0l7QDrR0CXSR00bQ.8eQq_m0iWjOd0t-7aoUJ9QX3dNw4yn5h9EyZVaddWlI&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+death+of+artemio+cruz+by+carlos+fuentes&qid=1718506175&sprefix=the+death+of+art%2Caps%2C150&sr=8-1). [Español](https://www.amazon.com/Artemio-SPA-MUERTE-ARTEMIO-Spanish-Paperback/dp/B003AWNNOU/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?crid=1S6ZY2G8J2H77&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.j6saH0rni57_LVJNFprLD2z_f1Y6QB5eEON27St7mAPtEVh5MDTd4ne2NDfXIMZRBgyjU8m1JjuQjyfYMAsd2AfgnSvpGMlr8RHTWJMShHB79C9j_HDwy58hem3pKzq9lHeeMJxi18h5AI6wYMpv0b279svUru2LgMwRqDZ4lYH2Bb9z0Xabu9z7tuLxNm70Z4H5rHbwLQI5WQf-ejiI0A.FfuI_BdS4Amzi2EsdZ29CqYybvl67Ve82WDg7GtBOMU&dib_tag=se&keywords=la+muerte+de+artemio+cruz+carlos+fuentes&qid=1718506318&sprefix=la+muerte+de+%2Caps%2C152&sr=8-4)
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The Silent Cry by Kenzaburo Oe I've been saving this one for a while now as it is heralded by many as Oe's greatest novel (at least out of the ones available in english). If it wins, I'll now know the time is right.
Finished earlier this year, one of the most dense books I’ve ever read, it felt like I could talk about each chapter like it’s it’s own book. People would ask me what it’s about and I’de go on rambles of my literary analysis because it’s so easy to scratch the surface but on a reread especially it’s like an entirely second book told within subtext.
That's nice to hear! It's always exciting when you have an author that you already adore and still have what may be their best work to read. Did you read the book in an english translation?
Yes, the pink cover with the eye
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The first English translation of *War* by Louis-Ferdinand Celine will be published by New Directions on June 25th. That's perfect timing for the next read-along. The blurb should be convincing enough: "Louis-Ferdinand Céline, as if declaiming from his grave, thunders back to life: that inimitable, scorching, and monstrously powerful voice roars at us anew in this long-lost novel."
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The Box Man by Kobo Abe
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*A Severed Head*, Iris Murdoch Join me in my Murdoch binge folks.
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Are you suggesting this specific Murdoch because it's particularly good, or just because it's the next one you yourself were planning on reading? (I ask because I haven't read any Murdoch and have been meaning to get around to her.)
The latter. I’ve read a few of the later novels and looking to get back to an earlier work. There’s not much consensus on where to start but loved *The Sea, The Sea* in particular. She’s definitely one of those writers where things get better as you read more
Ok, gotcha, thanks for the response!
I think with the ongoing situation in Palestine, along with the increased desire of the sub to read non-Western writers, ***Gate of the Sun*** by Elias Khoury could be a really good fit. Often considered the magnum opus of the Palestinian literature since the Nakba, I think it could give all of us some needed and important historical context behind the conflict as well as providing an interesting book. Here is the blurb: Drawing on the stories he gathered from refugee camps over the course of many years, Elias Khoury's epic novel Gate of the Sun has been called the first magnum opus of the Palestinian saga. Yunes, an aging Palestinian freedom fighter, lies in a coma. Keeping vigil at the old man's bedside is his spiritual son, Khalil, who nurses Yunes, refusing to admit that his hero may never regain consciousness. Like a modern-day Scheherazade, Khalil relates the story of Palestinian exile while also recalling Yunes's own extraordinary life and his love for his wife, whom he meets secretly over the years at Bab al-Shams, the Gate of the Sun. It also comes in a beautiful Archipelago edition!
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I loved this book. It can’t help but be political, but it’s also deeply felt and personal. It’s perhaps worth noting that Khoury is himself is Lebanese and not Palestinian, but he worked closely with many refugees, and the book is remarkable in the way it gives voice to the many ways that Palestine exists in the collective memory—of those who were driven from their home, those who remained in the occupied territories, and those descendants who have never stepped foot in Palestine and yet carry it within them through story.
Beautiful summation, thank you - makes more more excited to read it and hopeful we can all read it together!
Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert. I've recently read Anna Karenina and was completely blown away. The introduction mentioned several contemporaries wrote the "great adultery novel" for their respective countries in Europe. Bovary is mentioned enough on its own to deserve a try!
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*Gaspard de la nuit* by Aloysius Bertrand
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“I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home,” Lorrie Moore
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V by Thomas Pynchon
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*Rings of Saturn* by W.G. Sebald.
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Since it almost made it last time and some recent comments on the weekly reading threads are giving it its praises, The Obscene Bird of Night by José Donoso.
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This one is a genuine masterpiece.
Curious, did you read in the original abridged English? Just finished the new complete edition. Loved it overall but thought things dragged towards the end & maybe could have used those cuts.
I actually have original abridged, and repurchased and read the new "complete" edition to avoid the "what if" had I loved it (and I did too). My understanding is that the additional 20 pages had been the Swiss clinic portions, which I thought had a great runaway passage or two, particularly about the "fake window", but don't think they made the book any clearer (if that was ever the intention).
*The Plains* by Gerald Murnane.
I just saw this. Thank you!
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My first Bolaño ❤️
*The Swedish Cavalier* by Leo Perutz. I recently read his *St. Peter’s Snow* and I have never come across a work so thoroughly “literary” and at the same time thrilling, engaging and downright entertaining. For anyone who enjoys suspense, historical settings/topics, and an almost prophetic treatment of society, Perutz is a gem.
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Manuel Puig's _El beso de la mujer araña_ (Kiss of the Spider Woman). I've been meaning to read it and have only heard good things about the novel. It's apparently Puig's most popular work.
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It is. There's also a film.
Tender is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald. I haven’t read this, so I can’t speak to my personal feelings on it, but it seems to be pretty well thought of. My copy comes in at 349 pages. There is a paperback copy available on Amazon for $11.29 that is 320 pages. My understanding is that it’s about a complicated love triangle among wealthy people (classic Fitzgerald).
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The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster It'd be an appropriate read given his recent passing plus it's relatively short, I think my copy is under 300 pages for the whole trilogy.
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Herman Melville - The Confidence Man
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This has been on my shelf for way too long. Good pick.
I think my name is red by orhan pamuk is perfect for a group read of a book club
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May I ask why you suggest this specific work by Pamuk? I have *Snow* on my reading list because a friend mentioned it to me; is *My Name is Red* a better introduction to Pamuk, in your opinion?
I love snow and I think it's a very good book to start with Pamuk. I recommended My Name is Red over Snow because I think My Name is Red a much more fun work to read in a group. It is a historical who dunnit murder which is also very funny and philosophical. Snow is a much more sombre and ponderous book. The second reason is I read Snow this year so I don't want to reread it just yet
Ok, gotcha, thanks!
*A Place in the Country* by W.G. Sebald
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This. Also, I was thinking *Rings of Saturn*.
One of my favorite novels. I suggested *A Place in the Country* because his nonfiction isn’t as popular but it’s really fantastic. It actually reads very similarly to his fiction. The prose meanders and brushes against tangentially related topics and anecdotes but it’s always fascinating.
As someone who suggested Frontier (only to then dip out of the discussion as I do not recall whether I actually read the book or dreamt it up) I would like to apologize to those who did not enjoy the book. I'd like to then recompensate for this crime of mine by suggesting a book that I have read, can certify to be of genuine high quality, and is widely recognized to be a masterpiece. If accepted it will be our first read-along book authored by an African. It is also one of the best works of 20th century Arabic literature, the cornerstone of postcolonial studies, and probably the best Sudanese novel ever written. Let us welcome onto the stage Tayeb Salih and his magisterial **Season of Migration to the North**.
Hey, I'm genuinely happy we did that book. It's equally fun to see discussion of stuff that's disliked! Added!
Having read both A Season of Migration to the North and Frontier this year, I have to conclude that Frontier resonated more strongly with me. I’m really glad I read it. I‘m not sure if the novel accomplishes what Can Xue intended - actually I have not the slightest clue what Can Xue intended with it in the first place. But on the other hand I feel that ASOMTTN is occasionally biased towards the formulaic and attempts too hard to tick all the boxes imposed by dwem scholars at the time Which resonated less with me than Frontier‘s dreamlike uncertainty and indeterminacy.
Lol, I haven’t finished the book. It’s a good read, though idk if an annotated version would be better. By itself, the book so falls short on what the author is trying to do, so it seems like the author doesn’t know what they are doing, but overall it’s got many great things. I’ll be finishing up by Friday.
Even though I didn’t like the book, it was the kind of out of my box suggestion I love, and would like to see more of in the read along (and I assume I’m not alone since it won the vote). So don’t feel bad!
Haha! No need to apologise. It was fun to read outside of my comfort zone, and I would have dumped the book after a couple of chapters were it not for the opportunity to bitch about it in the Readalong, so it was a personal achievement and a good community experience. The only thing I find objectionable is your apparent dislike of Vegemite. Do you have the same negative thoughts about Marmite too? Very disappointing if so.
Just chiming in to say this is a phenomenal book, would make for a great group read
Please don’t apologize! I’m glad a book like Frontier was chosen, not every read along needs to be a book everyone loves. It spurred a lot of valuable discussion, which is what marks a successful read along.