Gun Machine - Warren Ellis: Comic book writer turns his hand to novel that works really well. Kind of weird and a bit creepy. Good horror noir.
Another author i have just never fancied for some reason...Dickens.... So Dickens first up and just read The Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations and....wowzer. I guess that's why they are called classics.
Also any recommendations for British classics for when i've got through a good proportion of Dickens'?
On another note for all you SF addicts...Lord of Light by Zelazny...a must read.
Jane Austen. Brilliant.
Quote from: Muenchener on July 11, 2013, 07:45:55 pmJane Austen. Brilliant.Agreed, an author whose style is so beguiling you'll catch yourself speaking in an arch C18th manner for weeks afterwards. PG Wodeshouse has a similar effect and a compilation of the Wooster short stories is recommended for some light relief. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte is brilliant - another "so that's why it's called a classic" read. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is wonderful and thought provoking, the films are truly only half the story.This thread does remind me though how little Dickens I've read... sad to say but I've been put off his best works by their length... I just don't have the leisure these days for books over 700 pages.
Jane Austen ... being arch and witty
Another author i have just never fancied for some reason...Dickens.So, having in recent years got through most of the Russian/German/French classics i thought i'd better make a start on the British authors. So Dickens first up and just read The Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations and....wowzer. I guess that's why they are called classics.GE in particular is a proper gem. I had never really heard or associated Dixens with comedy, but both books are at times proper laugh out loud funny. Black humour at its finest. So what are your favourite Dixens books that are must reads?Also any recommendations for British classics for when i've got through a good proportion of Dickens'?On another note for all you SF addicts...Lord of Light by Zelazny...a must read.
Crime and Punishment by Dostoyesky would be on my foreign classics, and whilst on the russian theme I've recently reread the Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn and thought again it was amazing. I was always put off by Dickens as that's my surname, but thought Oliver Twist was passable - however there was a bit too much singing in it for my liking.
Best foreign classic - Madame Bovary, for too many reasons to explain.
Quote from: rich d on July 17, 2013, 07:34:57 pmCrime and Punishment by Dostoyesky would be on my foreign classics, and whilst on the russian theme I've recently reread the Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn and thought again it was amazing. I was always put off by Dickens as that's my surname, but thought Oliver Twist was passable - however there was a bit too much singing in it for my liking.I've only ever read 'Hard times' by Dickens and it was O.K. a bit full of caractures I recall.Best foreign classic - Madame Bovary, for too many reasons to explain typ9ng on a phone.I do like being Oliver twist though.