a2zmom (![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} a2zmom) wrote, |
I lost count. And I not doing it again. I'm guessing I've read somewhere between 35-40 of them.
Stephen King on a list of greatest books. Cue eye roll. And "The Da Vinci Crap"? The man can barely write a sentence.
Amusingly, I have read almost every book that you have never heard of.
"The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" is a sad book about loneliness. It deals with a deaf mute and an isolated teenage girl. McCullers also wrote the equally good (and equally famous) "A Member of the Wedding".
"The Clan of the Cave Bear" is the first in a series of novels about prehistoric man, basically a Cro-magnum child is adopted by a Neanderthal tribe. man romance. It isn't bad and is by far the best of the series. The author did a tremendous amount of research which makes the story rather interesting.
"A Confederacy of Dunces" is brilliant and hugely funny, a comedy that really can't be described yet with a sense of sadness underpinning it. It is worth mentioning the well known tale associated with the book. O'Toole wrote the novel and eventually despairing of ever seeing it in print, killed himself. His mother brought the hand written novel to the author, Walter Percy, who was at first reluctant to read the hand written mess. When he finally started it, he realized he was holding a masterpiece. O'Toole was awarded the Pulitzer posthumously.
Stephen King on a list of greatest books. Cue eye roll. And "The Da Vinci Crap"? The man can barely write a sentence.
Amusingly, I have read almost every book that you have never heard of.
"The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" is a sad book about loneliness. It deals with a deaf mute and an isolated teenage girl. McCullers also wrote the equally good (and equally famous) "A Member of the Wedding".
"The Clan of the Cave Bear" is the first in a series of novels about prehistoric man, basically a Cro-magnum child is adopted by a Neanderthal tribe. man romance. It isn't bad and is by far the best of the series. The author did a tremendous amount of research which makes the story rather interesting.
"A Confederacy of Dunces" is brilliant and hugely funny, a comedy that really can't be described yet with a sense of sadness underpinning it. It is worth mentioning the well known tale associated with the book. O'Toole wrote the novel and eventually despairing of ever seeing it in print, killed himself. His mother brought the hand written novel to the author, Walter Percy, who was at first reluctant to read the hand written mess. When he finally started it, he realized he was holding a masterpiece. O'Toole was awarded the Pulitzer posthumously.