[Hulk01]

I started that extensive thread a few years ago.  It revealed we have a couple passionate fans of the newer music.

I feel like I've become a weird kind of old fogy, in that I still love that playlist but no one has come along to move off The National, The Killers, and a handful of others off my list.  Still love Song For Zulu for example. 

Also been in an obsession fiction phase as I finally, finally, wrap up my novel, now flirting with 450 pages. 

Which prompts this fiction favorite list:

To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
The Fifth Business, Robertson Davies
Doses of John Irving; the stories as a whole don't work for me, but I love his bursts.
Anna Karenin (I have been told that adding the "a" is not proper)
In Cold Blood.  To my tastes, of course, the greatest first page in literature, unless the honor goes to--
Lolita. staggering out of the blocks but then turns into a comedy
The Great Gatsby; lots of look what I can do by Fitzgerald but ingenious way to tell a story
I have tried to read Henry James and it does not read like the same English I use.

But my favorite author writes only nonfiction: John McPhee.
His pieces on the US Opens (golf) and The Headmaster and Oranges---wondrous to this read.

I can pass along the free access to his two golf pieces if anyone is interested;
Googling his name and golf should work for you even faster.

[Hulk01]

I started that extensive thread a few years ago.  It revealed we have a couple passionate fans of the newer music.

I feel like I've become a weird kind of old fogy, in that I still love that playlist but no one has come along to move off The National, The Killers, and a handful of others off my list.  Still love Song For Zulu for example. 

Also been in an obsession fiction phase as I finally, finally, wrap up my novel, now flirting with 450 pages. 

Which prompts this fiction favorite list:

To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
The Fifth Business, Robertson Davies
Doses of John Irving; the stories as a whole don't work for me, but I love his bursts.
Anna Karenin (I have been told that adding the "a" is not proper)
In Cold Blood.  To my tastes, of course, the greatest first page in literature, unless the honor goes to--
Lolita. staggering out of the blocks but then turns into a comedy
The Great Gatsby; lots of look what I can do by Fitzgerald but ingenious way to tell a story
I have tried to read Henry James and it does not read like the same English I use.

But my favorite author writes only nonfiction: John McPhee.
His pieces on the US Opens (golf) and The Headmaster and Oranges---wondrous to this read.

I can pass along the free access to his two golf pieces if anyone is interested;
Googling his name and golf should work for you even faster.