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Originally Posted by Zarathustra
I'm only about 100 pages in. 1/15 done!  Although I haven't been reading it much lately after picking up that Fidel Castro book. |
Hey, it's a bold undertaking--give yourself credit.
For some reason, I've been having a hankering to re-read
Moby-Dick this summer, but I pretty much have to stick to work-related reading for the time being.
For the science-fiction aficionados out there, I'd recommend Richard Paul Russo's
Carlucci trilogy, which is excellent. I also liked his more recent novel
The Rosetta Codex. I'm also a fan of William Gibson and Bruce Sterling--and those two authors collaborated on a shorter book called
The Difference Engine, which is excellent.
On the topic of sci-fi, has anyone read anything by Canadian author Charles de Lint? I've been meaning to check him out.
For those of a more literary bent, I'd recommend John Dos Passos--his
USA trilogy is a kind of unsung modernist epic that's starting to regain some currency--and it's one of my favourites, though he's probably more famous for
Manhattan Transfer.