well wuthered

[adelaidesean]

I've also been reading in recent weeks. Here's what. Thanks to everyone who suggested titles or sent them as trades. All of them so far have been terrific!

• Necropolis: London and its Dead, by Catharine Arnold
• A Book of Endings, Deborah Biancotti
• Wuthering Heights, Charlotte Bronte
• Into the Silence, S H Courtier
• The Mystery of Rosa Portland, Diane Fahey
• The Nimrod Flip-Out, Etgar Keret
• Laughing Buddha, Daniel G Lanoue
• Einstein's Dreams, Alan Lightman
• Deaf Sentence, David Lodge
• Wild Surmise, Dorothy Porter
• The Shrieking Pit, Arthur J Rees
• Writers of the Future XXV, ed. K D Wentworth

I can't believe it took me so long to read Wuthering Heights.  It was awesome, in a terrifying way.  (Still can't believe it wasn't intended as a satire, and I still can't tell if that it makes more or less a brutal experience.)  I was thinking of Sense and Sensibility next, or maybe Cranford.  Any other suggestions?

Comments

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Never read a word of Atwood, apart from the opening of Alias Grace, which Amanda was teaching a couple of years ago (it was okay but didn't drag me in). From what I've heard of O&C, I reckon I should try something else by her first. I'm open to suggestions...

[catsparx.livejournal.com]

Her early work is good but nothing special -- it's her later work that kicks serious butt. I think Oryx and Crake is the right book for you to start on because of its hardcore science aspects married with clarity and quality characterisation. An easy read that you can't get out of your head.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

I'll put it back on my maybe list, then. What I heard about the science kinda put me off, but if you say it's okay I'll happily reconsider.

[catsparx.livejournal.com]

Trust me on this one. I think it's a fracking masterpiece.