Amigo wrote:" In the middle of the summer of 1891 the most extraordinary things began happening in a small Norwegian coastal town. A stranger by the name of ????? appeared, a singular character who shook the town by his eccentric behavior and then vanished as suddenly as had come." This one is more obscure.
Ibsen? (I'm betting the author is Norwegian and this is the only one that comes to mind)
Puh, that's a tough one Amigo! I haven't found anything
yet, but I think, Merry Andrew might be right with Knut Hamsun. Other than that I only know Mette Newth...
Yes Knut Hamsun and the book is called "Mysteries",
right?
Smarty pants & Co. you guys got it. "It was inevitable: the sent of bitter almonds always reminded him of unrequited love. Dr. Juvenal Urbino noticed it as soon as he entered the still dark house where he entered the still darkened house where he had hurried on an urgent call to attend a case that for him had lost all urgency many years before. The antillean refugee Jeremish de SaintAmour, a disabled war veteran........"
Here's one that's shamefully easy (no looking it up on the Net):
"Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time."
Mills75 wrote:"Shooting the Elephant" by Orwell is correct.
Isn't this a great essey? I've read everything Orwell wrote twice plus two biographies. This is probably the only one i'll get (my brain is fried).
Amigo wrote:Smarty pants & Co. you guys got it. "It was inevitable: the sent of bitter almonds always reminded him of unrequited love. Dr. Juvenal Urbino noticed it as soon as he entered the still dark house where he entered the still darkened house where he had hurried on an urgent call to attend a case that for him had lost all urgency many years before. The antillean refugee Jeremish de SaintAmour, a disabled war veteran........"
Oh, this is one of my favorite books by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Love in the time of Cholera" - great book!!
You didn't think "One hundred years of solitude" was better? I did.
I haven't read this one. The title isn't exactly appealing
to me
Hamsun's Mysteries was one of my father's favorite books. He had it in his shelf in Latvian translation. That, and August, the World Traveler (at least I think that's the proper English translation). I would've gotten Slaughterhouse 5 immediately, had I been on line.
Amigo wrote:Mills75 wrote:"Shooting the Elephant" by Orwell is correct.
Isn't this a great essey? I've read everything Orwell wrote twice plus two biographies. This is probably the only one i'll get (my brain is fried).
Oh, indeed. And that's probably my favorite opening line ever.
CalamityJane: Slaughterhouse-Five is correct. You win..............................................an emoticon!
Oh man, You gotta read it, you just gotta. I've read alot of marquez. Everybody says it's his best book and I agree. Theres no solitude about it. Theres nothing like character of the women in marquez's books.
Mills75 have you read "burmese Days" by Orwell
Thank you Mills!
Hmmmm Amigo, I will look for the book then, if it is THAT good.
It's that good. I promise.
The Autumn of the Patriarch, although difficult to read, is probably Marquez' best.
uuuuuhhhhh, thats one I didn't read.
