Some New Reading Recommendations? Varied Genre suggestions needed.
 

Before you say "see previous threads", know that I have spent an hour going through them and amazon and have only slightly narrowed down my choices.

I'm finishing up with finals and boards and will be spending two and a half peaceful weeks on the beach in the Caribbean and need some fresh reading material.

I already have a non-fiction backlog of books I'm halfway through (GEB, the great influenza, the origin of wealth, conspiracy of fools to name a few) that I am setting aside temporarily.

I just finished Infinite Jest and rekindled my love for fiction.

Some of my favorites include Gatsby, Dorian Gray, anything Borges, Easton-Ellis, Vonnegut, catch 22, nabokov, dostoevsky, also enjoy sci fi-have read heinlein, card, adams.

Some books/authors I have noted from past threads:

Will prob pick one of these two I cant believe I havent read:
To Kill a Mockingbird
In Cold Blood
Read one? both? Which first?

Also looking into Eco or Roth? I wasn't really sold on the Amazon info/reviews.

Any ideas on short stories? Have obv read 9 stories. Also recently enjoyed Hempel and O'brien.

SciFi ideas: Cryptonomicron? Neuromancer? Ive heard good things about these.

Also, whats a good translation of Brother's Karamazov to read? I've read about half of a really poor one and want to switch.

Any other varied suggestions welcome.

Thanks in advance!

-JP

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I just recently read Cryptonomicon and I think it was excellent. Check it out.

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I just recently read Cryptonomicon and I think it was excellent. Check it out.

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Ditto. Finished about 2 weeks ago and it put me in a mood to read everything Stephenson has written. The Baroque Cycle is a loose prequel to Cryptonomicon, apparently.

Glad you enjoyed Infinite Jest. I was considering re-reading it as it's been 8-9 years.

You should check out A Game of Thrones (fantasy) and the subsequent books. They are incredible: gritty, realistic, raw, unforgiving, and unbelievably detailed.

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I've been on a Vince Flynn kick lately.

If you like fast, racy thrillers check some of his stuff out.

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after reading ian mcewan - enduring love, i went out and bought 5 more of his books. it's not a very long book...

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after reading ian mcewan - enduring love, i went out and bought 5 more of his books. it's not a very long book...

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I read McEwan's "Saturday" and I loved it.

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If you like Borges, you might like Italo Calvino. The short story collections Cosmicomics, Numbers in the Dark, and t zero might remind you most of Borges, though my favorites are the novels The Baron in the Trees and If on a Winter's Night a Traveller.

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A Game of Thrones was a good pick.

I would say start with In Cold Blood, but that's just because I liked it so much.

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Also, whats a good translation of Brother's Karamazov to read? I've read about half of a really poor one and want to switch.

-JP

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Which translation are you reading? I just picked up the Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (husband/wife team)...Ive heard they are really good. Then again Ive never read Doestoevsky, but I picked up Crime and punishment and Brothers K after reading an interview where he said he loves melville, Faulkner and Doestovesky.

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Oh and Neuromancer is good stuff, Im reading it for the second time at the moment.

I also second Game of Thrones, great series. HBO is going to be filming the first of these books in the near future, each book being a whole season.