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This is damn near identical to my highschool AP English reqs.
The Underground Railroad was good; one of my favorites from the last couple of years. George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo was phenomenal, as was Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing. Those would be a couple others that I would throw in the contemporary mix.
Is notes from the underground really a novel? Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love it
There's a reason for that - i quit school a few wks into my junior year and had the first play i wrote produced when i was barely twenty. I was deathly afraid of copying anyone from that point so read little fiction since. In the last few years i've become confident enough of my voice to read major fiction again but no longer have the concentration for great novels.
You could put any/all early Vonneguts and i wouldn't argue. He & Robin Williams are the only famous deaths that made me cry. Mother Night's my specialspecial though, mostly for this reason: He tells what's going to happen in the next chapter throughout and still surprises & moves me with it each time.
:whoosh: i googled this and got a company that makes rims. The rims look cool, but i am lost.
Lol, yeah, I remember that episode, now. "I like the kitty."
Probably one of the finest, most astute, 20th century modern novels about the excesses of America as seen through a would-be moralist's eyes.
I'm not very well read on classics. I'll add Confederacy of Dunces to the list though. Loved it!
I grew up catholic. I read this when I was young and it really had an impact on how I thought about religion and tolerance.
This is me for hundreds of books I've read. I think the brain can only hold so much information. I see books I've read before and think "no idea what that's about".
Got lots of stuff to remember. It is weird thought to forget things that I spend 10 hours or whatever reading.
Dog Stars was really good.
Hofstadter is like speedballs for me. I am ravenous to read things about human intelligence but i've read parts of GEB, Mind's I and the impossible Metamagical Themas and it's just so close to my own constructs that i'm scared by it, it sends me off on such thought trains that i never make any real progress on it and end up dizzy, exhausted and more than a little grateful that i am not smart enough to understand myself. Oddly, the only thing which makes me feel similarly but safe throughout is Art of the Fugue....
