Bob Calco wrote: > Ricardo: > > >> You should take up a career as a literary critic! >> > > While we're on the subject now of literary ambitions, I will admit that my > favorite writers/stories (in no particular order) are: > > + Joseph Conrad (Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim) > H of D NO, Lord Jim Yes! > + Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment, Devils, The Brothers Karamazov) > Booooorrrrinnnggggg zzzzzz z zz zz zzzz..........
> + Herman Melville (Moby Dick, Benito Cereno) > just ok. > + Boris Pasternak (Dr. Zhivago) > + Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Love in the time of Cholera, 100 Years of > Solitude) > don't like. > + JRR Tolkien (The Silmarillion) > Yup. > + Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, Diamond Age) > don't know him > + Robert Heinlein (The Moon is a Harsh Mistress) > Loved it! In spite of his political naivety. > + Mark Helprin (A Soldier of the Great War, Memoir from Antproof Case) > Never heard of him. > + Frank Herbert (Dune, of course) > Read about 7 of the series (including a couple of FH Jr's ) > + George R. R. Martin (A Song of Ice and Fire series) > Never heard of him > Out of curiosity, who are yours? > James Clavell - Shogun Robert Merle - Malevil Stephen King - lots of novels, don't like his latest work (dark tower) Rafael Sabatini - Captain Blood Rafael Sabatini - Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini - The sea hawk Alan Watts - "La sabiduría de la inseguridad" (wisdom of insecurity or something like that, read it in spanish don't know the original title) Bernard Shaw - Pygmalion Arturo Perez Reverte - El maestro de esgrima (the fencing master). Arturo Perez Reverte - El capitan Alatriste (all the saga) - La reina del sur - La carta esférica - Trafalgar - etc. etc. Dean Koontz - lots of novels Bernard Cornwell - The sea Lord R.A.Heinlein - Stranger in a strange land - Starship troopers - Double Star - Orphans of the sky - Citizen of the Galaxy - Lazarus Long's Series Ursula K LeGuin - Los Desposeidos (don't know the title in english) - El nombre del mundo es bosque - etc. etc, Orson scott Card - the Ender saga. Robert Silverberg - lots. Alexandre Dumas - The three musketeers Von Klausewitz - On war and the list goes on and on, but my memory does not. > - Bob > > >> - Bob >> >> >> [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
