damn...i wouldn't have a problem with it if i understood it, but half of the time i'm like what?! and are you telling me you understand everything?i actually bought a sort of compilation of his novels with as i lay dying, sanctuary, light in august and pylon...if what you say is true i doubt i'll finish reading it, it's frustrating reading something when you don't understand certain words or sentences... the reason i ordered the book in english is because i started reading light in august in croatian and the translation to croatian "hick" talk was just ridiculous....
i'm planning on reading the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy this summer ( and of course the latest harry potter....hehe...)

William Faulkner is far from light reading, even for people who's first language is English.

i think the most difficult novel i've read has to be Herzog....now that's a good read for philosophy majors....it would have been a really good read if he had just stuck with the midlife crisis and avoided the Jean-Paul Sartre interludes....a good, beautiful book doesn't have to be a difficult book...look at gabriel garcia marquez....easy read yet beautiful.....

THE BFG!!!! i love that book!

A Drink With Shane McGowan

It`s basically a series of interviews of him done by his (now ex) wife.

There`s some wonderful stories in there

i'm in the middle of:

notes from the underground-dostoevsky: exsistential and confusing
future eden-colin thompson: like the hitchiker's guide style but different and just as good!
hitchiker's guide...-adams

i highly recommend the Abarat series....great books and the drawings are amazing and add to the reading experience!!

I love Dostoevsky, especially Crime and Punishment.

i feel a bit stupid recommending this, because it's rather a cliché, but here it goes - j.d.salinger - catcher in the rye, and if you get a chance 9 stories, that's some of the best shit i've read, he's a master of short stories, my favorite would be "for esme with love and squalor" and "teddy"....

Right now, I am reading Sacajawea, by Anna Lee Waldo. Sort of a 'faction' of her life.

And, Transforming the Mind, by His Holiness The Dalai Lama.

Also, Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte. ( I like to read a classic every now and then)

Geez, anybody else do the 'reading too many books at once' thing?

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