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I love Joyce Carol Oates. I also love Niagara Falls. I would be interested in "The Falls". Here is a link:lindad_amato wrote:One of my favorite authors, who I feel is greatly overlooked by the American public is Joyce Carol Oates.
http://www.amazon.com/Falls-Novel-Joyce ... 0060722290
Hello and welcome Dan! Thanks for the suggestion. "The Lost Valley" can be downloaded from Project Gutenberg to ereaders, I'm going to dowload it tonight. You can start a discussion of this novel if you would like at any time in the "Create Your Own Discussion" forum if it is not chosen for the next discussion.DanQuigley wrote:I'll toss another one out there. I have just begun The Lost Valley (1921) by Australian writer J. M. Walsh (1897-1952).
It's really difficult to select one novel that will appeal to many. The last few novels discussed have been a bit older with some pretty heavy themes. I'm wondering, should we choose something more contemporary?
Also, Lindad got me thinking about authors whose novels I have never read, but would really like to. This is something to think about.
I have always wanted to read something by Chuck Palahniuk
Surviror
From Publishers Weekly
http://www.amazon.com/Survivor-Novel-Ch ... 55&s=booksThe rise and fall of a media-made messiah is the subject of Palahniuk's impressive second novel (after the well-received Fight Club), a wryly mannered commentary on the excesses of pop culture that tracks the 15 minutes of fame of the lone living member of a suicide cult. Tender Branson, aged 33, has commandeered a Boeing 747, emptied of passengers, in order to tell his story to the "black box" while flying randomly until the plane runs out of gas and crashes. Branson relates in his long flashback the vicissitudes of his life: a member of the repressive Creedish Death Cult, supposedly founded by a splinter group of Millerites in 1860, he is hired out as a domestic servant who must dedicate his earnings to the cult. Despite his humble beginnings, Branson finds himself on the edge of fame and fortune when the cult members begin their suicide binge, and he keeps himself on the media radar by using the psychic dreams of his potential romantic interest, Fertility Hollis, in which the girl accurately predicts a series of strange disasters. After a brief period at the top of the freak-show heap, Branson succumbs to the excesses of his trade when his agent mysteriously dies at the Super Bowl as Branson predicts the outcome of the game at half-time, simultaneously triggering a riot and turning him into a murder suspect. Branson's spookily matter of fact account of his bizarre experiences does not excite tension until the narrative is well under way, but the novel picks up momentum during the homestretch when Branson goes on the lam with Fertility and his murderous brother Adam, and the story steamrolls toward its nightmarish climax.
Keep the suggestions coming, suggestions of novels and suggestions on how to make our next fiction discussion successful!