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| | ... Plague - Albert Camus
19-Microserfs - Douglas Coupland
20-James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl
21-Tales of the City - Armistead Maupin
22-My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
23-The Alienist by Caleb Carr
24-Hotel New Hampshire - John Irving
25-Li ... Ivanhoe should be read at Conisburgh Castle and on the bank of the river Don (both just near my house.)
Tales of the City should be read in San Fransico.
I read My Family and other Animals in Corfu but forgot to take Captain Corelli's Mandolin with me to Kefalonia. ... way to pass a chunk of the evening. I suppose, really, I should have been reading it over in The Cumberland Bar.
32. Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
Clearly, a reread of Tales of the City was essential after that, given that the 44, Scotland Street novels were written ... ... this line
"It was sunny in San Francisco; a fabulous condition."
It has been established that it is not from Tales of the City, and it is not from Faulkner. Oh, and it is not in my catalog.
Maybe a small clue. It has been made into a movie. Twice. Tales of the City? Armistead Maupin? Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin Picked up Tales of the City at a used bookstore. ... means "San Francisco". (And there's at least one person who uses it that way -- "sf" shows up in the full tag list for Tales of the City, and the "san francisco, sf" tagmash shows a number of titles which couldn't possibly be considered science fiction.
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Pimm's Cup also strikes me as the kind of 70's-era brunch appropriate cocktail the charcters in Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City enjoyed. Along with things like a Bullshot (like a Bloody Mary but made with beef bullion instead of tomato juice) or a Salty Dog.
CityGirl, what did you think of Tales of the City? I liked it enough, but it was lighter than I was expecting I guess... and those three page chapters...
Anyway, I'm working my way through Conn Iggulden's Emperor series. I loved The Gates of Rome and and working my through The Death of K ... ... is one of them it's not really fair for the rest of the field. Runners-up: Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan and Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin. Tales of the City - Armistead Maupin. Good. Very funny. Different.
I'll read More Tales of the City, sometime. I've started Tales of the City - Armistead Maupin and am loving it! It's hye-larious. (As Ross Perot used to say, well probably still does. He's still alive, right?). It's fun to try to picture San Francisco in the 70s. The outfits alone!
The Dumas Club sounds interesting, Kell. I ... ... X by Douglas Coupland didn't make the list. Talk about a writer who defines a generation.
I also agree that Tales of the City should have been included.
There should be a follow up book of non-novel (which is funny cos there are a lot of novellas and short stories in here) ... I just finished Tales of the City and am starting More Tales of the City. I read several books at a time and I am in the midst of straightening out the edges so to speak: Palm Sunday, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, a Richard Rorty, a Paul Kurtz. I have a small handful of vampire ... ... has any bearing in that direction. However, LT users do.
Very true. And let's take the result. Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City are, to LCSH, "Humorous Stories" and "City and Town Life." Fiddlesticks! If you ask an entomologist, you might get that answer. Ask someone who ... 22. The More Things Change by Chinua Achebe
23. Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
24. Krakatoa by Simon Winchester
25. The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
26. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
27. More Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
28. Fur ... I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Dead Men Do Tell Tales
Tales of the City
The City of Falling Angels
Angels and Demons
As a gag gift, I got San Francisco: A Photographic Portrait (wonky touchstone) for a late graduation present. 17>
True, on the extended tag page for sf nothing seems to show up but you can see that someone has tagged Tales of the City "sf," (More Tales of the City also, my guess would be that it's the same user). I have no opinion on this quite frankly.
But I wanted to mention just in case anyone ... Well, what do you tag by?
Is there a term for novels based on newspaper columns? "Episodic novel"? Tales of the City is another such work, and I see that some people have tagged that "short stories". ... and Osbert Lancaster
O these men, these men! by Angela Thirkell
The hours by Michael Cunningham
Tales of the city by Armistead Maupin
And since "The Bruised Apple" (wonderful used bookstore) is walking distance, and since I had to show it to two fellow LThingers ... Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin. Maupin brought back the serial novel as a genre, and did it really well.
ITA agree that some authors are way overrepresented. For instance, I could die quite happily having read only one of Pynchon's books. Ah, comfort books!
I've re-read Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City series 4 or 5 times. I love San Francisco and I love Maupin's band of innocents.
I find Jennifer Weiner hilarious, and have read Good in Bed, Little Earthquakes and her other novels a couple of times.
Another ... Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City sequence leap to mind for San Francisco.
(That didn't touchstone properly first time; editing to add the rest of the books: More Tales of the City, Further Tales of the City, Babycakes, Significant Others, Sure of You.) ... a friend just told me, about another writer, "every great author is entitled to one bad book."
bookmarque, #10, I think Tales of the City is one of those books you have to read when it first comes out. I did, and enjoyed it, and enjoyed the TV series too, but I wouldn't dare pick it up ... ... - hopeless
The Italian Secretary - a Sherlockian pastiche with no panache, no real detection and very little sense.
Tales of the City - It's like, the 70s man, you dig? So dated and soap operaish that I could barely stand it.
Sacrifice - a thriller with no thrills, an abrasive ... ... all for $33 and some change.
The Fourth Durango by Ross Thomas
The Wall of Sky, The Wall of Eye by Jonathan Lethem
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
Dame Agatha Abroad which is an anthology including Murder on the Orient Express. Psyche.
The Kills by Linda Fairstein - her ...
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