Bookdepository (a commercial electronic bookstore) has this great page where you can click on a coloured picture and have a quick look at one of its 1,000 best-sellers.
Have fun!
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/2010?utm_source=NL-Body&utm_medium=email-Newsletter&utm_term=Books-of-the-year-2010_Banner&utm_content=Block2&utm_campaign=Newsletter-January-11
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Being an avid reader usually makes people a bit selfish, in my point of view. The minute we "fall in love" with a writer, we want to assume that he's writing only for us. As the words we read echo in our head, we pretend as if the author is reading for us and us alone. This happens to me quite often, but then I find myself wanting to discuss the books that have somehow changed my life, and for that to happen, I need to share.
With that in mind, I decided to share here some of the titles of books that I've read from cover to cover and that I can't imagine "life" without. Hope you enjoy them as much as I have, if you ever get to read them.
Paul Auster: hard to pick one since all his work is pretty magnificent. He really got under my skin and for me he borders on genius! If I really had to pick I' go with "Mr. Vertigo"; "Brooklyn Folies"; and "The New York Trilogy".
Pat Conroy: author of the book that became a movie "The Prince of Tides", but my favourite is undoubtedly "Beach Music" -I laughed, cried, got angry, got sad, felt hate...
Dave Pelzer: "My story" (a 3 part story told in the 1st person). It's a Bio, and the details are so astounding that you'll find yourself feeling some of the things he describes.
W. Faulkner: "The Sound and the Fury": I'll just quote Arnold Bennett "Faulkner has inexhaustible invention, powerful imagination, and he writes like an angel."
Jack Kerouac: "On the Road" it's simply put a master-piece, a quirky and sometimes cruel definition of a disenchanted generation.
These are a small fraction of the books of my life!
Enjoy!
- "Writing is no longer an act of free will for me, it's a matter of survival."
(Paul Auster)
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