from Ben's mom
The last author named to the Great Books list was born in 1903. When do they update that thing?
I need some good fiction recommendations. I love historical fiction (reading Herman Wouk right now) and am hesitant about Christian fiction (though I love a good George MacDonald story).
Any recommendations?
6 comments:
I AGREE.
Judy
A trilogy by Liz Curtis Higgs will captivate you at times and make you sore angry at others...Set in Scotland in the late 1700's "Thorn in My Heart", "Fair is the Rose" and "Whence Came a Prince" are very well-written best-selling historical novels.
Mom
And I couldn't get through East of Eden to save my life. It was enormously depressing.
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We're always reading and looking for something new. East of Eden was one of last month's books-- you can get a few ideas of what people thought there anyway.
Byzantium by Stephen Lawhead is very good. It's the story of the Book of Kells, from the perspective of one Irish monk.
Some people really like Dorothy Dunnett's historical fiction. I read her Lymond quintet and found it too rich for my taste (I'd have nightmares about the books, which is highly unusual for me - I don't dream). It's a really cool story, though.
--DJ
Not fiction, but reads like it:
Stephen Greenblatt's "Will in the World" (I suppose that's both an insult to his scholarship and a tribute to his writing)
And have you tried the Lord Peter books yet?
Thanks all! I have East of Eden on reserve. I like Steinbeck, though he is depressing but haven't read that one. The others will get read this year too. :) R
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