[ebooktalk] Re: BOOKS OF MY LIFE
- From: Ian Macrae <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
- To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 10:57:34 +0100
I'd strongly add my recommendation to Shell's concerning Owen Meany Trish.
It's in many ways a bizarre story, but it's brilliantly told and very moving
and funny, a difficult trick to pull off.
On 28 Jun 2013, at 19:54, Trish Talbot wrote:
> Shell, I'd forgotten about "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist", what a
> moving book that is! It's so sad in some parts, with such vivid descriptions
> of poverty among hardworking men.
>
> I loved "Cider House Rules" but haven't read any other John Irving, so may
> try "A Prayer For Owen Meany" as you recommend it so highly.
>
> I re-read "Grapes Of Wrath" about a year ago for our reading group, and think
> I enjoyed it even more the second time. Easily the best of Steinbeck's work.
> I don't know the others you listed at all.
>
> Trish.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Shell
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> Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 11:33 AM
> Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: BOOKS OF MY LIFE
>
> Well, I've narrowed it down to 6 books, I just couldn't bare to knock one of
> these off. I had to discard Charlie and the chocolate factory and Wind in
> the Willows, which was quite traumatic, but here are the final 6.
>
> Millroy The Magician by Paul Theroux.
> A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving.
> The grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
> The Ragged Trousered Philanthopist by Robert Tressell.
> Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth.
> A Man In Full by Tom Wolfe.
> Shell.
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