Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Books and Contemporary Authors I've Read & Loved - Abridged Version:
(Absolute favourites marked with bold)
Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale, Alias Grace.
Iain Banks: The Wasp Factory, The Bridge
Pat Barker: Regeneration, The Eye In The Door, The Ghost Road
Erna Brodber: Myal
A.S. Byatt: Possession, The Virgin in the Garden, A Whistling Woman
Jonathan Coe: What A Carve Up!, The House of Sleep
Michael Cunningham: A Home At The End of the World, The Hours
Jasper Fforde
Alasdair Gray: Lanark, 1982 Janine, Unlikely Stories, Mostly, Poor Things
Keri Hulme: the bone people
Guy Gavriel Kay: Tigana
David Lodge: The Rummidge Trilogy
Jamie O'Neill: At Swim, Two Boys
Arturo Perez-Reverte: The Dumas Club, The Flanders Panel
Philip Pullman: His Dark Materials Trilogy
Jeanette Winterson: Sexing the Cherry
Other than contemporary authors, I've read and enjoyed: Lord Byron (esp. Don Juan), Thomas Carlyle, Hart Crane, Allen Curnow, HD, John Donne, T.S. Eliot, E.M. Forster, Heinrich Heine, James Joyce (The Dead is sheer perfection), John Keats, Tom Kristensen, D. H. Lawrence, Iris Murdoch, Vladimir Nabokov, Alexander Pope, Ezra Pound (esp. early stuff like "Lustra", "Personae", "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley" and also the Malatesta Cantos), Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Alexander Trocchi (Young Adam is amazing), Emil Aarestrup..
(Absolute favourites marked with bold)
Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale, Alias Grace.
Iain Banks: The Wasp Factory, The Bridge
Pat Barker: Regeneration, The Eye In The Door, The Ghost Road
Erna Brodber: Myal
A.S. Byatt: Possession, The Virgin in the Garden, A Whistling Woman
Jonathan Coe: What A Carve Up!, The House of Sleep
Michael Cunningham: A Home At The End of the World, The Hours
Jasper Fforde
Alasdair Gray: Lanark, 1982 Janine, Unlikely Stories, Mostly, Poor Things
Keri Hulme: the bone people
Guy Gavriel Kay: Tigana
David Lodge: The Rummidge Trilogy
Jamie O'Neill: At Swim, Two Boys
Arturo Perez-Reverte: The Dumas Club, The Flanders Panel
Philip Pullman: His Dark Materials Trilogy
Jeanette Winterson: Sexing the Cherry
Other than contemporary authors, I've read and enjoyed: Lord Byron (esp. Don Juan), Thomas Carlyle, Hart Crane, Allen Curnow, HD, John Donne, T.S. Eliot, E.M. Forster, Heinrich Heine, James Joyce (The Dead is sheer perfection), John Keats, Tom Kristensen, D. H. Lawrence, Iris Murdoch, Vladimir Nabokov, Alexander Pope, Ezra Pound (esp. early stuff like "Lustra", "Personae", "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley" and also the Malatesta Cantos), Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Alexander Trocchi (Young Adam is amazing), Emil Aarestrup..
