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[aprilstarchild]

QoaD, pt. 2:

I need to read more. Tell me a book to read. Something you think I really need to read.

Any genre, fiction or non-fiction; but I have a definite taste for fantasy/sci-fi, memoir/autobiography, and anything with really strongly written characters.

I am currently in the middle of:

American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Utne's Guide to Salons (I think I have the title right)

but I read fast. So, gimme some more ideas.

Comments

[jenhowell.livejournal.com]

If you haven't read it yet, go and get Lolita by Nabokov. It gets my vote for being the best novel ever. Also, Alice in Wonderland. If you haven't read it, you must experience the book itself.

[sagcat.livejournal.com]

Alice is canon. Both books.

[rikell42.livejournal.com]

alice is one of my all time favorites.

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

I read Alice in Wonderland and THrough the Looking Glass in middle school. I think I read them again in high school, but it's been a while.

What little bits of Lolita I read really creeped me out. Is it literary etc enough to be worth the fact that it gives me the heeby jeebies?

[ourglasslake.livejournal.com]

Haha, I didn't see this before I commented. It really isn't squicky once you get past the first page, imo. Humbert is creepy, but, I dunno, pathetically so? Lolita isn't a victim.

And it's a love story! Nabokov's romance with the English language, that is.

I reread AiW every year. I think Jen does, too. :)