Comments on: 100 Book, New Year Goal http://www.ariyam.com/2008/01/16/100-book-new-year-goal/ and babblings! Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:04:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: derick http://www.ariyam.com/2008/01/16/100-book-new-year-goal/#comment-58973 derick Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:17:49 +0000 http://www.ariyam.com/2008/01/16/100-book-new-year-goal/#comment-58973 Wow! Excellent advice. I will take it! You're right, I going to replace the Hubbard book ... not only do I NOT want to seduced into anything, they are also quite hard to find. Again, awesome advice! Wow! Excellent advice. I will take it! You’re right, I going to replace the Hubbard book … not only do I NOT want to seduced into anything, they are also quite hard to find. Again, awesome advice!

]]> By: jbarbikane http://www.ariyam.com/2008/01/16/100-book-new-year-goal/#comment-58874 jbarbikane Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:18:20 +0000 http://www.ariyam.com/2008/01/16/100-book-new-year-goal/#comment-58874 Try some Latin American literature: Gabriel García Márquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciones (English Translation) Jorge Luis Borges - The Aleph and Other Stories Mario Vargas Llosa - The Green House Mario Vargas Llosa - Death in the Andes Carlos Fuentes - The Death of Artemio Cruz Augusto Roa Bastos - I, the Supreme Laura Restrepo - Isle of Passion Julio Cortázar - Blow Up: And Other Stories Julio Cortázar - Bestiary José Donoso - Hell Has No Limits Manuel Puig - Kiss of the Spider Woman Adolfo Bioy Casares - The Invention of Morel Juan Carlos Onetti - Let the Wind Speak Juan Rulfo - Pedro Paramo (English Translation) Alan Pauls - The Past Manuel Puig - Kiss of the spider woman Tips: * Don't waste your valuable time reading L.Ron Hubbard's books. * Why so many works of Charles de Lint? He is not so relevant! Select only one or two and discard the others. * SciFi is great, but Hemingway & Faulkner are waaay better, read them first (& Joyce, Steinbeck, Woolf, Kerouak, Burroughs, Lowry, Miller, Bowles, McCullers) * Beguin the SciFi books with Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five. * You are doing well with the green ones (the "read after list") *Post some comments about the books you have already read, it's a good exercise! Good luck and happy reading! Try some Latin American literature:

Gabriel García Márquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude

Jorge Luis Borges – Ficciones (English Translation)
Jorge Luis Borges – The Aleph and Other Stories

Mario Vargas Llosa – The Green House
Mario Vargas Llosa – Death in the Andes

Carlos Fuentes – The Death of Artemio Cruz

Augusto Roa Bastos – I, the Supreme

Laura Restrepo – Isle of Passion

Julio Cortázar – Blow Up: And Other Stories
Julio Cortázar – Bestiary

José Donoso – Hell Has No Limits

Manuel Puig – Kiss of the Spider Woman

Adolfo Bioy Casares – The Invention of Morel

Juan Carlos Onetti – Let the Wind Speak

Juan Rulfo – Pedro Paramo (English Translation)

Alan Pauls – The Past

Manuel Puig – Kiss of the spider woman

Tips:

* Don’t waste your valuable time reading L.Ron Hubbard’s books.
* Why so many works of Charles de Lint? He is not so relevant! Select only one or two and discard the others.
* SciFi is great, but Hemingway & Faulkner are waaay better, read them first (& Joyce, Steinbeck, Woolf, Kerouak, Burroughs, Lowry, Miller, Bowles, McCullers)
* Beguin the SciFi books with Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five.
* You are doing well with the green ones (the “read after list”)
*Post some comments about the books you have already read, it’s a good exercise!

Good luck and happy reading!

]]> By: Mardigan http://www.ariyam.com/2008/01/16/100-book-new-year-goal/#comment-52131 Mardigan Wed, 21 May 2008 06:16:06 +0000 http://www.ariyam.com/2008/01/16/100-book-new-year-goal/#comment-52131 I am amazed at how many science fiction books are on that list. And smug over how many I've already read. Take that Mr. I can name any classic author! I am amazed at how many science fiction books are on that list. And smug over how many I’ve already read. Take that Mr. I can name any classic author!

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