User LucyStoner
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Naguib Mahfouz
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About Me
My style doesn't fit into a category.
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Catalina is just wonderful.
My first was Human Bondage, and I would recommend that also.
about Stephen King 2006-12-29 14:43:46
Eyes of the Dragon is a King must-read, but do it after The Stand.
about Toni Morrison 2006-12-29 14:41:10
This is a tough one, depends on the reader.
Song of Solomon is the most accessible. It's not as abstruse as Bluest and Paradise and Jazz and...and... most Morrison.
Bluest is still powerful even if you don't "get" it all. And it deserves a couple reads anyway. I didn't get it until I grew up to understand the real insidious reality of racism.
But definitely, check out Morrison's Nobel lecture! Immediately!
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1993/morrison-lecture.html
about Kazuo Ishiguro 2006-12-29 14:27:57
"Remains" rocks. It's so funny and sad and sweet. One of the greatest novels ever.
about John Irving 2006-12-29 14:24:57
Owen Meany definitely first. The first chapter is uproarious ecstasy.
Garp? Much, much, much later.
about Maxine Hong Kingston 2006-12-29 14:21:07
Never has a first-read recommendation come so easy.
Woman Warrior all the way.
The first paragraph roped me, maybe the first sentence actually...
One of those books that makes you love the author.
about W. Somerset Maugham 2006-12-29 14:51:50