I recommend "Kaddish for an unborn child" by Imre Kertész to anyone who liked The Fall by Camus.

Deals with similar themes from a different perspective. Short book. Starts out a bit tedious but compensates for it towards the end.

sam!zdat

United States5559 Posts

November 08 2013 05:23 GMT

#3047

zulu_nation8

China26351 Posts

November 08 2013 06:02 GMT

#3048

"How Should a Person Be" by Sheila Heti was kind of terrible, would not recommend.

sam!zdat

United States5559 Posts

November 08 2013 22:29 GMT

#3049

Deleuze

United Kingdom2102 Posts

November 09 2013 12:18 GMT

#3050

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Siren's of Titan was Ok imo, Galapagos is far superior. Siren's was just a bit to silly to be taken seriously as a satire (which sounds ridiculous - it's kin d of Hitch Hicker's Guide to the Galaxy meets Catch-22), also Galapagos represents the pinnacle of Vonnegut's writing style and sense of irony.

sam!zdat

United States5559 Posts

November 09 2013 16:36 GMT

#3051

I haven't read that one, I'll check it out. It's outside the temporal scope of what I'm working on now though

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MtlGuitarist97

United States1539 Posts

November 11 2013 15:23 GMT

#3052

Mostly reading stuff for high school but here's what I'm reading at the moment:

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I'm taking it slow with Atlas Shrugged because it's not for school and I do other stuff than purely reading, but Frankenstein, A Man For All Seasons and The Tragedy of Macbeth are all for school (we're doing the latter purely in class). I also just read Man's Search for Meaning by VIctor Frankl for school within the last 2 weeks or so.

packrat386

United States5077 Posts

November 11 2013 16:52 GMT

#3053

Macbeth is one of my favorite shakespeare plays. The prediction that he'll be king until the forest marches on dunsinane reminded me a lot of glorfindels prophecy about the witch king in Lord of the Rings

itkovian

United States1763 Posts

November 11 2013 18:17 GMT

#3054

For my multicultural lit class I have to pick a writer from the following list and write a literary criticism of one of their works. Unfortunately I don't recognize any of the authors.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Chester Himes
W.S. Penn
Aimee Phan
Edward P. Jones
Hisaye Yamamoto
Alex Kuo
Cristina Garcia
Rudolfo Anaya
Alberto Rios
James Welch
Diane Glancy
Kerry Sakamoto
Yiyun Lee
Joseph Bruchac
Julie Otsuka
Gary Soto
Dagoberto Gilb
Luis Urrea
James Alan McPherson
Louise Erdrich

packrat386

United States5077 Posts

November 11 2013 18:23 GMT

#3055

On November 12 2013 03:17 itkovian wrote:
For my multicultural lit class I have to pick a writer from the following list and write a literary criticism of one of their works. Unfortunately I don't recognize any of the authors.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Chester Himes
W.S. Penn
Aimee Phan
Edward P. Jones
Hisaye Yamamoto
Alex Kuo
Cristina Garcia
Rudolfo Anaya
Alberto Rios
James Welch
Diane Glancy
Kerry Sakamoto
Yiyun Lee
Joseph Bruchac
Julie Otsuka
Gary Soto
Dagoberto Gilb
Luis Urrea
James Alan McPherson
Louise Erdrich

Well shit, I don't recognize any of them either. I'm not a huge lit guy, but I'm kind of surprised that I haven't heard of at least one

Carnivorous Sheep

Baa?21244 Posts

November 11 2013 18:38 GMT

#3056

christ i have never seen a single one of those names let alone read something by them...

are they all contemporary?

wait i lied i've heard of yiyun lee before

farvacola

United States18856 Posts

November 11 2013 18:43 GMT

#3057

Not exactly, as I recognize Chester Himes (he went to my uni) and a lot of his work is from the 50s-60s. Just pick one and learn something new itkovian!

sam!zdat

United States5559 Posts

November 11 2013 18:46 GMT

#3058

anaya is the guy who wrote "bless me, ultima" which is a pretty interesting book. and julie otsuka wrote "when the emperor was divine". both of those are pretty common books to be taught. the others I don't know.

I would say pick based on which culture you are most interested in learning something about

itkovian

United States1763 Posts

November 11 2013 19:57 GMT

#3059

haha, wew! I was embarrassed I didn't know any of them, but I'm glad I'm not alone!

On November 12 2013 03:46 sam!zdat wrote:
anaya is the guy who wrote "bless me, ultima" which is a pretty interesting book. and julie otsuka wrote "when the emperor was divine". both of those are pretty common books to be taught. the others I don't know.

I would say pick based on which culture you are most interested in learning something about

Thanks for the info! I'll probably end up reading Bless Me, Ultima because it appears well acclaimed and renown. Unless someone else has a passionate suggestion haha

IgnE

United States7681 Posts

November 11 2013 20:13 GMT

#3060

Has a couple classic essays by Foucault, including the one where he says "one day, perhaps, this century will be called Deleuzian." I found the interviews with Foucault in the last section the most interesting.

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