lily's Questions (12)

the silence of the lambs
death in venice
ANYTHING BY OSCAR WILDE
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Are you a young adult? Pillars of the Earth is a good novel

anything by Tom Robbins

Hell by Robert Olen Butler
Fated by S. G. Browne

Lovecraft's novels (づ￣ ³￣)づ
Or Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame.

Fail hehe, sorry : i was answering to @lily

jr ward is one of the best, i swear!

all agatha christy novell are good.

Anything by Charles de Lint, Neil Gaiman, RA Heinlein, Issac Asimov, Barbara Hambly and Jenienne Frost

Like her, but after a while the language gets to me.

Any specific genre? Romance? Drama? Fantasy? Historical?
LGBT?

We are the ants by shaun david hutchinson, any books by john green

how about romance?

Got a decade or two?

Fantasy/SciFi/Magic Realism/Ghost:

Johanna Sinisalo "Troll"
Susannah Clarke "Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell"
Erin Morgenstern "The Night Circus"
Robin McKinley "Sunshine"
Angela Carter "The Magic Toyshop"
Carlos Ruiz Zafon "The Cemetery of Forgotten Books"
Alice Hoffmann "The Museum of Extraordinary Things"
Gabriel Garcia Marquez "Chronicle of a Death Foretold"
Garth Nix "Abhorsen"
Jorge Luis Borges "The Aleph"
Jorge Amado "Dona Flors and her Two Husbands"
Ray Bradbury "Farenheit 451"


Mystery/Espionage Thriller:

Alan Bradley "The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie"
Louise Penney's Inspector Gamache series
Wilkie Collins "The Moonstone"
Stieg Larsson "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"
Daphne DuMaurier "Rebecca" and "Jamaica Inn"
John LeCarré "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" and "The Tailor of Panama"
Lawrence Durrell "The Alexandria Quartet"
Tess Gerritsen "Harvest"
Heléne Tursten "Night Rounds"
Dashiel Hammett "The Maltese Falcon"
Mark Haddon "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime"


Novels:

Khaled Hosseini "The Kite Runner"
Arundhati Roy "The God of Small Things"
Kate Morten "The Secret Keeper"
Angela Carter "Wise Children"
Margaret Atwood "The Robber Bride"
Nevil Shute "The Legacy"
James Cowen "The Mapmaker's Dream"

Nonfiction/Autobiography:

Yang Erche Namu and Christine Mathieu "Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World"
Dave Eggars "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius"
Oliver Sacks "The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales"
Susan Sontag "Against Interpretation" and "Regarding the Pain of Others"
"The Diary of Anne Frank"

Plays/Screenplays:

Lillian Hellmann "The Little Foxes" and "The Children's Hour"
Euripides "Il Bacchae"
Michael Frayn "Copenhagen"
Arthur Miller "The Crucible"
Lorraine Hannsbury "A Raisin in the Sun"
Shelagh Delaney "A Taste of Honey"

Poetry, well .....

Thank u all. Some i have already read but i will read the rest for sure.

I love them all, however i do rather books that try to make a point specifically life or personality related

Yes and thank u

I have read Bradbury, Larrson, Hammett, Atwood, LeCarre, Miller and Shute (though not specifically those books)
Shutes 'On the Beach' was chilling and I still remember the credits quote "So this is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a shudder'
Atwoods 'Handmaids Tale' seems to be a little prophetic
And I watched (and read) Larrsons series (so good)

*not shudder - whimper

"On the Beach" is definitely Shute's magnum opus, but I just love the story and characters behind "The Legacy", which features one of the most awe-inspiring heroines in fiction. She's the personification of grit and determination. The prisoner of war section which comprises the first part of the book bears some similarities with survivor accounts of treatment by captors from that period. Peggy Abkhazi's diary "A Curious Cage" being one example.

I've met Atwood, and for awihile, she posted essays in blog form on her website, including some commentary about "A Handmaid's Tale". Although she foresaw it as a dystopian America, many details and events have happened in different societies from our collective history. This is why the horror has such an impact, because it isn't implausible.

Liesbeth Salamandar is a warrior!

Will have to put Legacy on my 'to read' list!
You met Atwood? *jealous* she has some great stories. Another great Canadian author is Michael Ondaatje (can't count how many times I read 'The English Patient' and 'In the Skin of the Lion'
And Lisbeth is a great character, so strong, but I also really like Blomkvist, fighter for justice.

The quote about the world ending, not with a bang, but a whimper is from T. S. Elliot's poem "The Straw Men". Shute was probably being ironic.

Also, Ondaatje's poem "The Cinnamon Peeler's Daughter" is one of my all time faves.

I have yet to read that ... so many books, so little time.
I thought Elliotts quote apt, the last humans sat helplessly while silent death stole over them ...

https://www.lyrikline.org/en/poems/cinnamon-peeler-6570#.WX2DwVH9gdU

A super-volcano like some of the ones in Indonesia or Italy could have the same effect as the comet hitting Earth.

Thanks for the link ... lovely poem.
Perhaps we are talking about a different book, the one I remember is the people in Australia, post WWIII waiting for the radiation of the nuclear holocaust to find them and impending death ...

I was referring to the title only. Nuclear holocaust is back on the radar thanks to North Korea, but a supervolcano would have a similar effect, and there are some places (Indonesia, Chile, Italy, Mexico ... ) where such things are possibly.

me too! oh but, she's still one of my favorite, and qhuinn and blay too.

George Orwell has written some of the best nonfiction commentary on the use of language. "1984" was a portentous commentary on totalitarianism and the authoritarian state, and "Animal Farm" took a satirical look at revolutions.

I need to be in a well-integrated state of awareness to read books that bleak.

I don't really mind if the seme is hot and rich tbh. Come fuck me right way

Omg

LOL

i understand that and sometimes yaoi like this
if you love someone >>rape him over and over again >>let him go with saying sorry i didn't want to heart you >>he will come back >>he will say that he loves you >>happy ending
that why i love shounen ai more because i can feel the story there more but they are also a lot of good yaoi too

Yeah, that annoys me, too

that's the point of yaoi. that's where it gets the meaning of the term after all. otherwise, turn to shounen-ai.

no no i love those yummy scenes. i just lie the hard to get ones more then jumploool

I really don't think that that's something that should be just accepted because that's not what yaoi is about. It's true that quite a majority of it is kinda fucked up BUT I think that recent mangas have gone about it in a better way and are more adept at portraying a healthy relationship... or maybe it's just me having a good filter for shitty mangas and being an optimist. ┑(￣Д ￣)┍