Re:My Favorite Books 2020
by criddell on Thursday December 31, 2020 @04:28PM
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The English Patient is the first book that ever had me enjoying the prose as much as the story itself. As I was reading it I realized that even though I know all the words Ondaatje is using, I could never assemble them is such an artful and beautiful way. That book took me a long time to get through because I would reread passages as I went.
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You may also enjoy a lot of Hemingway's stuff, Wind, Sand, and Stars by de Saint-Exupéry, Out of Africa by Karen Blixen and West With the Night by Berly Markham -- all memoirs (except for Hemingway's non-memoirs) very similar in style and beauty.
If anyone else has recommendations along these lines of memoirist or novelists with excellent command of beautiful, but very simple English I'd love to hear.
Re:My Favorite Books 2020
by TedDoesntTalk on Thursday December 31, 2020 @04:37PM
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Because of The English Patient book (not film), I read “The Histories” by Herodotus. It is his only possession, if you remember.