With our (rescheduled) January meeting a few days away, perhaps we should start throwing out suggestions for future reads; what would you like the Neanderthals to tackle next month (and beyond)?
I'll fire the first shot . . . I'd be interested in reading On The Road or A Clockwork Orange.
Any strong requests or recommendations?
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I'm reading James Salter right now which came as a recommendation from a friend. Great american writer I knew nothing about. Meyer, you would like this guy. The book I'm reading - and I randomly picked it on half.com - is more/less soft porn! I didn't know but man what great timing for me :). For those unaware we recently welcomed in our 2nd child.
ANYWAY . . . Apparently, it's just this one book. However, this guy makes Lolita look like, well, look like Lolita. Try this on: "You are a good looking Yale dropout who was too smart - literally - for school. You go to France and have access to money and a priceless/vintage roadster. You live in hotels, eat where ever you want and apparently have no ties to anything. Then, you end up with an 18 yr. old girl French girl who is absolutely smoking hot . . . and you can go from that point.
Here is what the web says:
“As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know,” is how Reynolds Price (The New York Times) described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both here and in Europe, for almost forty years. Set in provincial France in the 1960s, it is the intensely carnal story—part shocking reality, part feverish dream —of a love affair between a footloose Yale dropout and a young French girl. There is the seen and the unseen—and pages that burn with a rare intensity.
I'm not opposed to On the Road but if any of you want to read On the Road after what I just wrote then we should start meeting in mid town on Friday's at 10:00 p.m.
i read the book Mullen is referencing - it's called 'a sport and a pastime'.
it is very evocative writing, but as I recall it's most notable for the remarkable care lavished by the author on describing the repeated acts of sodomy that pass for the relationship b/w the Yalie dropout and his French tart. sure, I'd read it again.
on the road - never read it, would be interested to see how it wears now.
clockwork orange - coincidentally i was wondering if this one would make a good pick before I read the site today.
be forewarned, it is written in a jargon conjured by the author to capture his dystopia of a London in the near future. book was written in the 60s so that future was one heavily influenced by Soviet Russian, presumably b/c the USSR had won the Cold War.
that aside, a very good book and one that delights in goring sacred cows both right and left. and despite its age, very timely.
Suggest Albert Camus; Resistance, Rebellion and Death. A collection of essays by the late Nobel Prize winner.
As a voice in the wilderness,I like an occassional break from fiction.
I don't have Enloe's gift but he pretty much nails A Sport and Pastime (pun intended).
I'm currently reading "The Voyage" by Philip Caputo. Very good so far.
Did you guys decide what to read at the last meeting?
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