Great Great Books

[dumbledore11214]

> Dung:
> I only got into Atwood relatively recently, but have to say that 
my 
> favourite (so far – I'm trying not to rush through them all at 
once) 
> is The Edible Woman. Closely followed by Cat's Eye. Oryx and 
Crake,  
> Alias Grace, and The Blind Assassin were great, too.

Alla:

Heee. See, we agree again. I have a feeling that if we were to talk 
about "things unrelated to Snape", we would agree on quite a few 
topics. :-)

"Blind assassin" was fascinating read. I found it to be a little 
hard to get through, because of language complexities, but 
fascinating nevertheless.

 
Re: Gerald Durrell
> I agree with Alla about something - crack open the Champagne! 
> Actually, I realised recently that when I'm reading HP, the face 
and 
> voice that I imagine for Lupin is identical (minus the beard and 
> hat) to the face and voice I imagine for Theodore (who I grew up 
> wanting to marry nearly as much as David Attenborough).

Alla:

Yes, yes, me too, me too. I have a whole bunch of his books in 
Russian and now I started buying the originals.


Dung: 
> A few more good'uns to add:
> The Life of Pi – Yann Martel.
> The Picture of Dorian Grey – Oscar Wilde.
> The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency – Alexander McCall Smith
> Sophie's World – Jostein Gaarder
> One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
> Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - Patrick Suskind

Alla:

Ooooo, YES. Loved Dorian grey. Loved "ladies detective agency". Am 
always flattered when I see people reading Soltzhenitsyn.

Perfume though found to be incredibly well written and incredibly 
GROSS at the same time.

Dung: 
> That last one should be read by absolutely everybody in the whole 
> world. No excuses. 

Alla:

Weeeel, that was an unusual book, that's for sure. as my sister in 
law said that it is the first time in her life when she read the 
book more with her nose than with her eyes. But I love rereading 
books and I am not sure if Perfume I will ever reread again


Dung: 
> God I love reading. My absolute ideal evening involves an enormous 
> mug of tea, a large packet of chocolate biscuits, an exceptionally 
> comfortable chair, and a *really* good book. And no visitors or 
> phonecalls.

Alla:

Yep.