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ntropy · Joined: 11 Oct 2003 Posts: 671 Location: ghurba

No, John S, not JM Coetzee.

ithos, good choice, Zamyatin's "We" is the best dystopian novel ever written in my opinion.

Rybakov is writing some nice stuff out of Russia now.

zeke0606 · Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 4:37 pm Post subject: WOW!

I want to thank all of you for responding! It seems that a vast majority of those that looked at and/or read my OP - either don't read or don't want to contribute........... I believe I did mention, ...from comic books to....

And as always the more literate have contributed. And I will copy everyone's post and see if I can read all of them by year end......... Or maybe my eyes will just fall out.............................................

BTY - ntropy -- who is that cartoon of anyway............? Shocked

Thanks again,

Zeke

johnslat · Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 4:47 pm Post subject:

Dear zeke0606,
I believe ntrophy has already told us:

Yevgeny Zamyatin

http://hilobrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/avedonpound.jpg

Regards,
John

zeke0606 · Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 4:55 pm Post subject: wow

Ahhhhhhhhhhh, John, what would I do without you? You are correct! It is even later in the early morning here and I need to sleep. Maybe I should check my post a bit more often and in my afternoons!!!!

Thanks again John

Zeke

Chancellor · Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:16 pm Post subject:

Currently reading: The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners (Carol Ann Tomlinson)

Recently read: The Exclamation Mark (Anton Chekhov) and Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Lynne Truss)

ntropy · Joined: 11 Oct 2003 Posts: 671 Location: ghurba

Ah, Slats, finally we have caught you in an error.

Nope, the cartoon avatar is not Zamyatin. Keep guessing.

Hint: US author, still living

johnslat · Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 1:51 pm Post subject:

Dear ntrophy,

My errors, I assure you, are legion.

Would it be, by any chance, T. (for Thomas - and there's a "John" after that) C. ( for Coraghessan) Boyle?

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Books/Pix/pictures/2009/2/27/1235750120133/TC-Boyle-001.jpg

Regards,
John

khmerhit · Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 6:02 pm Post subject:

Is it Dave Eggers?

Hey thanks for the LawrencBlock tip again John, I made a start on one .

Also I read Are you Somebody by Nuala OFaolain, classic 90s misery memoir.

My stepmom is writing curriculum for a womens lit course and asked me for input but I dont know much aboujt it---can anyone help?

Im tryiong to think up 5 reasons for studying womens lit, if there is such a thing,

plus ideas for reading list---excuse typios please!!

i managaged to come up with a few ideas myself---

--women want toi rread about particuylar womens issues

--men can learn about wopmen

--women can leanr what it used to be like to be a woman during patriarchal times

--it is literature per se

hmmm i guess im hijackint the thread--apologies!!!!!---grtateful for any ideas!!! Surprised

spiral78 · Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 11534 Location: On a Short Leash

Tom Robins (Robbins/can't remember) of 'Roadside Attraction' fame?

ntropy · Joined: 11 Oct 2003 Posts: 671 Location: ghurba

Bing, bing, bing!

We have a winner!

It is indeed Tom Robbins.

Of his body of work, Jitterbug Perfume is my favourite. Still Life With Woodpecker follows a close second.

thinktank · Joined: 23 Oct 2009 Posts: 5

Hamlet by .... you better know and
he whos name should not be spoken (macbeth...ack)

For whom the bell tolls - hemmingway <obama and mccains favorite . It encouraged me to camp out in a provincial park with no tent...booya.

Some alice munro mixed in there.

And curently reading Leviathan- by Hobbes (Bring back the monachy !!! WHAT !! Wink

oh yeah and all five Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy books by Douglas Adams

looking forward to reading some james joyce more hemingway (old man and the sea) and coleridge.

its in a stack on my desk that i work through before i allow myself to stuff it on the library (....Tolstoy anyone ?)

dont know what im going to do when i move over-seas thinking of bringing an entire suitcase solely for english lit. (cant live without my Dickens !!) and another suit case for cheese and other stuff they dont have in asia.

johnslat · Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 1:00 am Post subject:

Dear thinktank,

" . . . dont know what im going to do when i move over-seas thinking of bringing an entire suitcase solely for english lit. (cant live without my Dickens !!)"

Why not buy a Kindle?

Regards,
John

fluffyhamster · Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 7:53 am Post subject:

I've started River Town by Peter Hessler (feeling a bit nostalgic for China), and am enjoying it so far. Which reminds me, I should also read Justin Hill's A Bend in the Yellow River, rather than leave it on the shelf any longer! I've then got The Sounds of Chinese by Yen-Hwei Lin, and English Grammar by Richard Hudson to "look forward to"! Confused

http://www.orient.cas.cz/odd/ova/trisk/sounds.pdf

khmerhit · Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:57 pm Post subject:

I read Utopia, by Kevin Halligan, poems of Cambodia. Its available on Amazon, FYI. All grooviest. Laughing

C A M B O D I A
try it and see Cool

johnslat · Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 4:18 pm Post subject:

Dear Kevin,

Humph - what shameless self-promotion. But, if you're going to self-promote, you might at least provide a link:

http://www.amazon.ca/Utopia-Poems-Kevin-Halligan/dp/0953752518/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256660130&sr=1-1

"Utopia: Poems by Kevin Halligan (Paperback)
by Kevin Halligan (Author)
No customer reviews yet. Be the first.

Currently unavailable."

So, why are you unavailable? Inquiring mind wants to know.

Regards,
John