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... The Women has been on my list for awhile! I love Boyle's writing. I've read The Inner Circle about Alfred Kinsey and Drop City which was a masterpiece!
> SqueakyChu- I wasn't aware that Boyle had a short story collection! I would think it would be very good! BTW, I loved Brooklyn!
... Atwood OR The Blind Assassin * Atwood April
2. The Book of Illusions, Paul Auster
3. Super-Cannes, JG Ballard
4. Drop City, T.C. Boyle
5. Wise Children, Angela Carter
6. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie
7. The Devil and Ms Prym, Paul Coehlo
8. Youth, JM Coetze ... Finished The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon.
Half-way through Drop City by T.C. Boyle. >kittycatpurr- Drop City is one of my all-time favorites! Enjoy! Finished The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl and now reading Drop City by T. C. Boyle. ... even having to write down who all the characters were and what their relationship to each other was.
Yeah. I liked Drop City. It wasn't the period in history so much that upset me about Push Comes to Shove. It was more that, in the late 60s-early 70s, I (as a young white Jewish female) ... ... the author pulls things together.
Otherwise, very nice review. I remember having similar feelings about T.C. Boyle's Drop City (and I think it's because like you I may not have liked seeing the ugly side of a period in history that I liked). ETA -- deleted the accidental double post. Your description reminds me of Drop City, but that was published within the last ten years. ... Oracle by Margaret Atwood (three books in one volume, this)
The Brontes by Juliet Barker
Talk Talk and Drop City both by the inimitable T C Boyle
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
The Women again by T C Boyle
........these last two were downloaded to my Kindle...she must ... ... of the life of Frank Lloyd Wright from the perspective of his wives and mistress. I prefer Boyle's straight fiction (Drop City in particular is excellent), but after a slow start "The Women" is pretty decent. ... little dry. I never finished The road to Wellville, but I think I dragged myself to the very end with The inner circle. Drop city I enjoyed every work of though. I read all of the above as bookrings (thanks Freelunch) and have just received Shedward's copy of Friend of the Earth. Not that I ... #87: I will see if I can find Drop City as well then, too. Thanks! Alcottacre - I think Drop City is still my favourite of his.
Whisper - I haven't read that one yet. I'm in the UK and I don't think it out here until later this year.
Dchaikin - thank you! >187: LouisBranning- Drop City was easily one of the best books I've read in the past decade but I've sadly neglected this powerful writer. I've had the Inner Circle sitting in my tbr for ever! Should this be the one I read next or should I tackle something else? ... Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon, 2003
311. *The Colour by Rose Tremain, 2007
312. *Drop City by T.C. Boyle, 2006
313. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, 2005
314. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth, 2005
315. *On Beauty by Zadie Smith, 20 ... Okay....I read half of Drop City and could not force myself to go on. So I am going to start reading Head Cases: Stories of Brain Injury and its Aftermath by Michael Paul Mason. #6 - Drop City by T.C. Boyle - ** United States reads:
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle..........................Wisconsin
Drop City...................................................California, Alaska
A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger...........Massachusetts
Divine Justice by David Baldacci.................... ... ... waste behind every rock, tree and every knee high scrap of weed on the property, and that was primitive, oh yes indeed."
Drop City by T.C. Boyle I am just starting Drop City by T.C. Boyle ... of Edgar Sawtelle. Wonderful read! I am almost finished listening to Frankenstein and I am about to start reading Drop City by T.C. Boyle. #14> freelunch, I did give up on Drop City only a few chapters in. It just didn't grab me. I might just pass The Road to Wellville on as well, it might turn up in the Oz VBB one day soon...
Still reading and *loving* Fingersmith. I'd say it's the best book I've read all year, but it's far ... ... work of Alfred Kinsey.
If you've never read T.C. Boyle I wouldn't suggest The Road To Wellville as a starting point - Drop City or Talk Talk might be better choices.
next up for me: A Dog Called Demolition Authors I've Never Read Before:
1) Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff - ***
2) Rant by Chuck Palahniuk
3) Drop City by T. Coraghessan Boyle - **
4) The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
5) The Casualty by Heinrich Boll - *****
6) House Made of Dawn by M. Scott Momaday
... 38. Drop City by T.C. Boyle
39. Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
40. The Giver by Lois Lowry
41. The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
42. Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
 ... one, very beautifully written although not much happens at all. Unsure about whether it deserves a place on the list
Drop City T. Coraghessan Boyle
I really enjoyed this but that is because I love anything to do with hippies and that period of time. But not sure it is that amazing a ... ... to Read Before You Die
1. Hideous Kinky - Esther Freud
2. Saturday - Ian McEwan
3. Choke - Chuck Palahunik
4. Drop City - T C Boyle
5. The Outsider - Albert Camus
6. The Third Man - Graham Greene
7. The Light of Day - Graham Swift
8. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
P ... ... the ones I've read in 2008 since becoming aware of the 1001 Book.
Saturday Ian McEwan
The Sea John Banville
Drop City T. Coraghessan Boyle
The Light of Day Graham Swift
Choke Chuck Palahniuk
City of God E L Doctorow
Whatever Michel Houellebecq
The Shipping News ... ... disturbing. But I guess that the Palin appearance n SNL went well, so maybe it's all good.
I am reminded of the book Drop City by T.C. Boyle. I stopped reading when the guys dogs got shot. i will probably go back to it sometime. I was enjoying the book until that.
... End
8.The Road to Wellville
9. Water Music
This is excluding Drop City and Tortilla Curtain which I've already read. I'm only counting his novels here as I'm not a big fan of short stories. I'm loving Kristin Lavransdatter, struggling with Bleak House (don't hate it, it's just going slow), enjoying Drop City as a side project, getting woefully distracted by Breaking Dawn (yes, I am ashamed!), being educated by Guns, Germs and Steel and stepping around The Double Helix (whic ... ... reading through your categories and I transposed the D and S in the LDS one in my head (in my defence, I've been reading Drop City, half of which is set in a 1970s hippie commune!) - it put a whole new slant on your annual reading plan ;) ... erlap)
3. Saturday - Ian McEwan
4. Choke - Chuck Palahunik (overlap)
5 . City of God - E. L. Doctorow (overlap)
6. Drop City - T C Boyle
7. The Outsider - Albert Camus
8. The Third Man - Graham Greene
Book Club reads
1. Uncommon Reader Alan Bennett
2. If Nobody Speaks ... ... Graduate - Charles Webb
3. Saturday - Ian McEwan
4. Choke - Chuck Palahunik
5 .City of God - E. L. Doctorow
6. Drop City - T C Boyle
Read so far: 6
To Read: 2
Non-fiction
1. The Hypocrisy of Disco Clane Hayward (memoir about growing up in seventies communes
2. Pies and Pr ... ... went over my head and made the book too disjointed for me. A very ambitious work, but it didn't quite work for me.
35. Drop City by T C Boyle
I found it a little difficult to get into for the first 80 or so pages, but then I really started to enjoy it. It isn't perhaps the most original ... ... een
The Plot Against America
The Master
Vanishing Point
The Lambs of London
Dining on Stones
Cloud Atlas
Drop City
The Colour
Thursbitch
The Light of Day
What I Loved
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Islands
Elizabeth Costello
London Orbi ... ... from the perspective of both the 'hero' and 'villain', each of whom believe they are in the right.
If you didn't like Drop City I think The Tortilla Curtain or Talk Talk are worth trying.
I've been in the office most of this week so I've barely scraped the surface of The Stars Tenni ... ... Talk Talk, excellent though the ending was a bit of a disappointment. still recommended to anyone who has already read Drop City.
next up: The Stars' Tennis Balls ... Talk Talk, excellent though the ending was a bit of a disappointment. still recommended to anyone who has already read Drop City.
next up: The Stars' Tennis Balls ... Walls (2006)
56. The Night Manager, John le Carré (1993)
57. The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe (1987)
58. Drop City, TC Boyle (2003)
59. Krik? Krak! Edwidge Danticat (1995)
60. Nickel & Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich (2001)
61. Money, Martin Amis (1985)
62. Last Train To M ... ... Fire by John Edgar Wideman
6. Cambridge by Caryl Phillips
7. Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips
8. Drop by Mat Johnson
From Amazon.co.uk:
1. The Lonely Londoners by Samuel Selvon
2. The World Is What it Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul by Pa ... Next five I have are:
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Drop City by T.C. Boyle
The Colour by Rose Tremain
Thursbitch by Alan Garner #111, 112: The Road to Wellville is very entertaining, one of Boyle's most under-rated novels, and Drop City's terrific too, an NBA nominee when it came out. ... I'm glad to hear The Road to Wellville is good, I'm a big fan of Boyle, loved The Inner Circle and I will be starting Drop City sometime in the next few weeks. ...
5. The Age of Innocence
6. The Elementary Particles
7. Drop City
8. Tipping the Velvet ... of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
Drop City by T.C. Boyle
Clearly I went a little nuts with some of the books off the 1001 list, but I've been wanting some of them for awhile. Ive read Drop City and absolutely loved the irony of that book :)
Okay, I will go with
She by H. Rider Haggard ... Raised our nation by Cokie Roberts
A Lost Lady by Willa Cather
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
Drop City by T.C. Boyle ... on an read Faber's other novels - quite different from this, but all just as good.
Another brilliant recent novel is Drop City. Who's read that?
... the only "e' book that I've read. Coincidentally, it has a cast of characters similar to those described in my "d" book, Drop City. Tom Wolfe writes about Ken Kesey and The Merry Pranksters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merry_Pranksters
Drop City by T.C. Boyle is certainly a favorite of mine. Decades ago I used to live on land adjacent to similar characters in a forest in the Pacific Northwest. Can't say that I miss them, though. Drop City's terrific, but so many of Tom Boyle's novels are, and if you're not a fan of his...you really should be now! ... Embroideries (B)
47. Haruki Murakami- A Wild Sheep Chase (A)
48. Thich Nhat Hanh- Anger (B-)
49. T.C. Boyle- Drop City (C-)
50. Haruki Murakami- Sputnik Sweetheart (B+)
51. Neil Gaiman- Stardust (B-)
52. A.M. Homes- The Mistress’s Daughter (C)
53. Gabrielle Zevin- Memo ... ... by Andrea Barrett which covers a journey of exploration to the seas west of Greenland. And the last part of TC Boyle's Drop City is set in Alaska and is the part of the book I enjoyed most especially when we read something of the life of an old-hand trapper. And one episode has somebody ... ... book was absolutely ridiculous.
Subsequently, I've given T.C. Boyle a few more chances, and I'm glad I did. I found Drop City as well as Riven Rock interesting. However, where T.C. Boyle absolutely shines is in his short stories. I have a 600 plus page book called T.C. Boyle Stories ... ... Agatha Christie
honorable mentions -
Seven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Perlman
The Chess Machine by Robert Lohr
Drop City by T.C. Boyle
Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino
The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen Carter
The Education of Mrs. Bemis by John Sedgwick
The Eighth Dwarf by R ... ... books read, these were the standouts -
Oryx and Crake a dystopian, speculative-fiction novel by Margaret Atwood
Drop City a clash of cultures turning out to be closer than they thought novel by T.C. Boyle
Grotesque a character study of modern Japanese women by Natsuo Kirino
... ... minds me starting a new thread on this topic, but with over 250 messages, it was getting a little daunting. I just finished Drop City and had mixed feelings on it. I thought the book started out with a great premise (what happens when California hippies and Alaskan mountain men collide), but ... ... the library, (due back tomorrow!) so I've requested it on Bookmooch so I can read it at my own pace.
T.C. Boyle's Drop City is in the 1,001 books to read before you die, maybe I should consider it next TBR... Finished listening to Drop City and started Stiff: The Curious Life of Cadavers by Mary Roach which I'm finding hilarious and fascinating.
T.C. Boyle is becoming one of my new favorite authors and think that Talk, Talk might be next. ... Murder of Roger Ackroyd which as a Christie novel, I expect to be much meatier and intricate.
Am still listening to Drop City in the car on my commute. Clueless hippies in Alaska. Excellent. ... now.
At the beginning of Bombay Ice by Leslie Forbes and it's too early to tell how I'll like this one.
Listening to Drop City which is pointless, but amusing. Finished the audio version of Oryx and Crake - phenomenal novel, loved it, and started the audio version of Drop City. I finished Drop City which was enjoyable and I think does a good job of imparting its message. Good and fast read.
I am now reading The plot against America - am just starting it now. I am now reading Drop City by T.C. Boyle. Sincce October 206, I have read about fifty plus of this list and am now up to 11% - yeah ... by Sue Miller
Death on the Downs by Simon Brett
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood as audio download
Drop City by T.C. Boyle as audio download
and
One Across, Two Down by Ruth Rendell
... and I really enjoyed Zadies writing style and little life observations thrown into paragraphs.
I am now going to read Drop City by T.C. Boyle ... & Newman
3. Nemesis: The Last Days Of The American Republic - Johnson
4. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
5. Drop City - Boyle
6. Attack Poodles & Other Media Mutants - Wolcott
7. Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq - Ricks
8. Drinking: A Love Story - Carolyn K ... I finished Drop City by T.C. Boyle last night. It was enjoyable, and I'm a fan of Boyle's writing, but I thought the ending was a bit of a cop out.
Now I'm reading Nick Hornby's Housekeeping vs. the Dirt. I borrowed The Polysyllabic Spree from a friend last year and liked it so ... I'm hanging out with a bunch of hippies in Alaska, circa 1970, with T.C. Boyle's Drop City. I am reading (and enjoying) Drop City by T.C. Boyle.
jhowell--I did find a companion book very helpful (of course, that was before the Internet). You may still want to consider it--much easier to carry around with you! ... to me. I have never before been so absorbed in a book that was so much about the creation of the book.
I'm now reading Drop City by T.C. Boyle and, as with previous interactions with Boyle, I am simultaneously thoroughly enjoying it and wanting desperately to smack the protagonists.
J ... ... I disliked very much--primarily for the Hispanic stereotypes. Since then, I've gone on to read more of Boyle's writing (Drop City, Riven Rock) and find I enjoy his writing very much but think his short stories simply shine. the only T.Coraghessan Boyle I've read is Drop City, which I loved and I'm now trying to get my hands on as much of his work as possible. Along with The Inner Circle I have "Talk Talk", The Road To Wellville and a couple of short story collections, but I haven't had a chance to read any ... ...
Talking about classlessness in general - wasn't that the hippy dream? A commune of individuals working for the common good. Drop City is a good novel on this theme. What usually destroyed these communes, in reality and fiction, was not outside pressures but good old human character flaws. none today, but I had a huge pile of incoming books yesterday:
Drop City by T.C. Boyle bought used on eBay for release via bookcrossing.com (read it, loved it, need to share it)
The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole and Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years by Sue Townsend sent to me by ... newer stuff that might be of interest
Drop City by T.C. Boyle
Set this House in Order by Matt Ruff
Observatory Mansions by Edward Carey
Classic psychology
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gilman ... add A Canticle for Liebowitz (out of print but available used at Amazon) and The Sheep Look Up.
I would also include Drop City by T.C. Boyle as having some distopian elements.
Other suggestions? ... it is absolutely fabulous, the only one of his I have read - would you recommend any others?
I've just finished Drop City, which is the first of his books that I've read, and thought it absolutely amazing. I did a (non-spoiling) review of it, if you are interested.
I certainly ... ... lives of a group of Kinsey sex researchers back in the 50s, another terrific story as well. And of course, there's always Drop City..... Being a bloke, I can of course only read one book at a time, and that book at present is Drop City by T C Boyle. He's a new author to me, although he seems pretty prolific; I only bought the book to make a 3rd in a 3 for 2 offer in Waterstone's.
And it was a bit of serendipity, because I'm ...
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