I need something to read

[morrigirl]

I'm in desperate need of reading material. I just finished reading this totally sloppy and pointless memoir so now I need something good to whet my appetite. I'm open to any and all recommendations. Go hog wild.

PS I'm serious. Help a sister out.

Comments

[yobachi2003.livejournal.com]

What type of stuff does a sister read?

[morrigirl.livejournal.com]

Sister will pick up just about anything. Fiction, memoir, philosophy, sociology, true crime it doesn't matter just as long as it's good.

[yobachi2003.livejournal.com]

I mostly read nonfiction, history, sociology, and culture. I'll think about if there's anything you might be intersted in.

[kdc4evr.livejournal.com]

duh - Harry Potter!

all I want to read are "children's books" & YA novels

Kurt Vonnegut is always good I think, or John Irving if you want something more, well I can't think of the right word. Have you ever read "The World According to Garp"? I wrote a book report on it Junior Year of High school, I really liked it

[morrigirl.livejournal.com]

Kurt Vonnegut, everyopne tells me I should read him. They've been telling me for 6 years. Is there a particular one you'd recommend?

I've tried reading John Irving and I just can't get into him. Michale is a huge fan and has been trying to tunr me on to him for the last 10 years. So far it hasn't worked.

[kdc4evr.livejournal.com]

I think John Irving takes a little time, and you also have to like your books with a lot of gratuitous sex

Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle - that's the first I read & really liked and is still my fave, I also enjoyed TimeQuake - most people will say to read Slaughterhouse Five (which I still havent finished) b/c that's the book most people had to read in high school & it's probably his most famous - but really, start with Cat's Cradle, I think it's more fun, and it's not all that long either. Or you could just get one of his books of short stories, or God Bless You Dr Kevorkian

[jsb1750.livejournal.com]

Mother Night. I think that's Vonnegut at his best.

[nocash.livejournal.com]

The Illuminatus Trilogy. It's all the good stuff about the 60's without all the goddamn noodly hippy bullshit.

[(Anonymous)]

Amy Bloom. Short stories. Her first book is _Even a Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You_ and the second (better) one is _Come to Me_. She's amazing.

Lucy Grealy. _Autobiography of a Face_. A memoir, but not soppy at all. Also written by a Sarah Lawrence grad.

Reinaldo Arenas. _Before Night Falls_. Natania recc'd it to me.

[morrigirl.livejournal.com]

I've read Autobiography of a Face. Great book. I'll definitely look into the others especially if one of them comes with the Natania Rosenfeld seal of approval.

BTW, is this Steffi?

[questioncurl.livejournal.com]

Er, no. It's Shalini, and you probably don't remember me from Knox. But I _was_ Steffi's housemate last year, so you're kind of close.

[morrigirl.livejournal.com]

Of course I remember you Shalini. You're good English major/library worker people! I actually read a comment you posted on Dave Kraus's journal a few weeks back and was very tempted to add you to my friends list but decided against it because I thought you wouldn't remember me. Ah, the irony.

So, what are you up to these days? School? Work? Starving artistry?

Oooh, Ooh, can I add you to my friends list? Pleeeeese?

[questioncurl.livejournal.com]

Wow, I'm glad you remembered me. Sure, of course you can add me -- but I should warn you, I don't post very often or very much. I'm in Chicago these days, in an MA Eng. Lit. programme at UIC, but also giving a good impression of a starving artist.

[greenblackevil.livejournal.com]

Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire!

Only read up to the reign of the Emperor Theodosius the Great, however- after that Roman political history becomes inextricably tied up with ecclesiastical history, and it's about 50-50 cool stuff and church crap. If you want something more uplifting, however, Titus Livius's History of Rome is also quite good.

[daver40.livejournal.com]

There's a book that I've been reading called Great Apes . It's a really strange story about a postmodern artist who suddenly inhabits a world of chimpazees.