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... Merrymary's post (No 5 - darn, lost the hash key) and also with regard to HannaRose's second paragraph, I would recommend:
Little Big Man by Thomas Berger
Making History by Stephen Fry
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- all very accessible, I think, and all bringing in ... Little Big Man by Thomas Berger ... book of all times (and sometimes still do)
Candide (no, really) by Voltaire which should be mandatory for everybody
Little Big Man
Foundation trilogy which I had read twice by the time I turned 16 Little Big Man by Thomas Berger - read in about 1977 ... God by Zora Neale Hurston ~ for some reason, I've managed to go my whole life without reading this book... go figure.
Little Big Man by Thomas Berger ~ This book was mentioned in The Lace Reader, so I wanted to read it.
and Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller ~ it's a Pulitzer Prize ... ... Take a look in my library under the SOUTHWEST tag to see some related titles. My favorite is a tiny book that reads like Little Big Man ....My Life with the Army in the West: Memoirs of James E. Farmer. C'ya in a week or so.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Glorieta_Pass
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
Little Big Man by Thomas Berger
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Poison for the Prince Elizabeth Eyre ... to Canada, and
Joseph Andrews, Pamela, Exterminate all the Brutes, Summer Promise, A Heart Full of Hope, and Little Big Man all stayed here in the States Mandy, Little Big Man will go into a rather big TBR pile only because I have read it before, way back in the 70's sometime. I actually chose A Mercy first because I like Toni Morrison, but also because it is the shortest. How's that for picking a book? lol! The Wally Lamb will be next and Sinc ... At Large and At Small
The Long Goodbye
Little Big Man
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
The Mammoth Hunters Little Big Man, Thom,as Berger
Little Bear, Else Minarek
A Wider World, Kate Simon
The Long Secret, Louise Fitzhugh
Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson The Body in the Library Agatha Christie
Little Big Man Thomas Berger
As I Lay Dying William Faulkner
Body Surfing: A Novel Anita Shreve
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison ... as well have been cartoons. As somewhat of a parallel, there was plenty of violence and graphic mayhem in Lonesome Dove, Little Big Man, and Blood Meridian, with many scenes as grotesque as anything in Smonk, but the writers made me care about the characters in those fine novels, ... ... Jose Eduardo Agualusa
3. On Trying To Keep Still by Jenny Diski
4. Night and the City by Gerald Kersh
5. Little Big Man by Thomas Berger
ETA: I haven't finished The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen yet, but if it's all right I'd like to make it one of my top five ... ... so easily to personalisation, so the research seems less well-integrated - and the prose is definitely more purple.
52. Little Big Man by Thomas Berger - I really enjoyed this. Reviewed.
53. The Road To Oxiana by Robert Byron. A much-hyped travel book, so it was a bit of a ... Little Big Man (finally) reviewed. Don't know why it took me so long to get round to it - I loved it as soon as I started reading it!
LizT, how about The Pillar of Salt?
Whoever chooses for me, please pick one of my books tagged GRTB - thanks! #18
If it's not been mentioned before, Little Big Man by Thomas Berger covers a very ling time period in the life of a single character, mixing historical fact and fiction. ... the Madre B. Traven
Rosemary's Baby Ira Levin
The Boys from Brazil Ira Levin
The Color Purple Alice Walker
Little Big Man Thomas Berger
The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
wandering_star, please read Little Big Man. I love the movie, and am curious to know how the book compares.
For the next person, I have a TBR tag, but really, any novel in my library is fair game. ... McPheeters - Robert Lewis Taylor
-True Grit - Charles Portis
-The Ox-Bow Incident - Walter Van Tilburg Clark
-Little Big Man - Thomas Berger
-Butcher's Crossing - John Williams
How about Little Big Man by Thomas Berger, filmed with Dustin Hoffmann? ... book is Warlock by Oakley Hall. Now I'm going to order a copy before I forget again!
By the way, loved the film of Little Big Man with Dustin Hoffman. Is the book recommended? What about the sequel?
... events that appear in fiction, which the LC is not especially good at (the subject headings for Thomas Berger's Little Big Man, for example, don't mention the Battle of the Little Bighorn, despite the prominent role it plays in the story).
An "Events" field will--like the ... ... which are seen to have launched the 'tartan noir' school - but he his reputation rests on novels like Docherty and The Big Man, which explore the Scottish working class (male) psyche. He is different to a lot of the authors that followed due to having a literary style rather than being ...
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