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dear readers. The discussion of Bulgakov and comfort reading over at BiB coupled with Xmas shoppers requesting help picking books for friends and family today has driven me to the edge of despair. Please recommend some authors/books for me to read. Those of you who know me know what I read (repeatedly), and those of you who don't, take a chance. No Daniel Deronda, though;)
posted by lukeski at 9:40 pm
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Have I ever recommended The Master and Margarita or Daniel Deronda?
...or do you mean modern things? Well, if you want it to have an eastern slant, Kaminer is all the rage here. Incomprehensibly. But if people are interested in the utterly mundane musings of a Russian Jewish immigrant to the GDR, as it was then, then he's to be recommended. It's a shame his writings are so dreary because he's charming and witty in person. I so rarely read anything modern. I've dabbled with Houellebecq of late. I found that a hoot. Of the contemporary Englanders, I've only read some Hollinghurst, Self and Faulks. I could highly recommend all three. Maybe Pelevin, of the Russkies, is still all the rage. Dunno. Haven't read a word.
Houellebecq infuriates me beyond belief. Kaminer is utterly dreadful. Will Self constantly seems to want to prove that he has a better dictionary and thesaurus than anyone else. Pelevin entertains me intermittantly, although Sorokin is probably better. The more modern writing I read, the more I become convinced that literature ended the day Camus died.
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