Well, I needed a catchy title. What I mean is: Out of the handful of novels I have read in my short life, and out of those I managed to remember driving up the M1 to Leeds a few days ago, here are some that have touched me profoundly and stayed with me. Another title could be, ‘Summer reading suggestions – if you are stuck for ideas’.
Oh, and one isn’t quite a novel, more an autobiography (but on the novel end of autobiography); and another is quite definitely not a novel but a collection of short stories, but I can’t leave it off a list of books like this, and they fit together like chapters in a novel.
This all started because I re-read Cormac McCarthy’s The Road while I was in Lourdes, which moved me even more than it did the first time, and got me thinking about other books that have shaken me to the core, or just shifted the axis of my being a few degrees. So McCarthy takes first place.
I was going to copy the publishers’ blurb below, but even that would break my rule about giving away plot details. If you are intrigued enough you can click on the picture links and read the Amazon reviews etc.
So here is the list:
Cormac McCarthy, The Road.
Don DeLillo, Underworld.
Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory.
Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding.
Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), Out of Africa.
Sorry, me again.
Glad to see The Road here. (I will have to give Underworld another go).
What do you make of theology and The Road? The question’s been raised by some reviewers.
I highly recommend James Wood on it (a literary critic who is very interesting on religious themes):
http://www.powells.com/review/2007_05_17.html
A slightly less-worth-reading literary critic penned a review here:
http://www.nh.netherhall.org.uk/magazine/September2008.pdf (p.17ff).
I already check all these books.
Can you give further explanation why you choose them?.
Sound to me that you are not great reader.
Time ago I ask to you for advise’s book,now I understand your answer.
Why you didnt shoose all Real good one?.