[ebooktalk] Re: BOOKS OF MY LIFE
- From: "Tar Barrels" <tar.barrels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 11:57:58 +0100
I haven't yet done my top 5, but John Irving would have to be there. Owen
Meany was the first I read, so has a special place for me, but Cider House
Rules was just brilliant!
June
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Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: BOOKS OF MY LIFE
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.
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From: Shell <mailto:shell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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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