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Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night
and seeing as it provoked so much debate in the other thread
The catcher in the rye by JD Salinger.
Also do you think it might be useful if everyone does a little synopsis of the books they nominate as that would make it easier to know which one to vote for.
ETA - i realise i didn't actually go with my suggestion of classics as I'm a bit crap at reading them and I want someont to suggest one and therefore force me to read it!
think the idea of a blurb or link about the book so we can vote is a good idea too.
cant think of one to nominate myself right now but if i think of one, I will
since leaving uni i havn't got into a good book. no suggestions as of yet. i have ordered on amazon - The Art of Always Being Right: 38 Ways of Winning When You Are Defeated by Arthur Schopenhauer but is yet to arrive. sounds excellent.
I'm quite interested in this too. Apparently there's also a follow-up by the same author (or it might be the follow-up to another book, I forget.)
Oh its definitley entertaining isn't it, I just read another 50 pages or so ... only meant to take a ten minute break! I especially like the fact that the philosophical/historical aspects are there to be considered if you choose to but aren't so prominent that they confuse the plot.
As soon as Falcon was introduced Singapore came to mind. If only Johnson had him throwing dice along the wharf
Well there is sex in it yes but I wouldn't read it on that basis. Its a VERY confusing novel and can be hard going at times. Its very 60s counter culture so its deliberatley obscure and misleading throughout. Imagine a David Lynch film in a novel...thats probably as close as I can come to explaining it although maybe someone else on the boards who has read it can give a more insightful view. But yes there's sex, drugs, punk rock and a post service :razz:
It is quite heavy going. I read it and found it a challenge.
The Cather in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Quite short, only 180 pages or so. And it's good.
Ohh i've been meaning to re-read this for a while.
I've also been thinking at what point would we start discussing the book as it would be unfair if some people started discussing i before others had finised it, so maybe we should set a rule that if we all decide the book by the 1st of september we can't discuss it on the boards untill the 1st of October. But we should in the last week of september start organising which book to read for october - if that makes any sense.
Also i wondered if the Mods might let us have a book club related chat to kick it off..
Jeanette Winterson - Oranges are not the Only Fruit because it's my favourite and not enough people have read it!
Christoper Isherwood - Goodbye to Berlin because I haven't read it!
Ditto - it was one of the books I wrote about for my dissertation
But in general I don't see a problem with non-fiction. Richard and Judy have a biography on their reading list!