need a nudge

and here's my boring list in place of the interesting picutre:

Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
One Hundred years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Washington Square by Henry James
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Crome yellow by Aldous Huxley
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
The Drought by JG Ballard
When we were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro

Please advise

Hmmm. Rather an assortment there. Several on my own TBR pile, but the only two I've read are Washington Square and Lord of the Flies. Both excellent, but very different. Tell me more about your mood and what you're looking for in a reading experience.

Small de-nudge for When We Were Orphans - I know others have enjoyed it but I couldn't really see the point.

I would really like to read We so can I give a mini-nudge to that?

A tragedy perhaps, but not dystopia.
This is quite an assortment I agree Nickelini, :). I've really wanted to read Washington Square though!

Hmm, I did enjoy One Hundred Years of Solitude, although not quite as much as Love in the Time of Cholera. I haven't read When We Were Orphans, but I love Ishiguro, so I'd nudge those two.

I know this is not the point of this group, but I too have a whole bookcase of TBR stuff. What I am doing for a while is I take all of the books that I want to try to get into this year and I write each one on a little slip of paper and put them in a basket and I just do a drawing. So far it has worked out rather well and has saved me alot of time.

But One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera is both of my TBR pile for the year and yes is in my "basket" .

Lord of the Flies: A good story in itself, without worrying about all the symbolism stuff. The descriptions of the island are appealing and well done. The interactions between the boys are very human.

One Hundred years of Solitude: Get ready for intricate tales of countless relatives with the same names. Very dreamy style, very colloquial. I have a friend from Peru who said it was required reading when she went to school.

I never finished it.

I have read both Lord of the Flies and One Hundred Years of Solitude and love them both. I am a big fan of Ishiguro's although I have not read When We Were Orphans and The Drought is on my tbr mountain so I will nudge all of the 4 mentioned above.

I loved When We Were Orphans and taught it in my somewhat pomo detective fiction class. Not for everyone, but kind of fascinating. I nudge it if you're in the postmodern mood.

>7 danellender::
100 Years of Solitude is required reading in every decent high school in Latin America, and even in most of the indecent ones as well. ;-) I re-read it in high school too, having first read it when I was a 'tweenager. It fascinated and horrified me by turns. One thing is certain: it confused the heck outta me.

The story is complicated, hard to follow, and peppered with magic realism. BUT, Gabo is a very, very talented writer! As I said in my LT review, the writing is of such caliber that I would put myself through the torture of the story again, just for Marquez's artistry as a writer. (PS: Take a look at my rev for more details.)

A side -and not particularly helpful- note: when I read it for the first time, my mother realized what I was reading -when I had only about 20 pages to go- and nearly had a fainting fit! I guess she deemed it too… mature for a young girl. Just FYI. =)

One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of my top five. I've read it twice.

>11 JoseBuendia:: Well, your username is a reasonable clue, now, isn't it?

I'll put in another plug for OHYOS. Beautiful, wondrous book.

>13 jnwelch:: Good to see you here. =)

My pleasure. Thanks for the invite!

Jude the Obscure or When We Were Orphans - two amazing books!